# Twitter bans MyPillow corporate account after Mike Lindell uses it to circumvent personal Twitter ban **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095 "2021-02-03T02:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1043 "2022-02-16T19:19:23Z")
Per a thread in english.stackexchange dot com: “As God is my witness” is a complete clause; without the “as” it would be a complete sentence, and the “as” serves to connect it to what follows. “With God as…” is a complete dependent clause; the preposition “with” introduces a condition. (“God as my witness” is not a complete sentence.) ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1044 "2022-02-16T19:20:48Z")
Interesting. I guess it’s just that “with” _sounds better_ in my head than “as” does and so I presumed that one was more correct. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1045 "2022-02-16T19:25:42Z")
> [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > “As God is my witness” This is how I’ve always heard that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1046 "2022-02-16T19:43:04Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@Daithi\_Lacha](#): > > > > “As God is my witness” > > This is how I’ve always heard that phrase. - [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lf3mgmEdfwg/hqdefault.jpg "WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" Thanksgiving") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg&t=230) ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1047 "2022-02-16T22:32:11Z")
Ohhh, _Bailey._ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1048 "2022-02-16T22:39:49Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Lindell is going to parachute in with them? Since it seems that turkeys _can’t_ fly, I guess he _would_ need a parachute… ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1049 "2022-02-17T02:20:12Z")
OOooh, _H.T._, ya mean. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1050 "2022-02-17T04:35:30Z")
I think domesticated turkeys probably can’t fly – you know, the big fat top-heavy turkeys specifically bred to be big and fat and top-heavy and make a good meal. Wild turkeys, lean and scrawny, can fly. We had a flock of them camping by my house out in the wilderness for a while. They could get up into trees, and also tended to congregate on the roof of my house and make a lot of noise. The landlord had horses, and horseshit of course draws swarms of flies. So he got some kind of industrial strength fly poison that may or may not even be legal so he drove over into the next county to buy the stuff. He put pans of it out by the horses, in places where the horses might or might not have been able to get to it. So there were piles of dead poisoned flies laying in and around these pans. And the turkeys came and ate the dead flies. And then the landlord caught one of the turkeys and his wife cooked it for dinner one day. (They said plucking and cleaning it was way more trouble than it was worth. That’s why we buy turkeys at the supermarket.) I discreetly declined their invitation to join them for their wild toxic turkey dinner. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1051 "2022-02-17T13:48:11Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Emergency airlift? Called it three days early! 🏆 > **[Mike Lindell says he'll use parachutes to deliver pillows to the Freedom...](https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-lindell-says-hell-parachutes-122938412.html)** > > The MyPillow CEO said he was sending 12,000 pillows to the anti-vax mandate truckers, but later said Canadian customs hadn't approved the delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1052 "2022-02-17T15:15:08Z")
I’m glad I don’t own stock in The Onion. > It is not clear whether Lindell would need authorization to deliver the pillows by air. The Canada Border Services Agency did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment. Yeah, you can’t just fly over the border and drop stuff. A flight plan is required if you want to depart U.S. airspace. I’m sure Canada requires an international flight plan to enter their airspace. Assuming flight plans are filed and accepted, there’s still the issue of delivering a product. Now you’ve got Customs involved and duties to pay. Or… You could hire a Canadian helicopter and pilot that are in Canada. But you need to get the pillows up there by… I don’t know. Truck? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1053 "2022-02-17T15:23:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Yeah, you can’t just fly over the border and drop stuff. A flight plan is required if you want to depart U.S. airspace. I’m sure Canada requires an international flight plan to enter their airspace. Assuming flight plans are filed and accepted, there’s still the issue of delivering a product. Now you’ve got Customs involved and duties to pay. Oh yeah?? Well, what about a trebuchet, huh? Where’s your precious Customs now? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1054 "2022-02-17T15:28:01Z")
Suddenly we’ve got a _Republican_ not carrying about border security? Who would’ve thunk it? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1055 "2022-02-17T16:02:28Z")
_Other_ countries are not suppose to keep _him_ out. Or I suppose it’s quite possible that he does not know there is another country to the north of the USA… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1056 "2022-02-17T17:04:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Or I suppose it’s quite possible that he does not know there is another country to the north of the USA… Canada? Isn’t that part of Minnesota? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1057 "2022-02-17T17:07:09Z")
I’m sure they’re talking about North Montana ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1058 "2022-02-17T17:33:20Z")
Or North North Dakota. Alta North Dakota? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1059 "2022-02-17T18:05:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (His pillows for unvaccinated truckers weren’t allowed in because his truckers were unvaccinated.) Jesus Christ, just get the vax; JUST GET THE VAX! The Right accuses _us_ of virtue-signaling?! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1060 "2022-02-17T18:07:29Z")
Many jurisdictions have dumping laws. There might be a fine for each pillow dropped. They’ll have to get in line behind Dominion and others to collect, though. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1061 "2022-02-17T19:11:01Z")
The trebuchet is also a great way to catapult germ-infested bodies over a parapet. Cf. The Golden Horde, Monty Python. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1062 "2022-02-17T19:23:50Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > The Right accuses _us_ of virtue-signaling?! Remember, for people who have no empathy and are literally incapable of modeling another person’s mind, every accusation is implicitly a confession. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=54)