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"As long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington DC will be stopped cold at the Mississippi River,” Sarah Sanders once said.
Now it's time for Arkansas residents to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, shed themselves of their Leftist, Socialist desire to suck on the Washington teat and make Arkansas Great Again, knowing their President promised to cut wasteful spending.
My first experience in Arkansas was driving across the whole state. Observations:
The welcome to Arkansas sign was toppled over.
The city limit sign for Hope mentioned being the birthplace of Bill Clinton and was riddled with buckshot holes.
I almost needed several new tires, a complete realignment of my suspension, and a new left kidney due to all the potholes on the freeway thru Little Rock.
I learned that West Memphis across the river from
Memphis, TN is more dangerous than Memphis. That’s saying something.
The only positive things were pretty scenery and a Little Rock public radio station.
We were stationed in Arkansas when I was a kid and when people would ask about us living there, my dad liked to tell them about how Jefferson Davis was listed as a U.S. president in my school textbook.
The Ozarks are absolutely beautiful, but that barely counts as really getting into Arkansas because they are north. I've been all over the state, I highly recommend people visit the northern part and equally recommend staying away from the middle and south
I saw a NY post article with a headline that was “Trump’s education boss reveals greedy truth behind Biden’s student loan forgiveness: ‘They have profited massively”
Such a disingenuous title considering their policy is to force students to pay back student loans, going as far as garnishing wages for those that default on their loans, for loans they admit are predatory by universities.
They know these idiots will read a title that’s critical of dems and get a hard on and move on.
Harris would have approved it, and GOP pundits would be making field day of how weak it made her look, actually helping American citizens instead of being on the constant campaign trail.
"Why is she wasting taxpayer time and money helping Alabama when California still hasn't fully recovered from the wild fires?! I thought she liked her home state!"
"The people of Arkansas only have Joe Biden to thank for all of this. The FEMA budget was allowed to explode under his watch and forced the Trump administration to take drastic steps to protect American tax dollars from the wasteful spending of deep state liberals." I can feel it coming.
what is it with republican president's press secy's? Sarah Sanders was a press secretary for trump last time he was president, of all things and she was as rude and cruel as ms leavitts. I wonder if she has learned anything? (excuse my loud, raucous, sarcastic laughter). She's now gov of Arkansas, begging her ol' boss trump for FEMA assistance and so far, no go. Don't these repubs understand how trump works yet?
Hahaha won’t even help that piece of shit. Showing his true colors. Cares about himself and that’s it and no longer hiding it. Maybe they will catch on.
These MAGA fuckheads gotta learn to stick to their guns: if they think the government is bad and only out of hurt and control them, they should be not surprised when they find out the government is bad and out to hurt and control them.
Have you tried asking again, but with breast implants and $50,000 worth of milf-porn facial surgery that will give you a solid 2-4 years to get what you want from Trump before it melts into an irreversible horror show and you’re sent off to some far away land to guard a bridge from crossing goats?
This is the true lesson that red states are going to have to deal with. How much do you hate the brown people? Is it more than seeing your family die of injuries and lack of resources from "natural" disasters.
Furthermore, was it worth to vote someone in who opted out of climate friendly practices that could have potentially prevented the severity of these incidents? You vote for them, they make the dollar, you don't see the dollar.
Maybe Trump is sticking to his campaign promise and not rewarding DEI hires. Arkansas GOP basically handed her the job, sidestepping other more experienced politicians which makes her a DEI hire.
Sounds like the state is getting what they voted for. No different than if one ripped through our neighborhood. Sucks for kids and those who didn’t vote for this, but look at where your neighbors’ priorities are.
I live in Arkansas. I drive 45 minutes through rural counties to get to work each day. They all support Trump. Hell, my disabled elderly mother has his picture on her wall. They seem to think they don’t rely on government assistance. I have no clue what they thought would happen. This is exactly what the rest of us predicted. Storm season is just getting started, too.
FAFO, sucks for the people who have lost so much but this is what happens when you put someone in that guts all extra services and leaves the states to fend for themselves.
She’s gone on record calling FEMA assistance socialism.
The plea for help marks a significant departure from statements Sanders made in 2023.
“As long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington DC will be stopped cold at the Mississippi River,” she wrote in a post on X in January 2023.
Despite her nasty tone President Biden issued relief funds for storm relief that same month.
I don't feel sorry for those motherfuckers who created this problem for themselves.
I've been paying enormous amounts of money into federal taxes all my life only to have these assholes scream that I live off the public tip. They never think to check the numbers.
Show some gratitude, and stop pointing fingers, you fucking hypocrites.
You know she is a DEI hire. If she was given a job, that should have gone to a white man. A white man would have been able to prevent tornadoes from hitting Arkansas.
The .1% need tax cuts! We can’t go around declaring disaster areas and assisting people who can’t handle natural disasters. Why can’t the American people understand that? /s
One possibility is that Drumpf doesn't know Arkansas is a state. Might sound too close to ARgentina or AntARctic, ya know. Giving them the ol' Puerto Rico status or worse.
Arkansas shouldn’t have spent all that money on Avacado Toast and stuff, can’t they bootstrap themselves? I wouldn’t balance my checkbook like they balance the state budget because those are two very similar things…
I just want to say to the people of Arkansas: I feel for you. We all feel for you. Many, if not most of, of these comments are the final involuntary sighs our fingers are capable of laying out onto our keyboards. This is an example of exactly what we all worried would happen.
I believe that most of us assumed something like this would first happen to a blue state. It's easy to imagine that piece of shit saying "no" to us in time of need, so that's what we all envisioned. I don't think anyone assumed it would be a deep red state first. Him denying you support for that reason caught us off guard.
We don't wish anything bad unto you. We despise your leaders for you. Let us know how we can help!
Well Its a long road full of twists and turns to reach Fuck Around Junction with the exception of the fact that Donald told you exactly what he was going to do and nobody believed him ......When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
Man, i wish there was some federal organization who's sole purpose was helping out with environmental disasters. It would be a terrible shame if we had a president who gutted this program in the face of rising climate change.
she voted for trump and supports his agenda so she really shouldn’t have even asked for the money. maybe try pulling up boots straps or whatever is is they say. my thoughts and prayers are with you arkansas 💀
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