Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Jeff Landry are haunted by a nasty bet involving out-of-season crawfish

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry took a break from sending the Bayou State back to the Stone Age so he could make a bet with Sarah Huckabee Sanders about college football and the off-season crawfish.

Let’s see if the baby political nepo accepts!

Using a tired political trick, Landry bet his fellow gay-hating governor that LSU would beat Arkansas next weekend.

“Hey @SarahHuckabee! I’m low on bacon,” he posted. “When @LSUfootball beats @ArkRazorbacks this weekend, I would love some Coursey bacon. If you win, I’ll send you a bag of crayfish.”

The tradition of American politicians betting on the outcome of sporting events dates back to 1938, when the mayors of New York and Chicago bet on the World Series.

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York offered to send over 500 pounds of cheese if the Cubs defeated the Yankees, while Mayor Edward Kelly of Chicago offered a whole pig (the Yankees won all four games).

When La Guardia received the pig, he hailed Kelly as a “gentleman and good sport.” But Sanders’ words might not be so kind if she gets the lobster.

That’s because… October is no crawfish season. According to “welovecrawfish.com”, the season runs from mid-January to early July, with the peak months being March, April and May.

“We enjoyed the 2024 crawfish season and are sad to see it ending now, in the summer!” the website says. “But the 2025 crawfish season will be here before we know it!”

It appears Landry took those words literally. As many pointed out on social media, it sounds like lobster in October 🤮🤮🤮!

I love a bag of October crawfish https://t.co/kvUBb8I2w9

-Jackson Voss (@jacksonvoss) October 16, 2024

“Catching crawfish from the governor of Louisiana in October” sounds like one of those comical Southern comparisons for someone who gives you a terrible gift on purpose https://t.co/12KeU6J2Lf

-Andrew (@BookOfSz) October 17, 2024

You must really hate it if you’re offering crawfish in the fall. lol

– Courtyard Brewery (@CourtyardBrew) October 16, 2024

Of course, if anyone deserves crawfish months out of season, it’s probably Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The governor of Arkansas has spent the last few months trying to denigrate Kamala Harris, only for his petty barbs to backfire.

More recently, Sanders insulted Harris for not having biological children. The vice president responded by reminding him that this is no longer the 1950s.

“I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women here who don’t aspire to be humble. Second, there are a lot of women here who have a lot of family in their lives. And children in their lives. I think it’s really important for women to stand up,” she said.

With two adopted children, Harris has a true modern family.

“We have our blood family. So we have our family out of love. And I have both. I consider it a true blessing”, he added. “I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me ‘Momala’. We have a very modern family. My husband’s ex-wife is my friend.”

This is an amazing response from Kamala Harris to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ insult: “I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women here who don’t want to be humble. This is not the 1950s anymore.” Right. pic.twitter.com/AjtDAhQVcv

-Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) October 6, 2024

Ranked as the most conservative governor in the country by CPAC, Sanders has gone to great lengths to harm LGBTQ+ people. She signed a bill banning trans youth from using the bathroom of their choice at school and opened the law to allow malpractice lawsuits against doctors who administer gender-affirming care.

Teachers are also banned from referring to students with their preferred pronouns and a bill limits drag performances. The word “Latinx” and other gender-neutral terms were removed from all state documents.

Landry, for her part, is also vehemently anti-LGBTQ+. Despite having a gay brother, the governor has made discrimination against queer people one of his main goals as an elected official.

While serving as Louisiana’s attorney general, he successfully won a court battle against the state’s then-Democratic governor to overturn existing LGBTQ+ protections for state employees.

A few years later, he joined several other Republican state attorneys general in signing a brief that called on the Supreme Court to rule that the Civil Rights Act does not cover discrimination due to sexual orientation or gender identity. (The Court, which was a little more sensible at the time, ruled that the law prohibits such discrimination.)

But that’s not all. Landry also played a key role in Louisiana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and campaigned for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to rescind offering minors in LGBTQ+ studies. Landry’s hateful antics led his brother, Nicholas, to repudiate his homophobic views.

A religious fanatic – Landry signed legislation forcing public school teachers to hang the Ten Commandments in their classrooms – the governor is also a supporter of mass incarceration. Louisiana officials are investing tens of millions of dollars in expanding juvenile detention centers.

Last summer, Landry signed a bill allowing surgical castration to be used as punishment for sex crimes. (That’s right: surgical castration.)

So yeah…your little college football bet on Sanders isn’t very cute. In fact, you could say it stinks like October lobster.