Of Lake, Laredo and Links

The Schloss-Blog today is looking at Kari Lake (sorry), baby wipes in Laredo and what's going on on the links.

Kari Lake, the former Fox Arizona newscaster running for governor as a conspiracy-theory Republican, goes on and on that she has proof of fraud in the 2020 election.

This despite none being found in any - repeat, any - 2020 election recount or audit. But she says she's got it although she refused to share it in an exchange with an NBC reporter this summer, calling him a representative of MSDNC. He had asked her why she didn't turn over her proof of these crimes to the appropriate authorities. No, she never did that. Because she has none.

Now though, she and conspiracy-theorist Mark Finchem, the Republican Secretary of State candidate, had a lawsuit tossed in which they sued Democratic Secretary of State and gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs and the Maricopa County Republican election judges over having manual voting only this November, no machines, calling them unreliable based on 2020.

No doubt, she was counting on this as her proof. The judge said she had none though.

This is what Republicans are running on, conspiracy theories, while Democrats are protecting education, the border, voting rights and hedges against inflation.

To put it bluntly, Kari Lake is a liar who said she can prove election fraud. 

She can't. And she can't govern either. To think, she therefore just might have been lying to us all those years from behind an anchor desk.

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In Laredo, Texas, at the official border crossing, inspectors found - are you ready? - $11.8 billion worth of cocaine stuffed into containers of baby wipes.

Baby wipes.

Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sending busload after busload of illegal immigrants to New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, respectively, because he doesn't want them clogging up his state, his resources.

Maybe if he managed the baby-wipe shipments at his legitimate border-crossing sites a little better, they wouldn't.

Sounds like he needs the baby wipes anyway - he's got a lot of shit stuffed up his ass.

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Breakdancing - yes, breakdancing - will be an Olympic sport in 2024. 

What was once a street-corner performance art will now be a gold-medal event, along with skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing.

The IOC is getting smart in its old age, legitimizing the sports of the streets that young people have popularized to get them as an audience for its advertisers and sponsors.

Hey, if we've come this far though, how about tightrope-walking without a net, skyscraper to skyscraper?  Maybe lip-synching? And in different categories (rap, rock, opera, country)?

And of course, slapping Academy Award-show hosts and presenters.

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Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene is opposed to President Biden's recently announced college-tuition debt relief plan.

Hypocritical scam-artist Greene recently had $183,000 in PPP loans forgiven. 

But they love her in Georgia, right?

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This, meanwhile, will not become an Olympic sport. Put this in your browser and check it out. From Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMzMdfDJ1A

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Finally, LIV Golf continues to throw around "blood money" and several pros like it, despite the fact it comes from the people who bring you grotesque murders and underwrite terrorism.

World No. 2 Cam Smith has joined, as has rising American Harold Varner III.

Varner made $2.3 million in the 2021-22 PGA season, but at the press conference announcing his switch to LIV, he said he wants to make sure he took care of his kids.

Hey, Harold, take care of my daughter too and please pay my greens fees going forward, OK? Not like you can't afford it now.

Smith said he's excited to be playing for his teammates in the 54-hole, shotgun-start, no-cut competition. 

Enjoy your blood money, boys. Hey Harold, now your kids can go to a private school. Woo hoo!

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Serena Williams.

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