• skozzii@lemmy.ca
    11·
    2 days ago

    This will go well with his tariff plan considering the US imports 40% of its cane sugar currently, and this would send demand through the roof.

    Oh and the countries it’s imported from are some of the top tariff countries.

    Nothing makes sense…

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    331·
    2 days ago

    The most out of touch bullshit I ever saw was that post. Nobody over the age of 25 who isn’t morbidly obese still drinks coke enough to give a shit about what kind of sugar they use. We want the Epstein shit you promised you pedophile goof ass chud.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 hours ago

        So is water. If you’re drinking enough soda for it to matter you’re drinking too much soda.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m over 25 and am not obese. I would rather enjoy getting to have real sugar coke. Can’t find the Mexican bottles being sold too often.

      A broken clock is still right twice a day. Trump getting sodas swapped to real sugar is a favorable outcome.

      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 days ago

        It’s also not something he needs to be worried about. It’s like an abusive stepfather taking you to get ice cream. Yeah sure ice cream is nice or whatever but there are clearly more important things to be doing and worrying about

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          1 day ago

          Well most of the other things he wants to be focused on fuck us over, so if he spends any time putting into half useless bullshit it means I’m just glad he’s spending even a moments less time on anything else.

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
        2·
        2 days ago

        I mean don’t get me wrong, it’s a good start, but maybe we should focus on getting corn syrup out of things like fucking bread first. I was kind of hoping RFK would focus more on this aspect of his dementia and less on the vaccine and autism stupidity. But I should have known it was going to be the stupidest possible outcome.

    • sudo@programming.dev
      61·
      2 days ago

      Its blatantly contemptuous but not ‘out of touch’. His base would be hooting over this if they weren’t pissed at him over Epstein.

  • 0li0li@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    Am I missing something about coke, like a recent rant on Shitter? Pretty weak meme if there’s nothing besides the fact that he eats and drinks crap.

  • AstaKask@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Beet sugar is the only Christian sugar. I don’t mess with heathen palm, cane or corn.

  • sudo@programming.dev
    1·
    2 days ago

    Only would happen if he slashes corn subsidies which would be way dumber than the tariffs he first proposed.

      • sudo@programming.dev
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Many of food staples cannot be produced at a profit without subsidies, corn in particular. Since all of our farms are for profit farmers will destroy their crops Grapes Of Wrath style to drive up prices.

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Why do you think they would need a subsidy in order to be profitable?

          I haven’t read the Grapes of Wrath - wouldn’t “defecting” farmers who didn’t destroy their crops have an advantage?

          • sudo@programming.dev
            1·
            8 hours ago

            They currently do need subsidies to be profitable. Farmers destroying their own crops to raise prices is a well documented historical fact and it still happens today particularly when it comes to livestock. This is not my abstract conjecture.

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              But in the examples I’m familiar with, they do it because of regulation or collusion, not because of a lack of subsidies.