Liesman is a shockingly honest name for a journalist

These Jewish junk food companies probably killed more Russians in the past 30 years than died in WWII.

But they don’t get any credit from Biden, do they?

CNN:

McDonald’s and Starbucks are shutting their restaurants and cafes in Russia, and Coca-Cola is suspending its operations there in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. PepsiCo is also pulling some products from the country.

“McDonald’s has decided to temporarily close all our restaurants in Russia and pause all operations in the market,” CEO Chris Kempczinski said in a statement Tuesday.

There were 847 locations of McDonald’s in Russia at the close of last year, according to an investor document.

Globally, most McDonald’s (MCD) locations are operated by franchise operators. But that’s not the case in Russia, where 84% of locations are operated by the company, according to the document. Russia’s restaurants, along with another 108 in Ukraine, all operated by McDonald’s, accounted for 9% of the company’s revenue in 2021, according to the document.

I don’t understand how any multinational corporation can simply drop 9% of its revenue for a social-signaling project.

Apparently, they feared that Western boycotts would do more than 9% damage?

McDonald’s is a publicly traded company.

I guess the shareholders made this decision?

“In Russia, we employ 62,000 people who have poured their heart and soul into our McDonald’s brand to serve their communities. We work with hundreds of local, Russian suppliers and partners who produce the food for our menu and support our brand,” Kempczinski said. “And we serve millions of Russian customers each day who count on McDonald’s. In the thirty-plus years that McDonald’s has operated in Russia, we’ve become an essential part of the 850 communities in which we operate.”

But, he added, “at the same time, our values mean we cannot ignore the needless human suffering unfolding in Ukraine.”

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Farryl Bertmann, a registered dietitian and senior lecturer in the nutrition and food sciences department at the University of Vermont, warned that if big food companies leave Russia entirely the citizen population could suffer, even if they have other sources of food.

“I feel very strongly that people should be given the opportunity to purchase a variety of foods at different price points,” she said. “That can only be successfully done if access is there.”

She said that “ultimately, foods need to be made available,” adding, “I would be very concerned if the food environment [were] to dramatically change.”

Yes. People need to eat food. That’s one thing we can all agree on.

However, I don’t think they need to eat McDonald’s.

This doesn’t really even make any sense from any point of view, other than shitlib outrage culture.

Imagine that there are people who still think that the world is just all about the money.

“The man just wants you to work and consume, because that’s how they make their profit.”

Russia is going to be turned into a paradise with all of these Western companies pulling out.

They are going to get back their culture, something that Americanization has basically stolen from every nation on earth.

You know the thing.

McDonald’s is a universal symbol of the global Americanization, that is to say, the global Jewish consumerist culture based on psychologically manipulative and abusive marketing techniques.

Buddhist monks are seen eating McDonald’s in the Rammstein video.

Another major symbol of this global uniculture is Coca-Cola, which is also mentioned in the Rammstein song.

And Mickey Mouse is mentioned. Disney is also pulling out of Russia.

Organizing Christmas looting events on the internet is kind of hilarious. I have to admit.

I don’t think a black person thought of this. In fact, I’m pretty sure that no aspect of black lives matter was thought of by black people.

The official Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter organized a “Smash and Grab” event yesterday to shut down Christmas shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif. They said they were “smashing” white supremacy & “grabbing” justice. https://t.co/dQdgSTrgAF

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 24, 2021

“Smash white supremacy – grab justice” should be the new slogan of Pepsi.

Remember when they did that Black Lives Matter ad with Kendal Jenner and they had to pull it because black people got mad about it for some reason?

I think they were just mad Kendal looked good in it.

Seriously, do you guys remember this?

Watch it, it’s hilarious.

Anyway, Pepsi is clearly interested in this kind of marketing (as are most corporations), and most of the corporate pandering has been well received by BLM-Antifa.

I would direct this commercial.

I’ve got it all in my head.

There is a fat white cop with a mustache in front of the Louis Vuitton store, and the black guy in a ski mask punches him in the face, and then breaks out the store front with a bat. He’s going through with his crew smashing the glass and grabbing all the luxury goods and shoving them in a trash bag, in slow motion, and words come across the screen saying “smash white supremacy.”  Then, on his way out with his trash bag full of loot over his shoulder, then Kendal Jenner, who is working at the counter, gives him a smile and a wink and throws him a can of Pepsi. He catches it in mid-air and the caption reads “Grab Justice.” He chugs the Pepsi and on his way out throws the empty can at the collapsed and bleeding cops. It hits him in the face and he says “ugh.” Then Kendal and the black looter smile at each other. Cut to a BLM fist in the Pepsi colors.

After Black Lives Matter oracles studied the patterns of fried chicken bones cast into the dirt, and stared deeply into the forms of crack incense smoke, they concluded that images of cheerful older black people serving you food is racist.

CNN:

Quaker Oats is retiring the more than 130-year-old Aunt Jemima brand and logo, acknowledging its origins are based on a racial stereotype.

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Uncle Ben’s owner Mars also said Wednesday that “now is the right time to evolve the Uncle Ben’s brand, including its visual brand identity, which we will do,” adding that “we don’t yet know what the exact changes and timing will be, but we are evaluating all possibilities.”

And Conagra, which makes Mrs. Butterworth’s, said it will conduct a complete brand and packaging review on the syrup brand. Conagra noted it “can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values.”

There have been repeated calls for Aunt Jemima to change its logo. In a 2015 opinion piece published in The New York Times, Cornell University professor Riché Richardson said the logo is “very much linked to Southern racism.”

In other words, no one asked for this, except for the New York Times. Certainly, no black people wanted this. Black people want to be served food by cheerful older black people more than anyone else.

Richardson said the Aunt Jemima logo is based on a “‘mammy,’ a devoted and submissive servant who eagerly nurtured the children of her white master and mistress while neglecting her own.” A statue of a slave mammy stereotype was approved by the US Senate in 1923, but it was never built.

The company also ran racist ads for several decades, with actresses personifying the mammy stereotype. It evolved the logo over the years, and even hired singer Gladys Knight as a spokeswoman in the 1990s. Today, Aunt Jemima describes itself as brand that stands for “warmth, nourishment and trust — qualities you’ll find in loving moms from diverse backgrounds who want the very best for their families.”

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Pepsi (PEP) hasn’t yet revealed a new logo or brand name for the breakfast items. That will debut in the fall. The Aunt Jemima brand was purchased by Quaker Oats in 1926. PepsiCo bought Quaker Oats in 2001.

Aunt Jemima brand will donate $5 million over the next five years “create meaningful, ongoing support and engagement in the Black community.” Earlier this week, Pepsi announced a $400 million set of initiatives to support the black community.

So, they are telling us that this is racist, because it reminds everyone of a time when white southerners affectionately called their black slaves “aunt” and “uncle” and had them engaged in cooking and looking after children while dressed up nicely.

As opposed to now, where the men run around shooting each other in jungle tribe drug wars, and the women are addicted to drugs and infected with herpes, while each of their kids has a different jungle warrior father and none of them are around.

Well, I guess if they want to live that way, that’s their business.

I remember, as a child, being phased by the loud, unpleasant behavior of blacks in the public schools, and seeing these brands in the supermarket. It was the first time in my life that I seriously thought that blacks and whites could get along well together and be mutually beneficial in a greater system.

So, I can see why they would have to get rid of that.

The worst thing Pepsi ever did was make Pepsi.

Though I do enjoy the name. Just rolls right off the tippity top of the tongue.

And it always makes me think of Pepsi the frog.

NPR:

Beverage giant PepsiCo, Inc. has agreed to purchase energy drink maker Rockstar Energy Beverages for $3.85 billion dollars, the company announced Wednesday. It’s a move PepsiCo said will help it become “more consumer-centric and capitalize on rising demand.”

Energy drinks have been a relatively weak area for PepsiCo and its rival Coca-Cola, but both companies have trying to bolster their presence in the fast-expanding beverage category.

The move also reflects the shifting tastes as consumers have steadily weaned themselves from soda to other offerings that also include coffee and tea-flavored beverages and low-calorie drinks.

Though sometimes confused with or lumped into the beverage category that includes sports beverages, energy drinks are considered a different product.

“They are marketed to increase alertness and energy levels, containing significant amounts of caffeine and as much or more sugar as in soda. Many energy drinks pack about 200 mg of caffeine, the amount in two cups of brewed coffee,” according to Harvard’s The Nutrition Source website.

Are energy drinks an ethics violation?

Did you know that Pepsi own Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC?

Combined, they are bigger than McDonald’s.

It’s an empire built on something that was never popular or successful in any way.

It’s like if a group of costumed neo-Nazis built the biggest welding company on earth and were getting hired to do security at Trump rallies.

We need to study how a shitty rip-off cola that everyone hates came to dominate fast food globally.

I’m serious.

However this was done, it was amazing.

Under the helm of Pepsi, Rockstar will probably now overtake Monster as the preferred drink of the 30-year-old boomer.

Everything Pepsi touches turns to gold.

JLo isn’t even Mexican or Central American or whatever. She’s Puerto Rican. I’m told Puerto Rico is a part of the United States.

But apparently, Puerto Ricans feel more of an allegiance to Mexico and Central America than to the United States.

It’s almost as though race supersedes nationality on the “allegiances scale.”

Breitbart:

The Super Bowl halftime show with Jennifer Lopez and Shakira, appeared to feature several children in cages.

Jennifer Lopez’s 11-year-old daughter, Emme Maribel Muniz, crawled out of a cage before she joined her mother and began singing.

In all, roughly a dozen children crawled out of cages as the song Born in the U.S.A. pulsated throughout the stadium.

It wasn’t subtle.

HOW IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS POWERFUL YET SUBTLE STATEMENT #PepsiHalftime pic.twitter.com/NJiD2lxmXn

— lyam (@luthorswift) February 3, 2020

This is the first time in my life that big ass Latinas didn’t make me want to drink Pepsi.

I’m not sure if this is because the message was offensive, or just because they’re so old.

You see the photoshop and you’re like “sweet, give me a Pepsi.”

Then you see the real thing and you’re like “wow, them bitches riding dirty.”

And Pepsi just doesn’t cross the threshold of your psyche.

Furthermore, the commercials did not do much for me.

This whole “bread and circuses” thing has finally gone too far.