[AMERICANTHINKER] In February, Coca-Cola announced a quota for attorneys it would hire, saying that 15-percent of billable hours of service would be provided by "black attorneys," which is larger than their demographic representation in America. Then, famously, employees at Coca-Cola were encouraged, on company time and the company dime, to "be less white," which ostensibly means to be less "defensive," "arrogant," and "ignorant." Most recently, the company injected itself into American politics in a manner that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. Coke openly aligned itself with the Democratic Party, spreading propaganda on its behalf in order to signal its opposition to Georgia’s legislation meant to protect election integrity in future elections.
This isn’t the 80s. This time, the degree to which Coke has offended its consumers runs much deeper than our taste buds. Back then, American consumers forgave Coke for its mistakes, focusing on the brand and the fond memories. This time, the schism between Coke and its once-loyal consumers seems much more permanent. One reader’s comments at The Daily Wire stand out:
I have collected Coca Cola memorabilia for many, many years. Since I was a kid. I found them to be very Americana, and looking at my collection always gave me a sense of home. I packed everything all up last month. It was not a great feeling.
He’s not alone. According to a Rasmussen poll, 37-percent of Americans are less likely to buy Coca-Cola products due to the company’s recent political stance. This is counterbalanced, some might suggest, by 25-percent who say they’re more likely to buy Coca-Cola products due to that stance.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... consider what this means. A smaller number of Americans, who probably don’t really like drinking Coca-Cola at all, happen to love the new Woke Coke’s politics -- though they still likely hate all their corporate profits, and wish that politicians would limit or eliminate sugary drinks as a consumer choice, for the sake of public health. A larger number of Americans probably love Coca-Cola’s American history and the brand, have been loyal customers for years and would prefer that consumers, not government, should decide Americans’ beverage preferences -- but will henceforth avoid buying Coca-Cola products, or even displaying its memorabilia, wherever possible.
Coca-Cola can fire the people responsible for pitching the stupid ideas behind its recent wokeness, as it has, but it’s hard to imagine an outcome where Coke finds anything close to the soft landing that its good fortune, and red-blooded Americans’ goodwill, provided it back the 1980s.
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Dear wife of 58 years was an inveterate Coke drinker. No more! ME? I won't touch the stuff as I'd much rather sip on Laphroaig (It's the Water of Life you know).
Local super markets still have Broken-Cola Six packs 5 for $10. That works out to about $0.35 cents a bottle.
That would be near the 1970-early 80's shelf prices.
Spoke with a Coke route guy at our local supermarket, when I noticed his cart only had Sprite and Fresca on it and I did not see any Coke bottles.
So I asked and he said Coke sells on his route were down and he noticed it varied depending on the community and consumer demographics.
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when I noticed his cart only had Sprite and Fresca on it and I did not see any Coke bottles.
Sprite and Fresca are also made by the CocaCola company, NN2N1. Switching to another brand in the CocaCola family just makes management laugh scornfully and double down on woke viciousness. Coke brands.
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Trailing wife
you are correct....
I use to work for _OKE back in the later 70's while attending night classes at a local Tech college. There are a lot of stories to be told. But that was 40 + years ago and no need to WaKE up the Lawyers.
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The _OKE route guy mentioned people seemed to be focused on the COLA brand name, more so than the Clear looking sub-brands.
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Had a client who was in distribution; I was drinking DC's like Trump did back then. He told me 'you wouldn't drink that shit if you knew what went in it.' Haven't drank a DC in years.
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Small Comment
The poster who said its good for cleaning toilets isn't kidding, I've used it last week to remove rust and calcium deposits from my porcelain, you know the ring from hard water, and used it to remove rust from the real chrome on my collector cars; 1953 Citroen Traction Avant, 1951 Salmson S4.61, 1953 Bentley R-Type, 1952 Nash Ambassador Airflyte.
Coke should be sold in a hardware store under "Cleaners & Rust Removers" .... Drink it if you want, wonder what it does to the Iron in your BLOOD ???? Hahahaha!
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Barq's Root Beer, I love it but have stopped drinking sodas several years ago so I don't buy it for home use... This just makes it harder to push that button at a burger joint.
#11
Tooth decay, obesity, diabetes...what's not to like?
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Raj, I know what's in it. I don't drink any of those types of beverages. Cnuckistan Laphroig is my relaxing drink of choice.
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I drink DP on a regular basis. It fills the need in my addiction to caffeine. Pleases me. Dropped DC because the case package of DP is easier to carry than DC at Sams. _oke has a decent dividend FYI.
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Sprite is a drink loved by people of color and it doesn’t have the company name for easy boycotts. Combo of the two is probably keeping sprite consumption afloat.
[American Thinker] On Friday’s broadcast of "CBS This Morning," Michelle Obama made the delusional claim, one among several, that "many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store, or walking our dogs, or allowing our children to get a license."
Had Michelle attributed that fear to a wariness of black drive-by gang bangers or street muggers, it might have made some sense. But her fear, she implied, was of racist police.
Barack Obama knows better, but he has lived in fear as well. That fear deformed his presidency and sent the nation spiraling down a lethal rabbit hole that has benefitted no one more than the Mao-loving matrons of BLM.
Not surprisingly, as I learned in researching my forthcoming book, Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply, there is no one Barack fears more than wife Michelle, his personal emissary from the world of authentic African-Americans.
In a May 2011 interview, activist professor Cornel West nailed Obama on this fear. "All he has known culturally is white," said West. "He is just as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation. When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening."
Obama had reason to be frightened. Following a Father’s Day speech by Obama at a largely black Chicago church in 2008, Jesse Jackson was heard on a hot mic at a Fox News studio saying, "See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based—I wanna cut his nuts out."
Here Jackson made a sharp slicing motion with his hands and continued, "Barack—he’s talking down to black people—telling n*****s how to behave." In the original, as one might expect, Jackson did not speak in asterisks.
Obama had made the rookie mistake of attributing the absurd crime rate in America’s black neighborhoods to fatherlessness. Jackson, Chicago’s most prominent baby daddy, suggested that a leftward course correction was in order, and Obama cravenly obliged him.
Obama does not talk about Jackson’s comments in his memoir, A Promised Land. That’s a shame. Team Obama’s behind-the-scenes response to the Jackson threat might have enticed even a Republican or two to buy the book. What seems clear, though, is that Jesse Jackson’s very authenticity scared Obama. When Jackson ran for president in 1988, no one questioned his birthplace or his roots or his eligibility.
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The comparison to Colin Kaepernick is spot on. Both suffering from chronic identity confusion. Both attempting to belong to a fraternity to which they know they shall never fully qualify.
“There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
– Jesse Jackson
Harvard’s ‘Talented Tenth’ – US News and World Report
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When you do Identity Politics 24/7, don't be surprised when The Other doesn't want you
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And I'm hoping this was actually true. That BO had actually been gunned down by an overenthusiastic deputy for carrying a bong or something in his early years.
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Someone else pointed out that young Democrat women living near Chappaquiddick do indeed have something to fear.
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^ Totally Agree... The Kennedys are not the best of Automobile Drivers nor Aircraft Flyers as history will attest, and there are still a whole brood of them and their descendants around New England.
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[Regnum] After the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan began in May, which is supposed to be completed by September 11, Baku again started talking about the fact that Azerbaijan could be used in the transport chain for the export of NATO military equipment from Afghanistan. At the same time, perhaps, we will talk not only about air transportation from Afghanistan, but also the transportation of goods by land transport.
Recall that in 2008, when relations between the United States and Pakistan began to acquire a tense character, Washington and its allies created the Northern Distribution Network (NDC), delivering goods from Europe through Russia and Central Asia for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. In 2015, Russia canceled agreements on the transit of these goods, but the SRS continues to function, delivering goods through Georgia and Azerbaijan, across the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan and further to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. The network not only delivers goods to Afghanistan, but still remains the main route for the export of foreign military equipment from Afghanistan. The United States has already transported through this corridor from 2% to 6% of the total volume of military equipment that was imported and exported from Afghanistan by air.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—A surprising new study released Friday found that paying people not to work made people not want to work.
Amid shockingly low job numbers released today, the study suggested that some of that low unemployment was due to the government sending everyone more money than they would have made out working a job. Some smart expert analysts are seeing a connection between incentivizing people to stay home and them staying home.
"It's really bizarre -- telling people to stay home and watch Netflix while we send them money makes people just stay home and watch Netflix while we send them money," said one government official. "It seems that when you just send people checks they don't really see a point to going to work."
"We could not possibly have foreseen this."
At publishing time, experts had recommended raising the minimum wage to $1,000,000 an hour to incentivize people to go back to work, foreseeing no negative consequences from this course of action.
[NPASYRIA] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... lost its role as the southeastern wing of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... against the Soviet Union with the end of the Cold War. Ottoman Turkish politicians tried to search for a Ottoman Turkish role in the post-Cold War world, such as President Turkut Ozal, who said that Turkey’s vital sphere is the Ottoman Turkish world extending from the Aegean Sea to Turkestan in northwestern China, where the Uyghur people live, an idea in line with Turanism. It contradicts Ataturk’s nationalism, which restricted Ottoman Turkish nationalism to the borders of the Ottoman Turkish Republic, which was established in 1923.
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what a lot of drivel
Turkey is in trouble because of corruption, out of control spending, excessive military commitments and ethnic bullying
and Biden isn't going to throw money at them like he might with Iran
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[American Greatness] Six months later, the "Big Lie" won’t die.
The "Big Lie," of course, isn’t that the 2020 election was stolen—it’s that the election was perfectly fair and lawful.
The Left and NeverTrump have tried everything in their collective power to punish critics of the 2020 presidential election: Social media accounts, including those belonging to Donald Trump, have been deplatformed. Republican lawmakers have been cut off by longtime donors, threatened with legal recourse, and worse.
Nonviolent Trump-supporting Americans who traveled to the nation’s capital on January 6 to protest dubious election results in swing states now face criminal charges. Nearly 75 million Americans are considered potential "domestic violent extremists" by their own government and nearly half their countrymen agree.
Lives and careers are being destroyed—and the Biden regime is only getting started.
The news media portray election doubters as conspiracy theorists or QAnon cultists. CNN’s Jake Tapper this week threatened to ban from his show any Republican who peddles the "Big Lie" about election fraud. Speaking on the same network responsible for perpetuating any number of lies related to Donald Trump, from tales of Russian election collusion to disrespectful MAGA-hat-wearing Catholic teenagers, Tapper had a major meltdown.
"The lie about the election on its own is anti-democracy, and it is sowing seeds of ignorance in the populace, and obviously has the potential to incite violence," Tapper ranted. "But beyond that is, if you’re willing to lie about that, what are you not willing to lie about?"
Tapper insisted that history would harshly judge politicians who "lied" about the election. "History sees you being a coward. They are afraid of Republican voters who have been lied to by a very sophisticated propaganda machine led by President Trump but augmented by plenty of others."
Projection much?
Beleaguered Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), a martyr to the very same people who just a decade ago wanted her father charged with war crimes, now clings to political relevance based on her nonstop condemnation of the January 6 protest and her election fraud denialism. Naturally, Cheney found an appropriate outlet for her latest tantrum—the opinion pages of the Washington Post—where she attempted to lecture a Republican Party with a voter base that wants nothing to do with her.
"[F]ormer President Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen," Cheney wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday. "Trump repeats these words now with full knowledge that exactly this type of language provoked violence on Jan. 6."
Like so many NeverTrumpers, Cheney dutifully tied the events of January 6 to alleged delusions about an unfair and unlawful election. So, brainwashed MAGA Man, you think the 2020 election wasn’t on the up-and-up? Then you’re no better than the deplorable insurrectionists who "stormed" the Capitol that day, warns Cheney and her fellow travelers at National Review.
#2
????? How did Quoting Shakespeare in regards to Comrade Cheney constant blaming and denial of Trump Win. " The lady Comrade doth protest too much, methinks".
#5
I really do await the results of the Arizona audit with great anticipation. Maybe the start of a preference cascade.
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Truth, or something, as being told by the victors. The Dems are still in tears over the hanging chad issues, and screaming the election was stolen...
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[The Federalist] Frank Luntz, a longtime GOP pollster, is not too happy with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s recent criticism. On The New York Times’s "Sway" podcast Thursday, Luntz said he believes Carlson’s reporting is a product of the Fox News host’s supposed inclination to run for president.
"Tucker realizes that he can make any accusation he wants to make, and that cadre, because he’s very popular among a certain segment of conservatism," Luntz claimed.
"I think Tucker is running for president. And I think that’s what he’s going to do. And I think he’s going to try to demonize and destroy anyone who might stand up against him. And that’s all that this is," Luntz said.
Earlier this week, Carlson reported on a tip that Luntz was renting a room to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in his Washington D.C. apartment. He alleged McCarthy’s actions violated ethics rules in the House about receiving gifts — since Luntz has worked for Google. Below is the transcript from the Fox News segment:
#1
The oligarchy was obvious to me over a decade ago.
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It became obvious when SCOTUS made itself the end around to the Article V amending process. A branch that sits for life and is unaccountable to the people makes it an oligarchy, at best.
To the middle and working class, there is no reason to allow your children to die in conflicts to protect the power of the oligarchy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AMERICANTHINKER] In February, Coca-Cola announced a quota for attorneys it would hire, saying that 15-percent of billable hours of service would be provided by "black attorneys," which is larger than their demographic representation in America. Then, famously, employees at Coca-Cola were encouraged, on company time and the company dime, to "be less white," which ostensibly means to be less "defensive," "arrogant," and "ignorant." Most recently, the company injected itself into American politics in a manner that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago. Coke openly aligned itself with the Democratic Party, spreading propaganda on its behalf in order to signal its opposition to Georgia’s legislation meant to protect election integrity in future elections.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—A surprising new study released Friday found that paying people not to work made people not want to work.
