Lisa Benson for December 17, 2021

Hey Lisa, how about drawing an honest cartoon, say, with some elephants duct taping the nutcracker shut…

Christmas in Ms. Benson’s biased world. She wouldn’t know the truth if it kicked her in the shin.

So what is supposed to be happening in this cartoon?

Democrats are trying to “crack” the infrastructure bill and failing that, they will try to “crack” voting rights?

If “crack” = “pass legislation for”, then yes, Lisa, you got it right.

Somehow, I don’t think that’s what she means.

Of course Lisa and her gang of rethugs don’t want anything that will benefit the people, and they certainly don’t want fair elections.

Wow. She’s pretty much telling it like it is. Though she’s carefully not pointing out WHY the Senate can’t crack those nuts.

Here’s hoping that Krampus dumps 5 tons of coal on Manchin and gives a super-sized enema for Sinema!!!

/SHNARK/

Lisa finds the concept of actual representative government nutty.

Loony Lisa certainly has some nutty ideas.

We should make it easy and convenient for US citizens to vote legally, but impossible for cheaters to cheat. The voting rights act is nutty because it blatantly makes it much easier to cheat.

Funny comic, Lisa. Well done. #FJB

Great ‘toon! Build Back Bankrupt is just more handouts to liberal cronies. Let’s go, Brandon!

Only the Democrats, are attempting to take care of the people’s needs. The GOP does not have a platform or a plan. They are just interested in having power—not in taking care of the nation’s business. They do like posing for Christmas cards with the family holding assault rifles. What an insult to Jesus Christ, who was the Prince of Peace and who told Peter to put away his sword.

Republican opposition is a tough nut to crack.

Squeezing the wrong nuts here. There are a few (one) senator that needs his put in a vice until he comes to his senses.

Does she know what she means? Weird.

Lisa openly celebrates GQPs performing their obstructions…

At least the Dems are trying to do good things. Not just says NO all the time.

Lisa, sorry to say is a little loony these day!

Benson is “half right” … half the Senate [ the Trump Party ] is made of wood { like a nutcracker }!

Marxist Disciple Democrats are nuts.

“A tough nut to crack”?

Thanks Joe Manchin.

Right. Because having government work for the people is such a bad thing.

We can safely say the Republicans are the shells.

Democrat’s bills are like countries. Did you ever notice that the more the country TRIES to have a name to denote what it is NOT (such as the Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea – North Korea- is not for the people, is not Democratic and is not a Republic) so are the names of Democratic Party Bills. Build Back Better does not Build Back and is not Better. Voting Rights is a Federalization of the US voting system. Goebbles at work again! :-)

The Dem’s are a bunch of nuts.

The real Nut is sitting in the White House eating pudding Pops.

Lisa doesn’t seem to have any clue what she’s implying.

It’s pretty sad, honestly. This is the best she should possibly aspire to be? A paid shill for Autocrats and Fascists?

Heheh, Senator Manchin is one Democrat showing fiscal responsibility and has the cojones to stand up to the rest of his party. The true face of the venomous far left of the Dems has been exposed with their attacks on him. That’s only going to further alienate a guy like him. Keep it up Dems, just drive him to the Republican Party and give them a majority in the Senate. His state swung back towards the red with their last election due to the insanity of the left.

Once again, nothing to see here…In this report, we will blow open this network of still-unindicted key operators who appear to have been at work either with or around Ray Epps during the initial Capitol grounds breach. You, dear reader, will be scandalized — though perhaps unsurprised — to learn that none of the actors covered in this report have received attention in the mainstream press, despite their active and indispensable roles in the events of 1/6.As we explained in detail in our previous report, the FBI originally put Ray Epps’s face on its Capitol Violence “Most Wanted List” on January 8, 2021, just two days after 1/6. They offered a cash reward for information leading to his arrest. In fact, rank-and-file FBI agents initially deemed Epps’s role as an apparent riot organizer so important that they named him Suspect #16—one of the first 20 high-profile FBI targets in a database now packed with more than 500 suspects.Then, six months later on June 30, 2021, both Revolver News and The New York Times published inconvenient stories that encouraged a more aggressive interrogation of the “Ray Epps third rail,” leading reasonable people to wonder why this publicly identified man on the Most Wanted List still had no charges filed against him.The FBI responded to these important media stories the very next day. But their response was to quietly purge all online Ray Epps files from their website, then switch to a posture of “What? Who? Ray Epps? Never heard of him.”Agents of the FBI Field Office in Phoenix (where Epps lives) have gone so far as to explicitly deny knowledge that Ray Epps even exists. https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/

And look at that, nothing to see here either!In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research.https://archive.fo/gy6HW#selection-4241.0-4245.102

Oh and nothing here either: I could do this all day…The simplest way to understand the insanity of boosting for OmicronIf the first-generation monoclonal antibodies are now so useless that they’re being retired, why would the first-generation vaccines be any better?Alex Berenson

We call them vaccines. But it is clear after a year of use that the mRNA shots do not produce a robust long-term B- or T-cell immune response.

What they do is drive up antibodies to the spike protein (to unnaturally high levels, levels that all by themselves may cause problems, but put that aside). And those antibodies are extremely narrowly focused, not just on the spike protein but on a particular part of it.

In other words, they basically turn your body into a factory for generating monoclonal antibodies for the original wild-type virus.

But THOSE ANTIBODIES DON’T WORK ANYMORE AGAINST OMICRON. Its shape is too different. They can’t attach properly. Which is why the Lilly and Regeneron antibodies are being phased out.https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-simplest-way-to-understand-the

Nothing they did, it’s all the right propaganda that continues to do them in, yup, there I said if for you.It wasn’t a good autumn for Joe Biden and the Democrats. The president’s approval rating was down to a Trump-like 41 percent in an NPR poll released on Monday.Why?British prime minister Harold Macmillan supposedly replied to a question about what is the most important influence on his term of office with, “Events, dear boy, events.”Biden isn’t that suave, but he would have some justification for blaming the Democrats’ tumble on a series of unfortunate events. But much of the ruling party’s growing unpopularity stems from inevitable outgrowths of their fundamental 21st-century political strategy of exacerbating divisiveness in the name of diversity.And Democrats alienated Hispanics and, increasingly, Asians by anointing blacks as their moral leaders and deciding that black interests trump all others. Thus, in this new poll, Biden’s approval rating among Hispanics was only 33 percent. (Granted, that’s a small sample size, and the number is drawing attention precisely because it’s something of an outlier. But still, it’s another example of a trend worrying Democrats.)The big decline in Biden’s polls happened in August during the tactically inept fall of Afghanistan. The press had been covering for him, but Kabul punctured the administration’s claim to competence.

Biden also bet heavily that he could double down on the already expansive Trumponomics with lavish spending on the Democratic Party’s Christmas wish list without provoking retail price inflation.After all, the government had long been printing money to keep interest rates quite low, with the outcome being mostly asset price inflation (which pleases asset holders, so it’s not as politically fraught as supermarket inflation). Biden presumably looked at the recent past and reasoned: Who really understands macroeconomics anyway? So maybe we can push our luck much further and get away with it.But now we seem to be back finally to 1970s-style inflation.And, of course, Covid keeps mutating unpredictably, undermining the appeal of the administration’s mantra that they will succeed by following The Science. In truth, nobody much knows what will happen next.But other political problems the Democrats are running into are closer to inevitable by-products of their grand strategy of riding the diversity train to triumph.

As I’ve been pointing out for years, in an era of high immigration and the worship of diversity, it makes sense for the Democrats to try to assemble a coalition from the fringes of American society: immigrants, blacks, LGBTQ+, and so forth, and to encourage the concoction of more of their constituents by not defending the border, encouraging teenage girls to have themselves disfigured, etc…One downside to diversity, of course, is its disunity. What can bring together so many odd lots of voters?The Democrats’ main strategy for that has been to foster hatred of core Americans as something all Democrats can agree upon, tearing down the statues of their ancestors and denying their accomplishments. As Joe Biden said in Kenosha in 2020: “A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Tom Edison.”Core Americans have tended to be remarkably easy-going about all the defamation. But, eventually, even straight white males start to catch on.

Moreover, there is a constant struggle among the various activists to exalt their group as the most oppressed. Blacks seemingly won a historic victory on May 25, 2020, over the immigrant ethnic groups that are actually supposed to provide the Democrats’ incremental votes to be the sacred cows of wokeness.

But the subsequent black crime spree has left the Democrats in a tight spot, with even San Francisco Democrats like Gavin Newsom and London Breed now talking tough on crime.

The Hispanic revolt against the Democrats is likely due to their politicians allowing, even encouraging, blacks to steal with impunity during the Mostly Peaceful Protests.What about Latino criminals? At present, we don’t have terribly reliable statistics on how much Hispanics are contributing to the murder and robbery surge of the past eighteen months.It could be a significant amount. For instance, in California in 2020, there were 40 percent more black murder victims, reflecting the obvious tsunami of black-on-black shootings. But Hispanic victims were also up 34 percent, while white deaths increased 9 percent.It would be useful to know how much Hispanics are participating in the crime wave because it could help us understand if the murder surge is more due to the police pulling back or to blacks becoming more exultant.But in any case, Latino voters seem less sympathetic toward their own criminals, much less toward black lawbreakers.

Dumbing down their kids’ schooling in the name of black self-esteem is anathema to Asian parents. Taibbi quotes one Indian-American:“You watch. Indian and Chinese immigrants who typically vote Democratic will vote the other way because education for children is their number one issue. It’s why they came here.”Nor are Asians immune to the rise in black crime. A New York Times headline reads:In Fight Against Violence, Asian and Black Activists Struggle to Agree: Calls for unity have ebbed over disagreements on one main issue: policing.In other words, the apparent increase in beatings of small elderly Asians by large young black muggers and maniacs is causing Chinatown activists to demand more cops on the beat, much to the dismay of BLM activists. It’s almost as if Asians and blacks have different interests and blaming everything on ex-President Trump saying the words “China virus” is a rapidly deteriorating Band-Aid.

The Democrats deciding they must put blacks in charge (symbolized by Joe’s affirmative-action choice of the inept Kamala) is like making the drummer the leader of the rock band. Drummers are important, but they tend not to be the main composers. It’s as if John and Paul had responded to George’s complaints about not getting enough songs on the Beatles’ albums by realizing that Ringo had even fewer and declaring, in the manner of Ibram X. Kendi, that Beatles records would feature nothing but the drummer’s ditties until equity had finally been attained.

DIVERSITYWhat’s the Matter With the Democrats?Steve Sailer https://www.takimag.com/article/whats-the-matter-with-the-democrats/

Biden, Democrats and China are to blame for America’s stagflation messAmerica’s working classes and small businesses are under attack from a virulent inflation By Peter Navarro | Fox NewsWhen President Joe Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline and ended the leasing of Federal lands for oil and gas exploration, he not only ensured an energy price shock. He would spike food prices. To understand why is to understand the stagflationary morass America now finds itself in.Amidst slowing economic growth, America’s working classes and small businesses are indeed under attack from a virulent inflation. Milk is up 4.5% annually, beef 13.9%, used car and truck prices have broken the 30% barrier while gas prices are up nearly 60%. While gross pay has increased by 4.8%, real wages are down by nearly 2%.

Demand-pull inflation happens when “too much money chases too few goods.” A profligate White House and Democrat Congress have appropriated trillions upon trillions of poorly targeted expenditures while the Federal Reserve has accommodated this profligacy by running a massive printing press.

After lying to us that the resulting inflation would be “transitory,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell finally fessed up when he announced an acceleration of the tapering of the Fed’s accommodation – effectively ending Powell’s ultra-easy money policies. Note to Jay: This action will NOT end the budding wage-price spiral.

America’s far bigger problem is the cost-push inflationary pressures arising primarily from food and energy price shocks but also from broken global supply chains and the export of Made in China inflation. And the Fed has nary a tool in its shed to fight any of this.Consider what happens when energy and gasoline prices rise. Businesses cut output. Consumers have less purchasing power for holiday shopping. In the aggregate, the result is slower growth – that’s the stag part of the stagflation equation. If the Fed engages in contractionary monetary policy as a “cure,” this merely exacerbates the stag part of the problem. America’s current energy price shock is indeed a politician-made disaster. Canceling the Keystone Pipeline, ending petroleum exploration on federal lands, and more broadly signaling to petroleum producers that additional investment will be penalized by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her Green New Deal cadres has led inevitably to cost-push inflation in the oil patch.