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Bud Light Smartly Tapped Shane Gillis for ads — the latest brand doing post-DEI damage control
New York Post ^ | Aug. 29, 2024 | Kirsten Fleming

Posted on 08/29/2024 7:04:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

After a disastrous partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney that reportedly cost the brand over $1 billion in lost sales last year, Bud Light has returned to its roots.

The inch toward redemption started with a 2024 Super Bowl commercial featuring Peyton Manning and Post Malone. This week, Bud Light released a new ad starring comedian Shane Gillis — and it’s a full-on embrace of the brand’s fratty, frivolous ethos that, for decades, turned their ads into pop culture touchstones. And Dilly Dilly to that.

If 2023 was peak woke, 2024 will be known as the year that DEI died — with corporations finally admitting it’s all a shakedown by lefty activists. Recently, companies like Harley-Davidson, Ford, John Deere and Lowe’s have all reversed course on DEI, thanks in large part to the work of people like Robby Starbuck calling them out.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boycottbudlight; budlight; chat; dei; gowokegobroke; homosexualagenda; neverbuybudlight; nopathtoredemption; notnews; shanegillis
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Who would drink this beer?
1 posted on 08/29/2024 7:04:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Must admit I am an accidental beer snob because I spent so many years overseas.

San Miguel
Singha
Carlsberg
Tsingtao
Chang’s


2 posted on 08/29/2024 7:10:55 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: nickcarraway
Beer and water whose only selling point ever was price.

The new ad is not without humor, but not the sort of thing that will motivate people to buy it.

3 posted on 08/29/2024 7:13:20 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: nickcarraway
It's going to take a lot more than that to get this OUT OF MY HEAD!!!


4 posted on 08/29/2024 7:15:31 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: nickcarraway

It is crap beer, only slick advertising sold it.
I drink a lot of beer. I can’t afford the stuff I really like on a regular basis, so I drink something cheaper.
None of it is Budweiser.


5 posted on 08/29/2024 7:15:36 PM PDT by rellic (rough)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s done, like Edsel or New Coke.


6 posted on 08/29/2024 7:17:04 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: nickcarraway

they lie to you until you believe them.


7 posted on 08/29/2024 7:17:27 PM PDT by xoxox
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Hopefully no one - but Garth Brooks and Mr. Taylor Swift jumped on board for damage control

I'm sure they'd like to blame it on Marketing - you can bet the Board approved of this going forward with the public - Sooooo.....



Lurkers can click on the images and copy links to share with others


















8 posted on 08/29/2024 7:23:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Bingo. That includes almost every sphere—
Especially politics.


9 posted on 08/29/2024 7:23:44 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Telepathic Intruder

They must think there’s a few men that dream of a guy in suds with that. Must have been marketing to Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama and Mayor Pete Buttagig.


10 posted on 08/29/2024 7:24:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Bad idea: hiring a marketing VP who hates your brand
Worse idea: hiring a dude in a dress promote your brand
Even Worse idea: hiring a comedian to rehabilitate your brand

Surprised the board has not changed the leadership team.

11 posted on 08/29/2024 7:25:33 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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Bring back Spuds MacKenzie! The original party animal.... who turned out to be a female named Evie portraying a male.


12 posted on 08/29/2024 7:26:12 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: nickcarraway

the commercial is lame

like their beer


13 posted on 08/29/2024 7:29:59 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I’m so glad the pervert’s 15 minutes of fame are finally over. I no longer see him in news articles at any sites.

I wouldn’t drink a Bud-light even if someone paid me.


14 posted on 08/29/2024 7:30:03 PM PDT by CFW
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To: SaveFerris

They’ve since fired the marketing VP who came up with the whole “let’s change Bud Light’s image to be more inclusive” scheme. But she must have gotten the green light from higher up. So that’s what they really believe.


15 posted on 08/29/2024 7:31:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Someone please dig up the investigative reports that prove AH was illegally pressured by the Biden administration to to have Dylan Mulvaney as their queer mascot in exchange for special favors.


16 posted on 08/29/2024 7:33:00 PM PDT by know.your.why
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Yep, they were on board with it. Something that big and that controversial does not take place in a vacuum without Senior Management knowing it is about to happen.

So, they GAVE APPROVAL.

They need to be an ongoing proof that there WILL be pushback against their Godless Reprobate agendas.


17 posted on 08/29/2024 7:35:23 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Same for Major League Baseball:












18 posted on 08/29/2024 7:37:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve only heard about this guy (Shane Gillis) because a co-worker watched his recent Netflix special and was laughing about Gillis making jokes about people jumping to their deaths on 9/11. Great get, Budweiser.


19 posted on 08/29/2024 7:38:28 PM PDT by Rastus
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[Gillis making jokes about people jumping to their deaths on 9/11.]

Wow........


20 posted on 08/29/2024 7:45:02 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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