Bud Light sales fell 26% by volume last month. Fox lost half its viewers in the 8 PM timeslot in one week. The protests against hiring Dylan Mulvaney and firing Tucker Carlson are working.
If you like Don, you'll love me. He is my guru, and I shamelessly piggyback on his comments. Joined, God forbid, Gogle, Fakebook, and Twatter to get the gospel out to my peeps:
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Click early and often. Just doing the job Don couldn't; has too much on his plate. Totally understand My 9 followers keep me busy.
I have cried ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war’. Updated my article on Drug Pricing and named names -will try to kick asses. You may get a Bentley after all. Will you then answer my emails? Sent this to FB, Twit, & and all subsubstackers (they list my friends as free subscribers-they are all PAID subscribers) Surbs, please click on it. If you agree, send it to all your followers, if you don't, you ain't got no soul. Donate early and often.
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DON SURBER IS THE MASTER. HE LIFTS ME UP, EDUCATES ME, AND KEEPS ME EXCITED ABOUT TRIGGERING IMPORTANT ISSUES AT THE TOP OF THE NEWS EACH DAY! DON, YOU ARE THE VERY BEST - WE ARE SO THANKFUL TO RECEIVE YOUR WISDOM EVERY DAY!
Supposedly, Tucker Carlson has a $100 million dollar offer on the table for five years from a station I have never even heard of. I believe that is too much and can be dangerous. I have always enjoyed listening to Tucker and I hope nothing but the best for this man, but an offer like that and as fast as it came in can only mean trouble for conservatives and Mr. Carlson. As far as that thing Dylan Mulvaney goes, all conservatives should ban and boycott any company who chooses to support what we all know is wrong.,
It's a 100 million over 5 years, which was what he reportedly was making at Fox (insane as that is). But the big benefit is they are offering him a seat on the board at that streaming platform (it's not a station--I looked it up) and part ownership. Not that such saved James O'Keefe or Glenn Greenwald, but he would have some control and, if he were so inclined, he could help build the platform. I don't know that he will take it. I suspect he's staying quiet until he's managed to disentangle himself from Fox.
And Dylan Mulvaney is especially offensive because he's not really a "tranny." He's a man who found a grift by putting on womanface. I doubt he's gender dysphoric at all.
I'm curious how you think that would "corrupt" Carlson any more than his prior situation, as he is getting no more money and might actually be taking a hit off what he could get starting his own platform? Not arguing, just asking.
Tucker's father was, among other things, the American ambassador to a small African country. Having myself been in charge of an American embassy in a different African country (I was not ambassador -- just acting ambassador), I can tell you it is necessary to work closely with the CIA station in the country where you're assigned. Did he do more than that? Unlikely, I'd say.
He was ambassador to the Seychelles. He also was director of the United States Information Agency. He was also the longest serving director of Voice of America.
I worked for the USIA when he was VOA Director. I don't remember him ever being USIA Director. He was, indeed, Ambassador to the Seychelles, a small African country.
“We drink their tears. But not their beers.” Beauty.
Let’s see if the Budweiser owning conglomerate C suite likes the taste of their next earnings report. Heads already rolled. More may follow. Captain of the ship doctrine. If your marketing underling screws up bigly on your watch, and you “ didn’t know about it”, then WTF are you doing running a company? Billions in lost revenue and stock valuation. Alissa took Bud Light company for a little junket on trans world airlines, and the engines fell off and the landing gear is stuck in the fuselage. Buckle up.
As to the bigger point here on the March for Life: yes, have to be in it for the long haul. The truth doesn’t go away, even if it goes out of fashion. Murder is murder. And commitment to one’s ideals and doing the right thing can be a lifetime battle. Thanks for reminding us of that. The problem with conservative voters is not the voters. It’s the low quality people representing them and grifting off of their beliefs for their own enrichment.
The window of opportunity for Bud Light to save itself has closed. All that would have been required is:
1. The CEO to publicly and genuinely apologize to its customers for the brand's leadership's poor judgement.
2. Admit its mistake, own it and the consequences.
3. Promise to review the performance of all employees from elite universities and MBAs from elite business schools and fire most of them, immediately.
4. Promise to no longer recruit from universities (ivy-league schools, in particular) as a matter of policy and instead, recruit from their most successful distributors.
Okay - #3 and #4 are my own, and won't ever happen, but if they did, I might keep a case of Bud Light on hand should I ever run out of Shiner, unexpectedly.
Forty years ago, if you would have told me that a member of KISS would be among the more sensible and reasonable voices on ANY social crisis in the 21st century, I'd be bankrupt because I would've gone to Vegas and wagered heavily against that bet. Yet, here he is, proving himself to be genuine while his Twisted Sister contemporary revealed himself to be a sell-out when he joined with team Pfizer and the vax-mandate army. Dee Snider ought to be ashamed, but I doubt he is.
"Conservatives in Washington talked a good game but never delivered."
Here's the dirty not-so-little secret that isn't a secret anymore: They had no intention - no plan - to deliver.
Anything.
Ever.
"'Consider the conservative nonprofit establishment, which seems to employ most right-of-center adults in Washington.'"
Are they truly right-of-center, though? That is certainly how they SAY they identify, and it's how they market themselves, and their respective organizations. However, the status quo has allowed these think-tanks like The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, The Cato Institute, Project for the New American Century, et al. to indulge in, "self-perpetuation: Salaries, bonuses, retirement funds, medical, dental, lunches, car services, leases on high-end office space, retreats in Mexico, more fundraising." without having to actually deliver on ANYTHING - and if conservatism is, in effect, preserving the status quo, how could they NOT see Trump as anything BUT an existential threat?
"'Let that sink in. Conservative voters are being scolded for supporting a candidate they consider conservative because it would be bad for conservatism?'"
With that observation, Carlson just distilled what passes for logic among the GOP establishment, particularly inside the D.C. beltway.
Well, as Billy Kristol put it, the conservative brand (whatever the hell THAT is) but it's the one where these soulless leeches like Ricky Wilson, Georgie-Porgie "Porky Pig" Conway, and their ilk can bray like jackasses on CNN in unity with their leftist brethren while personally attacking Trump like bullies on the playground. They can HAVE that conservatism, I stick with my republicanism (lower-case, 'r' on purpose).
It's why I identify as a republican, not a conservative.
It only goes to show what’s possible when something or someone attacks our immediate self interest and as a cohort we stand up against it.
But, (and remember that line about everything that comes before the word ‘But’) if we want to make a real difference to our children’s and grand-children’s lives, we need to kick this kind of thing up a few levels.
I can’t believe I’m going to say this, the French are showing more brass than we are!
Unless I’m not seeing the right stuff, it looks to me like not only are the Brits digging their own cultural and historical grave as fast as they can, they’ve added a fourth shift!!
Yes, the fringe are showing more brass than the Americans are on the media.
The thing I’m jealous of the French is paper ballots, hand counted, with one day to vote.
In my mind, that being said, the population of France actually voted for the people who were taking away their freedom, we didn’t. The French were one of the first western European countries to import tax paying immigrants, to work for the French and pay taxes so the French didn’t have to work.
Now they have places that even cops can’t go to.
The illegal Biden regime and England and many others, like Sweden, which is now become the rape capital of the world because of the immigrants, allowed in their country.
Never have been a big fan boycotting. Bud Light and fox were easy for me to boycott. Never liked Bud light Tucker was all I watched on Fox. Murdoch gave dominion $787 million to perpetrate the lie that our 2020 election was stolen. Somebody with that much money doesn’t care what I think.
The good part of boycotting to me is, I won’t be participating in a business who is an enemy to my constitutional republic. Yet my boycotting, these people does not make me feel vindictive towards them, that is important to me.
For many years, I’ve been thinking that the latest liberal outrage is finally the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The Bud Lite fiasco, the silencing of Carlson (he hasn’t been fired yet, just silenced), and the grooming mania could finally be the logs that break the back.
Maybe the camel’s back is broken beyond the reach of democrat voter fraud.
The late, great Paul Harvey used to speak of societal evolution continuing until we reach the "stomach turning point". I'm not sure that I can even imagine how much closer to that point we can possibly get, but I have to believe that there is such a point in order for me to retain my sanity.
I'm not sure that the reverse of Roe v Wade was about being pro-life so much as being pro-states' rights and making Congress do its job rather than constantly expecting the Court to make decisions that politicians on both sides don't want to be tied to. But that's just my humble opinion.
As for the boycotts, we'll see if they continue. But you are right in that people are tired of being taken for granted, which is how I might frame it. BudLight thought that their base wasn't going anywhere, no matter how much they insulted them, as did Fox. But as the saying goes, they f--ked around and found out.
That may be, but you're correct. The left reveals its flawed "thinking" (a term I use most loosely) as it seems to hold as conviction that SCOTUS' legitimacy is conditional on its decisions that validate the left's articles of faith: abortion on demand even outside the womb, same gender marriage, vax mandates, and any of its other agenda items.
This is precisely why the democrats win over time: because unlike the GOP establishment, they're willing to take losses if it results in permanent institutional change. They knew passing obamacare was going to cost them congress and they did it anyway. They eventually got congress back and the GOP has quietly given up on repealing obamacare.
if these dumb bastards dems, had to actually use the shit healthcare they've shoved down all of our throats it is not a win. yeah resultant in permanent "institutional" change for the benefit of no one! thats cutting of your nose to spite your face...IDIOCRACY....morons
"Trump is in part a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party." Exactly. Trump actually implemented or tried to implement - against the party's 'leadership' - what the republican party campaigned on for 35 years and didn't do and republicans kicked him out of orifice because he disrupted TRILLIONS of DC grift. Run-on sentence, anyone?
Man, just when you think it's prefect, Don uses melancholy. <sigh in joy> Sadly most modern journalists couldn't pronounce it.
I think you're right it's Trump but not the way they think. Trump is the indicator. If he's not the leading edge of change, well, what comes after will be ugly.
And on abortion, don't forget the Roe effect. The people marching didn't kill their babies and some of them had lots. (I know five-six families with more than 5 kids). Meanwhile the other side ain't reproducing. So they groom.
There is an excellent piece in American Greatnrss and yesterdays American Thinker.
The Budweiser distributors will be hurt the most, and the other Bud brands will suffer as shelf space and prime floor space disappear. Two excellent articles.
I don't need to hire more people to bring in 10 cases of beer instead of 8. Bud has been critically injured. Many will suffer. The sales will not be coming back because the cost of changing beer brands is exceedingly easy. InBev if they really want to save this need to take drastic action at this point.
1) Fire the entire executive team at Bud, for their failure to realize what they had done.
2) Fire the entire marketing management team, and anyone who can be found to have supported this campaign.
3) Publicly repudiate ESG, Blackrock and HRC, as censorship, anti-democratic, and marxist in nature. Blackrock cannot take many more hits - this one would probably put them out of business.
4) Fire their entire DEI team, make a public statement supporting MLK's most famous utterance, and support organizations trying to help employers find the best and brightest whatever they look like.
5) And for the cherry on top, tell the NCAA that as long as they allow biological males to compete against women, they will pull all on-site and all media advertising for every NCAA sport.
I also expect none of this. But I would suggest that if InBev doesn't get its act together, it will start to see deterioration of their entire beer line.
I feel for those workers and their families who are made to suffer needlessly but for an entitled, narcissistic, lefty loon’s really bad marketing decision.
Agree, our conservative (?) reps need to stand & deliver. But most of them aren’t conservative and are only looking for money, power, and perks. And as to the “lite” beer thing…. NEVER. Just an occasional stout.
Very well reasoned post Don that makes one think and remember.Trump evoked high hopes among Americans ignored by the beltway.and was elected only to discover what he described as a swamp to be a sewer putrid beyond measure.His court appointees are under attack as the are the wallets of working and retired Americans unending.D.J.T. may not be the nominee but he damn sure still loves the U.S.A. and aspires only to try and heal this bleeding nation.If the prolife movement got us here surely we can pray and work for more progress.Poll was a no brainer for me /your cat is sharp.Thank you sir and keep preaching..
Mass movements are nevertheless comprised of individuals. Individuals make their own choices. I believe that God saves us individually and we choose how we want to live.
I don’t make choices for my friends and family. I make them for my own peace of mind, consistent with who I am, and how I want to be.
I have had gay friends all my life. It never worried me. They lived their way, I lived mine.
Women are wonderful. My wife completes me. I love her unreservedly. My strength protects her, her beauty inspires me.
The pursuit of happiness is personal. That pursuit stops when my happiness deprives others of theirs.
I don’t care if someone finds pleasure in cross dressing and plays drag games. I’m mildly amused at Mulvaney’s antics whereas I’m outraged at the trans abuse of children.
I hate the abuse of women and children.
If someone hurts one of these innocents it were better that a millstone were tied around their necks and they were dropped into the deepest ocean.
We must never forget that the jealous God of the Old Testament is with us eternally, and that the wages of sin are death.
Don, I sure do enjoy your writing. I appreciate your work. Keep up the fight!
If you like Don, you'll love me. He is my guru, and I shamelessly piggyback on his comments. Joined, God forbid, Gogle, Fakebook, and Twatter to get the gospel out to my peeps:
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Click early and often. Just doing the job Don couldn't; has too much on his plate. Totally understand My 9 followers keep me busy.
Bentley-$350K
Don had a shot at a Bently, but politely declined.
I have cried ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war’. Updated my article on Drug Pricing and named names -will try to kick asses. You may get a Bentley after all. Will you then answer my emails? Sent this to FB, Twit, & and all subsubstackers (they list my friends as free subscribers-they are all PAID subscribers) Surbs, please click on it. If you agree, send it to all your followers, if you don't, you ain't got no soul. Donate early and often.
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DON SURBER IS THE MASTER. HE LIFTS ME UP, EDUCATES ME, AND KEEPS ME EXCITED ABOUT TRIGGERING IMPORTANT ISSUES AT THE TOP OF THE NEWS EACH DAY! DON, YOU ARE THE VERY BEST - WE ARE SO THANKFUL TO RECEIVE YOUR WISDOM EVERY DAY!
"Conservatives in Washington talked a good game but never delivered."
Another great piece, Mr. Surber! Thank you.
Supposedly, Tucker Carlson has a $100 million dollar offer on the table for five years from a station I have never even heard of. I believe that is too much and can be dangerous. I have always enjoyed listening to Tucker and I hope nothing but the best for this man, but an offer like that and as fast as it came in can only mean trouble for conservatives and Mr. Carlson. As far as that thing Dylan Mulvaney goes, all conservatives should ban and boycott any company who chooses to support what we all know is wrong.,
It's a 100 million over 5 years, which was what he reportedly was making at Fox (insane as that is). But the big benefit is they are offering him a seat on the board at that streaming platform (it's not a station--I looked it up) and part ownership. Not that such saved James O'Keefe or Glenn Greenwald, but he would have some control and, if he were so inclined, he could help build the platform. I don't know that he will take it. I suspect he's staying quiet until he's managed to disentangle himself from Fox.
And Dylan Mulvaney is especially offensive because he's not really a "tranny." He's a man who found a grift by putting on womanface. I doubt he's gender dysphoric at all.
I'll concede your point about Mulvainey, but don't forget the saying about money (power).
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
I'm curious how you think that would "corrupt" Carlson any more than his prior situation, as he is getting no more money and might actually be taking a hit off what he could get starting his own platform? Not arguing, just asking.
I think Tucker Carlson should start via his own platform--like what Rush Limbaugh eventually did.
Yeah. I commented earlier that, before "coming out" as trans, Mulvaney was just an ordinary gay guy with good dance moves.
No money in that.
Tucker was already making millions per year at FNC. I doubt that more millions would corrupt him.
America's untold stories has some stuff that indicates a link between Tucker's father and the CIA.
Tucker's father was, among other things, the American ambassador to a small African country. Having myself been in charge of an American embassy in a different African country (I was not ambassador -- just acting ambassador), I can tell you it is necessary to work closely with the CIA station in the country where you're assigned. Did he do more than that? Unlikely, I'd say.
He was ambassador to the Seychelles. He also was director of the United States Information Agency. He was also the longest serving director of Voice of America.
I worked for the USIA when he was VOA Director. I don't remember him ever being USIA Director. He was, indeed, Ambassador to the Seychelles, a small African country.
March 1985- November 1986.
When it is coming from virtual unknown promising things a young gifted journalist such as Tucker Carlson would want, I say to tread VERY carefully.
“We drink their tears. But not their beers.” Beauty.
Let’s see if the Budweiser owning conglomerate C suite likes the taste of their next earnings report. Heads already rolled. More may follow. Captain of the ship doctrine. If your marketing underling screws up bigly on your watch, and you “ didn’t know about it”, then WTF are you doing running a company? Billions in lost revenue and stock valuation. Alissa took Bud Light company for a little junket on trans world airlines, and the engines fell off and the landing gear is stuck in the fuselage. Buckle up.
As to the bigger point here on the March for Life: yes, have to be in it for the long haul. The truth doesn’t go away, even if it goes out of fashion. Murder is murder. And commitment to one’s ideals and doing the right thing can be a lifetime battle. Thanks for reminding us of that. The problem with conservative voters is not the voters. It’s the low quality people representing them and grifting off of their beliefs for their own enrichment.
ditto
The window of opportunity for Bud Light to save itself has closed. All that would have been required is:
1. The CEO to publicly and genuinely apologize to its customers for the brand's leadership's poor judgement.
2. Admit its mistake, own it and the consequences.
3. Promise to review the performance of all employees from elite universities and MBAs from elite business schools and fire most of them, immediately.
4. Promise to no longer recruit from universities (ivy-league schools, in particular) as a matter of policy and instead, recruit from their most successful distributors.
Okay - #3 and #4 are my own, and won't ever happen, but if they did, I might keep a case of Bud Light on hand should I ever run out of Shiner, unexpectedly.
Forty years ago, if you would have told me that a member of KISS would be among the more sensible and reasonable voices on ANY social crisis in the 21st century, I'd be bankrupt because I would've gone to Vegas and wagered heavily against that bet. Yet, here he is, proving himself to be genuine while his Twisted Sister contemporary revealed himself to be a sell-out when he joined with team Pfizer and the vax-mandate army. Dee Snider ought to be ashamed, but I doubt he is.
"Conservatives in Washington talked a good game but never delivered."
Here's the dirty not-so-little secret that isn't a secret anymore: They had no intention - no plan - to deliver.
Anything.
Ever.
"'Consider the conservative nonprofit establishment, which seems to employ most right-of-center adults in Washington.'"
Are they truly right-of-center, though? That is certainly how they SAY they identify, and it's how they market themselves, and their respective organizations. However, the status quo has allowed these think-tanks like The Heritage Foundation, The American Enterprise Institute, The Cato Institute, Project for the New American Century, et al. to indulge in, "self-perpetuation: Salaries, bonuses, retirement funds, medical, dental, lunches, car services, leases on high-end office space, retreats in Mexico, more fundraising." without having to actually deliver on ANYTHING - and if conservatism is, in effect, preserving the status quo, how could they NOT see Trump as anything BUT an existential threat?
"'Let that sink in. Conservative voters are being scolded for supporting a candidate they consider conservative because it would be bad for conservatism?'"
With that observation, Carlson just distilled what passes for logic among the GOP establishment, particularly inside the D.C. beltway.
Well, as Billy Kristol put it, the conservative brand (whatever the hell THAT is) but it's the one where these soulless leeches like Ricky Wilson, Georgie-Porgie "Porky Pig" Conway, and their ilk can bray like jackasses on CNN in unity with their leftist brethren while personally attacking Trump like bullies on the playground. They can HAVE that conservatism, I stick with my republicanism (lower-case, 'r' on purpose).
It's why I identify as a republican, not a conservative.
Bring on the wrecking-ball Trump.
tell me how you really feel.....awesome
It only goes to show what’s possible when something or someone attacks our immediate self interest and as a cohort we stand up against it.
But, (and remember that line about everything that comes before the word ‘But’) if we want to make a real difference to our children’s and grand-children’s lives, we need to kick this kind of thing up a few levels.
I can’t believe I’m going to say this, the French are showing more brass than we are!
So (sometimes) do the British.
Unless I’m not seeing the right stuff, it looks to me like not only are the Brits digging their own cultural and historical grave as fast as they can, they’ve added a fourth shift!!
Like I said. SOMETIMES
Yes, the fringe are showing more brass than the Americans are on the media.
The thing I’m jealous of the French is paper ballots, hand counted, with one day to vote.
In my mind, that being said, the population of France actually voted for the people who were taking away their freedom, we didn’t. The French were one of the first western European countries to import tax paying immigrants, to work for the French and pay taxes so the French didn’t have to work.
Now they have places that even cops can’t go to.
The illegal Biden regime and England and many others, like Sweden, which is now become the rape capital of the world because of the immigrants, allowed in their country.
Never have been a big fan boycotting. Bud Light and fox were easy for me to boycott. Never liked Bud light Tucker was all I watched on Fox. Murdoch gave dominion $787 million to perpetrate the lie that our 2020 election was stolen. Somebody with that much money doesn’t care what I think.
The good part of boycotting to me is, I won’t be participating in a business who is an enemy to my constitutional republic. Yet my boycotting, these people does not make me feel vindictive towards them, that is important to me.
'The thing I’m jealous of the French is paper ballots, hand counted, with one day to vote.'
Bingo and lets not forget the inked finger thing.
You know we're F'd when Afghanistan (used to) have more solid elections than we do.
For many years, I’ve been thinking that the latest liberal outrage is finally the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The Bud Lite fiasco, the silencing of Carlson (he hasn’t been fired yet, just silenced), and the grooming mania could finally be the logs that break the back.
Maybe the camel’s back is broken beyond the reach of democrat voter fraud.
We live in hope that our votes can overcome dem voter fraud but we still should learn to harvest ballots and get better election law lawyers.
The late, great Paul Harvey used to speak of societal evolution continuing until we reach the "stomach turning point". I'm not sure that I can even imagine how much closer to that point we can possibly get, but I have to believe that there is such a point in order for me to retain my sanity.
I'm not sure that the reverse of Roe v Wade was about being pro-life so much as being pro-states' rights and making Congress do its job rather than constantly expecting the Court to make decisions that politicians on both sides don't want to be tied to. But that's just my humble opinion.
As for the boycotts, we'll see if they continue. But you are right in that people are tired of being taken for granted, which is how I might frame it. BudLight thought that their base wasn't going anywhere, no matter how much they insulted them, as did Fox. But as the saying goes, they f--ked around and found out.
"But that's just my humble opinion."
That may be, but you're correct. The left reveals its flawed "thinking" (a term I use most loosely) as it seems to hold as conviction that SCOTUS' legitimacy is conditional on its decisions that validate the left's articles of faith: abortion on demand even outside the womb, same gender marriage, vax mandates, and any of its other agenda items.
Thinking had never been a strong attribute of the evil, loony left.
*has
I hate auto-incorrect!
This is precisely why the democrats win over time: because unlike the GOP establishment, they're willing to take losses if it results in permanent institutional change. They knew passing obamacare was going to cost them congress and they did it anyway. They eventually got congress back and the GOP has quietly given up on repealing obamacare.
if these dumb bastards dems, had to actually use the shit healthcare they've shoved down all of our throats it is not a win. yeah resultant in permanent "institutional" change for the benefit of no one! thats cutting of your nose to spite your face...IDIOCRACY....morons
"Trump is in part a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party." Exactly. Trump actually implemented or tried to implement - against the party's 'leadership' - what the republican party campaigned on for 35 years and didn't do and republicans kicked him out of orifice because he disrupted TRILLIONS of DC grift. Run-on sentence, anyone?
To hell with Fox 'News'; I mean Fox Narratives.
Spot on my man.Grammers fine tanks.
Thank you, sir.
Nicolae Ceaușescu did not lose a poll or an election, he lost a preference cascade. (and now Romania has fast internet)
Man, just when you think it's prefect, Don uses melancholy. <sigh in joy> Sadly most modern journalists couldn't pronounce it.
I think you're right it's Trump but not the way they think. Trump is the indicator. If he's not the leading edge of change, well, what comes after will be ugly.
And on abortion, don't forget the Roe effect. The people marching didn't kill their babies and some of them had lots. (I know five-six families with more than 5 kids). Meanwhile the other side ain't reproducing. So they groom.
re today's poll: Bud Light is dead. Period. I wonder though, how are the other Budweiser products doing?
Perhaps Tucker is poised to become the next Rush? Being set loose from Fov could have been the best thing to happen to/for him.
There is an excellent piece in American Greatnrss and yesterdays American Thinker.
The Budweiser distributors will be hurt the most, and the other Bud brands will suffer as shelf space and prime floor space disappear. Two excellent articles.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/why_the_bud_light_disaster_could_cripple_the_entire_companys_many_brands_for_years.html
https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/01/the-untold-story-of-the-bud-light-fiasco/
That distributors are hurt by this boycott truly is distressing. I wonder, though, if Coors and Miller aren’t hiring now as their sales increase.
I don't need to hire more people to bring in 10 cases of beer instead of 8. Bud has been critically injured. Many will suffer. The sales will not be coming back because the cost of changing beer brands is exceedingly easy. InBev if they really want to save this need to take drastic action at this point.
1) Fire the entire executive team at Bud, for their failure to realize what they had done.
2) Fire the entire marketing management team, and anyone who can be found to have supported this campaign.
3) Publicly repudiate ESG, Blackrock and HRC, as censorship, anti-democratic, and marxist in nature. Blackrock cannot take many more hits - this one would probably put them out of business.
4) Fire their entire DEI team, make a public statement supporting MLK's most famous utterance, and support organizations trying to help employers find the best and brightest whatever they look like.
5) And for the cherry on top, tell the NCAA that as long as they allow biological males to compete against women, they will pull all on-site and all media advertising for every NCAA sport.
I also expect none of this. But I would suggest that if InBev doesn't get its act together, it will start to see deterioration of their entire beer line.
I feel for those workers and their families who are made to suffer needlessly but for an entitled, narcissistic, lefty loon’s really bad marketing decision.
as well they should
Agree, our conservative (?) reps need to stand & deliver. But most of them aren’t conservative and are only looking for money, power, and perks. And as to the “lite” beer thing…. NEVER. Just an occasional stout.
Very well reasoned post Don that makes one think and remember.Trump evoked high hopes among Americans ignored by the beltway.and was elected only to discover what he described as a swamp to be a sewer putrid beyond measure.His court appointees are under attack as the are the wallets of working and retired Americans unending.D.J.T. may not be the nominee but he damn sure still loves the U.S.A. and aspires only to try and heal this bleeding nation.If the prolife movement got us here surely we can pray and work for more progress.Poll was a no brainer for me /your cat is sharp.Thank you sir and keep preaching..
Yep, and then why did he support Disney and Bud? I'd say he's softened up a bit.
Mass movements are nevertheless comprised of individuals. Individuals make their own choices. I believe that God saves us individually and we choose how we want to live.
I don’t make choices for my friends and family. I make them for my own peace of mind, consistent with who I am, and how I want to be.
I have had gay friends all my life. It never worried me. They lived their way, I lived mine.
Women are wonderful. My wife completes me. I love her unreservedly. My strength protects her, her beauty inspires me.
The pursuit of happiness is personal. That pursuit stops when my happiness deprives others of theirs.
I don’t care if someone finds pleasure in cross dressing and plays drag games. I’m mildly amused at Mulvaney’s antics whereas I’m outraged at the trans abuse of children.
I hate the abuse of women and children.
If someone hurts one of these innocents it were better that a millstone were tied around their necks and they were dropped into the deepest ocean.
We must never forget that the jealous God of the Old Testament is with us eternally, and that the wages of sin are death.