Why would anyone want political meaning in their pillow? Have you ever used politics to try to fall asleep? There's a reason the cliché falling-asleep method is counting sheep — not counting Senators. Though Senators are dull. But they not dull in the right way.
ADDED: We're told that Hogg's company will sell pillows that are "American-made by union workers," and I see at least one commenter mocking him as stupid — "Can you imagine the cost of a unionized pillow?" That made me think of the old "Look for the union label" ad campaign, which urged Americans to buy American-made clothing and to feel good about paying the extra cost. I rewatched those commercials, and they might make you laugh, but they actually made me cry, and I was trying not to cry.
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He'd have to do mattress toppers too.
MyPillow’s fill is patented. I bet this guy’s pillow will infringe. And he will fail.
God he needed an Ass whooping in the worst way. His parents and peer groups utterly failed him.
“Genesis 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.”
Reality.
Fiction.
Strangeness.
Our world.
These could have finished with question marks. Time for another cup of coffee.
Anybody here got a hot cup of something for Mr. Hogg?
My first thought was, "Who wants to sleep with a hog? A dog, maybe, or a cat, but not a smelly hog."
Hiroshima survivors should start a pillow company. Hello Pillow would be a good brand.
Lie down with dogs, and you get up with dogs.
list of goals for the future company, which included supporting progressive causes and hiring formerly incarcerated Americans.
Lindells goal was to make the best pillow on the market, and design a marketing plan to get that message out to the most potential customers possible.
(a side note, Hogg would be required to hire Lindell if he submitted his application)
He should name his new company bi-pillow. That kid is gayer than Chaplin checking in at the Ritz.
Eleanor said...
My first thought was, "Who wants to sleep with a hog? A dog, maybe, or a cat, but not a smelly hog
Titus?
John Henry
He'd have to do mattress toppers too.
And Dog beds.
What'll it be called? HoggThePillow?
"Why would anyone want political meaning in their pillow?"
"The personal is political." Your pillow is pretty personal.
("Your Pillow" could be his company name.)
Hahaha. If the goals of your pillow manufacturing and distribution company are not tightly focused on superior pillow manufacturing and distribution then your business will fail. Once you successfully establish this pillow business, i.e.; win customers and produce a profit, then you can use some of that profit to support causes important to you, but only some.
Note too that this kid's bedwetting behavior has only gotten worse. @donald has it right.
@rhhardin, I thought it was “Lie down with dogs, and you get up with fleas.” I guess Eleanor begs to differ.
But you don’t want to lie down with hogs. They’ll eat you.
A pillow won’t stop a bullet. He’s not focused on his own brand.
Imagine going to Harvard and coming out of it thinking that your life's goal is to put the My Pillow guy out of business. Hogg will be out of business in a year. There are serious mattress and pillow companies out there now. Already woke. Already doing business. With actual business experience, track records, and marketing. And they're not run by insufferable assholes.
What's Hogg going to do? Accuse Mike Lindell of being too Christian? Good luck with that.
Lindell does seem a bit...on the edge, shall we say? He could use a good 6 months turning off the news. But I will say this: I have trouble sleeping. That's another story entirely. But I did have a dead, awful pillow for years. I saw the My Pillow ads for years, but always ignored them. I turn off all ads. I shopped the market, buying every 'specialty' pillow and various off the shelf pillows for years. None of them worked for me. Then...out of frustration late one night I ordered a My Pillow. Best pillow I've ever had. I love it.
So...it's one thing to attack Mike Lindell, but the fact is, he has a product that works, a line that people love, and I now understand why. David Hogg is considered a regurgitive punk. Nothing more.
In his defense, he may have bitten a lot of pillows.
I am Laslo.
A clearer example of retardation caused by fetal alcohol syndrome there has never been. Just look at his face.
Pillow biter and friends establish competitive company in crowded sleep market. Controversy created but friends and Co. say attaching politico slant is a no go. Remind all not to slew view but to ignore corporate coup and just Say Thank You.
Pork belly futures in focus Friday night.
Lindell has a good product. That helps sales. I guess it also helps that the seventy five million Americans who voted for Trump have now politicized their pillow buying habits. The downside is that those who hate Trump would rather bed down with concrete blocks than his product. If you can capture a significant portion of a seventy five million person market, you come out ahead. If Hogg can capture any share of those who hate Trump, he will also come out ahead. He should donate a certain portion of his profits to help research and cure insomnia, a disease which afflicts women and people of color disproportionately.
To be clear, my 6:46 comment doesn't necessarily mean he is gay.
He could bite the pillow from having a wonderful woke girlfriend who pegs him mercilessly.
I am Laslo.
Hogg tweeted a list of goals for the future company, which included
supporting progressive causes
and hiring formerly incarcerated Americans.
notice what's NOT on his list of goals, for his pillow company?
Making a comfortable pillow
Making it affordable
Making it available
“could bite the pillow from having a wonderful woke girlfriend who pegs him mercilessly”.
Nah.
Will looking so much like Pajama Boy be an advantage in the pillow business?
Bi-pillow boy should hire mattress girl as his executive VP. Hogg & Sulkowicz sounds more like a law firm, but in bizarro world they make furniture.
I am not Laslo.
1. Build a global raft of the oppressed (Miami, Harvard, where ever)
2. Attack the treachery of capitalist pig-dog pillow-maker Mike Lindell and finally vanquish Donald The Barbarian
3. Profit
I recommend ‘Love, Peace, and Empathy’ by Zoe Satchel and ‘Three Days To Live: Climate Catastrophe’ by Chase Weller-Wells.
Also, to understand the experience of black/brown bodies in space I recommend ‘Permanent Racism And The White Hegemony’. by Dr Jill Weisenstein-Amin.
Don’t Hogg all the chicks, bro.
Also ‘Self-Care, Self-Love, Kill The White Man’ by Zoe Satchel. Her ‘Space-Oppression, How To Have Orgasms On Mars’ is under-rated.
This literature will change your life. Check out the Folgers Foundation Grants and the Sweet and Low Singers-A Community Youth Brigade.
Get active, People.
Little Boss Hogg goes to Harvard even though he didn't have the grades, but he had the hateful Progressivism down, and spewed his hate daily to the delight of the higher ups at Harvard. He is a joke. I wonder who is funding him?? Soros?? Clinton?? Biden?? CHINA???
Timing?
Isn't Lindell supposed to release a video today on election fraud?
Jack Posobiec on twitter suggested naming it "Cry Pillow.
When I heard his announcement, I assumed that it was actually like the book deals and speaking fees in the progressive community. Money will be funneled his way, but there is no expectation of him being successful at the business.
That is one heck of a business plan, buy my stuff to demonstrate your wokeness!
Wonder how that would do on shark-tank?
Isn't he past his sell by date?
To dally with woke is like playing with a tiger, sometimes the tiger decides to eat you.
Blogger gilbar said...
"Hogg tweeted a list of goals for the future company, which included
supporting progressive causes
and hiring formerly incarcerated Americans.
notice what's NOT on his list of goals, for his pillow company?
Making a comfortable pillow
Making it affordable
Making it available"
Which is why, when it inevitably fails, everyone else will be blamed except his stupid business plan.
Inga will buy one for every one of her cats.
He needs to hook up with Mattress Girl to provide a woke sleep system.
Hogg Tweets last night, "I NEED A UNIONIZED PILLOW MANUFACTURER IN THE US. We're having a hard time finding one. if you know on PLEASE dm."
What a dumb shit. They just want to buy and existing company that doesn't exist. Can you imagine the cost of a unionized pillow? Doesn't David understand the majority of American sleep on pillow made by cheap foreign labor they don't have to think about while counting sheep?
David is to stupid to realize that MyPillow is a pretty unique success story in America. A RonCo of sorts.
Hogg will completely fail, but still claim victory.
>>Why would anyone want political meaning in their pillow?
Because in WokeWorld, EVERYTHING is political. And Politics = Truth.
These are the people who want to lecture us about reality....
Hes a student at harvard so no.
Why would people want politics in their pillows?
Because you need to signal your loyalty in all you do. Never be the first to stop clapping.
"Hogg will be out of business in a year."
-- Or will the My Pillow guy find his product mysteriously no longer allowed in stores, his digital ability to process things blocked by banks, and a sudden influx of investigations for this and that, while David Hogg's business gets tax breaks and quickly finds its way into stores and digital marketplaces?
"I guess it also helps that the seventy five million Americans who voted for Trump have now politicized their pillow buying habits."
-- Buycotts are a common form of conservative signaling. Like with Chic-fil-a. I kind of like them more than boycotts. Because with boycotts, generally, a lot of people doing the "boycott" aren't really customers anyway. Buycotts make you put your money where your bed is.
How does one sleep when one is woke?
I’m gonna give this asshole some credit: he’s using an idea and capitalism to fight what he thinks is the good fight. He will fail but at least it’s not another Greta Thunberg lecture.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
-Check.
Show Trials
-Check
Loyalty tests to the Supreme Leader for the military
-Check
Censorship and punishment for "Dangerous" ideas
-Check
Political Class demands armed protection from the peasants
-Check
24x7 surveillance of 'potential criminals'
-Check
Citizens afraid to speak freely in public places
-Check
Science must agree with current political thought
-Check
"Truth" = whatever the political class says it is.
-Check
Public "Confessions" for those accused of thought crime
-Check
Welcome to America, circa 2020. Unthinkable 20 years ago, and if the D's have their way, un-reversible.
PB said...
What'll it be called? HoggThePillow?
Ha! Next he will segue into HoggTheCovers.
Blogger Rana said...
He needs to hook up with Mattress Girl to provide a woke sleep system.
That’s awesome.
Other slogans come to mind with David Hogg.
Hogging the pillows. Hogging the blankets. Sleeping like a Hog.
Who wants a pillow that is woke?
Mark these words; this kid will fail spectacularly in this and a couple of other business ventures, develop a substance abuse issue and end up running a televangelist scam by age 35.
No problem BoA is now spying on Americans. I love love love this new Government. Glad I'm old.
This Hogg guy sure gets a lot of attention. Wasn't he in another building when his high school was attacked?
>>Mark these words; this kid will fail spectacularly in this and a couple of other business ventures
Of course he won't fail.
Some D will bail him out with some sort of "grant" for anti-racist pillow development.
That is until he gets elected to Congress or hired for some lefty lobbying firm.
Why would anyone want political meaning in their pillow?
Hogg - whose government official parents taught him the grifter game early - monetizes "the personal is political".
The Hogg Pillow guarantee: You'll be happier than a pig in shit or your money back.
If you put a gun under your Hogg Pillow, it will call the police.
I've never tried counting Senators. But for the last 5 years, I've counted Presidents to get back to sleep, and found it effective. So many forgettable Presidents, Pierce, Buchanan, Chester Arthur, and the 19th President, whatshisname...
The Hogg Pillow - Finally an answer to the Prog dilemma, "If I did pull my head out of my ass, where would I put it?"
Does it include a hypodermic needle an a bottle o phenobarbital?
Rana said: "He needs to hook up with Mattress Girl to provide a woke sleep system."
Add pajama boy and you'd have a trifecta.
"Who wants a pillow that's woke? That's a keeper right there.
Who would trust Lil' Boss Hogg to provide a sage endorsement for anything? All the kid has ever done is hog the nearest available spotlight to promote himself.
But his ideas are a showcase of Progressive thinking. Instead of shooting for 'product excellence', his Big Idea is to tear down an industry leader because of their political beliefs. His definition of success doesn't include satisfying his putative customers - he's just hogging the spotlight again. Maybe his pillows will come in different flavors - maybe his favorite is tutti frutti
Hogg is just trying to renew his 15 minutes of fame, which ran out some time ago. BTW, does he explain how one starts up a manufacturing operation and still finds time to attend Harvard? Or has he flunked out?
I wish him all the luck in the work with this project. Hopefully it will give him a better sense of what is required to run a business and be a grown-up. Alas, I predict utter failure because he is starting the business for all the wrong reasons.
Bed Bath and Beyond hardest hit.
"Add pajama boy and you'd have a trifecta."
And none would climax.
Hogg's down in the mud again.
"they actually made me cry"
Althouse, if you read this comment, could you explain? No snark, just curious.
The commercials gave me a strong the-past-is another-country vibe.
"Althouse, if you read this comment, could you explain? No snark, just curious."
I remember seeing these commercials at the time and so I have old emotions and memories attached to them. I'm not sure what part of that affected me so much. The differentness of the hair and clothing styles made the characters feel tragic to me, and they had such simple satisfaction with their jobs and were making a simple request of their fellow citizens. It was so sincere, and I knew their fate: we Americans would switch to buying cheap clothes made overseas. The dedication to America would be nowhere to be found, except in a retro political campaign by a completely strange politician, whose supporters would be called deplorable by people who would not want to be identifying these people in the commercial as deplorable. But those people are lost in an irretrievable moment in the past -- a moment that lives on through YouTube and allows them to march and sing earnestly forever.
Something like that.
" Rob said...
Will looking so much like Pajama Boy be an advantage in the pillow business?"
Actually, he looks exactly like Kamala Harris' daughter Emma, which can only help.
Hogg will get Biden to give him $50 million to start the company by 'stimulus'.
Hogg will be CEO and get $10 million dollar salary.
Company will fail (as so many Obama solar companies did) and Hogg becomes a millionaire and walks off.
Just a scam folks.. Democrat scam.
How ya like thos apples?
I'd be looking forward to seeing him fail, but unfortunately, the media won't allow us to hear about it when it happens.
The new pillows are specifically designed to repel the tears of those who cry themselves to sleep every night, Hogg has been using his for years and it doll holds its shape
I rewatched those commercials, and they might make you laugh, but they actually made me cry, and I was trying not to cry.
You are a sucker for nostalgia, as am I.
Luckily my wife appreciates that I sometimes start crying when discussing a past topic or event that brings up positive emotions. Otherwise, she might think I was emotionally unbalanced.
IPO as political theatre.
And he wants to employ formerly incarcerated labor. I’ve misplaced my checkbook otherwise I’d buy that stock.
- Krumhorn
Among the goals Harvard sophomore David Hogg has for the new company, I don't see making a profit. I bet he'll succeed in not making a profit.
"SoyBoy pillows . . . when you haven't done enough to support the State.
Re Ann's reaction.
I think lots of us regret a profound change in the culture, which has shifted from being based on respect to being based on disrespect. American culture now is all about deciding who you can get away with disrespecting. I think this is behind the rush to censor (a form of deep disrespect) and politicians talking openly about deplorables.
The sad part is, he won’t do it. This is not a serious plan. It is a dunk on Trump, for clicks and some bucks.
So how much money is his democrat backer going to funnel through the new pillow company and direct to progressive causes - probably funded by the tax dollars of US citizens? How long until this cretin follows in hunter biden's shoes and goes for crack and whores? Will hogg-boy ever reaize his goal of being emperor of the world? Will the neighbors dog bark at the local coyote as it traipses through the backyards? Will the garbage guys pick up like always this coming Monday? Is water wet? Will it rain this week in Seattle?
These and other questions remain to be answered on 'As the Prog-World Turns'..
It was so sincere, and I knew their fate...The dedication to America would be nowhere to be found
Great Piece on this from Lee Smith writing in Tablet Magazine:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
But those people are lost in an irretrievable moment in the past -- a moment that lives on through YouTube and allows them to march and sing earnestly forever.
Reminds of the feelings I had during the family vacation to Florida last summer. Florida doesn’t mandate masks for everyone, and it felt to me like I was going back in time. I got upset that I felt that experience was history rather than the future.
He needs to hook up with Mattress Girl to provide a woke sleep system.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Good for him. Participating in the market is better than whining. I hope he's successful.
It is, however, against the law to create a business for the sole purpose of putting a competitor out of business. If he engages in any predatory practice, he has opened himself up to a lawsuit, on day one, by making such a stupid statement publicly.
Something you may notice in the MyPillow commercial where they converse through the medicine chest: After the guy gets a good night's sleep on his MyPillow he reappears with the same blue shirt as Lindell and the same cross around his neck. Presumably sleeping on that patented pillow is a conversion experience.
Worth repeating:
"The differentness of the hair and clothing styles made the characters feel tragic to me, and they had such simple satisfaction with their jobs and were making a simple request of their fellow citizens. It was so sincere, and I knew their fate: we Americans would switch to buying cheap clothes made overseas. The dedication to America would be nowhere to be found, except in a retro political campaign by a completely strange politician, whose supporters would be called deplorable by people who would not want to be identifying these people in the commercial as deplorable. But those people are lost in an irretrievable moment in the past -- a moment that lives on through YouTube and allows them to march and sing earnestly forever."
Didn't make me cry, but this is close to my own reaction. They are lost, their country is lost, and now the one man who pretended to care even a little bit is lost too.
And of course, we know who wants to make the losers feel like losers.
A faded child star tries to regain relevance.
Here in Los Angeles we still have a garment industry. Most of the articles in the Los Angeles Times talk about the bad conditions in the factories, and the poor oppressed workers suffering. Jean Fraud Kerry would say, as he did of the Keystone Pipeline workers, "they should have made better choices".
But all that poilitical bladerdash aside, I'd never buy a pillow made by Boss Hogg or his workers, whether union or not.
"Something like that."
Good answer, and I agree with Francisco D nostalgia has much to do with it.
I remember those ads. The late 70's and early 80's were very turbulent economically. The Great Inflation raged on. Unemployment was rising (remember "stagflation"?), and unions were struggling to stay relevant in a time when they had lost their clout. It wasn't just the garment workers. There was a big campaign to "buy American" in the auto industry and elsewhere.
Those people in the ads were begging for their jobs and their lifestyles however humble they might have been. But charity was increasingly difficult for most middle-class Americans, unionized or not. Why shell out $2000 more for an American car to help save union jobs when you could buy a better, more reliable imported car and stretch your own threatened budget? If you could afford the extra bucks you'd have been better off donating the price difference to the unions after buying the better foreign car. Same with clothing, electronics, other stuff.
The 60's and 70's were times of great excess for Americans. The bubble was bursting in the late 70's, and bursting bubbles hurt people. It's sad, but it's a cautionary tale against complacency.
Paul: "Hogg will get Biden to give him $50 million to start the company by 'stimulus'.
Hogg will be CEO and get $10 million dollar salary.
Company will fail (as so many Obama solar companies did) and Hogg becomes a millionaire and walks off.
Just a scam folks.. Democrat scam.
How ya like thos apples?"
What I suspect will happen in short order:
The My Pillow company will very soon begin having extreme difficulty with their supply chain of materials sourced from outside CONUS. These materials will consistently be held up at ports of entry for all sorts of various reasons. Perhaps illicit contraband will suddenly start being "discovered" in many of the shipments.
This will trigger an expanded and continuous "audit" of the My Pillow company by multiple federal law enforcement agencies and the IRS.
This team will be led by the 2020's version of Andrew Weissman who will convert novel and creative interpretations of the law into prosecutions of the entire MyPillow corporate team (a la Arthur Anderson).
Our new Weissman will prosecute his case in Washington DC before a Judge Sullivan "judge" in front of a DC jury.
All defendants will be found guilty, put in prison, their wealth and homes forfeited, their families made destitute and My Pillow facilities shuttered.
David Hogg financial backers will pick up the idle My Pillow assets at pennies on the dollar, if not simply awarded to Hogg by state authorities.
Hogg's financial backers will then establish new supply chain and logistics relationships with ChiCom interests who will use their Belt and Road affiliates to create a new democratical pipeline for materials.
The company will make inferior products and the refusal of the market to embrace the new "products" will result in claims of MAGA-racism bigotry since the entire executive staff of Stasi-Pillow will be LGBTQ(more letters here) BIPOC's.
Meanwhile, 8 years after their convictions and imprisonment and harassment of their families, the My Pillow defendants will finally win on appeal at the Supreme Court and be released and given $50k in cash as a "settlement" for their "troubles".
Motive aside, building a better product is unabashedly American.
There never will be a Hogg Pillow Company.
a lot of people doing the "boycott" aren't really customers anyway. Buycotts make you put your money where your bed is.
I have already bought and received a pair of pillows and some sheets. Didn't really need them, they may transition to gifts.
Did the same with GOYA beans. Couple of cases taken to the food pantry
Hogg will be CEO and get $10 million dollar salary.
He'll never be the CEO. He'll license the brand to an existing manufacturer.
"MyEgo" would be a good name.
Maybe he could sell his Hogg Pillows to 4H.
Dope humor of the 70s, from Saturday Night Live:
"Look for that Union Label when you are buying that baggie or pound...."
https://vimeo.com/57702470
He'll do ok. The same people who buy books by the foot will also buy his pillow.
You just know Brian Stelter will buy more that one.
Hogg Pillows hits a snag tweeting:
"I NEED A UNIONIZED PILLOW MANUFACTURER IN THE US
We’re having a hard time finding one
If you know one PLEASE dm"
Maybe Hogg should abandon the pillow idea and start his own AR-15 company offering a single shot version of the popular sporting rifle. I don't believe anyone else is currently making one. He could have a monopoly.
I’m not gonna disagree with Drago on this one.
Ann Althouse said..."I remember seeing these commercials at the time and so I have old emotions and memories attached to them..."
Very, very well said. I was a kid in the 70s, and my dad was a union laborer. He was laid off for the first time in his life in the aftermath of the oil embargo. Being without work hit him very, very hard. It's hard to convey to people who weren't around in the 70s just how dismal and hopeless the world seemed to be becoming. Jimmy Carter's "malaise" didn't even begin to describe it.
The ILGWU commercials were stirring, but they did have the feeling of brave people going down with a sinking ship. (Kudos to the jingle writer. I still know all the words.) My dad was one of the toughest, most solid men I've ever known, and I remember him once "getting something in his eye" when one of those commercials came on. Once.
William said...
Lindell has a good product. That helps sales. I guess it also helps that the seventy five million Americans who voted for Trump have now politicized their pillow buying habits. The downside is that those who hate Trump would rather bed down with concrete blocks than his product. If you can capture a significant portion of a seventy five million person market, you come out ahead. If Hogg can capture any share of those who hate Trump, he will also come out area
I don't know of any other pillow company that's competing for conservative buys.
I expect most pillow companies are doing the left wing pandering thing.
So Lindell has a free shot at the politicized Right, and a good shot at people who just want a good pillow.
Hogg's moving into a crowded left-wing market with a product that won't appeal to anyone who isn't politicized.
He's burnt toast
Along with getting mattress girl involved, he needs to ask AOC to be his CFO! IPO to the moon!
I doubt he's serious. Starting a business just to spite somebody isn't something one does unless one has a lot of money and is willing to lose it.
But I'm sure plenty of people would pay him and bring even their own pillows if they could smother him with them.
*
P.S. Christopher Plummer finally dead.
Or Hogg could try to unionize the MyPillow factory, if all he wants to do is fuck up Lindell.
Ken B: "I’m not gonna disagree with Drago on this one."
From your lips to my extended family's ears.
"David Hogg launching pillow company to 'put MyPillow out of business'/Hogg tweeted a list of goals for the future company, which included supporting progressive causes and hiring formerly incarcerated Americans."
What a fucking tool.
... "hiring formerly incarcerated Americans."
He could start by hiring the recently "free on bail" Antifa terrorists, but I suspect they are returning to full time jobs in the Scorched Earth movement.
Hogg should take lessons from the bakery in Oregon who employs former inmates and is ironically called, "Dave's killer Bread".
A clearer example of retardation caused by fetal alcohol syndrome there has never been. Just look at his face.
He should marry Gretta. Imagine their offspring!
Hogg will completely fail, but still claim victory.
While high on crack, face down in a Mexican gutter.
Why would anyone want political meaning in their pillow?
Because Politics is the Opiate of the Masses.
And opiates help folks fall asleep.
Considering Hunter's influence on the left:
While high on crack, face down in a Mexican hooker.
This Hogg guy sure gets a lot of attention. Wasn't he in another building when his high school was attacked?
What a coincidence. So was I!
The left is so stupid, Hogg needs to get out into America more. Corportions have been hiring ex-cons for like ever.
No, you don't Hogg the pillow, you Hogg the blanket! Wrong product, kid. That is why you fail.
It never ceases to amaze me how much attention we give to people who don't deserve it.
DanTheMan said...
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Welcome to America, circa 2020. Unthinkable 20 years ago, and if the D's have their way, un-reversible.
Nothing is irreversible. Some things just may require a higher cost in blood and treasure to do so.
Laslo Spatula said...In his defense, he may have bitten a lot of pillows.
How may threads has Laslo won?
I have lost count.
Laraine Newman version
Aren't Hogg's 15 minutes up? Will he go on HSN and pitch it in an infomercial called "Pillow Talk with David Hogg"? Just the mental image is miserable to the senses.
P.S. Look for the union label really didn't help Detroit, as they were putting out junker cars with poor quality. Although the campaign was probably more about Detroit than some other places. 1970's products were hideous. Bell bottoms, anyone?
We could make a musical of Vance's Hillbilly Elegy and use the ILGWU jingle as an opening number.
I'm 62 years old and I just learned what "pillow biter" means. I've led a sheltered life; thankfully my fainting couch is nearby.
I commend Mr. Hogg on his enthusiasm. I'd much rather he make an attempt, through market methods, to achieve his objective than through- for example- executive fiat. But when this effort fails, what then?
Francisco D: "How may threads has Laslo won?"
If I may paraphrase:
All Your Threads Are Belong To Laslo.
I have a "my pillow" and I do like it. I'm really picky with pillows.
I respect the My Pillow guy but no one in industry should wed themselves to any political candidate. Not wise.
The blow-back isn't worth it.
As for anything that creepy bully DAvid Hogg would produce (he wont'
produce anything - some rich leftist will do it for him) YUCk. No freaking way I'd buy a Hogg pillow.
I love that My Pillow is made in USA. it's washable - and not delicate. - you can really wash it and dry it full-on. It's a malleable pillow. You can punch it around and get it just right.
Hogg is an asshole.
"P.S. Look for the union label really didn't help Detroit, as they were putting out junker cars with poor quality. Although the campaign was probably more about Detroit than some other places. 1970's products were hideous."
I bought my first car in 1972. My dad was a mechanic and had always owned GM cars. His advice to me- "Buy a Japanese car. US made cars are crap."
The last two vehicles he owned before he died were Toyotas. I'm sure there's a message in there somewhere.
My guess is he will find that his goals of supporting progressive causes and hiring ex-cons will not further his competitiveness, but I applaud his attempt to try a market solution to his perceived problem.
BidenFamilyTaxPayerFundedCrackPipe said...
I respect the My Pillow guy but no one in industry should wed themselves to any political candidate. Not wise.
The blow-back isn't worth it.
2/5/21, 3:02 PM
I agree in principle but the reality is any/all left wing businesses proudly wear their left wing/progressive bona fides on their sleeve with near impunity. It is only right wing or conservative businesses that get crucified.
Look at what happened to the Kock brothers. They donated to causes across the political spectrum but as soon as word of one or two of the right-wing (and I think they were actually libertarian) causes they support got out, they became worse than Nazis. Look at Chik-fil-a and all that they put up with to maintain their values.
So apparently it is quite alright for progressives to push their positions but everyone else can just shut the hell up.
Just as with entertainment, I want the businesses I frequent to "shut up and sing" and leave the politics out of it. I will boycott businesses that push politics I don't agree with. I know it is not much but they no longer get my money. I also have a long memory. I stopped purchasing any/all Gillette products due to their bone-headed ad move. Stopped watching sports, stopped viewing most Hollywood movies. They likely don't care but I can no longer give support (money or otherwise) to groups that hate me and work against my [and the country's] interests. I also no longer do twitter, facebook, nor Google. Left them years ago.
A business' job is business. Leave the causes to people. If you have enough "profit" to give away money, you are charging too much.
stick to your principles.
I think Bagoh recommended the My Pillow a while back.
I bought it because I was actually wanting a better pillow.
>>Nothing is irreversible.
Good to know. Can you unscramble this egg for me, please?
:)
Regarding union-made goods and the nostalgia of commercials urging patriotic Americans to support their follow American workers, things have been blurred since those ads were made, at least w/r/t cars. My last three cars are Subaru, Honda, Honda, made in Lafayette, Indiana, Ohio, and Alabama, respectively.
RoseAnne said...
When I heard his announcement, I assumed that it was actually like the book deals and speaking fees in the progressive community. Money will be funneled his way, but there is no expectation of him being successful at the business.
2/5/21, 7:29 AM
Me too. Success guaranteed by big hotel and motel chains ordering in quantity. If the guy had any real business sense, he would join with Biden administration in creating a way to unionize prisoners, pay fifty cents an hour, and manufacture on prison grounds.
"Hogg's moving into a crowded...market with a product that won't appeal to anyone who isn't politicized"
Yep. Hogg doesn't seem to realize that MyPillow won't be his main competitor. People turned off by Lindell already don't buy MyPillow; people who like MyPillow aren't going to shop HoggSleep. Leftists who want a political pillow already buy theirs from OneFreshPillow.
What would be funny is if any of his formerly-incarcerated employees turn out to be beneficiaries of Trump's reforms.
Flailing Harvard student seeks attention.
Someday Hogg will show up as a guest on a fourth tier cable channel program hosted by Tater Stelter called “Where are they now?”
"When I heard his announcement, I assumed that it was actually like the book deals and speaking fees in the progressive community."
Bringing up book deals, the media conglomerate CBS-Viacom wanted to sell the dead-tree media (paper-book publishing) arm *Simon+Schuster* to another struggling dead-tree publisher *Penguin* (also and formerly known as *RandomHouse*. This put them into the tender hands of the Dept of Justice for review for anti-trust monopoly practices.
BUT, in January, just before the inauguration, Simon and Schuster announced the President's Son would be getting a VERY GENEROUS advance on a new book. This despite the fact that Junior has never before written a book. Or that the book under contract hadn't yet been written. On the face of it, it looked very much like a quid pro quo to pay Junior to beg Dad to lean on the DoJ to approve the rescue merger deal for the endangered dead tree business.
I just about guarantee, if this entirely true story had been about DON instead of HUNTER the news coverage would be entirely different.
'David Hogg launching a pillow company."
Good for him. Wish him the best of luck in his endeavor. He seems more like a pillow biter kinda kid, but...Good luck Davie. Follow your Bliss.
"In the photo NBC chose to illustrate its news flash..."
Looks like the kind of picture you'd expect to see below this headline:
Local Man Apprehended in Park Molesting Squirrels
The first article of bedding to be made with a DO NOT DISAGREE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW tag attached.
“ President-Mom-Jeans said...
A clearer example of retardation caused by fetal alcohol syndrome there has never been. Just look at his face.”
You’re forgetting Greta “Grumpy Longstockings” Thunberg.
The last person I want making my pillows is an ex-con who belongs to a union.
Our Pillow!
Unions? Didn't that front cover Time piece mention AFL-CIO and Da Chamber working in tandem to drag China Joe across the finish line?
They want to smother Lindell..like, with a pillow.
But yes, give the boy credit for bouncing back.
His hair-brained venture into fitness products really fell flat.
I have caught St. Vinnies clerks trying to smuggle his .75lb dumbbells into my purchase.
His marketing team should be sued for ads depicting Hogg flexing in a tank-top with the caption "Sun's out, gun's out"
Hey I've got an idea we'll sell I Hate Trump pillows.
There, I've told you my idea.
All that product development, hiring, making and selling is for the peasants.
Oh yeah, I'm the CEO.
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