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Presidential Election 2024

SimeonNC said:
I'm telling you, if the Trump admin has food items such as oreos, mountain dew, ect. banned. Kiss his popularity goodbye lol. Also, the fact that alcohol and tobacco, both proven to be way harmful than junk food are still legal and probably won't be banned under a Trump admin will be an oversight.

That is assuming RFK Jr. is 100% right about the ingredients of these foods, which I doubt. Either way, these foods formulas can be changed and an outright ban is unnecessary.
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It's a national security problem.
 
Also blaming American's having shorter life expectancies than Canadians and Europeans on junk food and not the fact that our healthcare system is a nightmare is a take if I've seen one.
 
BlueRidgeFolklore said:
I mean, the dude on the left oversaw the most disastrous withdrawal in American military history, allowed Chinese spy balloons to fly coast to coast over the United States, allowed decorated servicemen and women to be other than honorably discharged over the COVID fiasco, and then went AWOL.

Let's stop acting like the guy on the right is just a news host and not a graduate of Princeton and Harvard's School of Government and Public Policy, with 20+ years of military leadership experience with multiple combat tours and awards.

If anything, this pick to me proves Trump's lack of faith in current and recently retired generals not being compromised by the likes of Northrop, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Lockheed or some DEI cultural initiative with 3rd party funding.

I say this as a veteran with no political leanings. We need to get back to focusing on the mission. We set the military standards that every other country is chasing, then we lowered those standards while our foes pressed on. If we do not recalibrate, and do so very soon, China will pass us.
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Hooyah! Pete is an excellent choice. He understands what we went through and that is very important

Put more frogs in congress!
 
SimeonNC said:
I'm telling you, if the Trump admin has food items such as oreos, mountain dew, ect. banned. Kiss his popularity goodbye lol. Also, the fact that alcohol and tobacco, both proven to be way harmful than junk food are still legal and probably won't be banned under a Trump admin will be an oversight.

That is assuming RFK Jr. is 100% right about the ingredients of these foods, which I doubt. Either way, these foods formulas can be changed and an outright ban is unnecessary.
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I doubt he's pressing to have those items outright banned, but modified with different ingredients. Trump himself loves McDonald's and Diet Cokes, so people thinking we're going back to churning our own butter tomorrow are just ill informed. My guess is we'll see the initiatives fall somewhere between where we currently are and the European model.
 
NorthDFWwx said:
What did RFK Jr. say in that video that was factually incorrect?
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I haven't went through the efforts to fact check everything he's said yet but considering RFK Jr's misinfo about vaccines contributed to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa makes me doubt him. I'm not gonna blindly trust the things he says just because he now has a high position in government

Edit removed the last year part, the outbreak was in 2018. I apologize
 
BlueRidgeFolklore said:
I doubt he's pressing to have those items outright banned, but modified with different ingredients. Trump himself loves McDonald's and Diet Cokes, so people thinking we're going back to churning our own butter tomorrow are just ill informed. My guess is we'll see the initiatives fall somewhere between where we currently are and European model.
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It's funny you bring up McDonald's and Coke, because those are perfect examples to make RFK's point.

Before the early 1990s, the McD fries were made with beef tallow. Come to find out, beef tallow actually wasn't nearly as unhealthy as people made it out to be, since it is a natural ingredient. If anything, the heavily processed oil they used now is increasingly proven to be more cancerous than beef tallow.

Similar situation with Coke. For years, it was made with pure can sugar (again, a natural ingredient). Now, it's made with heavily processed high fructure corn syrup which is also increasingly proven to be more cancerous.

The real issue has always been moderation of these foods. Americans, sadly, are gluttons (myself included).
 
SimeonNC said:
I haven't went through the efforts to fact check everything he's said yet but considering RFK Jr's misinfo about vaccines contributed to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa makes me doubt him. I'm not gonna blindly trust the things he says just because he now has a high position in government

Edit removed the last year part, the outbreak was in 2018. I apologize
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So that's a completely separate subject.

I asked what did you find in RFK Jr's video about the food ingredients to be factually incorrect?

Can you please answer that question?
 
NorthDFWwx said:
It's funny you bring up McDonald's and Coke, because those are perfect examples to make RFK's point.

Before the early 1990s, the McD fries were made with beef tallow. Come to find out, beef tallow actually wasn't nearly as unhealthy as people made it out to be, since it is a natural ingredient. If anything, the heavily.processed oil theyused now is increasingly proven to be more cancerous than beef tallow.

Similar situation with Coke. For years, it was made with pure can sugar (again, a natural ingredient). Now, it's made with heavily processed high fructure corn syrup which is also increasingly proven to be more cancerous.

The real issue has always been moderation of these foods. Americans, sadly, are gluttons (myself included).
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Bingo! These brands and items will still be around but with more natural ingredients if RFK has any say.
 
NorthDFWwx said:
So that's a completely separate subject.

I asked what did you find in RFK Jr's video about the food ingredients to be factually incorrect?

Can you please answer that question?
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I literally said I didn't know because I haven't fact checked yet. All I said is that I personally doubt that he's 100% correct because of his past track record of spreading misinformation, brought up an example(the measles thing you said was a separate subject) and that I wasn't gonna blindly trust him.
 
SimeonNC said:
I literally said I didn't know because I haven't fact checked yet. All I said is that I personally doubt that he's 100% correct because of his past track record of spreading misinformation, brought up an example(the measles thing you said was a separate subject) and that I wasn't gonna blindly trust him.
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Take the Democratic propaganda talking points out of your head and save yourself. Everything you keep referring back to crap stuff that you've been told in the campaign. It takes an open-minded person to decipher a lot of these things.
 
BlueRidgeFolklore said:
Bingo! These brands and items will still be around but with more natural ingredients if RFK has any say.
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Another issue, besides gluttony, is the lack of exercise.

Over the past 50 years, our lives have gotten much more sedentary which has slowed our metabolisms.

With most of you being native southerners, you know people have always stuffed their face with all sorts of fatty/salty foods. Yet, if you look at pictures of the average person from the 70s and before, people still somehow managed to stay fit. That's because the average person was working manual labor jobs daily, playing outside every day, etc.
 
SimeonNC said:
I literally said I didn't know because I haven't fact checked yet. All I said is that I personally doubt that he's 100% correct because of his past track record of spreading misinformation, brought up an example(the measles thing you said was a separate subject) and that I wasn't gonna blindly trust him.
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That's fine.

But also, don't be so quick to dismiss his plans/ideas either because of "feelings."
 
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