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The 3 likely ways Bud Light disaster might end – and only one is good news
2023-05-10
[Fox News] Budweiser-Dylan Mulvaney controversy is no longer about a boycott. It's a matter of executive survival

Remember when drinking Bud Light wasn’t a heavy topic? Now, one of the anchor products for Budweiser is dragging down an entire company.

Just the other day, video surfaced of fans lined up to get beer in Boston’s renowned Fenway Park. Lined up at every concession stand but one — the one selling Budweiser and, especially Bud Light.

This is no longer about a boycott. This is about executive survival, which matters far more to CEOs and the people they pay. As Mel Brooks’ Gov. William J. Le Petomane memorably declared, "We’ve gotta protect our phony, baloney jobs, gentlemen!"
Related:
Dylan Mulvaney: 2023-05-08 Anheuser-Busch CEO Blames Bud Light Boycott On Social Media "Misinformation"
Dylan Mulvaney: 2023-05-05 Anheuser-Busch Finally Backs Away From Dylan Mulvaney, but Not Far Enough
Dylan Mulvaney: 2023-05-04 Finally: Kamala Harris Named ‘AI Czar' to Save Us from Artificial Intelligence
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Bud Light: 2023-05-08 Anheuser-Busch CEO Blames Bud Light Boycott On Social Media "Misinformation"
Bud Light: 2023-05-05 Anheuser-Busch Finally Backs Away From Dylan Mulvaney, but Not Far Enough
Bud Light: 2023-05-05 Anheuser-Busch CEO FINALLY disavows Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light partnership and says 'it was not a campaign' after firm sent letter to retailers blaming an outside ad agency for approving it 'without management awareness' as sales crash 26%
Posted by:Frank G

#14  Fresh from AoS:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2023-05-10 21:55  

#13  At some point they will seek a government bailout. There is no rational case for one, but they will seek one. They are probably already networking that type of solution. It is what low integrity executives do. Full disclosure- I once worked for GM.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-05-10 20:04  

#12  Dylan is not a woman but I wouldn't call it a man, either. Male yes, man no.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-05-10 19:54  

#11  What are they going to do next, boycott water?
snarf snarf snarf snarf

/Chappy Buttgig
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-05-10 18:39  

#10  Lose jobs, they are doing what was expected of them. To quote the movie Zulu:

Can't you see that old boy up on the hill? He's counting your guns. Testing your firing power with the lives of his warriors.

Ace reports on the global advertising initiatives and goals, some shit called GLAM or something, which pushes just such things. Like I've been saying, if it weren't Dylan is would have been some other dude.

They knew Nike, who had been pushing female athletics seriously for over a decade would catch hell putting a soy boy in a tube top and calling it serious exercise gear.

Maybalene knew that making this the guy the....ugh...face of their cosmetics would chode longtime users.

I think here they had a controlled burn which got loose, then bungled the containment which increasing fire conditions. But because we are not serious people and are favor hires they didn't understand there are no local releases with the internet, then brought in politicians and, uggghhh, the boyfriend of Peter Buttgig, talk out the fire by chokechaining lifelong customers.

We'll see, but if sales of Coronoa and Modela were flat or even dropped over Cinco de Mayo, well...

2REARS dropping Shock Top and Goose Island is grand even if for the wrong reasons.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-05-10 17:51  

#9  Execs might lose their jobs? Oh, the horror!
Posted by: Hupolunter de Medici7308   2023-05-10 16:27  

#8  ^ Stumbled across Buddy Brown's the other day. Haven't listened yet but going by the views it shouldn't be too bad.
Posted by: Bob Smith6683   2023-05-10 14:23  

#7  New George Straight song. "All my Exes Changed Their Sexes".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-05-10 14:07  

#6  "Can we stop linking to Fox News?"

M.Kelly coined the term which I will forever use: Foxweiser.
Posted by: mossomo   2023-05-10 13:39  

#5  Define 'Good News'.

They left out the part where politicians were tapped to get in front of the cameras and use their influence to stand down the boycott.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-05-10 10:25  

#4  ^ that last line could be a death sentence among the wrong crowd. XD
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-05-10 08:50  

#3  Warning BUD Drinkers are subject to sudden Sexual Confusion.

ODD to note: I am seeing a 24 can case of BUD is back up to $19.99 now from $14.95 - $17.99 a week ago.
I guess it's that time of the month.☺
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-05-10 08:20  

#2  I vote for public ritual seppuku by the CEO.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-05-10 07:24  

#1  Can we stop linking to Fox News?
Posted by: Xyz   2023-05-10 00:43  

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