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30th April 2021, 08:08 AM | #361 |
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30th April 2021, 12:53 PM | #362 |
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Not true. They do demand complete loyalty, but if anybody gets into trouble because of their complete loyalty or for any other reason, the right-wingers in command drop them immediately. Look at all the people who thought Trump was their friend and that he would come to their rescue if they got into trouble. Look at all the people he got rid of in the four years, most of whom hadn't stopped being loyal to him. They can be completely loyal, but if they become inconvenient, they're out. Igor & Lev, Michael Cohen, Sidney Powel, the insurrectionists, Gaetz, ... Some of them turn on him, but he has usually abandoned and betrayed them before they do. |
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30th April 2021, 02:03 PM | #363 |
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3rd May 2021, 05:16 PM | #364 |
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Woot... looks like they got the wheels bolted back on over the weekend.
I'm not gonna actually watch any of the video crap on the site, but it does appear to actually be up and running Eta: Wait, wasn't there supposed to be an entire discussion board associated with this thing? Not seeing it. What were all the MagaChuds supposed to be signing up for? |
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3rd May 2021, 06:46 PM | #365 |
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Data mining donations to support the site. That's why they signed up.
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3rd May 2021, 11:20 PM | #366 |
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If you're not a scientist but you think you've destroyed the foundation of a vast scientific edifice with 10 minutes of Googling, you might want to consider the possibility that you're wrong. Its TRE45ON season... convict the F45CIST!! |
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4th May 2021, 09:26 AM | #367 |
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Pillow dude spent nearly a million on IT services for his nonfunctional social media site.
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4th May 2021, 10:03 AM | #368 |
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In the discussion below that tweet, a bunch of drupal devs chipped in; the consensus is that Lindell is being taken advantage of by the devs.
On metaphor stood out: an instance of drupal running on a million dollar centre is like building a state of the art city with a two lane dirt road as the only access point. |
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5th May 2021, 02:19 AM | #373 |
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It's miles beneath low. He needs Google/Apple/Amazon level of services, or at least have the money to seemlesly scale to that level of infrastructure as his platform expands. All of which presupposes that the software model he is using is stable and scalable, which it is highly likely not.
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24th May 2021, 03:58 PM | #374 |
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So the MyPillow guy does not know what the hell he is doing with this?
Why am I not surprised? |
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24th May 2021, 04:09 PM | #375 |
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Tried to sign up just now
"The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later." That's three weeks since the last time I tried and still not working At least it didn't spill a bunch of code this time |
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24th May 2021, 05:37 PM | #376 |
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24th May 2021, 10:27 PM | #378 |
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How many more pillows has he sold as a result?
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26th May 2021, 07:19 AM | #379 |
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He won't be confronting the Georgia or Arizona governors about this, at least not at their conference.
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26th May 2021, 02:47 PM | #382 |
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You sure? How far has Trumpism and other forms of GOP lunacy penetrated in to the Governor's offices?
ETA: BTW let me add that I don't know the answer to my question. Don't know enough about GOP governors to know which might be aligned with Trump vs Cheney/Romeny/a few others. |
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A good point. But Lindell has gone so far off the diving board that even the MAGAites think he is totally nuts and a liability.
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28th May 2021, 07:33 AM | #387 |
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The guy got into the White House during the Trump admin so now he thinks he's allowed to go anywhere.
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Fro what I heard, he claimed to have received an invitation and pass.
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Some people never learn.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Skewered for ‘Craptastic’ Lawsuit Against Dominion and Smartmatic That Alleges ‘Ghosts in the Machines’ [lawandcrime.com]
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It is not a lawsuit. It is just a means of publishing the same old rambling conspiracy theories.
They are claiming the voting machine companies provide the machines for an election and that an election is run by the state and therefore the companies are state actor and must be considered government agencies in terms of censoring free speech and preventing advocacy of a candidate in an election and other such nonsense. They are just making stuff up. They don't even really arguing these positions. They just say it and then jump to rehashing all the previous conspiracies. The law firm has dumped Lindell as a client and they have sacked the lawyer who filed the unapproved lawsuit. |
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Yeah, that is never going to fly is it!
Tens of thousand of private companies do work for Federal, State and County governments - that does not make them "government agencies" They are just making stuff up. They don't even really arguing these positions. They just say it and then jump to rehashing all the previous conspiracies. Not surprising really. I'm astonished that any lawyer or firm would want their name associated with the utter dumpster fire surrounding anything Lindell is involved in. Maybe Lindell could hire Lin Wood - he's the only US lawyer I know of who is straight-up bat-**** crazy enough to represent him. |
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I was on frank speech dot com looking at some CPAC coverage, and I saw the "store" button in the top navigation bar. I clicked it, hoping to see a frank speech coffee mug or t-shirt.
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Can't even sign up from outside the USA.
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Lindell is now priedciting Aug 13th is when Trump will be reinstated in the White House.
Can't wait for his response Aug 14th. |
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