When the FBI visited Deep Stater John Bolton early Friday morning, a line from The Godfather crept into my mind: “Today I settle all family business.” Surely I wasn’t the only one who hoped cable news would soon be reporting similar raids at the homes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Comey, Jim Clapper, Susan Rice, and all the other co-conspirators responsible for the Russia Collusion Hoax, the Ukraine impeachment, the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and all the fraudulently predicated criminal investigations into President Trump and his associates.
Alas, Bolton was the only fish dumped out of his sanctuary bowl for the time being. Still, with the farcical half-a-billion-dollar civil fraud judgment against Trump recently overturned and the Supreme Court slowly but surely ruling in his favor on a host of executive orders intended to streamline the federal government, I feel as if we’re getting closer to a time when a great deal of “family business” will be settled swiftly.
That thought sparked another thought: President Trump’s entire governing philosophy has a lot in common with some of the better wisdom from the Godfather movies. Consider some of these jewels from Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
(1) “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
Does it drive you nuts that Trump seems to quickly forgive people who wrong him? He lets left-wing “journalists” interview him. He gave Hillary Clinton a pass for illegally transferring highly classified government documents to a private and unsecured computer server. He even considered Mitt Romney — a “man” who repeatedly stabbed him in the back — for the position of secretary of State!
At the same time, though, Trump has no problem rumbling with those he brings near. After all, he made Bolton his chief national security adviser before firing the warmonger a year later. Trump likes having his adversaries where he can see them. That reminds me of something Sonny Corleone once said: “You gotta get ’em close like this, and badda-bing, you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.”
(2) “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Most of the celebrity economists on television hate tariffs because they primarily benefit American workers and Main Street businesses, while threatening the bottom line of multinational corporations and Wall Street investment firms. For years, the pundits have said that Trump’s tariffs would destroy both the economy and relations with allies. What Trump and his economic policy team have known all along, though, is that no nation on the planet can afford to be closed off from the American market.
American consumers are the wealth-creating engine for the entire world. When Trump insists that other nations treat America fairly, he does so while holding a giant stick.
(3) “Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.”
Notice to all Democrat-run “sanctuary cities”: Your days of aiding and abetting illegal aliens, harboring criminals, and putting the American people in danger are over. How many times have we heard Democrats describe foreign nationals who broke into our country more favorably than they describe American citizens? How often have we seen Democrats fighting tooth and nail to keep foreign robbers, rapists, and murderers in the United States?
President Trump is absolutely committed to removing invaders from Democrat “sanctuaries” and preventing future harm to Americans. He will assume control over criminal enforcement operations in Democrat-run cities if he must. The era of taking sides against the family has come to an end.
(4) “It’s not personal; it’s strictly business.”
Trump’s done with North American trade “deals” that enable Canada and Mexico to operate as pass-through entities for China and other adversaries flooding American markets with cheap goods. Whether it’s illegal drugs or finished products from foreign companies exploiting trade loopholes, the U.S. will no longer subsidize Mexico’s cartel government or Canada’s “Green New Deal” unicorn economy. America must be self-resilient and have an economy more diverse than Wall Street bankers and taxpayer-funded NGOs. It’s not personal, Prime Minister Carney. It’s economic security.
(5) “Hold on to your friends, but make peace with your enemies.”
The Russia Collusion Hoaxers can push for war with Russia all they want. President Trump knows that America loses if it gets stuck in a European civil war over Russian-speaking lands in Ukraine whose people have repeatedly voted to be a part of the Russian Federation. Sending money and weapons to Ukraine until every last able-bodied man dies prolongs useless slaughter. From the Arctic to the Middle East, the U.S. and Russia have much more to gain by working together. Both also correctly view communist China as a serious adversary. As Sollozzo tells Tom Hagen, “I don’t like violence. … I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense.”
(6) “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”
Hillary, Obama, the lawfare operatives at the DOJ, or the gangsters manipulating global affairs in the espionage agencies — take your pick. With Bolton getting his home and office tossed and ongoing criminal investigations heating up with regards to Senator Adam Schiff, New York attorney general Letitia James, and many others, those who abused their offices to defraud the American people and overthrow President Trump in a Deep State-engineered coup d’état should be afraid. How many Establishment figures in D.C. are unlawfully in possession of classified materials? How many have profited in quid-pro-quo arrangements with foreign nations? How many have committed fraud when signing mortgage documents? How many are guilty of insider trading? Perhaps we will soon know.
(7) “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
Out with the “transgender” madness. In with the traditional nuclear family. Have you noticed that the winds of American culture are shifting after twelve years of Obama-Biden delusions during which we were told that families are “oppressive” and “systemically racist”? Obama’s “Life of Julia” campaign promised women that they did not need men or children because the government would be their perfect “partner” for life. Biden’s DOJ harassed parents for opposing school districts’ obsession with sexualizing childhood education. The Democrat party argues that teachers should secretly “transition” children away from their biological sex and assist young girls in obtaining abortions without parental notification. Trump is putting an end to all that.
Children need moms and dads. Adults need spouses. America needs more children. Families grow the economy and foster strong communities. As the Trump administration shows every day, there is nothing more critical for America’s success than promoting healthy American families.
(8) “Great men are not born great; they grow great.”
There are many similarities between Donald Trump and Winston Churchill. Despised by the Establishment of their respective times, they changed the course of history through sheer force of will. They share an exuberant energy and tenacious spirit. Churchill reportedly remarked, “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” After surviving an assassin’s bullet, Trump clenched his fist and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” These two imperfect men perfectly personify this lesson in leadership: Never give up! You are not bestowed with that kind of greatness upon birth. You must suffer and fall and get back up — again and again — until everyone — including your opponents — marvels at your fearlessness.
(9) “I believe in America.”
Not since Ronald Reagan have we had a president who is so unabashedly pro-American. Trump’s enemies call his “Make America Great Again” slogan “imperialist” or “racist.” He calls it a mission statement. You are either part of the monumental effort to secure peace, prosperity, and freedom for the people of the United States, or your loyalties lie elsewhere. You have to really love something to sacrifice everything for it. President Trump loves America.
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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Bolton was low hanging fruit. After showing the evidence for doing his, they’ll open the door for others.
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Jesus, you are giving all of us conservatives a bad look with this drivel. Get a life.
I’d rather have the great and benevolent Godfather Presidency of President Trump than to see old retarded Sleepy Joe passed out on a beach chair, farting his ass off.
No arrest, no indictments, no charges, no bail, no perp walk, no hearings, no trial, no judge, no jury, no verdict, no fines, no incarcerations, no nothing, just more and more evidence of corruption released to the public and a criminal continuing to collect a pension check or a pay check every month. That’s it. Nobody’s going to jail. How much was his pension increased the year?