If there had been any confusion over what Democrats believe or whom the Democrat Party supports, this week has been clarifying.
Susan Rice — the serial liar who falsely blamed the September 11, 2012, murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on an Internet video; weaponized Intelligence Community surveillance by illegally unmasking the names of Trump transition officials in 2016; and pushed the Russia Collusion Hoax for the last decade — went on a podcast to promise retribution for any American seen as bending the “knee to Trump.” The woman who ran Joe Biden’s White House explicitly promised that “this is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget” once Democrats retake power in Washington, D.C.
This shouldn’t be a surprise. Barack Obama used the IRS to harass conservatives, and his “wingman” Eric Holder used the Patriot Act to spy on political opponents. During Joe Biden’s puppet presidency, the FBI and DOJ targeted pro-life Christians, Second Amendment supporters, parents concerned about the sexualization of their kids’ public school curricula, and anybody who could be linked to President Trump’s MAGA movement.
Still, when Susan Rice is making such vocal threats eight months before the midterms, every Republican should sit up and take notice. Should Democrats reclaim power over the next two election cycles, they are going to make their abusive J6 mass incarceration look insignificant compared to the program of mass arrests and ritual humiliation they intend to unleash.
The same 99%-Democrat grand juries that have shielded Democrats from criminal prosecution since Trump’s return to office will quickly sign-off on preposterous charges against every Republican under malicious investigation.
Then a couple days after Susan Rice promised to wheel out a guillotine in Lafayette Square in order to rid the country of red-capped-heads once and for all, the U.S.A. men’s Olympic hockey squad beat Canada in overtime. What fantastic news! The gold-medal victory came forty-six years to the day after Team U.S.A. upset the Soviet Union on the ice at the Lake Placid Olympic Games. The whole country was surely in a fit of jubilation, right? Wrong. Why? Because Democrats largely supported Canada’s America-hating socialists sticking it to anyone competing on behalf of “Donald Trump’s America.”
Democrat-leaning sports “reporters” sounded almost depressed as they watched the men’s hockey team celebrating on the ice with American flags wrapped around their shoulders and waving above their heads. So much patriotism made Democrats’ heads explode.
Then came word that President Trump had called the players after the game. The president was giddy and proud of the young American men who had won gold medals on behalf of their nation. Trump tossed out praise enthusiastically and invited the whole team to his State of the Union address two days later.
The whole thing was inspiring and heartwarming. So Democrats everywhere hated it. They blasted the men’s team for laughing at the president’s jokes. They argued that the hockey players — who had just secured victory for their country — were actually villains for being so enthusiastic to talk to the president of the United States. Democrats even found a way to disparage the stellar athletes for being part of the so-called “patriarchy.”
The men’s hockey team beat their Canadian rivals and took home gold for only the third time, yet the Democrat Party found it disappointing. In the minds of self-hating Democrats, it would have been far better had Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney been in a position to laugh at the United States than for President Trump to celebrate joyfully with Americans.
While Democrats were busy crying about Team Canada’s defeat, the country turned its attention to President Trump’s State of the Union speech. We got to see quite vividly just what Democrats support. They do support criminal illegal aliens. Several Democrat members of Congress actually brought illegal immigrants as guests. They don’t support American families who have lost loved ones due to heinous acts of violence committed by illegal aliens.
President Trump made this point crystal clear. He introduced several families that had lost sons and daughters, mothers and fathers to illegal alien violence. Democrat members of Congress ignored those families’ suffering. President Trump then asked members of Congress to stand up if they believed that the U.S. government had a duty to protect American citizens from foreign nationals who have illegally entered the country. Republicans stood. Democrats stayed seated. Imagine that. An entire political party representing half of Congress does not believe it has a duty to protect Americans from foreigners. That’s horrifying and revealing.
President Trump made it very easy for Americans to understand whom Republicans support and whom Democrats support. When the president introduced brave members of the armed forces who had distinguished themselves and sacrificed their bodies for the security of the American people, Republicans applauded enthusiastically.
Democrats mocked their service on television. When Republicans broke out in patriotic chants of “U-S-A,” terrorist-supporting Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was shouting, “K-K-K,” as if to disparage American patriotism as identical to support for the Ku Klux Klan (which, ironically, existed as a paramilitary force for the Democrat Party last century). When the president promised to go after Somali fraudsters who have stolen tens of billions of dollars from the American people, Somali-fraud-supporting Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar screamed at Trump, “You killed Americans,” an apparent reference to federal immigration agents having defended their own lives from Democrat attackers.
When the president promised to prevent illegal aliens from driving commercial trucks across the country, Republicans applauded. Democrats glowered.
All in all, Democrat members of Congress were for criminal illegal aliens who commit fraud or hurt or kill Americans. They were against the gold-medal-winning men’s hockey squad, military heroes, protecting American citizens from foreigners, and pro-U.S.A. patriotism (although Democrats’ pro-Somalia patriotism and pro-Hamas patriotism were both on display). Eventually, President Trump couldn’t ignore the Democrats’ level of anti-Americanism being broadcast to the world. He shook his head in disbelief, pointed to the Democrats in the chamber, and soberly concluded, “These people are crazy.”
The president’s observation certainly seemed reasonable. How is it possible that half of the lawmakers putatively representing the American people hate the United States? How is it possible that Democrats show more allegiance to illegal aliens than to American citizens? How is it possible for the Democrat Party to claim to act in the best interests of the American people when it supports foreign criminals who break our laws and hurt Americans? How is it possible for Democrat members of Congress to be trusted with protecting our nation when they openly despise American patriotism and turn their backs on chants of “U-S-A”?
What a week it has been for Democrats. After Susan Rice’s vendetta video-promise, the Democrats’ pro-Canada commiseration, and the Democrats’ anti-Americanism on full display at the State of the Union, nobody should mistake the Democrat Party as having any concern for the American people. The Democrat Party represents everybody but Americans. They love foreigners but despise the U.S.A.
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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