Welcome to the RedState Weekly Briefing  — where we take a quick look at the week’s most viewed stories in case you missed any of them. Grab a cup of coffee — or, hey, we're heading into winter/holiday time, hot chocolate — and sit down with this 21st Century Weekend Edition of your favorite (online) publication!

#1 - Mike Lee Isn't Done With Liz Cheney Yet. He Had a Great Question for Her About Those FBI Agents and J6 — by Nick Arama

"Shouldn't the J6 committee have been demanding answers to this question?" Lee wrote, linking a story about how the FBI had lost count of how many informants they had at the Capitol on Jan. 6; they had to do an audit to figure it out, according to an ex-official. 

The Committee should have demanded answers, if they were interested in the truth. But they weren't interested in that. If they were, they would have put people on the Committee who weren't biased, that wanted the truth. But they wanted to push only one narrative, to use it as a means to attack Donald Trump and Republicans in the run-up to the 2022 election.

#2 - Chevrolet Has a New Christmas Ad, and Break Out the Tissues, It's Wonderful — by Nick Arama 

It has beautiful photography and was filmed in middle America, in Holly, Michigan, with talk of the Bittersweet Cafe and Saginaw. It reminds us of all those wonderful things that bring joy to our lives and spark our memories as a family gathers together for Christmas. The grandfather sadly admits there are days the grandmother is not fully there because of her Alzheimer's: "There are some days where she doesn't even recognize me," he tells the daughter. The granddaughter is listening and has a brainstorm to make sure it is a "good day."

She then takes the grandmother to some of the surroundings of her past in the 1972 Chevrolet Suburban, to her high school, to the house where she used to live, playing John Denver's "Sunshine on My Shoulders," reminding her as they pass the drive-in how she packed all the grandkids into the car to go there. Gradually, it helps bring back all those memories of her life.

#3 - Biden Tells More Whoppers at Military Event As Jill's Face Seems to Say It for All of Us — by Nick Arama

Notice he starts to say that he was "appointed" but stops himself. At least he didn't say that, but he implied it anyway to those who actually were serving. Not a good thing to make up such things to those who truly serve. 

"By the way, I'm all Navy, but, uh, I was appointed to the, eh, anyway, I was going to go play at the Naval Academy 'til I found out the other guys in the backfield were a guy named Roger Staubach and Joe, Joe  Bellino," Biden said. "So I decided to go to Delaware." 

Last year, he claimed he got an appointment to the Naval Academy in 1965. Except that didn't make a lot of sense because he was graduating from college already in 1965, from the University of Delaware. The part about Staubach and Bellino didn't make any sense either. Staubach graduated in 1965, and Joe Bellino in 1961. So, even that part didn’t add up. Biden told a whole story that could not have happened to military members who are truly going to serve. Plus, Biden got deferments and never served. He also only briefly played football at Delaware, so he had no real football career.

#4 - Five Woke Companies You'll Want to Avoid When Shopping This Holiday Season — by Teri Christoph

Here are five places to avoid this shopping season, as compiled by Consumers' Research. Some of these may surprise you.

TARGET

What will come as no surprise to any of you is that Target is on the list of places to avoid, and not just during the holidays. They have embraced DEI initiatives like no other retail giant, showing their true colors when they released their now-infamous "tuck-friendly" bathing suit to celebrate Pride Month. Despite receiving fierce blowback for their efforts to erase womanhood and indoctrinate young children, Target has proceeded with its tone-deaf agenda and recently released a line of woke Christmas items. Its tanking stock price shows just how out of step they are with consumers.

BEST BUY

This one hurts. Best Buy is well-known for it's smoking hot holiday deals, with people camping out to get in on the Black Friday discounts. Unfortunately, Best Buy is also known for adopting "a race-based management training program that prioritized race above other factors by requiring applicants to 'identify as Black, Latino, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander.''' This program is still in place, and the big box retailer has big plans for 2024: prioritizing the hiring of BIPOC and women corporate employees.

#5 - WATCH: Saturday Night Live Does the Unthinkable, Mocks Men Competing Against Women in Sports — by Bonchie

Mimicking Netflix's "Untold Stories" series, the skit tells the story of Charna Lee Diamond and Ronnie Dunster. You have to watch it to get the full effect, but the brief summary is that things go badly when the tennis match starts between the two. Yet, instead of just conceding after her first hilarious injury, Diamond demands Dunster serve again in order to prove that women can compete with men. You can take a guess at how that turns out. 

For those who can't click play, I will go ahead and spoil that the skit doesn't take the idea further and mock transgender athletes who take advantage of women. There's an underlying sense that's what's really being made fun of, but SNL is never going to go there. It'd cause a thermonuclear reaction, and this is still NBC we are talking about. 

Still, in the face of the recent news involving Megan Rapinoe, who gained notoriety insisting women should be paid the same as men in sports, there's still a lot to laugh at. Can a WNBA team hang with an NBA team? Of course, not, but if you say that out loud, you get jeered as a bigoted misogynist. Reality says a WNBA would get beat by a mid-level boys high school team. Heck, I think that may have happened at some point already.