# 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:** 64
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1263 "2022-06-16T23:18:47Z")
Walmart tells Mikey to pound sand. > **[Mike Lindell Rages at Walmart Over MyPillow Pull: 'You're Canceling Us'](https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-rages-walmart-over-mypillow-pull-youre-canceling-us-1716705)** > > "You're gonna be all over the news tomorrow," the combative CEO said he told a Walmart executive after the company pulled his products. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1264 "2022-06-17T00:17:29Z")
I was actually surprised when I heard this. I’d have thought Walmart would be all over pushing the Big Lie. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1265 "2022-06-17T00:36:57Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > I’d have thought Walmart would be all over pushing the Big Lie. Walmart isn’t traditionally the most conservative of companies. Hillary Clinton was on their board of directors for 6 years, after all. Apparently, her relationship with the company soured later, as the [NY Times reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html), but it just goes to show it’s not joined to the hip with the right wing. Consider also that Lindell is _persona non grata_ these days outside of the Q folks, and he’s selling overpriced garbage pillows. There’s no upside for Walmart to stock them. It’s a smart business decision, and of course Walmart is concerned about the bottom line. Ideology is not very attractive to a business when it’s going to cost them. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1266 "2022-06-17T01:33:14Z")
AKA “Money talks, bullshit walks.” Keep on walking Mikey. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1267 "2022-06-17T02:04:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s a smart business decision, and of course Walmart is concerned about the bottom line. Ideology is not very attractive to a business when it’s going to cost them. I agree that it is likely a smart business decision, but thre’s no evidence it has to do with ideology. This article is seven years old, but is likely still true: [Wal-Mart has long had a reputation for pressing its suppliers to cut costs to help lower prices, but the retailer’s new leadership has embraced the concept with fresh vigor.](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wal-mart-ups-pressure-on-suppliers-to-cut-prices-2015-03-31) It may be true that they mentioned to Lindell a drop below 4 in average customer ratings. But what the Walmart buyer would have focused on is sales trends. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2022, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1268 "2022-06-17T02:08:07Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I agree that it is likely a smart business decision, but thre’s no evidence it has to do with ideology. That’s my point. Whatever Walmart’s ideology is (whether you think they’d be inclined to support Trump or not) they’re going to do whatever nets them the most money. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1269 "2022-06-17T02:27:45Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Whatever Walmart’s ideology is (whether you think they’d be inclined to support Trump or not) they’re going to do whatever nets them the most money. I agree. Walmart did stop selling assault rifles and related ammunition. There might have been a legitimate business case concerning publicity should their product wipe out a Sunday school class. There wouldn’t be a similar fear of giving someone a sleepless night on a bad pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1270 "2022-06-17T03:08:25Z")
I think the new found “wokeness” of companies has to do with the simple fact that Liberals are more able to launch successful boycotts than conservatives. Boycotting a company requires you to make a personal sacrifice to advance social change. Which is against the conservative ideology that holds self-centeredness as its primary value. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1271 "2022-08-05T18:17:17Z")
It’s the rise of the machines! > **['Venezuela and Australia are gone!' Mike Lindell uncorks CPAC rant about...](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-cpac-2657814712/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Friday brought his personal crusade against voting machines to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he uncorked a conspiratorial rant claiming that the voting machines had completely overtaken dozens... > “This is very important you hear me on this,” Lindell told the CPAC crowd during his address. “Over 54 countries have now been taken by the machines or are getting taken by the machines! And you never get to go back!” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1272 "2022-08-05T19:24:08Z")
The rants make sense if you start with the premise that the machines are corrupt and stand in the way of democracy by giving control of votes to some malevolent third party. Of course, there is zero evidence of that, so that premise is absurd and so is everything that follows. But if in some bizarre alternate reality it really was true, then Lindell’s dire warnings would make sense. I’m so glad I don’t live in that reality. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1273 "2022-08-05T19:28:43Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > But if in some bizarre alternate reality it really was true, then Lindell’s dire warnings would make sense. Man, we’re all going to feel stupid if Lindell was actually accurately warning us about the emerging [singularity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) 😉. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1274 "2022-08-05T19:33:03Z")
We all need to prepare for the [Dominion War](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dominion_War). ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1275 "2022-08-06T04:31:23Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > We all need to prepare for the [Dominion War](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Dominion_War) Canada vs Dominion Voting Systems? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1276 "2022-08-06T04:41:35Z")
Order now and get a coupon for one dozen free Ketracel White frosted Tim Horton donuts! Poutine, a warrior’s meal, available only at select Tim Horton stores. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1277 "2022-08-06T18:42:07Z")
I, for one, welcome our new voting machine overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1278 "2022-09-14T15:02:38Z")
The FBI has dephoned Mikey at Hardee’s. > **[Mike Lindell had ‘everything’ on phone he claims was seized by FBI at Hardee's](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-fbi-2658207877/)** > > MyPillow CEO and prominent conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell claims that the FBI executed a search warrant while he was at a fast-food restaurant in Minnesota."Mike Lindell claims to The Daily Beast that the FBI seized his phone at a Hardee’s... While I love the idea of the FBI having access to his records, it would also be kinda funny if it was just somebody _claiming_ to be the FBI who simply robbed him and he fell for it. (Maybe Johnny Lawrence has a better cell phone now?) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1279 "2022-09-14T15:31:25Z")
This thread has long since ceased to be about his twitter ban. Maybe we should change the title? “The many woes of Mike Lindell” sound good? Suggest another, if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1280 "2022-09-14T15:45:14Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Mike Lindell had ‘everything’ on phone he claims was seized by FBI at Hardee's - Raw Story](https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-fbi-2658207877/) So…does that mean we’ll finally get the proof of widespread voter fraud? ETA, or will he be smart enough to claim he did have it, but the government clearly deleted it. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1281 "2022-09-14T16:20:51Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > will he be smart enough to claim he did have it Of course he had it! But he has a capped data plan, and he had _so much_ evidence he was waiting for his monthly rollover Gigabytes to accumulate so he could release it all at once. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1282 "2022-09-14T16:32:06Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Suggest another, if you like. “Cocaine is a helluva drug” [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=63) [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=65)