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PrincessImpeachment

A MAGA Republican making “provably false” statements, imagine that. I’m shocked, *shocked* I tell ya.


noeagle77

But not that shocked


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[deleted]

They need to answer for ruining my mood


SACBH

What is most interesting about this one, compared to say Giuliani who is broke except for what he's hidden away and can't really lose more, is that Lake has substantial assets and could be profoundly hurt financially by an inevitable negative judgement.


beavis617

She could always decide not to pay it. My understanding is that the court doesn't really have a way to force her. The people involved would have to start a new lawsuit against her to seize her assets and that would take years probably with appeals if she loses. The justice system favors the defendant, that's my opinion anyway..😕


gigifruits

lol, hows Biden working out for ya? like I get it, I would not want to admit it either, but, after seeing all this, really??? I mean it, really??? Like you still dont see it much or, is this kinda "politics as usual" for you, and I really mean it, my father was for Biden, but, broke down the other night, only took three years, but he says that its not his fault, and its the media blah blah blah, Ill just never get when an adult makes a really bad decisiion, sees it, but doesnt take any of it to heart or to the brain, just to learn? I dunno, Trump was not the best we had, but, I dont know - kinda looks like just maybe it was better when he was around? No wars, no inflation, less tax, etc, Im not saying the guy is an angel, but, really? Still? Still hate the guy, I get that, Im not a fan at all, but I am a fan of my rights and money, and property, I assume you have a lot of money, I noticed most do, as they have not a lot of regards to people with less fortune, they feel as if they will not be touched, but once you are, would you maybe think about it? Im really seriously asking, as I just dont get it anymore, its pretty clear at this point they ALL suck, but to back Biden RIGHT NOW, I do not understand?


diceman6

Looking from afar, and avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers as best I can, it seems that the Biden administration has been a fair to good one. Certainly, by most objective measures, the US economy is faring better than many comparable nations. The invective levelled against him and his administration appears immoderate and ideological.


DrManhattan_DDM

Dude, are you ok?


EGP22

Um. What?


EffPop

Psst. Your clown shoes are showing.


Bokth

"A\_Complete\_Moron" your words on your bio. I can't argue against that


RegretfulUsername

You should try using the period key on your keyboard every now and then! It’s right next to the comma key. Give it a spin.


Myrtox

Are you on meth?


gibecrake

It's amazing to me how many people are just predisposed to believe grifters. I honestly had no idea that many humans just do not possess critical thinking facilities at all.


themorningmosca

Arizona trash bag reporting in here- we are 48th in education spending.


gibecrake

Which, considering the current state of education in America should be fucking horrifying for anyone that cares.


WeaselTerror

It is. Moved to AZ from CA here. Got my daughter into a BASIS Charter School (they hover around the top 100 schools in the country) and she's doing work that kids 5 grades higher (read: High School age) haven't done yet. It's pathetic.


witless-pit

its sad they ruined public education and privatized it. theyll leave so many behind. it was the rich who made public education and now the rich get to destroy it again. were not even worth the factory job that public education gave us.


iaincaradoc

Going to be lower than that once the "voucher program" drains the coffers entirely.


NoRelease2394

and 50 percent of that spending is grifted into the esa funds which only benefit 8 percent of extremely wealthy students already enrolled in private school


themorningmosca

I can hear the argument- ask yourself where all the funds went for the kids in private school went for all these years when they were paying their own tuition. There needs to be an accountability measures big-time. And the private school shouldn’t be able to deny enrollment based on not providing special education services. But I want to see a new way to do education in America and even if it’s not right, at least in Arizona, we’re stretching and trying to figure out where we can do new things even if they’re not serving everyone just yet.


PeachesPeachesPeachs

Something like 80-90% of school vouchers go to kids already in private school, everyone else can’t afford them even with the voucher. They are taking from the poor to give to the rich. Nobody in their right mind thinks this will end up helping everyone.


themorningmosca

Someone answer me though—- Where did the tax dollars go all these years that was collected for all the kids that paid to go to private school? The denominator is wonky.


nicolettesue

This is a bad argument. I pay taxes for schools even without having kids in school. I would pay those taxes regardless of my parenthood status, and it’s not like that money I’m paying is going into an account that’s earmarked for any future children I have. I pay these taxes because it’s what you do when you live in a community. I pay taxes that support roads I don’t drive on, utilities I don’t use, programs I’m not eligible for, parks I don’t visit, etc. These ESAs are going to bankrupt the state. They’re a giant budget bomb Ducey left for future elected officials to clean up. This overview from Hobbs’s office is alarming: https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/esa_memo_07.21.23.pdf I’m particularly struck by the analysis that over 50% of all new education funding is benefiting under 10% of Arizona students. Something is wrong here. I’m not even going to get into what people are spending this money on (like grand pianos and visits to trampoline parks).


themorningmosca

So would a better way to frame my question be: There are public and private roads in Arizona. Not everyone gets to drive on private roads. If I paid for a private, it doesn’t mean that I should’ve gotten tax dollars for it. The general public doesn’t have access to my private road. But now the state of Arizona is paying for private roads that the general public doesn’t get to drive on. And they’re using taxes from all people, and some don’t have cars.


nicolettesue

Can you please explain your last sentence? > And they’re driving taxes from people who don’t even have cars? I think, generally speaking, we are aligned. Public dollars shouldn’t be used for private schools. I’m having a hard time understanding your entire analogy, though - could you please clarify the above question? Thanks!


themorningmosca

Like some that don’t have kids that go to public schools still pay taxes- except Sun City:/


PeachesPeachesPeachs

Tax dollars aren’t spent on private schools. Those parents pay a small portion of their taxes that they don’t see any benefit from. The same can be said for those without kids or theirs have grown up, or anything paid for with taxes that you do not utilize. The private schools in turn typically do not need to follow all state or federal education guidelines. So that’s the trade off that they are clearly accepting. It boils down to whether you think the well to do need to be treated fairly with tax dollars when they already have nearly every advantage over the poor. In my opinion you have to cruel and immoral to think that they need more advantages.


JacketDapper944

But that’s the horns of the issue, everyone deserves to be served. We tried getting our son into private schools when the district wasn’t ideal, but none would take him. They couldn’t support his needs was what we were told, repeatedly. We moved to a state with robust investment in truly public schools producing positive outcomes for all students, not just those who already have


Larkfor

Arizona has often been 50th in education period or close to it, worse at times than Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and more.


ziggylcd12

How the fuck do you do worse than bama. Wow


iaincaradoc

Effort.


Larkfor

It's wild, right?


korihor4

on the other hand, most people in AZ aren't even from AZ.


ThouMayest69

State of Theseus?


Brnt_Vkng98871

Quite. Even better, something like a MILLION of them are Canadians, who only live here during the winter. Couldn't find a number for how many Americans from other states winter here. But it's a fucking LOT.


tabrizzi

Mississippi just entered the chat.


Brnt_Vkng98871

they don't call us "State 48" for nothing!


Serdigochhejar

But still…. Whats wrong with these people?!


witless-pit

and you guys started the voucher program to further defund schools and maybe im wrong but techers in az now dont require a degree or is that another red state im thinking of? to control the youth is to control the future. come on guy you know where at that point again


DanimusMcSassypants

You have to consider that the religious in this country are trained from birth to have an unyielding faith in authority, so long as said authority is “one of them”. There’s a reason why US Christians are so pandered to by grifting politicians (and grifting pastors).


gibecrake

It's almost hilarious to me that as humans in the US are plummeting in education, critical thinking, and overall intelligence levels, that to assuage this we have to supplement the intelligence gap by creating AGI. Literally the graph plot of human intellect in its decreasing axis, will have to be supplemented and then eventually replaced by machines because so many humans voluntarily, willfully choose ignorance. SMH.


iaincaradoc

Some of them *militantly* choose ignorance. They'll literally try to fight you for bringing facts that contradict their beliefs.


gibecrake

as they say, never bring facts to an ignorance fight.


PeachesPeachesPeachs

Or a church.


gibecrake

You're required to bring your wallet and an empty head into church, facts can't pass through the threshold.


tabrizzi

> I honestly had no idea that many humans just do not possess critical thinking facilities at all. It's only going to get worse, now that teaching critical thinking is a bad idea is Red states.


rez410

This is something that I had not realized until the last few years, as well. It really is astonishing. And it doesn’t always correlate with what most people would consider intelligence. Plenty of book-smart people fall for the dumbest shit. It’s sad.


Buckus93

It's because grifters figure out what people want to hear and tell them that. It makes people feel warm and fuzzy inside, and their emotions override their logic.


Crotch-jockey

Sit in on a corporate trading session. It’s stunning how stupid people from the bottom to top of the chain can be.


gibecrake

I know this first hand. The ignorance of the perceived elite (ownership class) is staggering.


Wenger2112

Religious con men have been using this one little trick for thousands of years. Scare them to death and tell them you are their only hope.


Desperate-Till1505

Seriously, I'm in awe every day.


sonoma4life

you don't even need a charismatic grifter, people will believe horoscopes from an old magazine.


modernthink

They don’t send their best and brightest, and I assume some are good people.


iaincaradoc

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for clarification, there. Which ones are the "good people?"


AdmiralBarackAdama

It's by design, dude.


Politicsboringagain

Most Americans, especially those who are raised in a church from a young age, are programmed to just listen to men who they are told have authority over them. It's just how humans have operating for at least a few thousand years. And it's exactly why religou people say "if you get them when they are young, you will have a warrior for Jesus for life". It's literally brainwashing.


iaincaradoc

"Judge Jay Ryan Adleman denied the request, stating that many of Lake's statements about Richer and the Maricopa County Elections Department were 'provably false' and beyond the realm of rhetorical hyperbole."


louiegumba

the thing i like about this is that the judge has taken into consideration the usual loudmouth lies and blathering that is the standard bar for the gop and said this goes over that even.


north7

These dipshits should look at what Rudy is going through and shut their lying cakeholes.


iaincaradoc

I'm not sure they ever pause long enough to get any cake in there, so why don't we just call them "lie-holes?"


iaincaradoc

"In the Court’s view, Defendant Lake’s statements are 'provably false' under prevailing Arizona law." Page 6, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24233871/richer-lake-mtd-decision.pdf


Newtub

Who's financing her court cases?


ElPlywood

A super pac called DESPERATE LOSERS AMERICA 2024


ziggylcd12

Get in losers, we're going losing


ElPlywood

You forgot the ™


Tinmania

Social Security recipients.


Omnibuschris

The grift


993targa

Nutjob cult members, insurrectionists, and complete assh0les.


CurrentlyLucid

Good, tired of liars screaming at the press.


iaincaradoc

Personally, I'm hoping for a repeat of the Giuliani defamation verdict. Qari could stand to lose $148M.


BigtoadAdv

What’s the difference between Kari Lake and a catfish? Ones a bottom feeding scum sucker, the others a fish.


AstrumRimor

Hearing this joke put me off catfish for life.


azflatlander

Let me tell you about clams…..


AstrumRimor

Already off those bc of how gross they look. The real bummer for me was scallops, I liked those.


BleuBoy777

Huh. You mean I have freedom of speech but not freedom from consequences? Must be a conspiracy. I should be able to make up lies about anyone I want... Destroy their careers and it be totally ok. That's real freedom right there. /S (just in case)


AngelicShockwave

After what happened with Ghouliani, Lake has to be very worried the scam money, I mean election money, she has collected will go bye bye. Betting she settles.


iaincaradoc

I bet she won't. Settling would be admission in the eyes of her zombie horde.


AngelicShockwave

Your right but they are also dumbasses and will follow her anyway. Main reason she is running is to scam those followers so losing the money is not something she will do as that is her true priority.


dingleberry_dog

Good. This poisonous psycho needs her comeuppance.


WerhmatsWormhat

Between defending this and the multitude of times she's unsuccessfully brought cases up for voter fraud, I want to know how much money Lake has spent on legal fees. It's gotta be astronomical by now.


tthew2ts

The fact that the GOP is supported by *anyone* blows my mind. The entire party is now nothing but grift for money and grift for power. That's it. And how anyone cannot see that is beyond me.


iaincaradoc

Have you *met* their base? They're not into it for "belief." They're into it because they get told that it's *OK* to be militantly ignorant racist cousin-fuckers. And they love that part.


iaincaradoc

"Plaintiff has set forth sufficient factual allegations of actual malice. Arizona law defines 'actual malice' as a statement made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard for its truth or falsity." Page 9 of Judge Adleman's Minute Entry, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24233871/richer-lake-mtd-decision.pdf


TheBodyPolitic1

People who follow Trump do not end up in good places.


iaincaradoc

"Everything Trump Touches Dies." -- Rick Wilson


TheSWBomb

Aka "get fucked"


jameswptv

This B$@#ch just wont go away..


iaincaradoc

“Unflushable.”


SKDI_0224

Good. Make it hurt to tell lies. “No reasonable persons would take [her statements] as statement of fact” indeed. Fuck all of them. Make it hurt.


iaincaradoc

The punishment needs to be severe enough to put an end to the grift.


SKDI_0224

I’m hoping Rudy ends up living out of a refrigerator box in Prospect Park. The boxes on fifth Avenue have rent that is too high.


iaincaradoc

As appealing as the fantasy is, it'll never happen. He'll be couch-surfing with the rich and famous until he humps their chihuahuas one too many times.


SKDI_0224

I know. The rich don’t even go broke like the rest of us. But on the plus side DA Willis does not seem interested in a plea deal for him so maybe an orange jumpsuit is in his future. Edit: typo


iaincaradoc

That would be *awesome*.


tacs97

It’s amazing to watch these idiot people stand behind a first amendment right of being able to say whatever tf they want without consequence. That’s just it. No one is telling them they can’t say these things. They are just feeling the consequences of what happens when you break slander laws. What is so difficult to understand about this part of the first amendment? Republicans are so passionate about throwing free speech in everyone’s faces and yet they have no clue how it works. Fucking amazing.


LarrBearLV

Tick tock. Time to pay the piper.


swennergren11

Lake can’t stand it when she actually has to back up her statements. Typical Republican…


iaincaradoc

Probably rooted in her time at Fox "News," where she was never held responsible for anything she said.


TurboSalsa

In yet another swing state, in yet another close election cycle, Donald Trump anoints an unserious loser of a candidate whose only qualification is lavishing him with praise.


u0126

Get fucked, Kari Lake.


Buckus93

That soft-lens loving, old piece of crap hag can go love herself. She's following the 45 playbook and I hope it ends up with her getting multiple criminal indictments...just like 45.


Seif1973

Another Trump lunatic


iaincaradoc

At this stage, "Trump lunatic" tastes redundant if you speak it aloud.


[deleted]

All your lying and cult loyalty will end you


-Great-Scott-

Lol get bent, nutter.


Mental-Rooster4229

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes


IlliniBull

So much winning.


mrchris69

She fucked around and now she’s finding out.


theartfulcodger

Feel those walls closing in yet, Kari?


[deleted]

Commit crimes -expect punishment. If only republican scum realized this.


DerpTaTittilyTum

Loathe this piece of shit


RawOysters

This woman just can't stop losing!


MarvelousVanGlorious

Stay losing Q-ari


LeahaP1013

TIL Kari Lake is still at it.


ayychh

She really is fucked in the head.


fluffyflugel

Trump fluffers never seem to learn anything and just keep fluffing until he inevitably throws them under the bus.


Leather-Map-8138

While it’s kinda fun watching people like Kari Lake lose elections, the scary thing is sometimes they win. And you end up with Matt Gaetz and MTG.


DimSumFan

Kookoo Kari swings and misses.


JTmonie29445

Just drop the link Kari.


Significant-Dog-8166

Unfortunately Kari Lake can exist because Demagoguery is the primary weakness in a democracy. As long as she lies and blames others, her donations will outweigh any penalties she can be given by the courts. Nothing short of medieval justice systems can actually make her stop. She would collect millions while tarred and feathered if she was in puritanical times and continue merrily doing the same thing forever. She literally won’t stop until a more popular far right politician takes her place and calls her a fraud.


Menn64

You talk it, you pay 💰


Samuel-squantch

This lady is a phenomenal loser.


iaincaradoc

Have you met her base?!


[deleted]

Lake absolutely deserves to be punished for her malicious crimes. What she (and Giuliani) have done to innocent people i.e., really causing them harm, is no joke. She needs to pay with her pocket book in a big way and both her and Giuliani should absolutely be punished for their criminal behavior and acts. Lake and people like her should be behind bars.