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CEO Mike Lindell says annual sales fell $100 million after several big-box retailers cut ties following his election claims.

"It was a massive, massive cancellation," Lindell said in a phone interview Monday. "We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us."

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We lost $100 million from attacks by the box stores, the shopping networks, the shopping channels, all of them did cancel culture on us."

Funny how when people show them the door for being lying antidemocratic assholes, that's "cancel culture." Meanwhile the right seems quite happy to exclude people from public life, refuse services to groups they don't like, make it easy for bosses to fire employees for unionizing or speaking out, and right wing media is quite fond of cutting mics or banning people when they disagree. They are quire happy to perform their own boycotts because they hate trans people and companies that don't. For some reason they don't call any of that 'cancel culture.'

Mike, people just don't want to support you and don't want you around because you're a dangerous, disingenuous, fascism advocate. Our nation would have been better off if he had remained a crackhead and never participated in promoting and amplifying Trump's lies.

[–] btaf45@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pil Fascist -- You tried to cancel Democracy, the most precious thing about our whole country.

[–] lorgo_numputz 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Hairyblue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

People don't want to buy pillows from crazy people spreading lies. Call it cancel culture if you want.

[–] AttackBunny 1 points 1 year ago

Well deserved.

I feel for anyone that works for him, if layoffs happen, but at the same time, you work for my pillow guy so…..

[–] acronymesis@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The schadenfreude from election deniers suffering the consequences of their own actions sustains me. 😌

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The schadenfreude from election deniers suffering the consequences of their own actions sustains me. 😌

Agreed. It feels a lot like watching Indiana Jones beat up Nazis, except Trump supporters' wounds are self-inflicted. I'm glad there are consequences for this, for a while there it seemed like we were rewarding the worst actors. Sadly, lying, narcissistic, boorish louts remain popular on the right.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Raiders of the Lost Ark the Nazis got themselves too.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Now I'm picturing Mike Liddell's face melting. Nice. XD

[–] btaf45@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminder that Steven Bannon frankly confessed Trump's Start the Steal conspiracy plans to a group of Trump insiders before the election.

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112138665/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript

…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.

Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]

STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.

He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.

[–] MikeRosoft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bernie Sanders has predicted the same thing months before the election. Of course, conspiracy theorists have taken this as evidence of a plot to steal the election.

[–] btaf45@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

With Steve Bannon's confession, Treason Trump's plot to steal the election is not a theory it is a plain and simple fact.