Last time, I reported that David Hogg stepped down from the board of March For Our Lives, claiming it has something to do with his privilege and letting others have the spotlight.

How magnanimous for him to fall on his sword like that.

Like everything else that comes out of his mouth, that was a lie.

From The Daily Mail:

March For Our Lives co-founder calls fellow Parkland survivor David Hogg a ‘grifter’ over his ‘Good Pillow’ rival to MyPillow – but the activist defends his startup saying he ‘needs to put food on the table and pay for therapy’

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, 20, has launched his progressive pillow company rival to challenge MyPillow CEO and Trump loyalist Mike Lindell — but the young activist is facing backlash even from his allies in the gun-control movement.

Cameron Kasky, a fellow Parkland survivor who together with Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and other students organized the national anti-gun protest March For Our Lives in 2018, blasted Hogg’s new company as ‘a grift’ and ‘a cash grab’ in a series of tweets.

‘To those of you who marched, donated, lobbied, and called for change… I’m so sorry this is what it turned into. This is embarrassing,’ Kasky wrote. ‘But, welcome to America, everything ends up a grift.’

He continued: ‘To those of you claiming I’m “jealous” about the pillow grift, I was actually offered free shares as soon as I started tweeting about it. I just declined because while I’m kind of a grifter, I’m not that much of a grifter.’

‘I spent so much time promising people this wasn’t going to turn into a cash grab. I am applying my clown makeup with the shame I deserve,’ added Kasky.

Wow.  I’m impressed by Kasky’s astute introspection that he is a flawed individual and by how hard he tossed Hogg under the bus.

I wrote about Kasky before, why he left March For Our Lives and Miguel covered how he admitted he wasn’t a survivor.

That was roughly a year-and-a-half ago.  I’m glad to see that his epiphany was real and that he is willing to keep calling out the March For Our Lives bullshit.  I may not agree with his politics, but I will give him credit for seeing the grift for being what it was and exposing it.

Hogg apparently got a little too greedy for the rest of the movement and was forced out.

Something else from the Daily Mail article:

LeGate said he will be investing $100,000 of his own fortune into the company, which he said will ‘have a site up this month.’

‘We have had lots of interest from investors as well as many celebrities. As for manufacturing plans, they will be manufactured in the United States and union-made,’ LeGate told DailyMail.com.

LeGate said on Twitter that ‘a sizable portion of the treasury reserves’ will be held in Bitcoin. He is the CEO of PredIQt – a ‘decentralized prediction market’ for shares of cryptocurrency.

‘We are happy to announce that we will be the first pillow company in the world to use Bitcoin for a portion of company reserves,’ LeGate tweeted.

‘Someone suggested we include a free $DOGE coin with every pillow purchase and, honestly, I’m considering it.’

LeGate said that the company will keep part of its reserves in Bitcoin because ‘we believe it is extremely undervalued at current prices, and I have personally been involved with Bitcoin for 8 years now.’

I am now more than ever convinced this is a scam.  This is not a pillow company.  This is a company that is claiming to make pillows while being a way for Hogg and LeGate to play the cryptocurrency market with other people’s money.

There might be jail time in their futures.

 

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One thought on “More on the Hogg/March For Our Lives situation news”
  1. “Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg…”

    Don’t you have to be in the danger zone (sorry) to be a survivor?

    A guest on Louder With Crowder riffed on that: I survived the 9/11 attacks…in Montana.

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