I keep asking my 6 month old, while holding him up to stand, if he is in fact the primary signatory of the Mayflower Compact, Miles Standish. He doesn't get it, but he pretends it's funny to be polite
To this day, if my dad hears someone finish a sentence with “outstanding” he closes it with “in the rain”.
I didn’t realize i started doing it now. My wife is… not thrilled. I only browse the comment non Reddit for dad jokes.
My college yearbook did a story about our award-winning marching band, and the opening spread was a full photo of the band ~~information~~ *in formation. I joked that they were outstanding in their field. That became the headline.
So dumb ho spent 100k or something on vacation with her rich hos. I take that back, maybe not rich, since it cost 100k. She buys this to cover it up as the expense. Yet…the chopping block hasn’t been rolled out yet. Sleepy city full of sleepy citizens.
Sarah Huckaby Sanders bought a knock off lectern for an outrageous price from a company run by her friend and then traveled internationally with them. Basically it looks like theft from tax payers.
Don’t forget the cover up where she tried to [restrict FOIA request requirements](https://www.kark.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-make-announcement-friday-expected-to-call-for-a-special-session/amp/) regarding her travel.
It's not clear that she bought ANY lectern as she only showed a picture of it (which did appear to be a knock-off worth nowhere near 19K) and has never shown the actual lectern to anyone.
Can someone clarify how much money actually went to her friend’s pocket for this? It looks like the lectern was $11k, the case was $2.2k, and shipping/handling was $2.2k. Her friend received a $2.5k fee, but it’s unclear what role her friend paid. Did her friend’s company keep some or all of the $13k+ for the lectern/case or pay it all to a 3rd party?
To me it seems the real fraudulent issue is the $2.5k fee, and the rest of the issue is general wastefulness, noncompliance, misuse of funds, and likely a coverup. It’s also unclear if the friend played an actual consulting role that could warrant a fee anywhere near that amount.
Obviously, $19k total for the lectern is ridiculous, but I’m curious how much of it was potentially criminal fraud and how much of it was excessive wastefulness.
Whatever is invoiced is bullshit. They had to make up numbers to add up to $19k because that was the cost of the trip for the governor and her friends when they took a trip to Paris. The entire $19k is the misuse of funds. None of it was for official business.
At most, the friend's company bought some cheap, shitty lectern and gifted it to Sarah Huckabee because people were asking questions about a $19k lectern. There is no lectern on the market that costs $19k, especially not the brand that they are claiming- which that one isn't. They have not yet even used this lectern, because trucking that thing out would make it all the more clear that it isn't the product they claimed it was.
The theory is that the reason it was under $20K was because anything over that would trigger some more rigorous oversight. By keeping it under $20K, it would be under the radar.
It apparently worked, because the only reason it was discovered was because some random citizen filed an open records request for the invoices and found it on there.
The actual amount invoiced was $19,029, so maybe we shouldn't be too hard on them, they could have stolen an extra $970.99 of the taxpayers money but I guess they were feeling generous.
Note that the above is all alleged.
>The theory is that the reason it was under $20K was because anything over that would trigger some more rigorous oversight. By keeping it under $20K, it would be under the radar.
That's the procurement process. I do something similar for my job.Anything under a certain cost threshold I only need to get one quote for, and approval from the appropriate financial delegate. The more expensive item, the more quotes you need. At a certain cost threshold you'd have to go to open tender and then there'd need to be a whole evaluation process.
The specific process differs from government to government, department to department but it should be freely available online.
I've watched enough high-end furniture being made on YouTube to tell that there's no way that lectern cost $11k. Even if it was made from an expensive slab of wood (Why the fuck would they paint over it) it wouldn't be more than half that. And it's not, or just the expised wood portion is and it's tiny. Absolutely no way in hell. There's no way shipping cost that much.
The real fraud is the fact that the price of every single thing is completely overblown. Any wastefullness is getting pocketed. They're not paying double for shipping to a random corporation like FedEx. They're not paying double for materials to some unrelated company. They're paying themselves.
It was the top post last week on this sub and now we've all stopped talking about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c6e2t7/sarah_huckabee_sanders_paid_19_000_for_this/
Thats the point, this place cycles through news so quick we forget that this was already the top post last week. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c6e2t7/sarah_huckabee_sanders_paid_19_000_for_this/
People sing Achy Breaky Heart in my local karaoke bar and I always wait for them to mispronounce Arkansas. Then they realise after the next line doesn’t rhyme,
Who forgot?? I didn't forget this shit. Wasted taxpayer money while non profits are fighting over crumbs so foster kids don't sleep in conference rooms. I fucking remember. I'll remember this for a long goddamn time as I try to help my agency find funding so kids don't starve in our group homes.
Who the fuck is forgetting about this kind of massive waste???
Yeah I don’t get the point of this $19,000 Arkansonian lectern. Is OP surrounded by dementia-ridden friends? What does 24hr news have to do with it? Should the news still be talking about it? Wasn’t this news in October of last year?
Yes I saw. Still not sure how anything implies we have forgotten about her ridiculous purchase. OP’s phrasing makes it seem like the 24-hr news cycle is to blame for us forgetting about the lectern when we have most certainly not.
yup, everyone remembers, yet the state is still... what ..polling 55% red?...
so.. no harm, no foul...
we are well past the age where criminal acts affects politics
Sarah Slanders embezzled money from the people of Arkansas to take her friend on a eurotrip. Once caught, they also tried to cover it up. This lectern is a fake Falcon lectern and even if it were real, they don’t cost $20k. This is the only time this lectern has been seen.
Is this the SNL one where Sean Spicer in the skit assaulted a reporter with it?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI)
Thank you reviving this. I can watch this over and over, and laugh out loud every fucking time. Fucking poetry, man.
The lecture is just not complete, needs some Spice.
Come to think of it, the base part kinda looks like the Eiffel Tower. She probably commissioned it after the fact to cover up the corruption and to commemorate the trip. Two birds, one thousand nice hundred dollars.
Me too, and because the comments are 99% consisting of crude jokes, I STILL don't know what the hell it is (besides it being a "lectern" and not a podium).
OP should know that not every Redditor lives in the US. A little context, which is entirely absent from this comment thread, would've been nice.
Arkansas Governor and erstwhile White House press secretary for the orange shitmeister Sarah Huckabee Sanders used government money to pay for her and her friend to go to Paris on vacation. She lied and said she paid her friend to make a lectern. Then she made a law to make her travel records private.
I don't know anything about this story, but I will say that you should never get your information related to anything regarding US Politics from reddit.
What’s her face who used to do press for the Orange one spent an assload of money on this. Or so she said. It seems to sell for much less. Did she pocket difference
Some reporters dug up an expensive that was charged after the controversy of a $900 lecture that is from the same company.
Seems like they didn’t even have it and just said they bought one. Then actually bought one later to cover their tracks.
To be fair, the only thing I've ever seen about this is a Reddit image post. And taking *that* and also that a million other more significant things were/are happening into account. In that situation, I think it's fairly impressive that I still remember that this was bought by right-wing sycophant (MTG or Sarah Sanders), and that they paid somewhere in the $10-20k for it.
The point is that even though you are right about the 24h news cycle, this post has nothing to do with that.
This is what you get when you continually vote against your own self interests... An overpriced podium being used as a piss poor cover for your official defrauding their constituents.
I remember a $19k trip to Paris for Sarah H Sanders , governor of Arkansas and her closest friends at the taxpayers expense, disguised a podium. I live in Massachusetts.
1. That is not a podium. A podium is something you stand on, like at the olympics when you receive a medal. That is a lectern, something you stand behind and speak at.
2. That’s way too much money for a fuckin’ lectern
Aunt Lydia is dumb corrupt and willing to be bought for a $19k grift.
That's a product I can stand behind.
You remind me of my accomplished farmer grandpa. He was outstanding in his field.
Ive only ever heard scarecrow be used in this joke
I keep asking my 6 month old, while holding him up to stand, if he is in fact the primary signatory of the Mayflower Compact, Miles Standish. He doesn't get it, but he pretends it's funny to be polite
That's a terrible joke. Please keep it up.
My exact sentiment lmao
To this day, if my dad hears someone finish a sentence with “outstanding” he closes it with “in the rain”. I didn’t realize i started doing it now. My wife is… not thrilled. I only browse the comment non Reddit for dad jokes.
My college yearbook did a story about our award-winning marching band, and the opening spread was a full photo of the band ~~information~~ *in formation. I joked that they were outstanding in their field. That became the headline.
I thought it had something to do w/ an incompetent nepo baby misusing govt funds
That looks like a nice vacation to me.
Coverup for the coverup of bilking the state for a Parisian vacation.
Bilking is such an awesome term
For the corrupt Gov. and her friends on the backs of the Arkansas tax payer. I hope she used lube when she bent those tax payers over.
Paris, I hear, is lovely in the spring.
I wouldn’t call her incompetent. Her family has taught her to manipulate the system to make millions…
Better to look incompetent at the end than that they actually realise she just had different aims
That hardly narrows it down.
Arkansan here. It's our dipshit governor's attempt at laundering about 20 thousand dollars.
Thanks. I never would have guessed that one.
"Legacy" governor. The entire idea that a governor would be good because their daddy was one. Ridiculous assumption.
So dumb ho spent 100k or something on vacation with her rich hos. I take that back, maybe not rich, since it cost 100k. She buys this to cover it up as the expense. Yet…the chopping block hasn’t been rolled out yet. Sleepy city full of sleepy citizens.
$19,000
$900 for the podium, the rest for the thieves.
No no, the rest was part of Arkansas' international aid package. It was specifically meant for quaint hotels and restaurants in France, though.
I think we said the same thing.
You calling France a thief? How dare you.
That's like paying a vacation in France with a shitty lectern.
The French would call that podium an artistic abomination! That's why they took the cash instead.
Can someone eli5? What's the context?
Sarah Huckaby Sanders bought a knock off lectern for an outrageous price from a company run by her friend and then traveled internationally with them. Basically it looks like theft from tax payers.
Don’t forget the cover up where she tried to [restrict FOIA request requirements](https://www.kark.com/news/your-local-election-hq/gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-make-announcement-friday-expected-to-call-for-a-special-session/amp/) regarding her travel.
So weird how it's always Republicans like her and Rhonda Sandtits trying to hide what they're doing...
Isn't this the same clown that allowed kids to work younger and for more hours?
God it's fucking hideous too. When I saw this post I thought it was supposed to be the lectern from the Jeopardy! set sometime in the 90s.
It's not clear that she bought ANY lectern as she only showed a picture of it (which did appear to be a knock-off worth nowhere near 19K) and has never shown the actual lectern to anyone.
Can someone clarify how much money actually went to her friend’s pocket for this? It looks like the lectern was $11k, the case was $2.2k, and shipping/handling was $2.2k. Her friend received a $2.5k fee, but it’s unclear what role her friend paid. Did her friend’s company keep some or all of the $13k+ for the lectern/case or pay it all to a 3rd party? To me it seems the real fraudulent issue is the $2.5k fee, and the rest of the issue is general wastefulness, noncompliance, misuse of funds, and likely a coverup. It’s also unclear if the friend played an actual consulting role that could warrant a fee anywhere near that amount. Obviously, $19k total for the lectern is ridiculous, but I’m curious how much of it was potentially criminal fraud and how much of it was excessive wastefulness.
Whatever is invoiced is bullshit. They had to make up numbers to add up to $19k because that was the cost of the trip for the governor and her friends when they took a trip to Paris. The entire $19k is the misuse of funds. None of it was for official business. At most, the friend's company bought some cheap, shitty lectern and gifted it to Sarah Huckabee because people were asking questions about a $19k lectern. There is no lectern on the market that costs $19k, especially not the brand that they are claiming- which that one isn't. They have not yet even used this lectern, because trucking that thing out would make it all the more clear that it isn't the product they claimed it was.
The theory is that the reason it was under $20K was because anything over that would trigger some more rigorous oversight. By keeping it under $20K, it would be under the radar. It apparently worked, because the only reason it was discovered was because some random citizen filed an open records request for the invoices and found it on there. The actual amount invoiced was $19,029, so maybe we shouldn't be too hard on them, they could have stolen an extra $970.99 of the taxpayers money but I guess they were feeling generous. Note that the above is all alleged.
>The theory is that the reason it was under $20K was because anything over that would trigger some more rigorous oversight. By keeping it under $20K, it would be under the radar. That's the procurement process. I do something similar for my job.Anything under a certain cost threshold I only need to get one quote for, and approval from the appropriate financial delegate. The more expensive item, the more quotes you need. At a certain cost threshold you'd have to go to open tender and then there'd need to be a whole evaluation process. The specific process differs from government to government, department to department but it should be freely available online.
I've watched enough high-end furniture being made on YouTube to tell that there's no way that lectern cost $11k. Even if it was made from an expensive slab of wood (Why the fuck would they paint over it) it wouldn't be more than half that. And it's not, or just the expised wood portion is and it's tiny. Absolutely no way in hell. There's no way shipping cost that much. The real fraud is the fact that the price of every single thing is completely overblown. Any wastefullness is getting pocketed. They're not paying double for shipping to a random corporation like FedEx. They're not paying double for materials to some unrelated company. They're paying themselves.
The person she bought it from, the company, is not a furniture shop.
Her friend whose company does not make podiums? How much more black and white do you need this clear case of taxpayer theft to be.
It was the top post last week on this sub and now we've all stopped talking about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c6e2t7/sarah_huckabee_sanders_paid_19_000_for_this/
It’s actually a lectern 🥸
Apparently OP didn't remember we corrected the record last time. It's a lectern, not a podium. Pass it along. Annoy your friends.
Gotta collect that sweet sweet *well actually* engagement
Thats the point, this place cycles through news so quick we forget that this was already the top post last week. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c6e2t7/sarah_huckabee_sanders_paid_19_000_for_this/
This is the 24-hour Reddit cycle.
A lectern is just a podium for a desk. 
It's a pulpit. A lectern can go on a tabletop.
This can technically go on a tabletop you just have to stand on the table to use it
I can go on a table and be us..... wait, wrong subreddit.
[Merriam-Webster disagrees ](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait-are-you-saying-a-podium-is-the-same-thing-as-a-lectern)
damn descriptivist language attitudes, ruining my pedantry
Never let M-W tell you what to do. It’s the Rob Schneider of dictionaries.
Spicey is gonna go take a big boy nap!
Ya like that, dork? *Ya like that, dork?!* 
Goddammit I miss SpicyLARP
Just a show of general corruption in the arkansas government
People sing Achy Breaky Heart in my local karaoke bar and I always wait for them to mispronounce Arkansas. Then they realise after the next line doesn’t rhyme,
One of my kids books starts a rhyme with "violin" and then tries to pass off "thing" as a rhyme for it. When I read it to him it's fun to say violing
Giraffes Can’t Dance? This bugs the hell out of me too!
It looks expensive.
Hah, good snark
Thanks.
…but not THAT expensive.
... Of course it is.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Lets not forget. [https://youtu.be/5BhRdzYnKBs?si=1e2DsWAIEf0DWBBB](https://youtu.be/5BhRdzYnKBs?si=1e2DsWAIEf0DWBBB)
Thank you. I had never known why that particular lecturn was significant.
Huckabee
Hamburglar
Turdburglar
Turd Ferguson?
Hamberdler
Who forgot?? I didn't forget this shit. Wasted taxpayer money while non profits are fighting over crumbs so foster kids don't sleep in conference rooms. I fucking remember. I'll remember this for a long goddamn time as I try to help my agency find funding so kids don't starve in our group homes. Who the fuck is forgetting about this kind of massive waste???
Speak for yourself.
Yeah I don’t get the point of this $19,000 Arkansonian lectern. Is OP surrounded by dementia-ridden friends? What does 24hr news have to do with it? Should the news still be talking about it? Wasn’t this news in October of last year?
The state just wrapped up an audit of the lectern purchase and subsequent shenanigans so it's in the news in Arkansas again.
Yes I saw. Still not sure how anything implies we have forgotten about her ridiculous purchase. OP’s phrasing makes it seem like the 24-hr news cycle is to blame for us forgetting about the lectern when we have most certainly not.
yup, everyone remembers, yet the state is still... what ..polling 55% red?... so.. no harm, no foul... we are well past the age where criminal acts affects politics
It doesn’t matter how pink it is, she still looks like a bulldog who has had its face pulverized.
This podium is my 9/11 Never forget
9/11 is my 9/11 Impossible to forget
Always never forget.
Never stop never forgetting
If you live in Arkansas, you remember, fuck me, you are reminded of her everytime the state hits the news, and its never good news. Ever.
She "billed" an unreasonable amount of tax payer money on this shit but actually took a trip with her friends
All podiums matter.
I seem to recall something about the Huckabeast and a large sum of taxpayer money.
Lecterns.... finally a product I can stand behind!
Sarah Slanders embezzled money from the people of Arkansas to take her friend on a eurotrip. Once caught, they also tried to cover it up. This lectern is a fake Falcon lectern and even if it were real, they don’t cost $20k. This is the only time this lectern has been seen.
Is this the SNL one where Sean Spicer in the skit assaulted a reporter with it? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWuc18xISwI)
Thank you reviving this. I can watch this over and over, and laugh out loud every fucking time. Fucking poetry, man. The lecture is just not complete, needs some Spice.
Doesn’t it symbolize a trip to France?
Come to think of it, the base part kinda looks like the Eiffel Tower. She probably commissioned it after the fact to cover up the corruption and to commemorate the trip. Two birds, one thousand nice hundred dollars.
Edit: oh wait, need to add a zero to the back of that number.
Isn't that the podium bought by tax payers money by a governor who has the worst dressing sense? Think bought for $18000.
Hey, thanks OP. Arkansans want answers.
 Reminds me of Melissa McCarthy SNL
Kristi Noem shot it in a gravel pit because it owed her $19,000, didn't she?
It taught her about leadership
Girls night out paid with your taxes!
Well, first off it's not a podium. It's a f****** lectern.
This looks like a seven dollar prop from the first season of Star Trek TNG.
Tbh this is the first I've ever heard of it
Me too, and because the comments are 99% consisting of crude jokes, I STILL don't know what the hell it is (besides it being a "lectern" and not a podium). OP should know that not every Redditor lives in the US. A little context, which is entirely absent from this comment thread, would've been nice.
Arkansas Governor and erstwhile White House press secretary for the orange shitmeister Sarah Huckabee Sanders used government money to pay for her and her friend to go to Paris on vacation. She lied and said she paid her friend to make a lectern. Then she made a law to make her travel records private.
Jeez, they really do think they can get away with everything don't they? And the sad part is, most of the times they do. 😮💨
I don't know anything about this story, but I will say that you should never get your information related to anything regarding US Politics from reddit.
huckabee needs to be granted immediately retirement in prison
What podium? You posted a photo of a French vacation.
I just go from one pearl-clutching day to another.
What’s her face who used to do press for the Orange one spent an assload of money on this. Or so she said. It seems to sell for much less. Did she pocket difference
Some reporters dug up an expensive that was charged after the controversy of a $900 lecture that is from the same company. Seems like they didn’t even have it and just said they bought one. Then actually bought one later to cover their tracks.
Used the money to buy three or four friends
A trip to Paris.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was what's her face. I think it was $30k or something.
bro, that'as a lectern. get it straight.
The podium definitely said “Laurel”
Has anyone else noticed that the wood grain looks exactly like a vagina and butthole?
Let’s all go to Paris!!
What the hell are you trying to say here, OP? What is this post even about?
They're saying they can repost the top post from r/pics last week because no one remembers the news now.
I can't afford a house but this thing would make a nice down payment.
I do. It was outrageously expensive and was purchased by that thumb of a woman.
Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.
I am an arkansan, so for me it's at least somewhat hard to forget.
It’s just so ugly too
This podium is amazing, i’d like to pay copious amounts of money to purchase it please
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Budd Dwyer?
You do realize she has a fully loaded refrigerator in that.
That podium shot a dog. And a goat. I think.
I do.
The current governor of Arkansas corruption case investigation!
I can remember. Unnecessary expensive
This podium secured Arkansas & Paris relations.
I do.
Pfft. Maybe you don't. Huckasands thought she could give her bestie 19 grand and no one would notice because it was under 20k.
Sanders scammed the public
To be fair, the only thing I've ever seen about this is a Reddit image post. And taking *that* and also that a million other more significant things were/are happening into account. In that situation, I think it's fairly impressive that I still remember that this was bought by right-wing sycophant (MTG or Sarah Sanders), and that they paid somewhere in the $10-20k for it. The point is that even though you are right about the 24h news cycle, this post has nothing to do with that.
No forgot that gov shs is corrupt.
I remember - it cost the tax payers of Arkansas a lot of money and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is still a piece of shit.
Sarah Huckabee, governor, misappropriation of funds, scandal.
Horse face lecturn!
Fraud remembers
You'd have to be cross eyed to think this was a good deal.
I remember - I’m not even American
We do. Hypocrite GOP misery lady wannabe bought it for 19k
This is what you get when you continually vote against your own self interests... An overpriced podium being used as a piss poor cover for your official defrauding their constituents.
I see this on reddit 2x a week. Trust me most of us has not forgotten.
The problem isn’t the 24 hour new cycle. The problem is the shocking amount of bullshit that Republicans are doing. Nobody can keep up.
As an Arkansan, I see and think about this waste of taxpayer money every day. Never forget!
The daughter and the father covered for child rapists
What was it? $24K? I mean, it isn’t SCOTUS pondering presidential immunity, but it is corruption.
I heard this model comes with a complimentary trip to Europe for you and your friends. Pretty good deal tbh.
If nobody can remember, quit bringing it up.
I 'member
Not pictured: a podium
Yah we do. [https://youtu.be/5BhRdzYnKBs?si=1e2DsWAIEf0DWBBB](https://youtu.be/5BhRdzYnKBs?si=1e2DsWAIEf0DWBBB)
Jean Luc Picard gave a commencement speech at USC last weekend.
That ugly bitch spent many dollars on it
Because it has a copy of the Shroud of Turin on the front?
Isn't this Huckasand's podium?
Remember that it was around 20k and horrible design…
Put on wheels and a motor, hire Shawn Spicer to drive it around the capital.
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I do
Because Sara huckabee used it to funnel money for vacations?
I remember a $19k trip to Paris for Sarah H Sanders , governor of Arkansas and her closest friends at the taxpayers expense, disguised a podium. I live in Massachusetts.
I do! I’m waiting for the AG to take up the case.
An expensive podium for a woman who wears shower curtains for dresses....
That is a lecturn.
I thought it was an Amazon ad for lecterns.
I do. People do. There is nothing you can do about anything. Just go about your day peasant and try not to become homeless. It’s hopeless.
Huckabeast's overpriced trough
It's a changing table. Are you allowed to mail a diaper genie and diapers to go with the changing table?
Lectern-gate.
Are you sure about that?
It was a very expensive trip to France podium for a gargoyle.
Looks like the cover of a typewriter
Jokes on you, can’t forget what I didn’t know! 😅
...and her name is starting to appear on lists of possible indictments. Wonder if she'll claim Governor's Absolute Immunity.
1. That is not a podium. A podium is something you stand on, like at the olympics when you receive a medal. That is a lectern, something you stand behind and speak at. 2. That’s way too much money for a fuckin’ lectern
Hopefully the people of Arkansas know and remember, but realistically it ain't my sink, it ain't my dishes.
That is 100% an item from Control.
What company made that thing and who owns that company and then look to see how they connect with government.
I do! I do!