{"id":8409,"date":"2022-12-08T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:22:40","slug":"karipatra-queen-of-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8409","title":{"rendered":"Karipatra: Queen Of Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of democracy then the results for the 2022 midterm elections are encouraging. We&#8217;ve waited until after the Georgia runoff election, which <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"was fortunately won by Rafael Warnock (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/12\/06\/georgia-runoff-election-results-warnock-walker-00072601\" target=\"_blank\">was fortunately won by Rafael Warnock<\/a>, to comment because mostly it&#8217;s given us time to relax from the non-stop electioneering and also to see how the Republicans would react to the results. But the Democrats managed to not only keep control of the Senate but expand its influence with a 51-49 majority.  The Republicans control the House but by only a few seats. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The red wave that the main stream corporate media bloviated about before the election never materialized (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2022\/11\/midterm-election-results-democrats-avoid-red-wave\/672050\/\" target=\"_blank\">The red wave that the main stream corporate media bloviated about before the election never materialized<\/a> much to the embarrassment of the propagandists at Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network. It looks like Kevin McCarthy will have his hands full trying to control the House and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"most pundits are doubting the GOP will do anything except investigate the nothing burger that is Hunter Biden's laptop (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3754608-why-the-gop-oversight-agenda-in-the-new-congress-likely-will-backfire\/\" target=\"_blank\">most pundits are doubting the GOP will do anything except investigate the nothing burger that is Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"many Trump humping, election denier candidates across the country got beat including the Big Three here in Arizona, Blake Masters, Mark Finchem and Kari Lake (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/trump-backed-candidates-see-mixed-success-midterms-rcna57300\" target=\"_blank\">many Trump humping, election denier candidates across the country got beat including the Big Three here in Arizona, Blake Masters, Mark Finchem and Kari Lake<\/a>. Generally speaking, Democrats performed pretty well here in AZ.  One notable exception is the U.S. House of Representatives. Arizona had five democratic Congressional representatives in the 2020 election but thanks to redrawn districts from the census favoring Republicans, the GOP now has six seats compared to three for Democrats. There were some very tight races which have gone into recount, but overall, the Dems held the line. Democracy has been saved . . . for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Ms. Lake, in true Trumpian fashion, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"has refused to concede and has commenced to whining, promising law suits of election fraud (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/arizona-certifies-midterm-election-results-133121021.html\" target=\"_blank\">has refused to concede and has commenced to whining, promising law suits of election fraud<\/a>. We&#8217;re so sick of this former newsreader. She should just move into Mar-a-lago so she can be with her crush 24\/7. We&#8217;re sure Melania won&#8217;t mind. We saw a funny meme online about the loony Ms. Lake and decided to duplicate it using our own graphics.<strong> From now on, Kari Lake will be known as Karipatra, the Queen of Denial.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karipatraqueenofdenial.jpg\" alt=\"In true Trumpian fashion, Arizona's failed governor candidate Kari Lake has claimed election fraud and has transformed herself into Karipatra - the Queen of Denial.\" class=\"wp-image-8415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karipatraqueenofdenial.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/karipatraqueenofdenial-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>In true Trumpian fashion, Arizona&#8217;s failed governor candidate Kari Lake has claimed election fraud and has transformed herself into Karipatra &#8211; the Queen of Denial.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of democracy then the results for the 2022 midterm elections are encouraging. We&#8217;ve waited until after the Georgia runoff election, which was fortunately won by Rafael Warnock, to comment because mostly it&#8217;s given us time to relax from the non-stop electioneering and also to see how the Republicans would react to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Karipatra: Queen Of Denial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,2320,8,68,85,3,2307,198],"tags":[2348,355,107,912,147,4,1461,1852,739,2378,2402,2143,2144,1181,98,296,2250,2403,2404,19,738,785,47,48,2332,694,1145,2400],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}