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Reaching deep into the Hillary Clinton playbook, Bud Light wants to counter the controversy over replacing men with some creepy guy who likes to put on makeup and speak in a high voice, with a “listening tour”.
Axios has learned that, (Anheuser-Busch U.S. CEO Brendan) Whitworth plans to go on the road around the U.S. this summer to listen to consumers, in connection with Budweiser’s MLB sponsorship.
Bud Light and MLB. Two formerly great brands that went woke. Maybe they could invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence along on a nationwide tour. Missouri should absolutely be a stop. Then Kansas.
In Whitworth’s latest statement, he has yet to apologize to women or promise to stop pushing sexual identity politics. Instead, he states once again that, “we recognize that over the last two months, the discussion surrounding our company and Bud Light has moved away from beer, and this has impacted our consumers, our business partners, and our employees. We are a beer company, and beer is for everyone.”
“Third, to all our valued consumers, we hear you. Our summer advertising launches next week, and you can look forward to Bud Light reinforcing what you’ve always loved about our brand – that it’s easy to drink and easy to enjoy. As we move forward, we will focus on what we do best – brewing great beer and earning our place in moments that matter to you.”
Also, sponsoring drag shows. And the gyrating on floats crowd.
Bud Light’s parent Anheuser-Busch is a sponsor of Pride celebrations in Chicago, San Francisco, Charlotte and elsewhere.
Others, like San Francisco Pride, are sticking with Bud Light but bracing themselves for backlash from attendees who think the brand should have done more to support Mulvaney.
Ford, the executive director, said Anheuser-Busch has been a longtime patron and increased its donation to San Francisco Pride this year.
That listening tour will go well.
SF Pride dumped Dee Snider for suggesting that maybe mutilating kids is not the best idea.
Twisted Sister’s ’80s rock classic, “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has been dropped as the unofficial anthem of this year’s SF Pride Parade & Celebration following a controversial tweet from the band’s lead singer, the festival confirmed to KRON4. The festival was on the cusp of officially announcing the song as Pride’s “unofficial rallying cry” and Twister Sister front man Dee Snider was due to perform the song on the festival’s main stage.
However, the relationship between the flamboyant rocker and the festival broke down after Snider tweeted his support for a statement from Kiss front man Paul Stanley that’s been widely panned as transphobic.
On Sunday, Stanley tweeted out a lengthy statement, that read in part, “With many children who have no real sense of sexuality or sexual experiences caught up in the ‘fun’ of using pronouns and saying what they identify as, some adults mistakenly confuse teaching acceptance with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affect and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad.”
On Monday, Snider weighed into the debate, retweeting Stanley and saying, “You know what? There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions! Well said, @PaulStanleyLive.”
Bud Light just wants to get back to making beer and sponsoring pro-child mutilation parades.
Una Salus says
They might as well be the GOP.
sofa king what says
No, they are the average human being, just like you. Everyone is wicked in their own way, there is no difference on the inside, only how it’s shown on the outside, but you’re all the same.
Floyd Looney says
Supporting pedophiles and groomer is not all the same
roberta says
”No, they are the average human being, just like you. Everyone is wicked in their own way, there is no difference on the inside, only how it’s shown on the outside, but you’re all the same.”
”What Is Projection as a Defense Mechanism?
Projection is a defense mechanism in which an individual recognizes their unacceptable traits or impulses in someone else to avoid recognizing those traits or impulses in themselves subconsciously.1
For example, someone who bullies another for being anxious and insecure may be doing so to avoid acknowledging they exhibit those same tendencies.”
Una Salus says
If you think about it.
Una Salus says
After selling you out and having to deal with damage control for a while what they really want to get back to is selling you more sellout.
CowboyUp says
That took three posts?
Algorithmic Analyst says
Really dumb of them to hire someone who doesn’t know their client base.
Una Salus says
Their client base are Trump supporters so you can understand how they thought this would be expialidocious.
Una Salus says
And I guess in the long game maybe it still might be. Who knows? Where to next?
Una Salus says
How is Budweiser supposed to know Trump supporters are too Neanderthal to understand Trump? isn’t he supposed to be some sort of Neanderthal cargo cult?
Una Salus says
These slime know that they are in charge of cargo delivery not Trump at all. as has been apparent to any fool except Trump since Covid.
Una Salus says
Trump tried to insert himself into vaccine delivery but even the cargo cult knows he was just a disoriented traffic warden in that endeavour.
CowboyUp says
I guess they didn’t expect their ‘lowbrow’ client base to notice. After all, they never noticed AB’s (and other companies’ that cater to blue collars) growing disregard and contempt for them before.
Una Salus says
The cargo cult that doesn’t even know where things originate so they might as well assume they originate with Trump.
jeff says
A listening tour? Isn’t that what Liberals go for and Liberals do? My gosh. How tone deaf is that company?