Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The Grandest Delusion Of All

...is the delusion where the masses finally become aware of the nature of reality and rise up as One to confront and overthrow it and the Powers That Be.

Funny how it never works that way.

Steve Bannon imagines he's Lenin (no, he really does) and he will eventually lead the revolution that...puts him in power?  Or in a tomb people will visit for decades?  Because if Lenin was around today, he'd be going podcasts? And be friends with billionaires with yachts?

Yeah,  I don't know how he thinks that ends.


“We do have a copy of the complaint,” which Lindell said he would simply release to the public on Thanksgiving Day if it ends up not being filed due to a lack of signatures. “Worst-case scenario, let’s say, a lot of them want to delay signing it,” he added, under the impression his fervent supporters would then mount local pressure campaigns against their own state attorneys general after seeing the contents of his filing.

Additionally, the pillow tycoon claimed late Monday that he was making a last-minute sprint across five states in the dead of night to convince attorneys general to sign his papers. “I am on my way to another city,” he asserted, adding that if they don’t sign by Tuesday he can always try to get them to sign by Wednesday.
(I'm seriously wondering what poor flunky in what AG's office is being forced to give Lindell the time of day.  Or if any are.  Odds are somebody in the office is having to tell this raving madman to get back on his plane and leave busy people alone.)

He thought his Thanksgiving marathon 96 hour "telethon" would persuade the Supreme Court to hear his case, but he can't even get it filed with the court because he can't get any state Attorneys General to sign off on it.  Lindell blames a vast conspiracy that involves the RNC and Ronna McDaniel, which frankly isn't very interesting (conspiracies are so 2020!).  The likelier reason, one Lindell wouldn't understand if you drew him a diagram, is that Ken Paxton tried this in 2020 and the Supremes poured him out like water.  Lindell imagines, like a small child, that if he just believes in Santa Claus hard enough, the fat guy in the red suit is gonna come down his chimney if he stays up all night on Xmas Eve.  Or at least the judges will decide his "evidence" is so true it must be trusted, and they will wind the national clock back 1 year and make history come out right because JUSTICE DEMANDS IT!

Yeah, no legal system in the world works that way.

And if that doesn't happen, then We the People will demand it because we'll all read the complaint when he releases it, and then we'll see the light, because the scales (of justice?) will fall from our eyes.  Collectively.  It's a metaphor.

And one Lindell doesn't seem to really have much faith in:

Lindell concluded his Monday evening live stream by promoting his 96-hour virtual “Thanks-a-Thon” event set to kick off Wednesday night at midnight and feature four straight days of even more election conspiracies.

But as of Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court had no record of any filing from the state attorneys general or Lindell.

And reached for comment by The Daily Beast about his non-existent Supreme Court filing and why it hasn’t been made public, the pillow mogul fumed.

“Are you out of your mind?" Lindell shouted. “You call me again, I am suing you!”

Yeah, these guys really think the courts work that way.  I demand, and the courts give me what I want.  60+ court cases tossed out later, they still don't have a clue.

Comes later:  we've found the problem; and it's not a conspiracy.
It's more like a confederacy of dunces. It doesn't help there is no plaintiff. But it doesn't help, either, that the defendants are people who had nothing to do with the electoral college count (the entire United State of America? POTUS, VPOTUS, Speaker, President of the Senate (Pro Tem? Meaning each and every Senator, possibly?*)(Wait, I'm still stuck on "United States of America." How does he get service on all 330 million of them? And wouldn't at least one state be part of the United States? Can you sue yourself?). You see where this goes. It never even reaches Paxton's embarassing denoument, because this can't even get in the courthouse door.

And then he has to find a plaintiff.....

BTW, Mr. Heath and I are clearly of like mind:
I really shouldn't play with my food this much.

*Oh, there are explanations: The last line there is the most damning. If this mess ever got before a court of law, the lawyer who drafted it should have her/his license suspended, at the very least. Enough of this shit. Once was enough.
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1 comment:

  1. The Thought Criminal8:58 AM

    Some German language spoofster should take footage of the Infomercial Fuhrer and turn it into a Mike Lindell hört das . . .youtube. It might not work because unlike English speakers, so many Germans are at least bilingual.

    If no one said "Infomercial Fuhrer" before I've got dibs on it.

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