MAGA babies can’t stop crying over a beer commercial.
It’s been four weeks since Anheuser-Busch partnered with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney for two short Instagram ads, and grifters trying to capitalize on the outrage keep making fools of themselves. The latest example is a Florida restaurant owner, who went on Fox Business Tuesday and cried about the last month being the worst stretch of his life.
Seriously.
“It’s been a terrible week, actually a couple of weeks now, probably the most difficult two weeks we’ve ever experienced in our life in this industry,” bemoaned Joe Penovich, the owner of Grills Restaurant.
When asked why this was the most difficult week of his life, Penovich cried, “Anheuser-Busch, they held a social knife over all of our heads, and they dropped it very irresponsibly.”
“It threw us into turmoil. By standing on our biblical faith, it put us at odds with people who didn’t take that stance. And that brought us into hell on earth.”
What a drama queen!
The grand irony is, right-wingers who decry cancel culture are in the midst of a shameless monthlong campaign against Bud Light. Earlier this week, Anheuser-Busch placed the two execs in charge of the campaign on leave. The pressure has been unrelenting.
Political nepobaby Sarah Huckabee Sanders, for example, recently launched her own line of transphobic beer coozies. “Big companies can’t tell the difference between real and fake anymore,” says the ridiculous ad. “We will know the difference.”
As governor of the fourth-poorest state in the nation, one would think that Sanders would have other priorities besides selling beer coozies for $15 a pop on her website. But unfortunately for her constituents, that’s not the case.
And guess what? Sanders’ grift isn’t even original! A right-wing influencer launched his own “woke-free” beer two weeks ago.
TBH, it’s hard to determine which commercial is more embarrassing.
Not to be outdone, country music act Brent Gilbert smashed a Bud Light can on the ground at a recent concert…to the tune of Queen’s “Another Bites The Dust.”
Just like his dignity.
It’s only fitting that an outrage cycle that started with Kid Rock shooting Bud Light cases now includes a middle-aged restaurant owner crying on TV about Mulvaney’s Bud Light Instagram stories.
Transgender people who keep getting targeted with laws banning gender-affirming care must be weeping for the triggered founder of Grills Seafood Deck & Tiki bar.
As expected, Twitter is having a field day with all this. Check out some of the best reactions below…
The people of Ukraine weep for this guy’s struggle.
— Steve Martin (@UnrealBluegrass) April 25, 2023
I don’t know if he’s a snowflake, but the “most difficult two weeks we’ve ever experienced in our life” comment is incredibly snowflakey.
— Brian Hart (@BrianHartPR) April 25, 2023
“Hell on Earth” over a beer can. 🥹 😂
— Mike Morton (@TheMikeMorton) April 25, 2023
Something or someone is Prejudiced here and from the look of things it’s not the Beer 🤷♀️
— VashH (@VashH3) April 25, 2023
Aw, the fact that transgender people exist has led to the most difficult two weeks of a restaurateur’s life. Poor little man.
— Sean Black Lives Matter. I stand with Ukraine. (@SeanFlan45) April 25, 2023
“Believe me, folks, believe me, the most difficult, believe me, in fact, if you wanna know the truth, people came up to me all the time, with tears in their eyes, and asked me how I could deal with the most difficult two weeks of our lives, like nobody has ever seen before…” pic.twitter.com/KSGOgGRdHr
— Jay Barker 🇺🇲 🌊 🇺🇦 (@buf2srq2) April 25, 2023
Dylan Mulvaney does one Instagram ad and their whole world comes crashing down on them. The struggle is real. Coping is tough.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 25, 2023
v6origal97
Invoking the Bible over beer sales? Definite Maga levels of cognitive dissonance.
Kangol2
Remember the Commandment, “Thou shalt not buy beer with a trans person advertising it”?
Oh wait, there isn’t one!
ShaverC
This isn’t just because they used Dylan’s face on the cans. That was out for a while and people were mostly just rolling their eyes at it. It was after the VP came out and made fun of the client base, calling them “fratty” and basically saying they wanted a new client base, that people started getting p*ssed. “You don’t want us, then bye!” Not surprised the VP was fired and replaced, but I didn’t think the boycott would actually go this far.
dbmcvey
You spend way too much time on this.
Bosch
None of that explains why this man is crying.
ShaverC
Bosch, No one wants to be preached/lectured to when drinking a beer.
mailliw110
Saying you like drinking piss beer is really sad. Maybe your tears will blend in when you are draining the stuff you call beer.
Bosch
“Bosch, No one wants to be preached/lectured to when drinking a beer.”
So I looked it up, the VP called their own branding “fratty” and “out of touch”, not the client base. Though I can understand how narcissists would think that this about them.
Do you know how much trouble an adult has to go through to encounter these Instagram ads with Mulvaney? They were not on TV, they were not in the newspaper, they were on a platform for zillenials. How dare a beer try to market themselves to everyone, instead of just one type of people, right?
Y’all need to grow up and learn to share your toys. This world is for everybody.
Mack
Nothing was happening until some bigoted washed up “singer” made a deal out of it. As usual they had to be told it was a bad thing.
DBMC
You are obsessed with Dylan Mulvaney. You need to find some hobbies that don’t include getting outraged over someone existed somewhere.
barryaksarben
Well, we know you are a dumb a** so Im not surprised you are surprised. I live in Orlando and was with a large group of gay men who ate at GRILLS a few weeks before this blew up and none of us will ever eat at that place again. This pos made a huge deal out of this and was too dumb to realize he might suffer some blowback so it’s hilarious that this snowflake thinks he is being treated unfairly.
FreddieW
Biblical faith and beer? Alcohol was evil in my Southern Baptist family.
barryaksarben
His so called biblical faith didnt require him to pour out his kegs wasting all that money and make a huge show. here locally thinking there would be no blowback because of his grandstanding. I will never go there agains and will inform all my friends and family to never go there. Screw these homophobes
dbmcvey
Poor dear. So triggered.
Jack
Oh Shocking! It’s in the fascist state of Florida. I wish Putin would invade that shithole. Mar-a-Lardass can be the new Kremlin. Seriously, tho…..karma probably has something really horrific for someone who says this is “the most difficult 2 weeks they’ve ever experienced in their lives.”
Kangol2
Nope, going to disagree, Miami is a nice city to visit, as is Tampa. The MAGA-Putinistas can have the Florida Panhandle, though, which is basically Alabama anyways.
inbama
Sarah Huckabee is a “real woman?”
I wouldn’t take her word on anything, but then I’m not willing to conduct the examination either.
Bosch
An Instagram ad is barely even a real ad.
Why don’t they get this upset when their church abuses children? Or when their politicians abuse children? Or when the boy scouts abuse children?
I guess they don’t think that’s so bad.
Diplomat
Controversial beer commercial or not, Trans still deserve excellent non biased health care at any age. The kids especially. Not sure this commercial helped that issue.
Kangol2
How does a beer commercial impact equal and high quality health care for ALL Americans? Even juxtaposing the two in a causal chain verges on the absurd.
DBMC
Does any beer commercial every advance excellent, non-biased, healthcare?
flim
I hope Dylan is okay and somewhere safe and secure, the amount of bullying she is getting is very worrying / especially given that a lot of the people yelling about her are inclined to own guns
DBMC
I’m worried too. It seems like these extreme anti-t people are obsessed.
storm45701
The individual creating the anti-woke beer is finding it difficult to obtain a manufacturer. How sad.
Terrycloth
Get a Grip. It’s Beer. It has no gender no political standing..drinking it won’t suddenly change your gender.still tastes the.same as it always has..you.want to shoot cases, throw it out go right ahead you’ve already paid for it bud got ypur money.its world wide .people of every ethnic back ground , genders gay bi Trans etc have drank it for years..nonsense is mind boggling
silly
people boycotted Chic Fil A, and Hobby Lobby, I must have missed the articles on this site that called those people babies for boycotting for something they believe in.
we are all different people with different beliefs, if you don’t like the beliefs of another human, you move on.
there’s people on both extremes that pretty much everyone else avoids. when you have articles like this, it makes you one of the people on the extreme that everyone avoids.
Bosch
Could it be because one was being boycotted for supporting discrimination, and the other is being boycotted for trying to expand their market? Could it be because the readers here are largely gay, and that just happens to be the target of their discrimination?
Let me help: the answer is yes.
silly
Bosch, it’s all in how YOU view the world as to which boycott YOU feel is righteous. trying to justify why one group’s plights (or discriminations depending on which angle you view it from) are more virtuous than another is not at all going to move any discussion forward. different people have our own set of values, virtues and morals that they believe in, and in the mind of each person, people who oppose that are by default, not virtuous. does that make sense, or is the answer simply that your cause is more virtuous than the other cause because that is what you believe.
quantum
Nobody bought a bunch of chicken sandwiches and shot at them for twitter clout.
And personally, when it comes to Hobby Lobby, I was way more concerned by their president’s involvement in the illegal antiquities trade
DBMC
No one is saying they can’t boycott. We’re criticizing their rhetoric and the extreme ways they’re going about it. In addition, it’s kind of stupid to buy something you’re claiming to boycott and shoot it. Also, no one went into a chic fil or a hobby lobby and destroyed items inside like the guy who went to the grocery store.
silly
DMBC, are you saying that it never happened, or are you saying you never saw it reported in the media, or that it would have to have been physical damage for it to be detrimental?
it’s up to you whether people picketing on the property of a business (and blocking entry to that business) can be more harmful to a business than walking into a store and doing some property damage. both are illegal. and yes, there are plenty of examples of people picketing against Hobby Lobby on the property and blocking entrances.
Dr Sarah
I think what you’ve actually missed is the reason these people are being called ‘babies’. It’s not because of the boycott itself, but because of their whining about how awful it is for them.
Worst two weeks of his life? While meanwhile trans people constantly face bullying and the threat of violence and murder due to the policies this man and others like him support? Oh, please.
Darson
Dylan Mulvaney could not sell tacos to the Donner party. It has been glorious not seeing or hearing that person the past few weeks. Here’s hoping they keep it up.
Bosch
I would have no idea who that person is, were it not for the contsant bitching of homophobes and transphobes.
novadude
“Is there anything more pathetically weak than a conservative white man?”
Yes, a falsely pious conservative white snowflake of man.
barryaksarben
I know. the world is so unfair to them. I mean our entire system is geared to insure that they have every single opportunity to succeed and when they dont it must be someone else’s fault
KyleMichelSullivan
Bud Light is not beer. It’s flavored water. I’m glad they partnered with Dylan but I don’t drink it. I prefer Guinness. The only American beers I can stand are Shiner Bock and Anchor Steam. But hey, if a MAGt wants to cry about being treated poorly by a private corporation doing what it wants with its business, I’m happy to wade in their tears. Little babies. Jesus.
Doug
What big babies these people are. And they call liberals snowflakes!! Sickening…
zephyr69
Joe Penovich, poor baby. Cry me a river.
jcrascal
Really? And those 2-and-a-half-plus years of COVID closure was a picnic, huh?