Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition

[taiwan_girl]

Election denier and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell continues to refuse to pay more than $50,000 in sanctions he has been ordered to pay to voting software company Smartmatic over "frivolous" election claims -- alleging he's left with no money after numerous legal battles.

"I'm in ruins," a teary Lindell said through a Zoom screen during a motion hearing in the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday, pleading to Judge Carl Nichols to allow him to wait until after the final judgement comes out to make any payment in the case, which he has already lost.

Last month, Smartmatic filed a motion to hold Lindell in contempt, alleging the MyPillow CEO has been dodging his court-ordered payment of $56,369 to Smartmatic for months.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/im-ruins-teary-mike-lindell-tells-judge-smartmatic/story?id=120887538

[89th]

FAFO

[Horace]

I suppose he meant well. But there's that saying about a fool and his money.

[Doctor Phibes]

I do feel a bit sorry for Lindell, and considerably more sorry for his employees, but he's acted like an idiot. I wonder if he'd assumed Trump would bail him out.

Fair weather friends and all that.

[Jolly]

Those 1600 people, whom he reportedly pays a decent wage, may take umbrage to the FAFO comment.

IMO, the size of the award against him was part of the Fuck Trump movement.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition:

Those 1600 people, whom he reportedly pays a decent wage, may take umbrage to the FAFO comment.

IMO, the size of the award against him was part of the Fuck Trump movement.

Some people practically dance in the street when government employees lose their jobs. I don't see that they are going to suffer any less than those unlucky enough to be caught out by Lindell's stupidity getting involved in gutter politics like that.

[Jolly]

Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition:

Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?

Sure, lets do it. Personally, I dont think that goverment employees are any more or less lazy/productive than those in the private companies.

As to worth, how do you measure that?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition:

Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?

I don't really know what the average government worker is. A soldier? Maybe a government scientist? Margorie Taylor Greene's pool-boy? The guy in charge of paper clip purchases?

I don't suppose you really know the answer to that either.

However, I'm guessing they're all mostly human beings with families and responsibilities, just like Mike Lindell's employees.

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition:

@Jolly said in Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition:

Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?

Sure, lets do it. Personally, I dont think that goverment employees are any more or less lazy/productive than those in the private companies.

As to worth, how do you measure that?

I worked in state government for 34 years. It was littered with do-nothing sloths.

And I worked in by far the most efficient part of it.