Mike Lindell Lashes Out At ‘Attack Media’ ‘Making A Mockery’ Over His Failure To Get A Single AG

Mike Lindell lives in a parallel universe, no question about that, but he does occasionally get a glimpse into what’s going on in this one. That happened today as he goes into the final leg of his 96-hour marathon, an event which he assured us a few months ago would be “watched by millions all over the world” and which would provide compelling and indisputable evidence of election fraud.

I’ve checked in on the marathon from time to time since it started and it’s been pretty bonkers. The first day he had some guy talking about the Bible and 9/11, and a kid with a mouse on his shoulder helping a reindeer. That pretty much set the tone for eclecticism and weirdness and that’s how it’s stayed.

Last night around midnight I checked in and Lindell was holding a 12-Step meeting, Crack Anonymous, from what I could gather. He had screenshots of other crack addicts and he spoke of his own issues with the drug. Now what that has to do with the 2020 election or the price of soybeans in Iowa, do not ask me. I couldn’t stick around long enough to find out if there was a connection, however attenuated. It was a lot like trying to listen to Kevin McCarthy doing his Midnight Rambler number at the House last week. It was just another brain dump without rhyme or reason.

So now, in the afternoon of Sunday, November 28, as Lindell wraps up his crusade, he is hoarse and exhausted and pissed. He makes that very clear. And he feels abandoned, evidently. Have a listen.

“Where’s our media?” he whines in exasperation and despair. This intrigues me because this is the essence of Mike Lindell, right here. He seriously believes that he has a case and nobody can tell him otherwise. It was identified very early on that Lindell is a True Believer. Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, the rest of them know the stolen election is utter caa caa, but they’re going to tout it for pecuniary gain and for the spotlight. Lindell is different. He really believes this madness. That’s the sad part.

He’s like a character in a Shakespearean tragedy. His character flaw is what is going to do him in, in the end. Just like Hamlet’s hesitation sealed his fate, Lindell’s warped insistence that there was election fraud drives him on to greater and more self-destructive acts. His accountants must be ripping their hair out, they have to be.

Do you suppose Lindell has ever wondered if he doesn’t have the same kind of relationship with Trump and this election folly as he once had with crack?

In all events, we can play armchair psychologist here all night, but the bottom line remains and it is this:

1. The marathon has come and is almost gone;
2. There isn’t one attorney general who has put a signature on that lawsuit;
3. The suit is not going anywhere except to the shredder;
4. Lindell is in the same spot he was in last week, last month and last year, crying wolf, wolf and there is no freaking wolf. There’s not even a puppy dog, let alone a wolf.
5. It’s time to sweep up after the elephants now and fold the tents. That’s what the circus does when it closes out of town.

The only thing Lindell accomplished with his marathon was to get into a pissing contest with Sebastian Gorka and his right-wing Christian Salem Radio Network. Apparently even they aren’t hospitable enough to Lindell for his liking. When you’ve lost Sebastian Gorka….

Daily Beast:

Election dead-ender Mike Lindell announced Saturday evening during his 96-hour “thanks-a-thon” event that he had pulled the plug on airing MyPillow advertisements with the right-wing Christian Salem Radio Network, home to the likes of conservative talk radio kingpins Dennis Prager and Sebastian Gorka.

“They haven’t had me on for a long, long time,” Lindell initially complained on Friday evening, arguing that the network will not “talk about why [he] was canceled.” Then, on Saturday afternoon, the pillow tycoon took it a step further, making clear that right-wing Salem radio host’s MyPillow promotional codes will “not work next week.” “With Salem, nobody gets to sell MyPillow products going forward,” he said. “You are done selling MyPillow products!”

Additionally, on Friday evening, Lindell called the ardently pro-Trump media network “worse” than the likes of Dominion Voting Systems and mysterious foreign entities that he baselessly believes “stole” the 2020 election from Trump. Neither Prager nor Salem Radio returned The Daily Beast’s Saturday evening requests for comment. Gorka declined to comment on the matter but insisted this reporter was a “liar.”

So there you have it. Right-wingnuttia in despair and disarray, Lindell going for Gorka’s throat, Gorka hosting Lauren Boebert, Boebert upsetting Marjorie Taylor Greene by getting more publicity than she, for once; Mike Flynn and Lin Wood duking it out, and nobody has heard from either Sidney Powell or Rudy Giuliani for a very long time.

They were notably absent from Lindell’s marathon. What’s next for Lindell? I daresay that he’s pondering that very same thing. I wonder if it has occurred to him to just abandon the quest and sell pillows? Because if that doesn’t occur to him soon, he’s going to destroy what he’s got left of his business and/or his life.