I don’t buy a lot of such stuff but I like Dr Pepper anyhow, so when I feel like a soda that’s what I’ve been getting since Coke opened its collective mouth. I’ve also generated a list and am avoiding other Coke corp products as well. Might not accomplish anything, but it makes me feel better.
This is in addition to boycotting as many products produced in California as possible as well after a BS speeding ticket from a lying CHP @$$hole near Barstow. After all the fees and penalties and online school it was $500 for going 7mph over the limit on my Triumph in the middle of the freaking Mojave. Effin pigs.
Doing my miniscule part!
“...a lying CHP @$$hole near Barstow. After all the fees and penalties and online school it was $500 for going 7mph over the limit on my Triumph in the middle of the freaking Mojave. Effin pigs.”
I’ve posted this before. A garage owner I was working with had a deputy he’d known since the deputy was a kid visit him. The owner related a similar experience and the deputy told him, basically, our only job now is revenue generation. We like to stop old white people as there is virtually no possibility of them having wants and warrants. We seek them out for anything we can, as they are a quick stop and a few hundred bucks. We try never to stop a car full of young black men as we must, by law, run them all for wants and warrants and it’s extremely likely one will have them and that ties us up for the afternoon; meaning we aren’t out writing tickets.
Overhearing that conversation had a chilling effect on me. I already hated the self-financing departments all over Tallahassee. They have their onw EPA, that’s a total of four: federal, state, county and now city. The last two are self-financing, meaning they have written so many rules that virtually everybody is in violation of something. They have uniforms and guns, too. The building inspectors ride around looking for things to ticket. A contractor told me years ago that he added 3000 for every 50,000 in costs to cover the fines. This is all driven by high pay and huge benefits.