And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen — Isaiah 65:15
An amusing story from the Guardian:
A Seattle emergency preparedness expert has become the go-to guy for fans trying to reach Trump through Mike Lindell
Yes, Professor Michael J. (not K) Lindell, a semi-retired expert on emergency preparedness, has found his inbox swamped by enthusiastic MAGoids looking to reach the felonious former president through his pal, a noted foam recycler with a similar name.
Professor Lindell seems to be a rather verbally careful fellow so his discussion of sharing a name with such a disreputable public person is muted, though he gives a hint of his deeper feelings on the subject.
Lindell the professor first felt a bit embarrassed when a man with his same name burst on to the national scene. For years, the professor’s name popped up first on Google, having spent his professional career researching and teaching on emergency preparedness. Now, he falls below the other Mike Lindell. (This reporter found his listing by accident recently, while looking up what the pillow guy was doing on hand counts.)
There’s a feeling, he said, of the “name being contaminated”, though he’s never suffered any personal consequences – beyond the instances of mistaken identity – since he’s long been established in his career.
“It’s sort of like the idea of picking up a slug, that kind of sense of revulsion was my immediate reaction,” the professor said.
Truthfully, I’m disappointed in the professor’s diplomacy, thinking back to all the fun Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko used to have with callers who refused to believe they called his office and not AT&T’s customer service line, telling irate phone company customers that the company no longer serviced phones or saying insulting things about a caller’s apparent ethnicity.
Just think of the mischief one could cook up with muddled MAGAs calling day after day with their advice/scams/blubbering devotion for tfg.
Sadly, Professor Lindell is a better man than I. Or Mike Royko.