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As far as Lindell giving back and spending his own money for good causes, Rebecca Rogers, one of the founders of Focus on America, noted that Mike Lindell was one of the first major donors to this organization and helped subsidize the first event that put the organization on the radar as an important grassroots’ patriots’ organization.

This reminded me of the story I read of Lindell chartering trucks to try to support the Canadian Trucker protestors, a move that was also blocked.

Speaking for myself, I don’t think Mike Lindell is some kind of kook. I think he’s a brave and civic-minded patriot, a rare CEO who will one day be shown to have been on the right side of history.

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I strongly recommend Jeffrey Tucker’s recent article at Brownstone pointing out that nothing like real capitalism exists in the world. Link:

https://brownstone.org/articles/this-is-not-capitalism/

The article’s last sentence notes:

“(We have a system) that provides healthy rewards for private enterprise that links up with state power and brutal punishments for those enterprises which do not.”

Regarding the last point, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell must be the most egregious example of a man and company that was “punished” for not following the “authorized narrative.”

Lindell’s crimes were two-fold: He was a conspicuous Trump supporter (probably the only CEO in America who was) and he later made challenging election fraud one of his new missions.

Because of these transgressions, the System conspired to remove his products from the “box stores” (like Bed Bath & Beyond and Wal-Mart), then American Express “de-banked” his company and no doubt other banks refused to extend the company credit.

The key to success for MyPillow was their info-commercials, which now, the company cannot even run.

As Lindell noted in his remarks, he is now struggling to simply “keep the company afloat.”

It should be noted this is a company that makes its products in America and sells products that have been proven to be very popular with consumers - but is now hanging on by a thread. What type of capitalism is this?

And who is standing up for MyPillow or seeking to punish those who harmed this company?

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