(JD Rucker Substack)—In my lifetime I’ve seen hatred towards presidents and presidential candidates. Many Democrats hated Ronald Reagan because other Democrats liked Ronald Reagan. George W. Bush was particularly hated because Democrats believed he’d stolen the 2020 election. Barack Obama was hated by Republicans because he introduced Cultural Marxism and full-blown anti-Americanism into the Oval Office. Even Bill Clinton loved America in his own way.
But no president in my lifetime has ever been hated as much as Donald Trump. The sad part is that his first term was very successful, yet the hatred toward him by leftists evaporates all memories of the prosperity and peace they enjoyed.
Most of the reasons for this hatred are obvious. First, they’ve been gaslit by corporate media because he’s a Republican with a personality type that allows them to get away with bald faced lies. Second, they’ve invested so much into hating him due to the aforementioned media gaslighting that to suddenly or even gradually like him now would be too distasteful to their sensibilities. Third, there’s the groupthink inherent in NPCs who have their worldview molded for them by television, video games, teachers, professors, and the Corporate Media Industrial Complex.
But that only accounts for the pawns. The useful idiots around us think they know why they’re supposed to hate Donald Trump but they have no idea. There are three other reasons to stop Donald Trump from winning at all costs that are of utmost importance to the powers-that-be. Whether you want to see them as the Deep State, the UniParty Swamp, the Globalist Elite Cabal, the New World Order, Powers and Principalities, or any of the other various labels we assign different variations of the group, “they” cannot allow Donald Trump to return to the Oval Office for three nefarious reasons.
Globalism Can’t Afford Another Speedbump
The globalists had plans. By this point, America was supposed to be on the verge of collapse and their multipolar world was supposed to be emerging. But they needed Hillary Clinton in the White House for that to happen and Trump’s voters derailed those plans.
Since then, they’ve been playing catchup. They launched their Plandemic which did its multiple jobs of helping them cheat in 2020, getting mRNA in a majority of westerners, normalizing a willing forfeiture of freedoms, and setting the stage for a world government ruled by the WHO for healthcare first, then eventually for the sake of climate change.
Another four years of Donald Trump would devastate their timeline which is already being rushed. For whatever reason (and I have my theories), they need to have everything in place before 2030 and they can’t do that if Trump is in the White House.
Covering Up Their Sins Is Almost Impossible
Pop quiz: Which American is most terrified by the prospects of a Trump presidency? Obviously that’s an impossible question to answer empirically but if I had to put odds on one person in particular, it would be Liz Cheney.
The sins that have been accumulating for the Deep State and the UniParty Swamp over the past four years are so vast that it would be impossible to cover it all up if someone with White House authority went searching. The same was likely true in 2017, which is why I believe they took out General Michael Flynn.
Just having Trump in the White House is not enough. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know which means he’ll need people like Flynn who know the likely places the bodies are buried. I’m not sure Trump will bring on people who can truly drain the swamp in his next administration, but it’s a risk that people like Liz Cheney and her superiors are not willing to take.
The Demonization of America First Patriots Must Continue Unabated
I hope I don’t sound too much like Christopher Wray when I say Donald Trump is an idea. Yes, he’s a man, but he also represents a spirit that inspires millions of Americans to want to fight back against the evils around us.
That spirit was amplified last Saturday.
No single man or even single administration has enough power to truly defend this nation against all who want to take us down. Not alone. It will sound cliche but it’s the truest statement I can make in this article when I say that the will of an inspired and united American people is strong enough to slow the Globalist Elite Cabal’s machinations.
We can’t stop it altogether. For that, only God’s Will would suffice. But we can make it increasingly difficult for the globalists to achieve their goals if we are inspired by a Trump presidency.
If he loses, they will continue to demonize us.
Winning in November is only part of it. If Trump doesn’t take full advantage of the opportunity then he won’t inspire the people and the globalists will still move forward mostly unabated. But I’m hopeful that he wins. I’m hopeful that he puts the right people in the right places. I’m hopeful that he recognizes the true extent of evil that we face and that he’s willing to act to stop it even if it means potentially harming his legacy.
I’m hopeful and I pray to God that my hope is justified.
I will be talking about this on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show at 11:30 Pacific.
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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