365 Days of Right Wing Victimhood

     You can always count on right wingers to shoot themselves in the foot, to step on the rake, to rack themselves in the balls by walking into doorknobs. Indeed, it's difficult to believe that right wingers are, like the rest of us, part of our species' status as the apex of millions of years of evolution and natural selection.

     I generally refrain from commenting on the eternal right wing boycotts that are inspired by paroxysms of rage against "corporate wokeism" or however they define it. They generally burn themselves out after a few days to a week and, as this blog deals in topical matters such as politics and social issues, it never seems worth it to even acknowledge the presence of these idiotic boycotts.

     However, this one is different and has legs. Within days of announcing the partnership, Anheuser-Busch's parent company lost five billion dollars of its stock value. This is, of course, about the curiously-sustained boycott of Bud Light, the best-selling beer that Americans have been enjoying for decades. What started it was Anheuser-Busch giving a lucrative endorsement deal to transgender activist and influencer, Dylan Mulvaney, in recognition of her 365 Days of Girlhood.

     Anheuser-Busch isn't exactly a bastion of progressive thought. It is, after all, historically a heavy campaign contributor to right wing politicians and causes. The beer company has also subsidized the presidential debates since 1996. Indeed, it's a major sponsor of the Commission on Presidential Debates.

     And right wingers had no problem with the company as long as they supported Republicans or remained bipartisan or non-partisan. And, again, Anheuser-Busch is as right wing as they come, no less so than Coors. 

     But they are still a corporation and, like all savvy corporations, they keep a keen eye on their customer base and all pertinent demographics. And, sometime this year, they'd made an executive decision to give Mulvaney an endorsement deal in recognition of the LGBTQ+ community since they, too, drink beer.

 

     But then a curious thing happened on the way to the dumpster and storm drains- Right wingers began tearing each other to pieces, about faces were made, recriminations were bitterly exchanged. In its spittle-flecked reaction, the NRCC or the National Republican Congressional Committee, put out an idiotic tweet lambasting the beer company before remembering, oh shit, these people are heavy donors to the GOP. The tweet and equally idiotic fundraising koozie campaign was quietly taken down.

    

     So, yeah, this was quite a shock to those of us casually watching the evolution of this shit show to see Donnie Dumbo, Jr. briefly on the side of the angels after he, too, was informed of Anheuser-Busch's right wing roots. Of course, in his never-ending quest to get Daddy to look in his general direction, it quickly turned into a jeremiad against "leftists" and the woke mob and how the right wing was adopting the same tactics.

     However, it's obvious to anyone with one functioning eye that no group of people engages in "cancel culture" more than right wingers and this latest shit show and the requisite feces-flinging is proof of that. In fact, progressives have stayed far away from this debacle because, as the old political saying goes, "When your enemy is falling, don't get in their way."

     The fecal flingers included Rep. Dan Crenshaw who, in his awkward attempt to insult Bud Light, wound up showing a picture of his fridge filled with nothing but beer including Karbach beer which is, of course, made by none other than Anheuser-Busch.

     Over the hill bleacher bum Kid Rock shot at Bud Light cans, yelling, "Fuck Bud Light" like something out of a deleted scene in Idiocracy. Some right wing grifter named Seth Weathers tried to poach sales from the beer giant by promoting his own anti woke beer. Travis Tritt banned Bud Light from his tour, unfortunately reminding the general public he was still alive.

     Really, it's all very silly. But on the right side, there are no good guys. The Donnie Jr. faction are on the side of where the money is. The other faction is simply on the side of knee jerk homophobia who are just too stupid to realize that, whether they pour out or shoot their supply of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch already got their money.

     But please, let's keep lambasting the "radical left" and its wokeism and cancel culture. Dylan Mulvaney will keep cashing her large checks.