(The Daily Signal)—Russiagate is one of the most significant scandals in American history, and it totally shatters the media-manufactured myth of Barack Obama.
Newly released details by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard about the Trump-Russia collusion scandal paint a picture of an Obama administration that used official power to tarnish and destroy a political opponent.
My colleague Virginia Allen had an excellent write-up on the Wednesday release from the House Intelligence Committee report, which, according to Gabbard, “exposes how the Obama administration manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President [Donald] Trump win the 2016 election.”
Gabbard doubled down Wednesday, saying that Obama’s national security team “knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn’t.”
As details of the Russia collusion hoax drip out from the White House, the whole thing keeps looking worse for the Obama administration.
The origin of the Russia collusion narrative that was a constant source of media coverage through Trump’s first term had begun without any credible evidence. But top officials in the Obama White House used their final days in office to create the implication that Russia was backing Trump. This, despite the intelligence community telling them that they had no evidence connecting Russia to Trump.
In fact, according to the files, it’s not clear at all that Russia even wanted Trump to win. That conclusion, according to the report, was based on a “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment,” from a single source.
After Gabbard’s report simmered for a while, Obama issued this very Obama-esque statement.
“Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response,” the statement said. “But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
As usual, the holier-than-thou former president said nothing in particular while pretending, as always, that he’s above the petty workings and accusations of mere mortals.
But Obama can’t just eject from this scandal.
If the report is true then it suggests that the Obama administration, at the very highest level, attempted to weaponize the intelligence community, the deep state, to create a narrative about Trump and Russia that was meant to damage and delegitimize Trump’s presidency.
That’s a massive betrayal of public trust and makes Watergate seem like a nothingburger.
Obama was a change agent focused on changing institutions to serve his political movement. On this end he achieved a remarkable amount of success but ultimately sowed the seeds for a total collapse in American institutional trust.
For the constant talk about how Trump breaks “norms,” it was the Obama administration that destroyed the notion of an amicable transfer of power between presidential administrations.
This may be hard to come to grips with for some people who still buy into the notion of a “moderate” Obama who was above petty politics and the partisan fray, but the actions of his administration were ruthlessly partisan.
Obama effectively wedded the power of the federal government to the Democrat political machine. His political movement coopted the private sector and corporate America too—once the bogeymen of the Left—into the larger project. The regime was set to carry out the Left’s objectives no matter who sat in the Oval Office.
In 2016, what Obama once called the bitter clingers—the “basket of deplorables,” as Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton even more obnoxiously called them—struck back and elected Trump. But the Obama machine wouldn’t let this stand. So instead of gracefully accepting defeat, they weaponized the bureaucratic leviathan Obama built to stonewall and damage Trump at every turn.
With the narrow election of President Joe Biden, it seemed the strategy worked. That Biden was a barely there empty suit may have even been a positive for the collection of Obama advisers and deep state bureaucrats who clearly ran the executive branch as the “president” snoozed and ate ice cream.
They set the precedent for using official power to destroy enemies of the regime. And they had a vast bureaucratic apparatus that was eager to help them do it. So when the Biden administration worked with leftist prosecutors to jail Trump, it was done in the spirit of the Russia collusion hoax.
And that’s the line that runs through the Obama-Biden joint apparatus that created and linked two of the biggest scandals in American political history. The first was the Obama administration’s weaponization of the deep state, the second was the deep state presidency where Biden operated as little more than a figurehead.
The return of Trump to the White House is the ultimate rebuke of the institutions that Obama’s minions corrupted.
If Gabbard’s report is true, it should forever put to rest the notion of the “scandal-free” Obama administration.
Obama entered office promising “hope and change,” he left us with malaise and cynicism.
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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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