From a certain, twisted POV, I think the WMDs are a Great idea.
Various election conspiracy theorists buy them at the sub $500 (although probably not much) price point - money that would otherwise go to Republican candidates or possibly weapons. Said users attempt to use them, and (using the KY example in the article get 1-5 years in jail [ if only they enforced the law, which I won’t bet on]) preventing a small number caught ahead of time from voting, and more over their incarceration period.
MIkey gets plenty of $$$, which he immediately loses in paying out damages or a settlement to election companies he continues to defame, as well as a spare chunk to the “Prove Mike Lindell Wrong” winner.
This is potentially a good thing.
In reality, yeah, I’m more worried about the WMDs getting identifying information, or just publishing it all online and persons abusing that information in oh so many ways.
On the gripping hand though… do I think such a WMD made under Mike’s auspices will actually work, or instead just find local networks and other public information without doing much of anything more than (as @Darren_Garrison pointed out) a default wifi utility on any bargain cellphone…
Okay, I know that I’m asking for trouble, asking for someone to explain what is going on in what we’ll call, loosely, Mikey’s mind, but could someone give me a run-down on what the wi-fi stuff is about? I’ve obviously missed out on some key information here.
Mike believes that he can find the mechanism and provide proof of his electronic vote switching via technical means, even though the devices aren’t connected to the internet in the way he reports. Up to and including trying to track packets / internet connections via drones of all things. It was reported upthread months ago, but here’s another:
Lindell shared his plans with attendees at a symposium in Springfield, Missouri, called the Election Crime Bureau. A new “wireless monitoring device” he touted can scrape data from nearby smartphones and computers with internet access. If a WMD — not to be confused with a weapon of mass destruction — detects a new device coming online, it could prove a Chinese plot to hack voting machines and switch votes from Republicans, he said.
Note the more recent article that @Darren_Garrison linked was from Kentucky and how it likely fell afoul of specific laws designed to prevent voter identification. But it’s the same stupid and possibly illegal technology, and in both cases, neither devices are connected to the the internet in the way Mike believes.
Yeah, you can see lots of artifacting around Mike’s hand every time he waves it or the packet of paper around. I honestly found it pretty distracting and just put the phone down after a bit to listen to it without the video.
It actually gives a lot of context that I didn’t have before. The explosion over the ‘lumpy pillows’ thing is so fucking tragic, because he’s been ranting and railing at a 9/10 for question after question. I’m saving the country! You’re the worst! This is terrible!
But then the guy says lumpy pillows, and that’s what makes him crank it up to 11.
Because of course it is. Because his company was real. On some level he knows that. He knows he destroyed a real thing that he built for a fake thing that Trump invented.
Seen it before, but not with the Woody Allen note taker. Makes it watchable.
Lawyer should not have said ‘Lumpy Pillow’ bad form. Or perhaps he was trying to get a rise out of Lindell. Really no need, Lindell was already at a rolling boil.
And Lindell attacks the judge. That’s always a good move.
The above video is clips edited together, not a single stream as it played out. The proper context of the line is that the deposer(?) was working on the angle of how the lawsuit ties into MyPillow as a company. He was asking essentially “how do you deal with questions/comments asked to the company that are not related to customer service?” and was saying “lumpy pillows” to represent customer complaints generically. The phrase itself was neither the subject or the end of the sentence, which was interrupted by a moron explosion.
