DYLAN MULVANEY, INFLUENCER FOR BUD LIGHT

                       

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                           

                                     Reading the news these days, you may well  come across Dylan Mulvaney, the media's latest transgendering hero. After his star rose as an elder in the broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," he told the world of his moving from boyhood to girlhood in Tik Tok videos which attracted millions of followers.  Last year, Anheuser Busch retained Dylan as an "influencer" who would make drinking Bud Light, an even greater adventure.  

                                     The company put the face of Dylan on the blue beer can and the bubbly, chirpy  Dylan, wearing a "Breakfast at Tiffany" outfit, hailed the popular brand in commercials.  This month, she said, " I celebrated my 365 days of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever — a can with my face on it"  Another video featured Dylan in a sudsy bathtub, having a cool Bud Light. 

                                      Anheuser Busch and its public relations team were certain that the transitioning, carefully-coiffed lady Dylan, would sweeten the pot for the beer company and that admirers of Dylan would rush to pop open Bud Light cans ---or so the company thought.  

                                 It didn't work that way and by last April, following a year of Dylan pushing Bud Light, records were in and stats showed that sales and consumption of the nation's best selling beer tanked and the company lost billions of dollars. Criticism was heavy and not flattering for the prancing, smirking  and heavily made up Dylan, who is praised by LGBTQ activists who believe that men and woman can determine their sex despite the sexual package given them at birth.  

                              Singer Kid Rock became so outraged over the company's partnering with Dylan Mulvaney that he used Bud Light beer cans as targets on a rifle range; and after  destroying several dozen cans with his firepower, he turned to the cameras and yelled, "f--- Bud Light and f..... Anheuser-Busch." 

                                 Conservative  Congresswoman  Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, and U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, called out Mulvaney as a  “fake woman,” and labeled her gender expression as an “absurdity.” Another critic described Dylan as  "everything the right loves to hate about 'trans' people in one convenient, outspoken package."

                             According to the Bump Williams Consulting firm,  Parent  Anheuser-Busch sold $71.5 million worth of Bud Light in the week ending April 29, a 23% drop compared to a year ago. Budweiser sales totaled $31.5 million that same week, down roughly 11%, the firm said. Sales of other Anheuser-Busch brands — including Michelob Ultra, Busch Light and Natural Light —also took a hit  Company shares were down amid nationwide boycotts while the S&P 500 rose 2.25% over the same period.                                                         Dylan Mulvaney, 26, the "transgendering influencer" who turned out to be sort of a  Bud Light "She Devil,"  is the offspring of a conservative Catholic family in California.  She was born a baby boy and was given the Welsh name of Dylan by mother, Donna and father, James. 

                               Talented, extroverted and always seeking attention, Dylan's star as an actor rose while appearing in the Broadway musical. Then, on Tik Tok, with her year long videos depicting her new year of being a girl, she reportedly attracted some 1.8 million followers on Instagram and another 10 million on Tik Tok--or so they say.. 

                                     Ever since he was four years-old, Dylan has said. he leaned toward girl things and activities.  Growing older, he reached the conclusion that he was in the wrong body and had been given the wrong package.  So he opted to change his gender and because of today's woke society, garnered huge followings and is still seen as an "influencer" on television singing and prancing about in skimpy clothing and bathing suits as a chirpy young woman pushing a product.  

                                    While it is reported that her bottom equipment may remain the same, Dylan has told of extensive facial femininization surgery.  In fact she goes into detail on changes to her face and head on a Tic Tok video.  The surgery, she said,  took "multiple hours and included; a hairline advancement; a brow bone shave; a rhinoplasty; a cheek enhancement; a lip lift; a jaw shave; a chin reduction; and a tracheal shave."  Even her "tiny nipples," she exclaims proudly, have been doubled in size.

                                           She had  a sit-down interview with President Biden a big promoter of gender changing, abortion and the sexualizing of children. It is a topic with which the befuddled Biden hunches over and speaks of in his customary horse whisper. In response to a question from Dylan, President  Biden said that he was definitely in favor of "gender identity bathrooms." Also, he said, that it would be "illegal and immoral" for the banning of gender affirming health care --and for interfering with the  transgendering of a person

                                        The message to Anheuser Busch and to other corners of America seems loud and clear that the transgendering craze and the new girlhood for Dylan is not looked upon with favor by millions of Americans, including those who like drinking beer.  As some have said, "changing genders is not in nature's playbook and certainly is not something to aspire to;  and transitioning persons should not be treated as a priestly class that can do no wrong."                                    

                                  Very likely, Anheuser Busch is wishing that it could quietly sneak away and wash their hands of all associations with the "trans" new lady and her "influencing" on behalf of Bud Light. 

                                  Without addressing the Dylan Mulvaney backlash and problems directly,  Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. 

                                  Anson Frericks, former president of Anheuser Busch, didn't mince words.  He called on Whitworth to resign as CEO for having "botched" the Bud Light situation.  "It's time for the shareholders and board of Anheuser to ask Whitworth to step down."

                                 " The beer company's decision to make trans  activist Dylan Mulvaney the face of Bus Light has cost the company a staggering $20 billion..and counting," said Frericks.  

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                                 In response to the backlash, Anheuser CEO Brendan Whitworth said that his 165- year-old company is in the business of bringing people together over a beer and not in creating issues which will divide them. He  issued the following statement:

                                 "As the CEO of a company founded in America's heartland more that 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders, sports fans and hard-working Americans everywhere.......

                               "We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people.  We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer."

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THE EXIT OF LORI LIGHTFOOT

                         

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                             

                               May 15, 2023,  was a very satisfying day for a great number of Chicagoans and former Chicagoans like this writer, who want only the best for the Windy City and Land of Lincoln.      

                                It was exit-day for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the five-foot, one inch lady with sagging blue jeans and a droopy cowboy hat, who was in charge of Chicago, the nation's third largest city, for the past 48 months. And she indeed left a legacy.  No elected woman ever had as dirty a mouth as Lightfoot exhibited, and no mayor was ever so absorbed in  tracking down racial politics in every corner of the  city.  She had no time for budgets or deficits or stopping crime while alleged white supremacists were lurking anywhere in the Windy City.

.                             Lightfoot, 60, had the distinction of being the city's first black, lesbian chief executive.  She is family oriented and has a wife and an adopted daughter.  Lightfoot was feisty and wielded a fist at anyone who challenged her assertions.  If you argued and resisted, she got angry and often accused the  critic of being a racist.   

                               She scrambled about City Hall during her first 24 months in office with virtually no accomplishments to point to.  She watched as crime spiraled upward with street shootings and killings breaking Chicago records. On the anniversary of her first two years as mayor in 2021,  she was given a cake with two candles to mark the occasion.  But she added more than a gracious  "thank you" for the occasion. 

                                In the future, she announced, she would only grant one-on-one interviews to reporters who are "people of color."  Chicago City Hall, she said, has way too many white journalists compared to the number of reporters "of color,"and that  situation is intolerable and must change.  Her comments drew national attention, but no one was heard endorsing her new program.  One TV anchor from Fox News described her as a "lunatic racist" who should not hold a public office.  Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman and a Democrat who had run for President in 2020, called for her resignation, and importuned President Biden and Vice President Harris to join her in the demand. 

                                 Before President Trump left office in January of 2021, he contacted Lightfoot and offered to send armed troops to Chicago to help in the fight against street crime. Lightfoot refused and said she considered the President a "racist" and that she would have nothing to do with him. The Chicago Tribune upbraided Lightfoot for her attitude and advised her to be more "collaborative" with the President of the United States.  

                                 Lightfoot came aboard as Chicago's mayor in 2019 after a tough primary fight and a run-off election against  County Board President Toni Preckwinkle which she won in a landslide.  Lightfoot succeeded Rahm Emanuel who had been mayor for eight years, but declined to seek a third four-year term. Lightfoot  took office as a popular new mayor, receiving broad support from the Teachers union and others in the city, Republicans as well as Democrats. 

                                  Most members of the Chicago city council applauded her election and predicted great  things to come under the diminutive and feisty new mayor who had been a federal prosecutor and  had served as the President of the Chicago Police Board.  But four years later, hardly anyone in the council wanted her for a second term. One council member, a democrat, described her as a mayor who"played the race card" whenever there was a challenge to one of her loony proposals. 

                                   Democratic Ald. Sue Sadowski Garza was a strong Lightfoot supporter, but when time for her second term arrived, she did a backflip on her support of the mayor, and didn't hold back.  "She will never again get my support," she announced. "In four years, the mayor has managed to piss off everyone with whom she comes into contact....police, fire, teachers, aldermen, businesses, and manufacturing," said Garza.  

                                  Mayor Lightfoot failed to focus on gun crime even though participants were African Americans shooting their black brothers and sisters. Instead, she became a critic of Chicago policemen trying to do their jobs. She saw "racism" anytime a white policeman acted against a black citizen even when officers saw their targets breaking the law.  She instigated policies that set limits on when a  police officer could pursue a suspect who had committed a crime or appeared to be preparing to commit a crime. Uniformed officers voted a "no confidence" in her and considered her foot pursuit policy as impossible and ridiculous. Rank and file Chicago officers voted a "no confidence" in Lightfoot and in the new police chief she had appointed. 

                                    In in the aftermath of the George Floyd death, Lightfoot ordered the removal of statues of Christopher Columbus from two Chicago Parks on grounds that the Italian icon, Columbus, mistreated blacks.  Later, efforts were made by park district lawyers, at the request of Italian lawyers, to have a statue in a Columbus day parade. Lightfoot objected and engaged in an argument with lawyers in which she said she would make the decisions and that she had the biggest "dick" around.  She questioned one lawyer's credentials as an attorney, and he subsequently filed a lawsuit against her for defamation.

                                    At one point, Chicago police, acting upon a warrant signed  by a Cook county judge, accidently barged into the home of a woman undressed and preparing for bed --in search of  a drug dealer. Officers quickly apologized and the naked occupant was given a blanket by police and was without cover for merely  seconds.  Mark Flessner,  City lawyer, apologized on behalf of the police and the City of Chicago and prepared a check for $50,000  as damages for the woman's embarrassment.

                                      Lightfoot didn't think that was enough and upped the amount to $2.9 million. After all,  the woman was   African American and  the policemen were white. Corporation counsel argued that the multi million dollar settlement for damages was excessive and that the policemen had actually done nothing wrong since they acted pursuant to a warrant.  Lightfoot then fired city attorney Flessner, and the city council subsequently approved  the $2.9 million as reparations for the horror  of being viewed momentarily by white men. 

                                      Lightfoot also directed her cries of "systemic racism" against the Chicago Department of Health. Statistics show, said Lightfoot, that life expectancy for blacks is some ten years less than that for whites and Latinos, and that a major reason was the abbreviated care given to Black citizens. Also, there is an overwhelming number of African American residents dying from Covid 19, apparently for want of a vaccination. The Chicago Commissioner of Health has promised to improve care to black residents and to defeat the existing health care crisis.          

                                       With Lightfoot's exit from the mayor's office after four years, the gavel has been  turned over to Brandon Johnson, 47, an African American who had at one time favored the defunding of police.  However, later Johnson  said that he wanted money that had been earmarked for police, to be redirected to police social programs which would work hand in hand with police officers in bringing down crime; and would enable policemen to resolve some situations and problems without violence and shootings.  

                                        Johnson,  Chicago's 57th mayor,  was elected last  April in a run-off election against Paul Valas, a former CEO  of the Chicago schools. Valas, who is white, had promised to restore law and order to the streets of Chicago and to support and return respect to Chicago policemen. Johnson accused Valas of being a "closet republican," who could not be trusted. 

                                         Chicagoans are rooting for and hoping for the best and a safer city under Mayor Johnson  in its fight against  spiraling gun violence and crime and hijackings. In Lightfoot's final weekend as the city's mayor,  there were five persons killed and 29 others wounded by gunfire. The youngest victim was a 16 -year-old boy gunned down near "The Bean" in Millennium Park. 

                                       Chicagoans look forward to new safety and less violence under the new mayor who officially took office on May 16. Nevertheless, while hoping and praying for better days,  citizens are bracing for the possibility that the new mayor has only more of the past to offer.   

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SO THAT WAS TUCKER

                        

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU                       

                              Most everyone was surprised when Tucker Carlson got his pink slip which reportedly came directly from Rupert Murdoch, top owner of the Fox News cable station.  No advance notice or rumor, and even Carlson did not know that the axe was on its way.    

                               Lots of speculation as to why Tucker was eliminated.  He was drawing in millions of viewers nightly.  He annoyed Democrats and probably made the befuddled Joe Biden even more of a basket case as he heard the speeches and pronouncements drafted for him to read being cut up by the conservative Carlson who considered Biden mentally impaired and historically the dumbest of any American president.  

                                There are opinions that a Murdoch son who has always hung with Democrats pushed his dad to excise Tucker's powerful voice; young Murdoch always got applause and good will from the left wing.  In any case, the sending of Carlson to the street was a gift to President Biden who has announced his desire for another four year term.  

                               Tucker, 52, was in his seventh year as host of the nightly, prime time show, and he signed off on a Friday by saying---We will see you again on Monday. But on Monday morning, April 24, the news was announced that Tucker and Fox News had parted company; and Fox News bosses thanked their exiting star for his work and contributions. And then the door was closed and Tucker's fight  against  "lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink" as he always described it,  became his legacy. 

                               Tucker always had plenty of respectable sources as guests on his prime time show.  Heavy back up for his belief that 80-year-old Biden is physically and mentally wanting, grew from the  words of Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, a former navy admiral who served as President Obama's trusted doctor before his election to Congress.  

                                 As a White House physician, Adm. Jackson knew and saw Biden at work as Obama's Vice President--and he has provided Tucker with plenty of fuel. Said Rep. Jackson: "President Biden does not know what he is doing. Others under him pull his strings...he is dangerous and should not be president." 

                                 Tucker believed, as do millions of others,  that Biden became President after an election manipulated by dishonest and scheming Democrats who used a politicized FBI and a Department of Justice to get the job done. With the media on their side, and Facebook and Twitter doing their bidding, evidence of Biden's criminal conduct and behavior was kept under wraps and concealed from the eyes and ears of voting citizens. Facts about the infamous Hunter laptop are just now slowly coming to light.                                               Carlson, 52, began hosting his prime time hour on Fox News in 2016 after the station fired "Big Dog" Bill O'Reilly for alleged sexual harassment of women.  Carlson who had been a Fox employee since 2009 and was doing odd jobs and handling various gigs, discarded his bow tie and the show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," was born, and in short order caught the eye of viewers.  In  a couple of years,  Tucker became the number one cable news analyst with a powerful voice, and some four million viewers tuned in daily to his show, and to hear his political take on Washington and the nation's troubled times.    

                                 Democrats called Carlson a "liar" and a "racist" at every opportunity, and the far left NYT and WAPO weighed in often seeking to belittle his conservative talk and to persuade advertisers to abandon him. But that didn't work, and Tucker became a popular and powerful voice for  conservatives,  Christians and Republicans who resented the "cancel culture" and "woke" nonsense  being promoted by LGBTQ activists and the dim -witted President. 

                                  Tucker had his favorite topics and among them were Ukraine and its war with Russia;  the LGBTQ and its  growing list of initials, and the gender-transitioning mysticism infecting society.  Of course, he always had time to dwell on the blatant corruption of Joe Biden and his cocaine- addicted son, Hunter. 

                                  Tucker frequently asked  "What exactly," is America's vital national interest in Ukraine?  Why are billions of dollars in cash and in military weapons, ammunition, tanks. airplanes, food and clothing being delivered non-stop to Ukraine.  When does it end, reporters have asked President Biden. While nervously shuffling his crib notes, the president told reporters  "never"....it never ends.   

                                 Carlson has said that it was  morally wrong for Russia to attack Ukraine, but the first line of resistance to the Kremlin attack should come from European nations who are allied against Russia and its tyrannical president.  America's assistance to Ukraine in the past 14 months is reported to be about $100 billion, almost as much as the the United States invested in the eight year war in Vietnam.      Where is the accountability from President Zelenskyy? Carlson has said that he believes that America under Biden is dangerously close to  bringing about a third world war in Europe.

                                   As part of many of his shows,  Carlson spelled out the Biden family corruption linked to the discarded laptop computer of President Biden's son, Hunter. Messages on the laptop have revealed Joe Biden, when vice president and Obama's point man to Ukraine,  served as the "chairman" and "figurehead" to Hunter's  overseas business dealings with Ukraine, China and Russia.   

                                    Many thousands of dollars from those deals, according to Hunter's messages,  were earmarked for the "Big Guy" as Hunter referred to his father. Biden has publicly lied and said that he never discussed with Hunter the Hunter contracts; and that the laptop computer is "Russian disinformation." Former Attorney General Barr has said that Joe Biden is a liar.  

                                      On several occasions  Tucker offered as a guest on his show, Tony Bobulinski, a former naval officer and business associate of Hunter's, who told of meetings with Joe Biden when he was vice president. Despite the allegations, Bobulinski, has never been interviewed by the FBI, and has said that "Joe Biden is a "compromised president" and should resign. 

                                       The corruption and cover up of Joe Biden's criminal conduct and that of his son, said Tucker, makes Watergate look like child's play.

                                        Under Joe Biden, America's borders are wide open.  The world heard Biden yell, "Com'on in" and he meant every word.---and immigrants brought with them fentanyl and heroin  for use, sale and distribution. Border security is the sole responsibility of the federal government, and Biden  has thumbed his nose at the responsibility, and thousands of Americans have perished from the illegal fentanyl. 

                                        Since Biden became President in 2021, some five million illegal aliens have walked onto American shores.  Most check in with patrol officers and then are sent on their way in buses and planes to a desired destination.  Hundreds of thousands more simply bypass sign-in procedures and find their own modes of transportation.                                                                                                                                A year ago, Tucker Carlson was suspended from Twitter for so-called "misgendering" and "hateful speech." The suspension followed a Tucker segment in which he was critical of  Dr. Richard Levine's transition to Dr. Rachel Levine after Richard and his spouse had two daughters.  The change was in 2011. 

                                        Dr. Levine, a pediatrician, was named in 2021 by President  Biden as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health.  Subsequently the paper, USA Today, named him as "Woman of the Year," noting his outstanding work during  Covid emergencies.  A guest on Carlson's show, Seth Dillon, CEO of the satirical Babylon Bee organization. declared that the Bee had named Dr Levine as its "Man of the Year," and had posted relevant comments on Twitter.

                                       "Can an individual just decide to change sexes and become a woman, and direct that he be called by a female name" said Tucker." I think not, and do not intend to apologize to twitter for anything."  Carlson says that "transgendering" is biologically impossible and is an abomination which defies the laws of nature. Subsequently, after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, his suspension was lifted. 

                                      Carlson is gone from Cable television, at least for now.  But he may well in the future show up somewhere with a microphone in his hand, hated by woke democrats and other crazies, but loved and respected by millions who share his values and love for facts and truth.                                                                                         xxx