Conservative activists are excited about the boycott of Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch, the beer maker, branded a can of Bud Light for a transgender activist, Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney, biologically a male, celebrated his first year living as a “woman.” The week a transgender activist murdered six people in Nashville, TN, Bud Light produced its Mulvaney themed can. The backlash started.
Notwithstanding any loss of business for that Indiana bar, the owner's labeling of this backlash as "bigotry and hatred" is 100% accurate.
I too have concerns about biological males having an unfair advantage in athletic competition against girls, and about transgendered males sharing the same bathroom or locker room facilities with girls. These are areas where the rights sought by the transgendered infringe upon the rights of others. However, Budweiser's offer of support to the transgendered with its Dylan Mulvaney campaign falls into neither of these categories. The backlash against it is simply anti-transgender, and it is a shameful attempt to intimidate anyone who supports the notion of allowing these people to simply be who they are . . . even while drinking beer.
This reminds me of the "defense of marriage" efforts to prevent gays from marrying. They have now been marrying each other for decades and life for the rest of us has been entirely unaffected. Similarly, when being who they are affects no one else, the transgendered (and their supporters) ought to be left alone to live their lives (and conduct their businesses) as they see fit.
Collapsing cities! Gen. 18-19 Sodom & Gomorrah is a fine Biblical example. If you don't know what I mean find your nearest Bible and read the 2 chapters. Lot was continuing to live there accepting the rot
that was happening there. God had to force him and his family to leave. His wife had to look back. His daughters got him drunk to become pregnant from him. There offspring grew up to become enemy's of the Jews. Like it or hate it coming to a city near you.
Americans don't like to have stuff shoved down there throat. It is our tradition. It still survives from the American revolution. We took on the greatest power in the world at the time and we won! In spite of the
I love it!!! Most Americans are good, decent and moral people. But like the old saying money talks and you know what walks…. Good on my fellow citizens!
I remember when the left was so worried back in the 1980’s that the Moral Majority would turn the US into a theocracy. Now the left is forcing their secular theocracy on all of us - wanting us to bow to climate change, gender fluidity, LGTB values. Most of these progressives are too young to remember, but the irony is there.
Mulvaney Lite then they can advertise to their true target audience instead of using a fake woman. They insult Women and expect Americans to swallow their hogwash.
I’m a conservative Christian and find ever more frequently that we are the only people the media can hate with impunity. I was among those that will not buy any Anbev offering and found I like cokes BETTER. I won’t be back
2 days ago, COKE investors overwhelming (80%) rejected an attempt at targeting Pro Life states. The message was clear. Sell COKE and not crap.
Just this morning the Chairman of BUD, in an earnings call, stated that “We need to clarify the facts that this was one camp, one influencer, one post and not a campaign”.
The last time I saw someone walk backwards this fast was when Michael Jackson showed us the Moon Walk.
I am sure INBEV will recover, but this has emboldened American’s that we do have a voice. This was a shot across the bow of businesses, to stick to your knitting or pay the price.
Most Americans don’t like agendas. They don’t like being told what to think. And they’re done being told to “follow the science” and at the same time being told to ignore biology
We as Americans have got to get more involved in these types of issues. Recruiting people that already have a mental illness into the military will have a disastrous effect...not just morale wise but especially combat readiness, performance, and lethality wise. Our military should not be a social justice experiment. We should also boycott any movie that "reimagines" actual people and events to try to fit a "modern" audience. Progressives/leftists are ruining all aspects of entertainment with identity politics
Progressives are already organizing a “counter” boycott.
The NO LABELS party is forming and registering as a 3rd party. They lean mostly left. Votes “Ol Briben Biden” won’t get.
BB opponents have almost 30% of the early polls.
Layoffs are accelerating with the Fed showing no sign of raising rates until they can measure a solid RECESSION. And, there is no appetite in Congress to give away any more free lunches to the lib kids.
The ultimate boycott is when the libs don’t show up to vote.
But… there is one thing that will get them all to vote and that’s the return of Trump.
What the CEOs et al of American business need to learn is this: Hawk your wares and keep your politics out of your company and I'll buy it. If they decide to take sides in the culture war then I have no choice but to spend my money as I see fit which means against those who are against my principles (for the GOP principles are things you stand on, make decisions based on, and don't compromise.)
Erick, you did an excellent job of telling it like it really is today. I fully agree with you and just two days ago wrote the head of the navy because they just took one of them and put it on active duty for ad's for the navy because recruiting is way down and this will make it worse, I feel. I know I am an old guy, but I would never go into a unit of the military if they did that and I feel that even today they will really drop off. Since the navy does have some control of the USMC, I hope they don't try it with them. I have heard rumors but have not seen anything yet. But some of the best years of my life was in the Corp back in the mid 1950's and even until the 1970's when I retired, I still had a lot of respect for all military. But NOT the navy today. They do not deserve to be capitalized any more.
BZ! i heartily concur with your disgust for the 'decision maker' who thought it would be a good idea to use a woke/trans ad for recruiting. Besides adding to the repetoire of USMC jokes about sailors, it will further degrade recruiting efforts. Worse than embarrasing...it's evil. //jt, CDR/USN(ret)
Yes, I know things like this will discourage recruiting but not anymore than the leaders doing stupid things like they did. And if they don't hear from former military people like us, they may continue to make those stupid mistakes before they are removed from their leadership. That is also why I wrote them after I saw the add they are running showing the picture of the person that is in the navy and is one of them. If we don't tell them, the deep drop in recruiting will. LTCOL/USMC (ret)
Perhaps the most important part of the Bud Lite brouhaha is the message it sends to woke corporate executives around America: Get political and your sales and profits may drop. When they do your Board may question your judgment and leadership placing your job in jeopardy. In short, Bud Lite puts a price tag on wokeness, visible for all to see.
And it’s time to really put the heat on Joe Biden. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. With each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear he sold out his country. Americans need to demand accountability. His agenda stinks. America needs to Dems d accountability via their representatives.
While I agree 100%, I sure as hell don't want Kamala carrying the football (figuratively or literally, as in the suitcase with the nuclear codes). Meanwhile, Biden's dementia will conveniently get worse until, by the end of his presidency, no one wants to put him in jail cause they feel sorry for him. This two-tiered justice system just grates my cheeks!
Notwithstanding any loss of business for that Indiana bar, the owner's labeling of this backlash as "bigotry and hatred" is 100% accurate.
I too have concerns about biological males having an unfair advantage in athletic competition against girls, and about transgendered males sharing the same bathroom or locker room facilities with girls. These are areas where the rights sought by the transgendered infringe upon the rights of others. However, Budweiser's offer of support to the transgendered with its Dylan Mulvaney campaign falls into neither of these categories. The backlash against it is simply anti-transgender, and it is a shameful attempt to intimidate anyone who supports the notion of allowing these people to simply be who they are . . . even while drinking beer.
This reminds me of the "defense of marriage" efforts to prevent gays from marrying. They have now been marrying each other for decades and life for the rest of us has been entirely unaffected. Similarly, when being who they are affects no one else, the transgendered (and their supporters) ought to be left alone to live their lives (and conduct their businesses) as they see fit.
Collapsing cities! Gen. 18-19 Sodom & Gomorrah is a fine Biblical example. If you don't know what I mean find your nearest Bible and read the 2 chapters. Lot was continuing to live there accepting the rot
that was happening there. God had to force him and his family to leave. His wife had to look back. His daughters got him drunk to become pregnant from him. There offspring grew up to become enemy's of the Jews. Like it or hate it coming to a city near you.
Americans don't like to have stuff shoved down there throat. It is our tradition. It still survives from the American revolution. We took on the greatest power in the world at the time and we won! In spite of the
weak President we have the USA will prevail.
Think of all the calories saved not drinking Bud Light. hehe
I love it!!! Most Americans are good, decent and moral people. But like the old saying money talks and you know what walks…. Good on my fellow citizens!
I remember when the left was so worried back in the 1980’s that the Moral Majority would turn the US into a theocracy. Now the left is forcing their secular theocracy on all of us - wanting us to bow to climate change, gender fluidity, LGTB values. Most of these progressives are too young to remember, but the irony is there.
Bud should rename their beer and call it
Mulvaney Lite then they can advertise to their true target audience instead of using a fake woman. They insult Women and expect Americans to swallow their hogwash.
I’m a conservative Christian and find ever more frequently that we are the only people the media can hate with impunity. I was among those that will not buy any Anbev offering and found I like cokes BETTER. I won’t be back
2 days ago, COKE investors overwhelming (80%) rejected an attempt at targeting Pro Life states. The message was clear. Sell COKE and not crap.
Just this morning the Chairman of BUD, in an earnings call, stated that “We need to clarify the facts that this was one camp, one influencer, one post and not a campaign”.
The last time I saw someone walk backwards this fast was when Michael Jackson showed us the Moon Walk.
I am sure INBEV will recover, but this has emboldened American’s that we do have a voice. This was a shot across the bow of businesses, to stick to your knitting or pay the price.
Cheers
Most Americans don’t like agendas. They don’t like being told what to think. And they’re done being told to “follow the science” and at the same time being told to ignore biology
We as Americans have got to get more involved in these types of issues. Recruiting people that already have a mental illness into the military will have a disastrous effect...not just morale wise but especially combat readiness, performance, and lethality wise. Our military should not be a social justice experiment. We should also boycott any movie that "reimagines" actual people and events to try to fit a "modern" audience. Progressives/leftists are ruining all aspects of entertainment with identity politics
Progressives are already organizing a “counter” boycott.
The NO LABELS party is forming and registering as a 3rd party. They lean mostly left. Votes “Ol Briben Biden” won’t get.
BB opponents have almost 30% of the early polls.
Layoffs are accelerating with the Fed showing no sign of raising rates until they can measure a solid RECESSION. And, there is no appetite in Congress to give away any more free lunches to the lib kids.
The ultimate boycott is when the libs don’t show up to vote.
But… there is one thing that will get them all to vote and that’s the return of Trump.
Cheers
There’s a panicked op-ed in the WSJ this week by a founder of “No Labels” begging them not to run a third party and sabotage old corrupt Joe.
What the CEOs et al of American business need to learn is this: Hawk your wares and keep your politics out of your company and I'll buy it. If they decide to take sides in the culture war then I have no choice but to spend my money as I see fit which means against those who are against my principles (for the GOP principles are things you stand on, make decisions based on, and don't compromise.)
Erick, you did an excellent job of telling it like it really is today. I fully agree with you and just two days ago wrote the head of the navy because they just took one of them and put it on active duty for ad's for the navy because recruiting is way down and this will make it worse, I feel. I know I am an old guy, but I would never go into a unit of the military if they did that and I feel that even today they will really drop off. Since the navy does have some control of the USMC, I hope they don't try it with them. I have heard rumors but have not seen anything yet. But some of the best years of my life was in the Corp back in the mid 1950's and even until the 1970's when I retired, I still had a lot of respect for all military. But NOT the navy today. They do not deserve to be capitalized any more.
BZ! i heartily concur with your disgust for the 'decision maker' who thought it would be a good idea to use a woke/trans ad for recruiting. Besides adding to the repetoire of USMC jokes about sailors, it will further degrade recruiting efforts. Worse than embarrasing...it's evil. //jt, CDR/USN(ret)
Yes, I know things like this will discourage recruiting but not anymore than the leaders doing stupid things like they did. And if they don't hear from former military people like us, they may continue to make those stupid mistakes before they are removed from their leadership. That is also why I wrote them after I saw the add they are running showing the picture of the person that is in the navy and is one of them. If we don't tell them, the deep drop in recruiting will. LTCOL/USMC (ret)
Perhaps the most important part of the Bud Lite brouhaha is the message it sends to woke corporate executives around America: Get political and your sales and profits may drop. When they do your Board may question your judgment and leadership placing your job in jeopardy. In short, Bud Lite puts a price tag on wokeness, visible for all to see.
And it’s time to really put the heat on Joe Biden. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. With each passing day, it becomes increasingly clear he sold out his country. Americans need to demand accountability. His agenda stinks. America needs to Dems d accountability via their representatives.
While I agree 100%, I sure as hell don't want Kamala carrying the football (figuratively or literally, as in the suitcase with the nuclear codes). Meanwhile, Biden's dementia will conveniently get worse until, by the end of his presidency, no one wants to put him in jail cause they feel sorry for him. This two-tiered justice system just grates my cheeks!
Agreed!