(Zero Hedge)—Comic book content is largely dead in Hollywood. Not because audiences don’t want to see it anymore (Spider-Man: Brand New Day brought in nearly $2.4 billion in global box office, absolutely crushing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey film), but because the studios have turned most of these franchises radioactive with woke politics.
James Gunn’s DCU projects for Warner Bros. have proven this over and over again. His girl-boss version of Supergirl was an abject failure largely because of the woke undertones of the film. One would think these people would learn their lesson, or at least care enough about making money to change their behavior. There are two problems, though…
First, activists always double down. They do not learn. They can be forced to shut up and do their jobs properly if studios apply pressure, but left to their own devices they will inevitably inject everything they touch with propaganda. They can’t help themselves, they’re ideological fanatics.
Second, sometimes studios want to change course and steer away from DEI cultism because it rarely makes any money. But, a lot of the projects in their line-up started production years ago when Hollywood still thought that every American was going to be reeducated into the woke fold. Meaning, they now have all this content slated for release which started development back in 2022-2023.
Such is the case with the Warner/HBO series “Lanterns”, a modern take on the comic book series “Green Lantern”. The show went into development in 2022…and it’s obvious. The crux of the story? A black man (John Stewart) is set up to replace a white guy (Hal Jordan) as the great hero. Stewart’s family was essentially ruined by Hal Jordan when Stewart’s father failed a test of fear for the Lantern’s powerful ring. Hal Jordan ends up taking the ring instead.
You see, the fear that prevented John Stewart’s black father from earning the ring of a heroic Green Lantern was not his fault. He grew up with constant fear because of “white supremacy”. In other words, the black community’s failures are once again deflected and foisted upon a nefarious white conspiracy to hold them back from greatness. It’s all the ridiculous 2016 to 2020 BLM talking points packed into a 2026 comic book show.
The story is apparently meant to be a combination of the legacy comic and the gritty True Detective series (yes, right off the bat we’re entering low IQ narrative territory with this idea). The comic book setting aside, the writers and creators of the series have been very vocal about their intentions with the story and they openly admit – This is about the black man finally taking back what is “rightfully his” after the white man “stole it” from him.
Showrunner Chris Mundy described the series as being “about replacement,” with Hal as the aging figure who should “step aside” and out of the way of the younger and more competent John Stewart.
We knew the #lanterns creators hated hal Jordan
But damn…. pic.twitter.com/KOgmbOp2ig
— SyL ☕ #SyLgorithm (@sylabdul) September 2, 2026
Keep in mind, many studios are cleaning house today and kicking a lot of their DEI hires to the curb, but this process is slow and there’s no guarantees that they will ever be able to return to decent storytelling anytime soon. So, in the meantime they’re still stuck with a bunch of talentless minority and LGBT writers they hired to gain virtue points and ESG loans.
Most of the middle-aged white guys with imagination and merit were cast out.
It is therefore ironic that the entire basis for the Lanterns series is the fallacy that minorities are rejected because of their skin color and “cultural experiences”, rather than a lack of merit. When, in Hollywood, this has been the exact case with DEI hiring pushing out white male actors and writers with talent for the past decade (unless they are gay).
The inferiority complex of activist writers is apparent in the stories they obsessively tell – Build up a popular white hero into a washed up strawman who is then easy to tear down. They can’t surpass their pale skin peers in the real world without outside help, so they have to beat up artificial white men in artificial worlds.
At bottom, minority groups in the west have been hand fed, enjoying promotions and positions of influence within politics, the corporate world and entertainment media. Many of these people where hired despite not having the ability or intelligence to do the job. They were hired to fill an ethnic quota, and that is all. And, this trend shows in the steady decline of media and numerous other sectors of western society.
Lanterns may be nothing more than a meaningless superhero show being used as a vehicle for black leftists to cry about not being good enough, but it gives us another window into the warped mind of the opposition. What do we see in through that window? A group that will never take responsibility for themselves and their own problems. They will always blame someone else. Which means, there’s no reason to hold their hand anymore. It’s a waste of time.
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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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