Mmmm… not sure about that part. Elote is sacred for many peoples. The staple food is significant pretty much everywhere I guess.
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trim_one's_sails
trim one’s sails
Verb
trim one’s sails (third-person singular simple present trims one’s sails, present participle trimming one’s sails, simple past and past participle trimmed one’s sails)
- (nautical) To adjust a ship’s sails to make the best of wind conditions.
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(figurative, by extension) To adapt to changing circumstances, especially if it involves scaling back one’s ambitions; to make cutbacks.
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I think he means that beyond how important is that food for one culture, rice has that thing that it cannot be cultivated in any other way than communally. Rice paddies require town-size efforts to be worked upon, while grains can be cultivated at family or clan-size and be sustainable.
So basically, cultures whose staple food is rice behave in a very different way than wheat or corn based ones.
But maybe I’m wrong 
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Aren’t there already like three center-right parties formed from former moderate Republicans and pro-business Democrats? Andrew Yang formed one, I know. If these assholes were serious, they’d just join one of those that already exist, but every time one of these millionaire or billionaire jerks gets disillusioned with the existing political process, they decide to start a new party. It’s clearly just a grift.
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Trump will just revoke his citizenship and deport him.
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Ok, not gonna lie, I might make an exception and not get mad about that.
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The more I think about this, I don’t think it’s all grift-motivated. I think a lot of it is ego. It’s the same reason when some celebrity or one of their family members gets diagnosed with some horrible rare disease or disorder, they start a new charity to find a cure for that disorder, when 99 times out of 100, there already is a charity working to find a cure for that disorder. But rather than partner with that organization, they feel they have to start a new one. That’s always driven me nuts.
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There are always exceptions to the rule, such as teff for Ethiopians and millet for the Senegalese (and probably other millet eating countries, though I am only familiar with Senegal). I thought elote was a method of preparation, but this isn’t my area of expertise— I just monetized corn for program funding, so am ignorant of specific uses. Of course there are specific corns that are sacred for native Americans.
But most people would be hard pressed to explain the difference between hard red winter, hard red spring, soft white, hard white, and soft red wheats. Even those who use them for their specific purpose may only be buying the special purpose flour without knowing which wheat makes up the flour itself. Same with corn; most of us buy corn products (flour, chips, flakes, canned, cobs) without knowing the specifics of the corn (dent, field, sweet, flour, flint) or subvarietal. There is nothing wrong with that, most of us are concerned with outcomes, and don’t care or need to know our general purpose flour is primarily hard red, our baking and pastry flours primarily soft red, or our noodle flours hard or soft white. We just know the brand or type of flour that gets the best results.
It is important for policy, since complaining that the Japanese won’t buy US basmati rice is a fool’s folly. Even if it wasn’t a food sovereignty issue, the only time they would use longer grain rices is if they went to an ethnic restaurant or making an ethnic dish (Indian curry, Palau, etc.) at home. No amount of pressure by the orange menace is going to change that, just like decades of pressure to reduce meat consumption has had little effect in the US.
This is an important aspect as well! Rice is hugely labor intensive, especially on small plot sizes (I’m not going to go into Japanese land reform, which is a subject I got into while studying in Japan — in fact, it shaped a lot of Japanese culture including the militarization that led to Imperial Japan). Japan was also doing “know your farmer” decades before it caught on in the US.
But ultimately, food is something you put in your mouth, so it has a visceral impact. Rice is a whole component ingredient, so you are aware of its taste, texture, and how it pairs with the other foods on your plate. Unlike wheat, and to a lesser extent corn, it is a grain we interact with directly, instead of processed for a purpose, though we are keenly aware and impacted by those differences (just try making spaghetti with Udon noodles, or Vice Versa). That’s a huge culture shift that isn’t going happen just because Cheetolini threatens to impose tariffs. Because it is so personal and culturally imbedded, such pressure will probably backfire.
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The scent with a faint smell of over-full diaper, stale piss and stage make-up.
Still, being able to sniff out the fuckwits before they open their mouths, may on occasion be a small advantage.
(Talking to partner in the store:
“Christ, what’s that awful smell?”
“Oh, it’s just a Trumpist fuckwit dumb enough to buy the Kool-Aid perfume”.)
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Anyone travelling to US from France had better not be wearing or have packed any of that firm’s goods!
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Meh, I doubt the monolinguial American thugs manning the ramparts would bother trying to translate that.
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You’re right, of course. But it IS the sort of thing the evil fucks in charge would brief the Border/Customs grunts to look out for at border entry points.
Just for the evil.
More likely, someone’s going to ‘investigate’ the firm concerned. And we can all predict what ‘investigate’ might mean when the US version of the SS/Gestapo decides to take against you.
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It does make sense to avoid taking unnecessary and unhelpful chances with these mobsters in power.
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Well they are faster than most people realize. Maybe than Tramp does too! 
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Needs to become a meme. ETA No. Does not need to. See comments below.
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Serpentine Shelly!
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