Lisa Benson for March 07, 2023

Garbage bin fire.

Lisa is going with the basic right wing trait when they finally have to admit that they have created a dumpster fire and it’s their fault: “the other guy is bad too!” Own your own problems, Lisa.

American economy is pretty good but the American Dream is alive and well and living in Canada. And we’re crying for workers. Any of you ’Mericans want a job in the oil, gas, lumber, or agriculture sectors that will pay $900 a day with free medical, dental, and drug benefits?

( ‘Cause that’s how civilized countries do things. We’ll even take Mexicans.)

Can we just start over with two new candidates, please?

It ISN’T Republicans that burn things [while CNN says: “Mostly peaceful protests.”] Trump is pro police and wants laws to be obeyed. In his speech he asked for peaceful protests [just like pro-life marches.]

Wait a minute. The current economic growth in the US is 2.7% after a 3.2% quarter. The unemployment rate is 3.2%. Is there anyone here who doesn’t believe that a Republican Administration would be crowing about how great the economy is?

This a good example of gaslighting.

When there’s no defense for your guy, claim everyone is doing it.

Trump admin is the dumpster fire.

More a comment about ’Benson’s "incompetency"’ as a political observer….

Neither one is correct of course. Now what is the agenda? Soon to be revealed we can only guess, but it likely involves the most radical emerging republican candidate

Florida is banning books. Burning books is the next step, as is illustrated by this cartoon.

I suspect that, due to the nastiness involved in today’s politics, we’re missing out on the best possible leaders that we might have – they don’t think it’s worth it.

Running for political office today – especially the presidency – indicates that one is a candidate for a competency test.

If it does end up as 2020 redux, remember Trump has promised his minions this:

“In 2016, I declared, ‘I am your voice.’ Today I add: ‘I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution!’”

His continued divisiveness should be more than enough to disqualify him, but he did say he could shoot someone dead on 5th Ave. and not lose support. Gonna be a bumpy ride.

Why have all Trump’s doctors signed an NDA?

I’m rarely critical of Lisa Benson, but maybe she has missed the various releases of Jan 6 footage that answers the question of whether Jan 6 was an “insurrection” or a “peaceful protest” manipulated by those who were so invested in discrediting Trump. Then they sold it as an unpatriotic riot meant to disrupt our democracy…(since I never for a second believed our system was that flimsy and fragile, I never gave any credence to a bunch of AARP tourists and a few hooligans to bring down our republic.

The unleashing of the truth is neutering the wag the dog tale

According to the security footage aired by Carlson on Monday night, Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick – who was reported “slain” on January 6 after allegedly being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher – was seen walking uninjured through the Capitol building after he was supposedly murdered by the mob outside.

Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol Police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the behorned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate. “The tapes show the Capitol Police never stopped Jacob Chansley. They helped him. They acted as his tour guides.” Then they escort him to various entrances of the chamber that appear to be locked. Eventually, they help him open a door, and he enters the chamber. In a jailhouse interview played by Carlson, he says: “The one very serious regret that I have [is] believing that when we were waved in by police officers, that it was acceptable.”

In a statement, the Capitol Police suggest that one of the officers with Chansley was trying to “de-escalate” the situation because he was outnumbered. But that does not explain why Chansley, who was unarmed, was able to walk past seven more officers without being apprehended. “Not one of them even tried to slow him down,” says Carlson. He “understood that the Capitol Police were his allies. … If he was in the act of committing such a grave crime, why didn’t the officers standing right next to him place him under arrest?

Overall, the footage confirms that those who entered the Capitol that day overwhelmingly treated it with respect, cueing like tourists and taking selfies. The more we learn the more the whole affair looks like a synthetic event purely manufactured to support the weaponization of the of the Federal regime against its political enemies. – Revolver News

The House of Reps needs a competency test,

Marjorie Taylor Greene rages about ‘gyrating’ drag queens in House floor rant

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday unleashed an angry tirade against transgender Americans on the floor of the House of Representatives.While proposing a new nationwide ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the conspiracy theory-promoting Georgia congresswoman accused transgender Americans of being part of a sinister plot to sexualize American children.

It continues to amaze that Republicans continue to believe Tucker Carlson and the Fox network after they have have been documented as LIARS in court.

Not only that, but the fox personalities have expressed contempt for their viewers and believe that they are stupid.

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Even Moscow Mitch admits that Fox LIES.

Present day inflation reality: US INFLATION FACTORS JAN 2020—2.5%, FEB 2020 —2.3%, MAR 2020—1.5%, APR 2020—0.3%, MAY 2020—0.1%, JUN 2020—0.6%, JUL 2020—1.0%, AUG 2020—1.3%, SEP 2020—1.4%, OCT 2020 – 1.2 , NOV 2020 – 1.2 %, DEC 2020 – 1.4 %, JAN 2021 – 1.4 %, FEB 2021 – 1.7, MAR 2021 – 2.6%, APR 2021 – 4.2%, MAY 2021 – 5%, JUNE 2021-5.4%, JULY 2021- 5.3%, AUG 2021 – 5.3%, SEP 2021 – 5.4%, OCT 2021 – 6.2%, NOV 2021 – 6.8%, DEC 2021 – 7%, JAN 2022 – 7.5%, FEB 2022 7.9%, MAR 2022 – 8.5%, APR – 8.3%, MAY 2022 – 8.6%, JUNE 2022 9.1%, JULY 2022 –8.5%, AUGUST 2022 – 8.3%, SEPTEMBER 2022 – 8.2%, OCTOBER 2O22 – 7.7%, NOVEMBER 2022 – 7.1% , DECEMBER 2022 – 6.5%, JANUARY 2023 – 6.4%.

AVERAGE ANNUAL INFLATION: 2017- 2.1%, 2018 – 2.4%, 2019 – 1.8%, 2020 – 1.2%, 2021 – 4.7%, 2022 – 8.0%. usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/

Dumb and dumber!

Thanks Joek, this ought to put a further strain on the hard working legal, taxpayers, but hey, who cares, your Ukraine Oligarch buddies are good:

FIRST ON FOX: Illegal immigration is now costing U.S. taxpayers $151 billion a year, marking a 30% increase in five years, according to a new study by a hawkish immigration group being released this week.

The study, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2023” by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) concludes that American taxpayers pay overall around $182 billion annually for services and benefits to illegal immigrants. However, those costs are offset by around $31 billion in taxes collected from what they estimate are 15.5 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.

The largest cost that FAIR identifies is K-12 education, which the group estimates costs a total of $78 billion a year. Health care – including uncompensated hospital expenditures, Medicaid fraud and Medicaid for U.S. born children – is estimated to cost $42.7 billion a year. Costs related to criminal justice at the federal, state and local levels, which includes federal immigration enforcement, are estimated at approximately $47 billion a year.

Food assistance and nutrition programs, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) costs are estimated by the group to cost about $13.5 billion a year. The study estimates that each illegal immigrant or U.S.-born child of illegal immigrants costs $8,776 a year, and costs each taxpayer $1,156 a year.

“As America struggles to meet countless societal needs while facing the realities of our staggering $31 trillion national debt, the costs of providing for millions of people who have no legal right to be in the United States continues to grow at an alarming rate,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in a statement.

That’s by far the most even-handed strip I’ve ever seen by Lisa. Maybe she got her meds balanced?

Dims doing what dims do best: Ranking Dem Derails Covid-Origins Hearing by Smearing Witness as Racist

Rather than trying to get to the bottom of how the pandemic began, Representative Raul Ruiz (D., N.M.) spent his allotted time during Wednesday morning’s hearing on Covid’s origins berating one of the witnesses over a book he wrote ten years earlier on the human genome, implying that the book was motivated by racism.

Representative Kweisi Mfume joined Ruiz in smearing Wade as a racist, claiming that Wade’s theory about Covid’s origins are “steeped” in racism.

Wade used the beginning of his opening statement to counter Ruiz’s characterization of his book, accusing him of parroting “untrue” claims about the book popularized by academics seeking to discredit him.

“This was a determinedly non-racist book, it has no scientific errors that I’m aware of, it has no racist statements and it stresses the theme of unity that we are all variations on the same human genome,” Wade said. “My book was vigorously attacked by obscurantist academics who want everyone else to believe that there is no biological basis to race. And my book was as welcome to them as pictures of the earth from space are to flat-earthers.”

“I have nothing to be ashamed of in my book. It’s the only place you can now read about what the genome says about human races and I hope that Mr. Ruiz if he reads it will be pleasantly surprised to find it says none of the things he says it says,” he concluded.

Asked by Ruiz whether Wade was a valuable witness, Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was unequivocal in his praise for the veteran science journalist.- National Review

Definite statement we don’t need either of these old guys.