Primary political strategies are very different from general election strategies. Timing is everything; candidates do not want to ascend too quickly but they definitely don’t want to never ascend at all.
The GOP nomination is already locked up. Donald Trump’s lead is completely insurmountable with less than two months before the Iowa caucus. But Republican candidates are still vying for second place because they want to be the frontrunner if the Deep State is able to take Trump down. The powers-that-be are engaging in no fewer than a dozen lawfare efforts against him, from disqualifying him on various state ballots to trying to convict him of manufactured charges in multiple courts.
This is why Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are still in the race. Chris Christie is in the race because someone thinks he can be a good attack dog against Trump, but even in his one job he’s been an absolute failure, reducing his already-shattered legacy to dust.
Trump supporters have generally considered DeSantis to be the one to watch, but momentum is shifting. NeoCon Nikki Haley is quickly ascending to be the NeverTrumpers’ favorite, going so far as to threaten Americans’ online privacy to pander to UniParty Swamp megadonors. She’s a globalist shill, a puppet for JPMorgan, BlackRock, and the Deep State to fully own.
As much as I have learned to dislike DeSantis despite being a decent governor of Florida, my concerns about him if Trump gets taken down are small when compared to my concerns about Haley. She has the potential to be the most destructive force if she’s the nominee. She would redefine the GOP whether she wins the general election or not, taking us back to the Bush-era Republican Party or worse. And if she becomes president, it will be an unmitigated disaster.
Here is an article by Will Kessler from Daily Caller that should wake up any conservative who thinks Haley would be a better backup option than DeSantis. Rather than offering commentary about the article, I’m publishing it in its entirety and letting readers come to their own conclusions. I know how it makes me feel, but let’s see if readers hear the same alarm bells I hear. After the article, I will offer some final thoughts…
Nikki Haley Meets With BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Other Wall Street Elites
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley met with several Wall Street executives in a series of events Tuesday in her bid to be the Republican nominee for president, according to the Financial Times.
Haley attended a small meet-and-greet breakfast in New York where CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink was in attendance, followed by a fundraiser later in the day co-hosted by Gary Cohn, former president of Goldman Sachs, according to the FT. BlackRock has been criticized by conservatives in recent years for its adoption and promotion of Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) policies, which aim to invest in companies based on their commitment to social and environmental causes.
Republican-led states, like Florida and Texas, in opposition to BlackRock’s use of “woke” ESG investment, have pulled their money from the investment firm. Altogether, Republican-led states pulled almost $4.5 billion from the company in 2022.
Some other business leaders have considered lending their support to the candidate, with Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, considering donating to her campaign, while billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller announced his support on Monday, according to the FT. Haley could receive a bump in donations as other candidates drop out, with financiers looking for alternative candidates to former President Donald Trump, who currently leads in the polls. Billionaire Charles Koch is reportedly planning on backing a non-Trump candidate soon, according to the FT.
Haley has previously met with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, in a series of private conversations discussing the global economy. Dimon expressed support for Haley’s views on the economy, particularly on how business and the government can work together to increase prosperity.
Overflow crowd in Dubuque to see @NikkiHaley at @EmmausBibleCo. Less than 2 months until caucus…the momentum is very real and not slowing down! pic.twitter.com/r2qWiA1Zx8
— Hooff Cooksey (@hooffcooksey) November 16, 2023
Fink attended a lavish dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, along with numerous other business executives who expressed their support for doing business in China. The dinner took place after a meeting between Xi and President Joe Biden to discuss relations between the two countries as well as their policies.
Haley had $11.5 million in campaign funds at the end of September and plans to launch an ad campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire at the start of December, costing $10 million, according to the FT.
The Haley campaign did not immediately respond to a request to comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Drop Haley Now
I fully support Donald Trump. I’ve been critical of many of his policies, particular the lockdowns and “vaccines” that he was manipulated into supporting, but he’s going to get the nomination unless he’s stopped by the Deep State.
IF he is stopped, then Haley must not be his replacement. I had major concerns about her long before she started embracing authoritarianism in public. I considered her to be a globalist shill before she met with all of the anti-American oligarchs mentioned in the Daily Caller article above. She has always been a NeoCon, which made her a pawn of the globalists. Now it appears she’s trying to cross over to the other side of the board where she’ll be made a globalist queen.
Ron DeSantis has major flaws that have been exposed during his presidential campaign. Vivek Ramaswamy has too many question marks about his actual core values, not to mention his loyalties. But Nikki Haley is an existential threat to both the Republican Party and the nation. She must never be given the GOP nomination if the Deep State takes Donald Trump out of the race. Let’s pray that never happens.
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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