Trump Signs EO Reversing Obama's Ending of the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, Marking the Beginning of Trump GAINZZZ

America will no longer be celebrating weakness and slothfulness as some kind of special virtue of the very unhealthy.

For as long as I've been alive, leftists, hippies, health nuts, and Food-Worriers have demanded we remove artificial ingredients -- like chemical food dyes -- from our food.

Fifty years of demands on this front yielded no results.

Until now.

And the response from the left? Silent fuming.

I can see right-leaning people, who don't want the government intruding into our lives or consumer choices, and who are up to their eye teeth with constant Food-Worrying, sitting on their hands for this.

But leftists? Leftists who have been demanding this for half a century?

One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.

Some preamble for this next link: I don't want to insist that you believe the new thinking on corn syrup/fructose. You may well think, "They're literally telling us that this or that is poison every ten years before reversing themselves later."

But here's my pitch: Whether or not you buy it, it's been a steady buzz in health circles -- and the awful media -- that corn syrup/fructose is not a "healthy" sugar, but is in fact a sugar even more unhealthy than sucrose. Fructose is processed in the liver, unlike other sugars, and American livers are already over-taxed due to our high obesity rates and diabetes rates and exploding rates of fatty liver disease.

Anti-sugar campaigner Dr. Robert Lustig insists it's the most poisonous of all sugars.

I'm not saying you have to buy any of that. I'm not sure I buy the claim that one sugar is "better" than another. They're both bad, at least in the enormous quantities we now consume them in.

I am saying the media has bought into this idea, and has previously reported that high-fructose corn syrup is driving our high obesity rates.

Until now, that is. Trump badgered Coca-Cola into dropping the high fructose corny syrup from its sodas and replacing it with cane sugar (as Mexican Coke is sweetened with, which is then imported into the US by people who say it just tastes better).

So as soon as Trump Does It, NBC "News" is suddenly pro-HFCS.

Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.

This was going on pre-Trump, of course. For thirty years, the media enjoyed saying that all Republican efforts to cut government spending were utterly useless because the only real way to reduce the deficit was to rein in Social Security and Medicare spending.

Then, in 2012, Mitt Romney and his political fuckboy Paul Ryan actually grabbed that third rail and did what the media had shouted for thirty years was the "eat your vegetables" solution to fixing the nation's finances and proposed very modest reforms to Social Security and Medicare.

And the media demonized them for doing exactly what they said must be done for three decades straight.

I'll never forget that. And it's why I forgive Trump for not having the "bravery" to address this issue: Because we all saw what happened the last time someone proposed doing what the media insisted must be done.

So: Are you making GAINZZZ for Trump?

I had Trump GAINZZZ for a couple of weeks and then this last week I became Low-Energy Jeb.

I would just like the weather to not to "feel like" 100 degrees plus, alternating with heavy rain. I would so much enjoy that.

posted by Ace at 05:30 PM

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