David Hogg is going to learn about the law of “Go Woke, Go Broke”
From the Daily Mail:
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, 20, and software engineer William LeGate have teamed up to launch a progressive pillow company to rival Trump supporter Mike Lindell after first tweeting about it as a joke.
Hogg said that the partners aim to sell $1million of product within their first year.
‘Mike isn’t going to know what hit him- this pillow fight is just getting started,’ Hogg tweeted.
LeGate told DailyMail.com that the new company ‘started two days ago as a joke.’
‘We are 100% serious. Company will be officially incorporated by next week,’ LeGate told DailyMail.com.
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.
Hogg announced this on his Twitter feed.
.@williamlegate and I are going to prove that progressives can make a better pillow, run a better business and help make the world a better place while doing it.
— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) February 4, 2021
I have no idea who William LeGate is. I looked him up and apparently he’s a tech CEO for a company that I never heard that does something that is described with jargon that I don’t understand and gets invited to do a lot of talks where he uses more jargon that I can’t figure out what it means.
I know I am not the smartest person in the world. I’m just a simple metallurgist. But when I see these tech CEOs throw around a lot of big words and set up sites and apps that don’t describe exactly what they do, and somehow make a lot of money but don’t charge a fee for their services, it makes me wonder if much of the tech industry is just a giant Ponzi scheme of investment built on a foundation of lies and jargon with some really skeezy shit going on behind the scenes.
But I digress…
Here is exactly what I think is going to happen.
They might actually go through with setting up the company but I doubt it.
I have actual personal experience in setting up a manufacturing line. Going from an empty building to an assembly line producing at a volume necessary to meet customer demand is not a process that takes days or weeks, it takes months to years. Fining suppliers, buying equipment, doing first article inspections, training workers, quality assurance, safety compliance, it’s tedious.
I don’t care that it pillows. This is a segment from How It’s Made from Discovery Science, on how pillows are made.
So Hogg and LeGate want to make pillows to spite Mike Lindell because Trump.
By the time they are done setting up a pillow manufacturing facility, how many people will care to buy pillows to spite the My Pillow Guy and Bad Orange Man?
The zeitgeist for that will have passed.
There may be a few die-hard ultra-Leftist who will buy a Trump spite pillow as a virtue signal talisman a year from now (or more), but that number is probably several hundred to a couple of thousand. It’s not a sustainable market demographic.
Another factor is something I’ve talked about before, the difference between the Tech Industry and meat space engineering. A charismatic CEO can’t come in wearing a turtleneck and sneakers and bootstrap and blockchain an assembly line. There is nothing Forbes or Ing would find glamorous about blue-collar manufacturing, so I figure that LeGate will lose interest in this fast if he can even manage it at all.
Going over to LeGate’s Twitter, it’s clear that his idea of starting a pillow company is simply subcontracting a large order out to an existing manufacturer.
If you are a US-based manufacturer with experience making pillows, please email partners@legate.me – would love to chat & see if we can partner with you given our strict requirements (union-made, workers paid living wage, etc.)
— LeGate (@williamlegate) February 4, 2021
Pillow manufacturers are like: “so how many pillows will be in your initial order… 100? 200? 500?”
And I’m like “uh… at least 10,000” and they’re like ???
— LeGate (@williamlegate) February 5, 2021
Actually, the pare probably like “holy shit, how do we scale production under COVID protocols to meet that order size in the given time frame because this dot com shithead knows nothing about manufacturing.”
Just look at the ammo market right now. You can’t scale production overnight.
My Pillow, for what it’s worth, is a manufacturer, not a company that resells subcontracted products.
And they are having problems too:
I NEED A UNIONIZED PILLOW MANUFACTURER IN THE US
We’re having a hard time finding one
If you know one PLEASE dm
— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) February 5, 2021
So let’s say they do order the first batch of 10,000 pillows and a few thousand progressives rush out to buy a My Spite Pillow, then the market will taper off leaving lots of unsold inventory.
I suspect that a few high profile celebrities/Progressive elites will have to come in and buy the rest in a few large orders to keep Hogg’s spite business venture from being a total flop.
Then this will quietly go away and the investors will be left holding the bag because Go Woke, Go Broke is absolute.
Double Murder-Suicide in Plains Township, PA. (Graphic Video)
https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/d47a57bf-c1ef-446c-bac6-0a925c1709a0
If there was a more graphic demonstration of making checks with your mouth that your body can’t cash, it is this one.
And once again and because it should be a personal mantra:
Your number one philosophy for personal security should be a life long commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
Avoidance: The act of avoiding or keeping away from (Three Stupid Rule.) If you can safely retreat from the encounter, by all means do so. For instance, if you are out for a walk and feel threatened or intimidated by an occupant of a car, you should retreat in the opposite direction that the car is traveling.
Deterrence: The act of discouraging someone from taking hostile action against you by being aware of them and their possible intent.
De-escalation: The act of decreasing in intensity. To not let your ego or emotions get the best of you, to refrain from escalating the problem into more than it already is. As a CCW you may need to back down from non-life threatening, argumentative encounters in order to not allow things to spiral out of control.
When these things do not work, then and only then may you need to show or use the gun. Just because we are carrying does not mean that we need to use the gun. You want to do whatever is reasonably possible to avoid using the gun. But when your well researched, well thought out “line in the sand” has been crossed you need to act without hesitation.The “Three Stupid” Rule
“Do not go to stupid places, with stupid people, and do stupid things”
I believe we can say the Stupid got worn out on this one.
HK really hates you
The Poors: I own an HK clone, iT’s PrEttY MUch tHe SaME tHinG. pic.twitter.com/WneKOZcPUt
— Heckler & Koch (@HecklerAndKoch) February 3, 2021
Ex-Nazi designed stamped sheet metal piece of shit.
Skynet is not happening anytime soon.
Once again, the Zuckbots swing and miss. I posted this meme and I will admit it is rather cruel in this day and age of Airborne parentage. I did that shit when I was a toddler (and with a key rather than a fork) and I still remember the shock.
But suicide? Who commits suicide by sticking a fork in a socket?
If I want to hurt myself, I’d tell my wife she looks fat in those jeans, to go make me a sandwich and to hurry up because I have a lap dance waiting at the local strip joint. Knowing her, it would take her two weeks to kill me in the most painful and miserable way.
Florida Legislature 2021: SB 1052 – Use or Threatened Use of Force (Imposing Duty to Retreat)
General Bill by Jones
Use or Threatened Use of Force: Citing this act as the “The Self-Defense Restoration Act”; deleting provisions relating to persons using or threatening to use force not having to retreat before such use or threatened use in defense of persons or property; prohibiting persons from using deadly force in accordance with specified provisions of law if such persons know that they can avoid the necessity of using deadly force with complete safety by retreating; deleting provisions relating to persons using deadly force not having a duty to retreat and having the right to stand their ground under certain circumstances, etc.
It is not bad enough that Senator Jones wants to eliminate the very successful Stand Your Ground law, force you to turn your back on an attacker, but has the unmitigated gall to call this bill “The Self-Defense Restoration Act.” Restore whose self-defense? Violent criminals’?
And yes, I bring the photo of the Senator to make a point he is black, the same race that has been the biggest beneficiary of Stand Your Ground. But then again, innocent Black people getting murdered seems to be good for political business when it comes to Democrats.
AOC wants her lies on the record
Lawmakers will share their personal stories of the Jan. 6 attack on the House floor tonight.
.@AOC will kick off the special order hour pic.twitter.com/rhj10BGe9F
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) February 4, 2021
This is important, it puts her lies on record.
Here is why this is critical.
The speech and debate clause of the Constitution protects Members of Congress from libel and slander for things they say on the Floor.
This is how Harry Reid could say Mitt Romney never paid taxes and not get in trouble. He said it from the Floor.
If this is an official House activity, AOC can accused Republicans of anything and she’s protected by the speech and debate clause.
If there is a place for her to say “Rep/Senator [Republican] coordinated with people in the crowd to find and murder me,” she is not liable for slander.
IANAL, and I very well could be wrong, but I suspect that she’s been caught in a lie that is getting dangerously close to getting her into real legal trouble, and by making this airing of grievances a House function she’s invoking Constitution protection unique to Congress to continue to lie.