{"id":55269,"date":"2023-05-30T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=55269"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:20:02","slug":"the-whole-she-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/05\/30\/the-whole-she-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"The whole she-bang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to play this out in an alternate universe,because the thing that makes the boycott ers the sympathetic figures in this whole game &#8212; never mind your exciting headline &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_20230530-123729-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55270\" width=\"586\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_20230530-123729-3.png 748w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot_20230530-123729-3-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; well, Chick Fil IL and a whole mass of &#8220;deplatformed&#8221; college speakers want to put in a comment &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and that shoves aside the immediate commenters I see of people getting huffy and puffy just because they are reaching out to a different market them them comes from the Bud Light marketing genius talking up how they need to move away from the fratty humor of the past &#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had the beer company just put out the damned can in select markets, thrown out their &#8220;Pride&#8221; sponsorship as always in tandem with their Rodeo and Jackasseey sponsorships &#8212; would this have piqued the Bud dumping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not have an answer to the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is that great message of the Miller ad &#8212; the &#8220;women started this whole beeringthing, and they put us in bikinis&#8221; call to send in old ads so they can mulch them campaign &#8212; the message &#8220;You have been misogynistic yahoos for enjoying our product all these years&#8221; certainly is an odd sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not particularly see an end game.  Elsewhere I have seen the pop-up loving from the left on corporate &#8220;queer-washing&#8221; &#8212; put up a flag, have it on some products, treat it as a market.  Not sure what else they are desired to do &#8212; like, sure, it puts a shiny gleam in not Unionizing Starbucks employees, but that theoretically should be befitting people opposed to minors&#8217; gender affirming care.  They seem to have a different end game in mind &#8212; which at least is an end game in mind.  Here &#8212; Target needs to display some things they want to sell you do not want to buy personally, and always gave and always will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to play this out in an alternate universe,because the thing that makes the boycott ers the sympathetic figures in this whole game &#8212; never mind your exciting headline &#8212; &#8212; well, Chick Fil IL and a whole mass of &#8220;deplatformed&#8221; college speakers want to put in a comment &#8212; and that shoves aside the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55286,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55269\/revisions\/55286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}