This is getting convoluted. Mike Lindell, die hard proselytizer of the Big Lie, claims that anything that he doesn’t like is fake news. He also has it in for the Daily Beast and insults them regularly. So combine the two passions and you have Lindell giving fake news to the Daily Beast, what else?
Here’s the piece as it went to press.
After his initial Tuesday shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell now has a backup plan to get free pillows to Canadian truckers: drop them from the sky via a helicopter. The pillow maven told The Daily Beast late Wednesday night that he intends to drop his pillows into Canada from a helicopter “with little parachutes” attached. “We need to get the MyPillows to the people!” he continued. The 2020 election dead-ender further made it a point to ensure The Daily Beast noted in this report that the pillows will have “little parachutes,” adding, “make sure you put that part in, or it could be dangerous.” Asked where exactly he intended to drop the pillows, he said, “I can not give the location out, and it is no joke! I just confirmed with them [the helicopter company], and yes, this is the plan. We have the helicopter confirmed, but we are moving the time up to 11 am.” The Daily Beast could not reach the Canada Border Services Agency for comment late Wednesday night.
Then apparently Lindell laid back and said har de har har. This is what happened next.
Mike Lindell is saying he made up the preposterous story about tiny parachutes being attached to pillows to drop onto Canada, just to see if the media would print it. pic.twitter.com/9PnYfUKLe4
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 17, 2022
The headline is from a website called NOQ and I don’t want to link to it here. You can Google it if you want to go over there. I don’t bring questionable right-wing sites traffic when I can avoid it.
Mike Lindell sponsors NOQ, (so if you want to buy a MyPillow, that’s your sponsor code, NOQ) so it’s not unusual that they would give him good press. The story then goes on to say how the corporate media, and the Daily Beast specifically in this instance, are “victims of their own ignorance.” The point being made, and we infer here, because it makes no sense, is that the journalist was wrong somehow for quoting Lindell verbatim because he should have known Lindell was being facetious? So now journalism is supposed to go deeper than just reporting what the CEO of a business tells you he’s going to do with his product, the journalist is supposed to argue with the CEO and say, “C’mon man, you’re pulling my leg, right?
And be clear here, this is Mike Lindell we’re talking about and everything out of his mouth sounds like he’s pulling your leg, either that or bad dystopian sci fi. Every other day he’s on Steve Bannon’s show talking about some revolutionary computer science technique which will prove how Italian satellites affected voting machines on earth and effected a vast conspiracy against its most powerful nation, and/or how recently obtained information will cause the Supreme Court to behave in a manner for which there is no legal or historical precedent — and this reporter was supposed to think that tiny parachutes were a bridge too far? After listening to this for years?
Lindell is just like Ben Carson. He’s said so many utterly stupid things for real that he’s impossible to satirize. Nothing sounds too far fetched coming out of either of their mouths.
What Lindell should contemplate is that the fact that Zachary Petrizzo, the Daily Beast reporter took him at his word, albeit skeptically, says far more about himself than it does about Petrizzo.
Is it too much to hope he’d hover a couple hundred feet above the protesters, grab up an armful of his shitty pillows and drop HIMSELF? Without a parachute?
How long does one have to suffer fools gladly? Too long, a fucking idiot is still a fucking idiot. I am done. Every article here today is about idiots, continuing idiots on parade. Cut out their tongues, chemically castrate them and send the to prison. I have no charity or kindness left. These assholes have burnt it out of me.
I never understood why a pillow would need a parachute.
I mean, are MyPillows that fragile?
Reminds me of the WKRP episode where Mr. Carlson dropped turkeys from a helicopter for a Thanksgiving promo.
“I swear, as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
I see people reference that episode from time to time. The fact is, WILD turkey can fly and once they get going at an impressive speed – faster than a goose even. They roost in trees at night and flutter (not very gracefully) down to the ground in the morning to forage for food and water. When they take to flight they are ungainly as hell. At first. However as I said once they get some speed going they are something to behold even if they don’t stay flying for long. However, turkeys like we buy in supermarkets are bred to have large drumsticks & breasts but small wings – wings too small to allow them to fly. So yes, going to a turkey farm and buying up a gaggle of turkeys to drop from a helicopter would result in a disaster both for turkeys and those on the ground!
Just how many Mypillows can you fit in a helicopter anyway.
Do you realize if Mike Lindell was hanging by one arm on a cliff and had to pick between saving ‘Itself’ or praising The Trump, ‘It’d’ instinctively let go and stoically plunge into the abyss while fantasizing about getting reincarnated as The Trump’s boxer shorts?!
And ‘It’ should die of slow moving veneral diseases rashes that settle deep within It’s’ lying throat!
Also Ex–Former prez–The Donald–T Rump–The Trumpet and ‘Its’ Former Regime and Cronies and Henchmen and Minions–All should die by deep and slow moving rashes and of gigantic festering boils!