According to Sky News in Britain, the price of electricity is so high that many with lower incomes cannot afford to do their laundry.  It takes a blogger to figure out that the reason energy prices are skyrocketing in Britain is trying to make electricity without carbon emissions.  Oops.

Science works best when it lives within the boundaries of economic reality.  Somehow, in the entire climate change debate we have decided to jettison economic realities.  The price tag does not seem to matter, and yet if it doesn’t, look what happens – kids go to school in filthy clothing.  After decades of government trying to alleviate poverty, they seem to be creating it.

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I wrote on Friday of being forward looking – to building good, not just finding and correcting fault.  It seems I am not alone in this assessment.

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My feeds are full of reporting that after this election everything is changing, like the whole world has shifted on its axis.  Leading the charge is this Politco piece.

Was it a temporary blip? No doubt. Presidents always drive news, and Drudge always finds it. But the site knows the audience well, meaning its post-election programming choices are also a good indication of where the emotional energy of anti-Trump America is headed: Instead of tuning in, the audiences that fueled the post-2016 resistance are checking out. A slew of other early media data points suggest the same thing.

There’s more and I think it deeper than Politico suggests.

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This:

Three people were indicted on federal charges that accuse them of staging a cross-burning to generate support for a Black mayoral candidate in Colorado Springs in what prosecutors described as a hate-crime hoax.

We “fight hate” a lot in this country, but the fight has not produced anything positive.  If anything, it has increased resentment, and here we see it has engendered fraud.

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Two stories of government amok continue to resonate, continue to demonstrate just how massive is the task before us – Peanut the Squirrel and the FEMA discriminatory practices.  New details have emerged.

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We watch movies over and over and over again.  On free streaming TV there are channels that do nothing but play all the episodes of a given old TV show on a continuous loop.  Some shows (e.g. Law and Order — The Andy Griffith Show) seem always available on broadcast TV.  When it is done well, we love a rerun.  But there is no such thing as a political rerun.  This Trump campaign looked very different than the last, which was very different than the one before it.  This Trump transition is already, just days into it, radically different than the last one.

Yet so many in media and the commentariat seem to think this is a rerun.  I have, in the last few days, seen way too many Trump hit pieces that are remarkably similar to what we saw four-to-eight short years ago.  The host thinks legacy media dead.  Rerunning the old tired anti-Trump nonsense is a way certain to guarantee it.

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Senator Rick Scott of Florida joined me this morning. Senator Scott, like Senators Cornyn and Thune, are longtime friends and great conservatives. The GOP will be led well by whomever succeeds Leader McConnell:

Audio:

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Transcript:

HH: Someday, Democrats are going to learn. You can’t beat Ted Cruz in Texas, and you cannot beat Rick Scott in Florida. He joins me now. Rick Scott, congratulations on your reelection, and handy reelection. They poured a lot of money into trying to beat you. What was the final margin, Senator?

RS: 1.4 million votes.

HH: (laughing)

RS: I won Miami-Dade by 10 points, won Osceola, which is the Puerto Rican majority county. We won the county that Tampa’s in. We won the county that St. Pete’s in. We won the county that Jacksonville’s in, and of course, we won Miami big. So 5.9 million votes. You know, we are, Florida is the center of the Republican Party in America, and look, everybody from Florida is getting appointed.

HH: You know, Senator, I want to point out that you ran for governor twice. They tried to knock you off. This is your second run for senator. I don’t know how much money’s been spent against you, but do you think they’ll give up now?

RS: I think they should give up on Florida. I bet they spent $300 million dollars against me.

HH: Yeah, it’s crazy. It’s like you and Cruz. You bankrupted the Democratic Party. So Senator, let’s talk about tomorrow. I’ve had John Thune on. If John Cornyn calls, all three of you guys are great friends of mine and to the program.

RS: Yeah.

HH: Why are you running for leader?

RS: Well, I’m running because I think we have to have, you know, a dramatic change. We’ve got to get the Trump agenda accomplished. I’m a business guy. I know how to get things done. I talked to my colleagues. They know that we have to have big change. They want to get treated as equals. They want us to have an agenda. They want to be part of a team. They know I’ve got a great working relationship with Donald Trump and with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. And I’m a business guy. Business guy. What do you do? You have a purpose, you build a team, you write a plan, you made your living…and guess what? You have success. So I think that’s what we’ve got to do. We’ve got to have success. We’ve got to get this stuff done.

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President-Elect Trump is making great appointments at a breakneck pace.  Meanwhile, the usual suspects are getting set up to oppose every breathe he takes.  That’s politics.  What’s not politics as usual is the people that are experiencing genuine deep emotional distress as a result of the election, and people who are supposed to help with our mental health, breaking up family support systems.  Elections are elections, politics is politics, but there is something much deeper wrong here.

The signs of issues on a soul rending level are even deeper.

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