Right-wing Bud Light boycott crumbles as GOP faced loss of major donor

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Right-wing Bud Light boycott crumbles as GOP faced loss of major donor


Bud Light's partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney caused many conservative voices to boycott the beer company, but there is reportedly now a GOP-led push to back off, or risk losing major funding.

The National Republican Congressional Committee initially used the beer beef to raise funds in its latest "anti-woke" campaign, but on Saturday quietly deleted a tweet critical of the beer, whose owner happens to be one of their biggest donors, Anheuser-Busch, according to the Daily Beast's report.

The outlet reported that the NRCC, which backs Republican congressional campaigns, sent out a now-deleted tweet suggesting that Bud Light "tastes light water."

“Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,” the revived tweet says. “With our new koozie’s, you can make sure no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/right-wing-bud-light-boycott-crumbles-as-gop-faced-loss-of-major-donor/ar-AA19Uku9

[Model35mech]

1. I saw Bud and Bud Light being delivered to very Red

Village in Town of Jefferson WI.

I think the boycott is doomed

[rurallib]

3. basically don't you have 3 beer companies in the US

not counting all the local mom and pop breweries.

If I recall it is Budweiser - which was owned by InBev last I heard, Molson-Coors and Miller which was owned by some South African conglomerate. Those corporations own many different labels so it is probably going to be hard to boycott the company's beers.

That reminds me that the largest US owned brewery used to be Samuel Adams. Don't know their politics, but I don't see the right switching to Sam Adams. InBev is European I think, Molson-Coors Canadian and as I mention Miller South African.

Cheers

[TheRealNorth]

5. I believe I heard the owner of Sam Adam's is knuckle-dragging RW nutjob....

But I will have to do a search for the proof.

[Cha]

14. That rings a bell for me, too.. I

remember that it was posted on DU and we vowed to Not drink any of their stupid beer.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Co-founder. Don't know about current executives

https://time.com/5367515/joseph-curtatone-sam-adams-jim-koch-president-trump/

Mass mayor calls for boycott after co-founder praised the rump for tax cuts.

[Sky Jewels]

9. Sam Adams was known as a Republican beer

for many years. I assume that’s still the case.

[GenThePerservering]

10. They are not 'mom and pop' breweries

they are microbreweries and independent larger breweries.

[Cha]

15. TY.. that didn't sound

right to me.

And, Artisan & Craft Baers.

[rurallib]

20. I had a brain freeze and couldn't think of the proper term

Thank you

[ProfessorGAC]

11. In Broad Distribution, Yes

But, some of the craft beers still out there that go well beyond "Mom & Pop".
Sierra Nevada is a good example. They sell about 500 million gallons of beer each year. (Nearly 890 million six-packs) in all 50 states.
Yeungling & Bell's are other examples, although they're smaller & more regional.
But, the vast majority of beer brewed in the US is from the big 3.

[rurallib]

21. See reply #20 - my old brain sometimes can't think of the proper word

at the proper time

[Model35mech]

24. Wisconsin has many small breweries but they were handicapped for decades

There were laws, that made it illegal for a brewery to sell directly to a drinking establishment
You had to have a middle man to do the distribution. The extra slice that took out of the revenue stream made it tough to make a buck for the smaller companies.

America also was divided into distribution regions by the big companies to fend off competition. For decades of my early life Coors was for us a 'western beer' (not really worth traveling west to taste).

In Wisconsin we also had big companies like Pabst, and Miller insisting that their beer shouldn't be sold at a bar that sold beer flavored water from the competitors. The big companies made that politically palatable by providing small town bars with very elaborate, some would say iconic alters to beer, mammoth oak bars and accompanying mirrors, art work, dead stuffed animals, shelves and cabinets. Those things still exist in small town Wisconsin, although the beer monopolies have been broken. A drive along Wisconsin state highways can take you past too many to sample in an afternoon.

Of course we've got all the various lagers and ales the rest of the world has. Wisconsinites mostly come from European beer drinking cultures, and they all aren't German knock offs.

As for me I don't like IPAs that taste like pine needles. So I drink a cask-conditioned Wisconsin quite yeasty beer that uses 2 yeasts one usually for lager production and the other usually for ale, preserved in mild hops called appropriately Spotted Cow, the source of all things good in WI, by a small brewery in New Glarus (southern WI). Today that's called a 'cream beer'. Because the hops is light it doesn't ship well. If you aren't a liquid bread foodie, cask aging is something the great big guys tend to stay away from, although Bud makes beer that is more or less washed over beech-wood chips (not really in a cask). Beech isn't a common species in WI so that's something not done much in WI.

[Phoenix61]

2. Dang they're dumb. Seems common sense you'd check

your donor list before calling for a boycott.

[marble falls]

6. WTF is wrong about Dylan. Seems like a well adjusted human being to me. She almost has me ...

... ready to swill some Spud Lite. Almost, but not quite. I wish nothing but the best for her. The camera seems to love her and she is bubbly person.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Spud's gender...

Spuds MacKenzie was a fictional dog character created in the 1980s to promote Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company’s Bud Light beer. The male character, played by a female bull terrier named Honey Tree Evil Eye, was an instant hit and became a pop-culture icon. Though the advertising campaign ended in 1989, Spuds made one last appearance in a 2017 Super Bowl commercial.

https://www.worthpoint.com/dictionary/p/alcohol-smoking/beer-advertising/spuds-mackenzie-budweiser

[Chainfire]

4. Ah, come on, it all comes out of the same horse. :)

They should go after Coke next!

[RockRaven]

7. The "boycott" - such as it was - fizzled, or will, because all of the regressive degenerates (who

are so bizarrely obsessed with the gender, clothing, or sex lives of people they don't even know in real life, mostly) are realizing that virtually all of their next-favorite beers are also made by AB InBev or Molson Coors, who just as "woke" if not moreso.

They will, of course, not draw the correct lesson from this. They should realize that they are a loud insular weirdo minority. Instead they will wrongly conclude that two of the largest beverage companies in the world have a secret ideological social agenda which they are pursuing in opposition to most of their customers' thoughts on the matter -- because that makes a lot of sense for billion dollar transnational corporations to do.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Reich wingers spend more time thinking about LGBTQ2 sex than LGBTQ2s do

Most LGBTQ2s are thinking about what's for dinner, how to tell the boss her idea will cost too much, and does the baby's diaper need changing.

[BlackSkimmer]

31. Simple research will show they made a major miscalculation.

No matter our feelings on Bud Lite, the company has lost billions.

Given that they donate to right wing candidates - I couldn't care less.

I have read right here that many DUers plan to buy some of their product, which just goes to show that a wee bit of research never goes awry.

[Srkdqltr]

12. I think these companies are more powerful than the Republicans

The companies will outlast the idiots.

[Takket]

13. I wish bud light tasted like water. then it would be palatable

[NNadir]

23. Best comment. n/t.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. rump Jr says boycotts of Bud Light should end

NY Post ^ | 4/15/23 | Jon Levine
Donald Trump Jr. says boycotts of Bud Light should end, telling his fans on Rumble the company’s conservative credentials are solid and the outrage over its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was unjustified. Bud Light — and its parent company Anheuser-Busch — have faced a firestorm of controversy from many in their core audience after using Mulvaney in its marketing. “We looked into the political giving and lobbying history of Anheuser-Busch. And guess what? They actually support Republicans,” said the former first son on Rumble.

[hadEnuf]

27. So in other words it has nothing to do with transgender people at all.

Gee, what a surprise. Anheuser-Busch supports conservatives so it's now A-OK if they advertise using a trans person. Somebody should tell that to dickhead Tucker Carlson and and his asshole music buddies. Their paychecks may depend on it.

These people revolt me.

The Republican party is out for one thing and one thing only: to destroy Democrats, Progressives and anyone else who doesn't lap up.their fascist agenda.

[Cha]

17. How Fucked Up.. Bud is in

a partnership with Trans Social Media and donates to the Fascist magats.

[BlackSkimmer]

32. Is it news to you that companies do not give one single fuck about social issues?

They want to make a buck, and they'd sell their own mothers to do that.

[Traildogbob]

22. They need to

Boycott Kidd Rock. They may gain supporters. One thing that struck me as he fired his toy murder machine at the beer, was how damn fast it would shoot. Imagine dozens of children at the receiving end of that rapid fire. No wonder cops are scared and want to arm teachers, they want no part of that fire power at them.

[louis-t]

25. Haaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

[Jack the Greater]

26. Wow, after reading the deleted tweet I am more convinced than ever.

Republicans are stupid all the way to the top.

[friend of a friend]

28. Do people really drink Bud Light beer? If so, why?

[Johonny]

30. It is cheap

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Don't tell the MAGAts, but I heard a rumor that Tucker Carlson got WOKE!

Also, Rupert Murdoch regularly appears in drag shows.