And now - a National Emergency on our power grid...

 

"Why in 2026 are we just addressing this threat? Good question. Good to ask your political candidates when they ring your doorbell. Hint: When the answers come (if they do), have your BS filter cleaned out. Otherwise, it can get very full, very fast."

I am telling you - there is no time to not pay attention to what is happening in the world today. If you blink, you might miss something. But what happened on August 26th is far from being a "nothing burger" - in fact, it is something I have clamoring about long before I had a blog. The question many on the left might be asking now, has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. Their question (or accusation) would be that this entire thing is a canard. There is no threat. Trump just made this up to take the whole Epstein spotlight off of himself. Anybody who thinks that twisted thought, could not be more wrong. The threat is real. The danger is real. 

I do, however, have one question. Since we have known since the 1980s that our grid was a mess and therefore quite vulnerable, what the {blank} took so long? Some energy experts are saying that with our current grid, should we have a failure due to natural or unnatural causes, it could take as long as 18 months to repair. News flash - if that is the case, by the time the 18 months was up and we had a new grid, many of us would be dead. Not having power for water, heat and so forth, can be very fatal.

Finally, somebody in our Energy Department has woken up to the fact that getting important components from China to power our very fragile energy grid is a fool's errand. Why? Here comes the immutable truth - China is not our friend. Have not been since 1949. If they could take us out by foiling our energy grid, that would cause many in Mainland China to do a happy dance. They could neutralize us without firing one shot. 

Is this too little, too late? I sure hope not. I thought the avalanche of new data centers alone would cause us to rethink our grid. But no - it is malware that could be hiding in thousands of Chinese components in our power grid. If time is not of the essence, we can do a deep clean on our entire grid and get rid of anything foreign which could be suspect. It will take time; it will take money. But if we get it done on time, it will be so, so worth it.

Back in the day, I have been through training on what an EMP could do to our country. It is too horrible to even consider. Like I said earlier, we have known about EMPs and the fragility of our power grid for decades. Why in 2026 are we just addressing this threat? Good question. Good to ask your political candidates when they ring your doorbell. Hint: When the answers come (if they do), have your BS filter cleaned out. Otherwise, it can get very full, very fast.