Schumer Trolls Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow, in one of his addled diatribes, yesterday complained that Biden’s climate plan will force people to drink “plant based beer”, which is interesting since beer is already plant based, it being brewed with hops and malted barley. Kudlow was immediately mocked on social media, and Schumer gleefully joined in. It’s good.
Excited to be watching the Oscars with an ice cold plant-based beer.
Thanks Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/Wk8MQnjkUf
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 26, 2021
Next up – plant-based wine. Expect trumpers to be sufficiently outraged.
1Granted, I’ve tasted some beer that was more like certain horse by-products than plants, but I don’t think that’s usual.
2You don’t even need a PhD in botany to know what’s in beer. Half the Bud commercials I’ve seen mention barley, hops, and malt. Maybe Kudlow thought the Clydesdale’s were used for more than old timey transportation once they made it back to the brewery?
3Well, supposedly Guinness Stout has Beef slabs in the fermentation vats, but I’ve never heard of any other fermented beverage but milk that wouldn’t be considered plant based…
4Too bad, so sad.
5This is what happens when you have NOTHING to complain about — nothing to foment outrage with. Just totally made-up stuff.
It’s hard to top the bonkers made up stuff from kudlow, abbott and patrick in the 3 topics from today. However, I found this not only bonkers but dangerous- and this lady is leading kids.
Private school bans vaccinated teachers from being around children: report – Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/private-school/
Read it if you want to see the kind of “school” betsy devos” wanted for our kids. Thank goodness she’s gone.
6Based on the dietary appearance of most MAGAts, eating and drinking less of everything but lettuce & water probably is something their doctors have been telling them for years. Yeah. They didn’t “hear” that either.
But. Dayum. One would think the MAGAts had taken a few brewery tours for the free samples and would have half a clue about beer production.
Cheryl @1 ROFL. At a guess the greatest risk the MAGAts would have from wine would be the lack of quality in the twist of caps. Or, dawg forbid, they’d probably wound themselves operating a corkscrew.
7Guess the red states of Kentucky and Tennessee have been doing it all wrong, making those millions of barrels of bourbon out of corn mash.
Kudlow is clearly ignorant of the fact that almost -every- beverage known to humankind is “plant based”, especially all of the alcoholic ones, beer, wine, whisky, rum, vodka, etc ad inf.
But then most plants have a noticeably higher IQ than good ol’ Larry.
Larry Kudlow is a profoundly ignorant sonuvabitch. I’ve seen him on PBS programs like ‘Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser’ and ‘Newshour’ for nearly forty effing years, and his driveling was always proven wrong [he makes Bill Kristol seem like an oracle [Kristol AKA- ‘Mr. 100% Wrong]].
8How these assholes still garner media attention is baffling [although lately Kristol has been getting pretty damned good, since he became an anti-tRumper].
Well, I see the old jokes about pouring bad beer back into the horse have not been forgotten.
9I’m giving Mr. Kudlow a pass on this one. IIRC, Larry’s intoxicant of choice was plant-based cocaine, which cost him his job at Bear Stearns.
10PS- It’s possible that Kudlow saw some recent teevee adverts for ‘Michelob Ultra Organic’ beer and got a MAGAotty knee-jerk reaction to such elitism.
BTW- I got hold of a six pack of ‘Michelob Ultra’ [plain?] recently and it was a damned good beer.
11John @10, Bingo– plant based cocaine and alcoholic beverages.
Outside of synthetic drugs and certain fungi, almost all intoxicating substances are plant derived.
tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow
“In their 2015 book Superforecasting, University of Pennsylvania political scientist Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner refer to Kudlow as a “consistently wrong” pundit, and use Kudlow’s long record of failed predictions to clarify common mistakes that poor forecasters make.[48][55]
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In the mid-1990s, Kudlow left Bear Stearns and entered a 12-step program in order to deal with his addictions to cocaine and alcohol. “
But yeast is required to make beer, and yeast is neither plant nor animal. So beer is not solely plant based.
It is, however, the cause of civilization.
13There are various alcoholic beverages made of fermented dairy products, although I doubt Kudrow is familiar with any of them. The best known is kumis, made of fermented mare’s milk in Central Asia. The Buryat people of Siberia make a similar drink called tarasun. Mediaeval people in Scotland and the Nordic countries used to make a drink from whey called blaand, although they gave that up when whisky came along.
14If President Biden wants me to drink plant-based beer, well, that is a service I am willing to perform for my country.
15Sandridge@8, I used to watch WSW on PBS religiously on Friday nights. What a cast of characters some of them turned out to be. Louis himself with tax evasion problems. Larry Just-Call-Me-Lawrence Kudlow with his own baggage. Another panelist who quietly disappeared from WSW because of an ethics investigation… At least one market maker was promoting their client’s stock to retail investors in anticipation of their expert appearing on WSW later that week and maybe getting a high profile plug in for that stock. Fleecing has gone from art to science.
16John @15, Yeah, another ‘must watch’ for me was ‘The McLaughlin Group’, which was often chock full of then and future RW assholes [Kudlow too]. Like Michelle Malkin, who IIRC, got her big media break on TMG; and with so many others.
17But at least back then it was still a fairly genteel period, with little of the lunatic RWNJ ravings of today.
Maybe some oil lobbyists took him on some kinda boondoggle and he overhead some of them joking about squeezing a little something extra outta every barrel of oil.
18Because believe me, if Exxon Mobil could figure out a way to do it, they’d be breaking ground on new units at every refinery they own.
Perhaps mead and Irish Mist (also honey-based) qualify as non-vegetable?
19One does wonder if Kudlow himself should be formally reclassified from animal to vegetable.
That’s how I like to watch TV. In the most comfortable chair in the house, sitting at a 90 degree angle and 2 feet away.
20It looks so soothing he’ll likely doze off during a commercial and spend the night there.
#2…how much horse by-product have you drank to know its taste???
21#19…honey based is plant based because it comes from digested and vomited plant sugars.
I half way expect Kudlow to explode into a diatribe about a vast conspiracy to give him old wine. I can see the quote now, “don’t give me the old stuff. I can afford the new stuff.”
22Rick @ 3
The principal plant ingredient in Budweiser is rice.
When the Busches made it, they used whole-grain rice. When the Brazilians took over, they switched to cheaper broken rice.
They did not reduce the price, however.
Most Americans have never drunk actual beer, although the proliferation of local breweries is at least offering them the chance.
When I was a business reporter, beer was my favorite example of how clueless financial gurus are:
In the ’70s when the giants bought out and closed all the local brands (like National Bohemian or Narragansett, Pearl and Lone Star), Wall Street predicted that soon there would be only 3 or 4 brewers: Anheuser-Busch, Schlitz, Pabst and perhaps Coors (then limited to western states) . A few would have added Anchor, the only real beer then being brewed in America.
The black swan was lo-cal beer, which meant that Schlitz, at one time the biggest brewer, disappeared and Miller became one of the Big 3 (Big 4 when the gummint forced Coors to go national, making the Coorses multibillionaires, for which they have never forgiven the gummint).
23@ Harry – Then there’s the famous story of Schlitz going down the drain because it tasted terrible. It tasted terrible because they had gradually begun switching from malted barley to CORN SYRUP, then adding chemicals to control haze and foam. They did all of this to improve profits, but by 1981, Schlitz went under, and assets eventually went to Pabst after Stroh Brewing went under subseequent to taking over Schlitz.
24Ronanon, that was my thought, too. Let’s get together and buy Chuck a couch.
Unless he was in his office posing for that tweet. I’ll bet he’s not much of a beer drinker.
25Alright this sounds like the right crew to ask. Is Lowenbrau still available anywhere? Because it’s not in my neck of the woods. And if so, does it even vaguely resemble what it used to be? Other than the label?
26Dunno of it’s available and do not care since the company started making it in North America.
Fun fact: Germany requires beer to be beer.
Decades ago, Anheuser-Busch tried to destroy Germany’s pure beer law in the name of Budweiser. Tells you everything you need to know about American beer.
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