*how* quickly

"I admire Lindell's dedication to getting sued into oblivion"

The anchor immediately reads the corporate statement.

That's exactly what's inside the My Pillow Guy.

Also jesus christ that preload image, five stars for such obviously grotesque caricatures of people.

I hope it's really painful.

Only folks with immense privilege can go from crippling coke addict to starting a business

Mike Lindell's story is actually pretty impressive, but he's plain insane. The highlight is that before he invented the sixty dollar pillow, he was so strung out on crack cocaine that his dealer, out of concern, cut him off. As far as I know, the secret to his success is that he went all-in on infomercials, where he projected a likeable, non-threatening persona.

I used to be in twelve step programs, and it's my impression that people, especially MALE people, who make conservative christianity their higher power really go around the bend with it, even though some of these are the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.

Lately, Lindell has started looking crazier, and think that there's a good chance he's back on the crack. He's clearly in all kinds of trouble now. Kohl's and Bed Bath and Beyond claim that the main reason they dropped "MY PILLOW" was declining sales, maybe the bad publicity is part of it, but how many of these things can you sell? Dominion voting systems is threatening to sue him for a billion dollars, and the thing about that is that Dominion may well be able to claim a billion dollars in damages to their business model from the false claims. Lindell responded that he has "one hundred per cent evidence" against Dominion, but what the fuck does that even mean? All his evidence is evidence?

That's quite interesting about the religion someone takes into the 12 defining their lives. The duality of conservative Christians is mind boggling. They can be friendly, but have the most abhorrent beliefs. I know some who lie all the time, but God's on their side.
He claims to have sold over 30 million pillows. I don't know how well his business would do if he expanded internationally, especially now with his rep as Trump toadie. The industry claims you should change your pillows every 1-2 years, but really, who does that?
LOL, they've been claiming to have all the evidence since election day, yet refuse to show it.

In my experience, you can't trust the born-again types. They might be friendly, they might be walking a less disordered and self-destructive path than they were before, but their version of personal accountability is apologizing to an imaginary friend in the privacy of their own thoughts. It takes the cunning of a four-year-old to realize that actually encourages a pattern of sin and redemption -- if you can even call it redemption.

Aside from all that, he sounds like Jesse Ventura. It's...unnerving.

Nothing in the world is more godless than theocracy.

If I were to be honest, I can't think of anything that has influenced my life more than the book of Matthew. The ethic of universal forgiveness is incredibly powerful. If you really try to forgive everybody, all the time, when you inevitably have to forgive yourself, you're halfway home. Self forgiveness is essential to humility, which is loving yourself AS YOU ARE. This is powerful stuff.

The corrupting influence is theocracy, the impulse to use religion for political power. Theocracy seeks unquestioning belief over intellectual integrity, which is the first moral value. Trumpism couldn't exist without the suspension of intellectual integrity.

Totally. As an atheist I _love_ the Gospel of Matthew, all those kind humanistic bits: Sermon on the Mount and forgiveness and all that jazz.

I think it's a giveaway when a certain kind of evangelist pays lip service to the Gospels but clearly gets way more goosebumps from Leviticus and Revelations.

It didn't start that way. It started with outrageous claims of how good the pillow is. Tell Americans that a product will give them better sleep and they'll throw money at you. I bought one because It was at the exchange and I was curious if it was really that good. It sucks. I only keep it for forts and house guests I hate.
I did witness a own the libs buy. A Trump worshiping coworker last week randomly said, "I just got me a My Pillow, I'm gonna be sleeping good tonight" I didn't bother giving him my review.

You work at a military exchange?

I'm at a navy exchange.

Should have told him it sucks, because he’s gonna placebo himself into thinking it’s good.

Sow those seeds of doubt!

Dude already knows my polotics. He'd think I only hate the pillow cuz orange man bad.

It's a Coast Guard exchange. They're usually pretty small compared to Navy ones.