Election deniers are paying the price—literally

Today we have two stories suggesting that the vaunted and infallible free markets are getting pretty tired of propping up conspiracy-addicted Republican election hoaxers, and if it took two and a half years to get to that point—well, nobody ever pretended the free market was quick on its feet.

Our first story is an update on MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the most notorious pro-Donald Trump election conspiracy theorists in the country and a significant funder of election hoaxes for the past few years. He's going to have a lot less money for funding those efforts, because MyPillow is now shuttering factory space and auctioning off more than 850 lots of "surplus equipment" ranging from forklifts to industrial machinery.

The reason? MyPillow has been hemorrhaging major retailers, reports Minnesota's Star Tribune, with companies from Walmart to the now-bankrupt Bed, Bath & Beyond listed as companies steering clear of Lindell's increasingly unhinged claims about Trump's election loss. When you've lost a company as infamously indifferent to morality as Walmart, you've accomplished something, but that’s not even half of Lindell's troubles. He's still facing a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, one of the companies Lindell claims rigged the election to make Trump lose.

Dominion is going to have to speed the case along if it wants to see a dime from Lindell, though, because at this point his MyPillow brand is increasingly relegated to direct sales, competing with the overpriced gold coins and "tactical" gun attachments advertised on conservative conspiracy sites.

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