Posted on 04/11/2023 11:08:22 AM PDT by dragnet2
Looking at the bloodbath Budweiser has recently taken, I believe boycotts could be weaponized by the American people to effectively influence and alter the direction were heading. We've got the power. Just ask Budweiser.
Being creative and focusing on specific targets, I believe boycotts could be a very effective powerful political tool. And we all hold the power to enforce these actions.
Jim, this chat/vanity thread was removed and the moderator indicated it was already posted. It was not and I don’t know why the moderator thought that a personal/vanity had already been posted. Maybe it was a mistake…
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Your link goes to a page that makes no sense as to why someone who is interested in reading your vanity would want to go to.
So no, AB is not being hurt in the least bit. They sht in the soup, and people are still gobbling it up!
The long march is the key to victory—one consumer at a time, one friend at a time...patience...
That is how the left trashed every major institution in the country.
That is how we will have to get them back.
But Sean Hannity doesn’t like boycotts. LOL. I stopped watching him years ago. He’s a tool.
Yes we need to do everything the left is doing and more. They use boycotts and threats of boycotts. We need to do the same. But we need to be more proactive and less reactive (like the left). We need to get businesses to push our values or we will boycott them. Not just stop pushing the left’s values but actually embrace what we want. It’s the only way we can win.
And in lawfare we need state and local prosecutors to charge judges their families and the entire Biden family and friends with crimes. Don’t have one? Make it up. It will cost them money, time and stress to fight it. And it will scare others from being radical and going against the right.
That said, this may have been a calculated move by management in general to reposition Bud Light AND Bud itself at a new market by sticking its thumb in the eye of traditional Americans. AB-InBev might have calculated that the average drinker wasn't aware of their full product line and didn't expect any boycott to bleed over to beer like Corona, Stella Artois, and Beck's.
If one ignores the possible stupidity of the marketing VP, this may have been a kind of product terrorism (i.e., AB-InBev terrorized their existing customers by insulting them).
So it's all one big lie about Bud Light?
I think one lesson from the Bud Light experience is that we can’t gin up a boycott the way the left does, because we don’t have the help of the media or social organizations or rent-a-mobs, but if a boycott or buycott arises from the grass roots and takes on a life of its own, nothing can stop it. We saw this in the past with Chick-fil-A and MyPillow.
So what? You had no problem finding it. And it’s not required and does not rate being censored/omitted like it was the first time. Now run along bicycle boy.
“and people are still gobbling it up! “
Only because they are a monopoly and now own just about EVERY cheap beer label. And with the current depression not many can afford anything else.
https://www.tapintoyourbeer.com/guide-our-beers
https://www.anheuser-busch.com/brands
Boycotts take awhile, give it time.
So what? You had no problem finding it. And it’s not required and does not rate being censored/omitted like it was the first time. Now run along bicycle boy.There is no issue about finding it. I only saw it because you just posted it, not because I was trying to find it.
But you are correct it is not required to post intelligently.
I don't know about your censorship or whatever charge.
I was just trying to help you post a vanity correctly after you being 20+ years here.
I'll run along (bicycle along) when you further show that it is hopeless to help you.
“..The long march is the key to victory—one consumer at a time, one friend at a time...patience... That is how the left trashed every major institution in the country.
That is how we will have to get them back....”
Exactly ^THIS^.
We need to use their own tactics against them in a big way.
Isolate the target, humiliate it, boycott it into bankruptcy.
Find the next target, rinse and repeat.
Bud Lite is a good trial run.....but we need to take down the whole darn parent company with it....ALL of it.
Wayne Allyn Root has been talking up boycotts, or buycotts, as he calls them, as a safe, non-violent action that conservatives can take to make themselves heard. I think he could be right. Certainly we can’t wait on the “Republican Party” to take action. And a “peaceable assembly” is no longer allowed with all the agents provocateurs from the government and other leftwing groups infiltrating everywhere. How much more peaceful can something be than simply not buying an item?
I think Budweiser knew exactly what they were doing. They have observed their sales decline only accelerate. Without the young market, they can’t survive. My question would be why prematurely kill the golden goose by trying to put lipstick on it? Why not create a brand new brand for the youth market leveraging your existing distribution?
AB-InBev might have calculated that the average drinker wasn’t aware of their full product line and didn’t expect any boycott to bleed over to beer like Corona, Stella Artois, and Beck’s.
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That’s what I thought too..... if the average pi$$ed off Bud drinker only decides to take their business to Corona (or one of the other 650 or so brands owned by AB), then the company won’t well one drop less of beer. In fact, they may sell more beer because of the newly created crowd of Bud drinkers who have been brought in under their umbrella...
I say make your own beer.... I did that for years! https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-brew-beer/
Pabst seems to own most of the cheap beer brands as well
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