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s to think this was extortion? What would cause them to think that? I think one thing that would certainly cause you to think that is — wait for it — if you were Matt Gaetz and you knew for sure that you had not been involved in any sex crimes, right? If you thought you had been involved in sexual crimes and these people said we have a way to maybe help you get out, wouldn't you be a little bit i…
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So China's doing the same thing with these fishing boats. They're just making it a fact that they own it over time.
Let's talk about Coca-Cola. Let me start by saying I oppose boycotts. I oppose boycotts. As soon as you go down that boycott road and you get re-boycotted, everybody's boycotting everybody. It's just better to let business be business and let politics be politics. It's just better, right? It's better for all of us. Let's just not be attacking companies.
But sometimes the company attacks you. That's not your fault, right? Sometimes the company attacks you. Well that's different. I would say don't boycott a company just because they have some opinion or something. But if that company attacks you, well you certainly have a right to defend yourself.
And so let's talk about Coke. So there are many conservatives who would consider that Coke, Coca-Cola, the company, has attacked them in a way by going after Georgia for their voting ID laws, which conservatives would say are just common sense. And it's the same laws or similar laws requiring an ID to vote, similar to most countries, most places. Nothing unusual about it.
So this is just an attack by a company on the system and on conservatives basically. So many conservatives have called for people to stop drinking Coca-Cola. Matt Walsh did a tweet which he summed it up well. I'll just read it. He said Coca-Cola went from indoctrinating its employees in critical race theory to fighting against Georgia's voter ID law. Is there any good reason for any conservative to ever buy another Coke product again? We could cut them off and out of our life with no effort. Why shouldn't we?
Now here's my take on this. Quitting Diet Coke or Coke is really hard. I know because I had a 12 Diet Coke a day habit for I don't know 30 years or something. And I did quit but it was hard. And I'm going to tell you how. So I'm going to teach you how to stop your Diet Coke habit or Coke habit, soda habit. And it's not hard if you do it right. If you do it wrong it's pretty hard. And I'll teach you how to do it right.
And it goes like this. Don't quit anything else at the same time. It is such a strong addiction. At least that's how I found it to be. Not addiction in the scientific term but you know functionally it's an addiction. That if you're trying to let's say improve your entire diet, anytime you're quitting Diet Coke that's a lot to ask of you, right? You want to be h
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ungry and also not have a Diet Coke. Those are two really strong forces to be fighting at the same time. So I say take two months. Give yourself a break on the rest of your diet. You know, eat healthy food but don't obsess over it. And just do one thing. Just quit Diet Coke or Coke or soda. It doesn't have to be Coca-Cola company. Just sugary drinks. Just quit that. In two months you will not onl…
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