“Happy talk, keep talking happy talk. Talk about things you like to do. You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?” — Happy Talk, South Pacific

Mike Lindell is some dreamer. And dreams are great things. They motivate us to move beyond where we are at any given moment and into something better. But unless Lindell wakes up tomorrow and discovers that he is a character named George Orr from Ursula K. LeGuin’s “The Lathe Of Heaven” and that his dreams can literally change his and everybody’s waking reality, he’s going to be wearing some egg on his face come Thanksgiving Day.

But for now, let’s play along. Here’s the latest.

What’s that you say? The world doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, only the Americans? At least on the last Thursday in November. And the Canadians have their Jour de Grace, but that passed already a few weeks ago. Too late to get their attention for four days, which it wouldn’t have anyhow, because it fell on a Monday. Oh, reality is so against poor Mike. The facts of the real world are so not fair, gee whiz.

Now the Aussies do celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Wednesday in November and in the Philippines it’s September 21st — but hey, Brazil has a Thanksgiving the same time as the U.S., Mike can get all of them to tune in, maybe. As screwed up as their politics are, that’s probably his best bet.

Now Mike has other problems to worry about besides persuading all nine of the Supreme Court justices to drop everything and address non existent voter fraud. As a matter of fact, that’s small potatoes, in the true scheme of things. Newsmax just dumped all of Lindell’s advertising and in the real world of dollars and cents, that’s a big owwie. Salon:

Last week, Lindell said on his live-streaming site Frank Speech that Newsmax, which increasingly seeks to position itself as a further-right alternative to Fox News, had pulled all its ads from his site. He suggested that Newsmax was concerned about “competition” with Frank Speech, which seems objectively unlikely. A Newsmax spokesperson did not return numerous Salon requests for comment on the reasons for pulling back ads, which might also include the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Lindell filed by Dominion Voting Systems over his outlandish and largely disproven 2020 election claims.

“We had Newsmax call up, and they canceled all their ads on Frank Speech,” Lindell said last week on the nightly program he hosts on his clumsily-engineered site. He turned to co-host Brannon Howse and joked, “I’m blaming this one on you, Brannon [Howse]. They said a different reason. They said you’re too much competition for them.” Howse also hosts an evening program on Frank Speech that often involves hostile segments about immigrants and praise for Lindell’s conspiracy theories.

After an exchange with Howse, Lindell continued: “They said it wasn’t because of Dominion, which they [had] proven. They just said they’re not going to put ads up because they said it’s a competitive brand.” It’s not clear what Lindell believes Newsmax has “proven” regarding Dominion Voting Systems.

“It’s kind of, like, weird,” the pillow magnate continued. “I guess it’d be, you know, advertising another station on a station. But, you know, that’s too bad because for me this is about saving our country. It’s not about any competition with Newsmax or anyone. It’s about getting our voices, so we can get the word out.”

Howse then pivoted by claiming tha Lindell’s blundering media operation has a “great relationship” with One America News, more commonly referred to as OAN, and Real America’s Voice, the organization that produces Steve Bannon’s podcast. There’s “a lot of cross-promotion between those networks,” Howse said. He and Lindell have claimed that Lindell’s primetime show, “The Lindell Report,” reaches millions of homes nationwide, which is highly implausible.

Salon didn’t get a return call from Lindell or his lawyers, either, probably because he has denounced the outlet as “evil” for having the audacity to request to see the raw data by which Lindell arrived at his conclusion that the 2020 election was stolen. That might not be smart on Lindell’s part since Salon is one of a tiny number of credible outlets that even checks up on whether Lindell is still breathing or not. Nobody else cares. Well, practically nobody. Justin Baragona at Daily Beast will tweet about Lindell from time to time and then there’s PolitiZoom. But Lindell doesn’t care about us because he considers us small potatoes. Like he’s not? We have never claimed to be anything other than that which we are, The Little Political Blog That Could. (Toot! Toot!)

And we do enjoy mocking Mike Lindell for our sport.

Mark your Thanksgiving calendars accordingly, friends. Personally, I think Lindell will go into hiding after turkey day, when he ends up being the turkey that all the knives are out for.

Nobody did it to you but yourself, Mike. I leave you with this word of wisdom. Sometimes Less Is More.

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