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Budweiser Clydesdale Events Cancelled as Bud Light Boycott Grows

A Budweiser distributor in Springfield, Missouri has cancelled all planned appearances of the iconic Clydesdale horses, citing threats to its employees.

The news comes as the boycott of Bud Light on account of its partnership with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney continues to grow. The beer’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, is now having to react to criticism as well as increasing problems, including a stock price that’s dipped.

Wil Fischer Distributing decided to cancel all of the Springfield Clydesdale showings, citing safety concerns for their employees, according to the local Fox outlet. The Clydesdales have long featured in commercials such as last year’s Budweiser Super Bowl ad. The horses also recently made their annual appearance at the Cardinals’s Busch Stadium for baseball’s 2023 Opening Day.

Bud Light’s partnership with Mulvaney was intended to brighten up the brand from its stale association with “fratty” college guys throughout America’s colleges.

“If we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light,” the beer’s VP of marketing explained last month. “What I brought to that was a belief in, okay, what does ‘evolve and elevate’ mean? It means inclusivity. It means shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that’s truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men.”

Had a boyhood friend, that I 'grew up" with that was the biggest money grubbing SOB you could ever imagine, and took every opportunity to make certain that 'some one else' paid for 'gas, or anything else involved in a 'night out", including any 'gaming' machine costs, pool table cost etc.

We had a mutual 'acquaintance' whose family was an 'heir' to the Saalfield Publishing Company, fortune, in Akron, Ohio, in that he got a monthly check from the estate of the Saalfield family fortune, and my 'friend' knew that and would go out on a Friday or Saturday night, drinking and partying on 'our friend's" money, and never offered to pay a dime.

I wised up to this 'sponge', quickly, and learned to see that he paid his SHARE of whatever we spent on a 'night out' with the 'boys', but it seems the other guy was somewhat lonely, and had few friends and allowed this unscrupulous jerk to 'leach' off of him.

On the flip side, I had a work associate here in California, that was from Pakistan, and he was the absolute antithesis of my 'sponge' boyhood friend, and this man refused to let me pay when we went out to lunch, during our work time.

Have you ever had a so-called-sponge "friend' like I describe above, and if so how did you handle it? Did you just shut him off as a "party person" or just 'dump; him as a friend, or did you find a way to make him pay up when he/she should have?