MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Says He "Probably" Inspired Trump's August Restoration Notion

Lindell's theory that Trump will be returned to office centers on the pillow magnate's claims that, together with a team of lawyers and well-intentioned "white hat" hackers, he has amassed incontrovertible proof of election fraud to present to the Supreme Court. Once that evidence is unveiled, in Lindell's telling, the stunned justices will rule 9-0 to return Trump to the presidency.

But Lindell may need to update his deadline. He originally came to the August date after deciding that the Supreme Court would overturn the election in either April or May, with the summer then devoted to hatching a government-wide consensus that Trump should retake the presidency in August.

          • calmextex [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            You forgot the part where Israel must be controlled by Jews so that when Jesus returns the Jews can be slaughtered for not believing in Jesus. Hence, why psycho evangelical fundies support Israel but are extremely antisemitic. Supporting Israel gets rid of Palestinians (which in their mind are mostly Muslims) and also speeds up the rapture to evangelicals.

    • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Honestly floored by how low those numbers are. Wonder what they are for Texas specifically

        • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yea my family is from rural Texas and the rapture is a pretty common talking points out there. They all think “we’re living in the end times” and it could be any day now.

            • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              Midwesterner with a mother who doesn't give a shit about anything that's going on in the world because she thinks she'll be raptured before she dies checking in.

              • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Ever sit through an Evangelical Christian struggle session on whether “no man knows the day” means it’ll be later down the road and if we think it’ll happen it won’t or it’s definitely imminent? lol

                • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Not really; most of my family is really Lutheran of some flavor, my mom just has a... esoteric perspective on her faith? What's funny is The Rapture isn't even a biblical event; some *nglo (John Nelson Darby) came up with it in the 1800's.

                  It's just kind of injected itself into collective conscience thanks to that shitty 1990's book series.

                  • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Ah my family were Pentecostal when my mom was growing up (I was raised nondenom tho) and I think they’re maybe a little more doomsday-y. At least that’s the vibe I’ve gotten by proxy.

                    The books definitely helped spread it but I think my family were hipster og’s for the rapture bc I remember hearing about this shit from birth.

                    If you try to point out it’s not biblical they always grab a couple things from revelations to prove it is. Same thing with modern depictions of hell. A lot of American Christian mythology is really fan fiction lol

            • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              No not necessarily. Floored was def too strong a word lol, but I really thought rapture beliefs and other Christian stuff like that were more widespread (at least another 10% on those scores) given how much it’s talked about being “part of being American” and how big mega churches are.

              • MarxNAngels [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                frankly i'm pretty skeptical about those numbers being so high -- like, you'd see way different approaches to savings or investment if people really, truly thought the rapture was nigh. that isn't to say people don't want to signal to pollsters about a deep christian conviction, or that there isn't a very real cultural divide (though that could already be inferred), but i'm not buying 40pct.

                here's another pew poll, suggesting the rapture-heads are about half as many: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2009/04/21/the-second-coming-of-jesus/; you're gonna keep getting different, incoherent responses, all due to the prompt framing.

                • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Idk 🤷‍♂️. Thing about religious stuff is people usually believe in it when it’s under attack or whatever but they don’t generally want to put in the work of living it daily or have it effect stuff that they want to do. They’re happy to judge others for not complying tho. At least that’s my anecdotal observation from growing up around it.

                  So I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people believed it but just assumed it’d take care of itself. Like you’re not meant to change your behavior or anything. if gods gonna take you, you’re good.

                  We know climate change is happening and we can barely get people to react to that

                  But yeah usually these kinds of polls fluctuate wildly according ti methodology and stuff

                  • MarxNAngels [none/use name]
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                    4 years ago

                    sure ya that all makes sense. don't have much else to add, but thanks for your post, and funny user name.

                • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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                  4 years ago

                  The 23% who said yes to "Can peoples and nations affect when Christ returns?" are the ones you need to watch.