1) DeSantis Versus Biden Hurricane Response – You Be the Judge
Five days after the hurricane hit, there are still over 1.5 million American households without power.
Here are the numbers:
A few takeaways from this crisis. First, kudos to Ron DeSantis for expert and timely intervention to avert a disaster in Florida, which is mostly back up and running, and now deploying crews to help in the other states that were hit. Biden's readiness and response has been incompetent.
Second, the loss of electric power is a life-threatening event during a natural disaster. Hurricane Helene is yet another wake-up call for America and our politicians to safeguard our fragile grid system. The left is preoccupied with replacing coal and nuclear power (which are reliable and cheap) with unreliable and intermittent "renewable energy." If we go down that path, we will experience routine outages and not just due to Mother Nature. Just ask Californians how going green is working out for them.
Third, can you imagine if we were 100% electric vehicles right now? What a calamity! Tens of millions of Americans would be trapped and immobile. Biden wants all gas cars and trucks eliminated in the next dozen years. See below.
As if the electric grid weren't strained enough, there's this.
We've run items before showing charts of electric vehicle market share and of the Biden mandate schedule, but it helps to see them together on one chart:
This is a disaster right around the corner. Just two years from now when the model year 2027 vehicles that people don't want hit dealer lots. The price of gas cars will skyrocket.
There are at least a dozen big Obamacare lies and broken promises. Some are already famous: if you like your plan, you can keep your plan and you'll save $2,500. But the bottom line of a health care law should be health – and the health of Americans measured by life expectancy dropped sharply when Obamacare was implemented. This chart, from our forthcoming Unleash Prosperity study, shows what happened, driven by an opioid epidemic that was not ameliorated (and may have been exacerbated) by Obamacare:
4) John Kerry Is Back and Wants to Repeal the First Amendment
If you thought former Secretary of State and former Biden "climate czar" John Kerry had already reached the apex of his lunacy, you were wrong.
At last week's World Economic Forum, Kerry answered a question about climate "misinformation" with a direct attack on the First Amendment:
"The dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing. It is part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't -- the referees we used to have to determine what is a fact and what isn't a fact have kind of been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And people go and self-select where they go for their news, for their information. And then you get into a vicious cycle."
Kerry believes the public is too dumb or gullible to make up its own mind:
If people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
By the way: when you silence and punish all opposing viewpoints, you dictate by government fiat a scientific consensus. Climate change fanaticism is becoming a modern version of the flat earth society.
There is mounting evidence that the panicked lockdown response that needlessly destroyed hundreds of thousands of American lives, put millions of adults out of work, and millions of children out of school, was motivated in large part by a desire to cover up the role of the NIH in funding risky virus research (with your tax dollars) that they were afraid caused the pandemic.
David Morens, the disgraced Fauci lieutenant who conducted his cover-up work business on Gmail accounts, and maintained an illicit backchannel to Fauci was asked about this email in his recent testimony to the House:
He identified the lady who taught him how to destroy government records to avoid complying with FOIA requests as Marg Moore. This week she will plead the fifth, refusing to testify to House investigators on the ground she might incriminate herself:
The good news is that Rand Paul's bill to subject risky biomedical research to oversight passed committee last week on 8-1 bipartisan vote, with only Newsom-appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler voting no.
The bad news is that Fauci, Collins, and their associates are still seen as heroes by half the country, and may never face personal accountability. And we can't help but wonder how many other federal agencies have FOIA officers who hate FOIA and teach federal employees how to destroy public records.
