Which is where everyone says… wow, let’s hope he gets the Republican nomination, then the Democrat is a shoo-in, right?
But didn’t Trump claim credit for making the vaccines happen so fast? Does this mean Lindell is now anti-Trump? Or did the vaccines change from “heroic” to “evil” the instant Biden took office?
He wants to run for Governor of Minnesota in 2022.
Loser. If he had any real ambition he’s start his political career with a POTUS run.
It worked OK for the last guy who tried it.
This. It was pretty much the same as how the deficit is now incredibly important, and Biden is responsible for the last 4 years of debt.
I’ll admit I thought that way back in the spring of 2016. Needless to say I was wrong in my thinking.
You, me and half the country, I think.
I didn’t even think Trump was even really running in 2016. I thought it was a publicity stunt to sell more books he “wrote” or the next version of The Apprentice or something. I didn’t think he’d get nominated then actually win the election.
Serves the bastard right! Mike Lindell has lost $65 million in revenue due to his claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
Dare to dream, Mike!
And he swears he quit smoking crack.
Beyond that, there’s absolutely no proof that being Christian makes them any more worthy of your business than anyone else. It’s not like other religions have tenets that say to jerk your customers around, or rip them off or anything along those lines. And most businesses have absolutely nothing to do with religion anyway- why in the world would I care that the guy who fixes my major appliances is a Christian (pretty sure he’s a Muslim, actually), or that the guy who manages a mutual fund is a Christian? I mean, if it’s something like an socially-conscious mutual fund, then I’d be more concerned about the manager sticking to the by-laws of the fund, rather than where he worships, or if he even worships.
There’s a sort of strain of demonstrative Christianity in the US these days, that seems to either be entirely composed of Evangelicals, or at least has great overlap with them.
I think it’s the same crowd that feels like Christianity is threatened somehow by not being able to be jammed down everyone’s throats 24/7 in every situation. Part of their response is to try and gin up an alternate Christian bubble of businesses, politicians, etc… that they can patronize and feel comfortable inside because they can be that way all the time. And part of that is overt advertisement of their Christian-ness, both the businesses and the patrons.
Which to me is severely weird. I grew up in a time and place where one’s religion was basically your own business- nobody went around proclaiming their Christianity unless they were some kind of born again wacko, and people tended to roll their eyes at that kind of thing. And the notion that someone’s business being more ethical because they are avowed Christians always sounded like some sort of country nonsense that my grandparents might have believed.
There’s a tool rental store near me that I suspect might be owned by a devout Christian. I only suspect that because they have always been closed on Sunday, which would be a really big business day (weekend, everyone needs to rent a lawnmower or other garden tool).
That’s the only reason I suspect though, and there are no other overt signs. So I don’t mind giving them my business - I just know that they’re not open on Sundays like most other similar businesses.
I agree that any other business that tries to push their religion, or shove it in my face will never see a nickel from me.
America has issues with christianity. There are places where within waking memory everyone was a professing christian, and so things like “nonbelievers exist” are an unwelcome change. Plus there is a nontrivial slice of christianity that believes that nonchristians are literally incapable of morality.
A lot of people believe something like that: it’s one of the bases of affinity fraud. Faith-based fraud is a serious-enough problem that even the feds have issued a warning. “This nice young man is a good Christian so of course the investment he is shilling must be a good deal, since he would not mislead me” is all too effective with too many people.
Me too. And I am a Christian. I go to church every Sunday and everything.
Much in the same way that we went looking for patio furniture a couple of Saturdays ago. A place we wanted to check out closed early on Fridays and all day Saturdays, which seems like prime shopping time. My guess is it’s owned by Observant Jews, but it’s just a guess – no enormous Stars of David hanging above the wicker loungers or anything like that.
In today’s column, electoral-vote.com (Zenger) has this to say about MyPillow Lindell:
This reminds me of a story my wife told me of two men in the small town she grew up in. The Christian told his Jewish friend that he was more moral because, “I have an eternal father to answer to.” Guess which one of them went to prison for embezzlement.