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RandySF

(84,295 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 04:40 AM Jul 2023

Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They 'Did Cancel Culture On Us'

Mike Lindell’s war against machines is costing him some of his own machines.

The MyPillow CEO is auctioning off company equipment after major retailers such as Walmart dropped his products due to his wild election conspiracy theories.

“It was a massive, massive cancellation,” Lindell told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us.”

As a result, bargain hunters in the Minneapolis area have a chance to bid on MyPillow equipment including trucks, forklifts, air compressors, sewing machines, computers and more.

Lindell told WCCO, the CBS station in Minneapolis, that he has a pile of unsold inventory and that he’s been shifting workers around to avoid layoffs.

“I do every customer like my only customer and every employee like my only employee,” he told the station.




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mypillow-auction-mike-lindell_n_64acffa0e4b0e5efaaddd535?d_id=6053310&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics

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Mike Lindell Selling Off MyPillow Equipment: They 'Did Cancel Culture On Us' (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2023 OP
HAHAHAHAHAHA.....whew!....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 634-5789 Jul 2023 #1
Mike: They did not do cancel culture on US. They did cancel culture on YOU! TheBlackAdder Jul 2023 #31
Don't let him play the victim..... Biglinda 52 Jul 2023 #47
Listen fool malaise Jul 2023 #2
it's never the fascists' fault, is it? eShirl Jul 2023 #3
I hope this means an end to his TV ads... Rhiannon12866 Jul 2023 #4
I think I saw a one a couple of days ago. He was selling sandals or slippers or something. Ray Bruns Jul 2023 #18
He seems to have branched out, in the one I saw he was selling the slippers and bed sheets, too Rhiannon12866 Jul 2023 #21
I never see enough to tell what he's selling -- voice or face and *click* the remote. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2023 #34
I'm guessing these are the same sandals Giuliani was shilling on his twitter account Brother Buzz Jul 2023 #51
I saw a commercial on Cozi tv watching an old Banchek tv show from the 70's kimbutgar Jul 2023 #43
This is the way things work in America, chump Walleye Jul 2023 #5
You were touched by tRump multigraincracker Jul 2023 #6
No kidding. underpants Jul 2023 #33
Wood didn't lose his license. WarGamer Jul 2023 #48
My mistake. underpants Jul 2023 #61
He canceled himself Takket Jul 2023 #7
Take your ugly Tom Selleck mustache and fake hair to hell with you Lunabell Jul 2023 #8
CANCEL CULTURE WORKS! Conjuay Jul 2023 #11
You know that a hairpiece He's wearing! kimbutgar Jul 2023 #44
Shatner's ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2023 #55
Everything Shatner is better. Lunabell Jul 2023 #62
He bet his business & reputation on anit-democratic lies & orange cult leader. No sympathy. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2023 #9
No, Mikey, this is just AllyCat Jul 2023 #10
His over priced pillows aren't selling. SergeStorms Jul 2023 #12
Actually, Deminpenn Jul 2023 #25
Except they are low qiality and expensive obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #40
Most materials aren't unique. Hieronymus Phact Jul 2023 #42
Where did I say anything like that? obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #46
That's what i was told Hieronymus Phact Jul 2023 #53
If his business dies, Mr.Bill Jul 2023 #58
These support pillows all use some form of shredded memory Deminpenn Jul 2023 #67
Years ago I thought two pillows kimbutgar Jul 2023 #45
He and countless other pure idiots DENVERPOPS Jul 2023 #13
Free market cheerleaders complain about the free market Torchlight Jul 2023 #14
Unless it has to do with the buying or selling of Things to a gay wedding. Volaris Jul 2023 #27
Jeez, what a moron. mwb970 Jul 2023 #15
"I do every customer....... and every employee." 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #16
The employees who operated or maintained those machines and equipment are now out of work ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2023 #56
"I do every customer like my only customer and every employee like my only employee" pecosbob Jul 2023 #17
Is the boycott of Bud Light cancel culture? The Jungle 1 Jul 2023 #19
Notice that ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2023 #57
Yer talking PBRB right? The Jungle 1 Jul 2023 #64
he's a crackhead GenXer47 Jul 2023 #20
How much for all the evidence?... MiHale Jul 2023 #22
Couldn't have happened to a better Trumper. Ligyron Jul 2023 #23
"Sewing and Reaping." sprinkleeninow Jul 2023 #24
😄 r&k 😄 MerryBlooms Jul 2023 #32
Salesman finally learns what happens when you alienate a large chunk of your potential customers. tanyev Jul 2023 #26
sending thoughts and prayers HAB911 Jul 2023 #28
Purely did it to himself. marble falls Jul 2023 #29
Being an asshole catches up to you LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2023 #30
Send that guy a Bud Light. nt usonian Jul 2023 #35
So now the free, fair, infallible and inerrant market is 'cancel culture'? Aristus Jul 2023 #36
You backed the wrong horse, Mike gratuitous Jul 2023 #37
Couldn't inthewind21 Jul 2023 #38
Shitty, expensive pillows -- IKEA has way better ones much cheaper obamanut2012 Jul 2023 #39
Are you talking about their bagged meatballs? lame54 Jul 2023 #50
No Mike blueknight73 Jul 2023 #41
Yes he did, and it's been happening for over a decade FakeNoose Jul 2023 #52
This should have happened years ago... lame54 Jul 2023 #49
Yeah, but I think I heard.. Permanut Jul 2023 #54
Boo hoo LudwigPastorius Jul 2023 #59
Bye Mike MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2023 #60
Wood chippers and sewing machines cheap. nt Hotler Jul 2023 #63
After my dad (a lifelong democrat) died of Covid, my mother made us take his MyPillow liberal_mama Jul 2023 #65
The scrap foam industry is reeling Blue Owl Jul 2023 #66
This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2023 #68
Mikey, Adam Smith done slapped ya upside your foolish head with his Invisible Hand. Sky Jewels Jul 2023 #69
He was cancelled by wokeness, I suspect. Chakaconcarne Jul 2023 #70
More like... jmowreader Jul 2023 #72
Business 101 Doc_Technical Jul 2023 #71
Cancel Culture to Conservatives Anything that holds people accountable... Caliman73 Jul 2023 #73

634-5789

(4,675 posts)
1. HAHAHAHAHAHA.....whew!....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 04:58 AM
Jul 2023

Fucked around, found out. Hey maybe he can go to Tubby McTraitor for a loan to pay off the upcoming lawsuits he's going to lose?

Biglinda 52

(129 posts)
47. Don't let him play the victim.....
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 03:26 PM
Jul 2023

He caused them to cancel orders by his craziness. He's to blame for his own misfortune. "They" did nothing HE did it to himself.

malaise

(296,114 posts)
2. Listen fool
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 05:12 AM
Jul 2023

You should have sold your mediocre pillows not participate in a coup that failed.
Eff you! Hope you die in prison penniless.

Ray Bruns

(6,362 posts)
18. I think I saw a one a couple of days ago. He was selling sandals or slippers or something.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:33 AM
Jul 2023

Rhiannon12866

(255,528 posts)
21. He seems to have branched out, in the one I saw he was selling the slippers and bed sheets, too
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:37 AM
Jul 2023

Brother Buzz

(39,900 posts)
51. I'm guessing these are the same sandals Giuliani was shilling on his twitter account
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 03:50 PM
Jul 2023

Rudy Giuliani was promoting sandals for MyPillow on his Twitter account, promising discounts with the promo-code "RUDY."

https://www.gq.com/story/rudy-giuliani-twitter-mypillow-sandals

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
43. I saw a commercial on Cozi tv watching an old Banchek tv show from the 70's
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 12:33 PM
Jul 2023

I got hooked on it and cringe whenever Lindell’s commercials come on.

I enjoy now knowing he destroyed his company for advocating for overthrowing our government for a false dictator. I hope he ends up bankrupt and penniless. And hopefully in jail!

underpants

(196,495 posts)
33. No kidding.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 10:10 AM
Jul 2023

Lin Wood lost his law license
Rudy is about to
Bannon has all kinds of troubles
and this guy.

WarGamer

(18,613 posts)
48. Wood didn't lose his license.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 03:37 PM
Jul 2023

GA Bar shows no disciplinary action taken.

Essentially he traded retiring for no disciplinary actions.

He's retired and that's his current status with the Bar.

 

Lunabell

(7,309 posts)
8. Take your ugly Tom Selleck mustache and fake hair to hell with you
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 06:19 AM
Jul 2023

along with your fucking delusional election bullshit. Those KKKrazy GQPers just can't think rationally at all. It's everyone elses fault.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
9. He bet his business & reputation on anit-democratic lies & orange cult leader. No sympathy. . . . nt
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 06:21 AM
Jul 2023

SergeStorms

(20,591 posts)
12. His over priced pillows aren't selling.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 06:37 AM
Jul 2023

No more, "buy one, get one for half-price" sales, huh, Mike?
What a shame. Now you're stuck with a warehouse full of crappy pillows.

What are the odds pillow-boy is back on the crack pipe before election day? Better than 50/50 would be my guess.

Deminpenn

(17,506 posts)
25. Actually,
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:59 AM
Jul 2023

these pillows work as advertised. Bought a couple before all the election conspiracy theories took hold.

obamanut2012

(29,369 posts)
40. Except they are low qiality and expensive
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 11:07 AM
Jul 2023

IKEA has the same type pillow much cheaper and better quality.

Hieronymus Phact

(745 posts)
42. Most materials aren't unique.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 12:00 PM
Jul 2023

All these companies buy the same material off the open market.
A pair of leggings from an expensive brand uses the same material as one from a cheap brand. The difference is fitting. No one is weaving their own unique material. I'm sure pillow cushioning is no different.

obamanut2012

(29,369 posts)
46. Where did I say anything like that?
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 12:45 PM
Jul 2023

IKEA uses better quality cushioning.

My father is very respected in the textile field, and I grew up with it. You are 100% wrong. A white Oxford shirt from a Wal-Mart store brand does not use the same material as one from the Gap, and neither use the same material as one made for Ralph Lauren. They might be made in teh same plant, but they are not the same. Same with anything else kind of material. You are categorically wrong. I even doublechecked with him before I wrote this.

The same with teh foam used in the IKEA pillows versus teh My Pillow pillows verus a pillow from Five Below.

"No one is weaving their own unique material"

Ummm yes, they are. There are patents on the machines, the processes, etc.

Hieronymus Phact

(745 posts)
53. That's what i was told
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 04:12 PM
Jul 2023

When i worked for a major International garment company (who i won't name here). Anyone can buy the same clothing materials they buy. The difference was mostly branding. If I was told wrong, or understood it wrong, then it's wrong. Thanks for the correction.

Deminpenn

(17,506 posts)
67. These support pillows all use some form of shredded memory
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 03:03 PM
Jul 2023

foam. I have a variety of pillows from down to memory foam, most are recognizable brandsbut Lindell's pillow is unquestionably lumpy with the shredded foam, but of all my pillows that one works best for me. YMMV

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
45. Years ago I thought two pillows
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 12:38 PM
Jul 2023

When I dried them in the dryer one of them exploded and the plastic pieces went into the engine dryer and destroyed the drier. The repairman said he has seen this often. Luckily it was before the pandemic and I ended buying a set washer and dryer for $500 from Lowe’s that someone returned because one was silver and the other was white. 5 years later they’re both working fine.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
13. He and countless other pure idiots
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 06:44 AM
Jul 2023

that participated, thinking Trump, for sure, would have their backs and pardon them for all of their loyalty and support...........

There's so many of their cult that should have purchased their pardons while Lardass was selling them for a few million apiece...

Besides, Trump was way way to busy on his last days in office stealing U.S. Gov't Top Secret Intel by the plane load, that he could take to Maralago to sell in the future than to worry about any other person except himself......

Of course they are all certain, including the thousand (and counting) in prison, that Trump will win the 2024 and then pardon them all.
Sadly, none of them in prisons will be able to vote, being felons and all, don't you know.....

Most parents, by the time their kids are 10, have taught their kids that there are consequences for their actions.....

His news release, was nothing more than getting free advertising for his obsolete, worn out, equipment, garage sale.........

His statement should have read: I lost 100 million for my seditious and treasonous attacks on the U.S.Constitution, and for trying to willfully destroy the U.S. Gov't, and our Democracy........

Torchlight

(6,830 posts)
14. Free market cheerleaders complain about the free market
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:14 AM
Jul 2023

When it happens to conservatives, it's Cancel Culture. When it happens to anyone/thing else, it's "just the marketplace of ideas telling you to do something else!"

Every single time.

Volaris

(11,704 posts)
27. Unless it has to do with the buying or selling of Things to a gay wedding.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 08:47 AM
Jul 2023

Then, your religion is being oppressed.

mwb970

(12,150 posts)
15. Jeez, what a moron.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:21 AM
Jul 2023

Does trump have ANY normal people supporting him? It doesn't seem like it.

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
56. The employees who operated or maintained those machines and equipment are now out of work
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 05:18 PM
Jul 2023

Way to go, Mikey. When your mouth causes your business to be closed, it's gonna suck to be the rest of 'em still there.

I change the channel when Mr. PillowStache pops up like the herpes he is.

pecosbob

(8,387 posts)
17. "I do every customer like my only customer and every employee like my only employee"
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:30 AM
Jul 2023

...and you tried to fuck millions of Americans out of their right to vote for their government, you flaming asshole.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
19. Is the boycott of Bud Light cancel culture?
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:35 AM
Jul 2023

I am so confused is the boycott cancel culture or woke?
This is so unclear. I am cornfused.
Fing idiots.

MiHale

(13,032 posts)
22. How much for all the evidence?...
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:43 AM
Jul 2023

Should be in pretty good condition…it’s never been used.

Ligyron

(8,006 posts)
23. Couldn't have happened to a better Trumper.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 07:44 AM
Jul 2023

I think we were all pulling for this.

Now then, let's go cancel the Overstocked.com guy.

tanyev

(49,296 posts)
26. Salesman finally learns what happens when you alienate a large chunk of your potential customers.
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 08:24 AM
Jul 2023

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,869 posts)
30. Being an asshole catches up to you
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 09:45 AM
Jul 2023

Lindell is getting his just desserts. Pissing off the world does mean pissing off customers and retailers

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
37. You backed the wrong horse, Mike
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 10:54 AM
Jul 2023

But you go back to the betting window and ask for your money back, if that will make you happy. It'll give the guy on the other side of the grate a good laugh.

FakeNoose

(41,634 posts)
52. Yes he did, and it's been happening for over a decade
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 03:56 PM
Jul 2023

When Chump came along he was already over the deep end. Now he's going to blame his business failures, bad judgment, and money mismanagement - now it's suddenly the Democrats' fault.

No Mike Lindell. Nobody cancelled you, asshole. You did it all yourself.

lame54

(39,771 posts)
49. This should have happened years ago...
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 03:40 PM
Jul 2023

How do these guys stay afloat so long?

He will still be around for quite some time

Permanut

(8,391 posts)
54. Yeah, but I think I heard..
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 04:37 PM
Jul 2023

that he's going to present all the election fraud evidence next Tuesday.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,512 posts)
60. Bye Mike
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 05:40 PM
Jul 2023

My Yankee heritage would never allow me to spend 50 bucks on a friggin pillow, unless it could sing, dance, rub my feet and bring me breakfast in bed.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
65. After my dad (a lifelong democrat) died of Covid, my mother made us take his MyPillow
Tue Jul 11, 2023, 10:07 PM
Jul 2023

to the funeral home so it could be placed in his casket under his head. He already had the darn pillow and slept with it every night before he found out what a freak Mike Lindell was. Now I have to think about that all the time.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
69. Mikey, Adam Smith done slapped ya upside your foolish head with his Invisible Hand.
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 10:50 AM
Jul 2023

Sucks to be you, sucker.

Caliman73

(11,767 posts)
73. Cancel Culture to Conservatives Anything that holds people accountable...
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 06:01 PM
Jul 2023

Dude. People don't want to advertise with or buy from a coked up lunatic who goes out spewing defamatory nonsense, who is getting sued for hundreds of millions of dollars, who has almost caused other organizations to get sued for said, billions or hundreds of millions of dollars, AND who still won't STFU!!

That isn't cancel culture fool, that is Capitalism. Remember when we all loved Lance Armstrong? He was America's golden boy! He had his foundation, everyone wanted his merch, his bike, etc... then we found out he was a cheater, in every sense of the word, from juicing to cheating on his partners, we didn't "Cancel" him. People just didn't want to buy from a scumbag cheater.

I mean Volkwagen started as a car manufacturer in Nazi. No one wanted to by a car that was started by and manufactured for the Nazis. They rehabbed the car and the image of the company and now it is a global brand. It works both ways. If you do stupid shit, people don't want to associate with you. If you do better shit, people may want to associate with you despite your past.

That is actually how things work in general and in Capitalism Mike. Now, step away from the crack pipe for a bit, get some better buddies, and maybe in a couple of decades, your shitty pillow may make a comeback.

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