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I like my home made, chocolate Chipotle chili.

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	While I've enjoyed the chili discussion, we should probably get back to the subject matter of this thread. Mike Lindell's Frank & MyStore & Other Social & Media Fails - FrankSpeech

Thank you.

somerset wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:25 am

slq wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 11:22 pm

zekeb wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:49 am Thanks, slq. I've seen the brand in my searches. I like to hear firsthand. Website testimonials tend to have a lot of hot air interjected.

Not quite sure what you mean by that, Zeke. I gave you my firsthand recommendation and gave you the link to see the specifics about the pillows -- I don't even think there are website testimonials on that link. It links to the types of pillows they offer.

It sounded to me like Zeke was thanking you for your firsthand recommendation, as he doesn't trust what is posted on a manufacturer's website.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, that makes sense.

Estiveo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 5:41 pm His not-30k crowd getting more not-30k-er as Lindell speaks.

New Richmond, WI is not that far from the Twin Cities. While it was not humid here today, it was sunny, windy, and reached a high of 96°. Why on earth would anyone be standing out in the sun on a day like today?

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:20 pm

Estiveo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 5:41 pm His not-30k crowd getting more not-30k-er as Lindell speaks.

New Richmond, WI is not that far from the Twin Cities. While it was not humid here today, it was sunny, windy, and reached a high of 96°. Why on earth would anyone be standing out in the sun on a day like today?

Yes, considering that the brains of most of them are already fried.

Fried brains -- yummy.

woodworker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:30 pm Fried brains -- yummy.

In small portions.

zekeb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:01 pm

woodworker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:30 pm Fried brains -- yummy.

In small portions.

Ala mode.

“As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.”

If the Colonel's picture ain't on the bucket, it don't taste like chicken.

There, I said it.

So it's JUNE 15, over TWO MONTHS since the "epic" launch of Frank, and here's what you get on the homepage:


Not a word about where is it, zero mentions on Mike Lindell's Telegram, questions about it on there are ignored... it's like it never existed. Yet on Telegram they keep falling all over themselves about how wonderful Mike is and such a Patriot and be patient. Good how they said the same thing about healthcare.gov, right?

zekeb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:01 pm

woodworker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:30 pm Fried brains -- yummy.

In small portions.

That definitely means TFG supporter brains then!

June bug wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:27 pm

zekeb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:01 pm

woodworker wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:30 pm Fried brains -- yummy.

In small portions.

That definitely means TFG supporter brains then!

That's not enough for an amuse bouche!

Estiveo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:32 pm

June bug wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:27 pm

zekeb wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 2:01 pm
In small portions.

That definitely means TFG supporter brains then!

That's not enough for an amuse bouche!

Just drink your broth like a good boy.

There's no way to excerpt this, it's just too crazy.

Why Mike Lindell Can’t Stop
The MyPillow tycoon has lost business pumping up Trump conspiracy theories, and probably lost his chance at a political future. But he believes he’s on a divine mission to overturn the election—and he’s not alone.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... acy-494302

orlylicious wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:39 pm There's no way to excerpt this, it's just too crazy.

Why Mike Lindell Can’t Stop
The MyPillow tycoon has lost business pumping up Trump conspiracy theories, and probably lost his chance at a political future. But he believes he’s on a divine mission to overturn the election—and he’s not alone.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... acy-494302

From the article:

One day in mid-May, after a rally in South Dakota to promote his new website, Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate and indefatigable election-conspiracy promoter, barreled into his company headquarters, sat himself down at a long table in a conference room he uses as a makeshift office and slid a dropper under his tongue.

The dropper was full of oleandrin, a plant extract that he touts—alarmingly, to scientists—as both a preventative and “miracle” cure for Covid-19. He squeezed.

“Look at this … I can never get the virus,” he said, near the beginning of the roughly six hours I spent with him over two days at MyPillow. “It’s impossible for me to get it.”

Lindell is 59, with the frenzied energy of an auctioneer, a lock of hair he alternately combs back or lets flop down in front of his forehead, and an assertive mustache that evokes a mid-1980s Mike Ditka. He speaks loudly and nonstop—“You need to listen,” he says—about oleandrin, in whose development Lindell has a business interest;

Business interest?
https://www.axios.com/trump-covid-olean ... 13d41.html

Driving the news: The experimental botanical extract, oleandrin, was promoted to Trump during an Oval Office meeting in July. It's embraced by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, a big Trump backer, who recently took a financial stake in the company that develops the product.

Lindell told Axios that in the meeting, Trump "basically said: …'The FDA should be approving it.'"

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

Yeah, Lindell is on the board of the Phoenix Biotechnology who is pushing it.
http://www.phoenixbiotechnology.com/boa ... ectors.php

"Before Lindell was ever talking about God or Trump or election machines, before the idea for a pillow came to him in a dream, there was Schmitty’s Tavern, the bar he owned in Victoria, Minn., and whose atmosphere—if you plucked Lindell off a stage and dropped him back behind the bar—would approximate, in miniature, the election conspiracy circus he orchestrates today.

Before he purchased the bar with gambling winnings in 1990, a friend who had scouted it out for him told him the clientele was “falling-down drunk. They’re rowdy and throwing stuff. It’s a nut house!” Lindell recalled in his memoir. The friend “didn’t want to have anything to do with Schmitty’s.”

Lindell thought: “This sounds like my kind of place.”

Raised in a trailer park not far from the bar, near a pickle factory in Chaska"....

I have been thinking about what is going on with Lindell. After reading some of the articles, and checking some background, I think his current phase is just another part of his addictive personality. He has found a new high.

Some characteristics found in an addictive personality, thus potentially susceptible to substance abuse are.

Adventurous and risk-taking
Obsessive and compulsive
Unable to self-regulate

I see all three of these with Lindell. The first two can, if controlled, be beneficial (OCD has served me well from time to time) but taken together, could be a problem.

If we look at his past exploits.

1. The wild, out-of-control bar he ran.
2. Multiple DUIs
3. The crack addictions.
4. MyPlllow.. yes MyPillow. He grew it fast and rather wild with his addiction to the growth, and his commercials (addiction to public attention).
5. His huge fast growth and overdoing the growth of staff caused him to need to cut staff a few years back (also when he started getting product complaints).
6. With his MyPillow growth slowing, he starts MyPillow Store and had to lay off staff to open up room for the store. New toy/addiction.
7. Trump addiction starting with COVID stuff
8. Election Fraud addiction.

He does everything he can to feed his current addiction. It served him well during the MyPillow growth, but a single company cannot sustain the constant need for more (not of one particular thing but just, more).

It's worth noting he apparently does not even have his own office but uses the conference room table as his desk. I wonder if he also lives in what some folks might call a modest place because he is too busy with his addictions to consider upgrading.

At some point, he is going to crash, and it won't be pretty.

That boy ain't right.

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:04 pm I have been thinking about what is going on with Lindell. After reading some of the articles, and checking some background, I think his current phase is just another part of his addictive personality. He has found a new high.

At some point, he is going to crash, and it won't be pretty.

You and me both. This is pretty much word for word my take on it, too. Just another thing he's gotten addicted to.

RVInit wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:43 pm

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 10:04 pm I have been thinking about what is going on with Lindell. After reading some of the articles, and checking some background, I think his current phase is just another part of his addictive personality. He has found a new high.

At some point, he is going to crash, and it won't be pretty.

You and me both. This is pretty much word for word my take on it, too. Just another thing he's gotten addicted to.

He should have maybe stayed with Cocaine.

Gregg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:24 pm He should have maybe stayed with Cocaine.

And that might have been cheaper for him in the long run...

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:40 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 19, 2021 4:24 pm He should have maybe stayed with Cocaine.

And that might have been cheaper for him in the long run...

. . . and healthier.

Just read.somewhere that.he now says he lost 7 million on a.mask making proposition Trump talked him into. BAHAJAJAJAJA (English and Spanish).

How come? Make a pillow and just don't fill it. Strings attached. Et voilà...