Ron DeSantis go one day without threatening to use arbitrary state power against your political enemies challenge
I don’t think he can do it:
On Thursday night, Ron DeSantis announced his brave move to launch a state-led inquiry into Bud Light, for … making a sponsored Instagram video.
“We believe that when you take your eye off the ball like that,” DeSantis said on Jesse Watters’s show on Fox, while appearing to perhaps be holding in a burp, “you’re not following your fiduciary duty to do the best you can for your shareholders. So we’re going to be launching an inquiry about Bud Light and InBev. And it could be something that leads to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the Florida pension fund.”
And DeSantis has delivered, announcing in a letter Friday that he is calling for an investigation into AB InBev (the parent company of Bud Light) “regarding their Bud Light marketing campaign,” referring to the company’s single simple sponsored video with the massively famous actress and influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who is also trans.
The new working-class Republican Party is laser focused on the most important material issues facing the country (one beer company sending a beer to a trans person), but above all you have to admire their robust commitment to free speech.
Speaking of people who pretend to support free speech, as DeSantis’s primary campaign circles the drain his one remaining cohort of enthusiastic supporters can be found in the Glenn Greenwald Extended Crypto-Fascist Universe:
https://t.co/pGJ5Lrt7cz pic.twitter.com/SKsIlDOojq— Aaron (@BobbyBigWheel) July 23, 2023