Like father, like daughter!
Sarah Huckabee Sanders owns the lowest approval rating of any Arkansas governor in 20 years, a new poll says. The political nepo baby’s level of support has dipped below 50%, to just 48%.
The last time an Arkansas governor had a lower approval rating was in 2003 when her dad, Mike Huckabee, was sitting at 47%.
Now entering her eleventh month in office, Sanders is consumed with defending her office’s curious purchase of a nearly $20K podium. Her convoluted grift is unraveling by the day.
The story goes like this: For some reason, Arkansas bought a $19,029.25 lectern from a company called Beckett Events LLC, which happens to be run by one of Sanders’ closest advisors.
Adding to the coincidence, the podium was purchased right around the time Sanders took a luxurious, taxpayer-funded European vacay that her office branded as a “trade mission.” Social media posts show Beckett and her business partner, Hannah Stone, overlapped with Sanders in France last summer.
Though the podium was ordered in June, it actually wasn’t delivered until August. Records reveal the Arkansas GOP didn’t pay for the lectern until September, and the words “to be reimbursed” were only later added to the original invoice.
A political blogger is suing Sanders’ administration for allegedly violating Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act when she wouldn’t disclose her requested travel records. The governor recently called a special session to tighten the state’s public records laws.
Total coincidence, right?!
And she’s working on this by airing absolutely propagandistic TV spots.
— Steve Spencer (@stevespencer) October 30, 2023
It should be a lot lower. She’s ignoring all the states problems, handing out money to her friends (see the $19k lectern) and just an embarrassment.
— Dave Ekstrum (@davethetenor) October 30, 2023
On the legislative side, Sanders remains consumed with attacking LGBTQ+ people. Just a few days ago, she signed a ridiculous executive order that bans gender-neutral terms from state documents such as “birth-giver” and “laboring person.”
When asked how many times the now-banned phrases had been reported, Sanders said she was aware of only one single instance.
But prioritizing phantom issues is nothing new for Sanders.
She’s already signed her own “Don’t Say Gay” bill and appointed Jacob Oliva, the man responsible for crafting the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, to lead her education department.
In addition, Sanders has signed a law barring transgender teachers and students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identities, and banned use of the gender-neutral term “Latinx” in state documents.
A school book ban is in place as well, and districts were warned to not offer an Advanced Placement course on African-American studies.
Sanders is following Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis straight to the gutter!
Make no mistake: Amid all these manufactured issues, Arkansas has actual real problems. Most recently, 400,000 residents were just kicked off Medicaid. Overall, the state has the fifth-highest poverty rate and second-worst food insecurity in the country. And a recent Scholaroo survey found the state ranks 49th in the nation for quality of life and 50th in the nation for quality of health.
Yet Sanders is using her power to fight against gender-neutral terminology and shield herself from accountability. No wonder why a majority of her constituents aren’t buying in!
Even in ruby red Arkansas, they still apparently expect their governor to, you know, govern.
decrans
Meanwhile, we can start calling Joe Biden the corporate Dem version of Ron DeSantis. He’s poured gobs of money into swing states. The needle hasn’t budged in the tiniest bit. “Suffolk University–USA Today poll last week showed Biden trailing Trump by as much as six points (49% to 43%) when would-be voters were asked which candidate they favored on foreign policy; by 11 points on the economy (52% to 41%), and by nine points on immigration (50% to 41%). Even more troubling for Democrats: Trump leads Biden in five key swing states according to a Bloomberg–Morning Consult poll: Arizona (by a 47-43 margin), Georgia (48 to 43), North Carolina (47 to 43), Pennsylvania (46 to 45), and Wisconsin (46 to 44).”
Get Sleepy Joe some high-heeled boots, pronto.
inbama
World War III may change everything. My crystal ball says it’ll be Newsom vs. Haley with Trump running third party from prison.
Anyway, important article out today – “ ‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’ “ by By Riittakerttu Kaltiala on The Free Press
decrans
Dear God. If it’s Gavin Newsom, I’ll do paid canvassing temp work even harder. I survived this sh-t state for 2 years. It was like a third world country.
FreddieW
Newsom? The smart money is already on Dean Phillips. And by smart money, I mean the smartest Democrat I know of (besides my partner) — Bill Maher.
LumpyPillows
This is a misdirection from the topic, but it is more interesting than the 48% SHS non-story.
Any pontification on the presidential campaign is low probability guess work now. There are too many balls in the air to even begin to reliably project what will happen. I do not believe Trump will be the republican nominee. When push comes to shove, I do not believe convict Trump will get the votes. If the field continues to collapse the 52% of not-Trump vote looks good. Once the blood is in the water, tubby will look like a loser chum.
Biden? I like him. He’s done a good job. And I’m still not sure he will be the democrat on the ballot based on his age.
ZzBomb
Ya know it’s easy to check your lies. The latest poll from Suffolk has Biden and Trump tied. Everything else I’m just gonna go ahead and assume you made up as well. Furthermore, it’s way too far out to start crowing about polling which hasn’t been accurate in years anyway. Trump is a sinking ship and Biden has done a pretty great job considering the entire world trying to set itself on fire. I don’t understand the right’s desire to tear everything down, pit everyone against each other, and isolate ourselves from a world where we helped build and that has afforded us great wealth, culture, and influence. But some people I guess are never happy!?
decrans
Go fact-check for Vanity Fair, ZZbomb. That’s where the source came from. Lemme guess. They’re a right-wing fascist publication now. Somebody alert Anna Wintour! Oh my goodness! Secondly, tied or trailing, it’s a sad indictment for your party that you’re not walloping a carnival baker. That’s what it boils down to, ZZbomb. Go whine about it, baby boy.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Wow. Decrans GAVE you the pollsters and you still said they were lying. Lazy and hateful.
Den
“Biden? I like him. He’s done a good job. And I’m still not sure he will be the democrat on the ballot based on his age.”
Thank you! He has done a good job, and advanced policy of value to working and middle class Americans, something the Republican party seem both unable to do and unwilling to even understand.
BUT, and it’s a big but, Biden is only 3 years older than Trump, and showing no age related dementia compared to Trump whose inability to be coherent decreases practically by the hour.
I went to visit an old friend Sunday (both old in terms of age and how long we have known each other) who is still driving, still reading constantly, and sharp as a tack. We discussed current events for hours, and he remains as progressive as ever. Biden is similarly sharp at 80, Trump is in an obvious fog. Trump is obese and has clearly horrible health habits. Biden is slim and as fit as one could expect. You best believe I (and hopefully many millions of others) will vote for him if he ends up running, as seems to be the case.
Den
Forgot to mention the old friend is over 90. He may be slow of step, but quick as hell upstairs. Biden is fit, Trump is unfit in any and every way.
dbmcvey
Except that Joe Biden is the President and DeSantis never will be.
COTTONTOP
Only in your dreams. People, I urge you not to feed the trolls.
FreddieW
“Even in ruby red Arkansas”
Your bigotry is showing, coastal Queerty. Y’all are probably too young to remember that the Clinton machine was started in Arkansas before it moved to New York, and Al Gore is a Tennessean.
Jaesly
Bill Clinton was last elected governor in 1982, which is over 40 years ago. Since then Arkanas has been reliably red.
FreddieW
Thanks for the history lesson. I live across the river in Memphis. We don’t really like being called rubes by snotty New Yorkers and Californians.
ZzBomb
Ok Ruby
still_onthemark
Bill Clinton was last elected governor of Ark. in 1990, not 1982.
It’s worth noting that Clinton carried West Virginia (!) twice. Even Dukakis in 1988 carried WV. Now WV is considered the rubiest-reddest-Trumpiest state. So that’s how the “culture war” stuff played over a fairly short time.
abfab
Don’t be snotty to Freddy…..she’ll melt.
FreddieW
Your nose runs like a spigot, abfab, and I’m still here.
abfab
No, you’re in Memphis, TN, which is worse. You’re a dumb hick.
FreddieW
Whatever you say. I grew up less than a mile from Elvis, and I live 10 minutes from FedEx World Headquarters.
decrans
It shows how much Abcrabs disdains the Democratic party base. Memphis, a city composed of majority Black people, is likened to ‘dumb hicks.’
Kangol2
FreddieW, we both know that Arkansas and Tennessee have shifted radically to the right, with GQP control of both states. The days of Clinton and Gore are long gone. Kentucky still elects Democrats to statewide office, and Mississippi might even elect Elvis’s cousin Brandon Presley (is that his name), but in general, Arkansas is “ruby-red” and would be even redder were it not for Black voters, younger voters and the larger cities there.
FreddieW
It’s the “ruby” I was objecting to, not the political evaluation. People here didn’t suddenly become hicks because y’all disagree with their politics.
Den
” We don’t really like being called rubes by snotty New Yorkers and Californians.”
Well, clearly you are so dull you don’t know the difference between RUBY (the color of a gemstone) and a RUBE (what you certainly seem to be!). Tennessee does not rank that far above Arkansas in quality of life metrics, so why are you defending a state where the governor does not give a shit about such things?
FreddieW
@Den
Clearly you need to improve your literacy to the point of being able to recognize a pun.
smittoons
Gore couldn’t win Tennessee outright on his own even after moving his campaign HQ there.
The South has changed, moreso than the Democratic parted has drifted left. It then stuck with the Republicans as they got ever more conservative. Minority voters with outsized numbers in places like South Carolina in primaries and Georgia in the general election can make all the difference though.
RIGay
What really is a shame is… THAT is her best photo.
abfab
Imagine this pig when she first stumbles out of bed sans the bad makeup job. She should have children with George Santos. They look similar. Praise The Lord….oy vay.
COTTONTOP
Abfab, Santos has probably claimed that they already are married. He’s such a serial liar.
whereshouldistart
So, SHS embezzled twenty grand to buy a couple of friends.
No surprise there. The apple never falls…
Oh screw it. What SHOULD anger anyone with an IQ over 40 is 48% of Arkansas residents STILL SUPPORT him!
SMGDFH
LumpyPillows
Not really a story. 48%? Not a big deal. The lectern? I couldn’t care less.
Let’s run solid democrat and see if we can take her out on issues and not what she looks like.
Kangol2
Not happening in Arkansas. The majority of voters are White Republicans, and even as disenchanted as they may be with her sorry performance thus far, I can see her being easily reelected.
Den
The lectern is indicative of the level of corruption she brings to state government, so you should care. And though it is rude to judge politicians on their appearance, with her a coarseness and ugliness on the outside align with other aspects of her personality and actions as a political figure.
AJAnders
The residents have every right to hate her. Arkansas is a mess. As a state, they rank near or at the bottom when it comes to healthcare, economy, education, infrastructure…if I lived there, I would be embarrassed. Yet you never hear Sarah talk about those issues. She’s always on a crusade to stop political correctness, drag queens while supporting her criminal idol Trump. She has much bigger fish to fry.
It’s never about facts with Republicans, it’s all about messaging. Ignore everything else that has gone to hell under your watch.
Baron Wiseman
At this stage of his incompetent presidency, Biden only wishes he could have a 48% approval rating again.
abfab
Freddy wants to meet you.
Den
It is only because the majority of republicans are as stupid as you that he has such a low approval rating. You folks are unable to understand the policy he has enacted, unable to understand what is in your best interest, unable to understand the modern world, unable to parse modern media. You are easily manipulated and fall for the grifters all the time….so it is no surprise that he has a low approval rating. You folks will still line up to lick Trump’s ass even as he wiped it with the constitution.
Baron Wiseman
@Den
“You folks are unable to understand the policy he has enacted, unable to understand what is in your best interest, unable to understand the modern world, unable to parse modern media.”
And you are unable to recognize cognitive decline.
“Biden is only 3 years older than Trump, and showing no age related dementia compared to Trump.” That’s rich! Are trying to gaslight us?!? The Democratic party, to their credit, knows he can’t effectively govern. Why do you think they are so desperate to find another candidate that doesn’t have dementia?
Den
And you are unable to recognize cognitive decline.
Am I now?
Let’s see some examples that aren’t memes, or misleading video snippets. Biden has spoken eloquently, Trump has always spoken at a 6th grade debate club misfit level. He cannot speak in full sentences nor does he ever actually offer analysis of anything. At best he is a lousy stand up comic. There are numerous examples of his aphasia and memory lapses while there are no such examples for Biden. I suspect you might need to consult a neurologist regarding your cognitive health!
‘“Biden is only 3 years older than Trump, and showing no age related dementia compared to Trump.” That’s rich! Are trying to gaslight us?!”
Difficult to gaslight those who are already as delusional as you. Once again, Biden has never implied anybody is going to start world war two. He is well aware it is over. Trump had to be told where he actually was when he got it wrong at one of his stand up comedy gigs. It is incredibly amusing how the folks you willingly let gaslight you say first that Biden is the mastermind behind the Trump “witch-hunt” (in reality the attempt to show the law applies equally to all, even high ranking grifters). Then in the next statement he is senile “and can’t put two sentences together”. And you regressives are so dull you cannot see the contradiction there.
So let’s see your examples of how Biden is senile…Not memes, not snippets from videos, but real transcripts and substantive videos. Do you have them or is it only the talking points you regurgitate because you are told to. Put up or shut up “Wise” man.
COTTONTOP
Dream on, Barron.
Baron Wiseman
Oopsie.
“A new Morning Consult poll lists Gov. Sanders as the 12th most popular governor with 60% approval a day after an Arkansas poll put her at 48% approval.”
abfab
The only poll you should care about is the one up your ass.
decrans
It’s interesting that the most popular governors are Republicans in the top 10 with only two Democrats. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer circle the bottom with Ron DeSantis. Fascinating stuff.
COTTONTOP
Once again, Baron; only in your dreams
Fahd
After “getting to know her” during Fraudney “I get no respect” Dangerfield’s presidency, I am not surprised that she has turned out to be a lousy governor.
I hope they keep looking; Lecterngate is probably the tip of the corruption iceberg.
Baron Wiseman
@Fahd
Oh yes. Remember the Great Lecturn Scandal of 1852? Scandalous.
abfab
In no particular order, here are some of Sanders’ most egregious lies and outrageous remarks you should reacquaint yourself with……….
She said Trump’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border and locking them in detention facilities was “very biblical.”
When Trump retweeted three unverified, Islamophobic videos, Sanders insisted it didn’t matter if the videos were “real” and told reporters that if they’re focusing on “the nature of the video, you’re focusing on the wrong thing.”
Weeks after a gunman slaughtered 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, she declared in a speech that “we will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they’re as safe as they are in a classroom.” At that point in 2022, there had already been 27 school shootings that year.
She refused to say the press was not the “enemy of the people.”
abfab
cont…..
She admitted to lying during a press conference about former FBI director James Comey when she claimed “countless” FBI agents told her they were happy Trump fired him. She confessed under oath during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that this was not true, but she downplayed it as a mere “slip of the tongue.”
She twice used her government Twitter account to slam businesses she took personal issue with: a small restaurant in Virginia that refused to serve her and The New York Times for publishing an anonymous op-ed critical of the Trump administration. Former White House ethics chiefs said these incidents were illegal ethics code violation.
She mocked Biden for stuttering ? a speech impediment he’s dealt with throughout his life ? after a Democratic presidential debate in 2019.
She posted an Infowars-produced video of CNN’s Jim Acosta that appeared doctored to make him seem aggressive toward a White House intern, and used it to defend the Trump administration taking away Acosta’s White House press credentials.
She claimed God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.”
She falsely claimed that Trump’s border wall had stopped nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018. In reality, the wall ? for which Trump was demanding $5.7 billion in federal funds to build ? had only stopped six people on the No Fly List.
abfab
but wait, there’s more………………….
Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House in October 2018.
She claimed that the Mueller report findings were “a total and complete exoneration” of Trump even though the report summary explicitly said it “does not exonerate him.”
When a journalist used the term “lopping heads off” to refer to the need for a staff shakeup on the White House communications team, she took it very, very literally. “They’ve said I should be choked, they said I should deserve a lifetime of harassment, but certainly never had somebody say that I should be decapitated,” Sanders said in 2019.
She defended Trump’s unprecedented refusal to share his tax returns by claiming members of Congress are not “smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume President Trump’s taxes will be.”
While running for governor of Arkansas, she vowed not to support any rape or incest exceptions in legislation banning abortion ? an extreme position out of step with the vast majority of Americans, including more than three-quarters of Republicans, studies have found.
As Arkansas governor, she banned the term “Latinx” from any official state documents, saying the word ? which came into use in recent years as an inclusive, gender-neutral term to describe someone of Hispanic or Latino origin ? constitutes “ethnically insensitive and pejorative language.”
Baron Wiseman
Uh-oh.
New Zogby poll released today shows President Trump leading Joe Biden 40% to 17% among Arab-Americans. This is particularly concerning among swing states. Zogby polling shows that President Biden was polling at 59% in 2020 among Arab-Americans.
Kangol2
Why wouldn’t Arab Americans and Muslims be upset at Biden for wholeheartedly backing right-wing fanatic Bibi Netanyahu’s genocidal response in Gaza? That said, Arab Americans and Muslims heavily backed George W. Bush in 2000, and that turned out to be a disaster as they were openly targeted by the administration and its supporters for years, so much that by 2008, Arab and Muslim support for the Republican Party had plummeted. And let’s not forget Don the Con’s Muslim ban and similar policies, which he, in deranged fashion, promised to reinstitute if reelected. Four years of utter chaos under Don the Con, which you claimed was “peace and prosperity”–talk about upside-down world!
Baron Wiseman
@Kangol2
You can’t have it both ways! Do you even read what you write?
“Why wouldn’t Arab Americans and Muslims be upset at Biden for wholeheartedly backing right-wing fanatic Bibi Netanyahu’s genocidal response in Gaza?”
So Trump’s response is going to be LESS right-wing? Then you ramble about Trump’s “Muslim Ban” and those Arabs must have simply forgot about it and now they support President Trump. Uh-huh.
By the way, it wasn’t Donald Trump who came up with the list of Muslim countries he wanted to ban. Obama did.
inbama
Let the terrorist sympathizers join the Republican Party. It was only a matter of time that the democracy and gay-haters found each other. All of Europe is experiencing refugee regret at this point.
Kangol2
Baron, you’re hallucinating. NO ONE said Don the Con’s response would be LESS right-wing. Are you out of your mind??? These voters won’t vote! Or they’ll vote third party! You do realize that millions of Americans have sat out numerous elections because of disenchantment with the candidates, right? So no, “Trump’s response” is NOT “going to be LESS right-wing,” and there was no rambling, only your projection! As it is right now, Arab American and Muslim voters have no major US political party to turn to. Which, if you could understand the stats you listed, in an attempt to criticize Biden, you’d have grasped. Clearly you didn’t.
Den
OMG! More of the 0.5% of the population that is Arab supports Trump! Horrors, there goes the election. Just watch as he continues to tout his ban of Muslims from entering the US. That will certainly get more Arab Americans on his side, won’t it. As will his revival accusing Obama of actually being a “secret Muslim” as the worst possible slur. Yup, that’ll bring Arab Americans over to his side without a doubt…
You certainly are a caution “Wise”man!
Den
By the way, it wasn’t Donald Trump who came up with the list of Muslim countries he wanted to ban. Obama did.
Someone who swallows lies as easily and willingly as you should not talk about others being gaslit or gullible. You sure follow that little MAGAt herd as close as any good sheep could!
Baron Wiseman
@Kanjol2
“They won’t vote!”
Wrong.
Forty percent of those polled said they would vote for former President Donald Trump, the likely Republican candidate in 2024, up 5 percentage points from 2020. For the first time in Zogby polling, a majority of Arab-Americans did not identify as Democrats. Only 17% would vote for Biden, down from a whopping 59% in 2020. The poll states 13.7% for RFK, Jr. and 3.8% for Cornel West. The rest, we can assume, are voting other candidates, are not sure or are not voting.
Say what you want, and I know you will, I rather have 40% voting for me than 17%.
dbmcvey
How about 0% voting for you.
COTTONTOP
Dream on, Baron
dbmcvey
Well, she does.
OhHellNo
That’ll do, pig.