Corporations have allowed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality</a> to destroy their brands because of pressure to follow woke environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) guidance coming from investment giants like BlackRock, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said. 
Shapiro, a co-founder of The Daily Wire, said on his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1742-get-approved-for-testicle-removal-in-22-minutes-or-less-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thursday podcast</a> that brands like Bud Light engaged in seemingly self-destructive marketing because of woke policies being pushed from above. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-hit-bud-light-manufacturer-settles-with-epa-over-alleged-environmental-violations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial woes of Anheuser-Busch</a> beer brand Bud Light followed a disastrous partnership with transgender-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney. 
“And you wonder why brands decide to do this,” Shapiro said. “The answer, of course, as we&#8217;ve discussed, is because BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they all basically mandate their brands, engage in this sort of crap through environmental, social governance standards. And it&#8217;s only that which is forced corporations to engage in this sort of absolutely suicidal stupidity.&#8221;
Shapiro made the comments while discussing a new report that said that Bud Light sales had fallen 24% in the week ending on May 27, compared to the previous year. Sales of Bud Light have plummeted after it promoted a partnership with Mulvaney on April 1. The Mulvaney partnership earned the ire of many conservatives, many of who encouraged a boycott of the beer brand. 
“Bud Light had better reverse the decline soon if it hopes to retain shelf space at retailers, because if you walk into pretty much any grocery store in America that sells liquor, what you&#8217;ll see is that there&#8217;s a lot of Bud Light on the shelves,” Shapiro explained. “People just aren&#8217;t buying it. Meanwhile, Dylan Mulvaney is making bank.&#8221;
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Mulvaney has said in recent days that more corporations should partner with transgender-identifying individuals. 
&#8220;If a brand wants to work with me so bad, then they should work with other trans people, too. It&#8217;s not enough to just hire me, this white, skinny trans girl. I want all the dolls getting all the brand deals,” Mulvaney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-urges-more-brands-to-partner-with-trans-people-even-after-bud-light-debacle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the media outlet Them. 
Despite the Mulvaney backlash, Bud Light has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-to-sponsor-pride-parades-despite-ongoing-boycott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued to sponsor</a> Pride events around the country. 
Bud Light is <a href="https://archive.ph/6SSZF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as a sponsor on the <a href="https://www.cincinnatipride.org/our-sponsors.html">Cincinnati Pride Parade</a> website. Planned Parenthood and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, which <a href="https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/service/a/adolescent-medicine/programs/transgender/faq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medically transitions minors</a>, are both also listed. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Missouri, where Anheuser-Busch is headquartered, the company is <a href="https://archive.ph/5xuUC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> as the <a href="https://www.pridestl.org/sponsors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presenting sponsor</a> of the St. Louis Pride Parade.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">Transgender</a> influencer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dylan-mulvaney">Dylan Mulvaney</a> said in an interview published Tuesday that more brands should partner with trans influencers even after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bud-light">Bud Light</a> debacle, which led to a boycott and declining sales.
“I am one of — if not the — most privileged trans people in this country right now; I don’t want people to look at me and say, ‘Oh, yep, the community’s alright,’” the activist said during an interview with <a href="https://www.them.us/story/dylan-mulvaney-life-after-girlhood-now-awards-2023">Them</a>, expressing interest in getting other transgender people into the spotlight. 
Rather than acknowledging any negative impact on the Bud Light brand, Mulvaney said companies should all be trying to partner with trans-identified individuals for ad campaigns.
“For a long time, I felt so lucky that these opportunities were coming my way that I thought it was by accident. But now I realize how much power I actually have,” Mulvaney told the outlet. “If a brand wants to work with me so bad, then they should work with other trans people, too. It’s not enough to just hire me, this white, skinny trans girl. I want all the dolls getting all the brand deals.”
The Bud Light controversy began on April 1 when the influencer published a video on Instagram featuring a can of Bud Light with Mulvaney&#8217;s face on it. A backlash against the national beer brand was swift and immediate, with consumers leading a boycott that has lasted for months, impacting both Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s sales and Bud Light&#8217;s reputation.
The influencer met with President Joe Biden at the White House at the end of last year, which was also discussed during the interview.
“I said ‘yes,’ because at that point I didn’t realize the difference between existing as a trans person and being an activist,” Mulvaney said of getting the invitation. “But now I can think of a thousand other trans people who would’ve been even better.”
Bud Light isn&#8217;t the only brand dealing with boycotts. Target has also been making headlines for selling &#8220;tuck-friendly&#8221; swimwear in its stores and partnering with a designer who has used occult imagery, including items that said, &#8220;Satan Respects Pronouns.&#8221;
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Since the public outcry began, Target has lost more than $12 billion in market value as of last week.
“I’m scared,” the TikTok user told the publication. “I never expected to have people following me, or experience such negative media attention. I walk into a room and I never know if somebody is going to really love me or really hate me.”
Before becoming nationally known, Mulvaney did a TikTok series called “Days of Girlhood” documenting the influencer’s “transition” process.  Other brands the influencer <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dylan-mulvaney-has-partnerships-these-brands-bud-light-list-1794187">partnered</a> with include Nike, Ulta Beauty, Maybelline, Kitchenaid, CeraVe, Kate Spade, InstaCart, and Crest toothpaste, among others.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garth-brooks-shares-a-funny-anecdote-about-wife-trisha-yearwood-at-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-for-keith-whitley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Garth Brooks</a> weighed in on serving Bud Light at his new bar in Nashville and made it clear that he was going to &#8220;serve every brand of beer&#8221; and that if people don&#8217;t like that, &#8220;there are plenty of other places&#8221; they can go.
During the 61-year-old singer&#8217;s appearance on <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/country/garth-brooks-country-live-panel-nashville-interview-melinda-newman-1235348128/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billboard&#8217;s Country Live in Conversation</a>, the country music star talked about his new bar &#8220;Friends in Low Places Bar &amp; Honky-Tonk.” He appeared to take a shot at other bar owners like Kid Rock and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Rich</a> on the famed Broadway strip who have supported the boycott of Bud Light following a partnership with trans-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney.
&#8220;Yes, we&#8217;re going to serve every brand of beer,&#8221; Brooks said. &#8220;We just are. It&#8217;s not our decision to make.&#8221;
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You made the song what it is… now let’s make the BAR what it can be! Follow Friends in Low Places Bar <a href="https://twitter.com/FriendsBarNash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FriendsBarNash</a> and join us!!!! love, g
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&#8220;If you come into this house, love one another,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If you’re an a**hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.&#8221;
&#8220;In my existence, one a**hole can turn the whole tide down there,&#8221; Brooks continued. &#8220;My thing is, let’s create a place that you feel safe in.&#8221;
Brooks also said he wanted make his bar a place where a person can &#8220;feel good&#8221; and &#8220;safe.&#8221;
&#8220;I want the Chick-fil-A of honky tonks,&#8221; the &#8220;Thunder Rolls&#8221; hitmaker said. &#8220;I want a place you go in where you feel good, you feel safe. Everybody&#8217;s got good manners.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that there&#8217;s right when you walk in it&#8217;s a &#8216;Love Everybody&#8217; stated right there,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s about, right? So I want a place that&#8217;s just safe. That feels good.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-rich-says-cases-and-cases-of-bud-light-piling-up-at-his-nashville-bar-after-mulvaney-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rich</a> previously said that said &#8220;cases and cases&#8221; of Bud Light were piling up at his Nashville bar after Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s partnership with Mulvaney.
&#8220;I think the customers decide. Customers are king,&#8221; Rich said. &#8220;Our number one selling beer up until a few days ago was, guess what? Bud Light. That was the number one beer. We got cases and cases and cases of it sitting back there.&#8221;
&#8220;But in the past several days, you&#8217;re hard-pressed to find anyone ordering one,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So as a business owner, I go, &#8216;Hey, if you aren&#8217;t ordering it, we got to put something else in here.&#8217; At the end of the day, that&#8217;s capitalism. … That&#8217;s how it works.&#8221;
The &#8220;Amazed&#8221; hitmaker previously made headlines when he joined fellow musicians like Travis Tritt and Rock in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-rich-travis-tritt-join-boycott-of-bud-light-after-brand-partners-with-dylan-mulvaney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycotting</a> the brand over the Mulvaney partnership.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anheuser-busch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anheuser-Busch</a>, the parent company of embattled beer brand <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bud-light" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light</a>, agreed to pay over half a million dollars to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/environmental-protection-agency-epa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Environmental Protection Agency</a> after being accused of violating the Clean Air Act. 
The beer manufacturer <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/anheuser-busch-llc-required-improve-safety-fort-collins-brewery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will pay</a> $537,000 in fines and implement a “comprehensive safety review” at 11 of the Anheuser-Busch plants that use anhydrous ammonia, according to the EPA. The settlement was in part spurred on by an accident at an Anheuser-Busch facility in 2018 in Fort Collins, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a>, that <a href="https://www.coloradoan.com/story/money/business/2023/06/05/anheuser-busch-fined-for-violating-clean-air-act-fort-collins-budweiser-brewery/70290783007/#:~:text=Anheuser%2DBusch%20has%20agreed%20to,Right%2Dto%2DKnow%20Act.">left two workers</a> injured after an ammonia leak. 
“This settlement with Anheuser-Busch sends a clear message to companies that store hazardous materials like anhydrous ammonia that they have an obligation to follow regulations designed to protect our communities and environment from potentially catastrophic consequences of accidents,” EPA Regional Administrator K.C. Becker said. “Failure to comply with the law puts first responders and members of the surrounding community in harm’s way.” 
Anheuser-Busch facilities in New Hampshire, California, Colorado, Texas, Ohio, Florida, New York, Virginia, Georgia, and Missouri will all undergo comprehensive reviews on their storage of anhydrous ammonia, which is used in the production of beer. 
Facilities in New Hampshire, Colorado, and California were all the subject of an EPA investigation from 2016 to 2019. 
The agency claimed that Anheuser-Busch failed &#8220;to comply with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices.&#8221;
The settlement comes as Anheuser-Busch has seen several months of financial tumult after partnering with transgender-identifying activist Dylan Mulvaney. According to some reports, Anheuser-Busch has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-inbev-market-value-plunges-further-staggering-27-billion-drop-since-mulvaney-fiasco-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost as much as $27 billion</a> in market value since the debut of the Mulvaney partnership. 
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The company had a $134.55 billion value as of March 31 before it plunged to $107.44 billion by the end of May, according to Dow Jones Market Data Group. The company’s stock plummeted 19.98% from its high in March. That 20% drop enters the zone of a bear market.
In large part, the backlash has been driven by conservative activists, who have encouraged Americans to boycott the popular beverage. 
“We believe there is a subset of American consumers who will not drink a Bud Light for the foreseeable future,” Jared Dinges, beverage analyst at JPMorgan Chase, said last month. “We believe a 12% to 13% volume decline on an annualized basis would be a reasonable assumption.”

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-all-their-fault-matt-walsh-has-message-for-lgbtq-activists-upset-about-boycotts-and-pride-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> sent a message to conservatives who are calling for an end to the fight &#8220;against gender ideology and the &#8216;Pride&#8217; movement,&#8221; telling them to focus on the issues they care about.
Walsh <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666101556771536897?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> a lengthy response Tuesday to complaints he said have come from conservatives that it&#8217;s time to move on from fighting gender ideology and &#8220;focus on something else.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re actually making significant headway but they want us to move on because they&#8217;re bored or more likely jealous that people aren&#8217;t paying more attention to them,&#8221; Walsh tweeted to his 2.1 million followers.
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It’s popular for other conservatives to complain that those of us fighting against gender ideology and the “Pride” movement should focus on something else. We’re actually making significant headway but they want us to move on because they’re bored or more likely jealous that…
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666101556771536897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Here&#8217;s an idea. If there&#8217;s another issue that you care deeply about and want to mobilize people around, go do it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Put the work in and rally people to your cause. It took us years to get the public to really care about gender ideology. Now we&#8217;ve succeeded and you&#8217;re bitter. Stop expecting us to do your work for you.&#8221;
&#8220;Go do something,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-bud-light-and-now-target-matt-walsh-goes-viral-with-tweet-about-making-pride-toxic-for-brands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DW host</a> continued. &#8220;Start a movement. If I agree with your cause I&#8217;ll support and amplify you. So stop whining and taking potshots from the sidelines. Go do the thing that you want done. How&#8217;s that for an idea.&#8221;
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Getting people to care about your issue is the first step, and a very difficult and frustrating one. It takes persistence, focus, and creativity. A healthy conservative movement would look at those who’ve succeeded in this step and try to learn from them. An unhealthy one looks…
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Walsh said one of the biggest challenges is to get &#8220;people to care about your issue&#8230; It takes persistence, focus, and creativity.&#8221;
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He then wrote that a &#8220;healthy conservative movement would look at those who&#8217;ve succeeded in this step and try to learn from them.&#8221;
However, he said that &#8220;modern conservatism&#8221; falls into the other category, the &#8220;unhealthy one.&#8221;
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In conclusion, I say again: go do the thing you want done.
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One he said that &#8220;looks with envy and resentment at its own most effective advocates and tries to tear them down as punishment for being successful. In conclusion, I say again: go do the thing you want done.&#8221;
The message was similar Walsh&#8217;s message to the GOP establishment in April when he explained why calls to end the boycott against Anheuser-Busch after Bud Light&#8217;s partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney was wrong.
On the &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1648066924062863362?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Matt Walsh Show</a>&#8221; podcast, the host provided a brutal assessment of the Republican establishment, who he said was giving an assist to the beer company by telling conservatives to back down from the boycott over fears that it could stop the flow of donor cash to the GOP.
&#8220;That&#8217;s how the total denial of biological reality became mainstream,&#8221; the podcast host said. &#8220;And seized hold of our society. It happened because the conservative &#8216;leadership&#8217; task with defending our country against evils like gender ideology abdicated their responsibility.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/step-aside-matt-walsh-tells-gop-establishment-youre-wrong-bud-light-boycott-matters">&#8216;Step Aside&#8217;: Matt Walsh Tells GOP Establishment You&#8217;re Wrong, Bud Light Boycott Matters</a>

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The latest estimates of the staggering losses suffered by Anheuser-Busch since April 1, the day the Dylan Mulvaney controversy exploded, put their loss in market value at about <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12152847/Bud-Light-parent-company-Anheuser-Busch-lost-staggering-27-BILLION-market-value.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$27 billion</a> by the end of May.
The company had a $134.55 billion value as of March 31 before it plunged to $107.44 billion by the end of May, according to Dow Jones Market Data Group. The company’s stock plummeted 19.98% from its high in March. That 20% drop enters the zone of a bear market. Bud Light sales revenues have dropped 25.7% for the week ending May 20 compared to the same week in 2022, Bump Williams Consulting estimated.
On April 1, Mulvaney, a man who identifies as a woman, posted a video to his 1.8 million followers on Instagram promoting his partnership with Bud Light. “This month I celebrated my day 365 of womanhood, and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever, a can with my face on it,” Mulvaney said.
By May 24, a report had estimated Anheuser-Busch InBev’s market value plunging $15.7. That estimate came from <a href="https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/bud-light-boycott-already-costs-anheuser-busch-15-7-billion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily</a>, which used a conversion to U.S. dollars using data from S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence.
“We believe there is a subset of American consumers who will not drink a Bud Light for the foreseeable future,” Jared Dinges, beverage analyst at JPMorgan Chase, said on May 23. “We believe a 12% to 13% volume decline on an annualized basis would be a reasonable assumption.”
“Shares [of Anheuser-Busch] have underperformed EU Beer peers by 15% since the start of April,” Dinges continued. “We believe this is due to U.S. uncertainty, as investor focus has shifted squarely to the potential impact from the Bud Light controversy. &#8230; We do not expect the lost sales to be recovered in fiscal year 2024.”
Anson Frericks, the former president of sales and distribution for Anheuser-Busch, had intimated that trouble lay ahead for the company, telling The Daily Wire he foresaw “a long, hot, dry summer for Anheuser-Busch.”
“I think that you&#8217;re going to see sales continue to be down because customers, it&#8217;s too easy for them to switch to other brands, and they&#8217;re seeing the impact of their results,” he continued. “If they want those customers back, they have an easy decision that they can make, which is saying, ‘We want Bud Light customers back, therefore Bud Light is not going to get involved with political issues moving forward.’ If not, they&#8217;re probably going to be in a worse position next year and their sales will continue to decline.”

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Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-launches-brutal-takedown-of-all-lgbtq-days-months-besides-pride-we-are-told-must-be-celebrated" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> has a message for LGBTQ activists upset about things like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blue-jays-pitcher-booed-by-home-crowd-after-commenting-on-bud-light-target-boycotts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target</a> boycott and the backlash against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-issues-challenge-to-corporate-america-warns-they-could-be-next-following-bud-light-target-boycott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pride</a> and said it is &#8220;all their fault&#8221; because they kept pushing &#8220;more outlandish things&#8221; on the culture.
&#8220;The Matt Walsh Show&#8221; podcast host on Thursday said &#8220;LGBT activists&#8221; have &#8220;been running roughshod over the culture for years&#8221; – but those days are over because Americans have simply had it with woke agendas from corporate America and that community now is &#8220;reaping the consequences.&#8221;
&#8220;So things are different now and they&#8217;re different for a lot of reasons,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;One of them is just sheer exhaustion. After a while, people get fed up and the LGBT activists, they&#8217;ve been running roughshod over the culture for years and they&#8217;ve been getting everything they want and getting more bold about it and more outlandish and more egregious and more grotesque.&#8221;
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&#8220;And they keep pushing it and keep pushing it and keep pushing it,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And then eventually people say even a lot of the people that went along with it &#8230; many of them are now saying, &#8216;this is too much. I&#8217;m sick of it. I&#8217;m tired of it. I&#8217;m exhausted with it. Just stop. Leave us alone.'&#8221;
&#8220;And the thing is, once that once people get sick of it, you know, they don&#8217;t really they don&#8217;t end up drawing the line at the most recent, most egregious thing that you did,&#8221; the DW host continued. &#8220;They draw it all the way back at the beginning. And they say, &#8216;we don&#8217;t want any of this. Just leave us alone. Get it all out of here.'&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-bud-light-and-now-target-matt-walsh-goes-viral-with-tweet-about-making-pride-toxic-for-brands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">host</a> said that there&#8217;s now an attitude by many of those on the right that they &#8220;don&#8217;t want anything that promotes gender, ideology or transgenderism to kids&#8221; or &#8220;super extreme stuff&#8221; like &#8220;satanic merchandise&#8221; and more. He said people are now saying &#8220;&#8216;we don&#8217;t want pride flags at all. We don&#8217;t want any of it.'&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what many on the right are saying,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m glad they are. I mean, that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been all along. But I&#8217;m glad that this is becoming the mainstream view on the right and you know whose fault it is. It&#8217;s all their fault.&#8221;
&#8220;If you&#8217;re an LGBT activists and you&#8217;re feeling very persecuted by this and you&#8217;re saying &#8216;what happened, now so we can&#8217;t even fly a pride flag without you &#8230;,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s your fault. If you had just stopped at like where you were in say in, say, the year 2017, if you had stopped there and you said, &#8216;oh, we hey we basically won&#8217; and you just stopped, then probably none of this would happen. But you kept going and you kept pushing and now you&#8217;re reaping the consequences of that.&#8221;

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A hometown crowd erupted in boos when Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass walked onto the field on Wednesday — his first appearance since he commented on the Bud Light and Target boycotts and then, a short time later, apologized for doing so.
Several separate waves of boos could be heard in a video clip shared by The Toronto Star&#8217;s baseball columnist Mike Wilner.
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Bass first stirred controversy when he shared an Instagram video from creator Ryan Miller — who called on Christians to boycott Target over clothing catering to trans-identifying children and Bud Light over its partnership with trans-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The Major League pitcher racked up a second round of criticisms when he offered an apology, saying in part, &#8220;I recognize yesterday I made a post that was hurtful to the Pride community, which includes friends of mine and close family members of mine. I am truly sorry for that. As of right now, I am using the Blue Jays’ resources to better educate myself to make better decisions moving forward.&#8221;
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Critics attacked Bass for apologizing, noting that he professed to be a Christian and arguing that his apology amounted to a compromise of his beliefs.
&#8220;Looks like a hostage video. Congrats on getting a Christian scalp, Blue Jays,&#8221; one person <a href="https://twitter.com/fugitivemama/status/1663652055838498816" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in response.
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&#8220;How shameful you force him to make this idiotic statement and apologize for his beliefs,&#8221; Tom Elliott added.
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&#8220;Humiliating. What type of employer would force their employee to do something like this?&#8221; Terry Schilling <a href="https://twitter.com/Schilling1776/status/1663663214758879234" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. &#8220;It’s truly enraging. And all around the sport of baseball. Woke ruins everything.&#8221;
It was unclear from the video taken of Bass at Wednesday&#8217;s game whether the crowd was booing because he had shared a video supporting the boycotts or because he later gave in to the calls to apologize for it.

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Bud Light has announced that the brand is donating $200,000 to the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) despite facing an ongoing boycott over its partnership with social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman. 
Parent company Anheuser-Busch announced the donation to the NGLCC, which defines itself as “the business voice of the LGBT community,” in a May 30th <a href="https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/bud-light-and-the-nglcc-continue-to-empower-lgbtq-owned-small-businesses-across-america">press release</a> titled “Bud Light And The NGLCC Continue To Empower LGBTQ+ Owned Small Businesses Across America.” 
“We look forward to extending our work with the NGLCC to continue making a positive impact on the LGBTQ+ businesses that play a critical role in bringing people everywhere, together,” the announcement said.
“Anheuser-Busch has a strong track record of industry leadership in supporting the LGBTQ+ community,” it continued. “Over the past 20 years Anheuser-Busch has supported both local and national non-profit organizations that are committed to advocating for LGBTQ+ equality.” 
The $200,000 donation will specifically support the NGLCC’s Communities of Color Initiative, which “is designed to support the growth and success of minority LGBTQ+-owned businesses through certification, scholarships and business development.”
Meanwhile, the NGLCC celebrated the donation, remarking, “We’re honored to continue our partnership with Bud Light in support of LGBTQ+ businesses.”
Bud Light is still feeling the effects of the ongoing boycott, which began when the corporation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-confirms-brand-partnership-with-dylan-mulvaney-aim-to-authentically-connect-with-various-demographics">sent</a> Mulvaney a can of Bud Light with his face on it. 
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The company has even offered to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-offers-to-buy-back-expiring-cases-of-bud-light-after-dylan-mulvaney-flap">buy back</a> expiring cases of Bud Light during the boycott and is at risk of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-continue-to-plummet-may-soon-lose-status-as-number-one-beer">losing its status</a> as the world’s number one best-selling beer. May was the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/ab-inbev-set-for-worst-month-since-covid-as-bud-light-sales-fall#xj4y7vzkg">worst month</a> for Anheuser-Busch since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020.
A previous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-to-sponsor-pride-parades-despite-ongoing-boycott">report</a> from The Daily Wire revealed that Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch would be sponsoring at least three different Pride parades.

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Actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-eye-sore-of-the-event-kirk-cameron-reacts-to-faith-based-story-hour-interrupted-by-drag-queens-activists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirk Cameron</a> talked about the Bud Light and Target boycotts over its woke agenda, his new book &#8220;Pride Comes Before the Fall&#8221; and slammed the idea of a whole month glorifying &#8220;who people like to have sex with.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirk-cameron-reacts-to-library-harassment-at-faith-based-story-hour-says-lefts-playing-the-long-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">52-year-old actor</a> spoke to The Daily Wire about his book, the first in a series of books on the seven deadly sins, which deals with Pride &#8220;because it&#8217;s the deadliest.&#8221; He said despite what critics are claiming, his book from Brave Books is not anti-LGBTQ, but instead &#8220;pro-humility.&#8221;
He said kids have loved it because they understood the message right away which is &#8220;that when you are prideful and think of yourself first, you&#8217;re headed for destruction. But when you think of others first and you look to serve them then you win.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that at the end of the day, there are those who want to take my book about humility and somehow twist it into a narrative that it&#8217;s an anti-gay book,&#8221; Cameron said. &#8220;Which couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. It&#8217;s simply a pro-humility book.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody needs to learn the blessing of being humble and thinking of others first,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Feeding the &#8216;me monster,&#8217; self-satisfaction, self-exaltation always leads to misery.&#8221;
When pressed further about the books&#8217; release in time for Pride Month, the &#8220;Lifemark&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirk-cameron-riley-gaines-and-duck-dynasty-alum-missy-robertson-harassed-by-library-staff-at-faith-based-story-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> said he couldn&#8217;t &#8220;think of a better time for this book to be released.&#8221;
&#8220;Number one, it&#8217;s just in time for kids getting out of school in June &#8230;,&#8221; Cameron said. &#8220;I do understand though that of course this is Pride Month. l think it&#8217;s deeply concerning that we have one month out of the year that has been set aside to glorify who people like to have sex with.&#8221;
&#8220;What I see happening culturally with Bud Light and Target and North Face and other companies who are leaning into this ESG woke agenda,&#8221; he added, is a &#8220;strategy&#8221; to &#8220;distract everybody with cries for empathy, inclusion, and diversity. And then claim that it&#8217;s all just harmless human rights.&#8221;
&#8220;And then they go after the kids, like in these Drag Queen Story Hours &#8230; because they are the most vulnerable and easily influenced,&#8221; Cameron continued. &#8220;So they wash over their innocent little consciouses with this leftist propaganda knowing that it will become the reality of the next generation. And they [will] have successfully destabilized and de-organized our current social system in order to reorganize it according to a value system made in their own image.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kirk-cameron-publisher-claim-thousands-flocked-to-his-story-hour-after-library-reportedly-backtracks-opposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cameron</a> said the good news is that &#8220;millions of Americans aren&#8217;t buying it&#8221; which he said was a big part of the reason companies like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bud-light-sales-continue-to-plummet-may-soon-lose-status-as-number-one-beer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-issues-challenge-to-corporate-america-warns-they-could-be-next-following-bud-light-target-boycott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target</a> are hurting.
&#8220;I think that it&#8217;s important that we vote with our dollars and we support companies and the people that support America and America values,&#8221; the &#8220;Growing Pains&#8221; star said. &#8220;But at the end of the day, we need to turn our hearts to God because this problem is bigger than just shopping for shoes and bathing suits at another store.&#8221;
&#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pride-Comes-Before-Fall-Cameron/dp/1955550395/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MCCV72K3ADAZ&amp;keywords=pride+comes+before+the+fall+kirk+cameron&amp;qid=1685570229&amp;sprefix=Pride+Comes+%2Caps%2C168&amp;sr=8-1">Pride Comes Before the Fall</a>&#8221; comes out June 1, with his next book in the series about the seven deadly sins scheduled to be out by Christmas. Cameron also said he will continue his library readings nationwide. He also promised to &#8220;create meaningful opportunities&#8221; throughout the month of June for those who &#8220;reject the glorification of pride&#8221; and urged fans to see his social media for more information.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bud-light" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anheuser-Busch</a> said it best in a letter directed toward customers and distributors.
&#8220;This was one single can given to one social media influencer,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.nat-dist.com/2023/04/26/a-letter-from-anheuser-busch/">said</a>. &#8220;It was not made for production or sale to the general public. This can is not a formal campaign or advertisement.&#8221;
&#8220;Anheuser-Busch did not intend to create controversy or make a political statement,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;In reality, the Bud Light can posted by a social media influencer that sparked all the conversation was provided by an outside agency without Anheuser-Busch management awareness or approval.&#8221;
That was back at the beginning of May. But even in this crazy world where things come and go at the speed of light, this story, as the phrase goes, had legs.
By the middle of May, Bud Light was still feeling the heavy pain of the marketing disaster (which has gotta knock the &#8220;New Coke&#8221; campaign out of the top slot). Sales by volume are down 29.5% for the week ending May 20 compared to last year, and total sales are down 25.7% for revenue compared to the same time window, data from Bump Williams Consulting and Nielsen IQ provided to Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bud-light-sales-decline-dylan-mulvaney-boycott-latest-1803292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
Anheuser-Busch had clearly alienated its traditional blue-collar, barbecue-and-ball-game base by partnering with Dylan Mulvaney, featuring the transgender influencer on a custom-made single can sent to Mulvaney. But this has been going on for two months now and the outrage still hasn&#8217;t dissipated. There doesn&#8217;t appear to be any end in sight.
I&#8217;ve never understood why actors or musicians play politics. Why would Bruce Springsteen — whose base of fans is even more blue-collar than Bud Light drinkers — even come out in support of Hillary Clinton, as he did in 2016? Why alienate half of America — and in Bruce&#8217;s case, a majority of your fans?
But it won&#8217;t stop. Tomorrow (June 1) is the beginning of &#8220;Pride Month,&#8221; in which all 320 million Americans are supposed to contemplate all things gay (plus those other 81 genders out there, too). Companies will be falling over each other to show how truly and deeply tolerant they are.
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Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s blunder is truly the best example out there of &#8220;go woke, go broke.&#8221; Still, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be resonating with other major companies (pay attention here, Target). Even after Bud Light&#8217;s blunder, Target has kicked off a whole line of gay pride apparel, The North Face featured a drag queen in its “Summer of Pride” campaign, and the L.A. Dodgers invited the gay and trans &#8220;nuns&#8221; called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Americans, though, don&#8217;t want that. They&#8217;ll buy your product, but they don&#8217;t care about your stance on transgender people. Anheuser-Busch is learning this lesson the hard way. For some reason, Americans have hit the wall on having the whole LGBTQ+ agenda shoved down their throats.
Like anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film &#8220;Network,&#8221; they declared in one unified voice: &#8220;I&#8217;m mad as hell, and I&#8217;m not going to take it anymore!&#8221;
That&#8217;s how a single can of beer woke America up to the real woke agenda.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bud-light" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bud Light</a> sales continue to fall, a reality that could soon place its status as the world’s number-one beer brand in jeopardy.
Bud Light recently garnered controversy after partnering with social media influencer <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/dylan-mulvaney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Mulvaney</a>, a man who identifies as a woman and documented his &#8220;gender transition&#8221; on TikTok. Sales for the beer brand fell 25.7% for the week ended May 20, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/bud-light-sales-plunge-25-7-modelo-closes-beer-gap/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> shared with The New York Post from Bump Williams Consulting and NielsenIQ. Modelo Especial, which saw sales grow 9.2%, could meanwhile replace Bud Light.
“While Bud Light loses week after week, Modelo Especial gains week after week and now Modelo outsells Bud Light on a national basis across all trade channels combined,” Bump Williams remarked in a comment to The New York Post. “If this continues Modelo will surpass Bud Light for the year.”
Other brands owned by Anheuser-Busch continued to decline for the week ended May 20: Budweiser sales decreased 11.2%, Michelob Ultra sales fell 6.5%, Busch Light sales decreased 5.2%, and Natural Light sales dropped 4.9%.
Constellation Brands owns and produces Modelo Especial in the United States, while Anheuser-Busch produces the brand in other nations.
Yuengling Flight sales increased 47.6%. Williams told The New York Post, “Yuengling is having a great moment with the greatest growth of all the premium beers.”
Anheuser-Busch seems to have alienated those on both ends of the political spectrum in the weeks after the controversial partnership with Mulvaney. Owners of gay bars have threatened to launch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-activists-furious-at-bud-light-for-backing-away-from-mulvaney-call-for-a-boycott-of-their-own" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycotts</a> after the company issued a statement interpreted as downplaying the alliance, while the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization, removed the firm’s perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index, which the group <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/corporate-equality-index" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> as the “national benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees.”
HRC officials said the conglomerate missed a “key moment” to support Mulvaney as the company sought to mend relations with conservatives. Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth had issued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-ceo-breaks-long-silence-amid-dylan-mulvaney-pr-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> about the partnership, although the communication fell short of mentioning the nod to Mulvaney or transgenderism. “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” the executive said. “We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.”
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The continued backlash against Bud Light comes as other brands embracing leftist ideology experience tumult. Stock market value for retail behemoth Target declined precipitously in recent days after the firm <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-slammed-after-offering-female-swimsuits-that-have-extra-crotch-coverage-are-tuck-friendly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketed</a> a female swimsuit as “tuck-friendly” and with “extra crotch coverage,” as well as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-faces-backlash-over-pride-collection-designer-behind-satan-respects-pronouns-shirts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> an artist who previously created Satanic items to make various designs for the company.
One recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-had-a-special-push-to-hire-lgbtq-designers-for-pride-collection-ahead-of-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from The Daily Wire found that Target had published a sustainability report which called for supplier diversity among firms creating Pride Month apparel, as well as diversity initiatives for women and racial minorities. Another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anheuser-busch-loses-perfect-lgbtq-equity-score-by-missing-key-moment-to-stand-up-for-mulvaney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Daily Wire found that Anheuser-Busch has ESG commitments centered on diversity and climate efforts. Skeptics of the ESG movement contend that the philosophy centers on social causes in a manner that distracts from profitability and uses corporate power to advance leftist agendas.

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