I don't understand how anybody can chose to drink that swill. The only time I drank it was when, at the end of the night the bar I hung out with used to bring out dollar bud and I would drink it for the water content to hydrate myself for post bar drinking.
That's kind of all that really ever need to be said about it in my opinion. No one should have been drinking Bud Light to begin with. I saw a lot of apologetics about how it's the official sponsor of most arenas and pretty much the only beer you can get at any big event but, at the same time, if that's all that's available, and it costs $15 bucks a can at the artificially inflated prices at these things... still, don't drink it.
The Vichy Right strikes again. To be fair, Kid Rock's pose as a man of the Right was about as authentic as any other wigger entertainer who realizes that his whitetrash audience is too old to be in the mosh pit or pretending to be black anymore (Fred Durst says hi from oblivion) so turning yourself into a flag pimping redneck for cash ensures a steady paycheck.
Now that I think about it, there really are a lot of white rappers, metalheads, and alt rockers that have drifted towards country music and posited themselves as redneck, patriotic, Middle Americans. A year or so ago I was hearing that song "Am I The Only One" by the former frontman of the nu-metal band Staind all over the place.
How else you going to get a recurring gig at Fox News alongside Cyclops Dan Crenshaw or the other mainstream conservative grifting media outlets, without some limp dick Lee Greenwood ripoff about how proud you are to be an American and everyone should support the troops? The gay tranny Army and Navy need your children now more than ever. Playing state fairs sucks.
Now, I'm an Iraq vet (USMC), so this shit strikes a very raw nerve with me. They're all pimps and whores.
Before all this I didn't really take seriously on matters of taste anyone who enthusiastically drinks Bud Light or Coors or any of the other awful pisswaters posing as beer. Nothing changed after. Nothing about this changes now. Call me a snob. I only drink fancy beer. Otherwise I'll have water, thanks.
But I do struggle to understand the appeal of consuming something that tastes *just horrible* and is made by people who hate you. Perhaps there's some correlation between the two?
(and don't give me the excuse that you're just trying to get a buzz on the cheap either, because there's much more cost-effective ways to do that)
I think it's just old fogies stuck in their way, a lot of the time. I heard a lot of older men during the initial round of boycotts and outrage say that "Well, it's cheap and I've been drinking it forever", as if you can't get other alternatives. A truly economical drunk knows that, if you're gonna get blitzed on the cheap, it's Mad Dog 20/20 or Colt .45. What really boggles my mind, though, are guys like Kid Rock and other "right wing" celebrities that were just apparently unable to put down Bud Light for, like, even a month. It would make more sense if these were people that couldn't scrape two pennies together, but if I had Kid Rock's money, I would never even dream of touching Bud Light. The whole thing just boils down to brand loyalty and old habits, I think.
Depending on where you are and the context of the situation a high gravity beer is going to get you a lot more bang for your buck than the cheap brands anyway, and taste better. A place I used to go after work had the usual national brands for $3 a pint and a few local microbrews for $6 with upward of 10% alcohol content, or about double to triple the cheap stuff (this was a decade ago so the prices I'm sure are higher now but the ratio is probably the same). I don't drink to get drunk, or even buzzed really, but the math works out if that's what you're trying to do and it's night and day on taste. And there's always cheap hard liquor in bulk if you really want to get to the point, like we used to when I was a degenerate teenager.
I am shocked and appalled that Kid Rock has proven to be of... less than sterling character. These are truly dark times, when even shitty, STD-riddled rappers who peaked during the Bush years cannot be counted on.
I know, it's sad that the guy who's hit album was called "Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp" turned out to be a flake. But, Fred Durst... now there's a guy who can stick to his guns! Maybe we can try him next.
That's what I'm saying! If I had that much money I'd never drink anything that wasn't world-class! There's a lot of people with a lot of money who apparently only drink Bud Light. Money can't buy taste.
This C.S. Lewis quote remains evergreen: “Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
It's only natural for people - especially masses - to seek leadership, and anyone who says otherwise is entirely incorrect. Unfortunately, there's such a dearth of anyone in the space of the mainstream right of anyone with any principles means that people like Kid Rock will continue to be the ones that Middle America will glom on to, just by virtue of being visible, being there, and saying something they agree with. On a macro level, I think that's exactly why Trump has ended up being a figurehead of the entire right side of the political spectrum despite being out of line with much of it. Also kind of reminds me of when the Harry Potter video game came out last year and people like Ben Shapiro and Stephen Crowder were telling people to go buy it (I think one of them bought, like, ten copies of it just to show off) to "own the libs" because J.K. Rowling is "based and anti-woke" when she just said one out-of-line thing that they happened to (nominally) agree with, but otherwise is still a bog-standard neo-liberal. Really speaks to how easily people will gravitate to a public figure who happens to say the right thing at the right time.
I don't see anything changing anytime soon though so I assume Kid Rock is just one in what will be a revolving door of celebrities who say something off-color, ride the publicity, and then come back to say, "Woah, guys, don't take it too far now!" months later.
The normie right is so demoralized at this point that anyone who treats them with anything less than total scorn is a potential target for idolatry. Which... just gives more ammunition to the demoralizers. It's fucked. But I think it's intentional. They do a pretty good job of filtering out anyone who might exhibit actual values or character that the right would identify with.
I, on the other hand, will continue my effortless lifelong boycott of Bud Light.
Cheers brother, I'll drink to that.
I don't understand how anybody can chose to drink that swill. The only time I drank it was when, at the end of the night the bar I hung out with used to bring out dollar bud and I would drink it for the water content to hydrate myself for post bar drinking.
That's kind of all that really ever need to be said about it in my opinion. No one should have been drinking Bud Light to begin with. I saw a lot of apologetics about how it's the official sponsor of most arenas and pretty much the only beer you can get at any big event but, at the same time, if that's all that's available, and it costs $15 bucks a can at the artificially inflated prices at these things... still, don't drink it.
The Vichy Right strikes again. To be fair, Kid Rock's pose as a man of the Right was about as authentic as any other wigger entertainer who realizes that his whitetrash audience is too old to be in the mosh pit or pretending to be black anymore (Fred Durst says hi from oblivion) so turning yourself into a flag pimping redneck for cash ensures a steady paycheck.
Now that I think about it, there really are a lot of white rappers, metalheads, and alt rockers that have drifted towards country music and posited themselves as redneck, patriotic, Middle Americans. A year or so ago I was hearing that song "Am I The Only One" by the former frontman of the nu-metal band Staind all over the place.
How else you going to get a recurring gig at Fox News alongside Cyclops Dan Crenshaw or the other mainstream conservative grifting media outlets, without some limp dick Lee Greenwood ripoff about how proud you are to be an American and everyone should support the troops? The gay tranny Army and Navy need your children now more than ever. Playing state fairs sucks.
Now, I'm an Iraq vet (USMC), so this shit strikes a very raw nerve with me. They're all pimps and whores.
Before all this I didn't really take seriously on matters of taste anyone who enthusiastically drinks Bud Light or Coors or any of the other awful pisswaters posing as beer. Nothing changed after. Nothing about this changes now. Call me a snob. I only drink fancy beer. Otherwise I'll have water, thanks.
But I do struggle to understand the appeal of consuming something that tastes *just horrible* and is made by people who hate you. Perhaps there's some correlation between the two?
(and don't give me the excuse that you're just trying to get a buzz on the cheap either, because there's much more cost-effective ways to do that)
I think it's just old fogies stuck in their way, a lot of the time. I heard a lot of older men during the initial round of boycotts and outrage say that "Well, it's cheap and I've been drinking it forever", as if you can't get other alternatives. A truly economical drunk knows that, if you're gonna get blitzed on the cheap, it's Mad Dog 20/20 or Colt .45. What really boggles my mind, though, are guys like Kid Rock and other "right wing" celebrities that were just apparently unable to put down Bud Light for, like, even a month. It would make more sense if these were people that couldn't scrape two pennies together, but if I had Kid Rock's money, I would never even dream of touching Bud Light. The whole thing just boils down to brand loyalty and old habits, I think.
Depending on where you are and the context of the situation a high gravity beer is going to get you a lot more bang for your buck than the cheap brands anyway, and taste better. A place I used to go after work had the usual national brands for $3 a pint and a few local microbrews for $6 with upward of 10% alcohol content, or about double to triple the cheap stuff (this was a decade ago so the prices I'm sure are higher now but the ratio is probably the same). I don't drink to get drunk, or even buzzed really, but the math works out if that's what you're trying to do and it's night and day on taste. And there's always cheap hard liquor in bulk if you really want to get to the point, like we used to when I was a degenerate teenager.
I am shocked and appalled that Kid Rock has proven to be of... less than sterling character. These are truly dark times, when even shitty, STD-riddled rappers who peaked during the Bush years cannot be counted on.
I know, it's sad that the guy who's hit album was called "Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp" turned out to be a flake. But, Fred Durst... now there's a guy who can stick to his guns! Maybe we can try him next.
That's what I'm saying! If I had that much money I'd never drink anything that wasn't world-class! There's a lot of people with a lot of money who apparently only drink Bud Light. Money can't buy taste.
This C.S. Lewis quote remains evergreen: “Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
It's only natural for people - especially masses - to seek leadership, and anyone who says otherwise is entirely incorrect. Unfortunately, there's such a dearth of anyone in the space of the mainstream right of anyone with any principles means that people like Kid Rock will continue to be the ones that Middle America will glom on to, just by virtue of being visible, being there, and saying something they agree with. On a macro level, I think that's exactly why Trump has ended up being a figurehead of the entire right side of the political spectrum despite being out of line with much of it. Also kind of reminds me of when the Harry Potter video game came out last year and people like Ben Shapiro and Stephen Crowder were telling people to go buy it (I think one of them bought, like, ten copies of it just to show off) to "own the libs" because J.K. Rowling is "based and anti-woke" when she just said one out-of-line thing that they happened to (nominally) agree with, but otherwise is still a bog-standard neo-liberal. Really speaks to how easily people will gravitate to a public figure who happens to say the right thing at the right time.
I don't see anything changing anytime soon though so I assume Kid Rock is just one in what will be a revolving door of celebrities who say something off-color, ride the publicity, and then come back to say, "Woah, guys, don't take it too far now!" months later.
The normie right is so demoralized at this point that anyone who treats them with anything less than total scorn is a potential target for idolatry. Which... just gives more ammunition to the demoralizers. It's fucked. But I think it's intentional. They do a pretty good job of filtering out anyone who might exhibit actual values or character that the right would identify with.