MyPillow pitchman and noted election conspiracist Mike Lindell is, in his own words, “on a Holiday tear right now!”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1476733
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1476733
I hope Jimmy Kimmel’s writers saw the new ad from the Lincoln project. It says Trump smells like garbage. This is a winner. It will make Trump nuts.
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Sometime in the last 10-15 years, nutball conservatism became the comprehensive lifstyle for every mentally disturbed person, grifting psychopath, and socially marginal type in the country.
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What even is a “Mike Lindell”?
His continued existence is the surest sign that were have not yet woken up from the collective fever dream we’ve been trapped in after falling asleep hate-watching reality TV.
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I’d say it’s not a good idea to trust crack addicts or former crack addicts. Just sayin’.
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Was this Reagan’s long term plan when he shut down mental institutions? Get the extremely mentally ill out of institutions and into Republican voting booths.
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I doubt Lindell was ever a crack addict. If George Santos had included among his many lies a tale of being a crack addicted drag queen saved by Jesus, he would still be in Congress.
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I suspect Lindell seriously bruised some (lots) of brain cells during his crack cocaine days. But he got on the right wing grifter gravy train and he does not want to get off of it…even if he crashes his businesses. And his bestie Trump leaves him in the roadway to be run over time and time again. I bet Trump barely lets him in Mar-a-Grifto these days.
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And we’re absolutely sure his substance-abuse days actually ended at some point in the past?
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Well, you know what the Bible-thumpers say: the worse the sinner, the greater the redemption.
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Tragedy. (in ancient Greek theater) a play in which the protagonist, usually a person of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he or she cannot deal.
And Trump aint no Deus ex machina. Think of the numbers here. Rudy, Michael Cohen, Lindell, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro. Jenna Ellis…just to start. All of them shit canned their lives for Donald and seeing he doesn’t give a shit.
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Believe he is the Joey Chestnut of lead paint chip ingestation !
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Oh, it is a certainty - Lindell has quit drugs dozens and dozens of times … every time his supply ran out … until he found a way to obtain more.
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I watched the opening monologue of the Kimmel show last night (Christmas Day, barely) and there was a Mike Lindell bit but it seemed to be Lindell in the role of DeSatan in debate with Gavin Newsom.
I didn’t catch the very beginning of that part, which came and went throughout the opening monologue, so I had to figure out who it was. The guy playing Newsom was spot-on, and so was the guy playing Lindell, and I spent a lot of time figuring out why these guys were being so weird on Kimmel’s show. I did figure out it was a satire, eventually.
It must have been pre-recorded, or were they all there on Christmas Day? Couldn’t figure that out. There did seem to be Christmas decorations and lights. Not interested enough to look it up, but interested enough to comment, I guess.
Lindell is just another mid-level predator in the extended conservative mail-order ecosystem, a nature reserve for con-artists and their prey cultivated for many years in these United States and dramatically expanded in the enhanced network era; email, WWW, cable, satellite, etc. Lots of foolish and/or ignorant people out there and gathering them up to make a coherent market has proven very profitable for those with the stomach for it; lots of grass even for the grazers.
I’ve read some debate on whether clownish conspiracy mongers like Lindell actually believe the nonsense they spout but that’s probably the wrong question – they’re bullshit artists and truth or falsity are irrelevant, what matters is making the sale – the more important question is how did their market audience get so damned large.
What is wrong with this country is not that we face problems we have not faced before; we face a defiency in our problem solving mechanism. And the reason we face a difficulty in our problem solving mechanism is that a good portion of this country live in an alternate universe ...I call this alternate reality where these folks live, Bullshit Mountain – Jon Stewart
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I always thought the bible-thumpers said: I get to choose who’s the sinner and whether they’re allowed redemption.
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The difference here is the absence of any outstanding personal qualities. Rather than a tragedy (a word which is used far too often, and often inappropriately), the fact that these people have destroyed themselves through Zombie-like obedience to a blatantly transparent fraud like Trump, is an illustration of low farce.
This cartoon, which I think was published in 2017, shows how Trump is a reputation-destroying machine. Yet many of these dumb fucks who got caught up in J6 hired on with Trump in late 2020, when it was obvious he would just as soon shit on his underlings as look at them:
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"Machines are connected to the Internet and Machines can be hacked and Elections can be rigged!”
Lindell and his company are connected to the Internet. They can be hacked and their lives compromised.
Lindell should disconnect his devices immediately.
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So how soon will we see a Donnie Trump Garbage Pail Kid.
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Lindell had been begging Jimmy to let him appear on his show. Kimmel agreed providing Lindell would do it from inside a claw machine at an arcade. Lindell agreed.
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