You almost have to respect the commitment to being wrong. It takes real effort to look at a tropical island, a place that gets blasted by the sun almost every single day, and say, 'Nah, let's not use that.' But that is exactly what is happening right now. The big bosses in Washington have decided to scrap millions of dollars meant for solar projects in Puerto Rico.

Apparently, free energy from the sky is a bad idea. Maybe it is too 'woke.' Maybe the sun didn't donate enough money to the right campaign. Who knows? All we know is that the plug has been pulled, and the people on the island are the ones left holding the dead wire.

The electric grid in Puerto Rico is already a joke. It is not just bad; it is tragic. It breaks if the wind blows too hard. It breaks if a bird looks at it the wrong way. People there spend half their lives sitting in the dark, sweating, waiting for the lights to flicker back on. It is a mess. A normal person would look at this and think, 'Hey, maybe we should fix this.' But politicians are not normal people. They are broken robots programmed to make the worst choice possible at every single turn.

So, here is the situation. You have an island. The island has a power grid that works about as well as a chocolate teapot. The island also has endless sunshine. It is right there. It shows up every morning. It does not send a bill. It does not need to be shipped in on a boat. It is the most obvious solution in the history of solutions. Solar panels would give people a way to keep the lights on when the main system fails, which it always does. It would save money. It would save lives. It would make sense.

And that is exactly why it had to die. Making sense is against the rules in government. If you solve a problem, you can't campaign on it later. If you fix the grid, you can't blame the other side for it being broken. It is a sick game, and the scoreboard is just a list of people sitting in the dark with no air conditioning.

The administration says no. They are canceling the projects. Why? They probably have some boring reason written on a piece of paper somewhere. They will talk about budgets or rules or some red tape nonsense. But we all know the truth. They just don't care. They do not care if your food spoils in the fridge. They do not care if your grandma’s oxygen machine stops working. To them, Puerto Rico is just a dot on a map, far away from the fancy dinners and air-conditioned offices in D.C.

It is funny, in a dark, twisted way. We spend billions on things that do not matter. We build tanks the army doesn't want. We build bridges to nowhere. We pay for studies on why shrimp run on treadmills. But putting solar panels on a sunny island? That is where they draw the line. That is 'too much.' It is wasteful, they say. Saving money on fuel is wasteful. having power when a storm hits is wasteful. That is the logic we are dealing with here.

And don't think for a second the other side is any better. The grid has been rotting for years. Decades, even. Plenty of people had the chance to fix this before now. They didn't. They slapped some tape on it and walked away. Now, the current crew comes in and decides to rip the tape off, leaving the wound wide open. It is a bipartisan effort to fail. Everyone holds hands and agrees to let the ship sink.

This is why I hate politics. It is not about Left or Right. It is about Up and Down. The people at the top look down on everyone else and laugh. They play games with money that isn't theirs. They cancel projects just to look tough, or to save a penny today while costing us a dollar tomorrow. They are penny-wise and pound-foolish, except they are also just plain foolish.

So, Puerto Rico stays in the dark. The sun will keep rising every morning, offering free power to anyone smart enough to take it. And the government will keep staring at that sun, squinting, and saying, 'No thanks, we prefer the darkness.' It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. But that is the world we live in. Stupid, cruel, and run by people who couldn't change a lightbulb if their lives depended on it.