The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been tearing through the federal government with recommendations of huge cuts to nearly every department and agency. Elon Musk and President Trump are on a mission to save this nation from the unavoidable collapse if massive cuts aren’t made immediately.
But this is about more than just spending less and reducing waste. In fact, the critically important economic implications rank fourth on my list of priorities for DOGE. Granted, the three priorities above cuts are directly tied to the cuts themselves and are meaningless without them, but if cuts are made and nothing else is done, then it would be a band aid fix that will be ripped off by future administrations.
Government grows. It’s inherent and unavoidable. To make these cuts last for generations instead of years, three things must accompany them.
I dedicated yesterday’s episode of The JD Rucker Show to the DOGE efforts and it seems every episode has at least one segment dedicated to it. As someone who firmly believes a huge chunk of the federal government’s power should belong to the states or eliminated altogether, DOGE is a topic that’s near and dear. We’ve never had the perfect storm of ideology and capability conducive to massive cuts within the White House and we may never have it again.
This is the time to make it happen.
With that said, here are the three goals DOGE must accomplish that are even more important for the long-term sustainability of the cuts than the cuts themselves. Let’s count them down…
3. Educating and Informing the People About Government Corruption
I often say there are two types of leftists. There are those who are too stubborn, indoctrinated, or both to realize the errors of their ways and there are future freedom allies. I don’t like to refer to the latter group as “conservatives” because reformed leftists often retain some of their leanings, but as long as they embrace the tenets of freedom and personal responsibility then the rest are just details.
The Trump administration has a few of these reformed leftists, starting at the top with President Trump. Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and several others are all reformed even if they’re not necessarily conservatives.
They embrace freedom which makes them our allies.
A recent discussion between two leftist commentators, Jon Stewart and Ezra Klein, had both of them hilariously disgusted by the Democrats’ massive failures with two expensive projects.
Klein explained,”7.5 billion passed for a nationwide network of electric vehicle chargers. We also get 42 billion dollars to do rural broadband. By the end of the administration, they just have not happened.”
The discussion highlighted the insane federal process, designed by the Democrat architects of the bills, that was so convoluted that Stewart had to profanely curse it all on a couple of occasions.
DOGE needs to do this at scale. They need to educate and inform the American people about the disgusting waste, fraud, corruption, and inefficiencies they find.
Thursday’s interview with Fox News host Bret Baier was an excellent example of what needs to be done. It’s a start. Now they need to do it tenfold. And it can’t just be Musk doing all of the talking. Members of the panel, who are all working with DOGE, were just as compelling as Musk himself as they told their stories.
They need to go on every podcast and alternative media outlet that they can. They should even work with the White House communications team to put out daily, weekly, and monthly updates.
Here’s a segment from yesterday’s show where I highlighted just one of the major bits of waste they’ve found:
2. Changing the Culture and Paradigm to Return to Mission
HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr delivered a six-minute explainer about thousands of employees getting cut from his department. He mentioned the dollars that will be saved, but he kept pointing to renewed focus on “the mission” of the health agencies.
This is extremely important. Cutting is one thing but shifting priorities to achieve results can go a long way to not only more accomplishments but also a cultural shift that breeds success. It’s about running departments and agencies more like businesses than bureaucratic entities.
Do more with less.
Achieve goals instead of doing tasks.
Find success, not more work to justify budgets.
These are the things that can be done when there’s more of a business mentality than a bureaucratic one. The reason is simple. Bureaucracies are not designed to solve problems because if they solve too many problems, their very existence can become unnecessary. They can succeed their way out of a job.
That’s the mentality that bureaucrats have whether they realize it or not.
Change the culture. Shift the paradigm. Make government more efficient. If these things aren’t done, then the cuts will not work in the long term. They’ll just represent temporary budget glitches that will be replaced by more useless spending in a matter of years.
Perhaps the best example is the FBI. The nation’s leading law enforcement organization has drifted way outside of their stated mission. This has been the case for decades. FBI Director Kash Patel has called for these crimefighters to actually start fighting crimes.
The results so far include catching three people on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, including two in Mexico.
1. Eliminate the Avenues for Corruption to Return
Why are members of the Deep State, the UniParty Swamp, and the Globalist Elite Cabal so desperate to stop DOGE? Why are they engaging in the worst sustained series of lawfare maneuvers this nation has ever seen? Why is nearly every action taken by DOGE challenged? Why do they have paid protesters, legacy media, and domestic terrorists activated to cause as much anti-DOGE pain as possible?
It’s not the budget cuts. They don’t want the cuts to happen but the cuts alone not enough to make the powers-that-be so desperate.
The real fear that keeps the Elizabeth Warrens and John Boltons of the world up at night is that in the process of finding waste and inefficiencies, DOGE will uncover fraud and corruption.
Fraud and corruption enable the Deep State to get their dirtiest jobs done.
Fraud and corruption allow tainted members of the UniParty Swamp to profit without scrutiny.
Fraud and corruption give the Globalist Elite Cabal the control they want over important members of our government.
It’s not enough to find the fraud and corruption. DOGE must learn their tactics and find their loopholes. They must discover the secrets that have been buried in the arm pits under the dozens of tentacles that make up our federal bureaucracy.
DOGE must find the criminals and cut off the ways they’re committing their crimes. Otherwise, it’ll be like the old street vendors in Manhattan.
I was with a group of friends. We were walking down 5th Avenue in the 90s. Illegal street vendors had their products sprawled out on blankets. A police car crept by telling them on the bullhorn to “wrap it up… if you’re still here when we circle back around you’re going to jail.”
All of the street vendors slowly started picking up their items and rolling up their blankets. As soon as the police car turned the corner, they laid their blankets and merchandise back down and continued selling. My friends and I watched from a coffee shop for nearly an hour.
The cops never circled back around.
A few years later the police were told to arrest illegal street vendors when they saw them. No creeping warnings. No bullhorns. Almost overnight, the street vendors were no longer operating from blankets.
DOGE must work with the FBI and Inspectors General to not only cut waste but also to find and punish criminals. That does NOT mean DOGE should be getting involved in criminal investigations. But when the data points to potential malfeasance, they need investigators to be informed so they can step in.
Our Part
DOGE is finding the waste. Department leaders can change the culture like Kennedy and Patel are doing. The FBI and Inspectors General can dig deeper to find wrongdoers and hold them accountable.
It’s in Goal #2, Educate and Inform, that We the People can participate. Whether through social media accounts such as X, on our own channels like blogs or podcasts, or simply by talking about it with friends and relatives, we need to make people aware of what’s happening with DOGE.
Legacy media is lying to them so it won’t be easy to break through with some.
I firmly believe that anyone against the efforts to make government less wasteful, fraudulent, and corrupt are simply misinformed. Anyone who develops their worldviews from information they get on CNN or the NY Times is likely unaware of the good that DOGE is doing. We can and should do what we can to help.
I’ll be talking about this on tonight’s show. Please follow me on the various networks where I broadcast. Spreading the truth has never been more crucial.
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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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