(04-26-2023, 03:09 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-26-2023, 02:39 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Who cares if he offends people. Dylan Mulvany offends people, and you were trying to buy stock because you believed people won't follow through with their boycott. Bud can advertise with who it wants, right? What difference does it make? They are just expanding their demographic, right? Oh, that's right... except for when you're told that person can't have that view. Who tells you that? Why don't you ever think outside your bubble?

You want to know the answer to my question? Here it is: There is more profit in controlling the narrative than there is in convincing people to buy your product. This is true whether you're a business "selling" a product or a politician "selling" a policy. Control the market via market capture and policy regulation. Control the narrative via censorship and distraction. Profit.

Tucker has attacked the senior brass at the DOD, Pfizer, the January 6th narrative. Nothing he said with regards to these criticisms were wrong as far as I can tell. They were certainly obnoxious. There is some spin at times... I seriously doubt he's capturing the whole truth of the issue, but where do you find that? Look around, Marty... the only opinions are not attacked as far right is whatever pro-government position that's currently held by Democrats. Name a single right-wing issue that isn't attacked as absurd. 

Yet... and here's the kicker... congress still passes laws ALL the time. Which ones? We have no [BLEEP] idea. Who do they benefit? Not us. We don't even know about them. We know about transphobia, though. Yea!

I wasn't trying to buy stock in Budweiser.  And Dylan Mulvaney is a good example of what I'm talking about.  Bud shot itself in the foot.  

Tucker has attacked all the people you cite, but he also attacked his own bosses and his own co-workers.  He was popular, but he couldn't pull in the advertising revenue commensurate with that popularity. He had no friends at Fox to defend him.  He was deeply unpopular there.  And the discovery process in the Dominion case revealed that Tucker Carlson is a big phony.  He supports Trump in public but he hates Trump in private.  He supports stolen-election theories in public but in private he says he doesn't believe them.

I don't see why you're having such a hard time grasping this.  Does everything have to fit into your grand conspiracy theories where powerful dark forces are conspiring to take over the world and control our thoughts?  Have you ever seen the movie "The President's Analyst?"  That's right up your alley.

(04-14-2023, 08:13 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-14-2023, 07:52 AM)Caldrac Wrote: It's going down the toilet bowl now for sure. I think their stock hit continues to rise as they were at a $6.5B loss as of yesterday or the day before. 

Not sure how much it really matters though if they're primarily backed by one of the world's, if not, the world's largest asset group in Blackrock. Blackrock has over $10T in assets. They have more money behind them than most countries do at the moment. 

In the grand scheme of things, Budweiser could fall off a cliff tomorrow and Blackrock won't skip a beat. They'll just flip their assets over to a new brand and company and allow them to use their old facilities, equipment, etc. 

It's pretty interesting and disturbing. They can push any narrative they want behind the scenes and still make out on top by playing both sides. While it's encouraging to see a lot of people voting with their dollars, it's also disheartening to see a ton of hardworking people potentially losing their jobs.

On March 14, Budweiser stock closed at $60.45.   As of this moment, pre-market, April 14, it will open at $64.34, which is a gain of over 5% for the last month.

I think in another month or two, this will all be forgotten, except for the executives at BUD, who will institute greater controls on how advertising gets approved.

I can't make a connection between BUD stock and Blackrock.  The largest investor in BUD is Dodge and Cox Stock fund, which owns 1.46%.  Only 6.3% of shares are owned by institutions.

(04-14-2023, 08:27 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-14-2023, 08:20 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Marty, you got me thinking about this... what if, knowing the temperament of the US public, investors have picked up a new way of gaining cheap stocks. Manufacture public outrage... the public sells their stocks, investors pick up stocks, the storm blows over. Profit.

I've thought the exact same thing since the big Tylenol case a couple of decades ago.  These things blow over.  I see it again and again, but I never have the nerve to jump in.

I went and looked at the BUD stock this morning, thinking maybe I could get a discount, but nothing's happening.  No discount.