We’ve been following the story of FEMA’s use of political considerations in dispensing aid in Florida after Milton.  Yesterday, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell gave congressional testimony on the issue.  Coverage from FOX and Washington Times.  She insists this was an isolated incident but agreed to an IG investigation.  Meanwhile, the fired FEMA employee did some media and insists it is widespread.  There is commentary from one of the better bloggers and the Washington Times.

The bottom line here is that corruption, and make no mistake this is corruption, is generally not intentional, is generally not a result of deciding to be corrupt.  Rather it rides in, disguised as a good thing, and fools you into adopting it.

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The Left seems to think this is war and therefore they are justified in doing anything…anything.  The Bucks County PA Board of Elections is bound and determined to count illegal votes.  So much so the State Supreme Court has had to call them out reminding them they are ordered not to do so.  Apparently, the University of Oklahoma is going to require DEI courses, despite the governor have ordered they not do so.  Two examples, but I am sure not an exhaustive list, of the Left feeling entirely free to ignore the law.

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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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