Intent and Outcomes: under smoother conditions.
Okay look. I don’t want to type this post. I was interrupted while I was watching the second season of The Agency. Go to the New York Times. Read that post. Type about it because what you say matters. That’s all I can hear. Everything else in insane laughter. Yeah okay pal. Whatever you say. This site sentientmusings.com doesn’t have a huge following. About 11 users most of them probably just me reviewing it from different browsers on my MacBook and iPhone. I can see real time updates when I login so I know it's counting my own visits to the site. So if there are 500 views so far most of them are just from me. So I don’t think what I say matters. You don’t need to interrupt my watching a show so I could talk about a judge’s decision on SNAP benefits. I am sympathetic to SNAP beneficiaries, as I tried to become one myself. They gave me 300 bucks a month and then asked me to refund it back. It was good while it lasted. I won’t disclose the benefits because it has to be experiential. Among other things, there is a feeling of one less thing to worry about.
A judge listened to some people who sued the government for prohibiting sugary drinks and candy on behalf of diabetic patients. There is a great misunderstanding about the disease. People think if you would only stop eating sugar you won’t have the problem. Diabetes has various stages. In some stages if you stop eating sugar, the body stores sugar like a Grinch. The sugar levels actually increase. Take insulin regularly and that has its own set of problems. It causes a full decrease in body sugar that then has to be replaced. What I am saying is it’s a complex disease. The whole sugar reduction and sugar production in the body is extremely finely tuned. People get the disease by chronic body inflammation that eventually leads into weight gain and obesity. The cause is enriched flour, chemicals in the food system, sugar, over indulgence of simple and complex carbohydrates etc. Essentially if you eat something from a factory as opposed to something that grows in the soil. Enriched flour is a factory product. Whole grain flour is closer to the soil. Tomatoes are even closer. Not very difficult to understand.
The judge sided with the diabetics and their legal team. Sugary drinks and candy will be allowed. The government does not have a right to prohibit those from SNAP recipients.
Under smoother conditions, this country might operate like this:
1. Poor and can’t afford food? Immediate SNAP benefits for healthy food. By healthy food I mean highest quality ingredients: organic, non GMO etc. (See Note below).
2. Diabetic? Access to a nutritionist paid by SNAP. Nutritionist recommends a vegan diet and lemonade with sugar instead of Coke or Pepsi. Candy is prohibited by both nutritionist and SNAP.
3. Regular healthcare checkups paid for by SNAP.
4. Offers for discounts at Slim Joe Schmo that is already discounted.
That would be Norway. America doesn’t work that way. We have to make life harder for the people who are already poor.
The bigger legal point if it ever gets to a judge’s reading chambers is this: there are intents and outcomes. I have written about this before. The judge’s intent may have been benign. Yet the outcome probably will exacerbate the health issues. Yet can we blame the judge? The judge is simply following the law. Blindly.
What was the intent? What was the outcome? What is the chain of causation? What are the consequences? Those are all things a competent judge in a functioning country should consider before making a judgement.
We are the people of the 9th and 10th Amendment. The Constitution grants us enormous power. We notice the dysfunction everywhere. We notice the intent and outcomes. We are capable of rational and logical thought. We can find solutions. We see the US Codes, we see the Congress, we see the Administration, we see the Judiciary. Each acts antagonistically and antithetically to each others and allegedly against the interests of the people who they’re meant to represent. We note. We notice.
June 22 2026
San Diego, CA 92115
2314 hrs.
Note: Humans do produce clean food. However, it has to be found. It is not easily or widely available. As an example take milk. Milk is best when it is from a cow that is allowed to roam in the countryside and eat fresh green grass and plants. The cow should be treated as a pet and not as a farm animal. It should not be separated from its calves. The calves should get priority on the milk. Only the excess milk should be available for human consumption. The cow should not be given antibiotics to fatten it up. The cow should not be kept constantly pregnant in order to enforce lactation. Ideally the cow should be milked with human hands with gloves not with robotic machines that produce injuries on the breast and nipples therefore infecting them and the milk. I wish I was kidding. Industrialized farming is a crude inhumane type of food production. That is why there is a difference between raw milk that costs 18 dollars a gallon and industrial milk that costs 3.50 dollars a gallon. I don’t drink milk and am following a vegan diet.
