He still doesn’t get it! Tone deaf Anheuser-Busch CEO won’t rule out Bud Light working with Dylan Mulvaney AGAIN – and then says firm needs to ‘appreciate’ what the consumer wants – despite debacle costing firm $20 BILLION and counting
Daily Mail UK | June 28, 2023 | Emma JamesAnheuser-Busch’s CEO has refused to rule out partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney again – as he avoided answering how much the marketing blunder had cost Bud Light.
Brendan Whitworth, US CEO, insisted that his priority was his employees and added that they had poured three times the amount of investment into Bud Light for this year – as the company has lost a staggering $20billion in market cap.
Speaking to CBS Mornings, Whitworth was asked if he would send Mulvaney, 26, another can, knowing the backlash.
But instead of giving a definitive answer, the CEO instead launched into a pre-rehearsed speech about the ‘social conversation’ that the disaster campaign caused.
Whitworth added that they ‘need to deeply understand the consumer’ and ‘appreciate’ what they want’ from the brand, as he was blasted on social media for doing a ‘dismal job’.
He was then challenged over his refusal to answer, with Tony Dokoupil asking if the decision was a mistake – as sales for the beer dropped a staggering 28.5 percent.
Archive of entries posted on 28th June 2023
Ah, My Test Results Are In, After That Deep-Fried Bacon Double-Cheeseburger Pizza With Extra Cheese
However, “Consuming Bud Light Beer” Would Have Rhymed Much Better
NBC News DEFENDS ‘we’re coming for your children’ chant at NYC drag march, arguing it’s ‘been used for years at Pride events’
Post Millennial | June 28, 2023 | Libby EmmonsThe Drag March in Manhattan’s East Village featured topless women and plenty of drag performers chanting “We’re coming for your children.” A clip from Timcast of the event, the chanting, and the festivities went viral on social media, infuriating many who value childhood innocence. In response, NBC defended the chant, saying that it was just for fun, and is a way for LGBTQIA+ people to “own” the slurs that have been leveled against them.
“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children,” they sang to each other.
NBC asserted that the drag marchers were saying “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re not going shopping,” and that it’s only “one voice that is louder than the crowd” who said, “We’re coming for your children.” They quote the drag march organizer, Brian Griffin, who said that they chanted obscene things to basically own the slurs.
“It’s all just words,” Griffin said, per NBC. “It’s all presented to fulfill their worst stereotypes of us.”
Bear News
I love a good bear story — from the safety of my living room, that is.
A polar bear emerged from the sea and was attempting to enter the tent.
Not a sentence you ever want included if you are the subject of a story.
. . . the instant where my stifled scream broke free and the dream was gone. Sitting bolt upright in my sleeping bag, gun in my hand, my world was defined by a domed envelope of yellow nylon.
“BEAR!” I bellowed, grabbing the zipper on the doorway. The stillness of that moment was broken by the ripping of the zipper teeth. The tent door fell away, revealing a very black and moist nose, straddled by two wide and startled eyes. In the space of three pulls on the trigger, two things became certain: A bear had died in the High Arctic, and I was fully awake, bent forward in my sleeping bag.
— AmmoLand | June 21, 2023 | Dean Weingarten
(Whoever he was yelling “Bear!” to was of no apparent help.)
Master Negotiator
BIDEN: “Add to that: One million American jobs across 44 states will by supported by the purchase of more than 200 — more than 200 American-made Boeing aircraft by — that Air India is announcing earlier this year.”
— Remarks by President Biden and Prime Minister Modi of the Republic of India in Joint Press Conference, June 22, 2023
“Is announcing earlier this year”?
Airbus Wins Largest Commercial Aircraft Order In History With IndiGo’s 500-Plane Order
Forbes | June 19, 2023 | Molly BohannonAirbus, a European aerospace company, announced a deal Monday to sell 500 single-aisle planes to IndiGo, India’s largest airline, in what is now the biggest plane deal in history.
The agreement will make IndiGo the world’s biggest A320 Family—the Airbus aircraft line that is one of the best-selling in the world—customer, bringing the total number of Airbus aircraft IndiGo has ordered to 1,330.
And don’t think he didn’t face a tough press! [Questions on China and climate change followed]
PRESIDENT BIDEN: I’m told there are two questioners: Sabrina from the Wall Street Journal and Kumar from the Trust of India.
And, Sabrina, you first.
Straight Line of the Day: Other Add-Ons to California’s Bullet Train Promise: …
California’s Imaginary Solar-Powered Bullet Train
washingtonexaminer.com | June 16, 2023 | Jack ElbaumWhen California voters passed a referendum in 2008 to construct a high-speed rail connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco, there was no shortage of skeptics. Forty-seven percent of the state voted against the plan, and a group of think tanks issued a nearly 200-page report that year arguing costs would skyrocket, ridership would not match projections, and the environmental benefits were overstated.
The skeptics, of course, have been vindicated. But few thought it would be as bad as it has since turned out to be. Fifteen years, and countless setbacks later, not a single mile of track has been laid, and estimated costs have risen to $128 billion — or $200 million per mile. There is no money left, and even the secretary of the California State Transportation Agency now admits, “We can’t get this project done without federal support. It’s just not going to happen.“
Nevertheless, Forbes reported last week that the California High-Speed Rail Authority now plans for the entire project to be powered by solar energy once it is complete because…why not? After all, it is not as if this bullet train is ever going to exist anyway. As such, its visionaries certainly have an interest in periodically devising new, wholly unrealistic schemes that appeal to those who voted for it as a way of distracting from their incompetence.
Forbes noted the plan includes “552 acres of solar panels generating 44 megawatts of electricity” and that “work could begin by 2026 to ensure it’s ready to power trains by 2030.”
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SI Swimsuit Madness : Rd. 2 Matches 53 & 54
Hello all and we have the next group of 8 complete. Below are the results and further we head back to second round action withis groups winners.
Rd.1 Match 15 Hailey Clauson 125 Defeats Gigi Hadid 50
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Rd. 1 Match 16 Hannah Ferguson 121 Defeats Hailey Kalil 50
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Rd. 2 Match 53
Chase Carter vs Christen Harper
Chase Carter
- Rd.1 Match 9 Defeated Caroline Marks 138-77
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Christen Harper
- Rd.1 Match 10 Defeated Chrissy Tiegen 208-18
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Rd. 2 Match 54
Clair Bidez vs Dominique Piek
Clair Bidez
- Rd. 1 Match 11 Defeated Christie Valdesrri 275-12
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Dominique Piek
- Rd.1 Match 12 Defeated Danielle Herrington 189-67
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