Posted on 05/08/2023 9:58:34 AM PDT by Starman417
Thank you dear readers for putting up with my harping on a poor business decision by a bad beer. A month ago I asked Why Did Bud Light Choose to Follow the Hershey Highway to Hell? Then about three weeks ago I pointed out that Budweiser Has a Path to Redemption – Will they Take It? My suggestion still holds. And InBev has been taking small steps I'd suggested, but not enough. Then two weeks ago I asked another question, Is Bud Light The Battle of Midway in The Culture War? Yeah, intellectually I've fallen pretty far from a decade ago when I was writing the Economics for Politicians series. While we've lost the war on the federal debt (nobody will take us seriously until we go off the fiscal cliff), the culture war that got us to this point has become just as important, if on a different level. So for the time being, this is where my head resides. And The Washington Post is its usual clueless self when it comes to The Culture War.
I wouldn't have even noticed these stories if it weren't for Sister Babe's insistence on subscribing to The Washington Compost's Sunday paper, which has a bad habit of giving me great blog fodder. And it will shock nobody that their weighing in on the Bud Light gets it completely wrong. The article in today's paper tries to wave away Bud Light's drop in sales to... competition from Mexico. Yes, for real. As one commenter perfectly pointed out, the several charts embedded in the post to give their assertions credibility conveniently end right where the story starts. But that's not what inspired this post. It's actually the stupidity that was spouted in the previous week's edition.
The article in The Washington Compost (TWC) starts with a bar owner's tale:
The owner of Florence, Ky.-based Smokin This and That BBQ had noticed patrons were bickering over the beverage — a longtime customer favorite."Actress and comedian"? I'm not being sarcastic when I say that all that I've seen of Dylan Mulvaney are a few short, creepy YouTube / TikTok shorts. Usually being and actress or comedian would involve seeing a few acting roles or comedy clips. This is TWC, so we know better than to expect actual journalism. The story goes on to recount the back story before diving head first into getting things wrong.After the brand partnered with transgender actress and comedian Dylan Mulvaney, Cummins said, it became a source of tension in his restaurant.
While Bud Light’s partnership with Mulvaney represented a veritable baby step in altering the brand’s identity, the backlash it provoked reflects “the dark side of social media for brands,” according to Angeline Close Scheinbaum, associate professor of marketing at Clemson University."inclusive" has become possibly one of the most Orwellian terms of our time. While The Radical Left genuinely believes it to mean its dictionary definition, when they use it it's come to mean, "promoting our most radical elements to shame the Normals to accept our gross behavior". Nobody ever suggested excluding freaks from drinking Bud Light. So now it's time for TWC to dive into outright lies:“The brand was likely aiming for inclusivity but received backlash from parts of the consumer base that felt alienated,” Scheinbaum said.
The fracas around Bud Light’s partnership with Mulvaney is unfolding as anti-transgender legislation is on the rise across the country. In 2023, Republican state legislators have advanced dozens of pieces of legislation seeking to restrict transgender people’s access to health care, sports and public accommodations, and prohibit the ability to change a person’s name or gender on a driver’s license or birth certificate.First off, there is no "anti-transgender legislation". If you're an adult who's unfortunate enough to have your brain chemistry not match your body's, nobody is stopping you from making choices over yourself. While we put up with your demands that we celebrate you, you crossed the line when you came after our children. Laws protecting our kids from creeps who want to mutilate them are actually "anti-psyco".Transgender Americans experience stigma and systemic inequality in many aspects of their lives, according to a wide-ranging poll from The Washington Post and the KFF. In the survey, 63 percent of transgender adults reported that they “sometimes” or “frequently” feel discriminated against because of their gender identity or expression.
Next, we Normals are not trying to "restrict transgender people’s access to health care, sports, and public accommodations, and prohibit the ability to change a person’s name or gender on a driver’s license or birth certificate":
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I wonder how the Washington Post would have felt if they tried to be inclusive by making a memorial KKK/Democrat beer can?
They didn’t get it wrong by accident.....it’s about shifting blame to change the narrative.
African “student” wearing the customary tribal mud hut clothing.
Dilbert is right. Stay far away from them. Let them rot in their own cannibal juices.
Inevitably, the narrative has settled on it being the fault of bigoted customers and not the clumsy and ill-timed intrusion of corporate advertising into the takeover of women's sports by biological men. That issue isn't going away, it's getting more intense, and the WaPo writers, like all the other good little line-toeing proggies, have their eyes resolutely shut to it, apparently under the premise that if you can pretend that men are women you can pretty much pretend anything.
There is no “road back” for Bud Light. You can’t undo stupid.
Bud Light will forever be know as Tranny or Queer Beer.
Overnight, Bud Light has become the butt of the joke in the Beer Community.
We didn’t hurt their “rank and file” employees.
They did that on their own.
What is anyone’s estimate of Earth’s population of human “trans”?
(As a percent of the world’s population.)
"Sports" - No, men don't have the "right" to beat up women in sporting events or to steal their scholarships
"Public accommodations" - Sorry, but the same creep who flashes a bunch of little girls waiting for a school bus doesn't transform into a civil rights leader by doing it in the women's locker room for a public swimming pool
No matter who they get to promote it, it’s still lousy beer.
Taking a step back and flying up to a ten-thousand-foot view, I think this is what happened. People, by that I mean the 98.5% of “normal” people are truly pissed off about the whole trans thing. It isn’t about “trans” people cross dressing, nobody cares. It isn’t about “trans” people getting life altering surgeries (and then committing suicide.) Nobody cares. It’s about a. being forced to participate and celebrate this idiocy. Normal people care. And b. it’s about “trans” people forcing their ideology onto children. Normal people care. A. and b. were fomenting deep in the psyche of normal people and normal people were angry. ANGRY! Then the unbelievably stupid Anheuser-Busch sponsorship of this idiocy hit America where it lives and plays, and the normal people exploded. The reason this is not going to blow over is because normal people are angry, and this is the hill they decided to die* on.
* By no means do I think this is a losing fight. I think this is where normal people decided they wouldn’t be pushed one more inch. BTW, this is a death knell for every Democrat who doesn’t quietly climb down off the support of the alphabet people...at least the T people.
AB as a company needs to die. Not just Bud Lite but tne whole shebang. Inbev is probably too big but AB can go down.
My other target would be Burger King
There's no going back on any of this liberal crap... fight them on the net, in our schools and with our politicians. And never drink Bud Light...
The Washington Compost is A LOST CAUSE.
DONT READ IT IF YOU WANT THE TRUTH.
If the Washington paper actually used the term “actress and comedian”, that would be amusing, as such papers have been using the term “actor” to describe females who act professionally for years. Also, why not go all the way? Wouldn’t the correct phrase be “actress and comedienne”?
As I have commented on here before, my elder son is a little less than conservative. He occasionally gives me grief about how “not everything is a conspiracy” and “the press isn’t really leftist, you’re just really far right”.
That to say this Bud Light thing has pushed him a bit towards our side. Just this weekend he was opining how he doesn’t care what people do in the privacy of their bedroom, he doesn’t want to know about it, he doesn’t want to have to approve of it, and he doesn’t want his daughter exposed to it! Yay, we have a breakthrough!
He has come to the conclusion that dear old dad was right. This has all been about normalizing and accepting more and more deviant behavior. Just leave us alone turned into let us get married turned into let us teach your children turned into let us do drag shows for your children. He is now talking about homeschooling our granddaughter! Victory!
Thank you, Dylan!
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