(The Economic Collapse Blog)—More than anything else, the elite want a president that is easy to control. That is why they love Joe Biden and that is why they hate Donald Trump. It all comes down to control. No matter what happens, the elite want to feel confident that whoever is in the White House is going to be a team player. So the elite are really excited about the possibility that Kamala Harris could become the next president of the United States. Whenever she makes a public appearance, it is clear that she is in way, way over her head, and if she actually makes it into the Oval Office she will be exceedingly easy to manipulate.
Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the race and Kamala Harris has become the presumptive nominee, there is one really big question that we all need to ask.
Could it be possible that this was their plan all along?
Consider the following facts…
- If Joe Biden had announced that he was not running prior to the primaries, Kamala Harris never would have had enough support to become the nominee. There are five or six prominent Democrats that would have absolutely trounced her.
- Throughout the first half of 2024, relentless efforts were made to convince everyone that Joe Biden was physically fit and mentally sharp. Were they trying to prop him up just long enough to secure the nomination?
- Democrats pushed for a very early presidential debate. Personally, I thought that it was very strange that one would be held in June. When Joe Biden failed miserably, this gave them the perfect opportunity to remove him.
- Within hours of the announcement that Biden had dropped out, Kamala Harris already had endorsements from most of the top figures in the party and she was already the presumptive nominee. This was clearly orchestrated well in advance.
The last hope that the “anyone but Kamala” crowd had completely vanished when Gretchen Whitmer formally endorsed Harris…
Today, not only am I fired up to endorse @KamalaHarris for President of the United States, I’m proud to serve as a co-chair of her campaign.
In Vice President Harris, Michigan voters have a candidate they can count on to lower their costs, protect their freedoms, and build an economy that works for working people. Donald Trump is a convicted felon who stokes violence, overturned Roe, and drove our economy into the ground. We cannot let him anywhere near the White House.
Vice President Harris, you have my full support. Let’s win this.
There are some people out there that are still suggesting that Michele Obama could come swooping in at the last moment and steal the nomination from Harris.
It’s not going to happen. In fact, I think that the Obamas played a major role in making sure that Harris would be the choice. This is a done deal, and it was executed with ruthless efficiency.
One thing that is going to be very difficult to hide is the fact that it can be extremely unpleasant to work with Harris.
It is being reported that only 5 of the 47 staffers that were working for her in 2021 were still working for her during the early part of 2024…
About half of the vice president’s staff is paid by the Senate, which requires regular disclosures. Of the 47 Harris staffers listed in 2021, only five still worked for her as of this spring, according to the disclosures.
Like Hillary Clinton, behind the scenes Harris can be absolutely brutal, and that is one of the reasons a lot of people just don’t like her.
To me, it appears that the Democrats are committing political suicide. Recent surveys indicate that Harris will perform even worse against Trump than Biden would have…
Her post-debate polls against Trump relative to Biden have a great deal of variance, ranging from around 8 points worse to 4 points better than how Biden performed. Based on an average of 26 national polls conducted over the past month, Harris trailed Trump by 4.5 points nationally compared with a smaller 3-point deficit for Biden.
Speaking of Biden, where in the world is he?
Seriously.
The last time we saw Biden, he was slowly disembarking from Air Force One in Dover, Delaware on Wednesday evening.
The public did not see Biden on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, and then he suddenly dropped out of the race on Sunday…
Biden’s decision to drop out came on the fourth day of sequestration at his shore home in Delaware, where he’s been isolating while recovering from Covid.
The president was initially joined by just a small group of aides, and he has spent the entire period out of public view.
Many thought that it was really odd that Biden would drop out of the race without making any sort of speech.
One of those that is asking questions about Biden’s status is journalist Glenn Greenwald…
And journalist Glenn Greenwald – an anti-Biden left-winger – posted on the social media site deeming it ‘strange and wrong’ that Biden has yet to give a televised announcement.
‘I don’t endorse Biden conspiracies, but still: It’s strange and wrong that Biden hasn’t spoken given the historic magnitude of his announcement,’ Greenwald wrote.
‘Having a President drop out by tweet and then disappear is bizarre. If he’s well enough to decide, then he’s well enough to speak.’
At such a historic moment, why couldn’t Biden even say just a few words?
Something isn’t right.
There are some that are suggesting that Biden may not have even signed the letter that declared that he was dropping out…
Speculation has since started to grow, with conspiracy theorists poring over its authenticity, with some believing he never actually signed the letter himself.
His signature on the letter shared on Sunday show his name being underlined, which according to some commentators he has never done before.
Billionaire Bill Ackman has been one of those sharing the theory online, frequently reposting different takes on his signature to his X profile.
When asked about how Biden is doing, the White House insisted that he has almost fully recovered from his recent illness…
President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms nearly cleared up five days after he was diagnosed with the virus for the third time, according to White House Physician Kevin O’Connor.
The latest information on Biden’s condition comes amid speculation and conspiracies running amok online that the President is either more sick than is being shared or is incapacitated or deceased.
‘His symptoms have almost resolved completely,’ O’Connor wrote in the latest update on Biden’s recovery.
If this is true, then why haven’t we seen Biden by now?
Frank Biden fueled speculation that something might be seriously wrong when he told CBS that Joe Biden’s health played a “considerable role” in the decision to drop out of the race and that he was looking forward to spending “whatever time we have left” with his brother…
Frank Biden said to CBS that he was selfishly glad to have Joe Biden back for “whatever time we have left.” Then, when he was asked if health factored into his brother’s decision to step aside from the race, he said, “absolutely” his health played a “considerable role” in his decision.
“Whatever time we have left” sounds ominous. Is that just a recognition that he’s 81, or is that a hint of something more that we’re not being told?
“Whatever time we have left”?
That sounds rather ominous.
And according to the White House schedule that was released on Monday, there are no public events scheduled for Joe Biden this week at all…
President Joe Biden will hold no public events all week to explain why he stepped aside, according to the White House schedule released Monday.
The lack of a public appearance will increase concerns about Biden’s health.
Many commentators believe that Biden’s lack of a public appearance to announce his decision will fuel calls for him to resign from the presidency, citing fears that he is not able to run the executive branch.
It is becoming clear that we are not being told the whole story.
Of course that is the way that they always operate.
Ultimately, we could end up with Kamala Harris in the White House just as the most chaotic chapters in our entire history come crashing down upon us.
That is a thought that should chill all of us to the core.
Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.
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.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.
Fallback, contingency plsn — Snyder always the last guy to get the memo!!!
Trump removed before the RNC convention, floor fight goes to a HALEY/POMPEO ticket — — which never happened, so fallback flimsy plan!
How many more years will we have to suffer with Obama and the threat of his man-wife threatening to run for president? These people never go away. As if there is some great desire on the left for chocolate Jesus to return.