p>Lindell is an individual whose only success in life consists 100% of concocting an infomercial that let him sell bags of foam as if they were a source of special magic. This, in reality, is an effective technique. Lindell appears to have misunderstood his ability to sell polyurethane nuggets as something that offers him an unrivalled view of the world. It's hard to believe that Lindell has reached the top of Bullshit Mountain, where he is the one Trump is really counting on to get him back in office in 2024.
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p>However, Lindell has a court case to defend. On Thursday he filed an action against Dominion Voting Machines and Smartmatic USA. It's not just any lawsuit, as this one is accompanied by color illustrations.
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p>Lindell's lawsuit makes for an interesting artifact. Sort of in the same way that dead rats are an interesting artifact from the Black Death.
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p>It's not clear whether Lindell actually obtained any kind of legal counsel in order to file the suit. It's evident that this was not necessary. Because the evidence Lindell handed the court has the same connection to a suit that a couple of clowns in a horse suit need to Secretariat. In particular-Fact: Putting the word "Fact" at the beginning of a sentence doesn't make it a statement of facts. Although each of the statements that follows is at best wild conjecture. These "facts" aren't necessarily more factual if they are stacked into a Jenga tower.
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p>In two consecutive "fact" statements, Lindell first declares that Dominion is in fact "a state actor" because it is the one who controls elections. He then reveals the "fact" that he has the right to slander Dominion in any way he wishes. Since it's a government actor. Once it's over, Lindell follows up with the "fact" that he's proved that the 2020 election was rigged. This includes 20 hacks "primarily by Chinese actors" that altered the outcome of the presidential election in 2020's General Election."
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p>Lindell has not only developed the art of the "fact" statement, but he's also clearly understood the importance of legal footnotes. He uses the term "Lawfare", and then adds the following at the end: "Lawsuit Warfare = Lawsuit+Warfare = Lawfare." This link links to Wikipedia so you can be sure that it's legal.
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p>A large portion of the first page of this 82-page missive, is devoted to laying out these facts. 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 votes to be changed, as well as the method by which votes are counted on Spanish and German servers. And naturally, whole chapters are devoted to the fact that Smartmatic is somehow both a servant of China due to its offices in Taiwan as well as "continuing its close relationship with China as an official contractor for the Hugo Chavez-controlled government of Venezuela."
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p>Oh and that section begins with the Shakespeare quote. You can take that, ordinary lawsuits.
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p>Lindell's crackpotpedia contains a lot of claims that are clearly damning to his highly-skilled eye. Lindell claims that American Information Systems was founded in part by the Urosevich brothers, descendants of Serbian immigrants as well as that Dominion has an office in Belgrade office and that Smartmatic engineer was "Venezuelan born"; this is apparently part of an international conspiracy.
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p>Here's part 52 of Lindell's "rise and the machines" section.
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p>In 2018, Dominion was acquired by a private equity company, Staple Street Capital, whose largest shareholder, David Mark Rubenstein, is a co-founder of The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that has long-standing and enormous investments in China. Just a few months prior to the elections, Staple Street Capital, owner of Dominion, received an investment of $400 million from UBS Securities, LLC in 2020. UBS Securities LLC controls 24.99 percent UBS Securities Co. LTD., a Chinese investment bank. The Chinese government or other arm owns 75 percent of UBS Securities Co. LTD.
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p>This is a clear proof of ... what again? Oh wait, Lindell brings it home two sections later to say that by the time of the 2020 election "Chinese government-related entities, Chinese technology companies, and powerful Chinese financial interests were directly or indirectly owners of and a near-total access to Smartmatic's and Dominion's voting machine technology."
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p>Really, Lindell has cooked up a Mulligan stew of conspiracy theories that include not only nefarious actions by anyone from China to Space to Germany to Serbia and Venezuela (and that's a very long list) Lindell also believes that this conspiracy was smuggled under the rug by the media, which includes the nefarious YouTube.
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p>The lifespan of Lindell's suit once it's taken up by the court will make mayflies seem like Methuselah and this 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 in defense of a web of lies, he's turning his inflated fortune into a new scam.
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p>The image of Lindell who is a third-tier scam artist and a lounge singer who has lost his mustache, is hilarious and depressing. It's not a scam that aims to move jars of pharmaceuticals or bulky sleep snorers.
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p>A party that is devoted to Donald Trump can be considered a party that is owned by scammers. However, the victims of this scam go beyond the Republican Party.
