In case you haven't been paying attention to the Mike Lindell saga (i.e. in case you are sane), he's been promising for the last month that he'd present a case before the Supreme Court today challenging the election.
It's not just that the continues to not show any evidence the 2020 election was hacked or stolen, but also that there's no provision in the constitution for challenging a year-old election.
Brining a case to the Supreme Court challenging the 2020 election is like promising to bring a case to the World Court challenging that election. It's a nonsensical phrase that doesn't have any meaning. Or Space Court, which surely must over ride the World Court.
He's not completely insane. He's working with multiple state Attorneys General, so the states will be suing other states, which in theory, actually is a possible thing.
But nobody is able to come up with any coherent legal theory, much less a coherent argument about evidence. How has one state wronged another? They haven't, even if Chinese hacked the election or Democrats stole the election.
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TV and movies warp are brains. I don't think we recognize how much it does this.
For example, the TSA actually doesn't catch most guns that go through the system. How can they possibly miss a gun???
On TV or movies, such an event would always be shown to look obvious, like this
In reality, the gun is going to be at an angle, and mixed with other pieces of metal in a bag. As a TSA screener, after 100,000 bags go by contain various bits of metal, is this going to look obviously gun?
In the fictional world, when we are shown a gun, we are shown in such a way that we can easily recognize it. A TV or movie wouldn't deliberately try to hide from us that a gun is on screen when it's key to the plot
According to the TSA, the rate of finding guns is 10 per million passenger screenings. With billions of passengers, this of course means thousands of guns get detected each year.
This is at a similar rate of traffic accidents. Each trip in the car has a 7 in a million chance of a traffic accident, so you have roughly the same chance of getting into an accident on the way to the airport has having a gun detected in your bags.
How is it possible to "accidentally" have a gun in your bag? Well, security guards, law enforcement officers, and military personnel often travel with guns. They are supposed to lock them in checked luggage, but may forget and put in carry-on luggage.
Flight from DC to Atlanta is finishing boarding and now CNN reports of a gun discharged at Atlanta airport which probably means spending hours on the tarmac.
I miss flying.
My flight to Atlanta from dc is taking off now, on time
Have landed. Our gate is occupied so we have to wait for the previous plane to depart. Pilot says 7 to 10mins.
This is probably the best example of "you can't argue with stupid". Lindell offered a reward to anybody who could prove his data isn't from the 2020 election, but that's like proving there are no space aliens. You can't prove a negative.
All we can show is that it's junk, with nothing tying Lindell's data to the 2020 election. It looks completely made up. It's not "proof" of anything.
I claim to have absolute proof, that's been verified by independent experts, that space aliens hacked the 2020 elections. I'll give $10 million to anybody who proves me wrong!!!
1/ I fully support the idea that people should question authority. I don't like how when people have questions about covid vaccines, they are told to shut up and comply with authority rather than getting answers.
So I'm going to attempt to answer this question:
2/ Yes, yes, it doesn't look like a reasonable question (not even a ? question-mark). It looks like combative statements and snark from a conspiracy theorist who has all the answers. Maybe. But this is also what real questions look like. Questioning authority means debate.
3/ The statements it makes are false. The 'myocarditis' effect is rare, around 1 in a million. It's just that with millions of doses being given, exceedingly rare events become measurable.
"Sidejacking" was a variant of cookie hijacking, grabbing them by sniffing the network instead of by tricks within a webpage. Back then, websites would protect your login with SSL, but the rest of the session would not use SSL, and cookies would be sent in the clear.
It meant I could walk by any Starbucks with public WiFi and instantly access their Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or other webmail sessions. Or any active website connection, really.
Also, worked well with corporate WEP encrypted networks before WPA2.