Speaking on The Benny Show, DeSantis said: ‘Why would you want to drink Bud Light? I mean, like, honestly that’s like them rubbing our faces in it and it’s like these companies that do this, if they never have any response, they’re just going to keep doing it.
‘So, if you as a consumer are like … “Like, yeah, they’re doing that, but I’m just going to keep drinking anyways.” Well, then they’re going to keep doing it.’
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‘You know, my wife and I, they (bars) don’t have (Budweiser) here if we ever go out to just have a beer — which admittedly we don’t have the opportunity to do that like we used to, you know — we actually like the stout, Guinness.
‘Years ago we went to Dublin, we went to some other places, and we’ve always been a fan ever since,’
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Ironically, just last Christmas, Guinness’s parent company Diageo (same as Anhueiser Busch to Bud Light) ran an ad in strong support of the transgender community.
The ad follows an elderly man who begins to secretly teach himself how to apply makeup.
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The grandfather can be seen using red lipstick from his wife and buying eyeshadow, before locking himself in his bathroom to practice making himself up.
Then the man’s family arrives for the holidays, at which point he gestures for his transgender granddaughter to follow him into the bathroom. He applies a full face of makeup to his grandchild.
When they come out of the bathroom, they are greeted with an emotional display of support and love from their family. The commercial ends with the grandfather raising a glass in a toast.
One may argue that the ad by Guinness’s parent company is a much stronger display of support for the trans community than what has caused such a stir for Bud Light gifting a can to a transgender social media influencer.
Many who have jumped on the boycott bandwagon of these pro-trans companies, often find themselves still using or even dependent upon other products made by the same company, or products by companies they simply are unaware also support the trans community.
Diageo’s beverage brands include:
Scotch whiskey: Single malt Scotch whisky: Classic Malts of Scotland, Auchroisk, Benrinnes, Blair Athol, Caol Ila, Cardhu, Clynelish, Cragganmore, Dailuaine, Dalwhinnie, Dufftown, Glendullan, Glenkinchie, Glen Elgin, Glen Spey, Inchgower, Knockando, Lagavulin, Linkwood, Mannochmore, Mortlach, Oban, Royal Lochnagar, Singleton, Strathmill, Talisker, Teaninich. Blended Scotch whisky: Bell’s, Black & White, Buchanan’s, Johnnie Walker, J&B, Logan, Old Parr, Vat 69, White Horse.
Irish whisky: Roe & Co
American whiskey: Balcones, Bulleit, George Dickel, Seagram’s Seven Crown,
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Cachaça: Ypióca
Beer: Guinness, Harp Lager, Hop House 13, Kilkenny, Meta Abo, Rockshore Irish Lager, Senator, Smithwick’s, Tusker,
Cider: Rockshore Apple Cider
Hard seltzer: Rockshore Hard seltzer
As we broke over the weekend, the owner of Central Florida’s Grills Seafood went viral with his decision to discontinue selling Bud Light suddenly over the weekend. In an interview with Fox35, owner Joe Penovich said his decision was based on religious reasons, and cannot align with the transgender community in any way, and is looking at how to approach removing the rest of Anhuesier Busch products from his inventory as they “no longer align with his values.”
But there are over 125 major companies and brands that have all come out in strong support of the transgender community that also are patronized by Grills Seafood. Those include Facebook, (where he made his official statement on his decision) Pepsi Co, American Express, Amazon, Nestle, Kellogg, AT&T many many more. Boycotting all of those brands, would essentially make it impossible for him and many others to continue to conduct business. We will see how loyal to their values they really are. Joe has already said he’s willing to lose everything in order to stay true to his faith.
The full list of companies that have publicly come out in support of transgender rights are as follows:
23andMe
Accenture
Acxiom, LLC.
Adobe Inc.
Advance Auto Parts
AEO Inc.
Affirm
Airbnb
AllianceBernstein
Ally
Altria Group Inc.
Amalgamated Bank
Amazon
American Airlines
American Express
American Honda Motor Company
Anaplan
Apple
Applied Materials, Inc.
Arcadis U.S. Inc.
Asana, Inc.
AT&T
Atlassian
Bayer US LLC
BASF Corporation
BBVA USA
BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe)
Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.
Berkshire Bank
Biogen
Bloomberg LP
Boehringer Ingelheim USA
Boston Scientific
Bounteous
CNA Insurance
CVS Health
Capital One
Cardinal Health
Cargill
Cargo Transporters, Inc.
Celanese
Center for Community Self-Help
Chobani
Citigroup, Inc.
The College Board
Corning Incorporated
CSAA Insurance Group
Curology
Dechert LLP
Deckers Brands (UGG, HOKA, Teva, Sanuk, and Koolaburra by UGG)
Dell Technologies
Dow Inc.
Dropbox Inc.
Eastern Bank
EMD Serono, MilliporeSigma and EMD Electronics
Early Warning Services, LLC
Eastern Bank
Elanco Animal Health
Equinix
Equitable
FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
Fastly
Flexport, Inc.
GP Strategies Corporation
GAP, Inc
Gearbox
General Mills
GoDaddy
Google
Gusto
H&M
HP Inc.
HSBC Bank USA
Hilton
IBM Corp.
ICM Partners
IHG Hotels & Resorts
IHS Markit
IKEA North America Services, LLC
Instacart
Intel
Interpublic Group
Intuit
Invitae Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg Company
The Knot Worldwide
The Kraft Heinz Company
Legalzoom
Levi Strauss & Co.
LinkedIn
Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
Lyft, Inc.
Macy’s, Inc.
Mailchimp
Marriott International, Inc.
Marsh McLennan
MassMutual
Medtronic PLC
Meta
MetLife, Inc.
Micron
Microsoft
Mobilize
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Momentive
Mondelez International
New Belgium Brewing
NextRoll, Inc.
Nike, Inc.
Nuance Communications
Oracle Corporation
PNC Financial Services Group
Patagonia
Patreon
PayPal
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
PepsiCo
Pfizer Inc.
REI Co-op
Randstad US
Red Hat, Inc.
Redfin Real Estate
Royal Bank of Canada
SAP
Salesforce
Signet Jewelers
Silicon Labs
Square, Inc.
State Street Corporation
SunLife
Sustainable Food Policy Alliance, including member companies Danone North America; Mars, Incorporated; Nestlé USA; and Unilever United States
