THE MORNING RANT: AB Distributor Abandons Bud Light to Promote Alternative Light Beer; Other Musings on Being a Franchisee/Distributor for a Woke Corporation

You’ve read all the reports about the catastrophic drop in Bud Light sales since Anheuser Busch (AB InBev) slandered its loyal customers as being the wrong type of people, and then decided to make a celebrity cross-dresser the face of the product.

A major re-branding, or an all-new replacement light beer, is likely the resolution that AB will have to pursue.

A story from Tennessee shows just how damaged the Bud Light brand is. For decades, one of the stages at Chattanooga’s downtown summer music festival has been “The Bud Light Stage,” sponsored by the local AB distributor.

No longer.

Chattanooga Riverbend Festival’s Bud Light Stage now called Ultra Stage [5/16/2023]

Change has been the name of the game for the Riverbend Festival in recent years, and the changes keep coming as the Bud Light Stage has been renamed the Ultra Stage.

Michelob Ultra is another light beer produced by AB. The change in the name of the stage’s sponsor was made at the request of the local AB distributor.

The rebranding of the “Bud Light Stage” to the “Ultra Stage” reflects more than just how toxic the Bud Light brand is. AB distributors need to sell beer, and any money spent promoting Bud Light is going to be wasted. While AB as a whole is being hit hard, its other brands are not as radioactive as Bud Light.

Selling Bud Light nowadays is like selling Ford Pintos in the late ‘70s, when that car’s reputation was permanently marred as being prone to gas tank explosions. Fair or not, Pintos became a joke, which was very difficult for the dealers trying to sell them. The arrival of the Ford Escort in 1980 was a re-birth for Ford and for its dealers.

Until AB comes out with a Bud Light replacement, it makes perfect sense for AB distributors to abandon any marketing efforts for Bud Light and instead use those dollars to steer disaffected customers to other AB products (or to competing products that they also distribute.)

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Fortunately for most Anheuser Busch distributors, they carry a wide array of products, so the death of just one label need not be a bankrupting event.

But it’s sad that those most invested in AB’s products aren’t the executives and marketers who are actively destroying the company in support of cultural communism. Distributors’ actual survival depends on AB remaining a major player in the beer industry. Destructive managers at AB will just get golden parachutes and move along.

Anheuser Busch’s CEO, Brendan Whitworth, is an Ivy Leaguer who worked at the CIA, and in just a few short years after hiring on at AB, he somehow leapfrogged all the AB lifers who were truly committed to the company. Under Whitworth’s leadership, AB hired more Ivy Leaguers - who openly discuss their contempt for Budweiser’s actual customers - to remake the company into something that would impress the communists in Davos. Thus, Alissa Heinerscheid was hired to insult Bud Light drinkers and to make its image more gender fluid.

Budweiser distributors need AB to be successful. Whitworth and Heinerscheid don’t. If their mismanagement completely destroys AB in the United States, they will still be feted in Davos and have any number of opportunities to further enrich themselves in the government / globalist nexus.

As I’ve pointed out several times, this same situation is playing out at Ford and General Motors. The CEOs of Ford (Jim Farley) and GM (Mary Barra) have committed that those companies will be electric vehicle manufacturers, period. Failure at the EV business will mean the failure of Ford and GM.

But again, Farley and Barra will be globalist celebrities even when their EV efforts go bust. Perversely, they would face shame from their globalist peers if they steered their companies to prosperity by making internal combustion vehicles and shunning EVs.

When Ford and GM are bankrupt, and when its abandoned dealerships litter the landscape, Farley and Barra will still be held up as the ideal for corporate executives.

So what should you do if you are a Ford or GM dealer, or an AB InBev distributor?

If it were me, I would sell my franchise. You don’t have to place your financial fate in the hands of cultural communists who hate your customers and who will personally prosper from destroying the product that you sell. Anyone who buys your franchise can do the risk analysis and if he chooses to buy your operation, he will have made a risk / reward decision.

It’s not that much different than the housing decision many of us have made in our lives. We see our neighborhood, or our schools, or our city deteriorating. We had hoped things would improve, but finally decided it was best to sell. Meanwhile, the buyer determined that at the price he was paying, the risk of crime or deteriorating property values was one he’d take.

Good luck to franchisees of woke corporations. That’s a dependency I would not want right now.

Personally, I’m cheering for woke capital to suffer a mighty backlash, be it Target, AB InBev, GM, etc. If they go out of business, I won’t grieve their passing. I’m sorry for the franchisees and distributors of their products. I presume they were pushing back against the woke insanity, but clearly they didn’t push back hard enough to make a difference.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1ith

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 11:00 AM (xhxe8)

2 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2023 11:04 AM (Q4IgG)

3 You can lead a horde to nood but you can't make them comment

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 11:04 AM (xhxe8)

4 Kind of tangential, but I wondered... yup:

Upon her father's death in 2000, she [Cindy McCain] inherited majority control and became chair of Hensley & Co., one of the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributors in the United States.

Huh.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (e2onP)

5 When Ford and GM are bankrupt, and when its abandoned dealerships litter the landscape, Farley and Barra will still be held up as the ideal for corporate executives.

Unfortunately, we the taxpayers will be forced to bail them out...again.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (eOEVl)

6 No comment.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (PiwSw)

7 Isn't the widow McCain a beer distributer?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (mo/0F)

8 Walmart here has finally started stocking yeungling light beer in the can. I bought that instead of my usual michelob ultra this morning. Take that AB!

We also quit ordering the normal ultra keg for our VFW, we get Coors Light now. Might not be a big deal but that's 52 less kegs they are going to sell this year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (ncXxy)

9 Good rant. Thank you, Buck Throckmorton.

Home Free - Champagne Taste (On a Beer Budget)
https://youtu.be/1L8zGfKDCCY

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 29, 2023 11:06 AM (u82oZ)

10 If you owned a ruined franchise/dealership, could you sue these assholes for their ineptness/malice?

Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

11 Heh, thanks tbird!

I have nothing but. . . indifference for AB. Dead to me, whatever, Bud Lite can go ahead and die already.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2023 11:07 AM (mo/0F)

12 Dylan Mulvaney announces newfound romantic interest in women and dreams of one day being impregnated by one. I'm as confused as you are.

https://tinyurl.com/4mx9s8n7

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I think the Artist Formerly Known As Prince said it best, Let's Go Crazy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:07 AM (FVME7)

13 I pray the backlash against that horrible monster Lindsay Graham is worse than what AB got over Bud Light.

The GOP is simply intolerable.

I would willlingly work with even Barry to remove them from power.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (a5o5Q)

14 I've been to two Memorial Day weekend picnics/bbqs so far. Not a buttlight in sight. Mostly Yuengling with a welcomed sighting of an ice chest full of Narragansett beer. I think Genesee now brews Narragansett.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (qoGsy)

15 ESG scores are a real problem. The lower the score, the higher the interest rates. Cost of capital is the center pole in the tent.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (9X60i)

16 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

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Radically transforming food production is tight!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (FVME7)

17 How DARE you write this so close to Pride Month!

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (2tUFv)

18 Dylan Mulvaney announces newfound romantic interest in women and dreams of one day being impregnated by one. I'm as confused as you are.

Attention whores gotta attention whore.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:09 AM (eOEVl)

19 We also quit ordering the normal ultra keg for our VFW, we get Coors Light now. Might not be a big deal but that's 52 less kegs they are going to sell this year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (ncXxy)

Couldn't find any beer?

Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

20 >>Dylan Mulvaney announces newfound romantic interest in women and dreams of one day being impregnated by one. I'm as confused as you are.

Translation: Dylan whathisface yet again attempts to keep himself in the news cycle, because narcissists gotta make everything about themselves.

Go hang out with Meghan Markle and Madonna, loser, and STFU.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2023 11:10 AM (mo/0F)

21 Anonosaurus Wrecks

Starvation is so ennobling.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 29, 2023 11:10 AM (u82oZ)

22 We also quit ordering the normal ultra keg for our VFW, we get Coors Light now. Might not be a big deal but that's 52 less kegs they are going to sell this year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2023 11:05 AM (ncXxy)

No...that is a very big deal, and it is exactly how it is done. Those 52 kegs also translate into some of those vets extending the boycott and not buying InBev products for their personal use.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (ZCCyW)

23 If you owned a ruined franchise/dealership, could you sue these assholes for their ineptness/malice?
Posted by: BignJames

It's tricky. It all depends on the contract and franchise agreements both parties signed.

Unless of course if you have access to a Hawaiian judge. In that case, the political leanings of the complainant is the key fact.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (qoGsy)

24 Fair or not, Pintos became a joke

Ahem!

Posted by: Chevy Vega at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (YGqO/)

25 Target stores across US hit with bomb threats because they "turned their back" on the LGBT community

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Target has become a target! Who'd athunk it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

26 ESG scores are a real problem. The lower the score, the higher the interest rates. Cost of capital is the center pole in the tent.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 29, 2023 11:08 AM (9X60i)

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If they kill their companies, they won’t need capital so what’s the point?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (u73oe)

27 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

What exactly is this man's expertise that qualifies him to intone on anything? Climate chemistry? Agricultural production?

Ah, I have it. Being an annoying f***stick.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:12 AM (eOEVl)

28 When Ford and GM are bankrupt, and when its abandoned dealerships litter the landscape, Farley and Barra will still be held up as the ideal for corporate executives.

Unfortunately, we the taxpayers will be forced to bail them out...again.

Posted by: Archimedes
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Only GM again. Ford did not take bailout money.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 29, 2023 11:12 AM (17s+e)

29 Kerry will still get his daily allocation of oats and grain, and a apple

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (xhxe8)

30 Dylan Mulvaney announces newfound romantic interest in women and dreams of one day being impregnated by one. I'm as confused as you are.

https://t.co/GyAXUGoqGa

Posted by: Ciampino -- The futility of trench warfare vs modern arms at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (qfLjt)

31 Some of us here speculated that AB would be forced to re-brand Bud Light as a result of the Bud Ladyman debacle.

New packaging, new name, same swill.

And partnering with Harley/Davidson isn't exactly a bold move either. HD is woke too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Was there lipstick? You're clear! You're not gay!

Posted by: Tranheuser-Busch at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (CaJIi)

33 >>Target stores across US hit with bomb threats because they "turned their back" on the LGBT community

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE LOVE IS LOVE, YOU GUYS, AND YOU BETTER BE ON BOARD WITH THEM LOVING YOUR KIDS OR THEY WILL KILL YOU.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (mo/0F)

34 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

We are all going on the Venezuelan diet!! Yippeeee!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 29, 2023 11:14 AM (17s+e)

35 “Boycott Target” Song Racks up Millions Views, Climbs to #6 on Itunes Charts

https://tinyurl.com/55c98u7y

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There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:14 AM (FVME7)

36 >> ESG scores are a real problem. The lower the score, the higher the interest rates. Cost of capital is the center pole in the tent.

I THINK WE'VE JUST FOUND THE SOLUTION TO "TOO BIG TO FAIL!"

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 29, 2023 11:15 AM (mo/0F)

37 I pray the backlash against that horrible monster Lindsay Graham is worse than what AB got over Bud Light.

LOL. The Daily Mail is claiming that Miss Lindsey saying that:

"And the Russians are dying.
It's the best money we've ever spent."

was "edited", and " it appears that Graham's comments were misrepresented in a longer version of the meeting".

Yeah, right.

Miss Lindsey meant what she said, and she was smiling when she said it.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:15 AM (2tUFv)

38
Introducing!... Bud Zyklon-B!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2023 11:15 AM (MoZTd)

39 "Fair or not, Pintos became a joke "

Our first car was a Pinto. I think it was priced under two thousand. Drove that little beast til it dropped. Don't recall that we had any mechanical issues with it.

Posted by: Tuna at May 29, 2023 11:16 AM (gLRfa)

40 “ Thus, Alissa Heinerscheid was hired to insult Bud Light drinkers and to make its image more gender fluid.”

Is it not redundant to have “Bud Light” and “gender fluid” in the same sentence?

Posted by: Rex B at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (o9iNw)

41 Alinsky Rule 13 "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Don't boycott other brands just AB and Butt Lite in particular.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (17s+e)

42 Only GM again. Ford did not take bailout money.

Ackshually...

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kdeyn
https://tinyurl.com/2p8kxbzz

And this is to say nothing of the bailout of the UAW.
https://tinyurl.com/mv6b9e24

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (eOEVl)

43 Maybe the Killer Whales will target Jean Francois Cary on his yacht next.

You know, him invading their territory and that whole Circle of Life thing. But he would be some hard chum to swallow I bet for any Orca.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (hk4qW)

44 And partnering with Harley/Davidson isn't exactly a bold move either. HD is woke too.

HD is dying as well. HD is a boomer brand.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (2tUFv)

45 I pray the backlash against that horrible monster Lindsay Graham is worse than what AB got over Bud Light.

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Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Lindsey Graham

Now we just need a bounty on his head.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (FVME7)

46 Just for everyone's awareness, because I wasn't tracking: I just got back from a Memorial Day event at Camp Dodge, the main base of the Iowa National Guard. A bunch of people had obvious political campaign shirts on with the name "Ryan Binkley". That's correct, "who"?

As the search engine AI explains, Ryan Binkley, a business executive and pastor from Texas, has jumped into the Republican presidential fray and visited first-in-the-nation Iowa to begin laying the groundwork for a campaign.

We have a new contender in the Trump/DeSantis wars! Can he best fellow Texan Jeb Bush's 4 delegate achievement from 2016?!?!

Posted by: Military Moron at May 29, 2023 11:18 AM (NCgXW)

47 Introducing!... Bud Zyklon-B!!!

Marketing pitch - "It will give you a killer buzz!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:18 AM (hk4qW)

48 John Kerry, Bill Gates, Krause Schwartz, et al need to be

Types
Deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (u73oe)

49 Target stores across US hit with bomb threats because they "turned their back" on the LGBT community

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Target has become a target! Who'd athunk it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)
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But hey! It's those racist white Christian conservatives who are the real threat.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (YGqO/)

50 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

Hmmm....you gotta' feed crickets, just like any other livestock.

Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

51 @12 Dylan Mulvaney announces newfound romantic interest in women and dreams of one day being impregnated by one. I'm as confused as you are.

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Makes about as much sense as Julian Castro's declaration that we need reproductive justice (aka abortion) for trans women during the first 2020 Dem presidential primary debate.

Posted by: junior at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (PTw5h)

52 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

With all the respect you're due, Kerry, quit eating.

Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (e2onP)

53 Schwab. Eff you autocorrect.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:20 AM (u73oe)

54 52 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

With all the respect you're due, Kerry, quit eating.
Posted by: t-bird at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (e2onP)

Idea for a charity concert/event:

"Hands Across Lizzo"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (x0n13)

55 Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Lindsey Graham

Hey, Miss Lindsey has made it clear that she wants the war to continue until the last Russian and the last Ukrainian are killed.

I'm not sure why people are surprised when she comes out and says that.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (2tUFv)

56 Dylan Mulvaney is in it just for the money.

If Dylan had the male parts surgically removed then I would know Mulvaney is truly committed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (hk4qW)

57 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

Which will mean much higher food prices. John Kerry wants you to know that you needn't worry, though. He has more than enough money to keep eating as he does now.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

58 Kerry will still get his daily allocation of oats and grain, and a apple
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2023 11:13 AM (xhxe

While he's munching down, he can write himself up for another award.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (YGqO/)

59 Fair or not, Pintos became a joke

Ahem!
Posted by: Chevy Vega

Yugo, we go, we all go Yugo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (FVME7)

60 "Hands Across Lizzo"

That's about 40 hands...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (hk4qW)

61 Go hang out with Meghan Markle and Madonna, loser, and STFU.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2023 11:10 AM (mo/0F)

What about meeee?

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard Graduate at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (PiwSw)

62 33. Maybe those of us that maintain all of these alphabet soup people are mentally ill to various degrees were right. Maybe instead of focusing on demanding 95%of the population who are not ill pretends these people are normal , psychologists should be helping that 5%cope with have unusual ideas and how to accept it and work towards coexistence.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 29, 2023 11:22 AM (TiKjW)

63 We have a new contender in the Trump/DeSantis wars! Can he best fellow Texan Jeb Bush's 4 delegate achievement from 2016?!?!

Pikers.

Posted by: Zombie John Connally! at May 29, 2023 11:22 AM (2tUFv)

64 A major re-branding, or an all-new replacement light beer, is likely the resolution that AB will have to pursue.

Bud Cockwash, The AIDS Fighter!

Posted by: Tranheuser-Busch at May 29, 2023 11:23 AM (bt2PN)

65 Only GM again. Ford did not take bailout money.

Ackshually...

https://tinyurl.com/5n6kdeyn
https://tinyurl.com/2p8kxbzz
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I guess in a way Ford did get some bailout money as a loan that is still on their books.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 29, 2023 11:23 AM (17s+e)

66 Pridemonth

Coincidence?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:23 AM (u73oe)

67 @16 John Kerry Says Farmers Will Need to "Radically" Transform Food Production to Meet Emissions Goals

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He should be switched over to a diet of hay and oats. After all, hay is for horses, right?

Posted by: junior at May 29, 2023 11:24 AM (PTw5h)

68 Jen the original

Are there no Superfund sights to clean up? No ship canals to be dredged with a spoon?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 29, 2023 11:24 AM (u82oZ)

69 48 John Kerry, Bill Gates, Krause Schwartz, et al need to be

Types
Deletes

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:19 AM (u73oe)
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Mulched? ..... wait, that's for lawns. What do we do to unwanted garden gnomes?

Posted by: Ciampino - Lawn Jockeys for the steeplechase? at May 29, 2023 11:24 AM (qfLjt)

70
GM (Mary Barra) have committed that those companies will be electric vehicle manufacturers, period. Failure at the EV business will mean the failure of Ford and GM.

This is what happens when you make the HR head the CEO.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2023 11:24 AM (MoZTd)

71 The PR department is adding more staff to help handle the backlash against rainbow gear for children, thus reaffirming the old adage that...

...you always get more flacks when you are over the Target™

Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (991eG)

72
Pridemonth >>> Pridemouth

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (MoZTd)

73 Jean Francois Cary needs to Renew. Carousel awaits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (hk4qW)

74 Mulched? ..... wait, that's for lawns. What do we do to unwanted garden gnomes?
Posted by: Ciampino - Lawn Jockeys for the steeplechase? at May 29, 2023 11:24 AM (qfLjt)

I resent that implication!

Posted by: Robert Reich at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (PiwSw)

75 Its interesting that having reached the limits of what they can with propaganda the left is now using things like ESG to whip companies in line.

The speed at which the left has gone from "corporations are evil" to "corporations are good, consumers are evil" is stunning. And I often poke lefties about it.

One guy I know was lauding Nike for paying Crapperdick. So, I just said, "Sorry I can't give credit to a multinational that uses slave labor for its products" and...I completely harshed his mellow. It was great.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (lc5cP)

76 Time to burn brushpile and ponder the sacrifices made by those who went before. I'll have a wee dram of Wild Turkey 101 to toast their memory later.

Posted by: Eromero at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (Uv0D2)

77 You will eat the bugs.

Meanwhile, I'm going to have a gourmet steak dinner, paired with a '68 Claret.

Posted by: John Kerry, A-Hole! at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (2tUFv)

78 I have seen the future, it is female and impoverished.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 29, 2023 11:25 AM (17s+e)

79 1000 Millimeter Reich is a malignant garden gnome

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:26 AM (hk4qW)

80 Lizzo and Stacey Abrams could solve the starvation problem in Africa.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:27 AM (hk4qW)

81 I have seen the future, it is female and impoverished.

You will own nothing.
You will not be allowed to travel
You will eat bugs

Posted by: The version of the future the left is promising at May 29, 2023 11:27 AM (lc5cP)

82 Time to burn brushpile and ponder the sacrifices made by those who went before.

Memorial F-15s over my house in a couple of hours.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 29, 2023 11:27 AM (2tUFv)

83 If they kill their companies, they won’t need capital so what’s the point?

They won’t kill the company. It will just become something else. And “they” will walk away unscathed. In a year, or less, AB will change the label and sales will be back up to where they were.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 29, 2023 11:28 AM (9X60i)

84 New York City Mayor Makes Obesity a Protected Class

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Finally, somebody is standing up for the ~~little~~ big guy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:28 AM (FVME7)

85 Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Lindsey Graham

Now we just need a bounty on his head.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (FVME7)

I wonder how large the bounty would have to be before some "privateers" decided it might be worthwhile to kidnap the asshole and rendition him to Russia?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2023 11:28 AM (gPI36)

86 New York City Mayor Makes Obesity a Protected Class

So Chris Christie, Nadler, and Lizzo walk into a NYC bar...

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:29 AM (hk4qW)

87 56 Dylan Mulvaney is in it just for the money.

If Dylan had the male parts surgically removed then I would know Mulvaney is truly committed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM

I kind of believed that, until the dude got facial reconstruction surgery to have more feminine features. That's a significant step, even if not as much as the genital work. In fact, the genital rearranging surgery is a con, as it doesn't work, while the facial surgery does make his features more feminine. He'll still need some work to keep the mustache and beard from growing back, though lol.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 29, 2023 11:29 AM (NCgXW)

88 85 Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Lindsey Graham

Now we just need a bounty on his head.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:17 AM (FVME7)

I wonder how large the bounty would have to be before some "privateers" decided it might be worthwhile to kidnap the asshole and rendition him to Russia?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2023 11:28 AM (gPI36)

Why him in particular?

Posted by: NL at May 29, 2023 11:29 AM (eGTCV)

89 They can try to sell.

But, greed will win out.

Especially after they find no one will buy for what they think it's worth

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2023 11:30 AM (5EnGD)

90 You will own nothing.
You will not be allowed to travel
You will eat bugs

Soon, the only jets you will see over your house will be private jets, ferrying the Important People back and forth.

We'd let you travel, but the High Speed Rail project is now in its eighth decade of construction.

Posted by: John Kerry, A-Hole! at May 29, 2023 11:30 AM (2tUFv)

91 Trump/DeSantis wars!

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Old and busted entertainment: RomComs

New and cool: RonDons

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:31 AM (FVME7)

92 The North Face commercial. Yeesh.

https://youtu.be/YERFmhEf9EI

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 29, 2023 11:31 AM (DhOHl)

93 Dylan may have had some face work done but until he goes on Kerry's bug diet and loses weight, he won't really be an Audrey Hepburn clone. Much less Leslie Caron.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:31 AM (hk4qW)

94 Why him in particular?

This.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxnp3er

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)

95 Russia Issues Arrest Warrant for Lindsey Graham

We should definitely extradite him.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:33 AM (X4R3E)

96 I wonder how large the bounty would have to be before some "privateers" decided it might be worthwhile to kidnap the asshole and rendition him to Russia?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

******

Aha! Bounties, the quicker picker upper!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:33 AM (991eG)

97 Morning all

Let me tell you how fucking stupid Newsmax is

They had a job opening that fit me perfectly so I thought oh awesome here’s a chance to finally work for a conservative organization

You’re required to relocate… to New York City, no exceptions, no remote work possibility

Haaaaaaaaaaaa?

So… you expect conservatives to relocate to deep blue shitholes and if they don’t your plan is to draw from a talent pool that is limited to said deep blue shithole? Are you fucking ghey?

Another red flag; Newsmax workers in the same department I would have applied to all had soy faces and pronouns in their LinkedIn profiles

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxxed Ranger at May 29, 2023 11:34 AM (VTu1l)

98 Legal Insurrection.

Climate change cultists deface a Degas display in DC. The cops don't arrest them immediately so they turned themselves in.

If they really want to be martyrs to save the planet, a gibbet is eco-friendly.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:34 AM (hk4qW)

99 I wonder how large the bounty would have to be before some "privateers" decided it might be worthwhile to kidnap the asshole and rendition him to Russia?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

******

Aha! Bounties, the quicker picker upper!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:33 AM (991eG)

Mossad was good at this once upon a time.

Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (AwYPR)

100 Dylan Mulvaney is the David Hogg of Audrey Hepburns

Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (991eG)

101
I do wonder how different things would be if Trump had shipped Soros off to Hungary or Malaysia in 2017.

Yes, yes congress would have impeached him but...it would have been delicious...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (lc5cP)

102 Climate change cultists deface a Degas display in DC. The cops don't arrest them immediately so they turned themselves in.

Since the cops won't arrest them they shouldn't be called "protestors". They are more just another flavor of the SA.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2023 11:36 AM (lc5cP)

103 The Soros financial empire needs to suffer RICO in order to be destroyed. Jailing George at this point is useless, all the senior people need to hang.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:36 AM (hk4qW)

104 Dylan Mulvaney is the David Hogg of Audrey Hepburns

Hogg graduated Harvard last week. Also he's looking a bit chunkier.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (X4R3E)

105 and pronouns in their LinkedIn profiles

It's really useful when the wokesters self-identify.

Get a resume with pronouns when hiring someone?

Throw it in the trash.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (2tUFv)

106 Why him in particular?

This.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxnp3er
Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)
***

An incredibly stupid thing to say.
I'd laugh my ass off if the Russian embassy had their security guys parking half a dozen Ladas around his house, with big nonsmiling dudes sitting in them.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (YGqO/)

107 AWFL rampage!

https://tinyurl.com/3uepf4nt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (FVME7)

108 The Soros financial empire needs to suffer RICO in order to be destroyed. Jailing George at this point is useless, all the senior people need to hang.

Soros' kids are all in on making us eat ze boogs too, which is why waiting for him to die isn't a solution.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (X4R3E)

109 Hogg graduated Harvard last week. Also he's looking a bit chunkier.

Liquid protein diet? What ever happened to his co-conspirator Mz Gonzalez?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (hk4qW)

110 What concerns me is that to this day, heads have not rolled at Inbev for this. How on earth do you justify keeping the dimwitted marketing exec who pushed this??

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (0hOvj)

111 59 Fair or not, Pintos became a joke

Ahem!
Posted by: Chevy Vega

Yugo, we go, we all go Yugo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:21 AM (FVME7)
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Nova, that doesn't work, Nova

Posted by: Ciampino - Non va bene at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (qfLjt)

112 This is a cultural war fought almost entirely within the US. Leftists will rejoice seeing these American icons like GM destroyed. The only alternative is an increase in left-wing control: if GM is not destroyed, then it's a power basis for leftists, which they can use as a piggy bank and to conquer more ground, like GM suppliers and dealers, but not only.
Non-US companies, such as Toyota, are less affected, and those that do less business in the US are even less affected.

Posted by: PG at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (84jHt)

113 Mossad was good at this once upon a time.
Posted by: BignJames at May 29, 2023 11:35 AM (AwYPR)

They found it was easier just to send the target a cell phone. Then call it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 11:39 AM (YGqO/)

114 There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*Ayd's candies has joined the chat*

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:39 AM (qoGsy)

115 An incredibly stupid thing to say.

It is the very definition of a "gaffe" - when a politician says what he really thinks.

Miss Lindsey isn't apologizing for saying that, BTW, he's doubling down.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:39 AM (2tUFv)

116 It's really useful when the wokesters self-identify.

**********

These are faggot wokesters working for Newsmax. Just another controlled opposition fraud

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxxed Ranger at May 29, 2023 11:39 AM (VTu1l)

117 What concerns me is that to this day, heads have not rolled at Inbev for this. How on earth do you justify keeping the dimwitted marketing exec who pushed this??
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM (0hOvj)

——————-

In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate.” She didn’t do it on her own.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 11:40 AM (u73oe)

118 Trump/DeSantis wars!

Schlichter has a very good column this morning. It has something for both sides.

https://tinyurl.com/39te95s2

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

119 Non-US companies, such as Toyota, are less affected, and those that do less business in the US are even less affected.

Yes and no - the US and Europe are very big markets (something all the MBAs fixated on China miss), and they've all moved towards banning gas and diesel.

Blaming Ford and GM for doing what the government's ordering them to do is missing the order of operations.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (X4R3E)

120 81 I have seen the future, it is female and impoverished.

You will own nothing.
You will not be allowed to travel
You will eat bugs
Posted by: The version of the future the left is promising at May 29, 2023 11:27 AM

If I know government (think "we just want gays not to be oppressed" to today), the above restrictions are just the STARTING point. The final destination is always much worse.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (NCgXW)

121 Another red flag; Newsmax workers in the same department I would have applied to all had soy faces and pronouns in their LinkedIn profiles

They fired someone for pointing out that the Wuhan Flu came from a Chinese lab. They are NOT what they pretend to be

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (0hOvj)

122 Cadaver Joe Biden had a son and his name was Hunter Light.

It's going to be crack, prostitutes, meth, money laundering and bastard children from now on! The marketing team is considering incest, but polls indicate a reluctance because Kamala is too busy cackling like a Clinton over North Africa.

I'll have a Guinness with my sausage and eggs, thank you very much!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (KVGVf)

123 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate.” She didn’t do it on her own.

It is a bit of a problem when what you really want is your customers dead.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:42 AM (2tUFv)

124 What concerns me is that to this day, heads have not rolled at Inbev for this. How on earth do you justify keeping the dimwitted marketing exec who pushed this??
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

And the person that hired them. And then the person that hired them.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:42 AM (qoGsy)

125 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate.” She didn’t do it on her own.

Agreed. She'll be the scapegoat, but she wasn't the one really calling the shots.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:42 AM (eOEVl)

126 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate

*******

Nah, she hasn't had a man date since 8th grade Autumn Festival sock hop.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (991eG)

127 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate.” She didn’t do it on her own.

Oh sure, InBev is super woke and idiotic, and there's no chance she pulled this off without approval from above.

But as a company, why keep on the scapegoat for an idea that cost your company literally tens of billions of dollars? Why not dump her and put all the blame on her?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (0hOvj)

128 That Arkansas judge should order Hunter's DNA be uploaded just to see how many other kids around the world are his.

Hunter Biden is the anti James T. Kirk.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (hk4qW)

129 And the person that hired them. And then the person that hired them.

HR is how the left took over the corporate West. Because they hire everyone.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (X4R3E)

130 If I know government (think "we just want gays not to be oppressed" to today), the above restrictions are just the STARTING point. The final destination is always much worse.

During the Covid shutdowns, a lot of "progressives" said that we should simply pivot from Covid shutdowns to global warming shutdowns.

Posted by: Four Days Until Pride Month! at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (2tUFv)

131 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate.” She didn’t do it on her own.

Buttigig has no such compunctions about having super clean man dates.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:44 AM (qoGsy)

132 Randi Weingarten
@rweingarten
Sadly, not a surprise based on prior research… When will we learn? School closing does nothing for the kids in the closed schools.

-
She and Dr. Fauxci had nothing to do with it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7)

133 Oh sure, InBev is super woke and idiotic, and there's no chance she pulled this off without approval from above.

But as a company, why keep on the scapegoat for an idea that cost your company literally tens of billions of dollars? Why not dump her and put all the blame on her?

I still think she did this as a one-off that nobody was supposed to hear about and Mulvaney ruined everything by being a narcissist.

Doesn't mean that's not representative of thinking inside InBev though, just that they thought they could micro-virtue-signal and then hide it on page 492 of their SEC filing where only the ESG scorers would see it.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:45 AM (X4R3E)

134 But as a company, why keep on the scapegoat for an idea that cost your company literally tens of billions of dollars? Why not dump her and put all the blame on her?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

She probably has pics of the higher ups running around with folks of the opposite sex.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 29, 2023 11:46 AM (qoGsy)

135 But as a company, why keep on the scapegoat for an idea that cost your company literally tens of billions of dollars? Why not dump her and put all the blame on her?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM

Because this kind of $hit does not happen in a vacuum. This kind of garbage idea was floating around the boardroom long before they hired her, she just kicked it up a notch and got them to go public with it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2023 11:47 AM (ncXxy)

136 The Little Mermaid is doing pretty well in the US, nearly 120 million as parents take their kids to see it. Overseas though, the whole world is showing about 70 million, which is terrible.

I think the black recasting of a Danish fairy tale was stupid and pointless, but the real problem is a running time of over 2 hours (2:14, plus previews etc). Try to get a pre-teen girl to sit still and watch a movie that long.

I heard a theory why they are pushing the run times out so excessively: success in streaming is measured in minutes watched.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:49 AM (0hOvj)

137 Chris Plante does his Newsmax show from a studio in DC.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 29, 2023 11:49 AM (DhOHl)

138 As long as everyone must Identify as some special group member (or several groups ... black/trans/vegan/etc.) ... Let some company/group identify as "White Christian" and watch the lawsuit wars begin.

"White Supremacists" are not a threat (terrorist or otherwise) in this nation, but if forced to choose based on their current metrics, I'm an unapologetic White Christian. I'm not bowing to the commies and trannies or racists, not begging for their approval. And I'll avoid the Woke brands (when they spit in my face, especially).

Posted by: illiniwek at May 29, 2023 11:50 AM (Cus5s)

139 Rolling Stone tries to paint Ron DeSantis as evil for "bringing the ax down on furries," makes huge campaign contribution instead 🤣

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Ax me no furries and I'll tell you no lies.

P.S. A pet peeve of mine. It should be spelled "axe".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:50 AM (FVME7)

140 In that video of her, she said she had a “super clear mandate

*******

Nah, she hasn't had a man date since 8th grade Autumn Festival sock hop.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 29, 2023 11:43 AM (991eG)
***

This.
The dinner where she signed the marketing contract with Mulvaney didn't count.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2023 11:50 AM (YGqO/)

141 This kind of garbage idea was floating around the boardroom long before they hired her, she just kicked it up a notch and got them to go public with it.

Right, but why not dump her as a scapegoat? The stunt has cost InBev dearly, why keep her on? Give her the heave ho, rebrand Bud Lite, and pretend you fixed the problem. What on earth do they gain by keeping her on "suspended"?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:50 AM (0hOvj)

142 I'm sure things will get better if just give more money to that guy who sells the pillows.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 29, 2023 11:52 AM (DhOHl)

143 > But as a company, why keep on the scapegoat for an idea that cost your company literally tens of billions of dollars? Why not dump her and put all the blame on her?
______________

I'm betting she had approval to make some sort "edgy" ad campaign. It wasn't going to be a "one off" with Mulvaney, it was going to be a whole series of ads to promote Bud Light as LBGQXYZ friendly. That was approved at the highest levels of InBev. Keeping her around assures she keeps her mouth shut about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 29, 2023 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)

144 Right, but why not dump her as a scapegoat? The stunt has cost InBev dearly, why keep her on? Give her the heave ho, rebrand Bud Lite, and pretend you fixed the problem. What on earth do they gain by keeping her on "suspended"?

The plan was to wait for it to blow over and then quietly unsuspend her.

That plan has become inoperative, alongside AB's sales.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 29, 2023 11:52 AM (X4R3E)

145 The dinner where she signed the marketing contract with Mulvaney didn't count.

Mulvaney has officially "come out" as lesbian, much as Rush Limbaugh did decades ago.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:54 AM (0hOvj)

146 South African rugby star Lukas van Biljon is stabbed repeatedly in the chest and his father is shot three times by gang who raided their farm and threatened to kill the Springbok player's children
https://mol.im/a/12136347

Posted by: Ciampino -- Non va bene at May 29, 2023 11:55 AM (qfLjt)

147 State Farm Halts Issuing New Home Insurance Policies in California

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Too high of a risk of earthquakes? Fires? Rampaging zombies?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:55 AM (FVME7)

148 107 AWFL rampage!

https://tinyurl.com/3uepf4nt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:37 AM (FVME7)

She seems nice.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 29, 2023 11:57 AM (PiwSw)

149 Randi Weingarten
@rweingarten
Sadly, not a surprise based on prior research… When will we learn? School closing does nothing for the kids in the closed schools.

-
She and Dr. Fauxci had nothing to do with it!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7)

She was all in closing schools at the time. She wants to show she's contrite? Let her dump a pail of gasoline on her own head, and strike a match. I'll accept nothing less as proof of contrition.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2023 11:57 AM (gPI36)

150 AWFL rampage!

What the hell was she yelling about?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 11:58 AM (0hOvj)

151 What on earth do they gain by keeping her on "suspended"?

Her silence?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2023 12:00 PM (nfrXX)

152 118 Trump/DeSantis wars!

Schlichter has a very good column this morning. It has something for both sides.

https://tinyurl.com/39te95s2
Posted by: Archimedes at May 29, 2023 11:41 AM (eOEVl)

I didn't care for the condescending "East Dakota" comment. Kurt, us flyover rubes are the ones who buy your books, you idiot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 29, 2023 12:00 PM (PiwSw)

153 109 Hogg graduated Harvard last week. Also he's looking a bit chunkier.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2023 11:38 AM

The freshman 15 hits women especially hard.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 29, 2023 12:00 PM (NCgXW)

154 Her silence?

They can afford a lot more publicity than she can, and the news media is hardly going to help her hurt a woke company.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)

155 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
MSNBC's @DavidJollyFL: "@GovRonDeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump ... Ron DeSantis is a very dark figure in the political landscape, far more dangerous than Donald Trump"

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Before he changed his name, he was known as Ron DeDracula.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 12:01 PM (FVME7)

156 MSNBC's @DavidJollyFL: "@GovRonDeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump ... Ron DeSantis is a very dark figure in the political landscape, far more dangerous than Donald Trump"

I actually agree with this assessment: as governor he is much more dangerous to the woke extremist agenda than Trump is

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 29, 2023 12:03 PM (0hOvj)

157 No one mentioned it, but there’s a Memorial Day thread up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 29, 2023 12:03 PM (u73oe)

158 "I presume they were pushing back against the woke insanity, but clearly they didn’t push back hard enough to make a difference."

Now tell us what form of pushback within the law would have made a tinker's damn worth of difference.

Posted by: SDN at May 29, 2023 12:04 PM (KdP4Y)

159 139
Ax me no furries and I'll tell you no lies.

P.S. A pet peeve of mine. It should be spelled "axe".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 29, 2023 11:50 AM (FVME7)
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Oxford Dict says AX is American usage but word is AXE. You got it right.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Non va bene at May 29, 2023 12:07 PM (qfLjt)

160 “Bitter Brew” was a fascinating look at the history of AB. The old guard knew their beer and their customers well. The last competent family CEO could taste a Bud and tell you which plant made it. But he had a wildly entitled who was destroying the company, so the family had to sell out.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at May 29, 2023 12:09 PM (MTm8X)

161 As I’ve pointed out several times, this same situation is playing out at Ford and General Motors. The CEOs of Ford (Jim Farley) and GM (Mary Barra) have committed that those companies will be electric vehicle manufacturers, period. Failure at the EV business will mean the failure of Ford and GM.

And Stellantis (Chrysler, Jeep, Ram). The merger of FCA with Peugeot in 2021 to create the Stellantis company with all vehicle brands under that company has made every brand subject to the WEF electrification agenda demands (WEF propaganda about Agenda 2030 and "climate change" and CO2 is in all the training materials). Within months of the merger, pretty much all the ICE products that were being worked on were scrapped and changed to EV, BEV or HEV products.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 29, 2023 12:11 PM (Do5/p)

162 What the hell was she yelling about?

Only the voices inside her head know for certain.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 29, 2023 12:15 PM (Xrfse)

163 Personally, I’m cheering for woke capital to suffer a mighty backlash, be it Target, AB InBev, GM, etc. If they go out of business, I won’t grieve their passing. I’m sorry for the franchisees and distributors of their products.

You are cheering on the unemployment of millions, possibly tens of millions of Americans across the entire auto industry, if you are you cheering on the end of companies like GM, Ford and Stellantis. Because not only will the employees of those companies be out of work, but also the employees at suppliers of auto parts of those companies' vehicles.

If/when the auto industry collapses, millions upon millions will be unemployed. This is where I part ways with the "conservative" movement if this is what they are cheering on.

It reminds me of the scene in "The Big Short" where Brad Pitt's character scolds the two young guys who are all excited that they were able to sell a bunch of shorts on the housing market. He reminded them that they were cheering on the destruction of the US economy. Which is the destruction of people's lives and families.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 29, 2023 12:17 PM (Do5/p)

164 Hey, I liked my 1973 Ford Pinto Station Wagon.

Posted by: Mine Didn't Blow Up at May 29, 2023 12:44 PM (zLdnv)

165 there was never anything wrong with the Pinto. That sh*t was brought on my lawyers suing iom sue happy States like CA.

Posted by: vic at May 29, 2023 12:49 PM (mMi2k)

166 Im not an alcoholic but am something of a slobbering drunk so I speak with authority on this subject. Miller came out with a ridiculous woke ad so I put Miller/Coors/Molson on my shit list. Then this Bud Lite fiasco so Inbev (Bud/Busch/Natural/Modelo/Stella/Rolling Rock/etc) are Targeted (get it?). I bought a couple cases of Yuengling and its disgusting...can barely choke it down. Ive been sobering up the last few days and its scary.

Posted by: SS at May 29, 2023 12:59 PM (xlrNs)

167 Bang on. Depressing but bang on.

Posted by: TrappedinDC at May 29, 2023 02:12 PM (oU76X)

168 There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

*Ayd's candies has joined the chat*
Posted by: Tonypete

Corona Beer would like to speak.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 29, 2023 03:07 PM (lZVy/)

169 I bought a couple cases of Yuengling and its disgusting...can barely choke it down. Ive been sobering up the last few days and its scary.
Posted by: SS

PBR has entered the chat.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 29, 2023 03:08 PM (lZVy/)

170 Was it the Pinto or the Vega that required you jack up the engine to change the spark plugs in the V8 version ?

Posted by: SMOD at May 29, 2023 05:10 PM (RovqD)

171 “Right, but why not dump her as a scapegoat? The stunt has cost InBev dearly, why keep her on? Give her the heave ho, rebrand Bud Lite, and pretend you fixed the problem. What on earth do they gain by keeping her on "suspended"?”

They are of the Left, and the Left tribe always protects their own no matter what. That’s one big reason why they win.

Posted by: craig at May 29, 2023 11:34 PM (AaNrZ)

172 “…Then this Bud Lite fiasco so Inbev (Bud/Busch/Natural/Modelo/Stella/Rolling Rock/etc) are Targeted (get it?). I bought a couple cases of Yuengling and its disgusting...can barely choke it down. Ive been sobering up the last few days and its scary.“

First, Modelo is safe to drink in the USA; Constellation owns the brand here while InBev only owns it abroad.

Second, Yuengling is fine and so are many other brands that aren’t riced-up industrial swill. Your taste buds will adapt to the taste of actual beer, give it time.

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