Project Veritas’s whistleblower materials revealing that the FBI views the Gadsden and Betsy Ross flags, the Liberty Tree, and a smorgasbord of other Revolutionary War symbols as evidence of domestic terrorism are just further proof that the feds’ secret police force no longer bleeds red, white, and blue (although it does probably give new recruits hammer and sickle tattoos).
A federal agency with both intelligence-gathering and law enforcement functions is dangerous enough to any free society, but one that openly views the spirit of 1776 as a threat to the Republic has lost any vestige of a more noble purpose to defend the country from its enemies.
Something is surely rotten at the Bureau when it is more than willing to “take a knee” in a Marxist show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter anti-American anthem protesters but denigrates pro-American emblems as evidence of violent extremism. Independence Day celebrations each year must be grueling for federal agents trying to protect the nation from its own rebellious past. Now that patriotic displays of affection for the country have been relabeled as potential signs of domestic terrorism, hot dogs and fireworks require a new national security threat assessment.
All agents, be on the lookout for Americans engaging in too much fun on the Fourth of July. Be advised: children with patriotic face paint, persistent Liberty Bell ringing, and unexpected outbursts of support for freedom may warrant further investigation. Should you encounter any reference to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the modern Tea Party Movement, or strong distaste for tea, in general, immediately call for backup. This much is clear: when the FBI honors America-haters and vilifies American patriots, love for America is perceived as not only suspect, but also dangerous to the Deep State. That says a lot about our current predicament.
Chalk up the FBI’s hatred for Betsy Ross’s needlework as yet another instance of a federal institution subverting its own mission directives to safeguard the country by somehow turning ordinary Americans into the bad guys. For those desperately trying to follow the feds’ new classification system and avoid arrest, Christians are now “patriarchal white supremacists,” America First voters are xenophobic “fascists,” free speech proponents are “threats to democracy,” and gun-owners brazen enough to believe in self-defense and the Second Amendment are straight-up “murderers.”
Basically, if you pray to God, cherish the Bill of Rights, despise communism, respect national borders, or would defend freedom at any cost, you’re a suspect. Hide your copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and don’t get caught flying the Bunker Hill Flag on your lawn (It includes St. George’s Cross, for Heaven’s sake!). Forget Paul Revere; you never knew the man, and he certainly never rode past your home in the middle of the night! And if anyone asks, “Don’t Tread on Me” has something to do with a tire commercial. This is how absurd America’s self-immolation has become. Ridiculous!
Have you noticed that hating America is, more or less, a job requirement for high office these days? Clueless Joe Biden and the commiecrats regularly disparage America as a racist, sexist, genocidal land of evil. The “woke” military brass push Marxist Critical Race Theory, transgender drag shows, and climate change dogma down troops’ throats. Obama spent his presidency traveling the world apologizing for all the Americans who lost their lives these last two and half centuries in defense of foreigners’ liberation.
The State Department seems to specialize in cozying up to the worst communist dictators and authoritarian hacks around the globe. The Intelligence Community has decided that hunting down American patriots as domestic terrorists makes more sense than hunting down Islamic supremacists as foreign terrorists. And when they’re not toppling historic statues and memorials, removing the names of Founding Fathers from public buildings, stamping “trigger warnings” on the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, or rewriting America’s story for their own nefarious Marxist purposes, the America-haters controlling the vast federal bureaucracy dedicate their time and taxpayer-funded resources to lecturing Americans about why they’ve always been so darn awful.
What absolute insanity! Shouldn’t the people who “run” America actually, oh, I don’t know, like America? Is that really too much to ask? No nation dedicated to despising itself can long endure. No government that treats its citizens as suspects can last. No society that attacks patriotism as if it were a cancer while injecting multiculturalism as if it were some universal cure can expect to survive. When common purpose and shared identity disintegrate, countries simply do not persist. They fade away or perish. Sheesh, it’s almost as if the Soviet Union actually won the Cold War, and we’re now suffering through the uncomfortable “re-education” period of a depressed and conquered state. That says a lot, does it not?
All of this leads to a remarkable truth: when battling the “Great Reset” globalists working feverishly to demolish America and build a Davos slave state in its wake, defending America’s history is a strikingly effective way of fighting for America’s future. Pride in America is like kryptonite to America’s communist class, so never forgo an opportunity to be patriotic. How many times have you heard a celebrity mouth-breather express astonished annoyance at having traveled across the country only to see Old Glory waving prominently from every rural home and pickup truck throughout red-state America?
How many times have you endured the morally insipid and intellectually deficient musings of some professional athlete insisting that the National Anthem is a defense of racism or some such bollocks? How many times have you heard some loony leftist politician or pundit claim that “freedom” is really code for “white supremacy” or that “individual rights” are “systemically racist”? I hear that rubbish all the time, and two thoughts go through my head: (1) the lib-labs sure have taught the morons how to speak commie quite well, and (2) rejecting all of America’s great historical accomplishments to appeal to a hateful minority with daddy issues only makes America’s defenders stronger.
I know I’m biased because — unlike the FBI — I actually love America, but when we “own” all the pro-America ideological battleground because Chuck Schumer’s commie friends can’t stomach “land of the free” language, then we get all the valuable real estate in America’s glorious past by default. The battles ahead of us will be fought tooth and nail for the hearts and minds of Westerners everywhere. The war is between freedom and control. It is a contest pitting State authority against enduring personal liberty. It is the latest attempt to drop a new totalitarian Iron Curtain (now in Great Reset form) down around us all. And it is for all the marbles.
We choose American freedom; they choose Stalinist slavery. We choose the Declaration of Independence; they choose the Communist Manifesto. We seek expansive liberty; they seek total compliance. In essence, we wholly embrace America’s history, while our enemies reject it.
I like those dividing lines. They’re firm and easy to understand. People will know exactly why they’re fighting. For all of these reasons, I suspect that’s why our compromised FBI decided to turn Betsy Ross into a terrorist. After all, communism can’t take hold without first purging inconvenient history. And America’s historical fight for freedom is entirely inconvenient.
How do we fight back against those who hate America? Two words: be patriots.
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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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Well written article for the patriots who reside in our modern-day “Caves under Cappadoccia”, who may also be (should be) waiting for just one Red State governor to say the right words.