How Kari Lake's political bombshell proved to be an embarrassment

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Kari Lake is truly a stupid person

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The Republican seemed quite excited about the apparent revelation, releasing a video that went on and on about Lake’s patriotism and Hobbs’ outrageous record, complete with on-screen evidence. There was, however, one big problem:

Lake got the story wrong. As The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts explained, the only thing the GOP candidate proved was that “Kari Lake doesn’t know how to read a bill.”

In 2018, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill addressing various American history materials that can be read or posted in Arizona’s classrooms. State law already allowed the pledge, the anthem, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and yes, even the Mayflower Compact to be read or posted, along with various other foundational documents. Senate Bill 1289 simply added the state motto (“Ditat Deus,” or God Enriches) to that list and clarified the wording of the already approved national motto (“In God We Trust”).

Democratic legislators, including Hobbs, balked at the idea of pushing religion in public school classrooms, but even a rudimentary review of the proposal shows that it would not have pushed the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution out of schools.

The entire line of attack was the result of an apparent mistake by the Lake campaign. The Arizona Republic’s columnist added that the GOP candidate continued to insist that she was right, pointing to two other legislative measures, but “neither had anything to do with posting the pledge, etc., in classrooms.”

[Leith]

1. rethugs don't get embarrassed

She will double down and repeat the story again, probably multiple times.

Anyone want to bet against me?

[mitch96]

3. +1 "repeat the story again, probably multiple times. " She is using Joseph Goebbels ploy

Keep repeating a lie long enough and the people will start to believe it...
AKA propaganda..
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[durablend]

7. Admitting you're wrong equals treason to the true believers

Yup, she'll double if not triple down on this and insist those saying she's wrong are part of the "Deep state"

[RANDYWILDMAN]

2. Sounds like she would be a competent and wonderful governor

Just as sturdy as the titanic

[Mister Ed]

4. A mistake? That might be too generous. It could also have simply been a lie. n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

8. More Than "Could Have Been"

Given the source, completely made up lie is highly likely.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Exactly. I guarantee more people will see the lie than will see the correction.

It's easy to dismiss bald-faced liars as stupid, but the reality is that they are cunning manipulators.

They lie so much because it works.

[Demovictory9]

5. Even right-wing site reported negatively on this

[Oneironaut]

6. If you're proven wrong, just scream your ideas louder!

It’s the GQP way!

[bringthePaine]

9. lemmesee...so stupid & ignorant, clerically incompetent equals refuKKKchicken governance! got it...

[Nac Mac Feegle]

10. A second - hand interaction with her about 20 years ago

She was interviewing an acquaintance for a segment on the local Morning Show.

Her (the interviewee) opinion of Kari was not the best. Remarked "Not the sharpest knife in the drawer."

More details could lead to identification of people that might wish to remain unknown, given the RWNJ proclivities toward violence, threats, doxxing, etc...

[czarjak]

11. Wrong, and damned proud of it. Who does she think she is, my neighbor?