Trump: Coca-cola agrees to use real cane sugar in US drinks

[Seymour Flops]

No fell swoop. It will take some time. But the parties won't change unless we withhold our votes from them. Short of armed revolution, it's the only thing that WILL prompt them to change.

Why will it take time, if there are no steps? If we can do what you suggest, why not the next election?

Of course we can. We must. I'd contend that there ARE people to vote for. But that's missing the point. If you really can't find someone to vote FOR, or write-in, don't vote. That's better than supporting bad candidates.

Why would I vote for someone who did not even manage (or bother) to get on the ballot?

Who will you write in for the 2028 Presidential race?

Nope. The far more likely outcome is that one, or both, of the major parties will change their tune to attract the votes they're leaving behind.

That is exactly what Trump did.

Exactly.

Except he was not a Republican until he announced his run. His primary was more like a corporate hostile takeover or proxy fight, than one Republican running against several others.

The disaffected Democrats and disgusted Republicans did not vote for Trump because they thought he was going to end the rule of the Twoparties. They hoped he was telling the truth when he promised to put America and Americans first. All Americans, not certain preferred groups.

The Republican Party establishment turning on Trump after the voters chose him is an example of two party corrupton taht you should be discussing. Instead, you go along with the Trump hating, giving the establishment exactly what it wants.

Voting reforms like RCV would accelerate this process, but again - we'll have to unseat the entrenched corruption before any meaningful reform can happen.

Then RCV would be a step in the process. I knew there were steps, and you just didn't want to defend them.

I see ranked choice voting as a way for people to vote for third parties without throwing away their votes. But it is also a way for a person to win an election, but then have it taken by having their opponents be awarded second choice votes.

Would we eliminate the Electoral College if we had RCV?

 

[Dragonlady]

His billions of dollars say otherwise, numbnuts! BTW, Trump has no personal bankruptcies. Those "7 bankruptcies" are all businesses that he and others invested in.

His billions just prove that he's the most successful conman in world history.

SEVEN bankrtupcies - all companies started by Trump, and run by Trump,

 

[braalian]

His billions of dollars say otherwise, numbnuts! BTW, Trump has no personal bankruptcies. Those "7 bankruptcies" are all businesses that he and others invested in.

The fact that he didn’t become a billionaire until after becoming POTUS doesn’t raise any red flags for you?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

The fact that he didn’t become a billionaire until after becoming POTUS doesn’t raise any red flags for you?

Are you that stupid? He was a billionaire long ago and has lost money since becoming President. Late 1980s to early 1990s.

 

[braalian]

Are you that stupid? He was a billionaire long ago and has lost money since becoming President. Late 1980s to early 1990s.

well, he's went back and forth. But he was a millionaire before taking office this last time, then somehow became a billionaire again after. Coincidence? And that's just the money that's public knowledge

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

well, he's went back and forth. But he was a millionaire before taking office this last time, then somehow became a billionaire again after. Coincidence? And that's just the money that's public knowledge

Nope. You are wrong. Where did you get that silly idea?

 

[sealybobo]

I have to wonder if people younger than myself really understand how true those numbers are. We see so many statistics offered up to support wildly different claims that a person younger than say forty might have doubts about that one.

It is true from my own observation that people are much fatter now than before. I'm suprised it is only 36%. I would have put it at 60% at least, but maybe that is observation bias.

When I was in high school, Army and College in the seventies and eighties, very fat people were rare. They were noticed. If giving a description, fat would have been the first thing mentioned. Fat kids were often picked on, and then became bullies themselves, their size giving them strength. Then in high school, when their in-shape counterparts went through puberty and gained strength themselves, the fat kids again became the targets.

Sometime after that, being fat became normal. Now, I notice when a woman is not fat. Fat women are popular, or at least no less popular than normal-sized women. There seems to be a significant percent of the male population that actually prefers fat women. Makes sense, because that is what they grew up with.

Sugar has been around for centuries without people being this fat. It's the culture of indulgeance that has made us so fat. The same culture that surrounded Henry the VIII, except now the poorest among us can afford to indulge in sweets, salt, fat, tobacco, alcohol and drugs to excess.

Compare being fat and being a single mom. Both were taboo in the past so people tried not to be fat or become a single mom. Then in my generation we stopped shaming single moms and more and more women started becoming single moms because it became acceptable. Normal.

Don't BODY SHAME ME! LOL. You need to be shamed. And single moms need to know they are whores.

 

[sealybobo]

Nope. You are wrong. Where did you get that silly idea?

If he's talking about Trump I think he means Trump's first term. He said he was a billionaire but then hid his taxes. That's evidence number one.

Number 2, Trump was found guilty of over inflating the value of all his properties. So there is a good possibility Trump only had or was worth 999 million dollars or less when he won the first time.

 

[sealybobo]

You know how much the tariffs have cost Americans in inflation? 0.7%, so if a business like the one you work for is charging more than the extra 0.7%, they are ripping Americans off.

And you believe that all social media decided on their own, to pull stories about Hunter BIDEN’S laptop? That social media decided on its own to pull stories or comments that contained a theory that the Covid-19 virus didn’t come from the Wuhan Virus Lab in China, a country known for lying? So you believe that viable theories to an explain the spread of a virus be banned and that all the social media just decided on their own not to allow posts?

Also it was Google, YouTube, X and Facebook admitted under oath to Congress that they were pressured by the Biden administration, they all lied to Congress? With what benefit?

Biden "pressured" these companies? Oh come on. Is what he did just as bad as what Trump tried to do to Fed Reserve Powell?

Chief Judge James Boasberg found “essentially zero evidence” of a crime, calling the Trump DOJ's case against the Fed chair “so thin and unsubstantiated” that it could only be pretextual.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that “a mountain of evidence” suggested that “the Government served these subpoenas on the [Federal Reserve] Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.” Boasberg added that federal prosecutors “produced essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime,” calling the Trump administration’s case “so thin and unsubstantiated that the Court can only conclude that they are pretextual.”

Come on dude wake up.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Compare being fat and being a single mom. Both were taboo in the past so people tried not to be fat or become a single mom. Then in my generation we stopped shaming single moms and more and more women started becoming single moms because it became acceptable. Normal.

Don't BODY SHAME ME! LOL. You need to be shamed. And single moms need to know they are whores.

I'm not going to shame fat people, but I will shame believers in allowing junk food purchases with Food Stamps/EBT cards.

But . . . I am shocked that they have come into vogue, so to speak. Like being hugely fat is just another way for a woman to have a sexy body.

The other day, I was at a poker room outside of Houston, but in Texas and the game girl/cashier was wearing a black I guess body suit and skirt. The skirt was so short that you could see her bottoms when she walked and there was about two inches of butt cheek visible. Two inches out of about 20 inches I would estimate. The girl looked like Lotta Plump, but she was showing it off.

We understood when girls thought it was sexy or attractive to unhealthily skinny and we called them on it and the industries that supported/enabled that way of thinking. But it's "mean" to call out the people promoting being fat?

 

[Dragonlady]

You know how much the tariffs have cost Americans in inflation? 0.7%, so if a business like the one you work for is charging more than the extra 0.7%, they are ripping Americans off.

And you believe that all social media decided on their own, to pull stories about Hunter BIDEN’S laptop? That social media decided on its own to pull stories or comments that contained a theory that the Covid-19 virus didn’t come from the Wuhan Virus Lab in China, a country known for lying? So you believe that viable theories to an explain the spread of a virus be banned and that all the social media just decided on their own not to allow posts?

Also it was Google, YouTube, X and Facebook admitted under oath to Congress that they were pressured by the Biden administration, they all lied to Congress? With what benefit?

The writer for the New York Post who wrote the story the Post published, refused to put his name on it because he didn't believe it either.

There is ZERO evidence that covid came out of the Wuhan Lab. You had American staff in that lab until August of 2019, when Trump pulled them out and brought them home because it was a "waste of money" to have them there, so we will never know what really happened in that lab.

You're still suffering from the effects of lies about covid treatments and vaccines, but God forbid the White House stop social media from posting lies.

MAGA - Morons Are Governing America.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The writer for the New York Post who wrote the story the Post published, refused to put his name on it because he didn't believe it either.

There is ZERO evidence that covid came out of the Wuhan Lab. You had American staff in that lab until August of 2019, when Trump pulled them out and brought them home because it was a "waste of money" to have them there, so we will never know what really happened in that lab.

You're still suffering from the effects of lies about covid treatments and vaccines, but God forbid the White House stop social media from posting lies.

MAGA - Morons Are Governing America.

Oh yeah.

I'm sure they would have told the "American staff" exactly what they were doing.

 

[dblack]

Trump says Coca-Cola agreed to use real cane sugar in US drinks: ‘It’s just better!’

Coca-Cola uses high fructose corn syrup in its US production, in contrast to cane sugar in countries like Mexico and the United Kingdom,

nypost.com

President Trump was on a sugar high Wednesday, announcing that Coca-Cola would soon include the real sweet stuff in its US-sold beverages.

"I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so," Trump, 79, revealed on Truth Social.

Coca-Cola uses high fructose corn syrup in its US production, in contrast to cane sugar in countries like Mexico and the United Kingdom.

American coke, willing to do the job of a Mexican coke?

Corn lobby gonna be pissed.

Cane sugar Coke > Nonexistent Epstein Files

WTF??? How is this the president's responsibility???

 

[Seymour Flops]

WTF??? How is this the president's responsibility???

It isn't presidential to ask a company to stop selling an inferior version of their product to Americans when foreigners get the good stuff?

Maybe it's not, I haven't thought it through. What is your argument that the president is restrained from doing that?

 

[Papageorgio]

The writer for the New York Post who wrote the story the Post published, refused to put his name on it because he didn't believe it either.

There is ZERO evidence that covid came out of the Wuhan Lab. You had American staff in that lab until August of 2019, when Trump pulled them out and brought them home because it was a "waste of money" to have them there, so we will never know what really happened in that lab.

You're still suffering from the effects of lies about covid treatments and vaccines, but God forbid the White House stop social media from posting lies.

MAGA - Morons Are Governing America.

There is no proof either way, and the person that convinced me that could be possible that Covid came from a lab is the very liberal Jon Stewart, so take your MAGA bullshit and stick it. The true morons are those their decisions based on politics.

 

[dblack]

There is no proof either way, and the person that convinced me that could be possible that Covid came from a lab is the very liberal Jon Stewart, so take your MAGA bullshit and stick it. The true morons are those their decisions based on politics.

Yup. There's exactly nothing partisan about COVID. But we have to assign a position to each party and fight about it.

This week dems oppose the lab leak theory.

 

[Papageorgio]

Yup. There's exactly nothing partisan about COVID. But we have to assign a position to each party and fight about it.

This week dems oppose the lab leak theory.

With Covid, I am open to all theories the one thing I have learned is science is ever changing. We used to endorse blood letting.

 

[toobfreak]

I hope he puts the cocaine back in Coca-Cola next. I miss that.

If Coke goes back to real sugar, I hope Pepsi follows suit. Real Coke in a glass bottle is WAY better than in those plastic 2-liter bottles or even in an aluminum can.

Nothing beats glass.

 

[Seymour Flops]

If Coke goes back to real sugar, I hope Pepsi follows suit. Real Coke in a glass bottle is WAY better than in those plastic 2-liter bottles or even in an aluminum can.

Nothing beats glass.

Glass is awesome.

My family used to get six packs of the big glass bottles that had a dime deposit. We'd get four cokes and 2 Sprites.

Not the healthiest thing for kids, but my parents both worked and bought the coke products with money they earned.

Plus, my brother and I got exercise returning the bottles to a store about a mile away.

 

[toobfreak]

Glass is awesome.

Glass is the ultimate. The perfect container. And infinitely truly recyclable. Its only downfall is that it is brittle and does not bend or take impact well.

Glass makes all things better.