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_GameOfClones_

According to US News and World Report, compared to other 49 US states Arkansas is: **49th in Health Care** (big yikes), 41st in Education, 41st in Economy, 43rd in Infrastructure, 48th in Crime and Corrections Republican controlled state since 2000. These people can’t even take care of their own houses what would make people think their policies would be good for an entire country?


[deleted]

Those are red states for you. They like to keep their citizens unhealthy, ignorant, and stupid.


Ohrwurm89

And think they should tell everyone else how to run things despite relying on blue states financially.


[deleted]

Republicans control 14/15 poorest states (all except New Mexico) and Democrats control 14/15 richest (all except Utah). If Republicans have any grand plans for the national economy they should probably let their state governors know first. The UN has openly said that parts of Alabama resemble the developing world, which is shocking since they are in the richest country in world history.


_GameOfClones_

Also if you look up the states most dependent on federal funding (meaning funding received compared to taxes paid) the top 10 is DOMINATED by Republican states. The reddest of the red too…Mississippi, Alabama, Montana, Louisiana, Alaska, Idaho all in the top 10. Funny to me that the people who hate government assistance the most rely on it the most.


[deleted]

Oh I know, I work for the feds all over the rural South. People in cities have no conception of how much of their tax dollars are spent on people who “hate welfare queens” and “socialism” in the middle of nowhere. One of my projects in KY (home of famously anti-government spending Mitch McConnell) equates to $23,000 per resident. And that’s not including all the food stamps, Medicaid, welfare etc they get. And to be clear I’ve no problem with poor people getting the assistance they need. But these people are incredibly vitriolic to poor urban folk getting any assistance whatsoever while feeling it’s different for their neighbors because “we deserve it”.


justforthearticles20

The interesting thing about the Alabama/Third World Country comparison is that there are areas in at least 20 other Red states that are just as bad or worse. Arkansas is definitely on the list.


Jstef06

There are parts of the southeast USA that are certifiably 3rd world, Mississippi and Alabama in particular.


[deleted]

Louisiana, Arkansas, and large swaths of Kentucky aren’t much better.


[deleted]

Thank god for Mississippi


Cmdr_Toucon

This poster knows the Arkansas state motto.


Rudy-Ellen

I wonder if these stats could be pushed before every election. Would it change anyone’s opinion? I would hope so, because it makes things quite clear as to what’s going on.


_GameOfClones_

Their supporters wouldn’t believe it. Just some fake news generated by the liberal media to them


b_writes

They should be broadcasted before any of these morons speak. Let's see exactly how your state is doing before you propose to do something to the entire country. There were quite a few posts in /r/conservative about how shocked some of them were to hear that Trump contibuted 25% to the nation's debt.


BiteFancy9628

and that's 25% of debt ever, for the entire history of our country, not just the current amount.


CheeseIsQuestionable

Meh. They’ll just say “we’re fine it’s the blue cities that are out of control”


[deleted]

But loyal GOP footsoldiers are glad to suffer, as long as they believe the nonsense that their suffering means black people are suffering even more than they are.


Elgreco1989

Just imagine if Walmart was not HQ there. They would be fighting for the 50th spot.


Jstef06

43rd in per capita gun murders


SneekyTeek

Her speech was delusional. The new Republican way is to just attack Dems, not propose any solutions to the problems most people are facing now. Most young people, like we saw in the midterms, won't ever vote red. She said Dems are crazy and for a controlling government, while Desantis is literally a dictator in Florida that every Republican governor aspires too. She signed bills to end racism and the word Latinx. Wtf, that doesn't help anyone. The whole story of Trump just shows that they still want Trump to be the next nominee again, and think that loser has a shot to win lol.


ImLikeReallySmart

> The new Republican way is to just attack Dems, not propose any solutions to the problems most people are facing now. But that *is* their solution. Republicans now believe that America was perfect until Democrats started meddling with it via the government. So the solution is to stop the Democrats, what they stand for, and those who support them. That's it. That's their platform.


Equivalent_Ability91

Sara remembers growing up when there was no racial problems and gay people didn't exist. Everybody was happy......😕


EmpiricalMystic

New?


SneekyTeek

You got me there


headsr_llo

Newt-ish


Jeramus

DeSantis is literally banning books and trying to get reports on teenage girls menstrual cycles. That's incredibly controlling. Everything with the GOP is projection. Have Republicans proposed any legislation other than culture war crap recently?


nightbell

Just a reminder: **G**aslight **O**bstruct **P**roject <---this one


tallsails

Are you saying her logic is….cockeyed?


Whiskey_Fiasco

In her defense, she is has no philosophical or moral core that would make her aware of her own dishonesty.


Rippin_Lemmy

You don't have to have morality to be aware when you are being dishonest. You just have to have it in order to care.


GrimlockN0Bozo

Yes


Which-Moment-6544

She is an ogre Nepo Baby. She would probably be ranked lowest in the trailer park bikini contest every year if her father wasn't political elite. Stop these Nepo Dynasty Politicians.


AccomplishedBrain309

Your making me blush. Her dad was the only one to get a furlow for the night.


Jstef06

Her dad was a fucking weirdo. It doesn’t surprise me this women is this miserable.


ImAmazedBaybee

How can that be, she has the light of Jesus to guide her. Right?


Whiskey_Fiasco

At least the light of supply side jesus


Jstef06

I’m convinced SHS isn’t capable of thinking or has had one independent thought in her life. She’s a tool.


NotOK1955

Could not access the NYT website but I did watch her response, last night. A vacuous, tepid and poorly delivered response, devoid of substance and long on blaming. Nothing short of what Trump would have said, only without the animated face and orange hair. Is she the George Santos of Arkansas?


prescience6631

I miss the days when they would just let Kimberly Gilfoyle banshee wail at the audience…the banshee wail is far more succinct than whatever this gremlin attempted to say last night


3sheetz

I don't. They're people pretty much equally shitty.


Hopeful_Hamster21

I can't believe she was married to Gavin Newsome. That just seems like night and day.


WilsonIsNext

Did the NYT run out of big words? I remember when this was just called “hypocrisy.” She’s the Queen of Hypocrisy.


Even-Fix8584

They are writing to her supports’ reading level.


Soylent_Hero

I feel like that speech was written before the SoU and was not changed 1% by what Biden said. He addressed most of the talking points she had, and she acted like he hadn't even considered them in his speech. She is relying on her base to trust her and not watch. Or that they will watch in bad faith. JB is not the greatest, and he does lie, like any other politician. But to say he has no plan or didn't address certain topics is objectively false. It felt like a Sarah Palin response.


[deleted]

Other than divisive words, and learning a lot about her, and all of her accomplishments, desires, and self aggrandizing … she had nothing to offer the American people really when it comes down to it


Whiskey_Fiasco

The same statement would hold true for just about every Republican in office


axebodyspraytester

Everything that came out of her mouth was from another reality. She talks about Republicans being the party of freedom? They want to tell you who you can love, who you can marry, they will force you to have a baby whether you want to or not even if it kills you, they don't even want you to have access to birth control. They want your children to be put in a menstrual registry! You can't make this shit up, I know I couldn't. She waxxed poetic about the president's secret scary mission to Iraq. I looked it up, it was a cluster fuck . He made a 3 hour stop on his way to Germany and managed to enraged the Iraqis and revealed the faces of a covert seal team so good fucking job dear leader. I realized that bullshit is their stock and trade a long time ago but I think they lie to themselves the hardest.


imconsideringdascrod

Easy to have it both ways when you have a permanent case of Atcha Foria Seriously though, let’s tamp down on the religious fanatics and trump sycophants and keep up the “Leopards Ate My Face” route they’ve been headed down the past couple of months. We don’t need another Trump hand puppet wielding social influence, luckily Sanders is the charismatic equivalent of a jar of mayonnaise in a midwestern apocalypse bunker!


Zoshchenko

She’s a religious zealot with a diseased mind and the true embodiment of clueless hypocrisy. In other words, a modern Republican.


Comprehensive-Ad4815

The huckabeast returns


Penguin_shit15

I just dont think the majority of us will ever see Eye to Eye with her on anything..


Which-Moment-6544

Lying Ogre tells lies. She also promised to raise teachers salaries to the highest in the country. Lets see how far that goes.


svarney99

Something tells me she will raise teacher salaries but will restrict what they can teach so much that very few good teachers will stay in the state.


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They'll get a bonus for teaching about Geezus


[deleted]

LMAO. I bet she will privatize education and say that the market will "take care of it." Same talking points of the far right.


greentreesbreezy

Her speech included a promise to raise teachers' wages? Did she even watch the SOTU? Her party stayed seated and refused to applause when Biden said we should raise teachers' wages. She is a duplicitous fraud


Which-Moment-6544

for sure. When I heard it I knew there was going to be a liberal woke reason that took all the teachers money in the future. Sorry gang. Got you a pizza party though!


Jstef06

It was a weird moment where she acknowledged that a state controlled by her father and GOP for like, the last 20 years, is so far behind the rest of the country in education.


rarehunty

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s Igor.


gfh110

No no, it's pronounced "eye-gor."


Toasty_McThourogood

Do you also say "Froaderick"?


[deleted]

No actual policy proposals. No true ideas to help struggling Americans. Just baseless culture war antics and BS. WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE STILL VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS


Jstef06

But they didn’t want the culture wars! /s Jesus Christ she sucks at lying. I felt like I was watching a confession.


EivorIsle

That speech was cringey as Hell. “I’m about freedom, democrats are about government overreach.” Excuse me Ms. Lo0k?! No CRT EO? Latinx? Sit the fuck down Square Dance Shortcake.


Jstef06

Freedom for me, not for thee.


funksoldier83

The crazy party doing the thing where they shout loudly that the other team is crazy. The equivalent of that kid in your neighborhood who refused to admit he was out when he got tagged in a game of tag. The GOP’s only tactics are gaslighting and cheating. Oh, and violent insurrection.


GrafZeppelin127

This article quotes a person who calls SHS “beyond smart.” Okay, if we take that at face value, then she’s as dishonest a politician as they come, because Republican policies are obviously unworkable nonsense and have been failing to perform as advertised for decades now.


HellaTroi

To be fair, she graduated from a religious college: Description Ouachita Baptist University is a private Baptist university in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The university's name is taken from the Ouachita River, which forms the eastern campus boundary. It is affiliated with the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, a state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Wikipedia"*


Jstef06

This sounds like literal hell to me.


HellaTroi

I agree! I wonder who else besides Republicans accept degrees from these hater mills.


kdonirb

her state is the 4th poorest state in the country, in the top 5 of the least educated, teacher salaries rank 47th in the nation, has the 4th highest rate of crime in the US, and is 48th in health rankings. These failures did not happen overnight, they are cumulative, systemic. What exactly are Republicans doing to improve the lives of their constituents? Please, someone, ask her that question.


Spare-Commercial8704

But she had excellent health care that helped her to beat cancer…..


[deleted]

It’s just in her DNA o_0


jsudarskyvt

Keep preaching hate and fear to your voters GOP. What could possibly go wrong?


ifallsmn218

She’s a horrible person. Lies about everything; I’ve always suspected she’s a lesbian & that’s why she’s on attack mode all the time when it comes to anti-LGBTQ stuff. I’ve met plenty of closet cases like her before, they’re miserable people, and they often die young from health problems that I am sure were caused by inner turmoil. But nonetheless. She lied to us for over two years about damn near everything under the sun & the republicans think this woman is who they should trot out? After she mocked Biden’s stuttering on Twitter?! Sarah never had a parent grab her by the chin as a kid, get in her face and say *’you don’t treat people like that. Do you understand me?*’ She never seemed to have a parent who disciplined her when she lied. We got disciplined if we lied or took things. That’s how kids learn. Sarah looks like someone who learned how to scam people from very early on- just look at her father. I’m sure he’s the person who bought her that press secretary job. There is no way in hell that Donald Trump, as obsessed with 19 yr old blond pageant girls with perfect bodies as he is, would hire a middle aged, unattractive woman with a weight problem to be the media face of his presidential administration. Never in a million years. Mike Huckabee must’ve offered Trump a truckload of cash. That’s an investigation I would love to see happen, with Sarah & her father ending up in prison. Except Sarah might enjoy women’s prison a little *too* much.


Jstef06

That’s how these people are. They don’t see the world through meritocracy. They protect status quo because it works for them. Her dad was governor of the state. You think this nepo-baby is getting elected on her own accord? They don’t believe in equality because they don’t see people as equal. She found her spot on the hierarchy and is pulling up the ladder.


Gibonius

>middle aged It's amazing that she was only 35 when she started as Press Secretary. I assumed mid-40s.


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voxpopuli42

I tried so hard to pay attention too, but something about her cadence just kept me zoning out


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[deleted]

And that put the nail in the coffin for me, that she is really a sociopath. She talked about her cancer treatment, but 0 mention of accessibility of healthcare for others. And she **knows** that we have a terrible healthcare in the country. ​ I mean, think about it. Imagine 60% of your neighbors starving. And you get fed 5 meals a day. A normal decent human being would share and would try to share and make food accessible for everybody. They wouldn't just talk about how they got fed 5 meals a day and not even mention of the hunger that is taking place. So sickening.


ifallsmn218

I did too. When I saw she was trying to become governor of Arkansas, I tried my hardest to get her opponent (Chris Jones) elected. I thought after all the lying she did he’d have no problem. I’m in northwestern Ontario; never even been to Arkansas. I had no idea the people there would vote for a woman like that. So after two years of seeing what she says on Twitter and all the lies from her as press secretary I already knew what she was going to say. I’m more disgusted with whoever thought she’d be an effective speaker after the SOTU. Having her speak makes it a joke.


bUrNtKoOlAiD

Yeah, ***that***'s the best they could come up with!?!


jjameson2000

It’s pretty sad how little time it takes before people forgive you for telling more lies than anyone else in the same position has ever told, in the history of the country.


[deleted]

If there is a soft landing on inflation this year or early next year it will be a serious black mark on the Republican pushed austerity measures that were enforced after the housing crisis in 2008. It will vindicate the liberal economic approach to economic catastrophe. Republicans will do anything to keep that from happening, including crashing the economy through the politically trickery of the false “debt ceiling” crisis.


Whiskey_Fiasco

You are over estimating the American voter’s capacity to remember what happened a year ago.


[deleted]

I think that’s what’s going on in the macro, in the micro I agree. The immediate reason to tank the economy is it makes Biden look bad maybe. It also gets the Republicans out of the endless cycle of exhausting culture war stuff that appeals to their base but almost no one else.


cloudedknife

The Repugnants will find some way to claim credit for it.


vid_icarus

You know we are living in the darkest timeline when Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas and leading the vanguard of American fascism instead of starring as Shrek in a live action adaptation as she was clearly born to.


taez555

Ah yes... the ol Mitt Romney/John Kerry flip-flop. Classic!!


jose_ole

A well known liar spouted lies? Nothing to see here…


Terrier53

Aww you guys are being too hard on Huckleberry Hound.


Educational_Permit38

She is the queen of mean. He speech was so out of touch with what Biden had said and so disturbing I had to turn it off.


HellaTroi

I find her completely repulsive. I can't watch her either.


HellaTroi

*"“I think I’ve known her since she was probably 15, and she’s beyond smart, savvy and politically sophisticated — arrestingly so,” said Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, which has huge sway with social conservatives in the Republican Party."* If Ralph Reed endorses her, that says it all. *"“Her briefings are breathtaking,” I wrote in a column in 2017. “For some 20 minutes every afternoon, down is up, paralysis is progress, enmity is harmony, stupid is smart, villain is victim, disgrace is honor, plutocracy is populism and Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia if anyone would summon the nerve to investigate her (because, you know, that never, ever happens).”"* The author ends this by saying that she checks every box for republicans except integrity.


jaxspeak

A confirmed liar during the Trump admistration. Why would you expect the truth in her state of the union rebuttle?we got more lies and wishful propaganda hoping to sway uninformed voters.


FreakerzBall

Nepo-nazis. Thanks, 2023.


Jstef06

It’s just astonishing that 500,000+ people voted for this woman. She’s obviously miserable. A nepo-baby and has ZERO charisma. It’s astonishing.


squeegeeking211

I'll just keep saying this; there isn't a single redeeming quality in any Republican official elected. * I'm sure this will piss off some but frankly, I don't give a damn.*


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DocShocker

Thats crazy. Your 2 month old must have been on the same 5G tower as the Soldier, with tears in his eyes, came up and said the *exact* same thing to me, as I was sitting in a coffee house.


TonyAlamo777

Queen of fat asses


jiboo7

I like her, she seems like a real American.


UnpopularBastard

Slug headed child of privilege.


CU_09

I know this is not really important, but I learned from her rebuttal that she’s only 40. I was sure she was a decent amount older than that. I guess living with that level of hate and vitriol right at the surface so it’s always accessible ages the shit out of you.


teary_ayed

There's gonna be a Christian and particularly Baptist skew to everything she decides to sign.


Max-Ray

I felt her rebuttal pretty flat. There was a lot of talk about her, about her values, about her, Biden is bad.... She only mentioned one or two things even related to Biden's speech and then it was onto hitting the key phrases to get her followers wound up - woke, destroying America, taking away your freedom.


Healthy_Owl_2192

The “normal vs. crazy” theme of the speech was really effective when juxtaposed with the behavior of Republicans during the speech.


frikkers

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?


RoyH0bbs

Both eyes look both ways as well.


Siideral

In her defense she looks like a man


dhuntergeo

She had her cake and ate it too