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, Charles, F**k you works in any direction.
I hate the word fill-in-the-blankphobia. It is never a fear of something. It’s usually disagreement with something. That’s not fear. We live in a world where disagreement means fear-of and saying something about it constitutes a physical attack requiring a physical response.
In my final year of work at General Dynamics the manager of HR came to my desk and sat in my guest chair. (This never happened. HR always summoned people to his office.) Leaning forward he whispered that I’d been reported for “incorrect thinking” by a black technician. As I recall the conversation it was about female genital mutilation in Arab countries. I said it wasn’t right that they should do it here. He said it was their culture and therefore their right. We ended it when I said, “let’s agree to disagree. Have a great day.” But I was reported for incorrect thinking. The HR manager said that he could ignore it if nothing else was said, but if there was another complaint, he’d have to take action. He recommended I never speak to another black employee. I didn’t. I never spoke to anyone I didn’t already know. A former Soviet citizen said working in the environment here was worse than being in the Soviet Union.
Is he Cindy McCain brother?
Charles Barkley: ‘I like Chris Christie. I like Jeb Bush’
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/charles-barkley-2016-chris-christie-jeb-bush-115247
I wonder what this retard would have said if Dylan Mulvaney had done a Bud Light promotion in blackface.
Pound down that homo beer, Chuck.
It’s truly madness, to think that people would rely on celebrities, of any kind, for political thought. We are, relentlessly, subjected to attempts at manipulation. Whether or not those attempts are successful depends on your intellect. I hear Charles Barkley but I don’t listen to Charles Barkley.
Barkley played a pretty good game of basketball, once upon a time. He’s also played a good game at posing as a reasonable guy and made a lot of money from it.
I only care enough to express this opinion: Dude’s beclowned himself one too many times.
I hate rudeness in a man. Won’t tolerate it.
Say Goodbye, Charles.
Goodbye, Charles.
We're NOT EVER going to accept these sexual perverts as 'victims'. None of us. Not ever. The game plan of 'find something offensive', rally around the idea, shout it loud, then condemn people who object - IS NOT GOING TO WORK FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEXUALLY MUTILATE CHILDREN.
No pity party for the evil ones. Effing democrat perverts.
Fools with ping pong logic.
Ask me if I give a crap about what Barkley says!
“Morons can’t express a simple thought without throwing it in twice.”
He’s a violent goon that made his living, and was highly overpaid, with violence and idiotic thought. It’s expected from people who play pro sports to be insulting to people’s intelligence and occasionally criminal.
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Another dark skinned racist yelling at a cloud.
It’s Rainbow fatigue Chuck.
People are sick of it being force fed to them 24/7.
Well hell. If Barkley wants to wear a daring pink chiffon designer dress with exposed nibbles I think it would be just so darling!! I’m sure millions of young basketball players will want to do the same!
The woke/left/Democrats have from demanding tolerance to demanding:
Acceptance. Approval. Indoctrination of children. Gender transition on children. Gender transition on children without their parents' consent. Demanding one be fired from one's job or de-banked for not complying.
What's left? Imprisoning dissenters and/or gas chamber for dissenters?
I think if they had sent the can to Blair White the reaction might have been a tad different. A very pretty, very feminine, gun-toting Republican fully transitioned to presenting as female.
If you google pictures of Blair, you will see what I’m talking about. Hardly anyone would look at Blaire and claim, “That’s a dude!”
Instead, they chose an ugly, goofy dude prancing around in crap outfits making a mockery of women.
Despite this, people are really upset at doctors butchering children. They are sick of having “trans” shoved in their face everyday.
Same here, forever. You can not apologize your way out of defending immorality. Stick a fork in him and all the rest like him. There has to be a “fork” meme somewhere for these companies and people.
What he said...
Does it make the news because he's a media personality or because he's a former athlete?
Does Anheuser Busch think this is a good look?
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