(Substack)—Zohran Mamdani will do tremendous damage to New York City if he becomes mayor. In fact, the place where I used to call home may be unsalvageable before all is said and done. What’s worse is that his brand of Neo-Marxist evil could spread as a result of his victory. However, the alternative is equally evil, replacing insane Neo-Marxism with calculated corruption.
The establishment media and New York political insiders are buzzing with a familiar narrative: “Curtis Sliwa should drop out to stop the socialist.” It’s the same tired lesser-of-two-evils argument that’s been used for decades to keep conservatives trapped in a losing cycle — forced to choose between open radicals on the left and the corrupt political machine that enables them. This time, the “evil” to be stopped is Mamdani, the Democrat Socialist assemblyman from Astoria. The “savior” is none other than disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo. And the target for elimination, of course, is the one man actually standing up for New Yorkers: Curtis Sliwa.
Let’s be blunt — there is no practical difference between Mamdani’s socialist utopianism and Cuomo’s brand of establishment corruption. One dreams of turning New York into a collectivist experiment; the other already helped drive it into the ground with authoritarian policies, economic mismanagement, and personal scandal. Mamdani represents the ideological decay of the modern left, while Cuomo represents its moral rot. Trading one for the other is not a victory — it’s a lateral move within the same political swamp.
Cuomo’s allies want conservatives to believe that replacing a socialist with a “moderate” Democrat would be some kind of moral or practical improvement. But what would really change? Taxes would still rise. Crime would still be tolerated. Bureaucrats would still crush small businesses while coddling illegal aliens. The same corrupt unions, globalist developers, and party bosses would still call the shots. The Cuomo machine and the socialist wing may hate each other personally, but ideologically they serve the same goal — permanent one-party rule.
But I’m not here to debate who would be less awful for New York City. If I was forced to pick one or the other, I’d go with the devil we know in Cuomo over the demonic wildcard of Mamdani. But the practical differences between the two as mayor are not worth corrupting our principles to back one over the other.
Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels and one of the few true fighters left in New York politics, refuses to play by those rules. He’s not in this race to be a spoiler or to hand the seat to anyone. He’s in it because New Yorkers deserve a real choice — not a rigged game where the outcome is always the same, no matter which Democrat wins.
The “strategic voters” demanding that Sliwa step aside are really just protecting the system. They don’t want voters to see that a non-establishment candidate can break through the narrative. They fear that if Sliwa gains traction, it will expose how hollow both sides of the Democrat coin have become. That’s why the pressure campaign has begun: “Be realistic, Curtis. Don’t split the vote.”
But realism is not the same as surrender.
The right’s biggest mistake for decades in New York City has been playing defense within a rigged framework. We’re told to compromise, to vote for the lesser evil, to wait for things to get worse before we can make them better. Meanwhile, the left — both its radical and its “moderate” wings — advances relentlessly. They never drop out “for the greater good.” They never sacrifice their principles for “unity.” Yet conservatives are constantly asked to kneel at the altar of pragmatism, and in doing so, we’ve allowed the Overton window to shift so far left that even a corrupt, scandal-ridden Cuomo now looks “moderate” by comparison.
That illusion must end. Standing for principle is not stubbornness — it’s the only way to reverse decades of cultural and political decay. Curtis Sliwa represents more than a candidacy; he represents resistance to the entire rigged system that keeps New York enslaved to one-party rule. Dropping out to help Andrew Cuomo would not just be a political mistake — it would be a moral betrayal.
Let the Democrats fight among themselves. Let the socialists and the establishment cannibalize their own party. Meanwhile, conservatives and independents who are sick of the entire circus should rally behind someone who actually stands for law, order, accountability, and freedom. Curtis Sliwa doesn’t owe Andrew Cuomo anything — least of all his withdrawal.
In this race, ideological purity isn’t a luxury; it’s a necessity. Because when both sides of the leftist coin are evil, the only winning move is not to play their game at all.
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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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