As the left goes into overdrive attacking every worthwhile institution across America, supplanting the ideals of America’s Founding Fathers with moral debasement and the vilest precepts of the Marxist/Globalists, it is becoming increasingly apparent that their single most useful “weapon” is the entrenched RINO fifth column that enables them. At crucial junctures, when Conservatism is on the verge of a defining victory, the leftist Democrats can almost always count on enough RINO traitors to derail Conservative momentum, and give the advantage back to the left.
Such is the nature of the ongoing battles within several “Red” state legislatures, where voters naively assumed that by electing Republicans, they had put fellow Patriots into office to rein in absurd levels of spending and fight to restore and preserve cherished freedoms. Unfortunately, such principles are too often betrayed by those they elected who are then more difficult to remove from power, on account of the inherent advantages and momentum of “incumbency.”
The disaster at the Southern Border is a textbook example of this pattern on the national level, where Congressional and Senate Republicans could fight the appalling and dangerous open borders policy of the leftists, but the GOP just doesn’t have the stomach to put the interests of “We the People” first. The betrayals and dirty tricks of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, aided and abetted by the likes of Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney, are apparently serving as a playbook for RINO treachery much closer to home.
In particular, Establishment RINOs regard the many state Freedom Caucuses as their real enemy, attacking them with a vigor and determination they never exhibit towards Democrats. By such actions, they prove themselves to be the archetypical “Swamp Creatures” about whom President Trump issued dire warnings. Indeed, leftists want to destroy America, but in the end it’s the RINOs who prove most valuable to their success.
In a situation currently unfolding in Missouri, the actions of the State Senate “leadership” against Freedom Caucus members rival any dirty tricks we have witnessed from the leftist Democrats in Washington. And unless the good people of the “Show Me State” wake up to the contemptible nature of these RINOs, the fact that Missouri has a “Red” majority in both houses will prove to be meaningless. It is still the leftist Democrats who will continue to call the shots.
Recently, State Senators and Freedom Caucus members Bill Eigel, Denny Hoskins, Rick Brattin, and Andrew Koenig came under direct attack from Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, and Senate Majority Floor Leader Cindy O’Laughlin, who stripped them of committee chairmanships, slashed their staff budgets, and stooped to such puerile antics as taking away their parking spots at the Capitol in Jefferson City. They have even been threatened with expulsion from the Senate.
The offense of those four Senators, by which they brought such wrath upon themselves, was their willingness to stand firm on the Senate floor, unapologetically fighting for a major piece of legislation pertaining to ballot initiative petition reform. Apparently, striving to ensure that the Missouri Constitution isn’t up for sale to the highest out of state bidder is now deemed a punishable crime in the eyes of establishment Republicans!
In a tactic right out of the leftist/Democrat playbook, Rowden and O’Laughlin have actually attempted to play the “victim” card, accusing the four Freedom Caucus members of being “Swamp Creatures.” Either Rowden and O’Laughlin are clueless as to the real meaning of the term or, being RINOs and holding the people of Missouri in total contempt, they believe such buzzwords can reflexively generate hostility towards the Freedom Caucus among that gullible “peasantry” at the grassroots.
No doubt Rowden and O’Laughlin will instantly hide behind such platitudes as “party unity” and “building bridges” as they consistently undermine genuine Conservative efforts in the State House. In fact, they have stalled such defining legislation as defunding the radical pro-abort organization “Planned Parenthood,” and other fundamental conservative legislation that reflects the stated ideals of the Missouri Republican Party Platform.
It is worth mentioning here that another underlying motive could actually be driving the treachery of Rowden, O’Laughlin, and their kind. Senator Eigel is running for this year’s open Missouri Governorship, since Mike Parson, the current governor has stated his decision not to seek re-election. As a fearless Conservative, Senator Eigel promises to shake things up in Jefferson City in much the same manner that President Trump rattled cages within the fetid swamp waters of Washington D.C.
Among other seismic shifts promised by Senator Eigel is his intention to abolish the tax on privately owned vehicles. Predictably, the entrenched political class at the Capitol is outraged. Rather than tightening its own outlandish spending habits, the legislature is content to keep demanding that the common citizens do with less, in order to feed its ravenous appetite.
So it would make perfect sense that the real “Swamp Creatures,” epitomized by Rowden, O’Laughlin, and all the other RINO sycophants whom they deem to be in “good standing,” would prefer to deny Missouri Patriots the victory and benefits of Freedom Caucus efforts, rather than give them a win which might bolster the political aspirations of Senator Eigel. As with the Biden Cabal border disaster, too many public office holders are perfectly willing to see their fellow Americans harmed, if Conservatism can be thwarted, and the self-serving interests of the “ruling class” advanced instead.
The Missouri Gubernatorial primary election takes place on August 6 of this year. So the people have an opportunity to rebuff the dirty deeds of the “politics as usual” crowd, support a Freedom Caucus hero like Bill Eigel, and begin regaining control of their destiny in the American Heartland.
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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