Doesn’t it seem as if the ignoble nobles running our country into the ground are working overtime to dump extra loads of misery before the year ends? Now that they’ve plunged the country into an energy and heating crisis by tilting at “climate change” windmills, coal was too valuable to waste on these scrooges’ Christmas stockings. Let them survive on frozen wind turbines and snowdrift-covered solar panels!
While I have done my best to celebrate the Christmas season and ignore the commie curmudgeons bah-humbug-ing all around, it has felt as if government-worshiping Krampus creatures have been let loose (or are they trans-Krampus, demon-worshiping leftists wearing antlers and spreading Marxist hate?). Consider the parade of horribles unleashed during just the last few weeks:
Congress passed a two-trillion-dollar spending monstrosity that looks like little more than a long list of bribes and IOUs come due. The same Uniparty Republicans that could never find spare change for President Trump’s border wall have seen fit to fund every leftist fever pitch imaginable. Scrutinizing the 4,155 pages of omnibus filth and its 3,213 Democrat earmarks, writer Deroy Murdock bluntly concludes that “Mitch McConnell transformed the Senate GOP into a wishing well for Democrats.”
Handicapping incoming House Republicans’ budgetary powers for the next year, the exercise in printing and burning U.S. dollars (and exacerbating inflation) protects the borders of foreign countries all over the world, while going out of its way to make sure America’s are left wide open. Manchurian McConnell defends sending another forty-five billion dollars to Ukraine as “morally right,” while Americans from coast to coast are struggling to survive unchecked inflation, unaffordable food and fuel prices, crumbling infrastructure (actual bridges and roads, not the “reparations” and “climate change” hooey leftists now define as “infrastructure”), unguarded borders, the further impoverishment of once-prosperous blue-collar towns, an emotionally-crippling rise in suicides and fentanyl-related overdoses, COVID-1984-initiated wealth destruction, and the prospect of a looming monster recession (which we entered months ago but must not acknowledge — silence, citizen!).
I nearly flew out of my chair when I heard the backstabbing Turtle (flanked by his Uniparty Republican Old Guard) tell reporters, “Providing assistance for the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians, that’s the number one priority for the United States right now, according to most Republicans. That’s sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment.” Which “Republicans” feel that way — the Democrat-supporting RINOs who hate actual Republican voters or the ones who have already been paid off with quid-pro-quo windfalls to their campaign war chests, family-run political action committees, and favorite self-serving “charities”? I am not surprised that McConnell is willfully blind to the real “challenges confronting the country”; I am surprised that his Uniparty corruption and disdain for normal Americans are so robust that he’d happily spill the beans to the whole world! McConnell and all who rally by his side sell out America for personal gain and will continue to “fundamentally transform” this nation into another failed totalitarian Marxist State.
Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” confirm that the platform is primarily a Deep State tool for psychologically manipulating and censoring public opinion. After President Trump’s 2016 victory shocked the cloistered “ruling class,” the FBI dedicated an 80-strong team of agents to monitor and influence Twitter (and who knows how many more interference agents to do the same elsewhere on social media), and the rest of the Intelligence Community got straight to work using the FBI censorship team as a weapon for mass psychological warfare (including blacklisting, deplatforming, and demonetizing any speakers adverse to government interests) against the American people.
To no one’s surprise, Twitter and bureaucratic agents of the State conspired to suppress COVID information and silence dissenting points of view that contradicted official U.S. government policy “narratives.” FBI Trump-Russia-collusion-hoaxer-turned-Twitter-executive Jim Baker argued that President Trump violated Twitter policy (thereby deserving suspension and language control) for tweeting just before the 2020 election that he felt better than ever after having recovered from COVID and urging Americans to be resilient and unafraid! (For Big Government control mechanisms to work, Americans must be kept in a permanent state of fear!)
Brit Hume has digested the tranche of “Twitter Files” thus far released and dispassionately concludes that the purpose of the secretive relationship between Twitter and the U.S. government is perfectly clear: censorship. Yet even amid the revelation of these grotesque violations of the First Amendment, V-un-IP V.P. Kamala Harris still demands that social media companies spread Democrats’ propaganda in the name of “protecting our democracy.” And while the U.S. government censors American citizens, it has been caught paying foreign reporters to push climate apocalypse doomsaying across the globe!
With the destruction of America’s territorial sovereignty almost complete and millions of illegal aliens streaming into the interior, the Department of Homeland Security (specializing in its opposite) has issued a “gag order” restricting agents from telling Americans the truth about just how lawless our lawless border has become.
The forced mRNA injections have caused so many injuries, miscarriages, and “sudden deaths” that now even once-prominent proponents of universal “vaccination” are ringing alarm bells (too little, too late) in their horror.
The recent midterms proved that U.S. elections are now just ballot pump-n-dumps in which Uniparty operatives simply print scores of ballots, fill them out, ignore signature verification requirements, and collect fraudulent “victories.”
As if official Washington didn’t have enough money-laundering operations already filling its coffers, the criminals running the government have also been nonchalantly accepting payoffs from a child crypto-king washing billions of dollars from investor accounts into PACs, Ukraine War kickbacks, non-governmental organizations, philanthropic shell companies, and anywhere else accounting trails disappear.
In but one example of education curricula across the country attempting to brainwash children into accepting their fate as automatons controlled by an all-knowing totalitarian government, climate science teachers in the state of Washington have been instructed to prioritize “emotion” over “rational thinking” in their lesson plans and to explore the roles of “sexism in science” and “abuse of power” — in other words, to scare children into believing their planet is dying in a few short years and to indoctrinate their tiny captives into rejecting scientific achievements made by white males.
Finally, the Biden administration lied about how many jobs have been created; blue-state hellholes are reimposing mask mandates; influential people are openly accusing the CIA of having participated in the assassination of President Kennedy; and Congress released its farcically unconstitutional J6 report attempting to keep Trump from office — signaling clearly how much D.C. fears his 2024 re-election.
For a look at what evil heads our way in the New Year, take a glance at the liberty-crushing goose-stepping of our Western allies:
The World Economic Forum’s subsidiary Dutch government has begun an unjust expropriation of thousands of farms under the unscientific pretense of fighting “climate change” as a means for taking more control of the world’s food supply and eventually squeezing desperately starving peasants into submission. The European Union has moved forward with new carbon regulations that will necessarily lead to the future imposition of a personal carbon credit system under which all citizen activity is tracked, recorded, and scrutinized.
New Zealand has released an official guide for turning in potential “terrorists” who dare to oppose government policies. And as further evidence that freedom of thought is under attack throughout the West, U.K. police officers arrested a woman around Christmas for silently praying outside an abortion facility.
I’m ready to put 2022 in the rearview mirror. Let’s gear up for the fights ahead.
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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