@koo_doo2@JoeyMannarino I was twice in Florianopolis (BR) for extended periods and it was lovely. The climate reminded me of San Diego. I could definitely live there. Being under the same governmental umbrella as Rio and Sao Paulo is the problem with Brazil.
Long periods of peace insulate us from the horrors of war, but THE most insulated are liberal women raised in privileged circumstances. Their grasp of reality seems tenuous at best. They simply cannot imagine fighting and dying in the freezing bloodied mud surrounded by screams.
PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps.
Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks. Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%.
The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story.
SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA, 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips.
The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight.
Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer.
Pepsi was one company, one product line, one program. Imagine what happens when the subsidies stop across the board.
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1/9: The FBI isn't broken—it's been weaponized into an intelligence empire that spies domestically while failing at real law enforcement. ICE bleeds enforcing laws with gloves on, FBI sits impotent on domestic terrorists. Time to gut it: strip intel functions, make it cops again.