(Zero Hedge)—When was the last time you heard of federal dollars flowing into overtly conservative programming? While there may be a tiny handful of outliers, generally speaking this does not happen. For decades the majority of public funding subsidies for social programs inevitably goes to progressive run organizations. For anyone who is right leaning in their politics, the idea of their hard earned money being handed over to people who hate them and everything they stand for is disconcerting.
Why should conservatives support federal funding if that money is being used to propagandize them and indoctrinate their children? Why isn’t there any requirement for publicly funded programs to remain politically neutral?
The U.S. Senate this week passed the Trump administration’s proposal to cancel $9 billion in federal funds previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting, and the House of Representatives approved the package after midnight Friday, sending it to President Trump’s desk.
The Corp. for Public Broadcasting, which administers the funds for NPR radio stations and PBS TV affiliates, is on track to lose $1.1 billion that had previously been budgeted for the next two years.
Both PBS and NPR executives warn they will have to make drastic cuts to media content and will resort to layoffs to stay afloat. The organizations rely on a mixture of federal funds, public donations and corporate advertising. Federal subsidies make up around 15% of PBS operating dollars and up to 10% of NPR affiliate dollars. This might not seem like much, but the institutions function on razor thin margins. Loss of public cash would immediately put them in the hole.
But is this a bad thing? Maybe PBS and NPR deserve to fail. Both outlets have engaged in some of the most egregious woke propaganda and authoritarian pontificating among all media platforms in the US. Let’s look at seven reasons why PBS and NPR should be unplugged from taxpayer life support.
1) Lil Miss Hot Mess
“The hips on the drag queen go swish swish swish…” sings drag performer Lil Miss Hot Mess in a PBS promoted program in New York. Though PBS did not directly fund the show “Let’s Learn” on WNET, it did provide the platform. The drag queen episode aired in 2021 and featured a drag performer (male pretending to be female) reading a LGBT children’s about “drag” and gay pride.
2) Sesame Street Stands With BLM
It’s impossible to list the number of times PBS used kids show Sesame Street as a vehicle to indoctrinate children with DEI concepts. However, in 2020 they truly stepped over the line when the organization partnered with CNN, using Sesame Street characters hosting a town hall to explain to children why America is racist and why the national BLM riots were justified.
Keep in mind, there were over 600 riots during the BLM protests, with 25 fatalities, thousands of police injuries and billions in property damages, all triggered because of the death of one career criminal hopped up on fentanyl.
3) Pride Month And Two Gay Dads
In 2021, Sesame Street also featured a Pride Month special called “Family Day” about LGBT inclusion. The show’s audience of toddlers got to explore the relationship between a girl and her two gay dads, along with concept of “love is love”.
The network’s popular “Arthur” cartoon series also produced an episode with a same sex marriage and two gay dads. Why they felt the need to explore the sexual orientation of “Mr. Ratburn” to a bunch of preschool viewers is a mystery, unless child indoctrination was the goal.
4) Refusing To Watch Porn And Masturbate Might Be Linked To “Extremism”
NPR joined the endless leftist war on the “manosphere” in a 2024 podcast which linked the “NoFap” movement to extremism. The degenerate Kinsey-esque dialogue admonishes the trend of young men refusing to watch porn and refraining from masturbation as medically and psychologically concerning. The movement was started due to the near-infinite access young people have to pornography in the digital age, leading to porn addiction and an inability to socialize in healthy ways.
NPR characterizes the NoFap movement as misleading American youth into a life of misery while they ignore the rising evidence of the negative effects of the porn industry.
5) Suspended For Pointing Out Leftist Bias
NPR suspended a 25 year veteran editor Uri Berliner after he criticized the network for leftist bias. The editor discovered that the NPR newsroom was stacked with 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans. He pointed out that NPR prolifically reported on the Russian collusion hoax, and that “[Adam] Schiff talking points” were “the drumbeat of NPR news reports.”
After exposing NPR staff as utterly partisan, Berliner was removed.
6) NPR Helps To Undermine The Covid Lab Leak Theory
The Wuhan leab leak theory, which is now widely regarded as the most logical explanation for the spread of the covid virus from Wuhan, China to the rest of the world, was throttled in the news cycle and banned on social media platforms for years due to the efforts of US and Chinese government officials (and corrupt medical representatives) working to suppress the story.
Why? To this day it’s not clear but the Wuhan lab’s long running gain-of-function research projects which essentially weaponize viruses were funded by US government interests, the same interests who ended being in charge of the draconian response to the covid outbreak.
NPR repeatedly dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab – a conclusion now deemed likely by the FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy. They published propaganda pieces including: “Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence”, and “As Trump Pushes Theory Of Virus Origins, Some See Parallels In Lead-Up To Iraq War”.
7) Absolute Bias In Election Coverage
A 2024 Media Research Center study found that PBS’s coverage of the Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while coverage of the Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.
In 2023, a study found that congressional Republicans saw 85% negative coverage while congressional Democrats saw 54% positive coverage on PBS’s flagship news program
According to a 2024 study, PBS news staff used 162 variations of the term “far-right,” but only six variations of “far-left.”
This all might sound like common sense to most conservatives – Of course NPR and PBS are politically biased, but it’s not supposed to be this way. The public has been conditioned to accept such bias over time and conservatives have been told to shut up when complaining about their money being used to feed far-left content.
The above list could go on for dozens of pages; it’s only a taste of NPR and PBS’ trespasses in the past five years. Trump’s defunding of these platforms is long overdue and if they implode in the process, so be it. They are nothing more than brainwashing campaigns disguised as humanitarian projects.
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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