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Arizona's latest 'stop the steal' protest flops like a beached whale on the shores of democracy [1]

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Date: 2022-11-26

Newsweek:

Lake has refused to concede in what she claims was a "botched" election, and has filed a number of lawsuits in a bid to overturn the result. Her supporters organized a protest outside the state capitol at 9 a.m. MST, claiming "hundreds of patriot groups" would unite to "protest the uncertifiable results." However, video from the scene, in a tweet by Ron Filipkowski, showed no more than 50 people turned up, including one man waving a large Confederate battle-standard.

Gee, might Americans—not counting traitorous Americans who still wave the flag of an illegitimate, brutally racist government that tripped on its own dick more than 150 years ago—be a little tired of all this “stolen election” nonsense?

It would appear so.

Get a load of this, for instance:

x Organizer of protest Joe Oltmann, outside AZ Capitol demanding a revote on Dec 6, asked them about Trump’s post yesterday: “What did he tweet out? ‘Give me freedom or give me death.’ Who here is committed to staying until they revote? (No response) I’ll be here by myself” then. pic.twitter.com/fv3Nor0WdX — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 25, 2022

Wow. This is more like the energy you’d expect from people who were one stamp away from a free footlong mere months before Subway canceled its Club Card promotion. If Lake doesn’t float down like Glinda the Good Witch in a gleaming Vaseline bubble pretty fucking soon, people are gonna start drifting away.

Of course, if you thought that was pathetic, you’re going to shoot milk out of your nose after seeing this—even if you’re not currently drinking milk. That’s how bad it is.

Here was professional elections grifter David Clements scolding the crowd for not being bigger:

x Headliner Dave Clements arrives at the rally demanding a new election outside the AZ Capitol, and is not happy with the turnout: “We’re so fat and comfortable shopping! If you’ve got friends - and I don’t have many left - get them, bring them here.” pic.twitter.com/kAnOsvdBlk — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 25, 2022

CLEMENTS: “Are you willing to do it, that’s the question? I’m not even from Arizona, for crying out loud. I left my three kids and my wife. We’re staying here until you get a new election. It’s that simple. Brazil’s teaching us Americans on how to do this, folks. It’s almost been 30 days and they have 3 million people outside, and because we’re so fat and comfortable, shopping. … But they’re not scared of you because they’re not scared of this. We haven’t done enough, so dig in, dig in, dig in. This is just the beginning, folks. This is just the beginning. So if you’ve got friends—I don’t have many left—but if you’ve got them, get them. Bring them here. … So let’s just keep this energy going.”

Keep this energy going? Is that even possible? This protest already looks like the heat death of the universe. Is there any energy to build on?

Of course, the Arizona GOP ran a slate of election deniers who could have warped the state’s elections for decades to come, but they didn’t fare well. Lake, secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, and Senate candidate Blake Masters all lost, while attorney general hopeful Abe Hamadeh’s race is likely headed to a recount, with Hamadeh currently trailing his Democratic opponent by around 500 votes. In fact, all across the country, election deniers did poorly. Meaning American democracy might still have a fighting chance after all.

Yes, even in Arizona. Believe it or not.

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