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  Take money out of politics and all this absurdist theater goes away.
context: Poor thing. That Lake done dried up. >
  
  Another poster referred to her as Lake Inferior. LOL >
  
  Brilliant! >
  
  I actually watched the whole two day thing.  At no point did they even come close to providing anything close to evidence to the actual claims they were charged with proving.  Their main argument was the whole 19" ballot on 20" paper thing which had a very plausible explanation, a printer setting, which in the end didn't matter because the ballots were duplicated onto 20" paper and then tabulated.   There were some chain of custody issues raised that I think the state should work to better define and document, but again, even if they could prove the counts in between collection places and the place where they were counted were off, it doesnt even come close to proving intentional malfeasance with intent to change the outcome.  What was particularly fun was the Mike Pillow rep who was angry for no reason at all, who proved nothing, provided nothing, made a bunch of claims without evidence and just basically got all ripped on the stand for no reason whatsoever. >
  
  This is what really, truly pisses me off about all of this - it's all performative.  Some of the people bringing these suits are actually moderately-smart lawyers ... they know there is no basis to actually get a case all the way to trial, let alone actually win.  But that's not the goal.
  The goal is ... news clips that Fox pundits can run to emotionally pander to their audience and keep them in a perpetual state of outrage ("BOMBSHELL new lawsuit filed by Kari Lake, to topple the corrupt Arizona elections infrastructure!") ... donations ... all of it.  It's not about winning, it's about feeding the media machine.
  Thank god for "Rules of Evidence" and "Rules of Procedure" in actual courts of law ... because all this "court of public opinion" bullshit runs straight into a brick wall every single time.  Unfortunately, it still mostly meets its goal.
  The folks on the Opening Arguments podcast have a fun time ripping all of this stuff up, especially once sanctions start getting handed down ... which this judge seemed like he had to warn Lake and her team that they were dangerously close to receiving. >
  
  The judge said so and then in closing arguments the prosecution said they were following through with requesting sanctions. >
  
  Yeah, I haven't had a chance to go through the latest filings yet, but apparently this gem from the court was in there:
  "The Court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and convincing evidence..."
  LOL.  Reminds me of the "Kraken" lawsuit ... that was basically all just speculation and conjecture.
  It's stunning how many lawyers associated with Trump, the GOP, etc. have been sanctioned and/or disbarred. >
  
  Has anyone actually been disbarred though? In numbers that are consequential? Sanctions are just a cost of doing business but disbarment is damaging. >
  
  Ghouliani isn’t disbarred from DC yet
  Most attorneys and firms are avoiding Trump like the plague after seeing what has happened to every. Single. One. Previously (also not getting paid). He had to go to some no name firm (well for a supposed billionaire anyways) firm in west Florida to represent him. I’m not sure if that was the case by Latisha James (NY AG) or not, as there are so many of them at this point. I think it was though? Maybe not. He’s gonna have to resort to PDs at some point because of his bullshit. >
  
  The MAGA loons have moved on from “this is an extremely solid case that Kari will win, you’ll see” to “this corrupt Judge was bought off years ago / is part of the deep state.” 
  And then they’ll donate more money to Kari’s “appeal”, which is all she cares about now anyway - the fame and the cash. >
  
  I’ve been enjoying some of the comments on r/conservative >
  
  Wish I could. Everything I click on there redirects to a three month old post post complaining about the woke mob.
  That cause of their love of free speech making them mark everything as Flaired Users Only, or is the Reddit app weird? >
  
  You have to join to read anything.
  Unless you've been perma-banned.
  You can lurk and not post if you really want to wade around in that cesspool. >
  
  I like to laugh at them from time to time, but not enough to increase their numbers >
  
  Why is it so hard to believe that half of the voters in Arizona think she's a lunatic and would have voted for any candidate over her? >
  
  Because half the voters in AZ actually voted for her. >
  
  Just under half.....or she wouldn't be so mad. >
  
  It was always intended to lose. Just keep the lie repeated, that's all. >
  
  Lake is a clown. >
  
  That's offensive to clowns, who provide way more value to society. >
  
  She lost her mind a long time ago. >
  
  But she should win an award for being the most vile, hate filled, raging sore loser yet! >
  
  From Kari Lake to Laguna Seca. >
  
  Nice. >
  
  The pillow fucker sure loves spending his money on stupid shit. >
  
  My Trump supporting mother even said his pillows are shitty. >
  
  I think it's funny he made a business selling pillows that are what crackheads make because they don't have real pillows. >
  
  There needs to be punishment for this bullshit. You can’t constantly undermine legitimate systems with no evidence. They should forfeit any money they raised campaigning and see jail time. There have got to be limits >
  
  100% agree! >
  
  Lake Lawyers "Argued" their case. Arguing requires no "Factual Evidence". But, a Court of Law requires a "Factual Debating". Hearsay is not admissible! >
  
  Hearsay is admissible, 90% of the first day was objections to hearsay by the defense and the judge letting them continue. It's just not nearly enough to disenfranchise half the state. >
  
  How is this even news, I mean how can anyone seriously think that this judge is going to go like "oh, ok, Imma abolish democracy in the US on account of some technical problems with some machines even though those problems didn't prevent folks from voting". Oh, also, I love how the trump supporters are whining about having had to stay in line to vote for hours, they sure didn't give a shit about that happening in red States and hurting dem turnout until it finally affected them as well, selfish twats. >
  
  Will she ever accept defeat? >
  
  Not while there’s a dollar to be made telling her dumb followers it was rigged. >
  
  Mike Lindell, god-tier America hating douche actually said with a straight face a couple days ago “every election denier in the 2022 election, every single one that lost, actually won their election”. 
  That statement is so patently, viciously stupid and vacuous you really have to wonder why people still listen to a word he says. >
  
  Another GOP Fraudster goes down like Trump.  These liars just won't stop lying. >
  
  We actually scored two wins! This is from yesterday:
  
  A judge has thrown out Republican Abraham Hamadeh’s challenge of election results in his race against Democrat Kris Mayes for Arizona attorney general, concluding that Hamadeh didn’t prove the errors in vote counting that he had alleged.
  
  Arizona Republican loses lawsuit over attorney general race >
  
  Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. >
  
  Oh no... anyway >
  
  Merry Christmas Arizona. >
  
  Lolol, my grandmother just took this news poorly >
  
  So mad over losing once that she went and lost all over again 😂 >
  
  The fascist Team MAGA can't stop loosing lmaooo >
  
  I am convinced her pointy finger is stuck like that after she’s used it so many times being a Karen >
  
  Good. >
  
  “just declare me the winner“ sounds a lot like “just find me 12,000 votes!” >
  
  There’s normal losers…
  And then there’s GOP losers.
  It’s like a normal user on crack.