It did not take long for most Democrats, Independents, and Never-Trump Republicans to realize they’d made a terrible mistake by supporting Joe Biden. His regime started taking apart the nation literally on Day 1 of being installed into the White House and things just got worse and worse every day thereafter.
Before the end of his first year in the Oval Office, there were already plenty of rumblings about not wanting him to run again in 2024. Many, especially among Republicans, speculated he wouldn’t finish his first term. One can make a case that the only reason he lasted this long is because the powers-that-be saw no redeeming qualities in Kamala Harris. At least with Biden they had his dementia as the excuse for him not making any sense when he spoke. Harris has no such excuse.
A source that had previously been 100% reliable finally got one wrong for me. She said if things were looking badly enough for Democrats in October that Biden would step down to shake things up. Things looked pretty bad for Democrats all of last month, so this was her first bit of intel that didn’t pan out. Of course, there’s always the chance that perhaps she was right but Democrats have other plans to “win” the election on Tuesday.
Her other intel was that if Biden doesn’t step down before the midterms, he will do so afterwards. I’ve spoken to several political analysts, none of whom would go on the record but were willing to explain to me why they thought this was a possibility. After putting it all together, I believe it’s a likelihood. It’s far from certain, but I’d say it’s over 50/50 that after the midterms but before the Republicans take over the House and/or Senate, Joe will step down. Here are the top five reasons why I believe this is a safe bet.
On the latest short episode of The JD Rucker Show, I broke all of this down.
5. Corporate Media Is Turning on Him
Just in the last two weeks, reliable Democrat shills in corporate media have been shunning Democrats more and more. They aren’t embracing Republicans by any means, but they’ve been far more critical of the White House and their policies than the previous two years combined. Could they be setting themselves up to not look like fools for promoting ideas the American people reject? Could it be worse than that? Could the upper management in these corporate media outlets be aware that Biden is on his way out so they’re planting the seeds now?
4. Picking a VP Will Be Easier Before Next Session
Based on the 25th Amendment, Kamala Harris would need majority votes in both chambers to confirm her Vice Presidential nominee. This would be much easier with Nancy Pelosi in charge of the House rather than Kevin McCarthy and a 50+ Republican majority. The Senate will confirm whoever she would nominate whether Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell is in charge, but the House could be an issue. They’d want the path of least resistance and that means getting a new VP before the changing of the guards.
3. Democrats Need a Scapegoat
There is no world in which Democrats will readily acknowledge that the American people reject their policies. They blame everything other than their own ideas for their failures. This is standard operating procedure for the left, which is why they’d never admit that policies like Defund the Police have failed. Instead, they chose to pretend like it was the GOP who embraced Defund the Police before changing subjects.
The easiest way for them to say their policies are good but they still lost is if they can blame someone in particular. Joe Biden is their perfect scapegoat. They will quietly make adjustments to their policies behind the scenes while publicly saying Biden’s failures as president are the reason their agenda didn’t resonate with the voters.
2. He’s Way Over His Head
Let’s call it what it is. Joe Biden needs to be cared for in his home as he struggles through dementia and whatever else is ailing him. He doesn’t need to be in the Oval Office or any office for that matter. He knows this. Dr. Jill knows this. Everyone around him knows it. And most Americans know it. Admitting it by stepping down is the right thing to do once his usefulness to the globalist elite cabal has been exhausted.
1. Protecting Hunter and the Biden Crime Family
The most important reason Joe Biden will step down is because he does not want a Republican controlled House and/or Senate to start investigating his family. One can argue the predicate for him to run in the first place was to keep Donald Trump from digging deeper into the Biden family’s ties with China, Russia, Ukraine, and wherever else they’ve operated under the Biden family flag.
Joe’s days in the White House are very likely short. After the election but before Republicans are sworn into their majorities on Capitol Hill, don’t be surprised to see the old man head off into his version of a sunset.
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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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