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<>NO POISON<> goes mainstream [Slate]
| ..;.;:.;.;..:..;,;,;. | 09/29/25 |
| Juan Eighty | 09/29/25 |
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Date: September 29th, 2025 6:12 PM Author: ..;.;:.;.;..:..;,;,;. The Republican Party, as so many postelection postmortems have found, has gotten younger, running up the margin with young men in particular. Those guys are supposed to be beer’s lifeblood. But the opposite is happening. Half of adults age 18 to 34 do not consume alcohol, up from 41 percent in 2023. Incredibly, as America becomes abstemious, it is Republicans on the vanguard.
Surely there are nonpolitical explanations for this. Maybe it’s because of a concomitant surge in the use of cannabis or alternative nicotine products, or maybe all those young men and conservatives are shooting up Ozempic.
But the investment banks don’t think so. As Laurence Whyatt, a beverage analyst at Barclays, told the Financial Times, all of those explanations were “not particularly compelling for having such a seismic change in a short space of time.” He cited uncertain economic headwinds, also brought on by Trump’s tariffs and other policies, as a primary reason for the decline.
Whatever the Bud Light fiasco was, it was just the beginning. On multiple fronts, the Republican Party has inaugurated an epidemic of teetotaling. Maybe it’s not exactly surprising. Trump abstains from alcohol, though he also abstained from alcohol during his first term, during which time Republicans were tipping them back. Could it be that manosphere podcasts are simply this powerful? There is a lot of talk in the self-actualization sphere about getting off booze and getting on protein. Charlie Kirk was sober; Tucker Carlson doesn’t drink. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked at length about his own sobriety, though he notably gave alcohol a pass as a potential cause of developmental problems in children in his “Make America Healthy Again” report.
https://slate.com/life/2025/09/beer-sales-decline-bud-light-donald-trump-news.html |
Date: September 29th, 2025 7:16 PM Author: Juan Eighty "Hulk Hogan had four months to live, and he had had enough at the ShopRite."
ok good to know that this article is going to get straight to the point and not meander |