Even a brief glimpse of the America of August 2022 reveals a stark and dangerously deteriorated caricature of what it was when the left seized power in 2020. By every measurable standard, things which had been good and improving since President Trump’s inauguration in 2017 have taken a serious downturn. The evidence is everywhere around us. From our international standing, to inflation and the economy, to the availability of basic commodities, to the filth and squalor of streets in the Nation’s major urban areas, life and the American dream are evaporating. And this disturbing trend shows no sign of stopping.
Still, the leftists who created this disaster have no intention of changing policy to turn things around. Rather, they keep increasing the venom of their lies and finger pointing, hoping that the fervency of their accusations will be sufficient to continue to dupe their gullible minions while intimidating the opposition from bluntly calling them out. As is often the case, their thoroughly transparent scam is enjoying far too much success.
Talk on the evening Fake News is glowing and upbeat, regarding the fact that gas prices are now fifty cents lower than they were a month ago. But that sidesteps the ugly reality that they are still double what they were before the Biden Cabal’s stridently anti-American agenda crippled our ability to provide for our energy needs. We can all recall the abhorrent condescension of Obama’s “energy policy,” when he attempted to convince us that everything would be fine if we just properly inflated our car tires! Yet as difficult as it may be to believe, what the current Cabal proposes is substantially worse.
On the one hand, we’re told to rejoice if gas prices take a slight momentary dip. But only a few weeks prior, we were hearing accolades that the Biden Cabal’s treasonous destruction of our oil industry would usher in the increased usage of electric vehicles, thus saving the planet blah blah. In either case, things are drastically worse than they were under President Trump’s resolute pro-America leadership. Yet in both cases, we should count ourselves fortunate that the Obama/Biden leftists are in control.
In short, leftist Democrats and their media lackeys will say absolutely anything “in the moment” to claim victory. And if they have to totally contradict what they said in the previous breath, so be it. As time goes on, it becomes ever more apparent that the only narrative to which they will doggedly cling is that they and their agenda are what America needs. Any effort to parse the facts is either “hate speech” or perhaps “racism.”
But how can America have been brought to a place where leftists can continually engage in obvious deception and posturing with absolutely no shame or embarrassment? The sad answer is that this raging duplicity has been pushed as increasingly “mainstream” over a course of decades. The current unhinged lunacy of both the leftist counterculture agenda, and its most ardent minions, is the bitter fruit borne of years of dripping faucet indoctrination of so many Americans by the “system” they unwittingly trusted.
Initially, the mantra of leftists was that absolutes of right and wrong ultimately didn’t exist, and were merely reflections of societal “norms” that could vary all over the place depending on the culture in question. Americans of Faith, who ought to have been upholding our Nation’s founding Judeo-Christian principles, were largely silent or “conciliatory,” instead of loudly shouting “STOP!” But once it was obvious that those on the right were too intimidated at the prospect of stepping up to engage the “Culture War” and asserting those principles that had defined our Nation for two centuries, the leftist/Counterculture proceeded to supplant such ideals with its sick/twisted alternatives, and the moral debasement of America became inevitable.
Now, “right and wrong” on any given issue is defined by whatever will best advance the leftist agenda. And in response, the right is continually playing “defense,” in which case our eventual loss is guaranteed. Donald Trump is to be condemned because he said something crude in a private conversation in a locker room twenty some years ago. But the flagrant, abominable exploitation and abuse of trafficked women and children by Hunter Biden, widely seen on video, just isn’t “newsworthy” and is completely ignored by leftist Democrats and their media minions. So our side largely ignores it too.
Congressman James Comer (R.-KY), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee, flatly asserts that high level government officials were fully aware of Hunter Biden’s nefarious activities. That means those officials are complicit in a cover up, making them equally culpable.
Even Ol’ Joe’s obvious dementia, which proves to any sane observer that he is clearly not the one who is in control of the presidency, somehow escapes discussion on the nightly Fake News. On that basis, the minions who mindlessly watch their TV sets are again willing to just keep going along with it. That, we are told, is the “patriotic” thing to do. And those who get their marching orders from CNN and the New York Times laud themselves for being so good at it.
As so many Americans are methodically stripped of any moral/spiritual moorings of decency or integrity, they increasingly have nothing else as a moral “rudder” other than the opinions of the leftist herd, and blindly seek its approval. At that point, great pillars of “truth” such as Hollywood has-been Rob Reiner can loudly proclaim the absurdity that Biden’s supposed worthiness in the White House “has gone unmatched in almost sixty years.” Any person with even a modicum of honesty and integrity would be thoroughly embarrassed to be attached to that claim. But Reiner is a leftist, so honesty and integrity simply do not apply.
Meanwhile, USA Today reports that four in ten Americans are being forced to cut back on groceries due to inflation. From the leftist perspective, that means that six in ten are still relatively untouched by the horrendous economic policies of the Biden Cabal, so their attention can likely be diverted to other issues by the latest media blitz. And on that basis, leftist Democrats hope to maintain their hold on power in the upcoming elections.
To the degree that Americans attempt to connect with “reality” via CNN, the NY Times, and other leftist propaganda outlets, they will remain clueless of the disaster that has been purposely unleashed in their midst. In contrast, every citizen who’s eyes can be opened to the ugly reality of leftist ideology and its horrendous consequences holds the potential to never again fall for the lies. This is why the unwavering pursuit of truth is the greatest weapon our side possesses. It’s time to wield that truth like a sword!
About the Author
Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. His book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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