Bud Light Boycott Sees AB Stock Drop 10% In Second Quarter

By William Teach August 3, 2023 – 10:30 am

This should be a lesson: don’t play stupid games when your base consists of right leaning folks. Will AB learn? Will other companies learn?

Bud Light sales plunge following boycott over campaign with transgender influencer

Anheuser-Busch Inbev reported a drop in U.S. revenue in the second quarter as Bud Light sales plunged amid a conservative backlash over a campaign with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The world’s largest brewer said Thursday that revenue in the United States declined by 10.5% in the April-to-June period from a year earlier, “primarily due to the volume decline of Bud Light.”

It has lost its place as America’s best-selling beer after more than two decades, slipping into second place in June behind Mexican lager Modelo Especial, which is also owned by the Belgium-based ABInBev.

Again, it’s not just about the gender confused nutjob who’s denigrating real women with his act, their marketing director insulted the base by calling them fratty, and Bud Light decided to trot out annoying commercials and people like their president continued to yap, making it worse.

On the flip side

The beer giant said overall revenue rose 7.2% in the second quarter, to $15.1 billion, from the same period a year ago as global brands such as Stella Artois and Corona made up for the loss in Bud Light sales.

It said normalized earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization rose 5%, to $4.9 billion.

Of course, most things rose heavily as gross earnings, thanks to Bidenflation.

Coors Light, Miller Lite combined sales now ‘50% bigger than Bud Light’: Molson Coors CEO

Molson Coors beers like Coors Light and Miller Lite are devouring Bud Light’s market share amid ongoing fallout from the Dylan Mulvaney marketing campaign.

On Tuesday, Molson Coors reported an 11.8% surge in net sales over the second quarter and a 5% jump in financial volumes, with U.S. increases reflecting a shift in consumer purchasing behavior.

“We are seeing share and market improvement everywhere, and more consumers are reaching for our beers than our competitors’ beers,” Molson Coors CEO Gavin Hattersley said in an earnings call Tuesday.

Well, much like Bud Light, it’s still crappy beer, but, people will often buy it for events. You don’t want to be drinking good beer when fishing, sitting at the beach, or other events where it’s hot or the beer can get ruined quickly, right?

Bud Light Sales Still Declining Even As National TV Ads Triple In Summer – Report

The company behind Bud Light is not holding back in its efforts to dig out of the hole it created by angering customers of its brand.

The Wall Street Journal reports that ads for Bud Light have appeared about 3,400 times on national television from June 1 through July 30. The statistics were according to iSpot.tv, an ad-measurement company that tracks TV and streaming-video advertising.

During the same perid last year, Bud Light ads ran just 32 times on national TV, according to iSpot.

The danger for the entire company is that the Bud Light boycott starts bleeding heavily into the other AB brands.

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Surprise: Mostly Peaceful Climate Cult Groups Being Bankrolled By Rich Liberal Elites

By William Teach August 3, 2023 – 7:00 am

Don’t these same peasant climate cultists despise the rich?

American Liberal Elites Bankroll Org That’s Supporting A Global Network Of Law-Breaking Climate Activists

Dozens of wealthy American liberals fund a nonprofit organization that is a major backer of green activist groups using radical and often law-breaking tactics to draw attention to what they see as a “climate emergency.”

Founded in 2019 by Aileen Getty and Rory Kennedy, sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) aims to “support disruptive climate activism, because [it believes] it is the fastest way to create transformative change,” according to CEF’s website and its 2022 annual report. Its donors are a “who’s who” of wealthy liberal elites, including Hollywood writer Adam McKay, former Harvey Weinstein lawyer Lisa Bloom, “Succession” star Jeremy Strong and Hillary Clinton’s Onward Together foundation, according to CEF’s 2022 annual report.

Since its establishment, CEF has bankrolled at least 106 different activism groups, training over 30,000 activists and mobilizing an additional 1 million protesters, according to its website. CEF’s 2022 annual report states that the organization dished out over $5 million in grants to 44 grantees across 34 countries, mobilizing about 45,000 activists.

Many of these groups, including Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, engage in “direct action” protests where activists block highways, shut down airports, throw soup on priceless displays and engage in other headline-grabbing acts in order to push society towards rapidly ditching fossil fuels.

So, basically rich elites ginning up strife by using peasant climate cultists to push their agenda, which the peasants in the climate movement do not seem to understand will result in them losing their freedom. Bunch of dupes and Useful Idiots.

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Illegal Immigration Today: NYC Considers Using Parks, Iowa To Send National Guard To Border

By William Teach August 3, 2023 – 6:45 am

Democratic Party voters in the Sanctuary City Of New York should have no problem with jamming up their parks with illegals, right?

Adams weighs plan to set up migrant tents in Central Park, other major green spaces

Mayor Eric Adams is considering a plan to shelter migrants inside tents in Central Park and other major public green spaces — a move that would place the city’s ongoing migrant crisis front and center in the eyes of New Yorkers as well as state and federal officials, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.

Reports of the plan to shelter migrants in parks come as city officials say they’ve run out of room in homeless shelters and emergency housing. Since the weekend, scores of mostly male migrants have been camped out and sleeping on the sidewalk outside of the Roosevelt Hotel, an intake center in Midtown. (snip)

One person who was briefed on the plan but not authorized to speak on the matter publicly told Gothamist that the city is also looking at erecting tents in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Randalls Island, where officials briefly opened a tent facility on a parking lot last fall. On Tuesday, the Daily News reported that the administration is currently eyeing putting the tents on several soccer fields. That plan has sparked backlash from recreational users.

Backlash? Why? Aren’t they welcoming of illegals, especially the mostly young male ones who seem to be the ones primarily streaming across the border? They should be so proud of themselves for being welcoming instead of being hateful. Oh, hey, what happened the the SCNY plan to put the illegals up in private residences? Did no one make the offer?

Gov. Kim Reynolds deploys Iowa National Guard to border, will use ARP money to pay for it

Gov. Kim Reynolds deployed more than 100 Iowa National Guard soldiers to Texas on Wednesday to assist at the U.S.-Mexico border for the next month.

And she says she’ll use the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 relief funds to pay for it.

The 109 soldiers are tasked with “deterring illegal border crossings and preventing the trafficking of illegal substances by cartels through Texas,” Reynolds announced in a news release Wednesday afternoon. They will remain in Texas until Sept. 1.

And Brandon cannot do a damned thing about the money, because states had flexibility on how they were going to spend the money from the partisan American Rescue Act. The COVID money was basically a slush fund.

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Global Boiling Made July Hotter For Four Out Of Five People Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2023 – 2:55 pm

It’s doom, doom I tell you. But, see if you can figure out what’s missing from this hyper-cultis Seth Borenstein Associated Press screed that’s being published all over the Credentialed Media

Climate change made July hotter for 4 of 5 humans on Earth, scientists find

Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boosted warmth daily, according to a flash study.

More than 6.5 billion people, or 81% of the world’s population, sweated through at least one day where climate change had a significant effect on the average daily temperature, according to a new report issued Wednesday by Climate Central, a science nonprofit that has figured a way to calculate how much climate change has affected daily weather.

“We really are experiencing climate change just about everywhere,” said Climate Central Vice President for Science Andrew Pershing.

Researchers looked at 4,711 cities and found climate change fingerprints in 4,019 of them for July, which other scientists said is the hottest month on record. The new study calculated that the burning of coal, oil and natural gas had made it three times more likely to be hotter on at least one day in those cities. In the U.S., where the climate effect was largest in Florida, more than 244 million people felt greater heat due to climate change during July.

Remember, said data is only going back through the satellite era, starting in 1979.

The study is not peer-reviewed, the gold standard for science, because the month just ended. It is based on peer-reviewed climate fingerprinting methods that are used by other groups and are considered technically valid by the National Academy of Sciences. Two outside climate scientists told The Associated Press that they found the study to be credible.

Even if it was peer-reviewed, it’s still cult-based group-think.

The day with the most widespread climate-change effect was July 10, when 3.5 billion people experienced extreme heat that had global warming’s fingerprints, according to the report. That’s different than the hottest day globally, which was July 7, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.

What’s missing in the AP article, and any similar ones, is any data. None of them are giving how much warmer it is supposed to be. If you look in the above link, which only, surprise, goes back to 1979, and claims, based on that limited data, that the worse was .98C above their baseline, said baseline was 1979 through 2000, of which a chunk of that time was in warming pause. How does this compare to the very warm 1930’s? What do the climate cultists expect during a) a Holocene warming period, b) an El Nino year, and c) more and more infrastructure that creates an urban heat island effect and warming land use effect?

But, this is not about science, it’s a cult, and they think the best way to implement their Authoritarian government is through scare tactics.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2023 – 2:10 pm

…is a rising sea encroaching on the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Dissecting Leftism, with a post on Fauci being caught in his biggest lie yet.

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LAX Bans Single Use Plastic Water Bottles

By William Teach August 2, 2023 – 10:30 am

It’s for your own good, you know

LAX banned a common travel item that’s forbidden in only one other major airport: ‘The right thing to do’

If your airport routine features grabbing a bottle of water after passing through the TSA checkpoint, you may have to think again. Los Angeles International Airport has banned the sale of single-use plastic bottles in its facility, per a Facebook post.

The ban has followed a 2021 plan to gradually phase out the sale of water bottles in LAX and the Van Nuys Airport. It’s part of a larger, zero-waste initiative under Los Angeles World Airports’ Sustainability Action Plan.

The LAWA Board of Commissioners plans to make its airports entirely zero-waste by 2045. Besides banning plastic bottles, LAWA also intends to have net-zero emissions from its operations, develop a fully renewable electric profile, and minimize gray water.

“Eliminating single-use plastic water bottles is the right thing to do for our airports, our communities, and our environment,” said Justin Erbacci, CEO of LAWA, per television station KTLA.

The ban makes LAX the second airport to ban single-use plastic water bottles. In 2019, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) banned single-use plastic water bottles and included other types of beverages as of 2021.

How much revenue will be lost from all the shops at LAX? What will they sell instead? Not many drink manufacturers produce water in glass bottles. What problems are created by trying to go through customs with a reusable bottle? The thing is, they’re only banning water. Not soda and sugary drinks. Even Vox was not impressed when San Fran banned single use water bottles.

Further, where will LAX get all that electricity from? How does one of the major airports in the world, with 32 million flying through a year, have “zero emissions”? Maybe they should just shut down, what with all those Evil fossil fuels used.

Just to be clear, there is quite a bit of plastic waste. How many plastic bottles actually get recycled. This ban, is really more a feel good “we’re Doing Something” action, since all those other drink bottles are not banned.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Making Cholera Worse

By William Teach August 2, 2023 – 7:15 am

All you have to do is ditch your fossil fueled vehicle and buy an EV, move into a tiny house, stop eating meat, and give your money and freedom to government

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise

In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Sixty-four people died.

Amid an already-heavy rainy season, the storms Ana and Gombe caused devastation across southern Malawi to homes, crops, and infrastructure.

“That March, we started to see cholera, which is usually endemic in Malawi, becoming an outbreak,” said Gerrit Maritz, a deputy representative for health programs in Malawi for the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Cholera typically affects the country during the rainy season, from December to March, during which time it remains contained around Lake Malawi in the south and results in about 100 deaths each year.

The 2022 outbreak showed a different pattern — cholera spread throughout the dry season and by August had moved into Malawi’s northern and central regions. By early February of this year, cases had peaked at 700 per day with a fatality rate of 3.3 %, three times higher than the typical rate. When cases finally began to decline in March, cholera had claimed over 1,600 lives in a 12-month period — the biggest outbreak in the country’s history.

OK, so, one bad weather year combined with terrible health conditions in a third world nation means Doom.

As climate change intensifies, storms like Ana and Gombe are becoming more frequent, more powerful, and wetter. The World Health Organization says that while poverty and conflict remain enduring drivers for cholera around the world, climate change is aggravating the acute global upsurge of the disease that began in 2021. According to the WHO, 30 countries reported outbreaks in 2022, 50% more than previous years’ average; many of those outbreaks were compounded by tropical cyclones and their ensuing displacement of people.

There couldn’t possibly be any other conditions, right? I’m actually surprised they didn’t link it to COVID19, but, that would reduce the impact on blaming ‘climate change’.

“What climate change means for us as a humanitarian agency is that we cannot do business as usual anymore,” Maritz said. “We are already preparing that most likely come January, February, there will be another cyclone with a huge flooding event.”

You mean like always has happened?

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Obligatory: Trump Charged With Four Crimes Around January 6th Kerfuffle

By William Teach August 2, 2023 – 7:00 am

I wonder if the Democrats realize that this will just send more people to vote for Trump, as they see the DOJ basically being an arm of the Biden campaign, used for political retribution, as well as further dividing the country and creating more anger?

Trump indicted on charges out of Special Counsel probe into Jan. 6

Former President Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump was indicted on four federal charges out of the probe, including conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.

Trump has been ordered to appear in federal court in Washington D.C. for his arraignment on Thursday, Aug. 3, at 4:00 p.m.

Sounds like a reach, but, you know the old saying about being able to indict a ham sandwich

“The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election,” Smith’s indictment states. “Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power.”

Smith alleged that “for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020,” Trump “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.” It lists various claims Trump’s team made during post-election state challenges in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false,” Smith alleged. “But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.”

That’s a crime? Yammering on about fraud? When do all the Democrats still complaining about 2000, 2004, and 2016 get indicted? When do all those who lied about Russian collusion get indicted?

Smith alleged that Trump, between Nov. 14, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2021, “did knowingly combine conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to defraud the United States by using dishonest, fraud and deceit to impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government.”

That’s going to be a huge reach, but, the idea is not to convict Trump, but, to jam him up and cause hum to lose 2020. A big question now is “is this Constitutional?” It’s never been settled whether a federally elected official can be tried for actions that occurred while in office can be criminally prosecuted without being fully impeached by the House and dismissed by the Senate. It’s almost impossible to try an elected official while in office. So, what about when the “crimes” occurred while in office and they stepped down or lost an election? It doesn’t seem that Trump or his legal team are considering this aspect, so, we may never know.

Reacting to the charges, a Trump campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital that “this is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins.”

I’ll be honest, I want Trump to go away. I do not think he can win in 2024, even against Horrible Joe Biden. Who can end up with his own legal issues. Regardless, Democrats should remember that they’ve set a precedent, so, the minute Biden is out of office Republican prosecutors will start charging him with felonies.

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Ford Will Lose At Least $4.5 Billion Pushing Electric Vehicles This Year

By William Teach August 1, 2023 – 3:00 pm

But, but, but, everyone wants one, right? They’re cost effective?

Ford set to lose $4.5 billion on electric vehicles this year, despite increased revenue

Electric vehicleFord Motor Company announced it is projected to lose a whopping $4.5 billion from electric vehicles (EVs) this year, up from the previous projected loss of $3 billion.

The company released its second-quarter financial results on Thursday. The U.S.-based automaker’s EV division, called “Ford Model e,” has lost $1.8 billion so far this year, according to Fortune.

The projected $4.5 billion loss is over twice as much as Model e’s $2.1 billion loss in 2022. The company recently announced that the price of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup trucks will be reduced due to cheaper raw battery materials.

The company touted that its low EV prices “establish[es] leadership ahead of industry’s next-generation EVs” and that the Ford Model e’s revenue is up 39%. Ford is also expected to produce 600,000 EVs per year by 2024.

“The near-term pace of EV adoption will be a little slower than expected, which is going to benefit early movers  like Ford,” Ford CEO Farley said in a press release.  “EV customers are brand loyal and we’re winning lots of them with our high-volume, first-generation products; we’re making smart investments in capabilities and capacity around the world; and, while others are trying to catch up, we have clean-sheet, next-generation products in advanced development that will blow people away.”

See, if the government could just force you peasants into purchasing an EV, then Ford could jack the price up thousands as Government offers tax incentives.

I wonder why Ford is getting crushed while Tesla is not? Anyway, don’t forget that the hardcore Warmists want to ban all private ownership of vehicles, even EVs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is beer which will be destroyed by ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Common Cents Blog, with a post on everything you need to know about the Devon Archer testimony against the Biden crime syndicate.

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