Posted on 07/15/2023 8:22:14 AM PDT by Kazan
Count Charles Barkley as someone who isn’t going to be boycotting Bud Light anytime soon.
According to TMZ, the NBA legend and TV personality was in Lake Tahoe for the American Century Celebrity golf tournament. At some point, he got a little time away from the links. This gave him a chance to take the mic and lambast people unhappy with Bud Light’s descent into wokeness.
“I want y’all to drink this f–king beer,” Sir Charles said. “I want y’all to drink this f–king beer, I got three cases of Bud Light.”
Those three cases may mean that Barkley was holding onto the biggest supply of Bud Light in the entire world. Perhaps he was just trying to get rid of it.
Nope, he wasn’t done.
“Hey, “And I want to say this….”
Drumroll, please…
“If you’re gay, bless you. If you’re transgender, bless you. And, if you have a problem with that, f–k you!”
Yup, there it is.
Charles Barkley May Be Missing The Point Of Why People Were Mad
Now, I think most people like Chuck (I know I do, a lot) and he’s entitled to his opinions. If he wants to support the LGBTQ community, have it at it, pal. However, in this instance, it seemed like he was conflating homophobes and transphobes with people who have been frustrated with Bud Light in recent months.
It’s lazy to say this whole mess was because of homophobia, transphobia, or any other kind of phobia. It started with anger that the brand partnered with Dylan Mulvaney: someone who was openly mocking biological women.
We’ve all seen the video where Mulvaney dresses like Audrey Hepburn (by the way, I’ve never understood what that had to do with anything) holding up a can and acting like women have never even heard of March Madness.
Of course, they have. Many of them watched Charles Barkley cover it.
The more intense rage came a few days later when an interview surfaced in which the brand’s disgraced former marketing VP slammed the people who had consumed Bud Light for years and talked about ridding it of its “fratty image” and “out-of-touch” branding.
That’s when the anger and frustration kicked into overdrive.
Telling the consumer base to pound sand is what really made people mad. Mulvaney was the fuse while the VP making a fool of herself was the crate of dynamite.
Unfortunately for Bud Light, everyone said, “Thank you; we will see ourselves out,” and took their beer money anywhere else.
Blaming Form Of “Phobia” For The Bud Light Fiasco Is Lazy
It’s easy for progressives to say, “These homophobes/transphobes don’t want to drink Bud Light, blah, blah, blah.'” Of course, that’s an inaccurate oversimplification. They just continue to do the very thing that started this whole fiasco in the first place: ignore their actual base in favor of courting a completely different one through traditional woke tactics.
In this case, that tactic was printing a six-pack with Mulvaney’s goofy grin on it, and it backfired like some kind of Wile E. Coyote contraption.
Look, I think Barkley is smart enough to know this. If you watch that video it looked like he was having a good time. We don’t know what happened before the camera started rolling, but I got the sense he commandeered the microphone like someone loud aunt at a wedding.
Maybe he meant what he said, or maybe given the benefit of hindsight, he’d recalibrate this one a little.
Still, it goes to show that the whole reason for this Bud Light fiasco is still not clicking with progressives.
Though the way things tend to get handled on that end of the political spectrum, is that surprising?
Hey, Charlie! Go bounce a ball around!
Friends who can give him makeup tips and fall fashion advice.
Somehow he has money invested. 🙂
Boycotting what was already a sh1tty product that no real beer lover loves is kinda....pointless. It’s not like a boycott was needed. None of these things needed to be boycotted - the average consumer doesn’t need to be told what to do every single time. All these brands would have taken a financial hit regardless and can’t you tell they don’t care? LOL the ad agency that thought of this won’t suffer all that much. The executive who signed off on it won’t suffer that much - even if s/he gets fired, they can just go to some other woke entity and be hired.
People who drive trucks, stock shelves, and put up with whining customers will lose their jobs. You know, those “honest, hard-working Americans.” They will be out of work and less able to find work in the future.
Stop persecuting checkout clerks and inventory-takers who had nothing to do with this farcical mess and are just trying to hold onto their employment.
If we don’t do whatever we can to rectify election fraud, this lame crap is going to be forced on us forever. This is only the beginning and LET ME REMIND EVERYONE that IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GET ITS OFFICIAL START IN 2016 WITH THE ELECTION OF HILLARY CLINTON. All of y’all slagging on Trump and saying “it’s over, play the ball where it lays - Desantis or Biden?” should try to entertain that idea for a short time.
If Hillary had won, what would we be dealing with right now and how much would our complaints and boycotts and temper tantrums matter?
Disagreeing with someone’s lifestyle or viewpoint isn’t hatred. Anybody who seeks to stifle dissent to prevailing views is a tyrant in training.
CC
The round mound of stupid.
Keep it classy, Chuckie.
Are Barkley’s 3 cases in cans? They would be great for target practice, especially after being shaken up on a warm day.
“Whatever respect I once had for Charles Barkley has now vanished”
You’re very tolerant. Charles has let his mouth overload his ass since he played college ball at Auburn. Perhaps if the ‘Sixer’s hadn’t drafted him as a dumbass junior, he might have learned something...by osmosis.
Quite frankly, even during “The Mound of Rebound” period he was an overrated, bloviating reprobate, IMHO.
That’s turrible!
Perhaps Chuckles is a whore as well.
Upset? Who’s upset?
This is one of those brands that expects customers to display their company logo while using their product thereby advertising for them as well as pronouncing the values the company proclaims
When that brand proclaims a value that the customers don’t wish to proclaim they’ll buy something different
Nothing personal. Just business
If people are additionally upset then so be it. But that’s not the prevailing issue. The issue is what this brand is expecting its customers to advertise in their behalf.
Cmon. Provide a link
There is no “phobia” involved, at least for those who still have a rudimentary understanding of the King’s English.
There is however........
Disgust
Revulsion
Anger at constantly being harassed and threatened by Trannies and their accomplices
The overt agenda of perverting our children
If they give way bud light for free he’ll try his best to drink it all ?
The more he talks about Bud Light, the worse it gets for them.
I am personally outraged and offended that someone like Dylan Mulvaney can mock real women and be paid handsomely for it. He and many others are in to “woman face”. Is this any different than black face?
Yes, the author is right in that Alissa Heinerscheid made things much worse by her explanation of why BL was reaching out to phonies and actors.
They can keep shoving their woke BS down my throat, but I can fight back. I’m not taking their cr@p anymore.
Barkley needs to be reminded that opinions are like @ssholes; everybody’s got one.
Barkley just looking for a microphone. Dont expect a savvy business man to understand demographics and how catering to the 1% of your base, in the name of wokeness , can have a detrimental effect on consumption.
“Yes, I’m vaccinated,” says NBA legend Charles Barkley. “Everybody should be vaccinated. Period.” “The only people who are not vaccinated are just a—holes,” he says.
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