As you wander the highways and byways of MAGA world there is one quality that you will not find at all, anywhere, because the Great Guru himself, Donald Trump, doesn’t have it, and so nobody does. That quality is Self-Awareness, which last we knew, was a relative of Humility. None of the MAGAs have either one. Self-Obsession, yes, oh sweet Jesus, by the truck load. And Self-Importance, yes, acres of it, stretching from horizon to horizon. But no Self-Awareness.
Mike Lindell doesn’t like a young reporter named Zachary Petrizzo over at Salon. And he went on the attack earlier today, saying, “We’re gonna get this kid.”
"Zachary's an enemy…he's an enemy of our country!" pic.twitter.com/gpreU5w1Az
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) September 5, 2021
Lindell is comically clueless that all he’s doing is giving Petrizzo a higher profile than he would otherwise have. And that’s not an uncommon side effect of Lindell’s endless buffoonery. When he and I had our little set to and he cussed me out on Frankspeech and told his goons to find me on Twitter and Facebook and tell me off, some of them did, yes. But outnumbering them were a bunch of other lefties, who were putting up screaming-with-laughter emojis in my feed and congratulating me.
I would post that segment from Frankspeech but Lindell took it down from YouTube after Jimmy Kimmel did a supercut of it and put it on his show. Maybe somebody in Lindell’s organization didn’t want him to continue to look ridiculous. Who knows.
Here’s the piece from the Kimmel show, if you missed that. Ursula’s fifteen minutes of fame. Actually, it’s 90 seconds.
Welcome to the club, Zach. I'm an enemy of the people, too. Listen to Jimmy Kimmel's monologue, starting at 4:30. https://t.co/9xeXWfJdvK
— Ursula Faw (@ursulafaw56) September 5, 2021
What is scary about Mike Lindell is he has some notion that he can go out in the world and raise whatever hell he wants to, promulgate the Big Lie, participate in the erosion of faith in the election process and by extension, in democracy, and that’s supposed to be okay. He has a “right” to do that. But a reporter reporting on facts that Lindell would prefer not come to light, or a blogger doing a riff on Lindell and citing from first tier sources, he absolutely cannot tolerate. We are all so wrong to write about him. We are “enemies of the people.” Lindell conceives of himself as a giant person, apparently, the Pillsbury Doughboy of the Big Lie, (remember Ghostbusters?) and nobody is supposed to take a shot at him. He’s supposed to waltz through it all, and way above it all, unscathed.
If you’re reading this, Mike, or Brannon, I’m sure you are, tell Mike he’s not doing himself any favors by going after this young reporter. He looks like a complete ass, and the reporter is getting more Twitter followers and he just got a promotion at Salon. He’s an investigative reporter now. All Mike is doing is making the man into a folk hero.
So keep it up, Mike. You’re not doing anything but providing us amusement and we always can use more. There’s never too much laughter in the world, that much is certain.
The Streisand Effect.
There’s even a name for it.
Who’s ‘Aunt Efa??
Can no-one pronounce ‘anti’ these days? The abbreviation is supposed to be ‘anti-fa(scist)’