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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This bitch has done nothing but divide my state, and turn my fellow desert rats against each other. She belongs in fucken prison, and her only credentials are reading from a fucken teleprompter. She doesn't know shit.

[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

God you could be talking about any Republican candidate these days.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She doesn't know shit, she doesn't care about governing... she just wants fame and attention. I have conservative relatives in AZ and while I'm sure they'd vote for her they continuously bitch about her.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Its fucken crazy here man. I have two misguided friends from my childhood, I made them read the Mandate for Leadership, the Kentucky Experiment, and forced them to watch the full length interviews of the misconstrued xitter cuts they get their news from. Even when they were like "that's fucked up, and not good" they still said they'd vote for Trump at the end. We are fucked, tribalism has set in and taken hold, we are human no longer. Arise, Homo Democratus and Homo Republicanus

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Loser candidate hangs out in front of loser flag, makes a lot of sense, really.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 7 points 5 months ago
[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

Oh so she has identified themselves as being a part of the losing side in a civil war. Is their pronoun: loser?

[–] blazera@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Do you have any idea how many MAGA flags fly over confederate flags? Its basically an inseparable pair here.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.

In the video, Lake is heard repeating her baseless accusations of widespread election fraud in the 2022 gubernatorial race, which she lost to the Democrat Katie Hobbs.

In the months after the 2022 election, courts repeatedly dismissed Lake’s legal claims challenging the results of the gubernatorial race, and her lawyers were sanctioned for making “false factual statements”.

A group of Trump’s supporters later attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Biden’s victory in the election, and some carried Confederate battle flags into the building.

Lake appeared at the campaign event alongside Steve Slaton, the Trumped Store owner and Republican state legislative candidate who has attracted controversy over allegations that he inflated his military record.

But military records obtained by the Mountain Daily Star indicate that Slaton was stationed only in Korea, primarily serving as a helicopter repairman, and did not even join the army until after the last US troops left Vietnam.


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