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Our deeply divided nation is reunited at last! We cannot agree on whether dismembering children in the womb is a monstrous crime or a basic human right. We can’t agree on whether men can become champion female swimmers. We certainly will never agree on whether a jaw-droppingly corrupt kleptocrat deep in the throes of dementia should even have gotten near the Oval Office. We argue over whether the Founding Fathers were slaveowners to be despised or visionaries of freedom to be revered. But there is one thing we do agree on: we all loathe Bud Light.
The patriots’ rejection of Bud Light after it brought on the transcendently obnoxious fake woman Dylan Mulvaney as its frontman has been remarkably effective. By April 22, Bud Light sales had dropped over 26%. Overnight, a beer that was practically ubiquitous became synonymous with the authoritarian Left’s efforts to force all Americans to accept its increasingly revolting agenda. The King of Beers became the Drag Queen of Beers, “tranny fluid” that no one but other half-men like Mulvaney himself would dare to drink in public or private.
And initially, Leftist half-men did rally around a beer that ordinarily most of them would have scorned. On April 15, far-Left Congressman Ted Lieu (D-California SSR) tweeted an embarrassingly staged photo of himself holding a Bud Light as if he were a space alien who had never held an earth object before. Standing with him, supposedly engaged in casual conversation and also holding cans of Bud Light, albeit a trifle less gingerly, were three of Lieu’s Golden State colleagues: Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Get Trump), Judy Chu (D-Workers’ Paradise), and Mark Takano (D-Newsomland).
Lieu wrote no caption for the pic, but the message was clear: the Leftist elites stand with men who think they’re women. The Leftist elites want you to stop complaining, accept men who think they’re women, and drink your Bud Light happily. No doubt to the consternation of Anheuser-Busch executives, however, the endorsement of four representatives who make V. I. Lenin look like an America-First free market capitalist didn’t stop the freefall of Bud Light’s sales. And so finally, weeks after the whole brouhaha began, Anheuser-Busch did what it should have done in the first place: it backed away, ever so cautiously but nonetheless unmistakably, from Dylan Mulvaney.
If Anheuser-Busch hoped that its false claim that its involvement with Mulvaney was limited to just “one single can” of Bud Light would make the whole thing finally blow over, it was in for a rude awakening. Backing away from Mulvaney, even as halfheartedly as Anheuser-Busch did it, only raised the hackles of the brand’s newly-minted Leftist supporters. You won’t find Ted Lieu repeating his act of holding a bottle of Bud Light as if it were a land mine, or holding one in any other way, anytime soon.
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Transmaster says
I have been told that people In my area; Wyoming, who never were much on Bud Lite, this is Coors country, but what little sales of Bud Lite there was has vanished. A cowboy today would not be caught dead with a can of Bud Lite.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
There’s a meme of the brokeback mountain gay movie characters ‘bonding’ over budlight, lol!
David M says
Light beer tastes bad & takes you longer to get an alcoholic buzz anyway, no reason for 99% of people to drink it.
gravenimage says
This brand was actually very popular before going “woke”.
Dan says
It’s too late for Queer Beer.
The only way an apology is sincere is when the penitent comes to you hat in hand, and besides the apology makes it CLEAR they will accept ANY punishment the offended party themselves decide.
You must place yourself 100% and they must KNOW they have been granted the power to ruin you if they choose such.
It’s a BIG risk, but the only one that is sincere.
Say you total their car. You don’t say you’ll pay the premium or something. You say, “I will REPLACE it.” And give them the keys to yours until”
Diane says
Someone needs to make a t-shirt that has a picture of Biden holding a Bud-lite and then under it simply has to say Bud Lite in bi g red letters.
Rarely says
Ads are getting funnier and funnier (probably the wrong word). Same sex couples kissing in an ad goes unnoticed. The attempt to be “inclusive” went over the edge recently when I saw an ad where a mixed racial family had one black parent, one white and Asian children. I suppose it’s genetically possible but it’s not a large club.
gravenimage says
Yep–much of this is just ridiculous stuff. In the recent David Copperfield with Dev Patel, an Asian father has a Black child (Agnes); she marries David, who is Indian in this version, and together they have a very light-skinned White baby.
gravenimage says
Now EVERYBODY Hates Bud Light
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This certainly makes well-known bombs like New Coke seem like good ideas. The thing is that Bud Light used to be the best selling beer in the United States. It takes some real doing to ruin a brand that popular, but they managed it…
Kenn Goodwin says
A new form of cancel culture, perhaps? Nope, same old woken till broken.
James Lincoln says
The executives at Anheuser-Busch somehow forgot that people who drank Bud Light in the past – likely out of habit – will find new “light” alternatives.
After they have made the switch, what incentive would they have to go back to Bud Light?
Likely a permanent loss in market share. And the “trans” community is not picking up the slack.
And other Anheuser-Busch products are also vulnerable, above and beyond Bud Light.
somehistory says
When I was a kid, our class had a tour of the place where the original bud beer was made. It was interesting, but the best part was seeing the horses.
I don’t drink beer, not even root. But if I did, it wouldn’t be the “trans” stuff because “trans” people are not real; so the beer must not be either.