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Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:36 am

boogiebach wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:32 am Oh, also, I live in Minnesota, home of Mike Lindell (shudder).

Greetings from over the pond!

I'm curious what the local people in Minnesota people think of him. Crazy politics aside he must be reasonably liked enough for creating jobs through his pillow empire, no?

Or are they angry with him now for putting their futures in jeopardy?

There can't be many working in MyPillow who don't know about Lindell's legal/financial woes, and not thinking that they're all going to be out of a job in a year or two?

somerset wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 1:36 pm MN-Skeptic is a long time (lifetime?) local to the Minneapolis area. She knows WAY more about this than I do

I don't live in Minnesota, but I manage a team in Plymouth (a suburb of Minneapolis) and have been there monthly for the last couple of years. Lindell's factory is in Shakopee, which is also in the Minneapolis metropolitan area.

Politically, Minneapolis is mixed. Some areas are quite liberal while some are very conservative. More importantly, the Minneapolis economy is quite large and very diverse, with a number of large multinational companies either making it their home base (3M, Target, Best Buy, US Bank, General Mills, Cargill) or having major facilities there (Honeywell, Siemens, Medtronic). MyPillow's contribution to the overall economy of Minneapolis is very, very small, and I doubt its absence will cause more than the tiniest economic ripple.

Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:54 pm Appreciate the info, so when the MyPillow staff are all laid off, they shouldn't have many problems finding alternative employment?

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:12 pm
Wiki said Mike had 1,500 employees in 2017. I assume that number is down due to all the lost sales.

Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:22 pm

northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:12 pm
Wiki said Mike had 1,500 employees in 2017. I assume that number is down due to all the lost sales.

Over the last couple of months Lindell's been claiming that because of the 'success' of his My Pillow 2.0, launched in late spring, he's been taking on more staff to help cope with the demand, so could be back up to that kind of figure again?

Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:36 am

boogiebach wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:32 am Oh, also, I live in Minnesota, home of Mike Lindell (shudder).

Greetings from over the pond!

I'm curious what the local people in Minnesota people think of him. Crazy politics aside he must be reasonably liked enough for creating jobs through his pillow empire, no?

Or are they angry with him now for putting their futures in jeopardy?

There can't be many working in MyPillow who don't know about Lindell's legal/financial woes, and not thinking that they're all going to be out of a job in a year or two?

Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:48 pm So now we have a panel, with Lindell, his lawyer Kurt Olsen, Bannon and Flynn.

Lots of bluster and bullshit.

orlylicious wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:57 pm
Mike says we won't have to wait -- on FRIDAY The Plan will be Operational and will solve all our election problems THAT DAY. It only won't work if EVERYBODY DOESN'T WATCH.

In thinking about it and watching Sweet Lou and some of the event, here's my guess: Tomorrow at 1pm, Mike will reveal that The Plan is for all Republicans to get their guns out and shoot to kill every Democrat and Independent, even if they're just suspected. By eliminating all opposition, the GOP will sweep the elections and win big.

Inside the right’s effort to build a voter fraud hunting tool
Experts warn that EagleAI, a database that helps voters examine the voter rolls themselves, could drown election workers in unreliable reports of ineligible voters.
Aug. 17, 2023, 7:00 AM EDT By Jane C. Timm

After years of claiming that American elections are rife with fraud, conservative election activists are preparing a new tool to take matters into their own hands.

Activists are currently testing a computer program called EagleAI NETwork, a database loaded with voter rolls and other records that promises to quickly churn through the data and find registrations that may be suspect based on other sources. The activists then personally evaluate the flagged voter registrations one by one — looking up home addresses on Google Maps, searching for obituaries online — and prepare lists of questionable registrations to report to local officials.

It’s the latest in a growing trend of voter fraud vigilantism, as activists seek to insert themselves into routine election administration processes looking to uncover problems and find proof of voter fraud. And while a handful of individuals in Georgia and Texas have taken in recent years to filing mass voter challenges, EagleAI could turn that steady stream into a nationwide flood.

For several months, activists around the country, organized in part by influential Trump ally Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network she founded, have been learning to use the program in Zoom trainings and organizing into state-specific teams in preparation for its launch, according to recordings of software demonstrations and activist meetings seen by NBC News. Some Georgia users began testing the software this summer, the meetings reveal, while Florida, North Carolina, Nevada and Texas are slated to follow. Mitchell declined to speak with NBC News.

EagleAI, pronounced “eagle eye,” is being pitched as an alternative to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a bipartisan, interstate partnership that helps states share data to keep their voter rolls up-to-date and was recently targeted by election conspiracy theories. And while EagleAI has been shopped around to at least a handful of county and state election officials, according to interviews and public records requests, it has so far found more fertile ground among activists.

Barely Anyone Shows Up for Mike Lindell's Election Summit. Lindell Previously Said "There are Millions of Us" Out There.
Lindell said his summit would go out to the world in 85 languages
J.D. Wolf 17 hours ago
A photo taken at Mike Lindell's Election Summit reveals many of the chairs are empty. Mike Lindell promised new information about "election crime" would be shared at his event.



Empty Chairs at Mike Lindell's Election Summit

Mike Lindell said his newest summit would be broadcast in 85 languages and that he not only expected the whole country to watch, but the entire world.

Mike Lindell promised an an all-star lineup of election deniers, yet this is all he could muster.

Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist @jimstewartson

At “Election Summit 2023” Mike Lindell says the quiet part about his christofascist motivations.

Cheerleading the 2020 Big Lie that led to J6, Lindell says “there’s a bright side… hey if we’re wrong… it’s End Times and all of us believers go up to Heaven. It’s a win-win.”

This apocalyptic Christian myth, largely fueled by oil & gas money, has been motivating Americans to push us towards chaos for decades because they believe if things get bad it’s fine because Jesus is coming to save them.

The problem with this idea is that anyone who is not a “believer” is supposed to get “left behind” in a bloodbath. They consider this a good thing when it’s blatantly genocidal propaganda.

Lindell believes this which is exactly how Mike Flynn and his allies brainwashed him into spending all his money to destroy his own country.
#ArrestMikeFlynn

Mike Lindell's voter fraud 'summit' derailed when he accidentally played Kimmel clip
Matthew Chapman

MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell's latest voter fraud "summit" was plunged into chaos and embarrassment when he went to play a video on election rigging, and got a Jimmy Kimmel monologue instead, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

"During a conversation with The Daily Beast last month in which he laid out his 'My Cousin Vinny' plan to defeat Dominion Voting System’s $1.3-billion defamation lawsuit against him, Lindell previewed this event," reported Justin Baragona, adding that Lindell promised it would "fix the elections." But "at the start of Wednesday’s confab, Lindell told the crowd that he wouldn’t show any new evidence of rampant voter fraud, adding that he’d already shown enough in the past. After taking the stage, a screen blared 'Election Crime Bureau' behind him."

He then told people watching to watch the video behind him "only to quickly grow flustered: It was the wrong video, showing Kimmel delivering a monologue," said the report. Lindell has previously been featured on Kimmel's show, where the comedian has roasted his conspiracy theories and repeated failures to prove the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Lindell previously hosted a "cyber symposium" on election fraud in 2021, which similarly ended in humiliation; not only did Lindell and his presenters fail to put forward any credible evidence of fraud, a man took up his offer to pay $5 million for anyone who could disprove his claims that China corrupted the 2020 election; he is fighting an arbitrator's ruling that he must provide the money.

The pillow CEO has also put forward a "petition" demanding the Supreme Court overturn the election results, only to be enraged when legal professionals ignored it. Despite Lindell's long record of failed antics, said the report, a number of Trump allies, including some indicted alongside him in the Georgia election interference probe such as Rudy Giuliani, are set to participate in the event.