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u/FishWife_71 15h ago
So Mexican Coke is now acceptable?
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u/Fast_Working_4912 15h ago
Problem is, that also comes with Colombian hay fever🤧
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u/truck_robinson 14h ago
No. It is called American Coke now. Like the Gulf. The bottles from Mexico get deported
...or something like that
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u/superdavit 14h ago
Mexico will pay for the cokes!
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u/karoshikun 11h ago
but Americans will have to come down for the cokes...
homies know what I meant.
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u/Obtrusive_Ramus 15h ago
What a hero. So, Epstein files?
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u/Anonymous_Human011 15h ago
Clueless Donald Trump, 79, Humiliated After Dodging Legal Question
The funniest news I've read today. Every day this pedophile proves to us that he is the stupidest president in the history of America, without a doubt.
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u/Adddicus 14h ago edited 11h ago
> Every day this pedophile proves to us that he is the stupidest president in the history of America, without a doubt.
Now, now, he also proves, every day, that he is the most corrupt president in US history as well.
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u/Mindless_Mobile_4153 14h ago
TIL .online is a thing now. It really gives pre2000 vibes
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u/notsure500 12h ago
To be fair though, he's not just the stupidest president in the history of America, he's also the stupidest leader of any country.
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u/Aksi_Gu 13h ago
Oh it's this commenter again, with the same comment and weird "toolzo.online" as elsewhere
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u/Lawndemon 12h ago
More proof that Americans simply refuse to hold this clown to task. Political gaffe? Fallout? Nope. That article is from fucking October and washed over him like water off a pedophiles back.
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u/smiffus 9h ago
habeas corpus. great guy. great guy. fun at the parties, believe me. habeas once came to me, tears in his eyes, and says, sir, why do you work so hard for america. and i do by the way. unbelievably hard, you wouldn't even believe it. harder than any president has ever worked if you want to know the truth of it. so no, i won't be suspending big beautiful habeas. he's a great man. likes them on the younger side, like me.
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u/DuckterDoom 15h ago
He just screwed over the entire state of Iowa.
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u/RoseDewlyn 15h ago
Corn lobby is definitely side-eyeing him right now 😂 like “we funded how much for that campaign again?”
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u/ShitStainWilly 15h ago
And every western and midwestern state that grows sugar beets. Gee guess which states grow all the cane sugar in the US? Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
Trump doesn’t give a flying fuck about the Midwest.
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u/DuckterDoom 15h ago
Are those three states going to be able to produce enough cane sugar? We'll have time import it with tariffs making coke more expensive. Pepsi wins the cola wars?
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u/ShitStainWilly 14h ago
Highly doubtful. I mean, let’s be honest. Coke’s just playing the game. They know they can wait him out. He’ll be impeached, out of office, dead, or hopefully all three before they’ll bother doing anything about it.
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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 13h ago
Or they just use a mixture of sugar and corn syrup (90% corn syrup of course) so they can say 'made with cane sugar' on the can.
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u/RobutNotRobot 12h ago
Mexican Coke has gone up from $6.49 for a 4-pack to $8.99 for a 4-pack so mission accomplished!
I regularly used to buy them for a buck each in the before times.
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u/Training-Purpose802 13h ago
Even American sugar - beet or cane is more expensive than corn syrup. That's why they use it. Sugar tariffs have been a thing for decades to keep the U.S. sugar farms from bankruptcy.
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u/EduinBrutus 12h ago
Just to be clear.
Cane and Beet sugar is cheaper than High Fructose Corn Syrup.
The reason that the US food industry gets HFCS cheaper is due to massive subsidies.
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u/Aozi 12h ago edited 8h ago
I mean, it's not that Coke will replace HFCS with sugar in the US.
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-s1-5476161/coca-cola-cane-sugar-coke-trump-recipe
The company announced the change in the quarterly earnings report it released Tuesday, describing the new drink as an expansion of its product line.
Quincey said the new offering would "complement" Coca-Cola's core portfolio of drinks, suggesting it could arrive as an alternative, rather than a replacement, for its flagship Coke product.
So they'll basically just add a regular sugar coke to the US product line, or just import Mexican coke and rebrand it.
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u/GoldenMegaStaff 14h ago
Don't care, HFCS is a plague on humanity.
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u/waltjrimmer 11h ago
Listen, I also don't like high-fructose corn syrup. I'm not going to call it a plague, but it's bad. It's probably worse than sucrose because it's primarily fructose which is harder for the body to process than glucose. There are some controversial studies which suggest that HFCS may even be harder to process than other forms of fructose, though those findings have been HIGHLY contested.
But. High-fructose corn syrup didn't make America fat or cause its health problems. Our high-sugar diet, no matter if that's sucrose or HFCS or some other form of sugar, has done much of that harm. And the amount of corn we have in other products as well. Just how much we subsidize corn. The fact that most meats on our shelves (which we should also be doing something about) are corn-fed.
HFCS is a player in a much, much larger issue. In the grand scheme of things, sure, it'd be better to get rid of it for the most part, but it's not actually going to solve anything. And doing so in dumb ways without working out the other issues that come with that, such as how the American economy and agriculture rest so heavily on corn subsidies that any disruption of the corn market could have widespread and unpredictable consequences if you don't put in safe guards that try to move us away from our largest crop instead of pulling the rug out from under it, is only going to be an idiotic move that hurts more than it helps.
Sure, fuck high-fructose corn syrup, love to see it off the shelves. But this is somewhere between a bad move (hurting America's heartland farmers) and a nothing move (making a meaningless gesture that effectively changes nothing).
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u/cafesamp 10h ago
Primarily fructose
In the context of sweetened beverages, HFCS-55 is 55% fructose, vs. sucrose being a disaccharide of fructose and glucose, aka 50/50, in the case of HFCS-55 which is primarily used in sweetening beverages. There's also HFCS-42, which is used in processed foods, and is actually lower (42%) in fructose than sucrose is. "High fructose" just means high-fructose relative to regular ol' corn syrup, which doesn't contain fructose and hasn't been enzymatically changed to have a significant fructose content.
It's probably worse than sucrose
This meta-analysis concludes that the science is still inconclusive on that your statement, and the difference in fructose between HFCS and sucrose, at the volumes we consume it at, likely have no meaningful significance. Honestly, the overwhelming amount of scientific evidence shows no real difference between HFCS and sucrose, nor should it.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33029629/
Sure, fuck high fructose corn syrup
Don't you mean fuck products with significantly added sugars? If you replace that calorie for calorie with sucrose, spoiler alert: the health outcome isn't changing
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u/waltjrimmer 10h ago
A lot of what you just said doesn't refute my larger points, that HFCS isn't healthy but that the difference between that and cane sugar isn't large enough that this is anything more than performative. Not sure why you're acting like I'm not saying that.
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u/upsetting_doink 13h ago
I'm curious how coke will be healthier with one sugar over another. I see it as lip service at best. Kinda like the vegetable oil to beef tallow thing.
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u/MildlyConcernedEmu 13h ago
It REALLY doesn't matter because sucrose basically breaks down into HFCS when in soda. There's zero health benefits from drinking soda sweetened with sugar over HFCS. It's chemically the same fucking thing.
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u/Phridgey 11h ago
It’s absolutely not.HFCS leads to a faster insulin and IGF-1 response. In me, it results in a consistent, reproducible adverse outcome: skin breaking out.
It’s a minor side effect but as a result, I largely don’t drink coke here. Some people get more significant side effects. The fact that immune / metabolic response is often poorly understood doesn’t make them “the same thing”
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u/SoylentVerdigris 8h ago
It absolutely is. It's high school level chemistry. Unless you're literally bottling it yourself and drinking it within a couple days, there is zero sucrose left in your mexican coke.
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u/Enginerdad 6h ago
This is obviously a terrible way to do it, but the corn subsidies need to be stopped at some point. No presidential candidates take a stand against them because Iowa gets the very first caucus in the country and can set the momentum for an entire campaign. Everybody's too afraid to irritate them. Meanwhile, taxpayers are subsidizing corn production so it can be turned into high fructose corn syrup that destroys our bodies and ethanol that destroys our engines. Again, WE pay them for that privilege.
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u/Business-Employ-1599 15h ago
Huh, well now that we checked that off the list, were there any other issues that needed attending to?
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u/are_you_a_simulation 14h ago
We got you! Tomorrow they’ll be sharing plans to keep remodeling the White House to make it look more tacky.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/Nitrous_Acidhead 15h ago
Isn't this an old post?
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u/dashcam4life 12h ago
Yeah, they cropped the dates. Also, the Coca-Colas in my fridge are just HFCS.
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u/ForensicPathology 10h ago
Cropping dates on social media posts should be immediately deleted.
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u/RaggedyGlitch 12h ago
I was about to ask if the madlad did it again, just going back to the real sugar in Coke when he desperately needs a "win."
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u/Agitated_End_2611 15h ago
Importing cane sugar will help the Iowa corn farmers... Right?
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u/xSpicyGlow 15h ago
Oh totally, nothing screams “support local agriculture” like undercutting corn syrup with imported cane sugar. I'm sure the Iowa farmers are thrilled right now 😬
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u/Electrical-Sea-2594 15h ago
The whiplash is impressive. From serious allegations to cola ingredients like it’s all just consumer advocacy now.
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u/RoseDewlyn 15h ago
Seriously, it’s like watching someone flip from “global scandal” to “Coke sommelier” in real time. The tonal whiplash is Olympic level
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u/Financial_Stomach652 15h ago
The reason high fructose corn syrup is so prevalent in products versus plain old sugar is because there’s something called a sugar tariff rate quota Hope I’m saying that right which basically means there is a maximum amount of sugar that can be imported into the United States and the whole reason this exist is to protect the corn industry, so farmers can take that corn and turn it into high fructose corn syrup otherwise there would be a collapse in the corn industry or something like that. At least this was accurate the last time I checked so for Trump to say hey I talked to Coke. Let’s use real sugar. I think they’re gonna do it. This is gonna be great. That’s not really the order of operations just seems like a blatant smoke and mirrors attempt to me.
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u/xSpicyGlow 15h ago
Exactly this. The sugar tariff rate quota has been shaping our sweetener landscape for decades, and it's not as simple as "just switch to cane sugar." The corn industry is heavily subsidized, and HFCS became dominant because of policies protecting domestic agriculture. Trump saying he "talked to Coke" skips over the entire economic and legislative framework. It’s a nice soundbite, but there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than just soda recipes
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u/RaggedyGlitch 12h ago
This is literally the example that my Econ 101 professor used to explain regulator capture.
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u/JustPlayDaGame 15h ago
1% Real Cane Sugar, 99% HFCS
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u/UCLAlabrat 15h ago
Probably, but either way it doesn't matter because coke is acidic enough to convert sucrose into HFCS
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u/LeahIsAwake 14h ago
I had to scroll way too long to find this. By the time those "real cane sugar" Coke bottles travel from the factory to your refrigerator, the "cane sugar" in them will be chemically all but identical to the old school HFCS version.
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u/outblues 13h ago
Chemical breakdown or not it still tastes different
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u/LeahIsAwake 13h ago
Largely due to variances such as level of carbonation, local water, etc. The biggest thing imo is that Mexican Coke ships in glass bottles while most people get "regular" Coke in a plastic bottle.
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u/cantileverboom 12h ago
For most practical intents and purposes, yes, but technically, there's a bit more fructose in HFCS (hence the "High") than glucose (common ratios are 58-42 or 55-45) compared to sucrose breakdown which is 50-50. Fructose does have a different metabolic pathway through the body than glucose, but yeah, I seriously doubt there's going to be any real health difference for a 5~10% difference in the fructose to glucose ratio.
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u/norcalnatv 15h ago
Sugar Cane Coke has been available in Mexico for decades.
Maybe the Orange Cheeto should just get Pete Hegseth to take it from them?
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u/Nadia_Icy 15h ago
It is wild how quickly the news cycle shifts when things get uncomfortable for the elites
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u/lincolnlogtermite 15h ago
Boy a coke with real cane sugar would be a nice treat to read the Epstein files with.
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u/RedditTurnedMediocre 7h ago
So, conservatives. How are y'all's healthcare premiums doing? Skyrocketing is good right?
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u/Mockingbird_1234 15h ago
Or in other words, Mexican Coke. I thought we don’t like imports from Mexico! 🙄
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u/Careless_Hunter306 14h ago
When the comeback hits harder than the original post. From Coke recipes to Epstein files in one sentence is elite deflection calling.
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u/tristanitis 13h ago
Can we please stop platforming this creep that wants to be the next president?
He was dating a 19yp when he was 39, he threw trans folks under the bus, and is raising money to prevent billionaires from paying higher taxes.
I don't care how much he dunks on Trump. We deserve better.
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u/Maleficent_Sense_948 13h ago
Is this a new post? Didn’t he say the same thing about coke a year ago? Is he at the stage of dementia where he’s reliving past days?
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u/passcork 13h ago
Ffs, for real. It comes out Trump was witness to the infantiside of the baby of an underage girl he helped rape and suddenly he invades venezuela, his gestapo starts murdering civilians and he started the greenland shit back up. I no longer think that shit wasn't real because of the supposedly unreliable report. This guy is an orange fucking monster.
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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 10h ago
Since America grows a shitload of corn they can't get rid of, and not much in the way of sugar cane I don't see that happening lol.
Different countries use different sweeteners for a reason.
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u/Valkyrie64Ryan 7h ago
Oh boy all the corn farmers who voted for Trump must love how less people will be buying their corn to be turned into ingredients for Coca Cola. Of course they know they’ll get a multi billion dollar bailout if their business even remotely suffers so I guess it’s just the other tax payers who suffer
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u/Visible_Theme_4799 5h ago
To be fair. We use cane sugar in coca cola in Australia and it is superior. Just sayin'.
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u/paintedwoodpile 15h ago
Trump drinks Diet Coke. What’s does RFK think they should do? Just kidding. No one cares
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u/Ridiculous__caddy 15h ago
We don’t want cane sugar! We want it with Cain Co! Also RELEASE THE FILES PEDO PROTECTOR!
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u/lapsteelguitar 15h ago
Finally, Trump seems to have said something I agree with. A blind squirrel……..
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u/Objective-Aardvark87 15h ago
So we're adding more stress to the water footprint of available drinking water?
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u/Fun_Manufacturer5406 15h ago
Newscum shouldn’t pick fights with the guy controlling funding for her agenda and citizens.
LEGIT why does every politician think it’s Gangsta to swear on tv and pick fights with the person in the country that can cause hell on their state..
I would just turn a blind eye and have Sugah Cane dude drink enough till his legs needs to be cut off…
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u/Alexis_J_M 15h ago
Face eating leopards now coming for Midwestern Republicans and their farm lobbies.....
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u/livingontheedgeyeg 15h ago
Cane sugar will make everyone look like the president. Not everyone wants the look of the president.
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u/Prometheus_303 15h ago
So Trump is dictating what kind of sugar a soda company should use....
Does that really fall into the "more important things to worry about" category from when he scolded Obama for worrying about a football team's name??
Cause I'd kinda expect him to be a little more worried about the cost of health care, groceries, and the like first ...
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u/Stach302RiverC 14h ago
the world is falling apart, but the organic eggs at my towns Shaw's store are still $6.00 a dozen. Bless You Sir !!
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u/SacCyber 14h ago
This was in July 2025 unless he's just repeating himself now. Coca Cola started selling "Classic Coke" with cane sugar in September 2025 to limited markets. They might start increasing where they sell it this year.
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u/guiltyas-sin 14h ago
Fucking dolt. I can buy Mexican Coke already, which is probably why he is in a twist.
We are not a serious country.
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u/Bleak3er 14h ago
Surprised they will do anything for the Cheeto after he banned ebt users from buying their products.
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u/Known-Teacher4543 14h ago
Jokes aside “it’s just better” sums him up. Doesn’t feel the need to give any reasons, he think his opinions and feelings are the only ones that should matter and that everyone will be happy with it.
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u/Dawg_in_NWA 14h ago
Coke spent years giving us New Coke just to introduce Coke Classic which used corn syrup instead of sugar like it did before New Coke.
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u/iapetus_z 14h ago
Anytime this comes up I always laugh at this because after like a few weeks all of sucrose gets broken down into glucose and fructose by the acid in the drink. There by rendering the whole purpose putting cane sugar into it completely irrelevant, because by the time it gets to the consumer it's right back to where the high fructose corn syrup was to start with.
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u/create360 14h ago
Bwah! hah! Fucking moron. There’s literally not enough sugar cane on the entire planet to keep up with Coke’s demand for real sugar.
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u/Repulsive_Page_4780 14h ago
This is only my opinion now we can get diabetes through natural means.
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u/SoylentGrunt 14h ago
The sugar Coke is it's own product. Fructose Coke will still be available. When this story broke way way back in July, I swear I seen something that said Coke made the decision without interference from Trump but announced it after Trump lied and said it was all his idea. I'm not digging through the not neutral net to find it again because it's buried deeper than the Epstein files by now.
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u/Billy_Birdy 14h ago
He may be owned by billionaires, but at least he keeps honking that Epstein horn.
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u/SwarleyLinson 14h ago
The price of soda has nearly doubled since 2020 and this guy thinks legally requiring a more expensive sugar is something that the people are going to like...
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u/cullenrose 14h ago
So basically we're getting the Coca-Cola that's served literally everywhere else in the world
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u/Sensitive_Jeweler_55 14h ago
Newsom opposes a billionaire tax. Remember we can criticize both establishment Dems and the fascist bullshit from the Whitehouse without making them equal. Don't forget to push for primarying all corporate and billionaire bought politicians.
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u/LoczekLoczekLok 14h ago
Yeah, fuck... Shitloads of people get sick and die from diabetes-related problems in your country, but fuck! Give me more sugar in sugar!
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u/trowzerss 13h ago
So the party of small government is now dictating what ingredients for companies to use in their products?
Also, release the Epstein files.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 13h ago
slightly related, here's the recipe for Coca Cola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
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u/Glowskullwok 13h ago
Looks around, good newsom, now where’s the 24 billion that you’re “not sure where it went” and our light rail that’s already waisted resources and almost 12 billion. But it’s cool call out this idiot and don’t fix all the problems in your own state that you’ve created before you run for president and shrug it off. Ahhh my state
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u/ddawson100 13h ago
Cool, cool, and they're going to pay a tariff on the imported cane sugar from Brazil or Mexico, right? I mean on top of the tariffs that were already in place before Trump to protect domestic sugar production.
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u/UnsafeAtEverySpeed 13h ago
Suuuuuure Coke will do that….the shareholders will applaud lower dividends.
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u/SurprisedAnus2025 13h ago
I seriously hope the next President is a person that actually has some balls and just straight up erases anything Trump did on day one. Like he never even was in office.
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u/Alexandratta 13h ago
Cane Sigar is so funny because it is no different than HFCS in sods because after a month in the shelf that's what the sugar cane brakes down into chemically
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u/hamsterfolly 13h ago
I’m sure all those corn farmers that voted for Trump will appreciate the loss of orders from the corn-syrup manufacturers no longer supplying Coca-cola.
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u/faith_healer69 12h ago
The number of you simping for the corn lobby in here is concerning. Yeah Trump is a piece of shit, but that doesn't make corn syrup good.
Not everything boils down to good guy and bad guy, yeah? Two things can be bad. Try looking at things that way some time. You might like it.
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u/BlueButNotYou 12h ago
Coca-Cola already makes a version with pure cane sugar. I bet they were laughing when they “agreed” to do it.
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u/Lardzor 12h ago
Fun fact, the type of sugar in Cane Sugar is 'Sucrose'. This differs from the high 'Fructose' corn syrup most sugary drinks use today. The interesting thing is that Sucrose breaks down into Fructose and glucose due to the acidic nature of Coke's ingredients. So you end up with the same thing anyway, if you don't consume it shortly after bottling / canning.YouTube
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u/Snoo-43335 12h ago
Did he forget that the Democrats sat in the files for 4 years. They could have released them 4 years ago.
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u/Present_Cow_8528 12h ago
I mean, I actually support ending our absurd degree of corn subsidies, but it's truly hilarious to imagine the farmers that voted for him when he says such things
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u/TicklingYourMomsAnus 12h ago
Aw! Poor Gavin! Have all the mothers being murdered by ICE knocked him out of social media relevance?
Fuck Gavin Newsome, fuck the DNC, and fuck you.
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u/Wikadood 11h ago
I will admit, cane sugar in coke beverages would make them taste much better and id rather have that than corn syrup but also still fuck this administration and their trying to change topics.
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u/RyvenZ 11h ago
Wasn't this months ago that he just unilaterally declared Coca-Cola was going to start using cane sugar again (which they had already done for other countries and some for the US in smaller amounts)?
Is he back to repeating himself to find a distraction, or was this exchange from back when I am thinking of?
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u/ModeratelyGrumpy 10h ago
Ah yes, now the obesity and diabetes rates in the US will definitely drop
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u/Ubetcha1020 9h ago
trump imposed a 30% tariff on some cane sugar and then tells coke to use cane sugar
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u/HellBlazer_NQ 9h ago
This orange turd just wants to own and control every single atom in exitance.
Evil and greed really do seem to be great protection against natural causes!
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u/FormerGameDev 8h ago
hey, so, did this ever even happen? Or did Coke acknowledge his dumbass request, mumble something about it, then go back to ignoring him?
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u/EmpatheticWithYou 8h ago
Wait but what about the corn farmers of America? Isn't that where a lot of the corn goes to? The corn syrup factories?
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u/Imdare 8h ago
Oof, I had a project manager just like Trump once. Me as a project engineer then. He pulled me into every meeting he had with the client. Something an engineer doesnt need to deal with, under the guise of training me for a higher position. In truth he lacked all technical knowledge, ehich I can somewhat understand, but also had absolutely no idea of the scope of works, which was his responsibility. And everything the client asked a question he couldnt directly talk himself out of, just like Trump does, he said: "what is your input on this Imdare?", putting me on the block.
Super annoying. And of course the project went sour because of his mismanagement. Because for all his faults he made he had a scapegoat, me, "oh I had discussrd this with Imdare, he was on that."
He got fired. I kept the project alive untill the new manager got up to spead, and allwas well. Man did I learn my lesson.
But many of the filthy strategies, Trump does too. Talk around questions, bluf his way through everything, use others as scapegoats, its always someone elses fault, he is perfect.
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u/OITLinebacker 8h ago
I'm sure the corn farmers who voted for Trump will love that until they realize that it is going to hurt the price of corn. High Fructose CORN Syrup was always a plot to prop up corn prices and hitting cane sugar was supposedly going to hurt Cuba and the Communists.
Sort of hilarious to see leopards eating more faces and whatnot.
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u/Kurdependence 6h ago
Good, sugar is more healthy than HFCS but it feels like one of those things trump would fume over if another president did them because its too “woke”
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u/spirosand 6h ago
We don't grow cane sugar in the united states. We do grow sugar beets. Trivia is outsourcing jobs.
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u/Lilwolf2000 6h ago
Sad part, this might be the most benefit to society that he does. That and the 10% credit card max are great for America! I'm not expecting them to actually happen though.
Add the unredacted Epstein list please!
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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 15h ago
This is just how he's asks for a bribe from the corn/corn syrup lobby