JD Vance is a marked man. After accepting the nomination for vice president, Vance has been the subject of endless media attacks. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris even questioned his “loyalty” to the country despite his serving as a Marine in the Iraq War. Yet, one of the most chilling attacks came from Germany where the publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has stopped printing the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, his 2016 autobiography.
As we have discussed previously in this country, it is the modern left’s equivalent of book burning. After all, why burn books when you can simply prevent their being printed under blacklisting campaigns?
In this country, we have seen the left successfully force book bans for writers and even justices who espouse opposing viewpoints. We have seen actual calls for book burning recently (here and here).
Ullstein is facing a high demand for Vance’s best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, but has refused to print more copies due to his political viewpoints (unrelated to the book).
First published in 2016 and made into a movie in 2020, the book returned to the top position on The New York Times‘ bestseller list after Trump chose Vance as his running mate.
HarperCollins is rushing to print more books to meet the demand.
Some in the United States are already balking at the selling of any book by Vance. Seven Stories Press wrote, “Seven Stories Press is extremely thrilled to have never published JD Vance.”
Ullstein published the German translation of Hillbilly Elegy in 2017 and held the rights to reprints.
The company cited Vance’s allegiance with Trump and his politics as the reason in a statement to German media:
“At the time of its publication, the book made a valuable contribution to understanding the drifting apart of US society…In the meantime, he is officially acting alongside him and advocating an aggressively demagogic, exclusionary policy.”
German author Gerd Buurmann posted a mocking response that we should be happy that Ullstein had just thrown Vance’s book out of its catalogue and not into the fire – a reference to the notorious Nazi book burnings of the 1930s.
Other Germans have raised the same objections and referenced the painful history of book bans and burnings in Germany under the Nazis.
German readers want to read the book, which Ullstein acknowledged is one of the most influential works of this generation. However, because the company disagrees with his political viewpoints, it moved to block others from reading the book.
We have seen similar campaigns leading to the banning or burning of books by figures like JK Rowling because of her opposition to some transgender policies. The left now protests any programs on Rowling’s work and opposes the selling of her enormously popular Harry Potter series or even video games based on the series. When authors have defended her right to be published, they have also been subjected to cancel campaigns.
Yet, Ullstein’s decision is particularly chilling as a publishing house. Again, we have seen editors at publishing houses sign petitions to bar books by conservative figures like Justice Amy Coney Barrett from being published.
In 1933, thousands of books by Jewish and leftist writers were burned throughout Germany. Publishing houses further banned the printing of these books. The books were announced as corrupting the minds of German citizens. Many books were banned or burned on the basis of the authors being Jewish or known socialists or anarchists.
Now the left has developed a taste for censorship and blacklisting. Editors and publishing houses are blacklisting those with conservative or libertarian views as forms of dangerous viewpoints or disinformation.
Ullstein will, of course, not stop people from reading the work of JD Vance. While it may make it more difficult for Germans to find copies, ideas like water have a way of finding their way out. Blacklisting and censorship have not succeeded in killing a single idea. What it does is reveal the true character and values of those who want to prevent others from hearing opposing viewpoints.
Here is an update from spiegel.de
“Stattdessen verkündet nun der Verlag YES Publishing, dass er am 15. August eine Neuauflage der »Hillbilly-Elegie« herausgeben wird – die Lizenz hat also schnell den Besitzer gewechselt. »Wir haben das Buch ganz kurzfristig bei der Agentur in Amerika eingekauft, als wir erfahren haben, dass Ullstein die Rechte nicht verlängert hat«, sagt Oliver Kuhn, Mitgründer des Verlags. Angesichts der derzeitigen Nachfrage nach der englischen Ausgabe gehe er davon aus, dass auch die deutsche Übersetzung unmittelbar ein Bestseller werde.”
Rough translation…
Instead, the publisher YES Publishing has now announced that it will be releasing a new edition of the “Hillbilly Elegy” on August 15 – the license has therefore quickly changed hands. “We bought the book from the agency in America at very short notice when we found out that Ullstein had not renewed the rights,” says Oliver Kuhn, co-founder of the publishing house. Given the current demand for the English edition, he assumes that the German translation will also be an immediate bestseller.
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Seems the original German publisher valued dummheit over revenue.
This is where I am at odds with Turley. I do not care if Ullstein Buchverlage publishes a book or not.
I do not care if the National enquirer buys a story to kill it.
If we are dealing with truly free markets at work – this will all sort itself out.
It is not a free speech issue when a publisher decides not to publish something for any reason save one – Government asked or order them.
It is find to criticise Ullstein Buchverlage for their cowardice or stupidity. But the free market works.
Even if another publisher did not take over publishing rights for HillBilly elegy – Vance negotiated a contract with Ullstein Buchverlage that allowed them to kill the book – just as the Daniels and McDougal stories were killed – I am fine with that. So long as the contract was followed.
Problems occur when FORCE or the Threat of FORCE are used – Government.
The markets are distinctly not free. Start with compelling the purchase of EVs, Building and Safety dictating the disposition of private property and governors like Newscum dictating wages, etc., etc., etc. All of it completely unconstitutional per Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property.
While you are correct, I am still not concerned. Absolutely we would all be better off without all this unconstitutional nonsense.
Nor do I wish to claim that the efforts to control markets and information have not caused real damage.
But on Net we are still free. Further we actually become more free each year.
That does NOT mean that all this nonsense is not happening and restricting our freedom – but that Our Freedom is on net expanding more than it is being restricted.
The efforts at censorship and restricting our freedom by the left have harmed us.
But there is way more than enough freedom to highlight that and that harms those on the left.
The left has pulled out all the stops to take out Trump.
At any time previous with any other candidate they likely would have succeeded.
The left has heaped fined him half a billion dollars tied him up in court, gotten ludicrous jury verdicts, Told lie after lie – that was beleived for a while -= even tried to assassinate him.
And Trump is still standing – and winning.
A significant part of that is that the efforts of the left to control everything have frequently backfired.
John Say,
One type of razor that can be applied to a mildly difficult situation where the best option is not apparent at first is to pose the question, “why are we here?” (meaning what is the core purpose for our actions or endeavors)
Take the example of a cake decorator of several years ago who earned themselves a great deal of headache and trouble due to their refusal to fulfill a wedding cake order from a gay couple on account of the bakery owner’s publicly announced adherence to religious constraints. The razor of Why are we here could be answered two ways, 1) To make money 2) To adhere to religious dictates at any cost.
One would think that going through much money and effort to establish and maintain profitably the ‘Why are We Here’ is complimentary to making revenue, so option #1 is a proper answer. But going through the same type of work running such a business is not in alighment with option #2 in adhering to religious dictates at any cost. So if option #2 is actually the goal perhaps being cloistered in a Spanish Monestary with Brother Lawrence and trimming myrtle bushes is best.
My position is that the decorator likes money more than cakes and the wedding couple wants cakes more than a hundred bucks. THe decorator in one case I am more familiar could have captured the two county market for gay wedding cakes from the beginning when the state legalized same-sex marriage by simply making a magnificent cake and donated it to the customer as being the First One to order in the hopes they would tell all their friends waiting to be officially married by the state and want an appropriate ceremony. But no, instead they ended up fighting a protracted legal battle that was in no way connected to making and selling cakes and got labeled as a pariah.
It’s the same razor with this German publisher. They could have renewed the agreement with the author and published a second edition of the German translation to make a respectable amount of money. Instead, they had to virtue signal about how the author was now aligned with Trump and lost not only all that potential revenue but conjured a future apprehension in many other future authors now reluctant to do business with them because there is a risk the publisher will instead of promoting the author’s book they will throw them under the bus if they do something the publisher disapproves of. As you said the market will provide another publisher willing to sign a publishing contract. Nothing like self-imploding one’s goodwill and branded equity.
To a large extent I agree with you – though you over simplify and misunderstand money/profits.
Most of us are taught that making money is somehow disconnected with our values. That is absolutely false.
Every free market transaction is a link in a chain of transactions and the tails of that chain are always human values distinct from money.,
In my posts I near universally write about rising standard of living rather that growth in GDP/PPP though they are the same thing.
People understand that rising standard of living means more of whatever is important to them.
You posited two choices – but in fact we have many choices. And even the choice to profit is always a choice regarding something else that is important to us – that we value. Money is a store of value – and the value stored though measured in dollars is whatever it is we want it to be. Fancy cars, romantic nights out, doing things with family, …. We work, we make a profit, often not knowing what it is we are going to do with it, but ultimately it always turns into something we as an individual value.
Money, the economy, free markets are all about structuring production and distribution such that each of us gets as much of what is important to us – what WE value as we an individual then summed across all individuals.
I think the behavior of the publisher in this case is stupid – but I do not have exactly the same values as any other person.
I can call the publisher stupid. What I can not do is restrict their freedom – such that they will not be able to do the thing I consider to be stupid.
I want a completely free market. I do not want any regulation – beyond the domain of Actual criminal law – prohibitions against using force to get your way. The enforcement of contracts, neatrally arbitrating desputes and making whole those who are harmed by the negligence of others. NONE of these are a priori. Crime is not punished until committed, contracts are not enforced until breached.
The only a priori role for government is the certainty that crime WILL be punished. Contracts WILL be enforced.
Everything else is the domain of individual choices.
I recently read that you can legally buy for about $3,000 everything needed to make $3M in Fentanyl.
And I thought … GREAT!!! Why ? Because if we are free enough to buy what we need to make Fentanyl on our own – if Govenrment can not thwart that, then they can not prevent us from buying the morning after pill, or AR-15’s or antibiotics and other drugs without prescription.
We have more regulation today than ever =- and that is very bad.
But on net we are freer than we ever were before. Because we can get almost anything we want – whether government wants us to have it or not.
We are in the midst of one of the most censorious periods in US history – possibly worse than the MacCarthy era, Worse than the Sedition act.
Yet at the same time we are actually freer than ever.
Don’t get me wrong – the censorship has caused us harm, but it also harms those who do it.
I am more absolute on free speech than Turley.
At the same time I am, less concerned. The efforts to curtail free speech freedom generally, fail – often slowly.
We have too much freedom. There are too many ways arround whatever speedbumps are put up.
I argue here that Trump is going to win – I think the evidence is powerful that is the case.
but it will not be the end of the world if he does not.
If Harris is elected – we will get 4 more years of some permutation of the failures of the Biden administation – and Obama before that.
People are slowly turning against this nonsense.
The only question is how bad will it get before we reverse course.
We are changing course
“why are we here?”
Once the belly is full and the family is attended to, there is much more than being the richest person on the block.
There is a place where the German version of the Hillbilly Elegy can be accessed by starting a free account (giving your email is required however)
https://archive.org/details/hillbillyelegie0000jdva/mode/1up
Jonathan: Now we know why DJT doesn’t want to debate Kamala Harris. And it has nothing to do with Harris not being the “official” nominee of the Dem party. It really has to do with DJT absolute fear of debating Harris. Why?
Consider this. Back in 2019 (and I took a look at the videos of the hearings back then) the Senate Judiciary Committee was investigating the Mueller Report and its findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 election–and why AG Barr decided not to charge DJT with obstruction. The scene is set and AG Barr is testifying. It’s Senator Kamala Harris’s turn to ask Qs of Barr. So she asks the AG this Q: “Has the President or anyone in the WH asked you to open an investigation of anyone?” A straight forward Q requiring just a “Yes” or “No” answer. Barr couldn’t do that. He stalled. He wasn’t ready for the Q. Ultimately, he refused to answer. Harris also asked Barr whether he, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein or anyone in the DOJ had reviewed the underlying evidence in the Mueller Report before deciding not to charge DJT. Harris got Barr to admit he hadn’t.
Harris also demonstrated her prosecutorial skills when she examined Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. She asked Kavanaugh: “Can you think of any laws that give government the power to make decisions about the male body?”. Kavanaugh, like Barr, was the deer staring into the headlights. All he could say in response was “I’m not thinking of any right now, Senator”.
Harris metaphorically gutted both Barr and Kavanaugh like fish. She will do the same with DJT–assuming he has the cajones to actually debate her. We’ll see what happens in September when the rubber meets the road!
Were you responding to a different article? Peace out.
HAHAHAHAHA
You are easily impressed, Comrade!
Harris did so well in the Dem debates that she was out before anyone else. Yup, she’s a real great interrogator.
Oh yeah, Harris sure did great with the Kavanaugh hearings too. The left pumped her up with all of these “wait to Harris gets her claws into him” columns…and she was about as effective as Spartacus Corey Booker.
Dennis – your memory is very bad. I remember in the Kavanaugh hearing that Harris asked Kavanaugh if “he had ever spoken with anyone at the law firm Kasowitz, Benson & Torres about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. ” Kavanaugh said he did not know everyone associated with the firm and asked if she could she identify a specific person. She refused to do so. Based on this rather odd line of questioning, I assumed that she would produce later in the proceeding some evidence of Kavanaugh talking to a member of that firm regarding something. But no, she didn’t; it was all a fake. This is hardly brilliant, or even competent, cross-examination. It is just posturing. Everything about Harris is fake.
Dennis McIntyre came with the Soviet Democrat putsch package, the coup that took out Biden – now he’s VP Cackles Baghdad Bob: Jonathan: Now we know why DJT doesn’t want to debate Kamala Harris.
Dennis, my dear Cheap Fake American Soviet Democrat friend: Remember just over a month ago when you were assuring everybody that Trump was afraid to debate Bribery Biden, The Big Guy? How did that work out for Bribery Biden, Dennis?
You’re truly certain that your new boss The Cackle Ho has Trump terrified to debate her? After Trump and the rest of America watched Tulsi Gabbard ram her record up her lying ass in THAT debate? Harris didn’t even survive the first round – much less her first debate. Didn’t get a single delegate vote – which is why you had to launch a coup to remove democracy from Soviet Democrat voters and force Harris down their throats.
Her record includes the lies she told about Kavanaugh being a rapist, Dennis. You believe her? You remember when she told you and the rest of America that your former boss, The Big Guy, was not only a rapist, but a racist as well? Why have you spent the last couple of years pimping for President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers after his Vice President told you Biden is a rapist?
And now you’re telling us we should believe you when you say Harris “gutted Kavanaugh like a fish” – except that Kavanaugh is on SCOTUS.
How’d that turn out for you and VP Cackle Ho? Pretty lively for a gutted fish as he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade!
Embrace your inner Birthing Person Cheap Fake American Male Dennis – self identify with what you show us you are every single day when you show up here to highjack Prof. Turley’s blog to use as your own.
You damned communists are so damn cheap about spending your own money to buy the things you want to use that you pinch pennies until they look like dimes.
What is overlooked is that the NAZI who believed in censorship were a left wing party called the National Socialist Workers Party.
Deutschland, Deutschland unter alles, unter alles in der Welt. Selbstmord jeden tag.
It’s simple: Germany is still loaded with Nazis:
Not defending burning books, but Turley makes it sound as if the nazis were burning copies of Mary Poppins. They burned the libraries of degenerates pushing transgenderism, among other books, all of which the Germans thought were harming their society. Even general Patton thought we fought the wrong enemy. The Zionists collaborated with hitler to export his Jewish citizens via train to palestine in order to expedite the colonization efforts. No matter how terrible hitler treated them, the treatment under Stalin was worse. The communists killed more millions, and in fact killed more Jews than the actual numbers hitler did. But of course it all goes back to the grip Zionists had on the government of the USA, much like today.
Anon is basically saying that the Jews are to blame for the Holocaust.
Anon is basically saying that the Jews are to blame for the Holocaust.
No, he’s not saying the Jews were to blame for it, and he isn’t even saying it didn’t happen, he’s just saying it wasn’t that bad! For the record, not only was it that bad, it was worse.
No, we did not fight the wrong enemy. At that time Germany was the immediate threat and the USSR was not. As Churchill said, “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons”. But Patton was right that once Germany was defeated we should immediately have turned on the Soviets.
It is also not true that Stalin killed more Jews than Hitler did. Stalin wasn’t ready for his Holocaust until 1953, and he dropped dead just in time to stop it.
Anon let his genocidal anti-Semitic freak flags fly: The Zionists collaborated with hitler to export his Jewish citizens via train to palestine in order to expedite the colonization efforts… But of course it all goes back to the grip Zionists had on the government of the USA, much like today.
I’m confused… Hitler’s besty, the Arab hajji Grand Mufti (relative of prize hajji terrorist Yassar Arafat) who spent WWII urging Hitler to get on with exterminating the Jews was a ZIONIST! That’s terrible news.
And it gets worse! The Grand Mufti was Hitler’s besty because FDR (who sent Jews back to die in death camps in Europe rather than giving them asylum) actually wasn’t anti-Semitic and a racist – he was controlled by ZIONISTS! Zionists told FDR to send the Grand Mufti to be best buds with Hitler to help them dirty filthy Jews that were Zionists!
The logic of it all… why haven’t we all figured this out before Anononymous had a sex change and reappeared as Anon to explain it all to us!
FDR (who sent Jews back to die in death camps in Europe rather than giving them asylum)
No, he didn’t. Other than that one error, you’re 100% correct.
You can thank the US and France for what they did to Germany after WW2…. they are perpetual pvssies until they get run over and start to fight back.
Here in the US were are simply capitulating to the communists for the sake of ” getting along”
Speaking of capitulating to communists:
“They consider…that it fell to…Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through…the RECONSTRUCTION of a social world. [B]”
– Karl Marx Letter of Commendation and Congratulation to Abraham Lincoln, 1865
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Oh, and secession was and remains not prohibited and fully constitutional.
On a somewhat related note, an omen for US elections,
Venezuela has elections today to decide whether 25 years of Nicolas Maduro / Hugo Chavez dictatorship remains in power aka Chavista. It appears, per news outlets in Argentina and Colombia, that Maduro is calling on supporters to engage in mob violence.
https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/elecciones-en-venezuela-en-vivo-que-se-sabe-de-los-comicios-y-la-espera-por-los-resultados-nid28072024/
https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/venezuela/maduro-llama-a-sus-simpatizantes-a-un-remate-de-votos-en-plenas-elecciones-presidenciales-3366619 (paywalled)
Both are in Spanish but if there is interest, one can engage the sites and translate. Better yet, get on Twitter / X, and watch the videos from election centers as recorded by people in Venezuela. Yes, they have internet access in Venezuela. It appear from said videos that some voting precincts have closed their doors, by Maduros officials, to prohibit voters from voting despite terribly long lines. One polling center was closed, and the voters stormed the center, dragged the woman in charge of the center, and pummeled her. She was however rescued by some who preferred not to use violence in spite of the obvious anti-voting barricade. Maduros’ opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, is heavily favored by over 30%, per Edison Research, a US polling outlet
This is relevant to US elections given that Democrats are Chavistas, and we all know how they rig elections, steal / hide / create voter ballots, launch coups (twice now: against Trump and now against Biden), and they hire pro-Democrat mobs to foment violence just like Nicolas Maduro.
It would be surprising if Maduro allowed fair elections and relinquished power…just like Democrats
Cuba and Venezuela are preface for USA. For you see, banana republics arent only in Latin America
Viva USA!
NB: relying on global English language news outlets is unreliable if one seeks unbiased reporting. Twitter / X is the way to go
Coincidentally, I was thinking today of the violent demonstrations that Democrats will brew up for us f K. Harris is trailing in the polls. “Street action” is part of the Left’s play book. Remember the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in late 2011 that Dems created in advance of the 2012 Presidential political campaign. These often violent protests were embraced by Barack Obama. I suspect they were hoping to create a “hate-the-rich” mindset to undermine Romney’s prospective candidacy.
I would burn books if I had to roast a hot dog to avoid starvation.
Hotdogs can be safely eaten straight from the package, moron
Censorship? Television for poor people has taken an interesting turn. The United States has standards for television. One standard is women cannot be beaten by men nor abused in any way on television.
Today, beating women on tv , showing them bruised and bloodied, stabbed, shot, murdered is standard
, free fare.
Explain?
Like Trump said. “They’re not sending their best. https://abc7ny.com/post/brooklyn-gang-violence-turf-war-puts-clinton-hill/15087294/. The Harris administration is not screening who comes into our country.
New Yorkers are upset by 4000 illegal immigrants housed in their neighborhood. 97 per cent of them voted for Kamala Harris the Border Czar. https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/1817570499376877568/img/AUm6jGtlyt1SUlqC?format=jpg&name=medium
Don’t fret. You can find a copy of Hiltlers autobiography Mein Kampf in the library of the University of New Mexico and at many other locations in America. Marxist Communist Manifesto is also readily available for your reading pleasure. But that there book by that Vance guy is dangerous. Hide it from your children. Their time would be better spent reading The Lawn Boy.
That’s just a typical leftist, who’ll espouse
the progrom killing of seven million Jews or 20 million Ukrainian Communists, or 120 million Chinese Communists but not publish a book of a redneck Marine who’s killed no one outside legitimate acts of war. Nazis, Russian, Chinese Communist Human Filth all scared of a single man who threatens the Deep State and the New World Order. “Cry Havoc! And Loose the Dogs of War!”
We had Mein Kampf in our bookshelves at home. I read it when I was young. My father was a WWII vet who flew bombers over Europe and my mother is a Jewish refugee. They had it because it was valid reading. Somehow nobody in the family thought it was going to turn us into little Nazis, but back then we were taught to stand for the flag, say the Pledge, and sing patriotic songs in school. We were told how lucky we were to be Americans. My refugee mother wouldn’t allow one bad word because she was so grateful after two generations of running.
It gets worse on every front every day. I just watched Steven Brill who fronts the corporatist Newsguard present his book “The Death of Truth” on C-Span BookTV. Brill flatly denied there were ever any ‘caravans” of illegals marching through Central America. (There is another huge one right now). Newsguard does not acknowledge Zuckerberg spending $500 million to elect Biden; Newsguard was OK with the Biden policy firing military and police for not getting the mRNA experimental shot while being forced to escort millions of invaders across our borders. The C-Span presenter Slen sat like a dumb bunny and let Brill lie away. This is the same C-Span that refuses to review RFK’s book about Fauci and ignores “The Gray Lady Winked” one of the most important books in the history of journalism because it demolishes the credibility of the “newspaper of record” based evidence in the Times itself. And they wonder why people believe in “conspiracy theories”? (Many of which are Deep State disinfo ops themselves, like the “Q” they cooked up to drive attention away from the evidence of bestial criminality in the Podesta emails in Wikileaks). Search today for “who shot the sniper who tried to kill Trump” and see what I mean. Try Google. Ask ChatGPT. The try Yandex (ooh it’s Russian!) Most informative. The SS is refusing full cooperation with Congressional investigators at this time).
There should be full disclosure at the congress. Nothing to hide. Crooks is deceased. Odd
Those crazy germans going at Fascist censorship again…will they ever learn. They also canceled firearms rights of any AFD party member clear out of the blue…just because. I can hear the hobnails hitting the cobblestones already.
While Jonathan touches on it he doesn’t come fully out and say it ,the books the German Nazis burnt were the same books we are protesting about in our libraries today… they were LGBT leftist grooming books.
Once you know that the book burnings take on a whole new meaning
JimBob explained the Torah to us all: the books the German Nazis burnt were the same books we are protesting about in our libraries today… they were LGBT leftist grooming books.
Damn! Good to know! And here I thought Judaism had pretty much the same views on homosexuality, pedophilia, gender blending kiddies and Alphabet Sex in general as Christianity. Turns out them dirty Jews in Europe were a bunch of damned Alphabet Sex Pride Groomers! JimBob is right! That explains why those groomer books had to be burned!
Which means they were probably Democrats!
No wonder FDR ordered the Grand Mufti to leave the Middle East, go befriend Hitler, and convince him to send them dirty Jew groomers to the ovens!
OAD, how are you making a connection to Judaism here? Those weren’t Jewish books being burned. (That came later.)
Commies gotta commie.
I bet they’d have no problem printing Mein Kampf.
Actually they’d have a big problem. It can’t be published in Germany, except for a government-published heavily annotated edition.
thanks for not finding this “curious”
The evidence is in: those claiming this decision to halt publishing of Vance’s book is merely sober economic analysis and reasoning are either business morons or Soviet Democrat apparatchiks. Moe likely both.
How did that virtue signaling Budweiser’s Woke Chick With A Dick On A Can work out a year and a half later as a case for economic analysis of the customer base?
New York CNN —
Bud Light, formerly the top-selling beer in the United States, has had a tough year since a boycott upended the industry. It’s only getting worse: The brand has now fallen into third place. Modelo Especial, made by rival Constellation Brands, remains the top-selling beer at retailers in the US after surpassing Bud Light last year. Michelob Ultra, also brewed by Anheuser-Busch, leapfrogged Bud Light to become the second-best selling beer at grocery and convenience stores during a crucial sales period stretching between Memorial Day and July 4 holidays, according to NIQ data shared by industry trade publication Beer Marketer Insights.
Bud Light’s further decline shows that a boycott over the brand that started in April 2023 over a one-off sponsored Instagram post featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has caused lasting damage to the beer’s sales. The social media post garnered national attention from the right, and Bud Light’s response to the controversy caught anger from the left.
Any Woke Soviet Democrats want to explain how this publisher’s crafty economic decision to drop publishing of Vance’s book is going to lead to the economic riches that Budweiser hoped would result from the Woke Chick With A Dick On The Can economic decision?
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/18/food/bud-light-michelob-ultra-sales
There’s proof that communists and Soviet Democrats (like Mark Twain, I repeat myself) simply don’t understand finances and economics.