It’s been three months since Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary. The Deep State worked hard to scuttle Hegseth’s nomination in December and January with a steady drip of news stories calling his character into question, but President Trump and his trusted veep stood by their man and applied enough pressure on wayward Republican senators to secure his confirmation. Suddenly, corporate propagandists posing as reporters are back with fresh stories meant to undermine Secretary Hegseth and get him fired from the Pentagon’s top post.
It’s almost as if the Deep State tabled its sabotage campaign for a neat ninety days. Do you think there’s a section in some clandestine handbook on the dark arts of information warfare that recommends a three-month cooling-off period before ramping up operations against a given target? Our domestic spooks have gotten so tiresomely predictable!
Make no mistake: The silly attempts to create a public “narrative” that Secretary Hegseth threatens national security are part of the same Intelligence Community operation that targeted him last winter. It’s quite revealing how desperate the Deep State is to keep “outsiders” away from the levers of power, isn’t it?
If the CIA and its Establishment co-conspirators don’t “own” you, they don’t want you around sticking your nose in their business. And it is big business! They’ve got elections to rig (foreign and domestic!), governments to topple (for the right price), and trillions of dollars in war funding to spend! They can’t let the president of the United States and his secretary of Defense get in their way!
Don’t Trump and Hegseth understand that they’re just here for cute photo ops while the permanently installed shadow government runs the global show? Heck, Defense secretary Lloyd Austin disappeared for days at a time, and nobody even noticed! The same information warfare specialists who continue to call Hegseth a “drunk” never said anything about Austin performing his duties while under sedation!
C’est la vie. MAGA Americans are well versed in the Deep State’s double-standards. If you burn down cities and loot stores in the name of “social justice,” the mockingbird media chirp about civil rights and the “summer of love.” If you show up in D.C. to protest election fraud, the same mockingbird media call you an “insurrectionist” and deny that you have any civil rights at all! Because Hegseth’s not part of the Deep State team, he gets the Orange Man Bad treatment from the press. Since the Gestapo-FBI effectively acts as a pimp for Politico and The New York Times, the presstitutes who work those rags’ street corners get slapped around when they don’t do the Intelligence Community’s bidding. In the corporate news world, that’s just life!
So after a ninety-day hiatus in the information war against Secretary Hegseth, the I.C.’s “journalistic” brothel is back to its old tricks. Despite vigorous denials from the White House, NPR is pumping out the following headline on car displays: “White House looking to replace Pete Hegseth at Defense.” Talk about modern “journalism” in a nutshell!
Everybody at the White House says this story is bunk. President Trump says it’s horse pucky. Undaunted by overwhelming testimonial evidence to the contrary, NPR insists that some anonymous government official has assured its bordello of scribes that Trump is planning to fire Hegseth, even though the president is publicly saying the exact opposite! Could this unnamed “official” perhaps be related to the tubby Tweedle-Vindmans, a diminutive Ukrainian president, or some cash-strapped Nigerian prince? Holy moly, President Trump can’t defund fake-news NPR soon enough!
Last winter, when the Deep State’s “Operation: Sink Hegseth” was in full force, corporate news presstitutes nearly succeeded in giving RINO squishes enough cover to vote against his nomination. Celebrity “journalists” — whose profession remains a notorious breeding ground for alcoholism and sexual harassment — did their best to slander Pete Hegseth as a drunken womanizer and “Me Too” villain. Like monkeys flinging poo at the public, the nation’s trashiest gossip rags created a scene almost ugly enough to distract from Senate Republicans’ premeditated betrayal.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Senator Joni Ernst withheld support for Trump’s pick, and rumors swirled that she hoped to secure the SecDef job herself. Two-Faced Thom Tillis was apparently working behind the scenes to tank Hegseth’s nomination at the last minute. Bitter and enfeebled Mitch McConnell, brain-dead Mainer Susan Collins, and dimwitted Democrat-in-all-but-name Lisa Murkowski (whom Alaskans have repeatedly tried to kick to the curb, while Establishment cheaters rig “elections” in her favor) scowled for the cameras, apparently hoping that their permanently dour visages would scare senatorial colleagues into submission.
Much to the consternation of so many RINOs who have turned losing into an art form, Senate majority leader John Thune managed to avoid another spectacular Republican double-cross, reminiscent of John McCain’s infamous rescue of socialized medicine (AKA Obamacare).
One thing that regular people have learned well over the last several decades is that D.C.’s “ruling class” never gives up on failed plans. Americans repeatedly told politicians that marriage is a sacred institution that exists between one man and one woman. State and federal courts put their hands over their ears and chose to redefine a millennia-old tradition. Americans repeatedly told politicians to secure the nation’s borders. For fifty years, state and federal officials kept America’s borders wide open. Americans repeatedly told politicians to stop printing and spending money that they do not have. Congress not only created forty trillion dollars of debt and another couple hundred trillion dollars in future entitlement obligations, but also put us on the path of runaway inflation and currency collapse.
In the real world, “no” means “no.” In D.C., “no” just means “wait ninety days and try again.” That’s why the Deep State has circled back to scalp Hegseth.
Unfortunately for the compromised perverts running America’s shadow government, the American people have largely caught on to their little games. When they see the streetwalkers at The New York Times, Politico, and NPR all teasing customers with new salacious Hegseth stories, the first thing on most Americans’ minds is that whatever Trump’s Defense secretary has done to tick off the Fourth Estate’s pimps in the Intelligence Community can’t be that bad. After all, when was the last time some branch of the Deep State did something good for America?
In 2025, Americans have learned that only heroes become targets. You protest election fraud, you go to jail. You defend your children from public school sickos who want to castrate kids and saturate classrooms with pornography, you’re put on one of the Gestapo-FBI’s watchlists. You attend a traditional Latin Mass, you’re labeled an “extremist.” You humiliate Hillary Clinton, the I.C. frames you as a Russian spy. You refuse to yield to the Deep State, you get railroaded by corrupt prosecutors and even more corrupt judges willing to invent “crimes.”
So when the Deep State’s favorite journalistic courtesans are back to titillating the public with news of Hegseth’s imminent demise, discerning Americans assume that Trump’s secretary of Defense must be doing something right. Could the Deep State be mad that Hegseth is purging the military of discriminatory D-I-E initiatives that prioritize racial and sexual identities over competence, hard work, and merit? Is it mad that he’s successfully rebuilding a warrior culture that is attracting new recruits in record numbers? Is it mad that he’s prioritizing America’s hemispheric security over nuclear-tipped civil war in Ukraine? Is it mad that he follows President Trump’s orders and expects his subordinates to do the same? Is it mad that Secretary Hegseth puts America First?
Easy answer: Yes.
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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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