MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell became enraged and swore at opposing counsel during a series of depositions earlier this year, according to newly released videos. ...

This headline really isn’t an exaggeration, unusually.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    701·
    1 year ago

    I love how happy the lawyer sounds. Emotional people say dumb stuff and make mistakes; sometimes you have to manipulate people into getting emotional when they’re testifying but Lindell went ahead and did it to himself. Not that the lawyer didn’t help – you could tell he was judging the perfect moment to ask a question about “lumpy pillows,” and look how well it worked. 😁

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    43·
    1 year ago

    Hahahahaha man that lawyer is throwing his lures and this guy just fucking bit at every single one of them.

    The lumpy pillow one was great

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago

      He’s so defensive, he felt he needed to defend himself from the statement, “we’ll take it slow so the recorder can keep up”.

  • clearedtoland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Projection? Intimidation? Trying to make himself bigger than the bear/cougar that’s about to maul him? WTF is he even thinking? Makes Trump look composed by comparison.

    • ohlaph@lemmy.world
      212·
      1 year ago

      He’shas that 70s car salesman vibe. Also known as the boomer vibe.

      Scummy Corvette driving pervert.

      Obviously not saying all boomers are like that, but that generation wears the suit pretty well.

    • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Longtime hard-drug use, and particularly the lifestyle around it, where the user doesn’t eat, sleep, or stay hydrated properly, eats through the frontal lobe, where emotional control, and logic and reason processes happen.

      If you watch many hours of him, you realize that his brain short-circuits every time he is confronted with contravening information. He literally can’t respond with what a lawyer would call a “responsive answer.” Instead, his brain shunts over to stock bullshit replies, and if they aren’t immediately welcomed by the first party, he gets frustrated and angry.

      He is fundamentally incapable of putting himself in the interlocutor’s position and considering the matter from their perspective.

      Finally, if anyone reading this hasn’t watched his Cyber Symposium, go find a good wrap-up on YT. I watched every second of the live broadcast, and it was absolutely nuts. Between the data guy singing, Ron Watkins “analyzing” stolen election machine data live on stage, and Mike Pillow claiming he was attacked upstairs in the hotel, it was an amazing ride.

          • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
            0·
            1 year ago

            Ehh, old man in tech, owns several businesses. I dont know much about him, but he sounds like a classic “business republican,” i.e they pass laws that keep rich people like me rich, so i vote for them. I’m not suprised dude just votes “R” every time he sees it.

            • fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee
              0·
              1 year ago

              So basically: “I’ve got mine and I want more, so fuck you.”

              Meanwhile, dark money interests who are like you but presumably MUCH wealthier push the GOP further and further “right,” past the point of even pretending to have social responsibility and onwards towards giddying heights of spittle-flecked insanity.

              • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
                0·
                1 year ago

                Yeah… I’m referring to the guy in the article’s reasoning, not mine. At no point do I agree with it, just stating that there is a style of “I dont give a shit about anything buy taxes” Republican out there.

                Way to go on the attack though, bro. “Spittle flecked insanity” indeed.

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
    181·
    1 year ago

    Jeez hes being absolutely hysterical, isn’t he? I don’t think i want someone so emotional being in charge of a pillow company.

  • esadatari@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    so i’ll go ahead and say it, are those classic fucking sugar booger tremors he has going on? dude looks like he’s straight up coke tweaking.

  • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    “I’ll take as much time as you want”

    This could have been over in a matter of hours had he not interjected in every single subclause of the lawyer’s questions

    • Nougat@kbin.social
      101·
      1 year ago

      Notice how he’s got to make sure it’s outside his shirt so everyone can see it.