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Kari Lake Pretends To Be A Superhero And Gets Swatted Down By ‘Wonder Woman’ Star Lynda Carter 

Failed 2020 Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and her supporters are trying desperately to help her remain relevant so she can likely run for the U.S. Senate from the Grand Canyon State in next year’s election, but a meme being shared on social media didn’t sit well with a beloved celebrity.

Lake, who also claims undying loyalty to former president Donald Trump, was the subject of the meme, which featured her lake superimposed over that of actress Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on the 1970s television show, Newsweek reports.

With Lake’s anticipated run, a meme recently started circulating on X that showed her face superimposed over that of Carter’s in her hit 1970s TV series Wonder Woman. The show, which was based on the DC superhero character of the same name, aired on ABC and later CBS from 1975 until 1979.

However, Carter, who has often criticized Trump on social media, took umbrage to the image, which sees Lake rebranded as “MAGA Woman”—and she made her feelings known in a blistering statement posted on X on Thursday.

Here’s the meme:

Carter’s response was devastating, especially since it perfectly defined who Lake is and isn’t.

Lake decided to respond to Carter, but she only made matters worse by doing so.

Lake’s reply got her pilloried on Twitter/X, or whatever Elon Musk is calling the site this week.

 

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‘Deceitful Fraud’ Kari Lake Is Facing A Massive Lawsuit That Could Cost Her A Fortune

Having spent a year and a half insisting that she actually won the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election, Republican Kari Lake is finally starting to see that her scorched earth policy of attacking everyone who refused to help her overturn the results of that election do indeed come with a price.

What price? Well, perhaps millions in compensatory and punitive damages as the result of a massive defamation lawsuit filed against her by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer.

Mark Z. Barabak of the Los Angeles Times notes that Lake may finally be held responsible for her irresponsible words and actions.

Last week, a top election official in Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, filed a defamation lawsuit against his fellow Republican, saying Lake’s blatant lies have cost him friends and lifelong relationships. Her malicious incitement has also resulted in death threats, he said, and harassment aimed at him and his wife.

“Rather than accept political defeat, rather than get a new job, [Lake] has sought to undermine confidence in our elections and has mobilized millions of her followers against me,” Richer wrote in the Arizona Republic. “Her defamatory allegations have unleashed violent vitriol and other dire consequences.”

Richer has a hell of a case, too, Barabak explains.

Her farrago of falsehoods includes allegations that Richer manipulated the printing of election ballots and “inserted” 300,000 phony votes into the final count to prevent Republican candidates, including Lake, from winning.

Lake’s phony claims were repeated numerous times, the lawsuit documents, at political rallies, during podcasts and on social media. Richer seeks unspecified monetary damages as well as a court order determining Lake’s statements were false and requiring her to delete them.

Defamation lawsuits aren’t easy to win. The bar for victory is high, but it’s not impossible as we witnessed recently when a jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages against former president Donald Trump for sexually assaulting her and then lying about the matter.

Additionally, Fox “News” also forked over $785.7 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems for the lies some of the network’s hosts told about the 2020 presidential election being stolen with the use of voting machines, even going so far as to suggest that the machines had been hacked and manipulated by China and Venezuela.

Kari Lake deserves to be hit with a massive dose of karma, and one that takes an enormous bite out of the money she’s grifted from supporters since she lost in 2022 would be a nice start at righting the many wrongs she’s committed for her own self-aggrandizement.

 

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Kari Lake Owns Herself With The Choice Of Her Entrance Music At An Arizona Rally

Perennial loser/endless candidate Kari Lake held one of her “I was robbed” rallies this week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the entire affair was little more than a reiteration of her whining about how the 2022 gubernatorial election was stolen from her, despite the fact that she’s yet to produce a shred of credible evidence to prove such an allegation.

But as Laurie Roberts of The Arizona Republic notes, it was Lake’s choice of entry music that caught her attention.

It was her entrance music that was hysterical.

“American Woman.”

The song, which was originally recorded by the Guess Who in 1970, was meant as a tribute to Canadian women because the band was from Canada, as lead singer Burton Cummings explained in 2014:

“What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous. When I said ‘American woman, stay away from me,’ I really meant ‘Canadian woman, I prefer you.’”

The version played at Lake’s Scottsdale rally was a remake from Lenny Kravitz, but the words were the same, and it’s quite clear that Lake or whoever chose the song didn’t bother to listen or understand the lyrics.

“American woman, stay away from me.”

“Don’t come hanging around my door/I don’t want to see your face no more/I got more important things to do/Than spend my time growing old with you.”

However, in the case of Ms. Lake, the lyrics could easily be tweaked to read, “Kari Lake/Stay away from me.”

Yes, please stay the hell away from us, Kari. We’re tired of your bullshit. You lost. Deal with it and move on already.

If that’s not the most spectacular self-own of 2023, then it’s certainly got to be in the Top 3.

Social media laid the mockery and ridicule on thick.

 

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The MAGA Conspiracy Theories On Why Kari Lake Lost Have Begun – And They’re BEYOND Batsh*t Crazy

A couple of weeks ago, Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake was asked if she would accept the results of the 2022 midterm election, no matter the outcome.

The New York Times reported at the time that Lake sounded supremely confident that she would be victorious and refused to even entertain the notion that she might not.

“I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” Ms. Lake said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The host, Dana Bash, then asked, “If you lose, will you accept that?” Ms. Lake, who is running against Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, Katie Hobbs, responded by repeating, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result.”

“The people of Arizona will never support and vote for a coward like Katie Hobbs,” she added, setting up a framework in which, if Ms. Hobbs were to win, Ms. Lake could present the result as evidence of election fraud. That is one of the arguments Mr. Trump made, suggesting that the 2020 election must have been fraudulent because the idea of President Biden receiving majority support was unbelievable.

But a week after voters went to the polls, it’s now clear that Lake has lost to her Democratic opponent, Katie Hobbs, who will be the next governor of Arizona.

98% of the ballots have been counted in the Grand Canyon State, and here’s where the race between Hobbs and Lake stands:

But to hear Lake’s supporters tell it, the fight has only begun, because their candidate is being cheated out of an election she won.

Sound familiar? It’s the same tired old bullshit that the MAGA faithful have been spouting ever since Donald Trump got curb stomped by President Joe Biden back in 2020.

So, as you’d expect, the conspiracy theories regarding Lake’s failure have also begun, and some of them are downright goofy.

Let’s go to Twitter for a sampling of the craziness.

Clearly, it never ends. They lose, but all they do in the aftermath is whine. It’s pathetic and infuriating.

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Liz Cheney Only Needs Two Words To Masterfully Troll Kari Lake On Her Arizona Election Loss

On Monday evening, a projection was made in the Arizona gubernatorial race featuring Democrat Katie Hobbs and Republican Kari Lake: Hobbs will be the next governor of the Grand Canyon State.

HuffPost notes:

Lake has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election and has said that as governor she would not have certified the results. That was enough for Democrats to worry that Lake was a legitimate threat to democracy, while Lake dismissed their concerns as politically motivated and overblown. To audiences of voters, Hobbs frequently referred to Lake as “that Trump-endorsed, election-denying, media-hating, conspiracy-loving GOP nominee.”

Lake has been fond of trolling Republicans who supported Hobbs, even thanking Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for not endorsing her:

“Thank you for your generous in-kind contribution to my campaign. Enjoy your forced retirement from politics.”

After the race had been called for Hobbs, Cheney did some trolling of her own.

Other Republicans then joined the fun, piling on with their mockery of Lake’s failed bid.