Ted Cruz Launches Senate Probe Into Bud Light's Ad With Dylan Mulvaney

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week opened a Senate investigation into his allegations that Anheuser-Busch markets Bud Light to underage consumers in its ad featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

In a letter to Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, Cruz and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) also asked the beer industry trade group Beer Institute, which Whitworth chairs, to conduct its own investigation. Or the company could say it’s sorry for any infraction and publicly disassociate from Mulvaney to avoid further inquiry, the senators wrote, making their actions appear more like a publicity stunt.

“We would urge you, in your capacity at Anheuser-Busch, to avoid a lengthy investigation by the Beer Institute by instead having Anheuser-Busch publicly sever its relationship with Dylan Mulvaney, publicly apologize to the American people for marketing alcoholic beverages to minors, and direct Dylan Mulvaney to remove any Anheuser-Busch content from his social media platforms.” (The letter repeatedly misgenders Mulvaney, who uses she-they pronouns.)

Mulvaney, a 26-year-old actor who chronicled her transition to a wide audience on TikTok, appeared in a one-off Instagram post promoting Bud Light for March Madness. She showed off a can with her likeness that the brand made especially for her.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ted-cruz-launches-senate-probe-115319614.html

Don't agree with the ad? Don't fucking drink Bud Light. It's fairly simple.

[Faux pas]

1. ...

His assholery is never ending

[DFW]

2. Debt ceiling, Ukraine, infrastructure, China, trade, but wait!! This takes precedence!!

Beer ads!!!!!! Let all that insignificant stuff wait, people, because we‘ve got trouble—right here in (Potomac) River City! Trouble starts with a „T“ and that rhymes with „B“ and that stands for BEER!!!!

[anciano]

3. Beyond belief ....

After watching this commercial on YouTube several times, I cannot see any validity whatsoever to the assertion that this constitutes marketing beer to underage consumers. IMO the folks at AB should not even respond to this, it's not worthy of a response. Just saying.....

[underpants]

4. Sounds like Ted is opening a can of whoopass on himself.

[Mme. Defarge]

17. This is probably inappropriate, but...

[underpants]

19. 😆

[Lovie777]

5. The insanity is strong with this one......................

[TheRealNorth]

6. Maybe we need to start looking at YouTube, Fakebook, and Twitter.....

And the targeting of under 18 boys by Gun influencers that receive money from the gun industry.

[gratuitous]

7. Thank goodness!

You know, every now and then I get caught up in the news, and the seemingly intractable problems that beset our nation and people around the world. War and terrorism, famine, the inequitable distribution of wealth, preventable disease and sickness, and so forth.

Then I take a look at what absorbs the tiny minds of Republican Senators, and I have to surmise that those problems aren't so great after all, if these Senators can devote their time to meddling in the affairs and advertisements of a minor consumer commodity.

[Grins]

8. The same guys who protected the tobacco industry...

…over their marketing to minors sez’ whut?

(For those not familiar, Google: “Joe camel” )

[LoisB]

9. Yeah, Ted, investigating Bud Light ads is right up there at the top of my list of "problems" I want

the Senate to investigate. Right below Drag Shows and Library books. Jesus wept! What a moron.

[pamdb]

10. Bud light

It's a private company. They can use whomever they want in an ad, I would think. What business is it of whiskers Cruz to stick
his nose in their business.

[Hortensis]

13. THIS. The term "fascistic" seems appropriate enough here.

Not that this is more than spotlight-seeking opportunism by Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn, but it does show they would use government to end intellectual freedom and force obedience and conformity to "state" dictates.

"Liberalism is the individual. Fascism is the state." Benito Mussolini

Way beyond the outer limits...

[usonian]

11. Budweiser is owned by AB InBev , in BELGIUM, and this sure sounds like the government mobilizing,

in other words, THREATENING a company to “behave”.

Is WW III with Belgium at stake?

[ZonkerHarris]

12. Predicted Anheuser-Busch response: Bring it

[moonshinegnomie]

14. AB should tell cruz to F off

[Blue Owl]

15. Ooooh this is serious....

[madinmaryland]

16. I bought a 36-pack of Bud Light at Costco today. FUCK YOU, TED CRUZ!

[Trenzalore]

18. All they have is reactionary acting anymore

There is no serious political solutions for any problems the country faces. Whatever the outrage of the day is they gravitate towards and posture.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. The Great Texas Freeze DEATH TOLL : 246

Link to tweet

The Great Texas Freeze
DEATH TOLL : 246

When a historic winter storm devastated Texas in 2021 and Texans were left freezing and fighting for their lives, Ted Cruz promptly abandoned victims and jetted off to the sunny beaches of Cancun, Mexico.

Ted fled the crisis, while Texans cried for help and pleaded for leaders to guide them through the storm.

246 Texans died from hypothermia, falling through ice and drowning, frozen medical devices, motor vehicle accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning, and, tragically, so much more.

Ted Cruz is nothing but a sick joke.

[MagickMuffin]

24. Let us not forget all the blood on his hands for supporting gun violence

All those underage kids that will never get to taste beer. Not one drop of beer.


You guys can own a weapon of mass destruction but heaven forbid they drink a beer!

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

22. I can't wait for Bud Light to send back a reply

That says they'll cooperate with investigations when the traitor party starts doing it.

It will be in legalese, but that's what the response will be. You can't demand of others what you won't do yourself.

STFD and STFU you scabrous pilondial cyst on the arse of humanity.

[machoneman]

23. We should launch a Senate probe to find MexicoTed's brain! Likely, a fruitless search.

[yellowcanine]

25. Cancun Ted says what? STFU Ted.