After 20 years, four Presidents, a trillion dollars, and hundreds of thousands of lives, the chaos defining the Biden administration's withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan has proven a tragic culmination of America's longest war.
Americans and Afghan allies are scrambling to escape the region as the Taliban's takeover becomes inevitable. The fundamentalist organization overtook the presidential palace in Kabul. Harrowing video of people clinging to an aircraft as it left the Kabul airport showed to the world just how dire the situation has become.
As countless lives are endangered, far-right Fox News host Sean Hannity exploited the crisis to plug pillows for MyPillow founder and far-right conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
Listen below.
On his radio show, Hannity said:
"How would you like to be in Kabul today, as an American, and you can't get to the airport? Where are you thinking your life is headed? If you're one of those family members, I bet you're not sleeping. I don't even think My Pillow can do it. MyPillow.com. That's where I go. I fall asleep faster, I stay asleep longer. These are going to be a lot of sleepless nights for so many of our fellow Americans. We've got to get them home."
Interestingly enough, Lindell recently criticized Hannity, accusing him of being too afraid to report Lindell's nonexistent "evidence" that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from Trump.
People were disgusted by Hannity's pillow plug.
this is the moment that breaks mehttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Bobby Lewis (@Bobby Lewis) 1629244797
Un-believablehttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Mehdi Hasan (@Mehdi Hasan) 1629253839
I\u2019ve spent my whole life wondering where to find rock bottom, and this, folks, is it.https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Bill Grueskin (@Bill Grueskin) 1629254952
I will never again criticize a dystopian film for being unrealistic, fiction has been utterly broken by realityhttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Gady Epstein (@Gady Epstein) 1629254364
Into the sun. Direct launch. Immediately.https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— LadyPolitiks (@LadyPolitiks) 1629255985
How is The Onion not bankrupt at this pointhttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— LeighDrogen.eth (@LeighDrogen.eth) 1629299874
Sadly, many weren't surprised.
Of course he did. It\u2019s all just one big democracy-destroying multi-level marketing campaignhttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Brooke Binkowski (@Brooke Binkowski) 1629256406
It\u2019s all about the money for these people. Every single time. Alwayshttps://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Ryan (@Ryan) 1629289864
it would be hard to provide a better encapsulation of the American Right's complete sociopathic depravity than this.https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1427740702386147333\u00a0\u2026— Kevin Gannon (@Kevin Gannon) 1629256258
Calls are growing for the United States to fulfill its duty of accepting Afghan refugees.
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