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Has a culture war clown’s “woke-free” beer brand gone belly up? · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: a culture war clown's woke free beer brand gone belly up?
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  Speaker 2: Seth Weathers from Georgia created Ultra Right Lager in 2023
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  Speaker 2: after the far superior Bud Light was promoted by transgender
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  Speaker 2: actress and influencer Dylan Mulvaney. You may remember boneheads and
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  Speaker 2: knuckle draggers were foaming at the mouth. Go woke, go broke,
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  Speaker 2: all that nonsense. Well, now the ultra-right website has vanished,
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  Speaker 2: the socials are tumbleweed, and hundreds of customers are complaining
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  Speaker 2: they've paid for beer that's never turned up. Here's how
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  Speaker 2: Weathers was advertising his bigoted beverage.
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  Speaker 3: As conservatives, we're constantly getting hit in the face, left
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  Speaker 3: and right, by the woke mind virus. But the last
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  Speaker 3: place we want it is in our beer. If you
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  Speaker 3: know which bathroom to use, you know what beer you
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  Speaker 3: should be drinking. Stop giving money to woke corporations that
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  Speaker 3: hate our values.
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  Speaker 2: The douchebagometer's going off the scale. Enough complaints have been
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  Speaker 2: received by Georgia's Attorney General. He's launched an investigation. Weathers
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  Speaker 2: is a political consultant who's worked for the radical right
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  Speaker 2: They've been allowed to not enrol a kid if they've
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