If Anheuser Busch can be punished for trying to improve their bottom line by marketing to an underserved demographic, then DeSantis can be punished for malfeasance for backing and amplifying the boycott that hurt Florida's pensions.
LOLZ.... If the loonies on the right DO manage to drop Anheuser Busch stock to a decade-low, I fully expect the company will giggle and buy back huge, HUGE amounts of that stock. They know there is literally not one chance in 10 million that these ignorant goobers will even be able to determine which beer brands belong to the AB family, and will almost certainly abandon the entire boycott fiasco within a year....
Covid caused a 40 pt drop in AB stock. Loonies on the right caused about a 7 pt drop, but it's already come back up 4 pts. So, they're about as troublesome to AB as a rainy Saturday in July
You would think that, but no. I mean, small business owners (of actually small businesses) might pick up on it soon or later, but big multinationals are going to be ride or die on the "no taxes, no regulations" Republican train for life.
I would agree if we were talking about Reagan, Nixon, and the likes, but I'm not so sure with the current crop of Republicans and the MAGA ideology that they're following. DeSantis going after Disney and Budweiser, all of the MAGAts going after Target and even Chick-Fil-A, that really makes big business take a look at what's happening.
Being diverse is good for their bottom line. So support of inclusiveness, gay and trans rights, and multiculturalism is good for most multinational businesses. I'm sure that Budweiser and Target do not want to lose 220+ million customers just to make a few million (or less) people comfortable with their bigotry.
I'm expecting a lot of blow back against the GOP by big business because of Trump, DeSantis, Abbott, and others. Already, the large inflow of money from big business isn't there this campaign cycle for the GOP. I like to think that the money faucet has been shut off for the Republicans.
Allow me to say that this trans person would not drink Bud Light even if it was the only beer available because she would not like it, being used to real beer
Tried it once because I was at a concert where it literally WAS the only beer available. They had these gigantic cans and I was really craving a beer so I bought one. Made it about a quarter way through before I put it on the floor and forgot about it.
Just a few months ago, wingnuts were saying they hope InBev goes completely belly up and disappears. Now they’re mad the company’s stock is losing value.
Meanwhile, Meatball’s campaign is sinking fast and Florida is reeling from an insurance crisis. But you go ahead, Tiny D, attack a beer company.
"Let us step back and admire the contradiction here. As the writer Gabriel Malor noted on Twitter, in April DeSantis was encouraging the boycott, saying “pushback is in order across the board.” Three months later, DeSantis is threatening to sue the company for losing value because the boycott he cheered on actually worked."
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Stupid question of the day. If I had stock in InBev, plus I was in a "great" influencer position, like DeathSantis, and knew that if I told my followers to boycott InBev, knowing that the stock price would go down, then manipulated my stocks in such a way as to profit for myself as the stock goes down, would this be considered insider trading and worthy of a visit from the Security and Exchange Commission?/??
Budweiser also has a brewery in Jacksonville which I'm sure employs more than a few Floridians so this is just another example of stupid little Ronnie turning his back on his constituents just to
Fact Check: The Gulf of Mexico was created by a giant meteorite that simultaneously killed all the dinosaurs - all except the Pigmy Desantisaurus, a diminutive velociraptor with a brain the size of cashew - and reduced the size of what was then Epcotorlando, or Greater Florida, by 83%. The Chesapeake Bay, on the other hand, is an estuary, created near the end of the Late Holocene when a huge glacial lake up around Williamsport, PA, erupted, sending enough ice water raging down past Do-The-Doo-Ron-Ron, now Harrisburg, to wipe out the original waddle & daub dam at Cannie-Wango, now Conowingo, and flood the entire Lake District of Maryland from Perryville to Kiptopeke.
This is rich, coming from the same people who want money managers to piss all over their duties to their shareholders by investing in fossil fuels that will inevitably decline in value long-term.
This is straight out of the Nazi playbook and there really needs to be a strong reaction against it. Of course, our proto-fascist SCOTUS gave license for this in that fake LGBT cake case, legitimizing attacks on specific communities in this country, so we're deep in Weimar now.
This should revived Ron's campaign because everyone knows that Bud Light is the root of many of our problems as a nation.
"The beer that made Milwaukee famous, made a loser out of me" credit to Merle Haggard I think?
Something something First Amendment something.
If Anheuser Busch can be punished for trying to improve their bottom line by marketing to an underserved demographic, then DeSantis can be punished for malfeasance for backing and amplifying the boycott that hurt Florida's pensions.
What about that DeStainus's bobblehead, ...which looks like it's swiveling right off his neck
LOLZ.... If the loonies on the right DO manage to drop Anheuser Busch stock to a decade-low, I fully expect the company will giggle and buy back huge, HUGE amounts of that stock. They know there is literally not one chance in 10 million that these ignorant goobers will even be able to determine which beer brands belong to the AB family, and will almost certainly abandon the entire boycott fiasco within a year....
Covid caused a 40 pt drop in AB stock. Loonies on the right caused about a 7 pt drop, but it's already come back up 4 pts. So, they're about as troublesome to AB as a rainy Saturday in July
Nice front-page article in today's NYT about how Ron killed so many Floridians with the covid by rejecting the science and embracing the stupid.
The fact that there's enough data out there to support this suggests the actual numbers would make us literally weep.
I think that at some point the business world will wake up and realize that Republicans are not good for business.
You would think that, but no. I mean, small business owners (of actually small businesses) might pick up on it soon or later, but big multinationals are going to be ride or die on the "no taxes, no regulations" Republican train for life.
I would agree if we were talking about Reagan, Nixon, and the likes, but I'm not so sure with the current crop of Republicans and the MAGA ideology that they're following. DeSantis going after Disney and Budweiser, all of the MAGAts going after Target and even Chick-Fil-A, that really makes big business take a look at what's happening.
Being diverse is good for their bottom line. So support of inclusiveness, gay and trans rights, and multiculturalism is good for most multinational businesses. I'm sure that Budweiser and Target do not want to lose 220+ million customers just to make a few million (or less) people comfortable with their bigotry.
I'm expecting a lot of blow back against the GOP by big business because of Trump, DeSantis, Abbott, and others. Already, the large inflow of money from big business isn't there this campaign cycle for the GOP. I like to think that the money faucet has been shut off for the Republicans.
The GOP cannot survive on Hobby Lobby alone.
And AI seems to have a handle on taking out Hobby Lobby, so . . .
The "business world" is just a bunch of grifters, barely smarter than Trump, who hope to cash out ahead of the next collapse.
Viz: 1929
Didn't DeSantis approve putting Florida folks pension funds in Russian investments that tanked due to Putie's invasion of Ukraine? What a turd.
I'm putting all of my money into Tsarist-era war bonds.
At least the engravings can be repurposed as decorations in tea rooms.
Putin is twice as incompetent as a military leader as Nick 2 and his army is ten times as corrupt.
Allow me to say that this trans person would not drink Bud Light even if it was the only beer available because she would not like it, being used to real beer
Tried it once because I was at a concert where it literally WAS the only beer available. They had these gigantic cans and I was really craving a beer so I bought one. Made it about a quarter way through before I put it on the floor and forgot about it.
Florida: come for the humidity, stay for the malaria.
You're forgetting about the woke on Disney.
Just tinkering with Substack settings. It's not that simple.
Just a few months ago, wingnuts were saying they hope InBev goes completely belly up and disappears. Now they’re mad the company’s stock is losing value.
Meanwhile, Meatball’s campaign is sinking fast and Florida is reeling from an insurance crisis. But you go ahead, Tiny D, attack a beer company.
"Let us step back and admire the contradiction here. As the writer Gabriel Malor noted on Twitter, in April DeSantis was encouraging the boycott, saying “pushback is in order across the board.” Three months later, DeSantis is threatening to sue the company for losing value because the boycott he cheered on actually worked."
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Stupid question of the day. If I had stock in InBev, plus I was in a "great" influencer position, like DeathSantis, and knew that if I told my followers to boycott InBev, knowing that the stock price would go down, then manipulated my stocks in such a way as to profit for myself as the stock goes down, would this be considered insider trading and worthy of a visit from the Security and Exchange Commission?/??
"If I had stock in InBev..."
Let me stop you right there.
Budweiser also has a brewery in Jacksonville which I'm sure employs more than a few Floridians so this is just another example of stupid little Ronnie turning his back on his constituents just to
make a point, or trying to.
I think the plantiff has a conflict of interest, and I think that means he is ineligible to sue.
Fact Check: The Gulf of Mexico was created by a giant meteorite that simultaneously killed all the dinosaurs - all except the Pigmy Desantisaurus, a diminutive velociraptor with a brain the size of cashew - and reduced the size of what was then Epcotorlando, or Greater Florida, by 83%. The Chesapeake Bay, on the other hand, is an estuary, created near the end of the Late Holocene when a huge glacial lake up around Williamsport, PA, erupted, sending enough ice water raging down past Do-The-Doo-Ron-Ron, now Harrisburg, to wipe out the original waddle & daub dam at Cannie-Wango, now Conowingo, and flood the entire Lake District of Maryland from Perryville to Kiptopeke.
Yea for the Gulf for creating Trump's antecedents?
The benefits of a public school education...
I suggest you stick with absurd, functionally impossible propositions that are physical rather than mental.
You mean, like, "DeSantis can fuck himself in the ass with a pineapple?"
with votes.
y'know, in a good way
“breached legal duties owed to its shareholders”
This is rich, coming from the same people who want money managers to piss all over their duties to their shareholders by investing in fossil fuels that will inevitably decline in value long-term.
I can only assume that this means he's OK with Disney preserving shareholder value by law-stomping his flabby ass in court after court.
You misspelled 'dick'
This is straight out of the Nazi playbook and there really needs to be a strong reaction against it. Of course, our proto-fascist SCOTUS gave license for this in that fake LGBT cake case, legitimizing attacks on specific communities in this country, so we're deep in Weimar now.
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