As this is written, the wildfires on the island of Maui have destroyed nearly the entire town of Lahaina, have killed at least 114 people, and some 850 people remain missing.  The Hawaiian Islands were formed by fire, and indeed are still in the process of being formed, as a chain of undersea volcanoes has moved its activity from the northwest to the southeast.  Near the center of the chain sits Maui, known as the Valley Isle because it was formed by two volcanoes which spewed lava down each peak to create a valley that connected the two sea mounts into one island.  But enough for the geology.  The west Maui coast is home to most of the big resorts.  Kaanapali to the north, and Kehei and Wailea to the south.  In between these areas was Lahaina.  I say “was” because after the wildfires, Lahaina has all but ceased to exist.  Lahaina began as a whaling town in the 1820’s.  It was the site of most of the better restaurants on the island.  This town of nearly 13,000 residents was almost entirely wiped away by the fires.  Now Hawaii is a very liberal-progressive-woke place.  And of course, its leaders are committed (or is it that they should be committed) to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden’s suicidal plan to end the use of oil and natural gas.  Once the island burned, the Governor immediately blamed the fires on, wait for it – climate change.  A more accurate assessment would have laid the blame, not on climate change, but on the Greenaholic Left’s climate change mandates.  Betsy McCaughey hit the nail on the head with her New York Post article, Greens Burned Maui.  In it she recounts how zero-carbon extremism made the devastating Maui fires almost inevitable.  You see, the Left’s drive to eliminate fossil fuel use, like all stupid Woke hair-brained schemes, has had some unexpected consequences.  Spurred on by extremist Green eco-nuts like Tom Steyer, at who’s $18 million dollar mansion Joe Biden is currently resting his senile old ass, on yet another vacation, the Biden Administration has made destroying oil and gas companies its primary goal.  The drive to move to “renewable” energy sources has put even more stress on the already teetering electricity producing companies, causing the companies to delay or eliminate maintenance measures such as removing vegetation from near power lines and poles.  It seems the money previously used for such things is now being eaten up by the idiotic green energy projects.  Add to the problem the Green maniacs, who have outlawed fire control measures such as brush clearance and controlled burns for fear of releasing CO2.  “No.  Not that!”  And so it came to pass that when winds brought down power lines the fires raged out of control.  But wait.  If the foregoing has made you angry, hold onto your hat, because you ain’t heard nothing yet.  It’s certainly bad enough that the Green movement’s mandates were the main reason the fires got out of control, but firefighting requires water, and the dedication to Woke idiocy denied the Maui residents the water they needed to mitigate the damage.  As with most tropical isles, water on Maui is a precious commodity.  The West Maui Land company manages the water supply, and the Hawaiian Water Resource Management Agency is responsible for directing water on the island.  When the fires hit Lahaina, local officials made an urgent request that water be diverted to the area to be used to put out the fires.  More than five hours went by, while the fires raged out of control, before the water finally was released.  By then, it was too late.  Was it just poor communication, or the chaos, or just negligence?  No.  It was the Left’s preoccupation with what it likes to call “equity.”  The official in charge of making the decision to divert the water explained that the water couldn’t simply be sent to the area on fire right away because he had to first “consider the impacts on downstream users.”  The Woke imbecile continued, “We can share [water] but it requires true conversations about equity,” because “water is a tool of social justice.”  So Maui officials fiddled for five hours while countless people were burned alive, and while the primary commercial center of Maui was razed to the ground after existing for nearly 200 years, and all in the name of the pagan God of Wokeism, “equity.”  When asked about the lack of water to fight the fires, Hawaii Governor Green offered only that we need to “understand there’s been a great deal of water conflict on Maui for many years.”  And such is the harvest of Woke idiocy, who’s adherents would rather see thousands of human beings burn than waiver from their mindless dedication to so-called environmentalism.  Of course, all this was enough of an insult to the good people of Hawaii, before Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden landed on Maui to make an appearance that his political handlers told him was necessary.  Surprising no one, Old Joe only made things worse.  He must have decided it was a good idea at the scene of a holocaust to open with a joke, so he interrupted his mumbling, incomprehensible speech to point out a dog wearing boots.  Biden quipped that the ground must be hot.  At a place where a thousand souls may have been lost, Biden proceeded to make the event about him, recounting the story of his former wife and daughter being killed in a car accident 50 years ago.  Then, in a town where only one house remains standing,

Joe told a story of a 20 minute electrical fire in his kitchen years ago, when he wasn’t home, and no one was injured, complaining that he almost lost his 1967 Corvette.  It may have been Biden’s stupid comments that motivated people along his motorcade route to chant “F*** Joe Biden” and “Thanks for nothing.”  Journalist H.L. Mencken said, “The people get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard.”  The Maui disaster is a case in point.  If you elect a president who barely knows he’s alive, and local officials who don’t have the sense to send water to a fire lest they be criticized for being unsympathetic to the mandates of “equity,” you’ve reaped what you’ve sown.  I’d like to think the Left will learn from this travesty, but it won’t.