Seriously...y'all lost- 2020 is done and dusted
Grifters gotta grift...but seriously, y'all- let it go, already
My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he’s 97 years old and we have no clue where he is.
Anonymous
We’re going to ram the stealing of Georgia down her throat, and we’re going to ram it up the ass of the governor!
Join me, if you will, in celebrating those brave seekers of truth who took part in Mike Lindell’s “Election Crime Bureau Summit.” The participants- people who STILL haven’t accepted that The Former Guy lost the 2020 Presidential election- are still chasing the “dream.”
What is that “dream,” you’d be justified in asking? Well, let me leave it to one H. L. Mencken, one of my spirit animals, to answer that for us:
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
(Did Mencken write the script for Idiocracy?)
It was almost as if history for these poor addled maroons ended on Election Day 2020 when the Mother of All Election Fraud (or so they continue to believe) brought us Sleepy Joe Biden. And no amount of fact or reality is going to change that. After all, they have an endless supply of Kool-Aid to keep them going- The Former Guy keeps tossing logs on the fire.
How’s that for a twisted metaphor?
The allegations themselves at Lindell’s conference ― despite years of fact-checking efforts, lawsuits and now criminal charges ― seemed almost miraculously frozen in time.
During the first hour of the event, for example, Lindell showed a film that singled out a Fulton County election worker, Ruby Freeman, whom conspiracy theorists have falsely accused of rigging the 2020 vote count. Freeman has since filed multiple defamation lawsuits over similar claims, alleging among other things that the lies had led to death threats and the attempted forced entry of people trying to make a citizen’s arrest at her home. The targeting of Freeman was cited in Monday’s indictment of Trump and 18 allies on charges of racketeering in the alleged plot to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.
Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani recently acknowledged making false statements against Freeman and her daughter.
The same film, which Lindell marveled was first released in December 2020, listed a number of other false claims, such as the assertion that Arizona voters were registered to a vacant lot, which was actually a former mobile home park.
Of course, what no one was willing to mention- because it doesn’t fit any of their carefully crafted conspiracy theories- was that no one has ever presented proof of election fraud. In fact, the only election fraud anyone has been convicted of was committed by Republicans, and that was only penny-ante stuff, like voting multiple times.
That’s the beautiful thing about conspiracy theories, though. Weave together enough half-assed scenarios and…Voila!…there’s your proof, eh? Combine enough overlapping theories, coincidences, random blind-ass luck, and videos in which people look like they’re doing something sinister (even though they’re not). Before long, you have an ironclad narrative that looks like a right mess to any rational person but irrefutable proof to a QAnon/StopTheSteal/StormTheBastille crackpot.
Lindell reassured the crowd that the failure of these claims to overturn the election results in 2020 ― and ensuing “lawfare” in the form of defamation suits ― was all part of God’s plan.
“If lawfare didn’t happen, people would have been informed of all the truths too early, and they would have demanded that our Constitution be followed. But if that would have happened back then, we would have lost our country forever. It would have been too soon; things had to be revealed.”
And even if his movement failed altogether, Lindell said, it wouldn’t be all bad.
“Hey, if we’re wrong, it’s end times ― all of us believers go to heaven,” he said, laughing. “It’s a win-win!”
Oh…and there’s the other beautiful and oh, so convenient aspect of this whole clusterfuck. These people believe they get to call themselves “Christians,” even though this massive grift has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
And “lawfare” for the uninitiated (myself included) doesn’t mean what these chuckleheads think it means.
Yeah, this isn’t “warfare” (get it?…lawfare??) by another name. There’s nothing holy, righteous, or just about what they’re doing. Frankly, many of them should be doing time in a federal lockup for fraud…and perhaps sometime soon they will be, but not before separating a lot of fools from large sums of their money.
And then there’s this brilliant scheme that Lindell came up with:
Never mind that it’s probably illegal in most states and that any sufficiently evolved nine-year-old could defeat it. Mike Lindell thinks he’ll save America for Republicans with his army of wifi-sniffing drones.
And y’all wonder why I fear for the future of the Republic….
The announcement was paired with a promotion of Frank Social, Lindell’s social network, where voter fraud obsessives are able to share notes, Lindell said.
Despite the shiny new products, the event bore the scars of the recent set of criminal charges against prominent Trump allies: Giuliani, slated to attend, was recently charged in Georgia as part of Trump’s alleged election overthrow scheme and couldn’t make the event. Nor could Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who Lindell said “was told” (by whom, Lindell didn’t specify) that he was not allowed at the event. Paxton is facing years-old charges of securities fraud, which he has denied and called politically motivated, and impeachment proceedings in Texas.
Meshawn Maddock, the former co-chair of the Michigan GOP, was barred by a state judge from attending the event; Maddock is one of the “fake” presidential electors recently charged with eight state felonies in Michigan, including multiple counts of forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery. She has pleaded not guilty. Her husband, Matt Maddock, recently warned of “a civil war or some sort of revolution” if the government continued to “weaponize” against conservatives, according to reporting from The Messenger.
Despite the legal problems surrounding some attendees and those who had wanted to attend, not much could detract from the freak-show nature of Lindell’s dog-and-pony show.
A video played at the conference spotlighted the impact and toll Lindell’s “movement” had taken on their lives.
One woman featured in the video spoke about how her years of “research” had driven a wedge between her and her family.
Well, sure. If you focus on “researching” something that no one has ever proven to be true to the point of being obsessive, people will probably be put off by that. No great surprise there, eh? There’s life beyond The Former Guy.
“In my personal life, I’m a wife and I’m a mother,” the woman, who gave her name as Erica, said. “My family doesn’t really understand my need to get involved with our elections, but that’s OK. I just tell myself that maybe they’ll thank me later.”
“I’ve spent quite a bit of time on this,” Erica added. “I feel pretty invested at this point, and I don’t think there’s any other option than to see this through.”
Obsessives like Erica don’t understand that this election fraud conspiracy has become a cottage industry for people like Mike Lindell and Mike Flynn. They’re making a handsome living off those sucked into the conspiracy vortex and sinking deeper into the swamp.
Lawyers for The Former Guy brought and lost 61 lawsuits intended to overturn the 2020 election. In none of those lawsuits were they able to present any proof that election fraud had occurred. Most officials associated with monitoring the election stated that 2020 was the most secure election they could remember. Many of the lawsuits were laughed out of court for being groundless and a waste of the court’s and the taxpayers’ time.
Despite what the troglodytes would have us believe, there was no election fraud…except for a few random Republicans who decided to cheat and vote multiple times. There was certainly no widespread plot by Democrats to steal the election on the scale claimed by The Former Guy.
The sad part of this entire circus is that many otherwise excellent but unsuspecting people have been led astray at some considerable cost to their credibility and bank accounts. There’s been no shortage of grifters willing to exploit their patriotism for the low, low price of…well, how much do you have??
Decent people on both sides of the ideological divide- and some who were only trying to do their jobs- have been hurt by those with their own selfish agenda. Those grifters must be put behind bars for a very, very long time.
America would be a far better place without such vermin.
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