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2023-04-21 -Great Cultural Revolution

Greenfield: How Bush’s Globalism Gave Us a Transgender Bud Lite

by Daniel Greenfield

[FrontPage] The story of how Budweiser went from a patriotic traditional values company to launching a creepy Bud Lite campaign featuring Dylan Mulvaney, a man who claims to be a little girl, began with the Bush administration when, after 150 years, Anheuser-Busch ceased to be an American company. Today it’s just another subsidiary of a Belgian-Brazilian multinational.

Except for its St. Louis employees, few noticed the difference when Anheuser-Busch became InBev, and the United States government failed to object to the hostile takeover. While the majority of Americans, and the governor of Missouri, opposed the move, the Bush administration did not. The media fashionably sneered at a campaign against the hostile takeover which called for fighting the “foreign invasion”. Eventually the company surrendered.

The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed declaring, “Why John McCain Should Embrace Anheuser’s Foreign Takeover”. (Cindy McCain was a major shareholder.) The Journal urged, “free trade and globalization are in the national interest. So is the sale of Anheuser-Busch to InBev.” How does the national interest look now? Would the Journal care to rethink its position?

The Bush administration, staffed with Wall Street Journal readers, easily approved InBev’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch and another foreign deal that put 80% of America’s beers in the hands of foreign companies. As an article noted, “Suddenly, instead of 48 major brewers operating in the United States, there were two — albeit two offering consumers dozens of competing brands. Together, they accounted for nearly 80 percent of U.S. beer sales.”

Bush Republicans allowed America’s crown jewels to be sold off and taken over by foreign companies. Now they’re wondering why those companies seem hostile to American values.

Why wouldn’t they be? They’re not American. And they don’t even like us much.

AB InBev is a multinational monstrosity with major business interests in Cuba and China.
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Posted by badanov 2023-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Our country lost some second class beer and has become much wiser about content both in the can and on the can.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-21 12:26|| 2023-04-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#2 OR, it's the fault of some whack in marketing.

I'm amazed how high some crap can be stacked to create a world level political event.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-21 12:36|| 2023-04-21 12:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Bush Republicans allowed America’s crown jewels to be sold off and taken over by foreign companies.

America's crown jewels? Please.

Posted by ruprecht 2023-04-21 19:07|| 2023-04-21 19:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ The Kardashians, Obviously?

Posted by Frank G 2023-04-21 20:21|| 2023-04-21 20:21|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ If Frank G is being snarky, does that mean the Kardashians are the butts of his joke?

Posted by SteveS 2023-04-21 20:36|| 2023-04-21 20:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Ooooohh.

Good point

Posted by Frank G 2023-04-21 21:00|| 2023-04-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

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