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Not drinking Bud Light (transphobically)

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Not drinking Bud Light (transphobically)

Plus: "Fucking close to water," amirite?!

Dave Infante
Apr 4, 2023
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🙃 Right-wing transphobes and Kid Rock are Keurig-ing their own Bud Light

Don’t worry, I’m not having a stroke, that MadLib will make more sense in a second. Over the weekend, hogs aplenty got red-assed at Bud Light over the brand’s campaign with a trans influencer for all the same “reasons” as usual: reactionary bigotry, end of list. The specifics of this latest tempest in a Tea Party are, as you might suspect, very dumb. But the situation nevertheless demonstrates commodity brands’ emotional and political significance in the American zeitgeist, so I guess let’s talk about it.

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