MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Tuesday went off on CNN’s Anderson Cooper as he vehemently defended pushing the use of oleandrin, an unproven COVID-19 therapeutic.
sales man voice:
Try it…What have you got to lose?
Where’s the GoFundMe to buy this for free distribution to all of the folks who want to take it?
To quote Yeasayer, “My mama told me not to fool with oleander, and never handle the deadly quaker buttons again…”
What an epic display of a failed human being. Is it sad? Amusing? Validating? I’m not entirely certain. 
Hope Jesus tells you to walk on some very deep water.
There is no clearer warning that someone is going to put his hand in your pocket and swipe your wallet than hearing him tout his Christian faith and values just before the extraction.
See, when you elect a con man as president, you’re going to see these cheap chiselers and hustlers flocking around him like a herd of caribou that stretches for miles. And of course he wears a cross and yammers about Jesus. Of course he does. Religion is undoubtedly the second-to-last refuge of a scoundrel, that seems clear. It’s increasingly the Second Gilded Age, with already rich robber barons robbing the taxpayers coming and going like it’s going out of style, which is a thing I fervently hope.
Well, your life for starters. “Oleandrin” is derived from the oleander plant, which is highly toxic.
Anderson did not even try to hide his contempt. Good for him.
This Oleander thing has a very strong Laetrile vibe (google it, youngsters). Unregulated, untested, and unproved use of toxic plant substances does not have a great history of success.
This poor guy has only 3 months to rake it in before he goes back to being a nobody. Can’t happen soon enough as far as I’m concerned.
More proof that religion makes people stupid.
Really, Really stupid.
Was it patriotism or religion that’s supposed to be last refuge of a scoundrel?
Oh, I remember the Laetrile scam back in the 70s along with eating apricot pits and the idiot preacher in my town who ate a dozen apricot pits and wound up dead along with a mark stupid enough to do Laetrile instead of cancer surgery…and she died…
Not only does he go back to being a nobody, he goes back to being a nobody who has alienated a huge swath of his company’s customer base. He should ask Papa John how that works. Long after the Trumpsters forget who he is, I’ll remember to never buy a My Pillow product.
I suspect he’s gone from hawking MyPillow to flogging MyPill so he can just cross out the “o” and “w” on his letterhead with a Sharpie. After all, if you can’t fix something with a Sharpie it probably can’t be fixed.
I wish Cooper had fired back with “Keep your useless players, Doug. I’m gay. Jesus doesn’t concern himself with people like me.”
Karl Marx may have been wrong about a lot of things but he sure did hit the bullseye when he called religion the opiate of the masses.
The opiate that promises you pie in the sky when you die as long as you follow your Corporate Masters and vote straight Republican!
I remember laetrile. How many desperate people did it end up killing?