(WND)—The 2020 election was a mess. Only the gullible and self-deceived believe Joe Biden legally obtained more votes than any presidential candidate in U.S. history. If this were true, Democrats would have beaten their drums concerning this “historic” vote, like the pig in the old Valleydale Sausage commercials, but even Democrats know no one would believe it. They even booted Biden from the 2024 presidential race.
The Heartland Institute recently “concluded that mail-in ballot fraud ‘significantly’ impacted the 2020 presidential election,” and revealed that just the effect of fraudulent mail-in ballots was enough to hand Biden the election. The study charged state legislatures “to do all in their power to ensure the 2024 presidential election is as secure as possible.”
After Harris’/Biden’s first two years of disastrous policies, the 2022 election was also plagued with problems. We did see a “Red Wave” in Florida, where election integrity was strictly guarded. States like Arizona had multiple problems, with ballot printers in Republican areas suddenly not working or running out of ink, disenfranchising voters who waited in line for hours, never getting to vote.
The 2024 election is already full of Democrats’ “fun and games,” as they vow to “guard democracy.” Members of the North Carolina Board of Elections (NCSBE) are selected by the governor. North Carolina’s governor, being a Democrat, of course put three Democrats on the board along with two Republicans, so all the votes down party lines allow Democrats to win.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and other GOP officials are suing the Democrat-led NCSBE because the RNC says the board allowed “nearly a quarter million people” to register to vote in North Carolina without proving their identity. The RNC requested a federal judge revoke these registrations, making these people ineligible to cast a ballot in the 2024 race unless they re-register.
The Republicans filed their complaint in October 2023 stating the NCSBE violated the federal law called “the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), by using voter registration forms not requiring submission of a driver’s license or the last four digits of a Social Security number.”
RNC Chairman Michael Whatley stated, “The NCSBE has once again failed in its mandate to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls, fueling distrust and jeopardizing our elections.”
Patrick Gannon, an NCSBE spokesman, claimed it is “impossible” to remove these names this close to the election because “federal law blocks such action within 90 days of the election. Mail-in ballots begin being sent to voters in early September.”
Democrats claim this lawsuit is just to “amplify baseless conspiracy theories and come November use them to claim the election is being stolen.” If this is true, why did the Democrat-controlled NCSBE violate the federal HAVA law and send out the registration forms that ignored the state voter ID law, and why didn’t they reply to the Republican complaint in October?
Amazingly, Gannon says removing illegal aliens from voter registration rolls is against federal law. So, according to Gannon, you can violate the federal law, HAVA, and register people improperly, and then run behind federal law and say you can’t fix it. That is very interesting. Oh, by the way, when does he go to jail for breaking federal law?
Republican Party leaders state the NCSBEs “lack of action to purge the voters so far ‘eviscerates confidence in North Carolina’s elections’ and calls into question the state’s commitment to fair elections.” The lawsuit says, “Free and fair elections are the bulwark of the citizenry’s trust in their government. Ensuring that qualified voters – and only qualified voters – are able to vote in elections is the cornerstone of that compact between the state and its citizens.”
Giving just a glimpse of what is happening, 19 illegal aliens in North Carolina, who have motor vehicle licenses, are voting in N.C. One gentleman has voted in 16 elections for two decades. Sixteen of the illegal aliens have been removed from the rolls, but three of them are still on the roll with “local officials say[-ing] there’s not much they can do about it.” The Clinton-era National Voter Registration Act requires states to push voter registration when people show up to conduct DMV business. Non-citizens easily register to vote by accident or on purpose.
Democrats claim all of this is echoing the “false” claims Trump made concerning the election in 2016 and 2020, but it’s hard to understand how it is a “false” claim if someone is illegally registered to vote, whether he is an illegal alien or not. If you break the law to register to vote, then you are illegally registered to vote. Every illegal vote cancels a valid vote.
Aug. 20 the NCSBE again voted down party lines to approve the use of digital identification. Republican’s state the law requires an “ID card,” but Democrats say, “There’s certainly enough flexibility within the statue for us to approve a digital card.” In addition, the NCSBE has approved over 130 types of IDs for voting purposes, including student ID cards. Do these IDs clarify one’s U.S. citizenship status?
Again voting down part lines, Aug. 29 the NCSBE voted to keep the Trump-endorsing RFK Jr. on the ballot. Originally the Democrats voted to keep him off the ballot, but now they voted to keep him on the ballot.
The Gateway Pundit published numerous cases of voter fraud going back as far as 2004. Democrat organizations like “Operation Big Vote” and “GBI strategies” are plagued with “thousands of fraudulent ballot registrations.” Concerning the 2020 election, while Democrats knew of “widespread, systemic ongoing voter registration fraud in Michigan,” since the investigation was turned over to FBI Director Chris Wray, “no charges have been filed” for more than three years.
NPR reported that “800,000 noncitizens” are allowed to vote in the local elections of New York City. Might this have influenced election results?
Also, Texas removed 1 million ineligible voters from registration rolls since the 2020 election, but meanwhile, over 13 million illegal aliens have crossed the border.
It looks like the 2024 election is going to be a mess. Surprised?
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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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