(DC Pundit) – Welcome to California, where you can’t afford a home, can’t walk the streets safely, and now you can’t even grab a Hostess snack cake without summoning an employee with a key. Yes, in Gavin Newsom’s liberal utopia, Walgreens and various other retailers are now locking up and security tagging Twinkies, Reese’s, candies, and snacks like they’re fine jewelry.
This isn’t a scene out of Venezuela or Caracas. It’s 2025 California, where criminals roam free, shoplifting is treated like a lifestyle choice, and honest citizens are left waiting in line for an associate to unlock the Little Debbie section.
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Videos surfacing from across the state show shelves of candy and snack cakes secured behind plastic barriers or affixed with anti-theft tags. One customer posted, “They’re literally putting security tags on every bag of candy… insanity.” What’s insane is how far the Golden State has fallen under radical, soft-on-crime leadership.
Walgreens in California is now locking up extremely high value items, like Hostess Snack Cakes
This isn’t a 3rd world country, this is Gavin Newsom’s California pic.twitter.com/KC3nkcOzyj
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 28, 2025
People are posting videos in California showing they’re literally putting security tags on every bag of candy… insanity pic.twitter.com/455gRTeyLP
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 28, 2025
We aren’t talking about high-end electronics or $500 bottles of champagne. This is about snacks. If your economy and law enforcement policies are so broken that a $2 Twinkie is considered high-risk inventory, you’ve got bigger problems than blood sugar levels.
But of course, this is just the latest symptom of a much larger disease: progressive policies that essentially decriminalize theft. In many California cities, stealing less than $950 worth of merchandise is barely a slap on the wrist — and criminals know it. The result? Brazen daylight looting, mom-and-pop stores boarding up, major retailers pulling out, and entire neighborhoods turning into “food deserts.”
And yet, politicians like Newsom continue to act shocked. “We can’t figure out why stores are closing,” they say, while standing next to the wreckage they helped create. Hint: when you make theft profitable and consequences nonexistent, theft skyrockets. Who would’ve thought?
Ironically, some online commentators joked that locking up snack cakes might be the one public health measure California’s gotten right. “Hard to buy, hard to eat,” one quipped. Maybe Newsom has found the secret to ending obesity: criminal-friendly policies that also cut calories.
But the reality is far more serious. This isn’t about candy. It’s about a crumbling society where the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of chaos. Where families are paying more, waiting longer, and getting less, all while criminals laugh on their way out the door.
The people of California don’t need more locks on merchandise. They need leadership that values law, order, and personal responsibility.
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