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

[dblack]

How about a government in cohoots with the sugar companies to put more of their bad stuff into our foods?

Yep. That's what you get when government starts meddling with things.

Yes, we really want government to regulate these corporations you seem to defend at every turn. Are you a sugar lobbyist or the dopes the sugar lobbyists pay the politicians to lie to?

What?? I oppose that kind of crap. That's why I want government out of the picture entirely.

A comment like you just made makes you look ignorant to just how much the government does tell you how to eat. Only you just don't want it to tell you to eat healthier.

I know you want to go the personal insults, but that's really not it. It's just power that creates more problems than it solves - this thread being an obvious example.

I find it funny that sugar is linked to so many things including dementia, and RFK isn't going after sugar. Don't you find that interesting?

Not really. I find it sadly predictable.

Instead he's spreading doubt about child vaccines. He's a paid shill for the sugar industry no doubt. And he works for Trump.

Exactly. And these are the people who want telling you how to eat.

 

[dblack]

Well seeing as how he's a successful businessman, I think he knows a little about business.

I have no idea how good he is at business. I don't care. But he doesn't know jack shit about government. He's horrible at that.

Anyway - when Democrats start throwing their weight around bullying businesses like this, Republicans used to complain. But of course when your party does it, it's different.

 

[Dragonlady]

I realize the statist liberals are all-in on these kinds of government mandates. But Republicans at least pretend to oppose them. Unless it's coming from Uncle Donny - then it's all good.

Who said anything about mandates????

Americans are the most unhealthy people on earth. Every other first world nation is extending their life expectancy, and yours is declining. You have the ability to promote healthy eating, and to teach families how to make healthy choices, and you CHOOSE to exploit these people to enrich Food Inc.

You nation promotes garbage eating - highly processed, prepared foods, packed with sugar and fats, are heavily advertized and promoted.

 

[dblack]

Who said anything about mandates????

Well, the thread is about Trump personally demanding that a specific company use sugar rather than corn syrup. What do you call that?

Americans are the most unhealthy people on earth. Every other first world nation is extending their life expectancy, and yours is declining. You have the ability to promote healthy eating, and to teach families how to make healthy choices, and you CHOOSE to exploit these people to enrich Food Inc.

Yeah -- see, I just see the role of government differently than you. I want a government that keeps the peace, protects us from bad guys, manages the commons and otherwise leaves us the hell alone. I don't want a government preoccupied with maintaining the health of the serfs.

You nation promotes garbage eating - highly processed, prepared foods, packed with sugar and fats, are heavily advertized and promoted.

Yep. That's why I want our nation to stop doing that. Leave it up to the people to decide how to eat. Or should they just ask you?

 

[Rocko]

They should ban fructose

 

[Dragonlady]

Well seeing as how he's a successful businessman, I think he knows a little about business.

Trump is the LEAST successful businessman in world history. His 7 bankruptcies are a world record. He lost a billion dollars in the 1980's. American banks stopped lending to him in 2002 and still won't lend him money,

He knows very little about business, other than how to go bankrupt for fun and profit.

 

[JGalt]

Trump is the LEAST successful businessman in world history. His 7 bankruptcies are a world record. He lost a billion dollars in the 1980's. American banks stopped lending to him in 2002 and still won't lend him money,

He knows very little about business, other than how to go bankrupt for fun and profit.

You're such a predictable Pavlovian dog. I posted that knowing that you'd respond in the exact manner you did. How's it feel to be such a manipulatable fool?

"Your body, your choice", my ass. I own you, girlie.

 

[Dragonlady]

Well, the thread is about Trump personally demanding that a specific company use sugar rather than corn syrup. What do you call that?

Yeah -- see, I just see the role of government differently than you. I want a government that keeps the peace, protects us from bad guys, manages the commons and otherwise leaves us the hell alone. I don't want a government preoccupied with maintaining the health of the serfs.

Yep. That's why I want our nation to stop doing that. Leave it up to the people to decide how to eat. Or should they just ask you?

Yes, you want corporations to be unfettered, to scam, bill and poison the American people for the highest level of profit.

Because corporations would never harm the people. Or sell them products that would harm them.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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

Sugar is worse than crack cocaine and more addictive

 

[sealybobo]

I have no idea how good he is at business. I don't care. But he doesn't know jack shit about government. He's horrible at that.

Anyway - when Democrats start throwing their weight around bullying businesses like this, Republicans used to complain. But of course when your party does it, it's different.

Papageorgio can't let go that the Biden administration "pressured" facebook" to do something about all the fake news being posted by russians on their site. Zuckerburg didn't do what they ASKED and Biden did nothing to Facebook.

And Papa thinks this is the same as all the bullying Trump has done to corporations to do what he wants. One example alone is Amazon was going to put next to each product how much tariffs are costing. Trump freaked out, called them, threatened them, and boy did they back down quickly.

Not like Facebook who told Biden to **** off and Biden said okay that's your right as an American. Now Papa will suggest maybe Trump was just convincing but not threatening. Prove he threatened them. But Papa takes Zuckadicks word for it.

 

[Papageorgio]

Who said anything about mandates????

Americans are the most unhealthy people on earth. Every other first world nation is extending their life expectancy, and yours is declining. You have the ability to promote healthy eating, and to teach families how to make healthy choices, and you CHOOSE to exploit these people to enrich Food Inc.

You nation promotes garbage eating - highly processed, prepared foods, packed with sugar and fats, are heavily advertized and promoted.

Fortunately we have RFK Jr. who has banned food dyes and creating safer food. We do suck on our food and over processing. My wife and I do most of our own cooking, organic, low processing, healthy clean food. Much better way to live, we have way to much crap that we call food.

 

[Papageorgio]

Papageorgio can't let go that the Biden administration "pressured" facebook" to do something about all the fake news being posted by russians on their site. Zuckerburg didn't do what they ASKED and Biden did nothing to Facebook.

And Papa thinks this is the same as all the bullying Trump has done to corporations to do what he wants. One example alone is Amazon was going to put next to each product how much tariffs are costing. Trump freaked out, called them, threatened them, and boy did they back down quickly.

Not like Facebook who told Biden to **** off and Biden said okay that's your right as an American. Now Papa will suggest maybe Trump was just convincing but not threatening. Prove he threatened them. But Papa takes Zuckadicks word for it.

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?

 

[Papageorgio]

Yes, you want corporations to be unfettered, to scam, bill and poison the American people for the highest level of profit.

Because corporations would never harm the people. Or sell them products that would harm them.

My wife and I are being personally responsible for our diet, I know that is difficult to understand but you also need to realize that the government under Republicans and Democrats wrote laws that have allowed the corporations to process such food. So it isn’t just business that is greedy and trying to kill people, it is also our government, I don’t trust them either.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Trump is the LEAST successful businessman in world history. His 7 bankruptcies are a world record. He lost a billion dollars in the 1980's. American banks stopped lending to him in 2002 and still won't lend him money,

He knows very little about business, other than how to go bankrupt for fun and profit.

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.

 

[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?

That doesn't make any sense. Or maybe your .07 is so far because of a lot of reasons like companies stocked up before prices went up and have been able to so far hold out on raising prices.

UK, 10% tariff. I complain because I buy from the UK. Then I learn EU is 15%. I should consider myself lucky my shit only went up 10%. You are fooling yourself or being fooled. Fake news.

 

[Greenbeard]

Sugar is worse than crack cocaine and more addictive

Time for the military to blow up any boats suspected to be transporting sugar into the United States.

 

[Papageorgio]

That doesn't make any sense. Or maybe your .07 is so far because of a lot of reasons like companies stocked up before prices went up and have been able to so far hold out on raising prices.

UK, 10% tariff. I complain because I buy from the UK. Then I learn EU is 15%. I should consider myself lucky my shit only went up 10%. You are fooling yourself or being fooled. Fake news.

Sorry, it is 0.7%, is what inflation tariffs have caused which is less than the 1.3%-2.5% predicted. It’s like people that think raising wages contributes significantly to inflation. It’s called economics and isn’t a dollar for dollar game, lots go into it.

Here's How Low Inflation Would Be Without Trump’s Tariffs, According to New Research

NBER finds tariffs raised inflation 0.7 points, adding pressure to American budgets.

money.com

Sorry to ruin your day there sparky, I know you want Americans to suffer more from the tariffs that are bringing money.

 

[Dragonlady]

Fortunately we have RFK Jr. who has banned food dyes and creating safer food. We do suck on our food and over processing. My wife and I do most of our own cooking, organic, low processing, healthy clean food. Much better way to live, we have way to much crap that we call food.

If only food dyes were the worst of it. They're not even close. Food processing removes both nutrients and flavour from the food, which they cover by using fat and sugar to make the foods tastier and more satisfying. North Americans are now eating 1/3 of their meals outside of the house, and often using "convenience" foods - preprepared, and packaged, just heat and eat.

I read something a few years ago that was like a slap upside the head: Our hunter gatherer bodies were never designed to process chemicals and preservatives. When our food is laced with chemicals that the body can't process, they store the food as fat.

When I was living with my "all organic all of the time" daughter, I was eating second helpings of everything and losing weight doing it - because my body could process everything I was eating. I generally do almost all of my own cooking from scratch and from fresh, as well - cheaper, tastier, and more convenient.

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?

Your assessment that retailers should only increase prices by .7% is ridiculous. Importers who are paying a 30% tariff on their goods cannot afford to charge you less than what they're paying out of pocket, which is WAY more than .7%. The only reason the impact on inflation has been so low to this point is because the vendors have tried to avoid passing true cost on to consumers and have been eating the cost themselves.

Importers cannot continue to do this. Bankkruptcies are at record levels again, as a result of the tariffs, so nobody is going to be able to afford to eat the tariffs any longer.

The Hunter Laptop story was killed because it was FAKE NEWS, and even the New York Post reporter who wrote the story, refused to put his name on it because he didn't believe it. Every scrap of evidence since then, including the testimony of the guy who owned the repair shop, said the stuff being promoted as being from "hunter's laptop" wasn't on the hard drive when he received the laptop.

In fact, there were no photos or videos on the laptop when it arrived at his shop. But files were added to the hard drive AFTER it was in his shop:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/now-warning-about-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo-guy-who-leaked-it/

 

[sealybobo]

Sorry, it is 0.7%, is what inflation tariffs have caused which is less than the 1.3%-2.5% predicted. It’s like people that think raising wages contributes significantly to inflation. It’s called economics and isn’t a dollar for dollar game, lots go into it.

Here's How Low Inflation Would Be Without Trump’s Tariffs, According to New Research

NBER finds tariffs raised inflation 0.7 points, adding pressure to American budgets.

money.com

Sorry to ruin your day there sparky, I know you want Americans to suffer more from the tariffs that are bringing money.

Fake news.

 

[Papageorgio]

If only food dyes were the worst of it. They're not even close. Food processing removes both nutrients and flavour from the food, which they cover by using fat and sugar to make the foods tastier and more satisfying. North Americans are now eating 1/3 of their meals outside of the house, and often using "convenience" foods - preprepared, and packaged, just heat and eat.

I read something a few years ago that was like a slap upside the head: Our hunter gatherer bodies were never designed to process chemicals and preservatives. When our food is laced with chemicals that the body can't process, they store the food as fat.

When I was living with my "all organic all of the time" daughter, I was eating second helpings of everything and losing weight doing it - because my body could process everything I was eating. I generally do almost all of my own cooking from scratch and from fresh, as well - cheaper, tastier, and more convenient.





Your assessment that retailers should only increase prices by .7% is ridiculous. Importers who are paying a 30% tariff on their goods cannot afford to charge you less than what they're paying out of pocket, which is WAY more than .7%. The only reason the impact on inflation has been so low to this point is because the vendors have tried to avoid passing true cost on to consumers and have been eating the cost themselves.

Importers cannot continue to do this. Bankkruptcies are at record levels again, as a result of the tariffs, so nobody is going to be able to afford to eat the tariffs any longer.

The Hunter Laptop story was killed because it was FAKE NEWS, and even the New York Post reporter who wrote the story, refused to put his name on it because he didn't believe it. Every scrap of evidence since then, including the testimony of the guy who owned the repair shop, said the stuff being promoted as being from "hunter's laptop" wasn't on the hard drive when he received the laptop.

In fact, there were no photos or videos on the laptop when it arrived at his shop. But files were added to the hard drive AFTER it was in his shop:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/now-warning-about-hunter-biden-laptop-disinfo-guy-who-leaked-it/

Read the link, I just going by a non partisan site.

Here's How Low Inflation Would Be Without Trump’s Tariffs, According to New Research

NBER finds tariffs raised inflation 0.7 points, adding pressure to American budgets.

money.com