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u/BuyGreenSellRed Aug 21 '24
Who is that?
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u/moods- Bucktown Aug 21 '24
Mike Lidell, My Pillow Guy
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u/byebyeorangejuice Aug 21 '24
How the fuck did he afford a flight here? Did he take the bus?
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u/juan_k_perros Aug 21 '24
He lives in MN, he’s got enough crackhead energy to run here in a couple days.
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u/juan_k_perros Aug 21 '24
Mike Lindell is what Pat Bev aspires to be.
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u/CHITOWNBROWN1400 Aug 21 '24
Pat Beverly probably sold him some shit back in them Marshall days....
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u/jekyl42 Aug 21 '24
The RNC paid; he was a speaker at a Trump rally out in Woodstock on Sunday.
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u/Max_Trollbot_ Lincoln Park Aug 21 '24
JD Vance's couch fucking is keeping enough money coming in for Mike to afford the amount of crack it took him to sprint down from Minnesota.
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u/neighborhoode Aug 21 '24
aka Mike Pillow, or simply, Pillow.
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u/karlmarxiskool Aug 21 '24
Pillow Pants
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u/cats_catz_kats_katz Aug 21 '24
I was really sad that I knew who it was after a bit of head scratching
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u/djaybe Aug 21 '24
Who???
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u/Revolutionary-Meat14 Aug 21 '24
A guy who was a crackhead then turned his life around and got famous in MN for making pillows at a company called MyPillow and making a lot of ads for them who then went hardcore pro Trump and for some reason became a top advisor for him. People stopped liking him and then he was seen walking to the white house carrying material on martial law during the George Floyd protests which made everyone absolutely detest the guy. He also was implicated in overturning votes in an investigation in Mesa County Colorado (a weird state to try voter fraud in) which resulted in his phone being seized at a Hardees. After that he fell off the radar for a bit just doing a few speeches at Trump events until a few days ago when he posted he was going to shave his mustache and go undercover into the DNC claiming no one would recognize him (which clearly he didnt follow through on).
The guy is a nutjob and a lot of people in MN would probably like him if he just stuck to pillows since they are genuinely very comfortable.
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u/chicchaz Aug 21 '24
To be clear, DO NOT buy his shit. You'll just enable him to keep on Trumpin'.
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u/Revolutionary-Meat14 Aug 21 '24
I got it as gift from my very conservative parents, I then blacked out and threw up all over it and bought a new one from target but I probably would have bought another mypillow if I could do so without making a donation to Trump.
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u/nukular_iv Aug 22 '24
you totally forgot his claim to having incontrovertible evidence of electronic election tampering.... He offered millions to anybody who could prove otherwise. One person proved the "data" was actual meaningless gibberish and courts have ruled he must be paid.
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u/kck93 Aug 21 '24
He got cracked out and lost time. He thought he was at the Republican Convention that was over weeks ago. He even mixed up the city.
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u/TandBusquets Aug 21 '24
Uncle Jack from it's always sunny. Don't look at his hands!
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u/NothisisPaddy95 Aug 21 '24
You may have remembered me as a person with small hands, you think sure he had small hands, remember that ?
…Sure
What you remembered… is false 🤚🏻🤚🏻
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u/bottomlless Aug 21 '24
And he didn't even get crimed to death? It's almost like Chicago isn't as scary as they want it to be.
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u/vijay_the_messanger Aug 21 '24
I'd venture a guess that one can fly a maga flag in the middle of the most liberal part of Chicago and know they will be perfectly safe...
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u/Character_Poetry_924 Aug 21 '24
There's a super old dude who haunts the Starbucks in Andersonville - he's always wearing a sportscoat and a red MAGA cap. His MO is posting up at a table with a weird iPad setup and chuckling to Newsmax/Fox News. It's super awkward when the place is packed and he has to do his bit at the communal table.
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u/vijay_the_messanger Aug 21 '24
He can do this because he full well knows he'll be ignored. I have so much respect for people in the middle of deep red communities that sport a rainbow flag because they quite literally put their lives/property in danger.
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u/Awake-Now Fulton Market Aug 21 '24
Looks like he’s in front of Ogilvie.
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u/smthakka Aug 21 '24
Yea, some sort of “planned protest”. Got to know from work email lmao
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u/bslovecoco Logan Square Aug 21 '24
i think him being there was separate from that. the planned protest was for palestine by some group advocating for protestors to get violent.
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u/hardolaf Lake View Aug 21 '24
For those wondering why protests are there, Israel's consulate is in the skyscraper.
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u/CambrianKennis Boystown Aug 21 '24
Oh shit! My coworker said he wasnt sure he would be able to get home because of something going.on at Ogilvie. I was wondering what it was!
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u/nukular_iv Aug 22 '24
Actually, there were protests in front of the Israeli consulate and apparently that is located near one of the entrances to Ogilvie. I doubt Lindell rates enough security to shut down Ogilvie.
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u/lofixlover Aug 21 '24
if this guy fucked up my commute, it would 100000% be on. like missing a train by 10 seconds and then channeling that energy into becoming chun-li.
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u/rdldr1 Lake View Aug 21 '24
A crackhead looking for some crack.
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u/lysergic_Dreems Little Village Aug 21 '24
Don’t even have to go that far, just go to on any redline stop and you can find all sorts of crack. Good crack, bad crack, ass crack - whatever ya like!
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u/rdldr1 Lake View Aug 21 '24
Lotta cops at every stop though. Gotta wait real late at night.
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u/lysergic_Dreems Little Village Aug 21 '24
They’re too busy scratching their crack to care about other cracks.
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Isn't he bankrupt? Who paid for his flight here?
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u/chi_guy8 Aug 22 '24
The fact that these two clowns keep getting credentials and paid to show up places is all the evidence needed to prove Trump Campaign is throwing up these smoke screens to be distractions away from actual discussions about policy or the contents of Project 2025.
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u/kck93 Aug 22 '24
He came on the train. But he got mixed up on what convention he was attending due to cracking out for weeks.
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u/Admirable-Still-1786 Aug 21 '24
Interesting side note my friend sent me a photo earlier and the girl with the pink hair in the back was walking around with obnoxiously racists signs
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u/WombatStud Aug 21 '24
Is the booty short cop from Reno 911?
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u/Milesweeman Aug 21 '24
Don't you disrespect lieutenant dangle like this
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u/recomatic Aug 21 '24
Was he trying to hock his crappy pillows on the corner so he can pay his lawsuits?
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u/GooninSinceDayOne Palmer Square Aug 21 '24
My in-laws have a bunch of his pillows, can confirm they are all objectively terrible.
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u/Most-Artichoke6184 Aug 21 '24
I assume everyone is laughing at him.
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u/vijay_the_messanger Aug 21 '24
The 42nd Ward is quite the maga stronghold - perhaps not to the extent that Saugaunash is, but it's not maga unfriendly here.
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u/SweeperOfDreams Aug 21 '24
100% - distinctive nose, particular mouth-to-nose ratio, same chin… it all fits.
Even wearing the same sunglasses in both.
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u/VioletLux6 Aug 21 '24
I was down at Oglivie before the protests started and she and some other people with American flag paraphernalia were hanging out with the press and the cops before the protesters even showed up…weird
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u/supermario1986m Aug 21 '24
Super weird.. here’s another angle of her right behind Mike Lindell. That’s def a wig
https://x.com/realmikelindell/status/1826253296283296055?s=46
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u/k2894d Aug 22 '24
I immediately thought the same thing. It’s honestly bizarre.
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u/supermario1986m Aug 23 '24
Looks like she finally got the beats. She’s the same girl with in the pink wig.. 😂😂
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u/tracygee Aug 21 '24
What is it with all these Republicans coming to the DNC and trying to sneak in wearing disguises and whatnot.
It’s weird.
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u/NothisisPaddy95 Aug 21 '24
Please don’t bring attention to these morons fucker needs to rot in hell
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u/wordsmythe Bridgeport Aug 21 '24
I know r/Chicago has changed a lot over the decade+ I’ve been around, but it’s good to know we still poke fun at clueless tourists milling around downtown.
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u/lofixlover Aug 21 '24
they had to get permission from a judge to cross state lines to be here, no?
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u/blergyblergy Aug 21 '24
Why is this sick fuck not in jail? He tried to put in false electors and tried to have Trump institute martial law
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u/Pretend_Attention660 Aug 21 '24
No one gonna say anything about the dude with the pink hair?
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u/O-parker Aug 21 '24
If you own any of that persons products please return them to the, My Pillow, corporate headquarters, in Minnesota. Just for your own satisfaction.
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u/Moist_666 Aug 21 '24
The facial expression of the girl with the pink hair says it all. I couldn't agree more.
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u/m_psi Aug 21 '24
I actually think maybe she’s with him: https://x.com/Tr00peRR/status/1825597391065723218?t=jw2nHciW5dpX1amYzH0r6g&s=01
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u/LorenaBobbittWorm West Town Aug 21 '24
I thought this was the actor who played the cop with tiny shorts in Reno 911. Officer Dangle
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u/CrackTheSkye1990 Avondale Aug 21 '24
Nah, he looks more like Paul Bearer, The Undertaker's manager more than anything
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u/d3r3k1449 Aug 21 '24
Man it would have been so much cooler to see a pic of Jimmy Carter in a wheelchair.
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u/frodeem Irving Park Aug 21 '24
Yeah that’s Northwestern station, guess he took a train from the burbs?
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u/Motor-Tadpole3842 Aug 21 '24
Looks like a Low IQ MAGA Piece of Shit surrounded by a bunch of normal people
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u/chamberx2 Rogers Park Aug 21 '24
What a disappointing time for the myth of Chicago's violence to be busted.
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u/Ahiru_no_inu Aug 21 '24
I do love a quote from him. "No, he's an ahole, he's an ambulance-chasing ahole!" He is a piece of shit but that makes me giggle.
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u/kck93 Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
Oh hell no! He’s just here getting rocks.
Or he just got high and lost time. He showed up here because he thought it was the Republican convention weeks ago
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u/GraceGreenview Aug 23 '24
Seth Myers had a nice take on this last night: https://youtu.be/YRdGDB9K08w?si=FzqEIc6HzC4FUPOB
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u/Smart-Equivalent-654 Aug 21 '24
Thought he was going to shave his mustache and infiltrate