Lindell is an individual whose only success in life is based on entirely of concocting an infomercial that allowed him to sell bags of foam as if they were a source of special power. This is a clever technique. But Lindell seems to have confused his expertise in selling polyurethane nuggets with something that gives him special insight into the world. And, as if it were a coincidence, Lindell has ascended to the summit of Bullshit Mountain as the man Trump is genuinely hoping to get back in office, not in 2024, but in August.
However, Lindell has a court case to go through. He filed an action against Smartmatic USA and Dominion Voting Machines on Thursday. And it's not just any lawsuit, since this one has color illustrations.
Lindell's lawsuit is an interesting artifact. It's sort of in the same way as dead rats are an interesting artifact of the Black Death.
It's unclear if Lindell actually secured any sort of legal advice to file his lawsuit. It is clear that this wasn't necessary. Because Lindell's courtroom presentation is in the same way as an actual suit as two clowns in a suit have the Secretariat. Particular-Fact: Simply putting the word "Fact" at the start of a sentence does not make it a statement. Even though each of the statements that follow is at best a wild conjecture. These "facts" aren't necessarily more reliable if they are put together into a Jenga tower.
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Lindell declares Dominion "a state actor" in two "facts" statements. Then , he declares the "fact" that he can slander Dominion in any way he wishes. Because it's a state-owned actor. Once it's over, Lindell follows up with the "fact" that he's established that the election of 2020 was faked. This includes 20 hacks "primarily by Chinese actors" that altered the outcome of the presidential race in the 2020's General Election."
Lindell has not only developed the art of the "fact" statement, he's also clearly mastered the use of legal footnotes. As when he uses the term "Lawfare" in a statement, and then places it at the bottom of the page: "Lawsuit Warfare = Lawsuit + Warfare = Lawfare." The statement is accompanied by the Wikipedia link, so you know it's legal.
The first few pages of this 82-page e-book is dedicated to laying out these details. It takes all the way to page 10 before Lindell steals a title from a Terminator sequel and begins to simply write a stream-of-consciousness play on "The Rise of the Machines." And, of course, it's all there. The "algorithm" that allows the way in which votes are counted to be changed, as well as the way votes are actually tabulated on German and Spanish servers. Naturally, entire chapters are dedicated to the fact that Smartmatic is both a servant and contractor for the Hugo Chavez-controlled government of Venezuela.
Oh the section opens with a Shakespeare quote. You can choose to take this as normal lawsuits.
Lindell's crackpotpedia is stuffed with statements that seem to be a smackdown to his highly calibrated eye, such as stating that American Information Systems was founded by "the Urosevich brothers, descendants of Serbian immigrants," that Dominion has an office in Belgrade, and that one Smartmatic engineer was "Venezuelan-born." Evidently in Lindell's eyes anyone who was born, lived, worked outside of the United States (or is descended from those who didn't rise out of America's polyurethane-infused soil) is part of a vast international conspiracy.
Just to provide a light example of thread plucking, here's part 52 of Lindell's "rise of the machines" section:
In 2018, Dominion was acquired by an equity-focused private company, Staple Street Capital, its largest shareholder, David Mark Rubenstein, is a co-founder of The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm with extensive investments in China is well-known for its long-standing and substantial investments. In 2020, mere days before the election, Staple Street Capital (owner of Dominion) received an investment of $400 million from UBS Securities, LLC. UBS Securities LLC controls 24.99% UBS Securities Co. LTD. It is an Chinese investment bank. The Chinese government or other arms own 75 percent of UBS Securities Co. LTD.
Well, that's definitive proof of ... what again? Oh, wait, Lindell brings it home two sections later to state that by the time of the 2020 election "Chinese government-related entities, Chinese technology companies, and powerful Chinese financial interests had direct or indirect ownership of and access to Smartmatic's and Dominion's voting machines."
Lindell has created Lindell has created a Mulligan stew with conspiracy theories that include criminal acts from China to Space, Germany to Serbia and Venezuela (and that is an extremely incomplete list), but he also insists this conspiracy was reported by the media, which includes the infamous YouTube.
The time span of Lindell's suit when it is ruled by the court will make mayflies appear like Methuselah and the whole game of Six Degrees of Hugo Chavez should immediately be recognized as ridiculous. Yet, this is where we are. Mike Lindell isn't just filing the courts with nonsense lawsuits to defend a web of lies, he's turning his inflated fortune into a whole new scam.
Lindell's image-who actually is able to give this particular ploy the mustache it's been missing-as a broken-down lounge singer headlining the list of third-tier scam artists is comical and sad. It's not a scam that aims to sell jars of patent medication or lumpy sleep-enhancing substances.
A party that is devoted to Donald Trump is a party that, in essence is controlled by fraudsters. This scam has a lot of victims, not just the Republican Party.
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