Go Magat, Go Broke - Mike Lindell edition
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wrote on 5 Nov 2023, 08:44 last edited by
The serial election denier says he has contacted some state election officials to promote his new device that supposedly detects if a voting machine is connected to the internet, a key debunked claim made by supporters of former President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
“We hope to have them in all 50 states,” Lindell told ABC News. “It’s already been checked out … 100% legal.”
There’s just one problem: election officials say they don’t need or want the Pillow guy’s gizmo. They say election machines aren’t equipped with WiFi, so the devices are not needed, among other issues.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams said through a spokesman that Lindell seems to believe that because there is WiFi in a polling place that the ballot counting machines are linked up to the internet.
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wrote on 22 Feb 2024, 16:26 last edited by taiwan_girl
EDIT: Actually linked wrong article at first.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/mike-lindell-lawsuit-payment/index.html
My Pillow owner and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell will have to pay $5 million because of a contest he initiated at one of his “cyber symposium” events after the 2020 election, a federal judge confirmed Wednesday.
Robert Zeidman, a software developer, took Lindell up on a so-called “Prove Mike Wrong” challenge at an event the election-denier hosted. Participants in the challenge could win $5 million if they proved data Lindell provided about the 2020 election wasn’t real election data, according to rules the participants agreed to. The contest allowed participants to arbitrate if needed.
Zeidman responded in the challenge with a 15-page report saying that the data Lindell put forth wasn’t complete or representative of possible data that had been captured in real time from the internet, according to a federal court decision Wednesday.
Zeidman lost the challenge initially, but then took Lindell to arbitration, and won.
Lindell had hoped a federal judge would wipe out the $5 million award to Zeidman. But the judge, John Tunheim of the US District Court in Minnesota, refused to do so on Wednesday.
“The panel was tasked with the difficult job of interpreting a poorly written contract,” Tunheim wrote, about the prior decision to award Zeidman the $5 million. “The Court fails to identify evidence that the panel exceeded its authority,” he added.
“The data was just so obviously bogus,” Zeidman previously told CNN. “It surprised me.”
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wrote on 22 Feb 2024, 16:47 last edited by
Ha ha.
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wrote on 22 Feb 2024, 17:21 last edited by
Robert Zeidman, we found Aqua's real name!
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wrote on 24 Aug 2024, 23:57 last edited by
Mike Lindell vs. 12 year old at the DNC:
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wrote on 17 Apr 2025, 02:07 last edited by
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.
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wrote 30 days ago last edited by
FAFO
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wrote 30 days ago last edited by
I suppose he meant well. But there's that saying about a fool and his money.
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wrote 30 days ago last edited by 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.
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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.
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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.
wrote 30 days ago last edited by 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.
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Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?
wrote 30 days ago last edited by@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?
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Are we going to compare the productivity and worth to society of Lindell's average employee and that of the average government worker?
wrote 30 days ago last edited by 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.
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@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?
wrote 29 days ago last edited by 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.
