When the Bud Light thing started, my first thought was corporate sabotage. A giant corporation, even in the ESG era, usually knows its customers and doesn’t make serious mistakes. As ESG is fading, many corporations have caught the turning wind and shifted out of woke gear.
DeSantis’s flopped debut smells the same. He’s an experienced politician who knows the rules of marketing. Until now he never made an own goal. Letting Elon run the event should have been an obvious error to anyone who watches Elon’s trickery. Stepping onto Trump’s private stage, where Trump owns the microphone, is just DUMB. Other candidates (Haley, Scott, Vivek) didn’t make the same mistake. They announced in friendly or neutral venues, making a much smaller but less toxic splash. Their announcements enabled potential fans to connect and donate without fighting through Trump’s superflood of sewage.
Bud and Target may be manipulated by large shareholders who are well aware of the decrease in free money. In the new atmosphere of scarcity the giant funds are less able to buy anything they want, so they need to CUT THE PRICE of what they want. Now they can control a larger percentage of Bud and Target more easily. Painting the tape, talking the book.
DeSantis’s major shareholders include Sheldon Adelson’s widow and Ken Griffin. Adelson might be thinking of easier casino purchases. If DeSantis runs and fails, he’ll be out of the Florida governor’s office for at least a year. Or she may just be working directly for Trump, since her husband ended up as a Trump funder. Griffin is a well-known tape painter. as witness his trickery in the Constitution DAO mess. He rigs every game for his advantage.
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