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.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 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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      3 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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        3 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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          3 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