From the top of the article, we come to discover that the MyPillow person is asking us all to foot his legal bill:
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell doesn’t seem to be so confident in his election conspiracies these days.
The floundering businessman took to Steve Bannon’s podcast on Monday to push his latest theory that the U.S. needs to outlaw electronic voting machines. The current suit, led by failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, is being underwritten by the pillow salesman. After admitting the effort is a total longshot and his evidence did not “shock the world,” as he had promised, Lindell decided to ask supporters if they could foot his legal bill.
The article closes with these further challenges that this MyPillow individual has had to face:
The former millionaire spent months using every platform at his disposal to seed conspiracy theories following the 2020 presidential election, including against Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, claiming the electronic voting companies were complicit in a scheme to keep Donald Trump from retaking the White House. That, however, cost Lindell $5 million, and put him on the line in a $1.3 billion defamation suit brought by Dominion, in which he’s being sued not just for spreading the lies but also attempting to profit off of it. Lindell, of course, has a plan for that—he’s going to use the Supreme Court to defend himself with his new crowdfunded legal fund.
“But Steve, all this evidence, this new evidence is gonna be used far and wide,” he told the far-right host. “There’s cases out there, as you know, Mike Lindell and MyPillow getting sued for billions of dollars.”
That does not reach my bar for “losing it”. Sorry, downvoted.
Yeah, there’s a pretty highbar to say a crackhead is “losing it”
Grifting money is pretty textbook crackhead.
That’s the title of the article though.
Yes, so it’s a bad article, deserving of a downvote. I am now less likely to click on future newrepublic articles because that one wasted my time.
I wanted the spectacle of my enemy shouting or in tears or being incoherent. Not “mouthing off on a podcast”. That happens every day.
I think “loses it” here refers to stretching his ridiculous conspiracy theory into loony-ville.
Yeah, could be. But IMO that happened a long long time ago.
This was a terrible, terrible article. Was it originally written in another language and then translated? It’s so bad!
K-bid had a fire sale at the MyPillow factory last year. Mike is hard up for cash just like his buddy Trump. What a pair of sad losers these two are. Queue the rusty trombones…
Womp, womp
Strongly agree that we sound eliminate electronic voting machines unless the software is publicly available and audited.
This would be ideal, but we already audit its accuracy in many states via concurrent paper ballots.
So yes, we should, but we do have “compensating controls” even without it.
You’re confusing electronic voting with the electronic paper ballot counters. They’re not the same machine at all.
Im not. Some voting machines also give you a paper ballot that can be audited. Pennsylvania is one such state.
In Pennsylvania, all voting systems produce paper ballots that can be audited. This allows election officials to verify the accuracy of the outcome long after voting has concluded.
With these machines, you vote on the machine, it prints out the result that you verify, then you drop the paper ballot in a box as you leave. This gives you the ease of digital voting and tabulation, with a paper audit trail if needed or contested.
Counts of these paper ballots have proved the machines are stunningly accurate.
I like that but I still don’t know why we can’t just all use paper and have the count take a little longer. I’d much rather the count be accurate than fast.
Plus mail-in voting is better because I can take my time and do some research and also vote without pants.
Mail in is the right answer, but if you are going to do in person, you want the voting to happen on the machine. Florida’s “hanging chad” fiasco points out how paper ballots can confuse and frustrate voters.
An easy computer UI with simple choices that spits out a ballot with hard data on it is the ideal compromise.
He fell ass-backward into a good idea.
Looks like an orange on a toothpick
spherical, but pointy in parts
Head! Paper! Now!
Oh no! Anyway…
C’mon newrepublic.com, you had a chance to really make him lose it with:
“Mike Lindell, CEO of lumpy pillow company MyPillow, loses it it after…”
You aren’t wrong.
I accidentally bought a knockoff of his pillow and it was the worst thing I’ve ever bought related to sleep.
But the reviews raved about how great it was… compared to the mypillow…
Now granted, mine were loft-adjustable, and I removed fully half of the fill from each (and put it into waterproof zip cases to make more pillows!!!), but the fill is just so stiff. Very unpleasant to sleep on. I use them as backer pillows and for guests. Some of them like the stiffness.
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