{"id":84887,"date":"2023-04-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84887"},"modified":"2023-04-10T06:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T11:45:22","slug":"acceptable-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84887","title":{"rendered":"Acceptable Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Good News, of a sort?<\/strong> The social media at Bud LIght, and its parent Anheuser Busch, have gone quiet since the Dylan Mulvaney flap<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bud Light operates one of those fun, friendly social media accounts we see quite often from corporate giants these days. On March 30, it tweeted or replied to tweets over fifteen times, with messages on the order of \u201cWin tickets to Stagecoach for you and a friend! Travel and hotel accommodations covered\u201d and \u201cHave a cold one for us.\u201d On March 31 came twenty more tweets and replies, including \u201cThere\u2019s still time to win beer money. Which women\u2019s team do you think will win it all?,\u201d and a reply to a well-wisher: \u201cBud Light loves you back.\u201d On April 1 it was more of the same, but we haven\u2019t heard from Bud Light since 8:50PM that evening, when it tweeted<\/a>: \u201cBeers on us? Must be game time. For a chance to win, cheer on your team with #EasyToEnjoySweepstakes<\/a> in the replies.\u201d That was the day that Mulvaney was revealed to be Bud Light\u2019s new spokesdude. But isn\u2019t Bud Light proud<\/em>, like all LGBTQETC activists constantly insist they are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t just Bud Light, either. The UK\u2019s Daily Mail\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0Sunday that \u201cThe famous beer also hasn\u2019t posted on their main Instagram feeds since March 31 and have not posted to Facebook since March 30.\u00a0Bud Light\u2019s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, has also gone without posting since April 1.\u201d This is unusual, for \u201cwhile they have gone a few days without tweeting in the past, the @BudLight is typically fairly active, as are their other regular social channels.\u201d What could account for this? It looks as if it\u2019s because of Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, “get woke, go broke”. Simple as . Bob’s your uncle, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe. Maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we discussed last week, Bud LIght’s chief executive, Alissa Heinerscheid, is a young, intensely <\/em> “woke” woman<\/a>, a product of a $60K\/year prep school, Harvard and Wharton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we can joke about her background – as Dennis Prager says, “it takes an elite education to produce someone this stupid” – or the near term results of the decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while Heinerscheid may not be “smart”, or “well-educated” in any holistic sense of the term, she is certainly well-schooled. And that brings us to….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bad News:<\/strong> What if Anheuser Busch knows this, and considers it an acceptable cost to build up its Environment and Social Governance (ESG) score – the American version of Red Chinese “Social Credit” score for business (and people, sooner than later, if they get their way)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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