In the wake of Kamala Harris’s defeat to Donald Trump in the recent presidential election, Hollywood is grappling with a stark realization: its influence on American culture and politics may not be as significant as once thought.
A prominent Hollywood talent manager revealed to Vulture that despite endorsements from some of the world’s biggest stars, Harris failed to secure victory.
“Hollywood doesn’t matter as much as it thinks it matters,” the manager noted, reflecting on the endorsements by A-listers like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and George Clooney, which did not sway voters as anticipated.
The entertainment industry is now facing a moment of introspection, with many in Hollywood acknowledging that the celebrity-driven political activism seen during Trump’s first term, often referred to as the “Trump Resistance Playbook,” is unlikely to be repeated. There’s a growing consensus that the industry had leaned too heavily into woke politics, potentially alienating a significant portion of the American audience.
In the aftermath of the election, Hollywood insiders predict a shift in strategy. With Trump’s re-election, there’s an expectation of less political sermonizing from the industry, a move away from the “woke” narrative, and possibly more media mergers as studios reassess their direction.
The departure of executives who were specifically hired to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in film and TV has already begun, signaling a possible retreat from the social justice focus that characterized much of the last decade’s content.
This election has served as a wake-up call for Hollywood, highlighting that while celebrities can command attention, their political endorsements might not translate into electoral influence. As the industry looks to the future under another Trump administration, the focus might shift towards entertainment that unites rather than divides, attempting to reclaim lost cultural relevance.
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.
Editor’s Note: Heaven’s Harvest IS a sponsor, but the warnings of this article are real and would be written even if we didn’t have a survival food sponsor. With that said, those who take advantage of what they offer can use promo code “Patriot” for 15% off.
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.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Hollyweird has been turning out a string of losses for a decade. People will pay to be entertained. All people. Hollyweird abandoned the higher power. They thought they were the god’s themselves and became misled. There really is only one way back from the abyss they find themselves in now.
Totally. I would rather see a “no name” actor in a movie than any of these criminals any day of the week. I am sick of seeing them and have been boycotting since the 80’s any of them suspect of demonrattery.
They exposed their level of intelligence by actually believing that someone as stupid as Harris was presidential material, and they wasted millions of dollars on the idea. For eight years they ran their mouths constantly, spewing hatred and destroyed their industry in the process. It’s bad enough that Hollywood produces cinematic garbage but no one wants to pay 20 bucks to see some bucket mouth who hates them on the big screen.
they believed harris was the one because they aren’t held to standards. hollywood is a cesspool of idiots.
Well, there is that and the fact,that many have sold their souls to get the big bucks and fame they crave. There are lots of good actors out there; they are usually found doing off Broadway plays or regional theater; only a handful either get lucky or claw their way too the top.
Many of them were paid enormous amounts of money to campaign for Harris. One thing about actors that people must remember is that they often are spouting lines that someone else has written for their paycheck. It was just “The Price is Right” in real life.
The anti American Christmas hating man hating radical left has got to get out of the mainstream. My poor beloved Marvel superheroes have been corrupted and bastardized. If that genre was only done RIGHT. Such a shame.
I spend time exploring the pirated movies of the dark web and I have seen a marked increase in offerings from outside the US. While Hollywood has concentrated on woke culture, India, Europe, and others are putting out actual entertainment. LA may be in for a shock once this translates into continued box office loses, because the foreign stuff is starting to get good….
Well it’s clear Kamala didn’t pay them enough. Oprah half heartedly promoted Kamala for 10 million dollars, each valued currently as 3 cents apiece. Next time try 10 million in GOLD and Oprah will try harder.
I stopped watching movies and TV shows when all the ‘smart ones’ were black characters with dumb white neighbors.
I watched one where a ‘smart sophisticated’ black man was fixed up for a blind date by his dumb white neighbor and when they met, the girl was knockout bombshell, but the black dude dumped her because she wasn’t ‘intellectually stimulating’ enough for his taste.
Riiiiiiiight.
Actually, celebrity endorsement is a negative. Hollywood entertains us (or use to) and Americans admire their beauty, talent, and wealth…but not their lifestyle and definitely not their brains. Entertainers are seen as bimbos and moral bottom feeders who have serial relationships, and are sexual perverts, drunks, and drug addicts. Under the age of about 25, only the low-functioning would take life or political advice from an entertainer. They’re richer…but we are way smarter…and much better human beings…than they are.
How will I get through my day if a woke celeb pedophile doesn’t instruct me on what to do and how to think?
It doesn’t matter what they say. “You will know them by their fruits.” It’s too late for them now, they can’t even do a remake of Snow White. Hollywood is finished soon to be replace by AI.
“Humiliated and Humbled, Hollywood Goes Low-Key After Trump’s Historic Win”
—THEY WERE NOT JUST “Humiliated and Humbled” BY KommieLA’s CATASTROPHIC, ABSOLUTE CRUSHING DEFEAT: EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO THESE GREEDY B’ST@RDS IS THAT THEY NO LONG HAVE ANYONE TO BUY $$$ THEIR SUPPORT AND ENDORSEMENTS !!!
Hellywood is OVAH!
Nobody cares and it stands barefaced, naked and filthy before the entire world.
Nothing good has come out of Hollywood for at least 15 years.
Nobody cares about the Oscars!
Nobody cares about what the latest hook up or breakup or scandal of the “stars” is anymore.
Normal people are disgusted with the dark rituals and perversions that they’ve been shoving down everybody’s throat.
The industry doesn’t need them anymore. It’s got AI!
AI can take their image and voice and make any movie it wants within minutes. It doesn’t need hair and make up, lighting guys or sets and designers or even script writers. It can all be done with the press of a button.
But even that doesn’t matter anymore.
It doesn’t matter if they pivot to something else.
They went too far and now the culture has rejected them. So has God by the looks of it as their multimillion dollar homes in LA are burnt to a crisp.