Posted on 04/21/2023 8:15:07 AM PDT by Starman417
This story just just won't go away, and that's a good thing. Two weeks ago I asked Why Did Bud Light Choose to Follow the Hershey Highway to Hell? And this story seems to have a new development every day! Today's news informs us that bars are dumping Bud Light from their menus, and over last weekend Anheuser Busch (AB) launched a flaccid apology campaign, first with a sorry not sorry apology that tried to shame us Normals for being offended, then with a normally innocuous tweet from Bud Light that got a well deserved ratio, and then spending the weekend bombarding the airwaves and social media with an ad that reeked of forced effort at nostalgia and patriotism, which also got well deserved mockery, with my favorite case being the short parody video by Mr. Reagan.
On the negative side, we're now seeing some prominent voices on the right are doing what Republicans do best - calling for surrender. The NRCC spolied a nice troll of Bud Light by quietly deleting a tweet. Not to be outdone, Don Jr. informed us that boycotting AB is wrong because AB executives donate mostly to Republicans. That's great Don; let's send the message that we can easily be bought and paid for. Even the normally great Chris Plante missed the point, telling his listeners that it's stupid to boycott all AB beers given how many they brew. Actually, that's the point. If every Bud Light drinker gets driven to Bud or Busch Light, etc, then AB (or more accurately, the Belgian-Brazilian multinational InBev), will feel absolutely no pain and we can expect more of the same.
The once entertaining but now full blown woke Howard Stern couldn't understand why such a big deal was made out of a beer can. While I know that Stern jumped the shark long ago, I'm surprised that someone as tuned to pop culture as Stern could be so clueless on the subject. Anyone reading this knows how radicalized the Trans sect of the LGBQWERTY cult has become. The backlash started when they became openly aggressive about targeting our children, and Bud Light may end up being the Battle of Midway in The Culture War. AB is taking a well earned pounding, and while the enemy is retreating from this one hill, it's time to overrun their artillery, flip the cannons around, and start raining fire on their other camps. Bud Light being the official sponsor of next week's NFL Draft looks like a juicy target rife with opportunity.
But enough of the negative. The title of this post offered a way back for Bud Light, and that's what I'm here to do. The steps are simple, even if they might be a bit painful for AB:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
No.
It’s much easier to start buying better beer...
Rule #1:
NO rice in beer.
If beer has rice, do not purchase it.
I guess people get numb to the “Nasty Taste it their Mouth”! It only took one time for me! If human beings were sane, Franziskaner would be the best selling beer in the world! (with Augustiner coming in a close second)
The only way back for Bud is to completely CLOSE DOWN and go to HELL. Start over having ZERO ties to the current perverted, deep state, woke AB culture.
The path to redemption?
Stop using the same single hop they started with in 1876.
Waving a hop over the tanks does not make for good beer.
Not really, no.
Rule # 2:
Do not buy it if it is gluten free!
I’M IN!
I can't quite drink 12oz at a time like with gluten-laden beer, but it tastes better.
No way InBev is selling AB. The purchase of AB made them the biggest brewer (in terms of number of breweries) in the world. Between the owned brands and the subcontracted brands that’s a cherry nobody is giving up.
Truthfully the only thing they need to do is move on. And make better beer. The news cycle is already 90% over on this. It’ll be gone in another week or so. Then pull a Dominos, make the Bud line of products not crap and have a big ad campaign on “yes we made bad product, and we’re fixing it”.
Ah, Belgium……….. they speak French there. ……that explains everything!
I’m so sick of this stupid ‘controversy’ over a single online advertisement. Way to overblow this thing. You know, back during Shakespeare’s time, men were cross dressers all the time for acting because women weren’t allowed to be ‘players’. Somehow, and I don’t know how, but society didn’t collapse because of it. I think we’ll survive the cross dressing Bud Light drinker.
To that list add this:
- fire that woke bitch and anyone she brought on board with her.
Do what that tech CEO did a few years ago ... if the interview of any prospective new hire shows any proclivity towards DIE, CSG, etc then tell them “don’t call us, we’ll call you”
I used to be a bud drinker now PBR.
Only Yeungling from now on.
You should never have posted that.
The entire senior executive team needs to be fired.
The statement needs to be “our executives are accountable for their mistakes”. We speak with actions not words.”
I can see AB going belly up over this fiasco. But never fear, The government will bail them out with our tax $$. Also I would expect them to get exclusive vending rights at several venues to help keep them afloat.
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