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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/mike-lindell-2020-election/index.html
Apr 20, 2023 2:09 PM
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/politics/mike-lindell-2020-election/index.html
DeadeicPrints
He gives recovering Crack addicts a bad name.
SeasonedCitizen
Dominion and Smartmatic are about to teach him a lesson as well. " Dominion Voting Systems and Low Grade Pillows" has a nice ring to it, donchathink?
Predicto
The funniest thing about all of this is that I'm pretty sure Lindell actually believes he is right. He got conned by the people that sold him the fake data, and he is too stupid to understand the data and too proud to consider that he might have gotten conned. It's goddamn hilarious.
erikleorga
I mean, if he had/has so much proof, why has he never come forth with it?
MySpiritAnimalIsTheUnpopularOpinionPuffin
He could have saved himself and told the truth, Republicans were the ones voting illegally in 2020.
enderite
chandon1
This guy is such a clown
jointdawg94
Fuckin charlatan
sambaah05
BellsTheorem
Add that to the billion he will soon owe Smartmatic and Dominion. He will have to sell a lot of pillows.
sauronater
I wonder how much money he still has after funneling it into really dumb shit for the past 6 years
opus68
KamikazeGerbil101
PoliticalWanderer
capnadorable
He’ll just take a page from his lord and savior trump’s book and just not pay. Apparently that’s just allowed.
RancidSebastian
Schadenfreude
Wolfy4226
They should put a stipulation that all these fuckers have to publicly apologize and admit that they lied.
foreverinchains
They would have had to if the case had gone to trial. That's why they settled. Having Murdoch, Cucker, and their other big names admit in court, under oath, that they knowingly pushed a completely false narrative would have been a big problem for Fox.
BBQatCirces
FAFO
FourScoreAndSevenBeersAgo
Ha ha ha. Eat shit, you crazy bastard.
chufly
YUP!!!
Otteritup
Still waiting for trump to donate that $1 million to charity after Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test.
unevenload
Pillows are going to be on sale this weekend!
phockeModel
Are they even still selling them at this point?
unevenload
They are selling them as fast as my father and law can buy them. That man needs an intervention.
RummageSaleBubbler
duoplicity
walt0132
The only thing that would make this better would be to correct the size of his hands, to the true-to-life very small tiny minuscule size that they are in real life.
Vergenbuurg
Oh God, is the ridiculously long tie going *through* the diaper?! XD
MattJeffery
Here's the fun part, he also paid millions to have access to the data in the first place. Yes, he did actually buy that openly available data from someone.
Stargrave3000
I can't help but feel sorry for him. He's clearly disturbed, but more than that he and other true believers are getting locked up and sued for every penny, while the politicians and Fox media persons who cynically egged them on despite not believing a word of it are getting a slap on the wrist.
RandAIFlagg
He thought no one would call him on his bullshit lol
MeowMachine12
What a dumb ass he is
mutingisforcowardsandsycophants
May this herald the beginning of a long and storied finding out.
smorsdoeuvres
WhyDontYouMakeMe
FractalChainsaw
Here's hoping that Fox's settlement with Dominion is the start of a trend.
mutingisforcowardsandsycophants
I personally hope the next one, the Smartmatic suit, is the start of a trend when they actually go to trial. The Dominion settlement ain't all bad but it ain't good enough.
FractalChainsaw
Absolutely.
foreverinchains
That case would have had huge implications for Fox and any other news network in America, and they absolutely should have gone to trial. The settlement means Fox gets to keep doing the same shit with essentially no repercussions.
practicallyperfect
I agree, it should have gone to trial. But if they keep pissing off the right people with good legal teams, eventually they might not have enough cash to keep paying settlements. We can hope, anyway.
EtonMusk
Why oh why isn't it illegal to peddle this damaging shite
jfd8u438fdsfkds
Because then authoritarians will use the same power to silence the truth?
KuldFyt
... the conspiracies or the pillows?
Alomega
Wait, no. The pillows are alright.
ChloeRed
TheOtherLucas
because Ronald Reagan abolished the fairness Doctrine in 1984 and corporate democrats and Republicans refused to re-establish it in any form since. This is why corporate media exists as it does today.
Predicto
that's not how the Fairness Doctrine worked, and it would not have changed this situation at all. You are right that corporate media is unaccountable today, but that's a different issue.
loma45
This is a very naive view of the Fairness Doctrine. It did not require truth, and it didn't apply to anything but broadcast news. It simply required you to discuss "both sides" of controversial issues - that's not necessarily a good thing. I'm all for better laws around media misinformation, but the FD was not the gold standard that it's hyped up to be.
TheOtherLucas
I recognize that my description of the FD was unnuanced, but your rebuttal is even less nuanced, just more verbose. And yes, I never said that the FD was "teh bestest of teh evar!one!" because I am, in fact, not naive. Have you ever wondered why since it's abolition, a form of it was not reintroduced? Perhaps one would be better served to consider what they say before casting dispersions.
loma45
The GP asked why it wasn't illegal to peddle this misinformation. You pointed to the repeal of the FD as a reason - even though it wouldn't have made any of this illegal, or even applied to it at all. Your reasoning is flawed at best, or intentionally misleading at worst.
TheOtherLucas
you are half right at best here. Specifically the bit where you assert that a form of the fairness doctrine that presumably would make it expensive for individuals to cast dispersions without evidence - which is the point of defamation by the way, which, it seems you may not be a ware, is part of jurisprudence. The fact that Lindell was permitted to spout his bullshit on media outlets unchallenged is the point here.