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Started 5/26/22 by WALTER784; 34645 views.
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From: WALTER784
May-13
Nolte: Bud Light Sales Continue to Drop, Hits Other Bud Brands
JOHN NOLTE
10 May 2023
Not only are the sales of Bud Light in a death spiral, but sales of Anheuser-Busch’s other brands have also taken a hit.
“Nationwide retail sales of Bud Light were down 23.4% versus a year ago in the week of April 29 — worse than the 21.4% decline it suffered a week earlier,” reports the New York Post.
That’s bad enough for Transheuser-Busch because it shows the Bud Light boycott is accelerating. But it now appears people are waking up to the fact that the makers of Bud Light also brew other brands. The Post reports that those brands are also dropping in sales.
“The company’s flagship Budweiser brand took an 11.4% sales hit for the week ended April 29.” On top of that, sales of “Bud’s Michelob Ultra brand — the third-biggest-selling in the US behind No. 1 Bud Light and No. 2 Modelo Especial — were down 4.4%[.]”
Transheuser-Busch’s Natural Light brand is down 5.2 percent, and Busch Light drooped 1.8 percent.
With summer right around the corner, Transheuser-Busch has some serious worrying to do. HSBC is certainly worried:
It’s time to step to the sidelines on Anheuser-Busch InBev as it deals with a “Bud Light crisis,” according to HSBC.
Analyst Carlos Laboy downgraded the beverage stock to hold, saying there are “deeper problems than ABI admits” after a recent social media partnership in April between the Bud Light brand and Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, resulted in a wave of backlash that included boycotts of the beer. Meanwhile, the marketing executive responsible for the partnership is reportedly taking a leave of absence.
Ouch.
As I wrote yesterday, I think Bud Light was the moment where the country finally said, Enough!
It’s one thing to be tolerant of drag queens and transvestites—which this country has been for decades. It’s another entirely to constantly have it shoved in our faces and normalized, especially when it’s targeted at children under the age of consent.
America had been waiting for the Drag Queen Celebration to come to an end, for people to move on, for normalcy to return, but it just hasn’t. The Alphabet People are everywhere. We’re at a point where a vertical on your streaming service that promises “No LGBT” would be welcome. And so, along comes the idiots at Bud Light celebrating a weirdo who mocks women, and that’s when the country locked eyes and said, This anti-science mockery of women stops here.
Here’s what happened…
Our fascist corporate overlords in entertainment, media, and culture (including food and drink) believed they could normalize homosexuality and transvestitism by pushing it and celebrating it and overwhelming us with it. I’m sorry, but heterosexuals will never be comfortable with two guys kissing. And as far as this trans madness, everyone knows it’s either a sexual fetish or a mental illness. That’s not something you can normalize.
But with all these woke movies bombing and the brutal backlash against Bud Light doing serious damage, I’m thinking our fascist corporate overlords are taking a moment to rethink this plan.
Nolte: Bud Light Sales Continue to Drop, Hits Other Bud Brands (breitbart.com)
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From: WALTER784
May-14
Disney Escalates War on Florida, Sues Ron DeSantis Claiming ‘Targeted Campaign of Government Retaliation’
DAVID NG
26 Apr 2023
The Walt Disney Co. is escalating its war on Florida, filing a lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis in which the company accuses him of waging a “targeted campaign of government retaliation.”
Disney filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court as the two sides continue to battle over control of the special district in Orlando known as Reedy Creek.
Florida revoked Disney’s self-governing privileges in the district last year after the company started a political war with DeSantis over the state’s anti-grooming Parental Rights in Education Law — which the media have smeared as “Don’t Say Gay.” The law prohibits public schools from indoctrinating students in radical gender ideology, including transgenderism, and other forms of sexual ideology.
Disney’s suit alleges DeSantis has waged a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power” against the company amid the ongoing fight over the law. It also claims the Republican governor “orchestrated at every step” a campaign to punish Disney in ways that threaten the company’s business.
The lawsuit was filed the same day as DeSantis’ latest countermove against Disney that sought to undo a development deal Disney struck to maintain its power over the district.
In addition to DeSantis, the suit names Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board and Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s acting secretary Meredith Ivey.
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From: WALTER784
May-14
Ron DeSantis Punches Back at Disney Lawsuit: You Have ‘No Legal Right to Corporate Welfare’
DAVID NG
26 Apr 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has punched back at Disney’s lawsuit, with his team saying Disney is trying to “undermine the will” of Florida voters and has “no legal right to corporate welfare.”
The Walt Disney Co. filed a lawsuit against DeSantis in federal court Wednesday, claiming the Republican governor is waging a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” in the ongoing fight over Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Law, which has been smeared by the mainstream news media as “Don’t Say Gay.”
After the California-based Disney publicly threatened to fight to repeal the Florida law, DeSantis stripped the company of its self-governing privileges in the Orlando area — a valuable corporate perk Disney has enjoyed for five decades.
A DeSantis spokesman issued a statement shortly after news of the lawsuit broke on Wednesday.
“We are unaware of any legal right that a company has to operate its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the state,” DeSantis’ statement said. “This lawsuit is yet another unfortunate example of their hope to undermine the will of the Florida voters and operate outside the bounds of the law.”
Another DeSantis spokesman tweeted: “There’s no legal right to corporate welfare.”
Disney is alleging that DeSantis has “weaponized” government power against Disney and has “orchestrated at every step” of the effort to punish Disney in ways that threaten the company’s business.
Disney’s suit comes as the two sides continue to battle over control of the special district in Orlando known as Reedy Creek.
Florida revoked Disney’s self-governing privileges in the district last year after the company started a political war with DeSantis over Parental Rights in Education Law, which prohibits public schools from indoctrinating students in radical gender ideology, including transgenderism, as well as other forms of sexual ideology.
Since then, DeSantis and Disney have been fighting over control of Reedy Creek, with Disney using backdoor legal means as a way to evade a state takeover of the district.
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From: WALTER784
May-14
Disney+ Subscriptions Plummet by 4 Million as Studio Keeps Pushing Transgender, Drag Queen Content
DAVID NG
10 May 2023
Disney+ subscriptions experienced a steep drop off during the first three months of 2023, with the woke streaming service losing a whopping 4 million customers globally. Overall, Disney’s streaming business continues to bleed money with no sign of profitability in sight.
While most of the Disney+ losses resulted from the end of the Hotstar deal in India, the streamer posted an unexpected loss of 300,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada as more consumers wake up to Disney’s relentless push of transgender and drag queen content in its entertainment for children.
For the quarter, the studio reported a total of Disney+ subscriptions of 157.8 million worldwide, falling well short of Wall Street’s estimate of 163.2 million. Disney’s streaming business lost $659 million for the quarter, an improvement over the $1 billion the division lost in the last three months of 2022.
Disney leaders said last year that they expected Disney+ to reach profitability in 2023. But given the subscription decline, that goal looks to be even further away.
As Breitbart News reported, Disney’s streaming business — which also includes Hulu — lost more than $1 billion in each of the two past quarters. Like other legacy Hollywood studios, Disney is betting the farm on streaming and has been spending a fortune to compete with Netflix and emerge dominant.
But once-faithful Disney customers are now turning away from the company as it continues to embrace woke identity politics — particularly, transgenderism, drag queens, and other types of gender non-conformity.
Disney+’s Marvel series series Loki recently revealed that its title character is “gender fluid.” The animated Disney+ series Baymax features a transgender “man” who menstruates and gives advice on which maxi pad to buy — “the one with wings.”
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Staff
From: WALTER784
May-14
Nolte: Groomer Backlash – Disney Stock Downgraded for ‘Cognitive Dissonance’
JOHN NOLTE
12 May 2023
Shares of the cratering Walt Disney Co. were downgraded Friday after an analyst for Wolfe Research accused the child groomers of “cognitive dissonance.”
Here’s a very good definition of cognitive dissonance:
Cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes. People tend to seek consistency in their attitudes and perceptions, so this conflict causes unpleasant feelings of unease or discomfort.
Did you get the “mental discomfort” part?
Well, pushing drag queens, transvestites, homosexuality, and irreversible mutilating surgeries on little kids is certainly either a mental disorder or straight-up grooming—which is pure evil.
Disney’s frontal assault on children’s innocence is part of why Disney+ lost a whopping 300,000 North American subscribers last quarter. Overall, Disney lost four million Disney+ subscribers worldwide last quarter…
Disney+ should be growing, not declining.
Disney has one problem: every decent parent knows leaving your child alone with the Walt Disney Company is no longer safe.
Disney’s perverts and fetishists also lost $659 million in just one quarter:
For the quarter, the studio reported a total of Disney+ subscriptions of 157.8 million worldwide, falling well short of Wall Street’s estimate of 163.2 million. Disney’s streaming business lost $659 million for the quarter, an improvement over the $1 billion the division lost in the last three months of 2022.
Disney leaders said last year that they expected Disney+ to reach profitability in 2023. But given the subscription decline, that goal looks to be even further away.
Lol. How can Disney “reach profitability” when it’s become the equivalent of a man with no pants driving a van around an elementary school?
Back to Disney’s well-deserved downgrade:
With Disney+ subscriber forecasts looking risky, the linear TV outlook deteriorating, $2.5 billion of hard cost reductions now in consensus, and content amortization set to catch up to cash spend in the coming years, we downgrade Disney to ‘peer perform’. In fiscal year 2024, we expect less advertising and affiliate revenue (-$500 million) and less DTC revenue (-$1.1 billion with around 80 percent related to lower Disney+ subs). We see scope for additional cost cuts (integration of Hulu into Disney+, international DTC shutdowns, ESPN international sports rights and selling, general and administrative cuts), but high incremental margin DTC revenue growth is essential to Disney’s (stock) multiple, and we are increasingly skeptical.
So this analyst expects Disney to keep losing tons of money on Disney+ next year.
Unbelievable.
If Disney’s degenerates removed the adult sexuality, subscriptions would easily be double what they are today.
Well, that’s what happens when you try to turn a children’s entertainment service into the John Waters Channel.
Now, to be clear, I am all in favor of a John Waters Channel. I’m a John Waters fan. He’s a delightful entertainer. But John Waters doesn’t target little kids. He’s not a groomer. His outrageousness is aimed at adults.
Almost exactly two years ago, Disney’s stock price was double what it’s worth today—$184 per share compared to $92.
Disney wants to destroy your children, wants to come between parent and child and twist that innocent child into mindless, vacant, neurotic, forever-consumers who can be abused and manipulated.
Like the now-defunct CNN+, Vice News, BuzzFeed News, and MTV News, like the dying CNN and Washington Post, Disney is on the ropes.
No, it’s worse.
Disney is trapped on the ropes.
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From: Showtalk
May-15
Budweiser is throwing in the entire kitchen sink. They made a Clydesdale horse commercial showing beautiful country scenery. That didn’t work. Then they made another one to the song Chicken Fried, hoping to interest a young Conservative crowd. They don’t realize they lost their “base” and nothing they do will ever get them back again.
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From: Showtalk
May-15
The 3 likely ways Bud Light disaster might end - and only one is good news
Just the other day, video surfaced of fans lined up to get beer in Boston's renown Fenway Park. Lined up at every concession stand but one - the one selling Budweiser and, especially Bud Light.
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From: WALTER784
May-15
I don't really give a chit which way it turns... I don't drink bud. Never really liked beer either. I can drink it if somebody buys one, but I prefer wine or Japanese shochu myself.
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