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From the previous thread:
are gonna need 30 years from now.
30 years from now, you’ll be DEAD… And they’ll be alive..
Have another glass of top shelf bourbon.. Good for the heart.
30 years ago Bill Clinton balanced the federal budget, the Windows “start” button was a top secret project, fax machines were cutting edge, “smart phones” had not even been invented, and Republican Senator Bob Dole was telling us that the future of transportation was corn.
Just last fall the mewling Shit-Lord Crybaby was going long on Tesla at $400 and predicting that Elmo would turn a profit on his Nazi BirdShite.
Nobody knows what will happen in thirty years, except that Republicans will spend most of them miserable, frustrated, and shitting in diapers.
We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.
We’d be better off if Hunter had more booger sugar
It was, what, 10 days ago, mebbe, that one of y’all libbies were pointing out how well Indy5 was doing and that Sound of Freedom would crash and burn.
It’s probably a one-off. I mean, conservatives supporting a movie to make it successful is about as likely as conservatives tanking America’s # 1 beer by suddenly not supporting it, amirite?
Last week Sound of Freedom, at $27.2 million, grossed more than double what Indy5 ($12.2M) grossed. At $85M total gross it’s closing in on $100 million.
Of the 20 top flicks, Sound of Freedom was the only one not to show a drop-off in attendance after its first week in release. While Indy5 saw a 38% decrease in weekly sales, Sound of Freedom saw a 55% increase in sales.
Which is something. I heard Darryl saw it, and left the theater in tears.
@ 1
…you’ll be DEAD… And they’ll be alive..
Not if they venture into The Durkan Kill Zone. Or Pioneer Square. Or an increasing number of other unsafe places in liberal Seattle.
‘Defund the police’ is back in the spotlight as Seattle council races heat up
If there is a God, Queen YLB, your oldest will be fully conscious and fully aware of what is happening as he bleeds out while celebrating the next Summer of Love.
@ 2
Nobody knows what will happen in thirty years, except that Republicans will spend most of them miserable, frustrated, and shitting in diapers.
I know that was how Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit spent today.
Or an increasing number of other unsafe places in liberal Seattle.
Seattle has nothing on Alabama…
Though the most dangerous cities in the U.S. are spread across multiple states, Alabama is home to three of the 10 cities with the highest violent crime rates: Bessemer (#1), Mobile (#2), and Birmingham (#7).
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-us/
Alabama should elect more/better repukes to the U.S. Senate.. Coach Tuberville is making a laughingstock of the place.
Last week Sound of Freedom, at $27.2 million, grossed more than double what Indy5 ($12.2M) grossed. At $85M total gross it’s closing in on $100 million.
Too many wanted to see jeebus do Q… Freak shows have their attraction. Trainwrecks draw spectators.
@8 Speaking of backward states, Louisiana, the state with the lowest percentage of renewable power, has the least reliable electricity grid.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/these-are-the-10-states-with-americas-worst-infrastructure.html
“Trump talks strategy with McCarthy and Stefanik after he’s named target in probe”
“The former president called top allies on Capitol Hill to talk about how they will defend him ahead of likely charges, a source says”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/politics/republican-allies-trump-january-6-probe/index.html
Rex Heuermann is envious. He doesn’t have an entire political party working to keep him out of prison. All he has is a public defender.
Appropriate for drinking
Anchor was doing just fine when the guys from Skyy Vodka bought it. They tried to take it from a mostly regional West Coast brand to a national. They didn’t do expansion of capacity or dick around with the product line. One IPA added and the failed Bock Beer was all the innovation they tried.
Sapporo now says it was losing big money when they acquired but there isn’t any publicly available info to back that up. But it’s possible the marketing and ramp of of distribution cut into the bottom line to turn a profitable regional into a losing national.
Enter Sapporo. Their reason for buying Anchor was to have the ability to brew their own labels in the US and not need to deal with importation and shipping. But Anchor was not suited to that. Anchor…Ales, cool ships, open fermentation, classic brass kettles. Sapporo, modern, lager, long ferment times. it was a weird fit from the get go Sapporo sunk a bunch of money into fermentation tanks and refrigeration for lagers. (If you don’t know the uniqueness of the Anchor Brewery there are plenty of ways you can research it.)
Then they did the disastrous rebrand killing the packaging and alienating the core Anchor customers even in the Bay Area. Anecdotally, in the PNW Anchor went from a brand in all Kroeger stores and PCC/Whole Foods to packaging that was utterly indistinguishable from Widmer Hef. Kroeger dropped it. Then they tried 22oz can singles that were showing up in the Jackson’s convenience chain and for a hot minute Safeway. But up against the 8-9% 22 oz that are all the rage in the convenience market a regular beer like Anchor didn’t succeed. Add in the marketing push for the 10 or so new products Sapporo tried to put out there (fruit beers, a new line of multiple IPAs, An Anchor Lager which there was really no market for) and Sapporo was hemorrhaging money.
Then they bought the much larger capacity Stone (350Kbbl at East and West Coast facilities) that does not have the unique set up of Anchor AND was already set up for lagers and no one thought they would keep Anchor for long. Most figured they’d find a buyer. No matter what Sapporo has said privately they didn’t really try to find a suitable buyer but just decided to cut their losses once the Stone sale was complete. Unionization likely played a big part in this as Sapporo tried to stop/break the union from the get go.
Now to your question. Reubens brews about 1700bbl a year. Reubens distributes to WA, ID, OR. Anchor with Sapporo’s expansion has a capacity of 300,000bbl. A new investor can sell off a lot of that equipment immediately and still have plenty of capacity to be a West Coast Regional powerhouse. So yes, Anchor is potentially far more valuable that Reubens. Sapporo had no interest in contract brewing which those “Ultra Right beer” folks need. A reborn Anchor could rent out their excess capacity to label beers for Costco, Trader Joe’s etc.
Can they make it work financially? Depends on what they try to do. Focus on the West Coast and the core labels and really push to get all their draft accounts they lost in the rebrand back? Probably. Try to be a powerhouse National brand, no. Yeungling, Steel City, Genesee makes this model work and there’s no reason Anchor can’t too with some strategic marketing.
@9
It’s almost like a bunch of right wing foundations and even the publisher themselves is buying a shit ton of copies to put it on the best seller list.
A movie that has 4 showings a day, three completely empty and one sold out is…suspicious.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/Sound-of-freedom-empty-theatres
Jayapal is going to be in trouble in the next election. AIPAC will work to get her out of office for attacking Israel. They will probably go after the Squad, too.
@ 14
Jayapal is going to be in trouble in the next election.
Jayapal will expand her margin of victory in the next election. If there’s anything Seattle loves, it’s representation by a liberal unconcerned with history, facts, or general reality.
@14
Until you remember that Jayapal represents WA-07 and AIPAC is rabidly conservative and all she has to do is survive a primary with her huge cash on hand and fundraising advantage and that’s that.
Leave the PoliSci freshman survey analysis behind and let the adults talk.
@ 8
Alabama should elect more/better repukes to the U.S. Senate.. Coach Tuberville is making a laughingstock of the place.
Yeah, when Doug Jones was a senator blacks completely ceased murdering other blacks in Mobile and Bessemer.
@14
Yes. AIPAC went after the squad in in 2020 and 2022.
Omar – Still in Congress
AOC – Still in Congress
Pressley – Still in Congress
Tlaib – Still in Congress
AIPAC, the new NRA. Funds to many, feared by none.
@ 18
Omar – Still in Congress
It’s not about the general in MN-5.
Maybe if AIPAC doesn’t wait until the last minute
https://jewishinsider.com/2022/09/don-samuels-ilhan-omar-united-democracy-project-filing/
to help the primary challenger next time, it will be a successful challenge.
@19
Might work but then again how does a Republican aligned Jewish Group really make inroads against a now three term Democratic Congresswoman running for reelection in the primary?
Her district polling is/was quite a bit higher than her state/national. Right now her only primary challenger is Sarah Gad who was last seen getting 10% of the vote in the IL-01 Primary in 2020. Not exactly a stellar candidate for AIPAC to get behind.
Maybe they’ll find someone on the bench to give it a go.
blacks completely ceased murdering other blacks in Mobile and Bessemer.
Oh and it so improved with the election of Coach T.. Wasn’t that the plan?
Just like when Nevada missed out with Laxalt? Yawwwwn..
What’s a nigga gonna do?
@14
Not much longer.
And they’re coming for us too.
What is a nigga to do!?
I’m just a nigga with a little cap on my head.
Heterosexual Neanderthals…..they have no flaws.
https://people.com/calif-man-kills-daughter-self-murder-suicide-mother-restraining-order-7562071
Oh, just a virus that kills thier own, acting like Neanderthal Apes that look for flaws of others to conceal their own. Pathetic mother fuckers that they are. Entitlement – ohhh, just a bad thing…unless it’s your entitlement.
When the greedy racist incel doesn’t have any facts or logic, he lies. He lies to say Doug Jones was bad because people he has no influence over didn’t stop doing bad behavior.
It’s like stating the greedy racist incel was a terrible radiologist because the hospital wasn’t able to stop racist old white conservatives from choking to death on their tapioca.
It’s really sad the greedy racist incel is so emotionally crippled, I wonder how he lives with himself?
@12. Thanks Beer Guy. It’s fascinatingly that if one looks at all, there are facts and data that explain what Sapporo did wrong.
Instead the greedy racist incel lies, and goes on blame storm of his favorite targets. Facts and logic free 2 Minute Hate. It’s really sad the greedy racist incel is so emotionally crippled, I wonder how he lives with himself?
19,
Republican learned analysis in Minnesota is any better than Republican learned analysis in New Hampshire?
Who knew?
Since April Fat Midget has spent more time and almost all of his money in the Granite State, emptying his campaign coffers leading to this week’s collapse and mass layoffs.
He moved from 22% to 23%.
JEB! 2.0
It certainly looks like Republicans, “conservatives”, and their donor class of greed afflicted nihilists are going to spend record sums heading towards November 2024.
But they will not do the one thing they absolutely must do in order for it to pay off.
They won’t go after Trump.
I wonder how he lives with himself?
Frequent trips to the local widbee vip room. And the animal barn.
@27 Heterosexual Neanderthal.
They know the world is coming to an end, and so upset they have to fuck with the lives of others.
They are pathetic, shameful mother fuckers. They have no life to live so they don’t want others to live thier lives.