“I can’t sugarcoat this. We’re at Threat Level: Midnight!” – The Office
If you eat a clock, know that it’s time consuming, and don’t go back for seconds.
- People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology. Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
- Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
- Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
- Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
- Open War.
We are at step 9. Step 9. is, of course, two minutes to midnight on the clock. Violence continues to be commonly justified by local and state authorities.
In this issue: Front Matter – Talking About Divorce – Violence and Censorship Update – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Living Two Minutes To Midnight – Links
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Talking About Divorce
I read an article once that said that couples that talk about getting a divorce are much more likely to get a divorce. Heck, when my ex-wife said she wanted a divorce on Valentine’s Day, I was surprised – I wasn’t planning on spending that much. But talking increasing the divorce risk – that made sense to me: every time you talk about an event, you tend to bring the event closer to becoming real.
How?
It’s not magic or a witch’s incantation, or at least I didn’t see my ex-wife doing incantations, though there was a smell of sulfur around midnight. It is simply that when people talk about divorce, they start imagining what it would be like. When divorce fantasy is better than marriage reality, the lawyers get called in.
But they stayed together because of the kid. Nobody wanted custody of him.
In a recent “war game” of different election scenarios, John “Spirit Cooking” Podesta played the role of Joe “stay in the basement until November” Biden. Crucially in the war game scenario where Biden lost, “Biden’s team sought to encourage large Western states (California, Washington, Oregon) to secede unless pro-Democracy reforms were made.”
Both sides are talking about divorce.
Violence and Censorship Update
Violence associated with the protests is now so common that stories that would have made national news four months ago are, at most, up for a single news cycle. “Peaceful” protester draws an AK on someone driving by and gets ventilated? Yawn. Two women (I guess) are frolicking on an interstate at night and get (inadvertently) mowed down by someone driving a car?
The Mayor insists that Chicago isn’t violent, noting that they’d only lost three school bus tailgunners this month.
It’s bad. In Chicago, 2,249 people have been shot this year as of July 29 (LINK), which is nearly 700 more than in all of 2019. At this rate, more people will be shot in just Chicago this year than during the entire Falkland Island War between Great Britain and Argentina. This is patent proof that black lives don’t matter to Black Lives Matter®, since deaths of unarmed black people at the hands of cops in all of 2019 were, according to USA Today™ (LINK) only . . . 25.
Unjustified use of police force is horrible. But . . . cops killing unarmed black people is nearly the smallest problem faced by black people in the United States. BLM©? It’s a lie.
Alcoa® and Planters Peanuts™ secretly rule the world. They call themselves the Aluminutty.
Censorship was up again this month. In focus was Qanon. I wrote about Q a long while back (QAnon, The Chans, and Other Cryptic Stuff), and haven’t kept too much up with that subject. But this month in another set of coordinated censorship Twitter® banned over 7,000 accounts that Tweeted™ about Qanon. YouTube® has deleted “tens of thousands” of videos and “hundreds” of channels that were about Q. Facebook© won’t be left out – they nuked a Qanon group with 200,000 members.
What about Qanon scares the mainstream?
Updated Civil War II Index
The Civil War II graphs are an attempt to measure four factors that might make Civil War II more likely, in real time. They are broken up into Violence, Political Instability, Economic Outlook, and Illegal Alien Crossings. As each of these is difficult to measure, I’ve created for three of the four metrics some leading indicators that lead to the index. On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.
July was generally better than June, which is like saying that World War I was “better” than World War II. Let’s go to the graphs. As is custom at Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise, the graphs are presented with girls in bikinis, because if civilization is collapsing what better time is there for bikini graphs?
Violence:
Up is more violent. June pegged the scale of violence. This measure because the way it’s constructed, doesn’t go higher than 300. It’s lower this month. Does that mean it’s less violent this month? Certainly riots are down, but the measure is a measure of how people feel about the violence. Since it’s so common now, it’s not spiking. That is, in my opinion, very bad – we’re getting used to this nonsense.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable. Instability is down only slightly, which might seem weird, but the political system is still stable overall. I expect this to spike in the next two months, and may introduce a new measure based on the election as we get closer to November.
Economic:
Down indicates worse economic conditions, but this month it’s up. The part of me that hopes, hopes we’re on a real upswing. The part of me that thinks says we’re nowhere near the bottom.
Illegal Aliens:
Down is good, in theory. This is a statistic showing border apprehensions by the Border Patrol. Down, probably related to WuFlu, unemployment, and riots. This is near a five year low for this time of year.
Living Two Minutes To Midnight
Two minutes to midnight is a tough place for the United States to be sitting, and we’re here. The confluence of great events, economic, political, and social is upon us. It’s in these times of upheaval that systems collapse in complexity from a high level to a lower one. Highly complex society provides us nice things like video games and delivery of eyeglasses made in China in a week.
Societies of low complexity struggle to feed themselves and live in mud huts. Low complexity societies are always on the edge – a famine could mean real death due to starvation, not that the shake machine is broken at McDonalds® again so you have to go to Sonic™ if you want a shake.
In order to grab or consolidate political power, there are politicians that would gladly drop our standard of living to that of starving people in mud huts. Those that would support them imagine a world where they’ll be allowed to be artists and poets and philosophers and the mud huts will be left for those who oppose the new way of doing things.
Living in this time, I have one suggestion: be as prepared as you can be for nearly anything to happen. Understand that things you’ve taken for granted your entire life can change in a day. I never thought I’d live in a society where rioters could stop cars of peaceful citizens with impunity and the tacit approval of local and state governments, but here we are.
Things are moving fast. Be ready.
LINKS
These are from Ricky this month:
CW chatter continues….
https://www.startribune.com/are-we-ready-for-a-civil-war-lite/571920212/?refresh=true
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/07/29/stephen-kessler-is-trump-trying-to-start-a-civil-war/
…with Republicans promoting a vote for Biden to stop a CW…
https://time.com/5870475/never-trumpers-2020-election/
…and the Washington-Post-owned Foreign Policy magazine invoking Godwin’s Law to prevent a descent into Nazi-ism…
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/23/portland-fascism-trump-election/
…while the MSM maintains the threat is all Boogaloo Bois…
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53269361
…and not peaceful Antifa….
https://www.csis.org/analysis/who-are-antifa-and-are-they-threat
https://www.businessinsider.com/right-wing-extremists-kill-329-since-1994-antifa-killed-none-2020-7
https://www.csis.org/analysis/tactics-and-targets-domestic-terrorists
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/30/anarchists-and-antifa-not-according-to-the-data/
…all an example of the ongoing propaganda war…
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2020/07/21/propaganda-rules-america/
https://fee.org/articles/vandalism-is-violence-destructive-riots-are-not-just-property-damage/
…part of a different kind of civil war, with skirmishes over property lines, not state lines; families, not soldiers….
https://ammo.com/articles/war-on-suburbs-how-hud-housing-policies-became-weapon-for-social-change
https://mises.org/wire/why-marxist-organizations-blm-seek-dismantle-western-nuclear-family
…while real battles heat up….
https://apnews.com/1dd1bb39093a3691f4e78093787ab877
https://thegreatrecession.info/blog/how-seattle-chaz-got-chopped/
…as costs mount….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/george-floyd-protests-expensive-civil-disturbance-us-history
https://www.artemis.bm/news/riots-designated-a-catastrophe-in-multiple-states-a-first-for-pcs/
https://www.artemis.bm/news/riot-losses-said-up-to-1bn-in-u-s-retentions-may-protect-reinsurance/
https://www.genre.com/knowledge/blog/riots-and-civil-commotion-disquieting-times-ahead-en.html
One more bikini picture, from the Facebook page of Antifa San Diego. Just because.
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/68898288_114608076568608_7182360842870980608_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=6e5ad9&_nc_ohc=x-cA9Fiv1iUAX9s9vk3&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&oh=2d6c7a82f0bb0a67006038326fb11d96&oe=5F57FDA8
Antifa wishes we could all be California girls.
Ha! Chalk up one more bikini pic!
Overnight Chicago blew up again, luxury stores where White people like to shop were completely cleaned out and the cops were mostly standing down. Violence in most cities is skyrocketing, over 1,800 shootings so far in Philadelphia and the media is doing all it can to keep it out of the eye of the public. Hordes of diverse teens looting stores makes suburban White women think maybe Trump isn’t so bad after all.
It is an interesting shift that the Left is starting to also talk about dissolving the Union. Perhaps they are starting to realize that millions of guns are flowing into mostly conservative/Republican hands every month and that this could end badly for them.
Details from Chicago: police returned gunfire in Englewood, wounding a suspect (20 years old, four previous arrests). “As many as 200 stores” vandalized and looted. 100 rioters arrested. 13 police injured.
The cops locked the city down, shut off trains and buses, blocked freeway exits. It is only a matter of time before some cops are taking fire and get scared and return fire indiscriminately. Your training only goes so far.
Apparently what sparked these “mostly peaceful protests” was an armed black guy shooting at cops and getting shot in return.
I’m sure that young man was going to be an astronaut-doctor.
Chicago is going to vote Trump if this keeps up.
I think the pace of the “Big Sort” (thanks to author Bill Bishop) will sharply accelerate. We have said repeatedly that it’s time to bail from the big cities for many reasons. This morning’s Chicago news just repeatedly underlines that point.
We can’t divorce, nor should we. For example, California is not 100% leftist. I think there are more conservatives here than the populations of some states, we are just outnumbered. Some of us were born here, like it here and aren’t leaving.
So if California leaves hypothetically, it doesn’t do any good. All it does is give the USA an excuse to march in and arrest the leadership. If the USA didn’t do that, there would be a conservative government inside California which would have territory and would have reason to ignore the leftists nominally in charge. Additionally, foreign aggression is almost certain because they would rightly see a monumental opportunity. Same is true with Oregon and Washington.
Guess they couldn’t see beyond the elitist big city perspective in their war-gaming -> https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/02/democrats-war-game-for-election-includes-west-coast-secession-possible-civil-war-john-podesta/
I can’t believe I’m commenting about this, it’s surreal.
Interesting, had not heard about this. After a little digging, here is a link to the Transition Integrity Project’s final war game after-action report, published last week.
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf
Oh, and my bikini link above? I shoulda said “Antifa wishes we were all Kalifornia girls.” My apologies for the error. 🙂
Calexit is a good read. It even has a Lawdog story.
https://www.amazon.com/Calexit-Anthology-JL-Curtis-ebook/dp/B076V8R331
It is. Smells like the Balkans.
Remember the CCP owned CPUSA views Civil War 2.0 as a feature and not a bug.
The CCP will wait until the FUSA is nice and weak before swooping in.
All that Sun Tzu.
Mr. Apocalypse is the train conductor and we are pulling in to the last stop at Smoking Mirrors Junction.
The controllers hear the train a coming and that is why they put the pedal to the medal.
“Don’t live in the past, there ain’t no future in it.”
Sparky Anderson
Yes, who does it benefit? Imagine the money that’s flowing in to destabilize.
Also, glad you came out to play.
This is the kind of story that truly deserves outrage, but I bet few, if any of you have even heard about it. This is the type of thing that could truly light the powder keg in my opinion.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61640
This one is . . . astonishing. I shared it with The Mrs., (who trolls the mainstream news) and she had heard NOTHING of it.
Hmmm.
Hey John, I shared this with Arthur early yesterday and he did a fantastic post on it. I hope your readers will go check it out.
https://www.arthursido.com/2020/08/a-5-year-old-boy-executed-where-is-media.html
Agreed. Arthur does great work.
Every country is a police state now, but only countries that disobey the globalists are called dictatorships.
Don’t forget those that don’t have Central Banks . . . .