This guy blew it all and got NOTHING back at any single point lol. It’s incredible.
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Dude went from a homeless addict to a millionaire and decided to throw it all away for Trump. Incredible.
How the hell was he even in business in the first place. I refuse to believe the entire pillow thing wasn't just a massive money laundering scheme.
As I understand it he was basically a first mover in the whole recycled memory foam pillow industry, now it's borderline the standard so it made his whole business model irrelevant. It's just another example of a rich asshole getting there due to one good idea rather than any actual business accumen.
Oh man, Q Anon Anonymous did an episode on Mike Lindell's life, and this guy's entire life is punctuated by making it big and losing it all over and over. His life could be the plot of an Oscar-worthy movie
The numbers:
The Associated Press called the race for Demuth at 11:26 p.m. ET as the state speaker had secured 43.6% of the 93% of the votes counted.
Lindell, who was backed by President Donald Trump, came a distant second with 32.3%% of the votes.
Kendall Qualls, a former healthcare executive who has backed the Minnesota GOP, placed third with 21.4% of the vote.
Klobuchar won the Democratic primary with 89.6% of the votes, and polls show her with a wide lead in the general election.
Right around 32% of americans are truly disconnected from reality and fucked in the head.
It's actually a bit better. Minnesota does have open primaries, but you can only pick 1 to vote in per primary.
So only 32% of people that chose to vote in the republican primary.
Roughly 685,000 people voted in the democratic primary while only 413,000 people voted in the Republican primary.
Based on those results, I put the figure at 53.7%
To be fair, the guy did figure out how to make a pillow Nazi propaganda.
Both options suck ass. A healthcare executive is absolutely someone * wouldn't want in government.
Good thing it's Minnesota, so neither had a chance anyhow.
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that's actually an alarming number of votes... (for the pillow guy)
How long until he whines that it's RIGGED and that he'll "investigate" it
He already did
Yeah like he’s literally refusing to concede, stating his “experts” have “uncovered anomalies”. He was supposed to have had a press conference by now…
The same "experts" who had mountains of evidence of 2020 tampering 🙄
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Isnt he claiming fraud already and not conceding?
Are there odds Trump does an early test run here to put Lindell into the race and show clear "voter fraud"?
By voter fraud i mean people actually just voting
And we're talking about a Republican primary, not the general.
Back to the crack you go lindell
It feels sad that I felt relief that he didn't win. That's how low my faith is in the electorate at this point.
I was rooting for him, because his residence is in Texas, and he votes in Texas, so he is ineligible to run for office in Minnesota. I was hoping he'd win the primary, then they'd disqualify him, and the Democrat Klobuchar could run unopposed.
because his residence is in Texas, and he votes in Texas, so he is ineligible to run for office in Minnesota.
Then why was he running for office in Minnesota? Why not run for office in Texas?
(Or at least change residence first. Changing residence is pretty easy when you've got money.)
Because cocaine told him it was a good idea, so he did it. That’s like his entire life trajectory.
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Demuth might be worse.
She was the ringleader for the state house coup back in 2025 (where they tried to elect her speaker of the house after playing games with absent members.)
Now, to be fair, looking into the results of a Republican primary and expecting to feel hopeful is like going to the barn animals exhibit at a county fair and expecting to smell something other than animal shit.
Why is every MAGA person just a grifter who smells their own farts for fun?
Good! His pillows are lumpy as hell.
haha Republicans are such morons. They voted for a health care industry executive as their "standard bearer" because of course they did. Not that this shitbird would have been better, just sayin'.
Oh darn, the guy who chopped up discarded mattresses and put them in pillows had another setback. Don't worry, I am sure Trump will just appoint him to some important position soon.
Now put a pillow over your head and shoot yourself in the face
Same thing happened in GA. Trump just moved on and endorsed the one that beat his pick.
Oh my god theres no fucking way this guy is running for office. At least everyone will get a free pillow right? … right?!?
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Back to the rekt center, Republicuck.
Mike has gone from snorting cocaine to snorting cocaine cut with baking soda to now snorting baking soda cut with Ajax cleaner. God speed lumpy pillow guy.
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The guy literally looks like he ate Tweety Bird and is holding him captive in his mouth.
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Just a quick reminder that nobody ever has to concede. They win or lose and that's that. In case anyone was worried.
If anyone ever gets a time machine, please be sure to go back to 2000 and inform Al Gore of this, along with "you playing nice won't make them play nice".
Yay
It's a simple concept, just vote for anyone that isn't associated with Trump.
shocking.
ok, no it's not...
So the crackhead conspiracy theorist who was endorsed by the Pedo-in-Chief lost? How could this have happened?
Ever see the video of him at some MAGA conference, and some 12 year old YouTuber asks him for a source that the 2020 election was stolen, and My Pillow Guy starts spewing conspiracy after conspiracy, with the kid asking for a source, until he finally says "So your source is just Trust Me, Bro?"
Watching him get owned by a 10 year old was beautiful.
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In a parallel universe, Billy Mayes is here as the hypeman for Bernie Sanders, and following Bernie's 2 terms, he went on to become governor of Pennsylvania.
He reminds me of Charlie's weird uncle from Always Sunny.
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