Failed 'progressive pillow' guy David Hogg embarrasses himself in accidental pro-capitalism moment

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Remember when Harvard’s progressive prodigy David Hogg tried to launch a pillow company with entrepreneur William LeGate to show that terrible Trump-supporting pillow guy, Mike Lindell, how to “make a better pillow, run a better business and help make the world a better place while doing it”?

[email protected] 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 \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1612444983

Then the fight got “very real” (at least according to Hogg.)

Mike the \u201cmy pillow guy\u201d is commenting on his soon too be progressive competition in the form of a progressive pillow company @williamlegate and I are starting. \n\nThis pillow fight just got very real @williamlegatehttps://www.axios.com/david-hogg-pillow-mike-lindell-mypillow-legate-6d23b1a7-50b1-4f31-9391-53e69e36ca58.html\u00a0\u2026

— David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1612467021

Just a few months later, however, Hogg threw in the towel on his pillow-making match with Lindell.

7: Effective immediately, I have resigned and released all shares, any ownership and any control of Good Pillow LLC. I want to thank Will for his partnership and wish him absolutely nothing but success with the future of Good Pillow.

— David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1618092006

Well, it looks like Hogg has decided to give entrepreneurship another try, only to run into the kind of “stupidly complicated and expensive processes” widely supported by pro-big-government, anti-capitalism progressives.

Luckily I made enough money from previous clients I worked for a 1099 to fund this but I can already see why there are so many people who can go beyond the LLC phase.

— David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1650810149

We\u2019re losing market competition and innovation because of this system to keep things complicated to A stop completion and B keep lawyers and cpas employed. All of the above hurt consumers and keep prices high. All of which hurts social mobility, innovation, and the economy.

— David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1650810528

There are many many examples of countries where the government works to support business and make regulation and taxes as simple as possible because they understand not doing so costs you economically and also is very annoying for business and individual citizens.

— David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b (@David Hogg \ud83c\udf3b) 1650811116

Well, more than a few folks on Twitter noticed a certain irony in watching the young big-government advocate waking up to reality.

You\u2019re about to get dragged hard, sport.

— Jason Jones (@Jason Jones) 1650815093

Thank the party you patronize for that.

— MichaelRectenwald.com (@MichaelRectenwald.com) 1650851284

Jessica vs HoggBreathpic.twitter.com/vH5VYwRgfq

— Byrdman!!!! (@Byrdman!!!!) 1650856076

Government\u2014 stupidly complicated and expensive\n\u2014\n\nIndeed.\n\u2014\n\nBeing plundered by government plunderers is the price one pays for allowing government to become powerful.\n\u2014https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1518233921321947136?s=21&t=b2qNI2hmN99f5vMgoADP4A\u00a0\u2026

— SeanMaloney0 (@SeanMaloney0) 1650815882

Is this the idiot that was going to take out the MyPillow guy?

— Tim Reeder (@Tim Reeder) 1650847543

I\u2019m working on getting a gun& the whole process is stupidly complicated&expensive.The government should be making it easy for people to buy & carry a gun like the 2nd Amendment says-not hard. Also there shouldn\u2019t be this many regulations and paper work to carry across state lines

— Karl Dickey (@Karl Dickey) 1650828854

pic.twitter.com/ImYvBmqycp

— Jeff Dobbs (@Jeff Dobbs) 1650818865

And which party has made it harder?pic.twitter.com/zI8IWpPoqA

— Russell Michaels, The Tall Man, Momotaros, Jinzo (@Russell Michaels, The Tall Man, Momotaros, Jinzo) 1650816386

Wait until he gets audited. Wait until he pays a huge property tax bill. Wait until he is self-employed and has to pay a gigantic quarterly tax payment. Welcome to reality, pal.

— Justalurker (@Justalurker) 1650857819

Its always beautiful to witness the birth of a Republican.

— Faber (@Faber) 1650839669

Wow , someone\u2019s learning the hard way. You know that President Trump try to make it easier for small businesses to exist by cutting the red tape involved in doing so?

— Dave Peaslee (@Dave Peaslee) 1650817414