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Let's talk about all of the news. Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame is countersuing Dominion, the election software company. Now as you know, Dominion is suing Mike Lindell for claiming that their machines had any issues in the election. Mike Lindell is suing them back now. And it says here in the report I saw that Alan Dershowitz has joined the legal team. So Alan Dershowitz is on Mike Lindell's legal team.
How would you like to be Dominion software or Dominion, whatever the name is called? How would you like to be Dominion and find out that the guy you're countersuing, the guy you're suing is countersuing and he just got Alan Dershowitz on his team? How do you feel about that? I don't think anybody ever had worse news.
Dominion, we've got some bad news and some worse news. What's the bad news? Well, you're probably going to lose billions in revenue because Mike Lindell, the pillow guy, is going to tear you apart in public. Well, that's bad. That's really bad. What's the worst news? When he countersues you he's going to have Alan Dershowitz on his team. It's a little worse. It's a little worse.
Now of course people are assuming that the real play here, because Mike Lindell said it directly, is that if he gets sued then he can, he has the right to dig into some of their details, their operation. So he has the right of discovery. He can ask questions and they have to answer them. And the thinking is that if they do have anything to hide or anything that they might just not want anybody to know, it doesn't have to be a crime, just something they don't want people to know, that they'll probably back down.
So if you had to predict where this goes, my guess is that Lindell will ask for information that Dominion doesn't want to give them and that will be the end of it. Because if they don't provide it they're either going to have to drop the lawsuit or provide it. Those are the two choices. And I don't see how they could possibly provide everything that Dershowitz and Lindell and the team are going to ask for. Because you know that Dershowitz and his lawyers are going to be smart enough to know to ask for things that they won't give them. But that's the end of it. Am I wrong?
Let me tell you a story about a lawsuit I was involved with some years ago in which I can't give you the details because the part of the court settlement is you agree not to talk about the details. So I'll say there's a very large entity, a really large company, that once sued me. And I said quite reasonably, oh well if you have a claim that something bad happened because of, it was one of my businesses, my restaurant, if you have a claim that's based on my restaurant just show us what the evidence is and just show us the evidence and we'll take that under consideration. And they wouldn't. They said no, our contract states that we don't have to send you or show you evidence. We can just claim that you did something bad and then start draining your bank account.
And I thought, well there's no way my contract says that. But it did. The contract actually said they could drain your bank account just because they said they had a reason. They don't have to show you the evidence. So they sue me and I decided to take it to court. It would have been easy to settle. I could have just paid the $90,000 or whatever it was that they were trying to get from me. So I could have settled. But it kind of made me mad because there was no evidence of anything. Their claim, they didn't show us any evidence.
And I correctly estimated that if I took it to court, which I did, or at least I took it to negotiations, it didn't actually make it to court, I correctly assumed that if I said yeah let's go to court and you're going to have to show me the evidence that shows what the problem is here, that they would drop it. And they did. So the moment I threatened I'll show you mine if you show me yours it was over. That was it. And I correctly estimated that that would be the outcome.
Now I'm no lawyer but I live in the real world and I do know that real people like to hide their secrets and if those are in play they're going to change their mind. So there's that. We'll watch that.
There's also a related story, sort of related. Let's see if I can find this. About, is it Michigan? Where the courts have decided that Michigan did not handle the election correctly and that their changes to the voter, the mail-in votes were illegal. Were illegal. Now that won't change any of the outcome, right, because Biden's the president. That's not going to change. But every day that goes by we're going to find out a little bit more about what happened in the past.
And I'm going to say something that will probably get me kicked off of all social media, I don't know, but I'm going to try it out. So here will be an edge case. I predict now, let me say it as clearly as possible so I want to say this in a way that there's no falsehoods. But I'll probably also get kicked off of social media. So I'm not going to say anything that is false, okay?
First true statement: Biden is president. The system elected him. He's been certified. He's president. That's it. Biden won the presidency in 2020.
Now here's my prediction. Now the prediction is not based on any false claims, right? So there will be no allegation of any claims. It's just a prediction that we will someday learn that Trump won the election at least in terms of the votes or somewhat similarly that the election was not what we thought it was, which ends up being the same. You don't know who won.
So I'm sure I would get kicked off of social media if I said I know this to be true. But I don't. I'm simply sticking with my prediction that if you wait long enough, and it could be 10 years, right, it could be 10 years, that somebody will come forward sometime in the next 10 years and say you know here's something you didn't know.
So when I was talking about the accuracy of my predictions I was noting that how accurate my predictions are depends how long you wait. If you don't wait very long they don't look so good but if you keep waiting they might look better.
So here's the question. Can I say something that's a pure opinion while also saying it's not backed by a specific fact but it is the accumulated instinct? That's the wrong word but getting close to it. It's sort of the accumulated instinct of life. Meaning that sometimes you can smell things before you can see them. And I think a lot of people have the same feeling that I smell something with this election but I can't see it. So we'll see.
Take for example just the Michigan story. I'm not sure I have all the facts of that right. But if it turned out that just the Michigan story stands and the Michigan story is that there was something illegal happened in the state. Now again it doesn't matter to the outcome. The outcome is done, right? Biden is president. Nothing's going to change that except his health I suppose. But won't history record that the vote in Michigan was not the way it should have gone if everything had been done legally? That's just a true statement, right? Is there any doubt about the statement I just made?
History will record based on what we know now because the court has actually ruled that what was done there was not legally copacetic. So we now have Michigan that's put into the unknown category. Unknown what would have happened if they had handled everything the way the courts say they should have. That's one.
Now what will happen in Georgia if we continue waiting and the chain of custody information never comes forward? Because that's the situation now. So there are these documents that show where the ballots were and who controlled them. So you have this chain of custody. So that's been asked for but they're not providing it now. It's been a few weeks. What if it's never provided? How will history judge the Georgia outcome if they don't provide the most basic visibility that you would have, which is the chain of custody?
Well I think that takes Georgia and moves it into the maybe box. Again the election's over. Biden's president. Nothing's going to change it. But I think Michigan and Georgia just got moved into the maybe category.
Now we've got this Mike Lindell thing. What's going to happen when Mike Lindell asks for discovery and transparency and probably even the source code, right? Don't you think Mike
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Lindell will be able to ask for the source code? How the hell are they going to give them the source code? I mean really. No company gives you the source code. You have to assume it's proprietary at some level, right? So I think we're going to move into a point where we went from those voting machines were absolutely definitely fine according to the official statement about it. No evidence of any…
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