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Kari Lake Campaign Says She Wouldn't Be Trump's VP For The Most Absurd Reason
“We’re flattered, but unfortunately our legal team says the Constitution won’t allow for her to serve as Governor and VP at the same time,” the election-denying Republican’s campaign tweeted over the weekend.
She isn't letting that little detail of NOT actually being a Governor get in her way.
Former RNC Spokesperson Calls Out Kari Lake's Election Lies To Her Face
The Bulwark's Tim Miller told the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate why she really lost.
“But don’t you think you really lost the election because you didn’t reach out to the McCain voters?” Miller asked, noting that Lake had told supporters of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to “get the hell out” during a campaign rally last year.
“And you campaigned hard MAGA,” he added.
Lake’s response? “That’s fake news.”
“You weren’t appealing to my people,” Miller added. “You weren’t appealing to moderate Republicans. Maybe you would’ve won if you’d done that.”
Lake claimed that she “brought the establishment together” but “unfortunately, a few of them didn’t come over and they rigged the election.” She wrapped up the interview by telling Miller he dressed “like a 13-year-old.”
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
She's gone for the full TFG playbook - right down to the playground level insults.
I wonder how much grift she still has coming in?
I wonder how much grift she still has coming in?
She's the latest in a long line of Arizona grifters.
Reality deniers like Kari Lake fit right in with Arizona’s history of wishful thinking
Kari Lake isn’t giving up. Even as she prepares to mount a campaign for U.S. senator, and more than two months after her opponent was sworn in as Arizona’s governor, she insists that she won the governor’s race and that the election was stolen.
Election denial has become one of the pillars of the modern GOP — but the desert soil of Arizona soaks up such hallucinatory claims like rain, at least partly because of the state’s unique history. Through most of the last century and a half, Arizona has been a geography of personal reinvention, ambitious schemes and glowing hype that exceeded nature’s limits. The name itself is derived from a 1736 silver rush in a valley near a ranch called “Arizona” that flamed out just weeks after it began. Lake’s false crusade has already lasted longer.
What’s in the water in Arizona that inspires such obvious flimflammery?
Well, for starters, what water? A make-believe approach toward hydrology has characterized Arizona’s modern development. A state with an average annual rainfall of just 12 inches grows tens of thousands of acres of high-moisture cotton and supports more than 370 golf courses, in addition to 2.6 million households. Its allotment from the Colorado River was based on wildly optimistic flow projections a century ago. By the 1960s, the state had to build a 330-mile canal to push water uphill, away from its great rival California. A lengthy drought and falling levels in Lake Powell, the country’s second-biggest reservoir, are now throwing future real estate ventures and population growth into doubt.
Fecklessness with limited water is practically written into Arizona’s DNA. In 1912, federal money put what was then the world’s biggest dam on the Salt River, and the farmer-aristocrats in the new state legislature thought so much of it they put its image on the official state seal.
But their exuberance over the new Eden in the desert — they thought the land hid mammoth springs beneath its surface — was overblown. “Underground waters were believed to be virtually inexhaustible,” said a 1949 Bureau of Reclamation report, published after most of Arizona’s surface water had been exhausted. “People held firm to the concept of vast underground rivers pouring endlessly to the sea and proceeded to develop more land.”
Land didn’t even need to be improved much to be a hot commodity in the state’s thunderdome of wishful thinking. During the 1960s, shady real estate brokers treated Arizona like a dry Florida with cactus, with homesites of worthless scrub sold to buyers through the mail via glitzy magazine advertisements, sight unseen. Dupes were horrified when they showed up in person to see barren lots, in the middle of nowhere, without utilities.
Big land hustles like Golden Valley, Prescott Valley and Rio Rico — stretches of wasteland that a previous generation of ranchers had valued at just pennies on the acre — gave the state a dirty reputation nationwide. But gullible buyers always played a key role in settling Arizona. One famous scoundrel, James Reavis, “The Baron of Arizona,” managed in the 1880s to convince hundreds of landowners between Phoenix and Silver City, N.M., to pay him quitclaim fees on land he didn’t own. He told them he was heir to a huge 18th century land grant from Charles III of Spain. Never mind that the supposed grant was written on paper bearing the watermark of a Wisconsin mill. Reavis made a fortune.
Nineteenth-century promoters touted dozens of Arizona mining settlements as the next Chicago or Pittsburgh. John Clum, the founding editor of the state’s oldest continuously published newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph, described that gang-infested town as “a city set upon a hill, promising to vie with ancient Rome, in a fame different in character but no less in importance.”
Arizonans see what they choose to see. Before he went to federal prison in 1992, savings and loan king Charles Keating built a gilded luxury resort here called the Phoenician, with money filched from the savings of thousands of small depositors. During the 1964 presidential race, Sen. Barry Goldwater suggested he would defoliate the tree cover over the Ho Chi Minh Trail with nuclear weapons — and for good measure, he would “lob one into the men’s room at the Kremlin” too. It helped cost him the general election, but Arizonans loved it.
A lack of rootedness doesn’t help defend against outlandish fantasies. Nearly 60% of Arizona’s current residents weren’t born here. The real estate economy functions like a Ponzi scheme in that sense, requiring a constant stream of buyers from elsewhere to justify the endless expansion of stucco roofs to the desert horizons. This is still the fastest-growing state in the West, with a 1.3% population uptick since 2021.
Part of the Arizona Dream is that you can move here with no family connections and no history and fit right in — even be elected to high office. People migrate here for a second chance and a fresh start in the land of wide-open skies and new opportunities.
Without question, those exist, as does the knowledge, pragmatism, natural beauty and neighborly character that gives Arizona enduring appeal. But charlatans still hide in the sunshine. Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics surveyed reporters in 2014 and named Arizona the most corrupt state in the country.
Some might see a change in Arizona’s psyche, with its leftward tilt, electing a Democratic governor, throwing its electoral votes to Joe Biden, and shifting the political gravity away from clowns like Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But the Legislature remains in the hands of those who yelled “election fraud,” while their donors keep writing checks. Those wishing for a clean fade from red to blue are also chasing rainbows.
Reality deniers like Kari Lake fit right in with Arizona’s history of wishful thinking
Kari Lake isn’t giving up. Even as she prepares to mount a campaign for U.S. senator, and more than two months after her opponent was sworn in as Arizona’s governor, she insists that she won the governor’s race and that the election was stolen.
Election denial has become one of the pillars of the modern GOP — but the desert soil of Arizona soaks up such hallucinatory claims like rain, at least partly because of the state’s unique history. Through most of the last century and a half, Arizona has been a geography of personal reinvention, ambitious schemes and glowing hype that exceeded nature’s limits. The name itself is derived from a 1736 silver rush in a valley near a ranch called “Arizona” that flamed out just weeks after it began. Lake’s false crusade has already lasted longer.
What’s in the water in Arizona that inspires such obvious flimflammery?
Well, for starters, what water? A make-believe approach toward hydrology has characterized Arizona’s modern development. A state with an average annual rainfall of just 12 inches grows tens of thousands of acres of high-moisture cotton and supports more than 370 golf courses, in addition to 2.6 million households. Its allotment from the Colorado River was based on wildly optimistic flow projections a century ago. By the 1960s, the state had to build a 330-mile canal to push water uphill, away from its great rival California. A lengthy drought and falling levels in Lake Powell, the country’s second-biggest reservoir, are now throwing future real estate ventures and population growth into doubt.
Fecklessness with limited water is practically written into Arizona’s DNA. In 1912, federal money put what was then the world’s biggest dam on the Salt River, and the farmer-aristocrats in the new state legislature thought so much of it they put its image on the official state seal.
But their exuberance over the new Eden in the desert — they thought the land hid mammoth springs beneath its surface — was overblown. “Underground waters were believed to be virtually inexhaustible,” said a 1949 Bureau of Reclamation report, published after most of Arizona’s surface water had been exhausted. “People held firm to the concept of vast underground rivers pouring endlessly to the sea and proceeded to develop more land.”
Land didn’t even need to be improved much to be a hot commodity in the state’s thunderdome of wishful thinking. During the 1960s, shady real estate brokers treated Arizona like a dry Florida with cactus, with homesites of worthless scrub sold to buyers through the mail via glitzy magazine advertisements, sight unseen. Dupes were horrified when they showed up in person to see barren lots, in the middle of nowhere, without utilities.
Big land hustles like Golden Valley, Prescott Valley and Rio Rico — stretches of wasteland that a previous generation of ranchers had valued at just pennies on the acre — gave the state a dirty reputation nationwide. But gullible buyers always played a key role in settling Arizona. One famous scoundrel, James Reavis, “The Baron of Arizona,” managed in the 1880s to convince hundreds of landowners between Phoenix and Silver City, N.M., to pay him quitclaim fees on land he didn’t own. He told them he was heir to a huge 18th century land grant from Charles III of Spain. Never mind that the supposed grant was written on paper bearing the watermark of a Wisconsin mill. Reavis made a fortune.
Nineteenth-century promoters touted dozens of Arizona mining settlements as the next Chicago or Pittsburgh. John Clum, the founding editor of the state’s oldest continuously published newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph, described that gang-infested town as “a city set upon a hill, promising to vie with ancient Rome, in a fame different in character but no less in importance.”
Arizonans see what they choose to see. Before he went to federal prison in 1992, savings and loan king Charles Keating built a gilded luxury resort here called the Phoenician, with money filched from the savings of thousands of small depositors. During the 1964 presidential race, Sen. Barry Goldwater suggested he would defoliate the tree cover over the Ho Chi Minh Trail with nuclear weapons — and for good measure, he would “lob one into the men’s room at the Kremlin” too. It helped cost him the general election, but Arizonans loved it.
A lack of rootedness doesn’t help defend against outlandish fantasies. Nearly 60% of Arizona’s current residents weren’t born here. The real estate economy functions like a Ponzi scheme in that sense, requiring a constant stream of buyers from elsewhere to justify the endless expansion of stucco roofs to the desert horizons. This is still the fastest-growing state in the West, with a 1.3% population uptick since 2021.
Part of the Arizona Dream is that you can move here with no family connections and no history and fit right in — even be elected to high office. People migrate here for a second chance and a fresh start in the land of wide-open skies and new opportunities.
Without question, those exist, as does the knowledge, pragmatism, natural beauty and neighborly character that gives Arizona enduring appeal. But charlatans still hide in the sunshine. Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics surveyed reporters in 2014 and named Arizona the most corrupt state in the country.
Some might see a change in Arizona’s psyche, with its leftward tilt, electing a Democratic governor, throwing its electoral votes to Joe Biden, and shifting the political gravity away from clowns like Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But the Legislature remains in the hands of those who yelled “election fraud,” while their donors keep writing checks. Those wishing for a clean fade from red to blue are also chasing rainbows.
Kari Lake still expects God (and the state Supreme Court) to make her governor
It seems more likely that her prayers already have been answered. Just not with the reply she’d hoped to receive.
www.azcentral.com
Failed Republican political candidate and former TV news reader Kari Lake wants – perhaps even expects – the Good Lord to do what the voters of Arizona would not do: Make her governor.
The latest prank in Lake’s ongoing Christian nationalist post-election publicity tour is what she described as a “prayer event” at a Mesa church Tuesday where, in a tweet, Lake said it was time to “pray together for the Supreme Court & praise God with great expectations!”
Mike G
Super Anarchist
6 rejected, 1 sent back to a lower court.
SO much winning.
SO much winning.
Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake's election challenge
Lake asked the high court to consider her case after a Maricopa County judge and appeals court rejected claims that she was the rightful governor. The court said a county judge must review her signat…
www.azcentral.com
Bus Driver
Bacon Quality Control Specialist
She has a long way to go before she matches the "zero and whatever" record of the defeated ex-President.6 rejected, 1 sent back to a lower court.
SO much winning.
Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake's election challenge
Lake asked the high court to consider her case after a Maricopa County judge and appeals court rejected claims that she was the rightful governor. The court said a county judge must review her signat…www.azcentral.com
(The Borowitz Report)—Adding to the chorus of Republicans criticizing Donald J. Trump’s indictment, Kari Lake said that she was “absolutely livid” that she has not been charged.
“The fact that Alvin Bragg and his grand jury spent months digging up charges against Mr. Trump but couldn’t find one measly thing to indict me for just confirms the American people’s suspicions that the system is rigged against Kari Lake,” she told reporters.
“If this cabal of Manhattan élites think that they’re going to get away with not indicting me, they are gravely mistaken,” she said. “I will be their worst nightmare.”
The former anchorwoman was vague about what she called the “conspiracy” not to indict her but said, “I think it can be summed up in two words: George Soros.”
“The fact that Alvin Bragg and his grand jury spent months digging up charges against Mr. Trump but couldn’t find one measly thing to indict me for just confirms the American people’s suspicions that the system is rigged against Kari Lake,” she told reporters.
“If this cabal of Manhattan élites think that they’re going to get away with not indicting me, they are gravely mistaken,” she said. “I will be their worst nightmare.”
The former anchorwoman was vague about what she called the “conspiracy” not to indict her but said, “I think it can be summed up in two words: George Soros.”
She doesn't expect violence to decrease or lower teenage pregnancy rates or simple things like world peace. She wants the whole shebang. As in god and you and your money should focus on her.Kari Lake still expects God (and the state Supreme Court) to make her governor
It seems more likely that her prayers already have been answered. Just not with the reply she’d hoped to receive.www.azcentral.com
Failed Republican political candidate and former TV news reader Kari Lake wants – perhaps even expects – the Good Lord to do what the voters of Arizona would not do: Make her governor.
The latest prank in Lake’s ongoing Christian nationalist post-election publicity tour is what she described as a “prayer event” at a Mesa church Tuesday where, in a tweet, Lake said it was time to “pray together for the Supreme Court & praise God with great expectations!”
Bullshitter loses more money…
Kari Lake's attorney fined for repeated 'unequivocally false' claims in Arizona election challenge
Attorneys for Gov. Hobbs and Secretary of State Fontes sought sanctions against Lake for bringing what they called a frivolous and unfounded lawsuit
www.azcentral.com
Liquid
NFLTG
Isn't she already the Gov of AZ?
How can she not be TFG's VP!!
How can she not be TFG's VP!!
Virgulino Ferreira
Super Anarchist
Blue Crab
benthivore
a one note samba:
Bus Driver
Bacon Quality Control Specialist
A few hours in and Kari Lake's trial is already over (or it should be)
And, yes. I know it is an opinion piece.
veni vidi vici
Omne quod audimus est opinio, non res. Omnia videm
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lol… coming from you
MR.CLEAN
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I watched the full day yesterday. Wanna put some money on the outcome? I'll give you +150 on her winning if you give me +150 on her getting sanctioned. Maybe the things that make a SpecOps soldier don't translate that well to law. Oh, he's under investigation for being part of the Sidney Powell/Cleta Mitchell/Jeffrey Clark fraudulent elector conspiracy too and will likely be in prison by this time next year.
Bus Driver
Bacon Quality Control Specialist
I love this part -
As a witness for the defense, Onigkeit was dynamite.
The problem is, she was supposed to be the star witness for Lake.
