Axios used its lead story Tuesday morning to shack up with trans provocateur and leftist god Dylan Mulvaney, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and trans people against conservatives for the crime of tanking Bud Light sales after its endorsement deal with Mulvaney.
Worse yet, they suggested conservatives need to be held to account for holding deadly political views that contain a “lack of perspective or grace,” “toxicity,” and “viral vitriol” toward trans individuals.
Co-founder Mike Allen and writer Eleanor Hawkins bemoaned the lack of universal adulation and saintly endorsement of Mulvaney as proof of “How Bud Light became a microcosm of America in 2023” with still too many Americans possessing “cultural, political and social toxicity.”
As Erick Erickson has preached (and despite any attempts to claim otherwise), you will be made to care. And not only care, but celebrate certain behaviors and views.
The trans gyrating was turned up a few notches in a section entitled “what this captures.” In point one, Allen and Hawkins huffed this incident illustrated “[t]he inflamed politics around transgender rights,” which was an artful way of bellyaching that people weren’t bending over backwards to celebrate someone playing god with their anatomy.
Point two was the worst as they said this showed “[t]he lack of perspective or grace from vocal transgender opponents.”
“Lack of perspective” about lopping off your genitals? That’s rather hard to pull off.
And a “lack of...grace?" Since when does one have to warp their religion to support funding someone’s selfish ambition? Then again, this is the same side that believes Christians should be forced to fund abortions and bake cakes for trans celebrations.
The next two points were related as they bemoaned “[t]he speed of viral vitriol” from the pro-boycott crowd and “efforts to capitalize off viral vitriol.” No word on whether Allen and Hawkins had heard of leftist boycotts or hatred toward companies like Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby.
Unfortunately, Axios became even more indignant, telling viewers to “[r]emember the power imbalance. Trans issues are talked about a lot now. But trans people remain a small, largely marginalized group.”
How was it that a group can be “marginalized” when their “issues are talked about a lot now,” especially in the press? And was there a group that’s more celebrated, defended, and glorified in the corporate liberal press today than trans people?
Before wrapping with a nod to an insane New York Times piece alleging it’s the right that’s made transgenderism a big to-do, Axios framed any and all discomfort with transgenderism as giving credence to putting lives at risk: “For trans people, political issues are a matter of life and death. Across the country, bills are being debated and passed that take away their rights to access health care.”
To summarize, they argued that if you don’t support giving your own (taxpayer) money to ensuring someone can be given breasts or have male genitalia removed, then the risk was people killing themselves.
Rewind to the beginning and they led off a recap of what happened with Mulvaney receiving “an influencer package — a glorified swag bag — to celebrate the one-year mark...coming out as trans,” and, in response, conservative disgust “radically changed beer sales and stock prices — literally overnight.”
“That set conservative, anti-trans pockets of social media on fire,” they whined, citing a count from NewsWhip of “5,600 news articles...published...in two weeks” with the company losing $6 billion.
They added that a mealy-mouthed statement from Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth did little to assuage concerns, “[b]ut...seemed to appease shareholders” with “some conservative voices” caving to the trans lobby in part due to the company’s past donations to Republicans.
