We're gonna 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.
Because at the end of the day, there's gotta be penalties for
when you put business aside to focus on your social agenda at the expense
of hardworking people.
>> Speaker 2: So it's pretty clear at this point that a bunch of conservatives
lighting up cases of Bud Light with assault rifles wasn't enough to
kill Anheuser Busch.
But don't worry, they have a backup plan, and
Ron DeSantis is previewing it right there.
Just yesterday, he sent a letter to the manager of Florida's State pension Fund,
which owns shares of InBev.
He urged the manager to consider suing the company because he said it, quote,
breached legal duties owed to its shareholders by going woke.
Going woke, of course, is a strictly defined legal thing and they did it.
Anyway, he explained to Jesse Waters, we had the pension fund.
Ron DeSantis, I'll remind you, you don't have anything,
even a snowball's chance of hell in winning the Republican primary.
We had over $50 million worth of InBev stock and
Florida's pension funds about 180 billion.
So you can understand why Ron DeSantis would be so
hyper focused on this one particular share stock's performance in the pension fund.
I mean, after all, it does make up 0.028% of the fund's portfolio.
And after months of being battered by Republicans for
hyper focusing on what one company, Disney, is doing in Florida,
why not focus in insane fashion on what InBev is doing?
I wanna remind you, by the way, Anheuser-Busch is still down from
before they did an extremely limited partnership with Dylan Mulvaney,
who has done absolutely nothing wrong.
The stock is down about 12% since that started, to put that in perspective,
the stock is where it was at in February of this year.
But the fact that it's 12% down,
specifically because of the advocacy of people like Ron DeSantis.
He thinks that the company can be sued, that basically they're
gonna turn go woke, go broke into a legal strategy going forward.
I'm not a lawyer, I'm not involved in any of this stuff, but I would imagine that
his statements about Bud Light are gonna be a part of that trial if it happens.
He tried to tank the stock, that apparently is such an important part of
his state's pension fund, but this is what he's doing.
I don't know if this is the solution to the problems he's having in his attempt to
take down Donald Trump, or maybe he's already sort of kissed that goodbye,
and he's just trying to reassert his popularity inside of Florida.
But this doesn't seem like it's addressing the issues that regular
Americans are concerned with.
>> Speaker 3: I am actually a lot more excited about this than John is.
I think it's an interesting precedent, do I think he's gonna win?
No, john's right, it's very unlikely.
Having said that, wait, we can sue corporations for political actions.
Can we sue them for donating to politicians?
And what if people point out that they donate to politicians,
then people get really mad and their stock goes down?
Does that mean they've breached some sort of
responsibility to pension funds in blue states as well as red states?
Well, you are opening up an interesting can of worms, Ron DeSantis and
that's why, by the way, his donors are worried about this line of attack.
The Republican establishment is very worried and
all these people were supporting Ron DeSantis.
Now all of a sudden, the Republican establishment was like,
I don't know about attacking corporations.
They're our daddies, what are you doing?
You can't hit daddy, and then finally,
the folks that are the most concerned are, I mean, I said this, obviously.
But other Republican politicians, they're like, what are you doing?
These guys fund all of our campaigns.
If you open up the store and progressives run through it,
what if they can't participate in politics anymore?
How would Republicans ever win a single election without bankrolling, without
getting bankrolled to the tune of billions of dollars by these corporate interests?
So you wanna keep going DeSantis and finally,
of course, media, which we'll get to in a second.
Corporate media and in all portions of corporate media,
mainstream media, right wing media, they're all furious with them.
Because if corporations get out of politics, then they won't have an extra
$17 billion in political ads next cycle, so the media is like, wait a minute, okay?
And then he brags about that, no, you missed the point, but we're gonna get back
to the media in a second, Nina >> Speaker 5: Cenk that epiphany about,
my God, DeSantis is on to something that we might be able to use.
I'm loving that, I didn't see that either.
You took that all the way to the hole on that one.
But I wanted to say about the sanctimonious,
which I think Trump labeled him quite nicely there, he's empty.
He is an empty suit, Florida, please, y'all know that you can do much better.
Shame on you for unleashing this fool on us and
we must make sure he never becomes President of the United States of America.
He wants to talk about mishandling the funds,
he's mishandling the funds of the taxpayers of that great state.
Shipping migrants all over the country, using taxpayers dollars to do that,
boxing with Minnie and Mickey Mouse and
Daisy and Donald Duck and Goofy and the rest of them.
I mean, what kind of sorry, lonely,
sad man must you be to pick a fight with the Disney characters?
And then woke is not woking for him, I mean,
I want our viewers to understand this.
The polling has been done, and the majority of the American people and
also the people in that state, they care about the damn economy, stupid.
It is the economy that is the first, 2nd, 3rd, fourth, and fifth concern.
They do not care about his war on Woke, it's not woking for him whatsoever.
He's a desperate man grasping at straws, he is weak,
he is a coward, and he's also a bigot on top of that.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, before we play this compilation, I just wanna remind everyone
because I don't think that you can be reminded enough.
That while everyone obviously can make their own decisions about whether they're
gonna support a company or not, and if you start a boycott,
we may not always agree with why you're doing it.
People were mad at Chickfila for donating to legal efforts that were discriminatory
against members of the LGBTQ community.
We can all evaluate all these individual things.
I just wanna remind everyone, they sent a promotional six pack to Dylan Mulvaney
as a way of saying, hey, I'm glad that you're happy, that's it.
Dylan Mulvaney hasn't done anything.
Dylan Mulvaney did not kill a bunch of nuns or anything.
I just wanna remind everyone that's the entire genesis of their frustration with
Anheuser-Busch is they sent a promotional six pack to a perfectly lovely
human being.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're absolutely right to point that out John,
I wanna point out one other thing before you watch this clip.
So when DeSantis launched, we showed you all the clips of the entire media,
being like, DeSantis, what a wonderful, amazing entrant.
That's it,
Trump is done, and remember, after the midterms, all Trump's candidates lost.
Everybody thought he was done, and everybody had high praise for
DeSantis on all the cable channels.
But then he attacked Disney, a corporation, and corporate media,
all of a sudden, just like we tell you guys all the time, found a way to unite.
When we're fighting, how sexy M&M's are, Mr.
Potato Head, the other things, we're all fighting.
We don't like each other.
It's an economic issue that affects corporations, all of a sudden,
they're not fighting anymore.
Let's watch.
>> Speaker 1: Governor DeSantis is close to making a fool of
himself with his walt Disney obsession.
>> Speaker 6: Talk about, stepping on a rake,
getting in a fight with your largest employer.
>> Speaker 6: If you're gonna take on every business that decides to celebrate
the LGTBQ Plus community,
you're gonna be taking on a lot of different Woke corporations.
It worked when he was beating Disney, but he got outmaneuvered and
now it just seems this, like, petty tit for tat.
Like, what is the end game here in sight?
>> Speaker 7: This is a big employer inside Florida,
I think the governor should sit down with him.
I don't think the idea of building a prison next to a place that you bring your
family is the best idea.
I think it'd be much better if you sat down and solved the problem.
>> Speaker 3: Look at that, conservative channels and so
called liberal channels and so called moderate channels,
they all agree do not attack corporations.
So whether they're right wing like CNBC and Fox News or pretend left
wingers like MSNBC were saying, these are all part of corporate media.
Mainstream media and right wing media, actually do good cop bad cop on us,
just like the Republicans and Democrats do.
And so as long as DeSantis or any other politician, Biden, Pelosi,
McConnell are being good boys and little girls, well then they will get praise
on these channels and on economic issues they always close ranks.
MSNBC and all the other so
called left wing channels also hated the idea of getting rid of student debt.
They all hated the idea of Medicare for all, every anchor,
every pundit spoke out against.
Interesting that when it comes to protecting the status quo, and
multinational corporations, corporate media all agree.
They're trying to distract you with the culture wars, when in reality,
the whole establishment serves corporate interests.