Agreeing with the local rednecks, alissa
proudly drinks Rolling Rock.
Posted on 04/14/2023 6:59:51 AM PDT by devane617
Fresh calls to boycott Bud Light volley across social media nearly two weeks after a product endorsement from Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, set off backlash among some prominent conservatives.
Far-right House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Wednesday reposted a video for her 700,000 Twitter followers that featured a rapper in a pro-Trump hoodie burning empty Bud Light boxes. Celebrities Kid Rock and Ted Nugent previously voiced similar messages.
The boycott, which coincides with a conservative push in state legislatures nationwide to restrict LGBTQ rights, is the latest in a string of efforts among advocates on the left and right to damage the bottom line of companies deemed anathema to a given group's views.
However, the campaigns rarely succeed in hurting a company's sales or influencing its decision making, experts told ABC News, adding that they expect the calls to boycott Bud Light to ultimately fade away with little consequence for the brand's parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev.
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Agreeing with the local rednecks, alissa
proudly drinks Rolling Rock.
There is 5 billion in lost revenue that says they are wrong.
Add Bed Bath and Beyond...
I guess experts say that the recent $5 Billion drop in A-B’s market value didn’t really happen either.
The seem to have worked very well in the case of Disney.
Going back as far as 1765 when the British crown passed Stamp Act, the colonists correctly called it taxation without representation, since the colonists were not allowed to vote for Members of Parliament and maintained that only colonial assemblies had the right to tax them. After the colonists carried out a successful boycott of British goods and physically threatened tax inspectors, forcing most of them to resign, Britain repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
In light of approaching Patriot's Day (April 19th), for those who haven't already checked out Project Appleseed: https://appleseedinfo.org/
"At Project Appleseed... we promote civic responsibility through the teaching of colonial history and the American tradition of rifle marksmanship. Even after all of these years, there is much to be learned from our forefathers’ examples of perseverance, commitment, and civic virtue. With a full calendar of shooting clinics and events, Project Appleseed is here to make sure these timeless principles live on for generations to come."
And my personal favorite..
Sergento’s....
And anything coming out of New York
I don’t know, it worked in getting Ford Moter Co. to drop their support of LGBTQ support. Took several years but it worked so in 2012, when they caved, the MRS. and I bought our first Ford ever.
Mean while the MSM pundits claimed all was well as Ford’s stock fell.
We can do it again with inbev.
I think this is a girlcot, or maybe a they/themcot.
I think this is a girlcott, or maybe a they/themcott.
Target, NFL....
We avoid Target and we haven’t watched an NFL game in years. I count as just one vote but I know a lot of people who have done the same.
May be related to the pillow guy. If not, we can still cheer on its demise. Remember that they hate us and so it is reasonable to return the feelings.
NFL was never big in my state, even before the NFL joined the Bash Lighter Melanins movement. To us, football happens on Saturdays. We had a few college coaches make a few BLM statements, but our threats to boycott despite generations of fandom got their attention and shut them up quickly.
Yup. A loss that big is not good however they try to spin it. Any executive who made that big of mistake in that short of a period of time would be fired or at least suspended.
Maybe they are hoping that it is a glitch. This is where we can make a difference — stick with the ban until the end. Don’t be fickle.
Ya. Okay to watch college football. But the NFL... F’ them.
whats the definition of “work”?
they dont get any money from me
its working
this boycott is very public
you drink beer with your buddies
a very successful boycott was the
montgomery bus boycott
also very public
it would have been like crossing a picket line
different than what you put in your grocery cart
and eat in the privacy of your home
First, AB's foreign parent is majority controlled by two families. Anheuser-Busch InBev is controlled by Belgian families Vandamme, de Mévius and de Spoelberch, who as of 2015 owned a combined 28.6% of the company, and Brazilian investors Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Alberto Sicupira and Marcel Telles, who owned 22.7% through their private investment firm 3G Capital. Thus a USD6bn decline in market value doesn't really hurt them, especially since the market has been fluctuating AND you must take into account currency fluctuations as well. Parenthetically, the sensational "LOST SIX BILLION DOLLARS OMG LOCUSTS!!" headlines are stupid; I expect the left to act like idiots.
Second, the guy in a dress is a symptom of a broader disease, which is the dumping of American tradition - warts and all - for a derisive, opinionated and wokey modernity. We needn't get the reporting wrong...listen to Ms Heinerscheid's own words focused on Bud Light's "more resonant and meaningful" Super Bowl commercial
25:11..."Yeah! I....I think number one...you know...I'm a businesswoman...I had a really clear job to do, when I took over Bud Light. And....it was...this brand is in decline, it's been in decline for a really long time. And if we do not attract...young drinkers, to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light. So I had this super clear mandate. Like, we need to evolve and elevate, this incredibly iconic brand. And...my...what I brought to that, was a belief in...ok, what does "evolve and elevate" mean? It's means INCLUSIVTY. It means shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men. And representation is at sort of at the heart of evolution. You've got see people who reflect you, in the work. We had this hangover...I mean...Bud Light had been...kind of a brand of...fratty...kind of out of touch humor...and, it was REALLY important that we had, another approach.
Now, I'll admit, there are LOTS of cringy things in America, but that's largely a matter of taste and style. For example, I think country music sucks, I love Ted Nugent when he's playing guitar or talking about guns but I want him to shaddap thereafter, and the greatest American rockers were Hendrix and Frank Zappa.
However, I'd never sentence Ted or Hank Williams Jr et al to oblivion. And while guys in dresses don't do anything for me, I always thought Divine was funny.
And, indeed, for centuries we Americans coexisted, generally happily. We would rise our voices, take swings at each other, and yes sometimes shots were fired. Even at the founding, about 15-20% of the nation were Loyalists. Thus there has ALWAYS been an irritated minority of wankers, yammering on and on. So be it.
Post-pandemic and 2020, The Wankers feel emboldened. They WANT to erase culture and replace it with antiseptic Eurotrash fakery. Their problem, however, is they STILL can't change the underlying hearts and minds.
Hence, the theatrical approach currently employed by Loyalists 2.0. To wit: Their approach to dealing with an ingrained individualist history where the 2nd Amendment is an 11th Commandment, is to erase it via the news, TV, schools, and social media. They're trying to soften rugged individualism with Andy Hepburn on a beer can.
The boycotts annoy them, because it is fighting fire with fire - theater with theater. Maybe boycotts don't work, but while they sniff at Kid Rock, they've turned Bud Light into Kryptonite for Normal People.
Or, as teevolt wrote, "I’ll just assume from this point forward anyone drinking a BL is trans or has tickets to a drag show." Maybe the left sniffs at statements like that, and considers them immature. Well, some of us loved Mad Magazine and Wacky Packages because they mocked Our Betters.
The BIG question is, What is the campaign would WE run to sell bad beer to folks under 35? Because Bud Light is left vs right in a nutshell. We should have destroyed the Dems in the midterms, and we barely took the House. It's not enough to say "we aren't Bidet or Merrick Garland or Pelosi, and we're not weird." Similarly, it's not enough to say "we think this Dylan guy is off." We can't win the game with pick 6 defense. We need OFFENSE.
We need messaging that invigorates, leads, and captivates people. Until then, it's the left that is driving the truck, and keeping us on defense. Stand FOR something.
Maybe they don’t work, but at least individuals who do boycott can sleep at night.
Personally, I think they do work or companies such as this one wouldn’t be working so hard to prevent one.
how about their next quarterly filing?
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