The American Revolution and the Bud Light rebellion

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Just as rum sparked the American Revolution, perhaps Bud Light will spark a rebellion against woke tyranny.

Unlike many conservative rebellions, the Bud Light rebellion really seems to have legs (which is maybe a funny thing to say about a drink that, if you have too much, effectively renders your legs useless). The “transing” of Bud Light deeply offended ordinary Americans, the ones who usually aren’t that “into” politics. I now wonder if this might finally spell the twilight of woke; hence my calling it the Bud Light rebellion, rather than a boycott or protest.

What makes this thought kind of fun is that Wolf Howling reminded me that the American Revolution began over rum. The colonists put up with a lot of things from Britain that bugged them, but it was when parliament cracked down on rum that the colonists began to take very seriously the fact that they had no voice in a government that was economically punitive. And when I say colonists took rum seriously, I mean it:

By the early 18th century, nearly all the rum exported from the West Indies went straight to North America: between 1726 and 1730, Barbados and Antigua alone shipped out over 900,000 gallons. Among Benjamin Franklin’s 228 synonyms for drunk, published in 1737 in the Pennsylvania Gazette, was “Been to Barbados.”

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By the 18th century, American colonists were not only importing rum; they were distilling their own.  As of 1770, according to Wayne Curtis, there were over 150 rum distilleries in New England, and the colonists, collectively, were importing 6.5 million gallons of West Indian molasses, and turning it into five million gallons of rum. One estimate from the time of the Revolutionary War puts American rum consumption at nearly four gallons per person per year.

The problem as rum production moved to the colonies was that the thirsty colonists ceased to buy it from the Caribbean. Britain, which was punitively protective against its own colonies (with Ireland being Exhibit A), cracked down:

As American distillers sought better deals and increased production by obtaining molasses from French, as well as English, colonies, Britain’s Parliament imposed a series of so-called Navigation Acts that precluded their own colonists from all trade with those of other European countries.

Americans rejected these restrictions and continued to deal with the French for their prized molasses, prompting Parliament to levy the 1733 Molasses Act, which taxed all non-English molasses. But wily entrepreneurs, determined to continue producing rum, kept smuggling molasses in defiance of the tariff.

British overlords escalated their response, establishing the 1764 Sugar Act to crack down on the illicit trafficking. Protests began, which soon turned into open rebellion, all because thirsty Americans would not allow their flow of rum to be curtailed.

There were, of course, other problems with Parliament, but rum was one of the main contenders when it came to the “Intolerable Acts” that drove the colonists to open revolution.

Now, I’m not suggesting that anyone in America should take up arms because Bud Light decided to use as a product representative a mentally-ill man who created a female persona that is obviously intended to appeal to pedophiles. And if you don’t believe me about that pedophile point, just check out this TikTok from Mr. Mulvaney:

@dylanmulvaney Childhood dream unlocked ✔️ #eloise #plazahotel ♬ Eloise – Emily Christine Peterson

However, while I’m neither predicting nor advocating a full-blown revolution, I am saying that there’s no doubt that Americans are enraged that Anheuser-Busch used a totally generic, all-American product to advance an agenda that most Americans, if pinned down, will concede is abnormal, dangerous to children, and destructive to society. Americans need to take this rage and stand up against wokeness, DEI, CRT, and everything else. The Anheuser-Busch debacle has shown that we are the majority, yet we act as if we’re the minority. That needs to stop.

So phooey on Donald Trump, Jr., a man who is seldom tone-deaf but who, in this instance, is making the wrong call:

He’s not just tone-deaf on this one, he’s factually wrong. American jobs are at stake no matter what, given that the Biden administration and its leftist backers are destroying the American economy and the American character. Additionally, while Anheuser-Busch may have started in America and have ostensibly American headquarters, it’s not an American company now. Instead, it’s owned by a huge Belgian conglomerate.

So go forth, brave Americans, and fight for your beer to be represented by normal heterosexuals, not weird men who want to look like sexualized little girls.

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