p>Lindell is an individual whose only success in life is based on in the creation of an informational campaign that allowed him to sell bags of foam shredded as if they contained some special magic. This is a clever method. Lindell appears to have not understood his ability to sell polyurethane nuggets as something that offers him an exclusive perspective of the world. It is difficult to believe that Lindell has reached the top of Bullshit Mountain, where he is the one Trump is relying on to get him back in the White House in 2024.
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p>Lindell is still awaiting an ongoing court case against the former. He has filed a lawsuit against Smartmatic USA and Dominion Voting Machines on Thursday. This lawsuit isn't like another, since it includes color illustrations.
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p>Lindell's lawsuit can be an interesting artifact. A dead rodent is an interesting artifact from the Black Death, sort of.
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p>It is not clear whether Lindell sought legal counsel to start his lawsuit. It's evident that it wasn't necessary. Because the evidence Lindell gave the court has the same connection to a suit that a couple of clowns in a suit of horses need to Secretariat. Particularly, putting the word "Fact" at the beginning of a statement does not make it a statement of facts. Particularly when all the statements that follow is, at best, speculation. https://anotepad.com/notes/8bj9maa3 These "facts" are not more accurate if they're put together into a Jenga tower.
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p>In two sequential "fact" statements, Lindell first declares that Dominion is in fact "a state actor" since it has control over elections. He then reveals the "fact" that he can slander Dominion in any way he wants. Since it's an actor in the state. After that, Lindell continues with the "fact", that he has already 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 General Election."
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p>Lindell is not just an expert in the art of the "fact statement" He also knows how to utilize legal footnotes. As when Lindell uses the word "Lawfare" in his statement, he and then places it at the bottom of the page: "Lawsuit Warfare = Lawsuit + Warfare = Lawfare." The statement is accompanied by a Wikipedia link which means you're sure it's legal.
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p>The first few pages of this 82-page document is dedicated 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 way that votes are tallied can be altered by "the algorithm," the way that votes are actually counted on servers in Spain and Germany. Naturally, entire chapters are devoted to the ways that Smartmatic is somehow both an agent of China because it has offices in Taiwan, while "continuing its close relationship with China as a contractor for the Hugo Chavez-controlled government of Venezuela."
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p>Oh and that section begins with an Shakespeare quote. It's not like ordinary lawsuits.
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p>Lindell's crackpotpedia is stuffed with statements that are apparently damning to his highly calibrated eye, such as noting 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 mind anyone who was born, lived, or worked, outside the United States (or is descended from any person who didn't come up from spontaneously from America's polyurethane-infused soil) is part of a vast international conspiracy.
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p>Just to provide a mild example of the thread plucking process, here's part 52 in Lindell's "rise of the machines" section:
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p>In 2018, Dominion was acquired by a private equity company, Staple Street Capital, its largest shareholder, David Mark Rubenstein, is a co-founder of The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is a global investment company with a long-standing history and huge investments in China. Just months before the election, Staple Street Capital, owner of Dominion, received an investment of $400 million from UBS Securities, LLC in 2020. UBS Securities LLC controls 24.99% UBS Securities Co. LTD. This is an Chinese investment bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities Co. LTD is owned by the Chinese government or other subsidiaries of it.
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p>This is the only proof... Lindell returns it two paragraphs later to declare that "Chinese government-related organizations and Chinese technology companies had ownership either direct or indirect and had access to Dominion and Smartmatic's voting machines technology."
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p>Lindell has created a Mulligan stew of conspiracy theories that cover criminal acts from China to Space, Germany to Serbia and Venezuela (and that is a far from exhaustive list) However, he insists this conspiracy was covered by the media, which includes the nefarious YouTube.
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p>When Lindell's lawsuit is taken up by court, it will last for a long time. This will make mayflies look like Methuselah. Also the entire Six Degrees of Hugo Chavez game should be immediately put aside. And yet ... this is where we are. Mike Lindell isn't just filing the courts with nonsense suits in defense of an elaborate 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 as well as a lounge singer who has lost his mustache is both funny and pathetic. It's not a fraud that aims to sell jars of patent medication or lumpy sleep snorers.
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p>A party that worships Donald Trump is a party that, in essence, is controlled by fraudsters. However, the victims of this scam extend beyond the Republican Party.
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