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What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class
Brownstone Institute ^ | April 13, 2023 | Jeffrey A. Tucker

Posted on 04/13/2023 6:27:17 AM PDT by Heartlander

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1 posted on 04/13/2023 6:27:17 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

The author furthers the insanity by continually refering to this follower of Satan as “she.”


2 posted on 04/13/2023 6:35:30 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Heartlander

It was startling to watch, and I could hardly believe what was happening. Then one day the incredibly obvious dawned on me. All official opinion in this country and even the whole world – government, media, corporations, technology – emanated from the same upper echelons of the class structure. It was people with elite educations and who had the time to shape public opinion. They are the ones on Twitter, in the newsrooms, fussing with the codes, and enjoying the laptop life of a permanent bureaucrat.

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Pretty good article, and that’s a good quote, but it seems to me to attribute this more to the old “bubble” theory. That the coastal elites are just insulated in their own echo chamber.

Not that it’s not true, but What is coming out more and more lately is how the academic world is a full blitz training ground for the elites. They go through a whole system of brainwashing before rising into their positions of power and influence.

So the insular bubble is just there to protect and support the brainwashing. It doesn’t cause it. It just doesn’t hurt it.

This is a woke version of the old-boy network. The woke network assures that the woke pass through and the non-woke do not rise to the heights of power.


3 posted on 04/13/2023 6:37:15 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I wonder if you just took a regular day of News and went back in time to the 1980s how would most people react ?


4 posted on 04/13/2023 6:39:16 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: z3n

A lot of this woke BS is just people who have too much damn time on their hands, who think up this crap out of sheer boredom, to amuse themselves.


5 posted on 04/13/2023 6:39:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Heartlander

Good piece. The Brownstone Institute turns out some good material.


6 posted on 04/13/2023 6:40:35 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: Heartlander

Great essay.


7 posted on 04/13/2023 6:41:35 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Heartlander
One thing I have not seen in any of the articles about this story; are there thousands or millions of cans in stores and warehouses across America with this special label, or was this a "change the image, run about 5 cases, and change the image back" promotion?

I am not an expert on light beers, because I always thought the only people who actually drank any kind of "light" beer were girls, males who know all the words of all the show tunes, and the kind of people who buy E-Vehicles.

8 posted on 04/13/2023 6:42:46 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: dfwgator

Correct. Think of how many employees Musk could fire from Twitter. The proportion of useless high-level employees permeate the system. Corporations many be forced to remove them. The problem is government, universities, schools, and any corporation largely supported by government (think healthcare) seem to be immune.


9 posted on 04/13/2023 6:46:36 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: escapefromboston

I’ve been watching NYPD Blue from the 80’s. Some of the stuff that’s now championed by the left was openly ridiculed then.

Interestingly, they’ve made several references to Donald Trump , mostly about being a famous rich guy.


10 posted on 04/13/2023 6:48:43 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: dfwgator
A lot of this woke BS is just people who have too much damn time on their hands...

I agree. Idle hands are the devil's playground.

11 posted on 04/13/2023 6:50:04 AM PDT by Kharis13
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To: dfwgator

I think some people — especially “educated”, successful people — truly believe the nonsense that a person with a serious mental illness who suffers the delusion they have God-like powers can change their innate sex by announcing it. Instead of helping these sick people get the help they clearly so desperately need, these “educated” people pander to the victim’s mental illness. It is truly disgusting.


12 posted on 04/13/2023 6:50:58 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Heartlander

Insightful article. Good read.


13 posted on 04/13/2023 6:51:15 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: Kharis13

I suppose when you haven’t had a major war for awhile, this is the result.

“Nevermind that s___, here comes Hitler!”


14 posted on 04/13/2023 6:52:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Heartlander

As I understand it this was not a Bud campaign. Bud sent kits to many “influencers”. He was just one
But he took the can they had made up for him abd did his own vids.
Lol it blew up from there


15 posted on 04/13/2023 6:56:26 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: 7thson

I noticed that to.


16 posted on 04/13/2023 6:57:05 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: z3n
This is a woke version of the old-boy network

Exactly. There’s always been an old-boy network. It seems the price of entry has increased over the years and there is no focus on competence. The cost of entry for an average American is an elite education, mountains of debt, and a compromise of principles, primarily being woke.

17 posted on 04/13/2023 6:57:46 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: 7thson

“TOO”. not “to”. Sorry.


18 posted on 04/13/2023 6:58:22 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: Heartlander
...lost $5 billion or 4 percent in value since the ad campaign rollout.

I woke up to some feel good news of the day.

19 posted on 04/13/2023 7:00:20 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Heartlander

Very good!


20 posted on 04/13/2023 7:00:34 AM PDT by dennisw (This)
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