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tRump Wants "Mexican Coke" Sold North of the Gulf of America? [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

You may find, like I , that once you reach retirement, that the free time that used to be occupied with making a living can suddenly be replaced in all kinds of unusual ways. Even in small fragments. Once you reach “low gear” you have time to notice small, everyday details that have always been there, but never had the time to draw your attention.

Like the phrasing commonly used to describe events. Did you ever think about one of the most common descriptions of a rain storm is “thunder and lightning”. It’s backwards! You see the lightning first and then you hear the thunder.

How, you ask, (or not) did this revelation burst upon my consciousness? Music, the root of many revelations in my life! I was listening to a CD in my car today of Lightning Hopkins. And while waiting for the traffic light to change I reflected on the source of his name.

Way back when he was first too busy hustling his next meal to become the blues legend he eventually did, he partnered for a short while with another musician who went by the moniker “Thunder” Smith. Seizing on a good marketing ploy, he became “Lightning” Hopkins. Thunder and Lightning. And still backwards!

So the light changed, and when I got home I decided to share this insight with all of you. And what, on earth, does any of this have to do with the title?

Well, here in Texas, Coke made with cane sugar is easily available at your local HEB and even though I’m sure it’s not the name used on the shelf sign, it’s commonly called “MEXICAN COKE”. Ever since I can remember. It’s not even used as a racial term or a slur, just a common term used for a descriptor of a specific thing.

So it just struck me as funny when I heard that tRump is pushing Coke to change their formula for no better reason than that he wants another big company to bow to his will and stroke his ego. Dude seems obsessed with re-branding everything. Football teams. Navy ships. His former associations with nefarious characters.

What will happen if he realizes he’s promoting “Mexican Coke”?

I wonder if this will penetrate the “iron dome” and if that will bring at least one nonsensical, expensive, and stupid demand, on an otherwise innocent corporation, to an end. Like I said, I had time to think about it. Guess you had some time, too.

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