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  Now she has to speak to the lawsuit manager
context: “The Court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and convincing evidence,” Thompson said.
  
  That's what we like to hear. >
  
  The court should censure her lawyers for even bringing the case without any actual evidence of wrongdoing. >
  
  A lawyer is required to investigate a case BEFORE filing it to ensure that there is a reasonable basis to bring suit. If the filing is found to be frivolous then the lawyer can be sanctioned (like Trump’s lawyers were). >
  
  
  Only if the state has anti SLAPP suit laws.
  
  Nope, not true. Attorneys have a duty to not file frivolous lawsuits just like /u/GotYourNose_ said. Anti-SLAPP laws let you move to dismiss a lawsuit without getting into discovery under certain circumstances. They're separate rules >
  
  Weird how the "everyone gets a participation trophy these days"/"facts don't care about your feelings" crowd are the sorest losers of them all. >
  
  "Facts don't care about your feelings."  The pronoun is not first-person. >
  
  whoa whoa whoa, ain't nobody using no pronouns around here >
  
  “They’re bringing pronouns into our military, they’re bringing woke-ness into our military—I don’t even know what the heck is a pronoun. I can tell you that I’m sick and tired of this pronoun stuff. What I want our military men and women to do is to be at war fighting.”
  --Herschel Walker >
  
  It's sad that I can't tell if this is real or satire anymore. >
  
  Trust me, a full speech from him is horrifyingly real. >
  
  And yet 49% thought this numbnuts was worth holding office. >
  
  Exactly. Reflections on George Carlin aside, I want a serious discussion on why 49 percent of Georgia voters feel justified in putting an inarticulate, concussed token prop in charge of national legislation from their state.
  Or are these all of the voters whose idea of democracy doesn't extend anywhere beyond a football game--where my team rules and your team cheats? >
  
  
  I want a serious discussion on why 49 percent of Georgia voters feel justified in putting an inarticulate, concussed token prop in charge of national legislation from their state.
  
  And a discussion about why roughly 45% of GA voters did not, in fact, vote. >
  
  The 49% that voted for him is disgusting. 
  But the 45% that couldn't even be bothered to vote...that's just sad. I'd love to see a breakdown of those 45%. Demographics, income, etc. >
  
  Lmao all I saw a few days ago was "HAHAHAH KARI LAKE IS GOING TO COURT EAT SHIT LIBS" from the trump and conservative subs. I guess it's going to be crickets now.
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  EDIT: Lmao someone got mad and sent a reddit cares. My very first one, it's like I'm finally a big girl. >
  
  Copy the link to the Reddit cares message and report it, Reddit has started dropping 1-2 month bans on people who abuse it >
  
  Good such a weird way to be malicious >
  
  Their tiny brains can't concoct a cogent rebuttal to something that made them profoundly butthurt so they do the only other thing left to a coward - get somebody else to mildly inconvenience the person for them and then giggle with glee over their idiot master plan.
  Fucking smooth brain cowards. >
  
  How is it an inconvenience? Maybe I'm just easily amused, but every time I check a notification and realize I pissed off some right-wing nutjob, I get a giggle out of it. >
  
  I got one for using the gif reversal bot to reverse a gif of a woman pulling down her yoga pants on a NSFW sub, so it looked hilarious like she was fighting them. 
  I’m not really sure why I got one for that, but fair I guess. >
  
  That's so weird. I wonder if it had anything to do with the gif itself? What gif was it?? >
  
  What a shocker. Now make her pay court costs for this frivolous use of courts to get press attention. >
  
  It's time for her lawyers to be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous suit they didn't have the evidence to support. Sanctions! >
  
  Are sanctions resume builders? >
  
  Anyone else notice the one year old troll accounts regurgitating far right nonsense are absent in all the posts reporting this court ruling. >
  
  Thwy haven't received their orders yet, give it a few hours >
  
  They mostly come out at night. Mostly. >
  
  When I see this quote I always read it in the Cartman voice >
  
  In case some people aren't aware, this is originally from Aliens. I'm assuming most people know that, but you can never tell with any movie that came out before 1990. >
  
  r/FuckImOld >
  
  I was looking for some reason not to join my wife at the mall, so I decided to stay home and read the decision instead. Here are some key quotes:
  
  "... this Court’s duty is not solely to incline an ear to public outcry. It is to subject
   Plaintiff’s claims and Defendants’ actions to the light of the courtroom and scrutiny of the law."
  Lake argued that printer errors impacted the vote.  "Plaintiff’s own expert acknowledged that a ballot that was unable to be read at the vote center could be deposited by a voter, duplicated by a bipartisan board onto a readable ballot, and – in the final analysis – counted. Thus, Plaintiff’s expert on this point admitted that the voters who suffered from tabulator rejections would nevertheless have their votes counted. ... printer failures did not actually affect the results of the election."
  Lake argued that issues at polling sites caused voters to choose not to vote.  But Lake's own polling expert "admitted at Trial that 'nobody can give a specific number' of voters who were put off from voting on Election Day" because of long lines or printer or tabulator errors.  ... "No election in Arizona has ever been set aside, no result modified, because of a statistical estimate" ...  ".... election contests are decided by votes, not by polling responses."
  "Every one of [Lake's] witnesses – and for that matter, Defendants’ witnesses as well – was asked about any personal knowledge of both intentional misconduct and intentional misconduct directed to impact the 2022 General Election. Every single witness before the Court disclaimed any personal knowledge of such misconduct. The Court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and convincing evidence." >
  
  You did all this just to not go to the mall?  Just take noise cancelling headphones and chill out by a Wetzel pretzels.  You can people watch and still share the car ride home to talk about all things she found and wants to bring to your home, design ideas, new hats.....
  ....on second thought, maybe I'm the one who's doing it wrong? >
  
  
  Just take noise cancelling headphones and chill out by a Wetzel pretzels.
  
  Any reason you prefer the pretzel place?  I would have just said "near the food court" but you seem to be curiously laser-focused.
  Disclaimer: I've never had a Wetzel pretzel. >
  
  We can look at a variety of factors but the main selling point to me is:
  I'm a fat guy who likes jalapeno/cheese pretzel dogs dipped in nacho cheese.  It's what I know and love >
  
  So basically…you’re waiting for your people? >
  
  Was she seriously expecting to win, or just did it for the drama? It feels like a lot of MAGA politicians treat elections more like a reality show than a government. >
  
  Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy's lawyer during all the red scare stuff, was fond of saying "don't tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is".
  I assume these people know it's pretty futile but can hold on to some hope that they get a sympathetic judge. Sort of like how Trump seemed to hold on to hope that Pence and enough senators would give him the election despite the vote.
  It can get a bit tricky when people in power don't do what they are supposed to and just do whatever they want but that's the kind of chaos they are looking for. >
  
  Roy Cohn, not coincidentally, also went on to be a mentor to none other than Donald Trump and taught him all of his dirty tricks. History rhymes. >
  
  Bully. Coward. Victim. >
  
  Welp, the damage had been done. Get ready for another 200+ years of these sore loser dipshits filing lawsuits every time something doesn’t go their way. This is what happens when this type of trash is coddled, never told no, but constantly told they are the “best at everything ever…” >
  
  This is why they need to be held accountable financially and politically. >
  
  Financial liability to Lake, multi-year suspension of license (or straight disbarment) for the lawyers. Make this a big deal. Make sure that any lawyer considering filing such a lawsuit understands they are personally putting their livelihood on the line. >
  
  Qari Lake adds herself to the long list MAGA losers. >
  
  Look at how close this election was and imagine that she ran the campaign as a sane reasonable conservative. >
  
  So not a chance? Their supporters would call any reasonable republican a RINO >
  
  I'm new to Arizona, but am learning that there are two Conservative sects here. You have your "McCainians" and your "MAGAs". I'm not sure how most McCainians voted, but I'm sure a fair number voted for Lake. At least there's a lot of conservatives who appear to be shredding those blinders they put on the last couple election cycles. >
  
  'McCainians' are the ones turning the state purple. Yes, their 'but I can change him' in regards to the Republican Party is aggravating but they've been consistently against fraud theorists and it's showing in the results.
  It's the dead dog Republicans that are voting Lake. And there are sooooo many of them. >
  
  What is a "dead dog" republican? I haven't heard of that phrasing before. >
  
  Sorry. It's an old joke. If a dead dog was placed on the ballot for their party, the voter would still choose it rather than a perfectly fine candidate of the other party. >
  
  Thanks for the explanation. I know donkey, elephants, rino republicans, blue dog democrats and when I saw "dead dog". >
  
  This is going to be the new norm every single election isn’t it? All these greedy lunatics will not shut the fuck up >
  
  
  This is going to be the new norm every single election isn’t it?
  
  Honestly, I doubt it. It's not going away anytime soon, unfortunately, but it's not going to dominate electoral politics.
  If 2022 proved anything it's that the MAGA election denial, sore loser bullshit is not a winning strategy. Most of those candidates got their asses handed to them, and fortunately most of them were at least smart enough to accept their loss. Kari Lake is the outlier here, and... well, you can see how that's working out for her.
  I'm not going to blow sunshine up your ass and say MAGA is dead. But it sure doesn't appear to be on an upward trajectory. We've just got to stay strong and keep fighting back against these assholes. >
  
  Agreed.  It's overreach and doesn't seem sustainable.  Notice how people didn't attack the capital or anywhere else this election because the last batch is in jail, lawyers disbarred, nothing but losses.  
  I wish that we could make maga wear red hats the rest of their lives so we can remember who was who during all this - and they need to be put on survivor island every time they start getting "ideas" again. >
  
  “I’m gonna give you a little something you can’t take off”
  --  Aldo Raine >
  
  Love these people that lose, and then lose again in court. She should try 15 more times like the tangerine terror . >
  
  *62 times >
  
  There should be consequences to frivolous lawsuits. Donald Trump often uses this technique to tie up and financially harm people. The court should make these assholes pay for all court costs and make them pay for the victims legal fee's. >
  
  Is this the winning that the right was going to be bored with a few years ago? Seems an awful lot like losing and being mad about it to me. >
  
  
  “The Court cannot accept speculation or conjecture in place of clear and convincing evidence,” 
  
  This is the official party platform of the GOP in a single sentence. >
  
  So now she’s lost the same election twice, and she’s appealing the decision, so she will probably lose it at least three times. >
  
  If MAGA dipshits lose, the election was rigged/stolen/fraudulent. But if they won, totally legitimate and democrats are just mad they lost.
  Totally makes sense. >
  
  Trump WON in 2016 and was so fragile and insecure that he claimed massive voter fraud because he lost the popular vote. Imagine being President of the United States and it still not being enough. >
  
  If the election were truly rigged against trump...
  He never would have won 2016 from the start.
  The "deep state" never would have let it happen so that he could "go on and fight them" once in office.
  This has been nothing but lies and projection this whole time. >
  
  I really hope these sort of failures bring an end to the Trump-inspired 'election fraud' narratives, but the people who believe them really aren't the type to let go of anything, even when confronted with facts. >
  
  They’re also quietly filling up local offices and positions so the deck is getting stacked from the bottom up. I’ve got a bad feeling about 2024. >
  
  Let's see how many of them actually want to spend money on expensive lawyers when the lawsuits start flying. And they will. >
  
  You’re missing the key point of the prior poster. They’re getting themselves into positions where they can meddle with the results. >
  
  Yeah I'm sure there's a sizable contingent of ~~insurrectionists~~ MAGA voters that viewed 2020 as a scrimmage and 2024 as the first game of the season.
  That said my hope is that the wealthy politically backed sect of MAGA break from the lower section that wants a violent revolution instead of a political one. >
  
  I hate it that Qanons have ruined the letter Q. I used to love the letter Q. >
  
  One of the best Star Trek characters >
  
  And don't forget Bond's gadget man. I love Q >
  
  Amazing how one of the most vocal people in the party known for trying to make voting harder and more inconvenient in certain places is upset that voting was slightly inconvenienced when they lost. >
  
  Is it safe to say all the asshole sore losers I had take Gym class with back in high school are probably MAGA? >
  
  I think a lot of them are the ones who were like, "haha what a nerd, reading is for dorks" >
  
  It’s the kids that were both bad at coursework and gym class. >
  
  A lot of the MAGAs must have flunked PE or gym class as a sizable proportion of them are quite out of shape. On the other hand, there's a fair-sized group of ones who look 'roided up', both male and female -- case-in-point Marjorie Taylor Greene who owned or worked out at a CrossFit gym. >
  
  It's kind of surprising how much crossover there is in the extreme fitness category with qnuts.  Start looking at weightlifting videos and sooner rather than later you'll start seeing qnut suggestions. >
  
  Merry Christmas everyone. >
  
  Next stop: Dancing with the Stars >
  
  Hahahahahaha. Let me reiterate, hahahahahaha! >
  
  Jesus Christ grown men and women crying and whining like spoiled children because they didn’t get what they wanted. The state of American politics is as disgusting as it has ever been and my god is that saying something. >
  
  Gave her more than a fair chance, now stfu, Kari.
  (I know she won’t) >
  
  Oh how I wish she’d go away >
  
  She had ambitions. I think she was expecting to parlay her win into a VP candidacy under Trump. Like Trump, she’s an idiot who has a talent for playing the media. Like Trump, she only listens to people who say what she wants to hear.
  If Trump wins in ’24 she’d be the frontrunner for ’28. Now it’s all she has and the crazier she gets the more Trump will like her. >
  
  She knew she was going to lose. The whole point is to sow distrust of the entire system. It’s the slow erosion of our democracy. They will continue to contest these elections and then claim that everything is rigged. >
  
  I'm going to guess that she raised more money to fight the result than it actually cost to fight the result. I'm also going to guess that there was a handy clause on the donation documents that allows her to personally access any excess money after the case is lost, just like tRump did. >
  
  She will head back to Mar Lago now I suppose >
  
  Any politician who sues over results and loses that suit, should be automatically disqualified to run for any office ever again. >
  
  I love that so many of these frivolous election fraud cases are getting thrown out by republican appointed judges. Makes it that much sweeter. >
  
  It's funny because they can't imagine ever losing. In their mind if they lose its rigged, if they win its fair.
  They can't even think that people who think differently than them vote too >
  
  They know.
  They just lie.
  They are conservatives, after all. >
  
  Next step is for her to sell NFTs of herself as Wonder Woman.  This is the way >
  
  Hopefully she has to pay for all the costs related to these ridiculous & frivolous lawsuits.
  When will these douchebag losers learn? >
  
  Obviously she lost. Zero actual evidence, as usual.
  Related, I looked up the Arizona death toll from COVID:
  29,852
  Katie Hobbs’ (D) margin of victory over Kari Lake (R):
  17,117
  Good call by the Republicans to “own the libs” by avoiding vaccines and wearing masks! Those libs nearly swept the state-wide elections, most by narrow margins. Thank you Republicans!
  It’s really just Darwin at work, cleaning up the gene pool. Being a damn fool turns out to be a losing evolutionary adaptation. >
  
  They need to be sanctioned for frivolous lawsuits, and heavily fined or everytime one loses lawsuit to tie up courts >
  
  Her attorneys in the Federal suit that was dismissed in late August were sanctioned, to the extent that they have to pay the defendants legal fees, earlier this month.
  It's possible that similar sanctions will be requested and obtained against the attorneys in this Maricopa County case.
  But disappointingly, the plaintiffs themselves have not been ordered to pay those costs.   Their attorneys can ask them to.
  The amounts are often only a few hundred thousand dollars, easily soaked up by grifting and PAC donations. >
  
  Not enough to deter this from happening over and over again, if sanctions and penalties were significantly devastating you would not see this happening this often