“We don’t have special rights for anyone. We have equal rights for everybody.” -Tom Allen
Margaret Thatcher once reminded us, “You’d be surprised at what a few dedicated patriots will do to make their country a better place to live in. In fact, they are the only people who try to do so!”
America was not founded but invented by a group of Enlightenment thinkers who studied classical past governments in order to create a perfect union of independent colonies. It was fashioned by a small group of patriots led by Thomas Paine in reaction to abuse from the King of England and demands put upon them by the British army. The United States was the first government formed under the principles of Enlightenment that man could self-govern and correct his imperfect flaws.
You have to have been asleep at the wheel for the last century to understand why those on the left, who have been complaining most about government waste, are now chastising President Donald Trump for creating an agency to cut down on government waste. Instead of welcoming this new found pool of in-house detectives, headed by one of the most efficient businessmen in history, Elon Musk, most everyone on the left is assailing DOGE, The Department of Government Efficiency.
At one time in our history, daily news reporters were hailed as watchdogs of government for the people. Regrettably, those watchdogs turned into lapdogs when they saw the benefit of protecting rather than exposing government corruption. No matter how much people complained, especially on the left about government waste and corruption, nothing has been done to halt worldwide media infection.
“People are very gullible. They will believe anything they see in print.” – E.B. White
When Trump announced he was creating a government watchdog agency to cut down on government waste by reducing non-essential and unnecessary duplicate overlapping positions in federal agencies, the left, which was were complaining most about federal waste, was not jumping for joy. Instead, they were squealing like pigs on their way to the local bacon factory about DOGE? Their relentless attacks on Elon Musk and DOGE clearly show they are no friend to U.S. taxpayers.
Obviously, Democrats want it both ways. They are not against government waste and fraud if it benefits them and their progressive agenda. They support programs that suck up taxpayer money and redistribute it to finance a catalogue of federal giveaway social programs that buy them votes.
Resistance to DOGE is coming from progressives Maxine Waters, D-Ca and Elizabeth Warren D-Mass. Sen Warren helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which could be gutted. The irony is Warren claims Elon Musk answers to nobody yet her CFPB reports to nobody at the federal level.
“I’m a strong Black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.” – Maxine Waters
Of course, the lapdog liberal media opposes Musk’s investigations. The New York Times reported in a recent dubious headline that President Trump and Elon Musk “are making broad Claims of Fraud Without Proof?” Of course, Musk did not haul out spreadsheets chronicling his abundance of facts.
Democrats and their media allies are running and hiding from millions in federal fraud and waste.
Under Joe Biden, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office that reviewed several years of data estimated a year ago that “the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.” You’d think that after receiving such a draconian report, that up to half a trillion in taxpayer money had been stolen each year by fraudsters, the government would have called out everyone in DC who was remotely involved for a full-blown audit and investigation.
The GAO responded, “Given the scope of this problem, a government-wide approach is required to address this.” The GAO set up strict parameters, including the need to identify methods to expand government-wide estimates of fraud.” We are still waiting on a response from the executive branch.
When Donald Trump signed the “Implementing The President’s Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative,” it was meant to “restore accountability to the American public.” DOGE is supposed to “reduce the size of the federal government’s workforce through efficiency improvements and attrition.” It especially targets “offices that perform non mandated functions.”
“We all knew Trump and the Republicans planned to cut Social Security?” – Chuck Schumer
According to the Federal Register, there are 441 federal agencies, many of which most people have never heard of. And federal investigations have discovered that over half of these agencies are over-staffed and over-financed and many of them meet once or twice a year, if at all?
The federal bureaucracy needs constant scrutiny, but the left wants status quo. The liberal media says that “Musk’s team is operating in deep secrecy, surprising federal employees by descending upon agencies and gaining access to sensitive data, yet Elon has a top security clearance.” Musk retorted, “I don’t know of any case where an organization has been more transparent than DOGE.”
Some Democrats who dared to speak up said they support cutting some wasteful spending from the federal government, but none by Elon Musk? Democrats led by Sen Schumer have been highly critical of Musk’s leadership of DOGE, claiming that he is an “outsider” and does not know the protocols of government and has no business making those decisions. Yet it is very common for businesses to call in independent auditors and advisors if they smell a preverbal rat.
DOGE has spent a month entering federal agencies and uncovering billions in spending from the federal government that most any administration would consider wasteful if they were facing the taxpayers whose pockets they have been picking for years. Yet the left is burying their heads in the sand.
“When you bury your head in the sand, you leave your backside exposed!” – Gary Hopkins
We have only had two presidents that were patriots: George Washington and Donald Trump. Our founders did not want politicians in our government. They felt the most patriotic citizens would step up and lead America to greatness. Too bad Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton ruined this at the 1st Congress. Only a patriot like Trump would offer to split the DOGE savings with taxpayers and government.
The left has become the party of special interests and big business. They need to control the purse in DC in order to survive. The marriage of two self-made billionaires, not “beltway” politicians, has put the left in panic mode and they see no way out. These two patriotic citizens want to give the government back to the people while the left wants to maintain control over it and its spending.
Shame on them.
“That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.” – Thomas Sowell
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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