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Constellation's euphemisms for "fascism" aren't cutting it
Plus: Svedka’s sexbot is getting horny on main!
Dave Infante
September 03, 2025
Among the many downsides of American fascism, there’s one dogging the beverage-alcohol business in particular. Namely: sending masked thugs to kidnap brown people indiscriminately off the streets and throw them into concentration camps and/or onto planes to countries they have never before been is bad for sales. You are less likely to make a beer run, for example, if a Penske’s-worth of jackbooted MAGA henchmen might be waiting in the parking lot of the Kwik-E-Mart to habeus your corpus.
We have talked about this before. As I wrote in in early July:
What happens to, say, Heineken’s sales when West Indian drinkers start stay home to dodge paramilitary raids? Can Diageo afford to bid farewell to the on-premise drinks dollars of a quarter of the Asian-American demographic? Does Anheuser-Busch InBev really think it can restore Bud Light to something approaching its former glory if Zoomers—the most multicultural generation in American history—decide mail-order weed pens are a safer bet than a beer run to the corner store?
An answer can be found in the latest financial guidance from Constellation Brands, the bev-alc firm with the most direct exposure to Trump’s racist abduction regime. Stated briefly: nothing good!
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