MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is no stranger to outlandish claims. Kingpin cushion is one of the country’s loudest election deniers. But Lindell (apparently joking) added a new conspiracy theory to his puzzling speech this weekend, falsely accusing Fever Dreams host Asawin Suebsaeng forcing voting machine company Dominion to sue. Lindell.
Suebsaeng said of Lindell’s comments: “I don’t think I have that influence on anyone in my family or anyone I work with.
Fantasies of voter fraud aren’t the only myths we’ve covered this week Fever dreams. Guest co-host Kelly Weill reads an excerpt from her newly released book about the flat earth movement, which includes an interview with a man who was arrested for distributing material about the earth. land on the school playground.
Weill recalls learning about the motion of the flat earth while covering extremist groups for The Daily Beast. “I think the flat earth is an interesting allegory about how people can believe anything,” she said, “because we see other conspiracy theories that might be closer to reality or you can understand someone’s political motives. But the flat earth seems to be out there so I want to understand it better.”
Elsewhere on the team, Suebsaeng and Weill tried to test Donald Trump’s new social media site, Truth Social, but found that the newly launched platform was so buggy that users couldn’t even create accounts. account, let alone posting about the former president. As Suebsaeng notes, the site is the latest attempt by conservatives to create a new Facebook—never mind the fact that Facebook can be an extremely true plague ship.
“It’s just an attempt to try to give their thumbs up in Silicon Valley because they think Twitter and Facebook are too liberal, or too leftist, or too malicious towards people like Donald Trump,” Suebsaeng said. I can’t stress enough how much their brand, how popular their ideas are in the US and abroad… will evaporate if Facebook disappears. ”
Then we joined by Kimmy Schmidt Unbreakable actress Dylan Gelula, who guides us through the weird quizzes that made her Lecture Hall podcast a hit comedy. (Did you know that Dr. Phil got a big breakthrough helping Oprah Winfrey prepare for a lawsuit for her comments about Mad Cow Disease?)
Gelula discusses the belligerent nature of Twitter and the strange comments she receives as a politically vocal actress. “I think if your tweet gets over a thousand likes, you can get people arguing about body positivity in the comments,” says Gelula. “That’s just the nature of it; it’s very strange. ”
Finally, we preview the worst to come for Orlando, Florida, this week: “America’s First Political Action Conference,” an annual gathering of German elites. commune and marginally elected officials. The convention had the backing of an Arizona senator and was attended by a rioter on January 6 who allegedly defamed a Hanukkah display outside that state senator’s office.
“If that’s not a sign of the railing coming off, I don’t know what is,” says Weill.
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