Dylan Mulvaney breaks her silence over the whole Bud Light debacle & she’s spilling all the tea, er, beer
she posted a 50-second video to Instagram with a custom Bud Light can with her face on it. Bud Light sent her the can and sponsored the video.No harm, no foul, right?Wrong.In the weeks since she posted the clip, conservatives all but lost their minds, posting videos as they dumped out Bud Light beer and shot up cases of Bud Light with semiautomatic rifles.
Elected Republicans claimed that Mulvaney was a pedophile (without any evidence at all), and others said that they were boycotting Bud Light, often switching to other pro-LGBTQ+ brands.The company’s response to the manufactured outrage enraged liberals and the queer community for its lack of support, strengthening the boycott of the famous beer brand.
While it was once the most popular brand of beer in America, it has now been supplanted by Modelo, a Mexican beer that also has close ties to the queer community.Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is a major GOP donor, with contributions from the company and employees of nearly half a million dollars in 2022 alone, despite their inclusive marketing strategy.In a disastrous attempt to mollify the far-right, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth has repeatedly said the company would focus on “bringing people together.” In a CBS interview, he said that “As we move forward, you know, we want to focus on what we do best which is brewing great beer for everyone, listening to our consumers, being humble in listening to them, making sure that we do right by our employees, take care and support our partners and ultimately make an impact in the communities that we serve.”Mulvaney, however, was not included in the support. “I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” she said in the video. “For a company.
