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After the fiasco with Bud Light, I think many companies are going to be stepping a bit on the brakes…

 

[mdwest]

After the fiasco with Bud Light, I think many companies are going to be stepping a bit on the brakes…

Sadly, I doubt this.

As long as Larry Fink / Blackrock and other major investors continue to push their ultra liberal DEI agendas companies are going to continue to try to appease them…

It’s easy for the right to claim victory when news outlets show Bud Light losing $6B in market cap in a matter of a few weeks…

But they are conveniently not acknowledging that AB was up almost $20B over the preceding few months and is still ahead of the position they were in this same time last year..

I will personally not buy another AB product…

But unfortunately there are plenty of people that still do and will continue to do so…

Bud Light might fall out of favor for a while..

But how many people on the right continued to buy Stella Artois, Rolling Rock, Becks, and other AB brands last week and continued to line the pockets of the same leadership team that made the Bud Light decision? (Most of them I’d bet don’t even realize what they’ve done… and sadly, a good number likely dont care…)…

 

[Red Leg]

Sadly, I doubt this.

As long as Larry Fink / Blackrock and other major investors continue to push their ultra liberal DEI agendas companies are going to continue to try to appease them…

It’s easy for the right to claim victory when news outlets show Bud Light losing $6B in market cap in a matter of a few weeks…

But they are conveniently not acknowledging that AB was up almost $20B over the preceding few months and is still ahead of the position they were in this same time last year..

I will personally not buy another AB product…

But unfortunately there are plenty of people that still do and will continue to do so…

Bud Light might fall out of favor for a while..

But how many people on the right continued to buy Stella Artois, Rolling Rock, Becks, and other AB brands last week and continued to line the pockets of the same leadership team that made the Bud Light decision? (Most of them I’d bet don’t even realize what they’ve done… and sadly, a good number likely dont care…)…

I may be an absolute irrational optimist, but this sort of common sense from the left can get this pendulum swinging the other direction.

 

[mdwest]

I agree with you @redleg … I think we as a society will recover… as bad as people seem to be today, are they really any worse than the drug induced haight ashbury folks that were running around in the 60s? Is BLM really any worse than weather underground or the old black panther party?

It’s just going to take the Finks and Soros types dying off and a generation or two gap between the millennials (who, God help us, are about to start occupying the whitehouse, most of Congress, and a significant part ofthe judiciary within the next 10 years…) and a new group of up and comers that understand the ridiculousness and travesty of 6 year olds picking their one of 42 genders and transvestites selling redneck brand beers…

I do believe it will ultimately get better…

I just unfortunately think we still have a good bit more pain to endure before it does…

 

[Red Leg]

Looks like the actual president may be departing the White House.

Susan Rice to step down as Biden's domestic policy chief

Rice's departure next month will bring to a close her prolific, wide-ranging and at times controversial tenure.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Red Leg]

For the military junkies still reading this topic - this is ISW's latest assessment of the situation in Ukraine. It is long and very thorough. And unlike a Tucker Carlson or Douglas McGregor narrative, this assessment has been assembled by some truly able and experienced military strategists based on facts and informed analysis.

Institute for the Study of War

ISW is publishing a special edition campaign assessment today, April 23. This report outlines the current Russian order of battle (ORBAT) in Ukraine, assesses the offensive and defensive capabilities of Russian force groupings along the front, and

www.understandingwar.org

One of the key takeaways -

The pattern of Russian deployments throughout Ukraine strongly suggests that most of the available maneuver elements of all military districts, as well as major surviving Airborne forces, are already committed to either active offensive or defensive operations in Ukraine. Russia will need to commit significant reserves to any discrete axis in order to conduct effective offensive operations, and the generally exhausted condition of troops and the apparently disorganized and fragmented deployment pattern in some areas will likely pose significant obstacles to Russia’s prospects for defending critical sectors of the frontline.

 

[WAB]

For the military junkies still reading this topic - this is ISW's latest assessment of the situation in Ukraine. It is long and very thorough. And unlike a Tucker Carlson or Douglas McGregor narrative, this assessment has been assembled by some truly able and experienced military strategists based on facts and informed analysis.

Institute for the Study of War

ISW is publishing a special edition campaign assessment today, April 23. This report outlines the current Russian order of battle (ORBAT) in Ukraine, assesses the offensive and defensive capabilities of Russian force groupings along the front, and

www.understandingwar.org

One of the key takeaways -

The pattern of Russian deployments throughout Ukraine strongly suggests that most of the available maneuver elements of all military districts, as well as major surviving Airborne forces, are already committed to either active offensive or defensive operations in Ukraine. Russia will need to commit significant reserves to any discrete axis in order to conduct effective offensive operations, and the generally exhausted condition of troops and the apparently disorganized and fragmented deployment pattern in some areas will likely pose significant obstacles to Russia’s prospects for defending critical sectors of the frontline.

This is the most comprehensive report they have issued in some time. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture for Russia. If correct, Russia is fully deployed with depleted, exhausted troops on the exterior of a crescent. Ukraine, on the other hand, is building strength and capability on the interior of the crescent, allowing them to mount a focused counter offensive in any number of directions. If correct, Putin is about to pay a terrible price in blood for his pride and foolishness.

A key question I have is, when does the Russian tolerance for failure run out, ending Putin’s reign? They don’t have a history of tolerance.

 

[Red Leg]

This is the most comprehensive report they have issued in some time. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture for Russia. If correct, Russia is fully deployed with depleted, exhausted troops on the exterior of a crescent. Ukraine, on the other hand, is building strength and capability on the interior of the crescent, allowing them to mount a focused counter offensive in any number of directions. If correct, Putin is about to pay a terrible price in blood for his pride and foolishness.

A key question I have is, when does the Russian tolerance for failure run out, ending Putin’s reign? They don’t have a history of tolerance.

Yes. Interior lines, whether in defense or in preparing an attack convey a significant increase in combat power to the army that holds them. Conventional military wisdom states that an attacking force needs to achieve a three to one combat power advantage in time and space at the point of contact to assure success. That is much easier to accomplish inside a long line of contact rather than outside it.

The Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) or the second and third days at Gettysburg are excellent small scale examples of interior lines enabling defensive power. The German attack through the Ardennes and Sedan in 1940 and the breakout of the Pusan perimeter in September 1950 are examples of using interior lines to mass for an offensive operations.

I think Ukraine's greatest challenge will be operational maintenance of its vast array of armored vehicles from multiple countries. They are likely to lose as many to maintenance as to enemy action. I hope they are able to forward emplace maintenance support structures and adequate spares to quickly return them to action.

I suspect they are also doing some very careful math with respect to tank deliveries. The last, US M1's and some of the Leopards, won't arrive until late summer. I do not believe that they can wait that long. When will be armor density reach good enough.

 

[Doug3006]

Tucker Carlson and Fox are parting ways! Incredible. I wonder if this is related to the huge check Fox cut for Dominion?

 

[Ray B]

Regardless as to the correctness of numbers presented by both sides of the Ukraine issue, it aggravates me that neither side includes the effects of the EarthProtection Polices of the DemonRat Party. the Committee in DC continue their policies that promote aggression throughout the world while claiming to be the party of peace.

 

[Red Leg]

Tucker Carlson and Fox are parting ways! Incredible. I wonder if this is related to the huge check Fox cut for Dominion?

Or his misreporting on Ukraine and the election, or Dominion and other pending lawsuits, or some combination thereof? He is their most popular commentator. Will be curious where he goes. I use to be a huge fan.