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2023-07-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Drag Queen of Beers: Buy Bud Light, or We'll Fire Some Idiot Peasants Like You
[PJMEDIA] The dethroned king of beers has fallen on hard times. Its short-lived dalliance with fake woman Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested...
and implicit endorsement of the Left’s efforts to force us all to accept the trans madness has not only cost Bud Light its position as America’s top-selling beer, but the Drag Queen of beers isn’t even in the top ten anymore. Bud Light is now the 14th-best-selling beer in the United States, and fairly soon, Anheuser-Busch executives will look back fondly at the days when it was as high as 14th place.

The financial news site Benzinga reported Monday that "a recent YouGov survey reveals the decline in Bud Light’s ranking, casting it below competitors like Pabst Bue [sic] Ribbon, Miller Genuine Draft, and Miller Lite." In a telling indication that Anheuser-Busch and its friends are now pulling out all the stops to save their former flagship brand, Benzinga notes slyly that the grassroots boycott that has led to the unprecedented consumer abandonment of Bud Light is hurting the common man: "This seismic shift in popularity jeopardizes the livelihoods of the 65,000 people whose economic well-being is intricately tied to Anheuser-Busch InBev’s success."

The upshot of this is that now apparently Anheuser-Busch and Benzinga want us to join Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
in quaffing Bud Light because if we don’t, some people who aren’t woke ideologues or trans exhibitionists will suffer. And yeah, that’s a real pity, but it’s hardly a positive or inspiring marketing come-on. It does, however, look as if Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth is going with it. He has said of the boycott and sales drop that "it’s the impact honestly on the employees that weighs the most on me."

When someone uses the word "honestly" in that way, it’s usually because he isn’t being honest. Benzinga adds that "Whitworth called on people not to punish the workforce but rather to attribute blame to him." All right, Brendan. If you want people to believe what you’re saying, then apologize for bringing Mulvaney on and resign. Otherwise, shedding crocodile tears over the peasants you’re going to have to lay off if people keep on avoiding Bud Light is reminiscent of the classic National Lampoon cover from 1973: "If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog." If you don’t buy this watery, inferior beer, we’ll fire some idiot right-wingers just like you.

At the same time, however, Anheuser-Busch won’t even commit to keeping Mulvaney at the far end of a ten-foot pole in the future. While the beer giant "has attempted to downplay Mulvaney’s role in its overall strategy, Whitworth confirmed that the company will maintain its partnerships without making any changes."

Does that mean that Bud Light could ask Mulvaney to draw another bubble bath and tarnish the product further? Their man is sulking in Macchu Picchu and griping about how his beer baron friends abandoned him in his hour of need: "I was scared, and I was scared of more backlash, and I felt personally guilty for what transpired, so I patiently waited for things to get better. But surprise, they didn’t. And I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did."

Posted by Fred 2023-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [19 views ]  Top

#1 Yesterday our corner Mom & Pop store pulled all the Bud-Lite out of the store, and placed it on the Sidewalk, for the distribution company to come pick it up.

I asked the owner wasn't he worried about it being stolen. He actually giggled.

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BTW: Next time you are in a store selling the Pronouns of Trans-Beer. Notice if only 2 or 3 cases are missing from the pile. Speaking to a few route sale people. I was told weeks ago, that it is being stacked to appear like some are being sold.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-14 06:30||   2023-07-14 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 “Rep. Ted Lieu tweeted the pic of him and Reps. Mark Takano, Judy Chu and Adam Schiff posing with the cheap low-alcohol beers in the Capitol Sunday in response to a Daily Beast article about how the National Republican Congressional Committee put the brakes on its Bud Light boycott because parent company Anheuser-Busch donated nearly a half-million dollars to its candidates in the last election cycle.” NYP

I thought Anheuser Busch had gone totally insane. It sounds like the endorsement was unsolicited. The GOP reaction is interesting. It is almost like their attachment to donors is stronger than any bond they have to voters.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-14 12:10||   2023-07-14 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 It is almost like their attachment to donors is stronger than any bond they have to voters.

No "almost" about it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-14 12:11||   2023-07-14 12:11|| Front Page Top

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