It never fails. President Trump takes decisive action, and leftists everywhere call him “Hitler” and demand that he be removed from office.
He snatches narco-terrorist dictator Nicolás Maduro from his Caracas compound in the middle of the night, and Democrats clutch their pearls and speak about the inviolability of Venezuelan sovereignty (while conveniently ignoring that over 3% of Venezuela’s population illegally entered the United States during Joe Biden’s puppet-presidency).
He quarantines the waters around communist Cuba, and America’s growing collective of idiotic socialists blame Cuban poverty on American aggression (while conveniently ignoring that communism delivers abject poverty wherever it exists). He takes out hundreds of Islamic terrorists in Iran, and Hollywood morons run to their social media platforms to defend the sacred honor of Iran’s murderous and misogynistic mullahs. It’s all just so trite and tiring.
Cuba’s security forces have been destabilizing the Americas for three-quarters of a century. Hugo Chávez impoverished Venezuela and turned his homeland into a staging area for transporting drugs, slaves, and foreign operatives into the United States. Iran’s Islamic theocracy transformed a once-modern-looking country into a backwards, thuggish, brutal place that has for five decades remained both a launchpad for international terrorism and the quintessential female-subjugating patriarchy.
Yet to listen to 2028 presidential aspirant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Hollywood imbecile Mark Ruffalo or master of horror Stephen King talk about Cuba, Venezuela, or Iran, you’d think that those countries have long been bastions of freedom simply trying to survive in a world plagued by American despotism. It’s all the more strange that these dimwits and their leftist friends choose to remain in the United States, since it is America’s adversaries that they love and America that they hate.
Why isn’t AOC running for president in Cuba? Why isn’t Ruffalo living his best life in Venezuela? Why isn’t King hanging out with the mullahs in Iran? Why do they choose to live inside America’s gated community while pretending that the rest of the world’s gated communities have so much more to offer? Why don’t they just go and live in the places that they praise?
In human societies, there are always people who feel no loyalty to the rest of the group. Some of those people become criminals. Some smuggle state secrets to foreign enemies. Some jump up on soapboxes and do nothing but complain.
During the Cold War, American communists worked with the Soviet Union to undermine the security of the United States. During the Vietnam War, leftists spit on American soldiers returning home after risking their lives in combat. Today, Al Gore, John Kerry, and other wealthy hypocrites who have pushed tax hikes and inflation on Americans through the regulatory framework of a “green new deal” are completely silent when it comes to China’s growing reliance on coal.
For leftists, in fact, China can do no wrong. China’s communist government commits genocide, enslaves minorities, threatens Taiwan’s independence, steals America’s trade secrets, sabotages American plants, engages in biowarfare, and denies its citizens basic human rights. Rather than denouncing the Chinese Communist Party, the Democrat Party in the United States praises China’s ascendancy in the world.
At some point, a reasonable American has to ask, “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
Is it really so hard to understand that the Islamic terrorists who have repressed the people of Iran, wounded and murdered thousands of Americans, and sustained chaos in the Middle East are the bad guys? Does President Trump really have to break out paper and crayons and draw pictures of what life has been like since Iran’s theocratic tyrants took over the country nearly a half-century ago?
Iran is a dystopia where child brides are common and women must keep their faces and bodies covered while outside. Male relatives must accompany women at all times. Women caught violating these moral codes are often arrested and too often raped as “punishment.” If they become pregnant, it is they who are stoned to death for their “sin.”
Iran’s “morality police” are the sickos that Hollywood celebrities defend — the same celebrities who used the “Me Too” movement to fight the “patriarchy” in the United States. If Mia Farrow, John Cusack, Ellen Barkin, Daryl Hannah, Carrie Coon, or Rosie O’Donnell really wanted to destroy the “patriarchy,” they would be celebrating the potential end to Iran’s theocratic regime. Instead, they defend the monsters that brutalize women in Iran, while ludicrously calling President Trump a “pedophile,” “rapist,” and “madman.”
I’m not asking for America’s Democrats to approve of everything President Trump does. I’m not even asking them to support his military campaign against Iran’s Islamic despots. But, come on, Iran’s oppressive government has not only been the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism for decades but also regularly leads public chants of “Death to America!” How can any real American support foreigners who both call for the death of Americans and actually kill Americans all too frequently?
Even if Democrats often sympathize with terrorists, why would they sympathize with Islamic zealots? In the United States, leftists despise Americans who go to church on Sunday. Democrats mock Americans who pray for others during tragedies. Why would atheists stand beside Iranians who murder in the name of religion? Is their hatred for America so great that they are actually willing to send “thoughts and prayers” to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard?
It’s all just so crazy. How can we survive as a country when so many people who live inside America’s borders seek its destruction? I’m not seeking unanimity of opinion. I like honest public debate. And I’m not suggesting that we need loyalty oaths either. Citizens should freely consult God and their own consciences when making choices.
But should Americans who wish Iranian terrorists success against the United States still be considered “American” in anything other than name? It seems to me that when you throw in your lot with foreign pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and terrorists, you’re forsaking any fellowship with Americans and declaring loyalty to a sick and twisted foreign regime.
Democrats in the United States love to call President Trump and his voters “Nazis.” Well, if there’s one country in the world today that resembles Hitler’s Nazi Party in both creed and evil deeds, it is the Islamic Republic of Iran. The moral midgets in Hollywood and the corporate press who bent over backwards to kiss the ayatollah’s derrière might as well have been puckering up for Adolf, himself. When leftists praise modern-day Nazis, should they not be denounced as Nazi sympathizers?
For many years, non-leftists have accused leftists in America of being a dangerous “fifth column” filled with people who sympathize with our enemies and actively work to subvert the United States. Democrats’ stalwart support for Iran’s oppressive regime lends a great deal of credence to the accusation.
You don’t have to support President Trump’s economic policies. You don’t have to agree with his decision to upgrade the White House with a ballroom. You don’t have to wear a red hat. You can even roll your eyes when other people talk about “making America great again.”
But you can’t take sides with foreign nations that kill Americans. Even if you hate MAGA chants, you can’t support outsiders who chant, “Death to America.” There’s plenty of space to debate ideas in the United States. But if you’re working with America’s enemies, we don’t want you. You don’t belong here. You need to go. Because you’re an enemy, too.
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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