Mike Lindell, the controversial founder of MyPillow and vocal ally to Donald Trump, is claiming ignorance over the neo-Nazi symbolism in his pillow prices.
Lindell’s pillow company, which he founded in 2009, is currently offering customers the “Standard Classic MyPillow” for $14.88 reduced from $49.98.
But the discount has got critics pointing out a popular neo-Nazi symbol lurking behind the price.
The numbers 14 and 88 are two popular white supremacist numeric symbols, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The first is a nod to the “14 words” slogan, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” coined by David Lane – a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.
Meanwhile, 88 is a common code meaning “Heil Hitler”, because H is the eighth letter in the alphabet.
Mike Lindell did a Nazi dog whistle, not surprised.
Mike Lindell claimed he had no idea about how super Nazi it was: not surprised.
Makes sense, he’s a couple of quick razor swipes from a Hitler stache.
Ah yes, the completely normal 70.23% discount.
To be fair, I see all kinds of $14.88 or $7.86 or other random prices at Walmart. Problem is, I know a person didn’t necessarily set those prices because it’s every product, seemingly at random.
One dude decides what His Pillow costs, and he had to have chosen $14.88 for a reason. Maybe not because he’s a Nazi sympathizer, but maybe just to get in the headlines again. Either way, he knew the connection and what would happen, which is sell a bunch of pillows.
There are actually numeric codes to the Walmart prices iirc. It’s not white supremacist nonsense or anything inherently political though. It was Something like ending in 66 cents means that’s the last price cut vs 88 means there’s like 1 or 2 more planned discounts or something.
Crazy thing is he has to give a 70.23% discount for people to even think about buying a pillow
50 dollars for the world’s best pillow is a steal
Something you use every night that can actually help with sleep and health. You shouldn’t be skimping on your pillow.
You know he couldn’t math that himself.
math that
I’m sad that you Englished that.
“Verbing words weirds them”
THAT’S the one I was looking for!
Watterson created a masterpiece with that series, that’s for sure.
Sold it to no one, and left. What a guy.
Let’s history that, and see what you did yesterday.
How fast is that bird falling? I’ll physics that on my calculator.
You’re really on a roll with all of this pedanting.
It’s amazing how this guy managed to basically throw away everything he had accomplished for a grifter who doesn’t even give two shits about him.
Very on script for an addict
Maybe though I don’t like using someone’s addiction to poke fun. He did a really good job of overcoming it originally and then pissed it all away like so many other’s left in Trump’s wake.
He’s credibly stupid enough to not have known.
And plenty MAGA asshole enough to have hired a neo-nazi to set sale pricing.
Am I stupid? I had no idea there was any symbolism in those numbers.
No, that’s the point of a dog whistle. Those in the know understand, and they don’t want outsiders to notice. One of the best ways to combat these people is to let everyone in on their “secret” codes, so we can see exactly who is putting their hat in with the Nazis.
Do you hang out with a bunch of Nazis?
Only when my punching hands get real itchy
Not stupid, just lucky that you haven’t had extensive dealings with these people
I’m half tempted to buy the domain name “myLUMPYpillow.com” and simply redirect the traffic to mypillow.com just because of how much Lindell would hate that.
Slow the redirect down, and show people ads for fake couch porn sites, too
To be fair, he’s ignorant AF.
But yeah of course he knew.
To be fair i had no idea what 14 or 88 meant before reading this post. Not to vifify mike lindell as i dont watch the news but am aware of him indorsing politcal figures. But i feel its reaching to say hes a white supremacist baised on the price of a product. Now if there any factual instances of him being racist, then there may be a correlation.
Just because YOU didn’t know doesn’t mean much. It just means you’re probably not a White Nationalist/Nazi (or maybe it means you are and are just ill informed about the culture and iconography surrounding it ).
It definitely means something to white nationalists.
I mean im not saying it cant be politcal dog whistle. But there would need to be more evidence to make a conclusion. Such as mike lindel saying somthing racist or somthing that reinforces him being a white nationalist Nazi. Saying hes a racist purely off of a product price is the equivalent of the pet eating ohio comments. Both lack evidence and credibility to my knowlage.
It’s a thing. Now that you know, watch for it in the wild. Usernames, tattoos, bumperstickers, t-shirts. These people like to advertise.
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Of course he is, they always do.
This guy could kidnap orphan babies to strap his car and crash it into a wall and ‘claim ignorance’ that what he did was unethical and/or illegal.
The resemblance in that photo is remarkable
Just shown us the damn pictures.
Doesn’t Walmart often price things at xx.88?
Hmm. Maybe maybe not. See #2 here: https://thekrazycouponlady.com/tips/store-hacks/walmart-price-tags
#2 literally shows an item priced at $14.88
That was my first instinct, but no… The specific inclusion of 14 & 88, together and in that order?
Walmart just did it to be noticeably less than competitors, who often would price items ending in .99, .98, or .97.
I thought that those were levels of price reduction.
.99 is normal
.98 is on sale
.97 is deep sale, never going to be cheaper
That’s how my buddy who worked at WallyWorld 20 years ago explained it.
