Bad Smells – Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise

Why The Cheering For The Woman Who Killed Her Children Was Aimed At You

“The accounts are confused, but they refer to an inverse exorcism.” – Vampire$

I think Dexter is a killer name. (All memes as-found)

On her first outing Lindsay Clancy scored a hat trick: she viciously killed her three children. This is, I am told, admitted to by her and uncontested.

Clancy had a tremendous outpouring of support from deranged women everywhere. Several of these women took to media to show themselves behaving in a deranged manner: throwing ice at their bathtub while grunting like an animal was common. The one that set The Mrs. off was the video of a mother splashing cold water into the face of a baby that was, perhaps, nine months old, and the child reacting in a startle.

Based on her reaction to the video, I do believe that had The Mrs. witnessed that behavior in person she would need my assistance. What assistance? Bailing her out of jail after she physically corrected the “mother”.

I have also heard that Ms. Clancy has never apologized or asked forgiveness for her brutality.

This then, is the ultimate sacrifice to Moloch. Innocent children painfully murdered. It goes hand in hand with the other sacrament of the GloboLeft and GloboLeftElite: abortion.

This is why feminists celebrate Clancy. They demand in every respect full autonomy for women. What autonomy? All of it. Want to kill a child that irritates you after you’ve shopped doctors to put your mind on numerous drugs?

Why, that’s perfectly allowed.

Want to have sex with two, three, heck, seven guys in public on the floor? Why not! If she regrets it later, she can just call it rape. And if she and the guy, or guys, are both equally drunk?

It’s still rape by the guy.

And if she is a teacher and rapes a minor, gets pregnant and opts not to sacrifice her child to Moloch? Yeah, the kid will have to pay his rapist for his rape-baby. Oh, and she’ll probably get probation, because rape is only icky if a guy does it.

The reason the Clancy case got such attention is demoralization. It’s theater. It is the idea that putting a horrific crime in front of the world and then lauding it is meant to show us all that every single value that we hold dear can be twisted and inverted.

Celebrate the woman who slays her child! Shower her with money!

Pity the tramp who openly slept with a hockey team and, on video, said she was sober and good with it before she took a stick to the slot. That’s just what rape looks like in this day and age, I guess.

And it’s not women that is the reason for this, it’s that this should be one of the most sacred bonds that could be shared by two people on this planet, a mother and child. Think of all of the pictures of Mary and the baby Jesus . . . and realize that this is just an Evil inversion of that love that a mother should feel for her child.

My instinct tells me that, laws be damned, if a mother is so insane that she kills her children, the death penalty is okay for insane people in this instance. It’s not cruel and inhuman.

Step back, though. This is a theater aimed at us. It is aimed to make us feel that in the face of this monstrous Evil, that we can do nothing. It’s aimed at women to push them further away from accountability and to demonize one of the most basic bonds in existence.

And none of this, absolutely none of this, has made the world better for women. They are unhappier as a group now than at any time since the 1970s and the real upturn in “women’s liberation”.

This is, of course, because the atom of civilization is not the individual, it’s the family. Even though they may revel in their youth, women know that in the end that’s why they exist. It’s no mistake that the first institution the materialist communists struck was at marriage, to abolish it, and abolish the family.

We are in a time now when the forces of Evil have captured the politicians, the universities, the courts, the regulatory bodies, the media, and most businesses.

We’re surrounded.

Good. We can attack in any direction.

Despite all of this, I remain certain that we will win. The forces of the True, the Beautiful, and the Good will prevail. As I’ve also said, this will be one of the most titanic struggles in the history of the world, and will end bloodlines and, perhaps scar continents.

What comes after will not be what came before. We won’t re-create the 1950s.

This is also good, because what came before led to this, and we should be inspired to make something better than the world we have lost. For those that would give up in the face of these odds, fine. Give up.

No. Not me. And I’m not alone, not even close. There are millions of us. We could have stopped all of this by telling women “no” and refusing to remake society on a whim.

But here we are, backs to the river, the orcs to our front, and watching lights going out all over Europe, perhaps to be extinguished for a generation or more.

I refuse to be demoralized. I refuse to give up, and I refuse to stop. It’s my idea that the seeds we plant today in twenty or forty years will be the basis for what will come.

And I’m okay with that. I’m good with planting trees under whose shade I’ll never sit. And I’ll have to keep going. Someone needs to stick around to bail The Mrs. out of jail.

Diversity + Proximity Still Equals War

“Release the river!” – The Two Towers

I was thinking about rivers the other day, and realized the reason the Mississippi runs through St. Louis is that if it walked, it would get stabbed.

I kid. But I was thinking about rivers as a metaphor. If I dump a gallon of water on the ground in Modern Mayberry, and it hits the stream, I’m not sure about what path it will take, exactly.

Tributaries wander. The location of each little creek and drainage ditch may change. Hell, the Mighty Mississippi even wanders from time to time, but if my gallon of water hits it, regardless of the path, the destination of that water is the ocean.

Some things are like that: near certainties, it’s just the “how we get there” changes.

Today, let’s take the big Kahuna, population.

The highest fertility peoples in the world are in Sub-Saharan Africa and to a lesser extent Pakistan and Afghanistan. India was above replacement but is slightly below right now using 2024 data. However, India is leading the people numbers, so we’ll keep them in.

These are also some of the least intellectually gifted people on the planet, coming from many countries where the average IQ is so low that half or more of the population would be considered “borderline impaired”. Given the relatively low IQ, it’s not surprising that these areas are also the least educated, least well-governed, and poorest countries in the world, often starving themselves through nearly comical mismanagement of the local resources which could give them amazing wealth and prosperity if managed with just a modicum of thought.

Decolonizing these areas was not a kindness, but sometimes you get what you asked for, and they certainly did, good and hard. Soon enough, there will be billions of Sub-Saharan Africans.

Where is this surplus of people going to go?

Unlike my metaphorical gallon of water, they’re not going to line up two-by-two and march into the ocean. The choices then, are simple. They either stay in the same country and kill and eat each other, or they migrate by the hundreds of millions to places where they can descend like locusts and turn that location into a Mad Max wasteland as well.

Where? They really have only one logical destination.

Europe. And, America a little, but more on that below.

Graph: Steve Sailer

This, of course, will destroy Western Civilization in Europe. From the outward appearances right now, it looks like there are about sixty people on the whole continent that are opposed to this invasion enough to do something to stop it, and they’re mainly Irish.

Matt Bracken notes that just a few shipping containers of AK-47s and there are divisions of these “migrants” ready to take over country after country in Europe, far outnumbering the police, army, and armed citizenry. These men are all over, being paid to be there so Germans and English men and women can have the opportunity to work long hours to support the invaders. The irony is that often the invaders have better food and lodging than the actual workers that support them.

The GloboLeftElite is thrilled about this, because, hey, quarterly profits will go through the roof AND we’ll get rid of the Germans, French, English, and Irish in a couple of generations.

To the GloboLeftElite, these invaders are the real Europeans, or at least the “Europeans” they want.

I cannot tell you exactly which European capital will fall first, or if the Indians and Pakistanis will have to partition London so they don’t end up fighting each other. But I can say that this collapse into a balkanized group of tribal fiefdoms from the Atlantic to the Danube is all but assured.

I said I’d get back to America, so let’s pick up that tributary.

Tens of millions, at minimum, will try to make it to the United States. The Democrats, Chamber of Commerce Republicans, and the Libertarian (capital L) types will want to let them in as fast as they can get here. Why? In order: reliable votes for a route to permanent power, cheap labor, and . . . “Am I being detained?” I guess.

It is much tougher physically to get to the United States directly. So, they’ll use Canada, which is helpfully importing infinity Indians right now, and is trying to become an associate member of the EU because, well, Trump. If they join the EU as an associate member, can anyone in Europe can wander on over any time, just like those “refugees in fear for their lives” who regularly vacation in the countries that they’re so afraid of? Time will tell, but you know the answer.

Getting to North America is also more expensive, but that seems to only be a moderate impediment with NGO after NGO (funded by US government payments) bringing them here, and often funding their transport into the United States. Many of these groups hate the United States, so certainly their intent in giving us blessing of diversity is benign, right?

While less certain than the fate of Europe, I fully expect the next Democratic administration, if not the next Republican administration, to invite in millions like Biden did, and work to get them either citizenship or on the voting rolls as soon as possible. This is inevitable.

The balkanization of the United States, absent a significant change, likewise seems to be inevitable. The major difference to Europe is that Americans are armed in impressive numbers with my guess being that there are two guns for every person in the country, at minimum. I suspect there are many, many more since official estimates are based on weapons produced for private use since 1990. A few containers of AK-47s dropped to illegal aliens would cause havoc in the United States, but wouldn’t result in the nearly immediate surrender you’d see in, say, France or England.

Whereas the final end of the conflict in Europe seems to be certain, the certainty of what will happen in the United States is not the ultimate outcome, but that there will be massive civil unrest.

Why?

As the great Chateau Heartiste put forward, “Diversity + Proximity = War” and the millions of diversity imported into the country make widespread armed conflict inevitable. Think the moslems in Dearborn, Michigan are going to try to become Americans, or keep pelting peaceful Christians with stones and trying to kill them?

Yeah, they’re going to keep trying to kill them as they take over city after city. Diversity, I guess, is a stabbing.

I get the sense, though, that Americans are going to fight back at some point, and unlike Europeans, have the means to do so.

I had intended to tackle a whole host of trends, but here we are. Just one.

I’ll toss in this St. Thomas Aquinas quote on immigration. A saint outranks a pope, right?

For they were not at once admitted to citizenship: just as it was law with some nations that no one was deemed a citizen except after two or three generations, as the Philosopher Aristotle says. The reason for this was that if foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners, not yet having the common good firmly at heart, might attempt something hurtful to the people.

We can wish all we want, but the water will find the ocean. At least in the United States, there is still some ability to plot its course.

21 Thoughts Occurring Around The Start Of Fall

Well, well, you took my advice about theatricality a bit literally.” – Batman Begins

I always found studying math was the best workout, since there is strength in numbers. (all memes as-found)

Here are some notes that I wrote, mainly for nobody but me. Then I thought, hey, why not share them? So, here you have it. The list is in no particular order. Your mileage may vary.

Personal responsibility and discipline lead to freedom. I need to understand that decisions belong to me. I stand without fear because this comes internally, not externally. My internal focus is on virtue, and making choices that celebrate Truth, Beauty, and Goodness.

The outcome of virtuous acts is sometimes failure.

I tried opening a packet of tuna to make a tuna fish sandwich, but it didn’t look like there was enough tuna in the bowl, so I opened another packet. Then? Too much tuna, enough for four sandwiches. This is why I only have tuna sandwiches every four years.

What’s the least diverse profession in the United States? Chief Diversity Officer.

I deal with failure in a game where I put myself out and did all I could. It is what it is. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable surrender, but an honorable victory is better than both.

Following someone else’s rules isn’t the basis of honor. Fighting fair when they won’t fight fair isn’t the basis of honor, either.

Realize that defeat is sometimes hidden victory, and victory is sometimes hidden defeat and the biggest decider is timescale.

I realize that other cultures put their own people first, and it does my children no good for me to put other cultures and their people as equal to ours.

If you will only hire an indigenous woman as a housekeeper, is that ethnic cleansing?

Responsibility leads to responsibility. This is good, in tough times and in good times. There is no time while I’m still breathing to lay down my burden.

The system is broken. I fight to make it better. I will not fix it by myself, and it may not ever be perfect. Yet, I will not stop.

No Chinese guy ever called me a racist. Except that one.

I will make audacious goals, because more often than not if I exercise enough discipline and effort, I will meet those goals. Aiming low does me no good.

Challenge is what gives us the opportunity to be strong, wise, and virtuous. Understanding that there is some part of me that is eternal is enough to overcome the fear of the ephemeral.

Am I ever ready? No. The best I can do is the to face the future with bravery and open eyes, knowing that the challenges I face may be more difficult than any I have ever faced in my life.

I don’t know how you feel about toilet graffiti, but I just signed a partition.

There is only one way: forward. There is no return or retreat, time is an unforgiving arrow that moves, leaving the past as a dead and inaccessible country with the exception of the echoes I have in memory, writing, art, and recordings. Living in the past is living with ghosts, as it is dead and barren.

The past exists to transform me. I am where I am, and I am who I am because of my successes and failures. To spend time on regret is a waste. To feel despair because of what I am not is a temptation put forward by Evil. I cannot live a life that never was, even if I wish it so.

Dexter was often the good guy.

My favorite time of the year is when the air conditioner isn’t running, as long as I don’t need the air conditioner to be running, and then it’s my least favorite time of the year. When the machines finally rise against us, I’m going to really regret having to kill my air conditioner.

In one sense, we are all on our own islands, alone. It is only by talking and listening and doing that one can know another. The way that minds speak to each other through time and space is by writing and reading. Maybe in the future it’ll only be memes.

Our nation is not ours, it was given to us in trust by our ancestors for their grandchildren. To give it away to others is thoughtless theft.

Geography is important to making a people. Geography is important to controlling the world. Me? Based on geography, I fully support the obliteration of Iran. (pic related)

Psst, I hear they have nuclear weapons!

Maybe it was a bad idea to let soulless corporations have access to the immigration system so they could import unlimited amounts of people from a foreign country that have no connection to our genetics, no understanding of our history, no respect for our values, or any sort of comprehension of standards of personal hygiene. But hey, they have amazing in-group preference and won’t hire actual Americans, so at least you won’t have to work with them.

I never understood the “got your nose” game as a kid. I spent the entire age of three thinking adults were retarded because they were certain that their thumbs were my nose. Now, if they had been holding knives . . . .

Cheap Prosperity Or A Logistics Trick? Time Will Tell.

“They’re expecting transports, not gunships.” – Die Hard

Meat is murder. And cake is battery.

I was sitting around Stately Wilder Mansion the other night thinking about beer and steak. I like both beer and steak, so it was a pleasant thought. Then I remembered that a ribeye was technically more valuable on a per-pound basis than my liver, especially with the number of miles I have on it, and began to think about just how important energy is to, well, all of it.

Let’s go back to the steak. Chances are, this steak was raised in Texas. Or Nebraska. Or Colorado. I bought my last steak at Wal-Mart™, so chances are really good that it came out of one of the 11 beef packing plants in the country that produce half of the beef for consumption. Four are in Nebraska, three each in Kansas and Texas, and two in Colorado.

I still can’t believe they use that land to raise cattle rather than put in data centers.

Since Meat Loaf died, is he now Ground Beef?

Regardless, my steak probably came from one of those places. It was raised on a ranch, probably in one of those states, since, if you add in Iowa, and who wouldn’t, those states produce 77% of the beef in the nation. Then the beef is flung across the nation, as if from a merry-go-round whipping along at 37,000 rpm (40,000 kiloPascals).

This requires a lot of energy after the steak has so kindly and peacefully disassembled itself into its tasty parts and its leathery bits. Almost all of the cow is used and sold in some fashion, so there’s not a lot of waste. But it has to be cooled or frozen, otherwise by the time the beautiful steak reaches the counter, it won’t be very tasty at all and will smell like, well, not good.

The fact that steak could be shipped from Nebraska to New York for about $0.10 to $0.15 per pound is astonishing. And it requires fuel and coordination on a continental scale. Any disruption and the price of my steak goes . . . oh, my.

It’s already disrupted.

I once buried someone in the wrong hole. What a grave mistake!

The same thing occurs with that fish I bought at Wal-Mart©, except now we’ve moved up the chain to a global scale. It was caught off the coast of Chile, shipped to (checks notes) Vietnam for packaging, frozen, shipped to the United States for distribution, and then The Mrs. buys it because you’d never catch me eating fish while there are cows, chickens, and pigs still hoofing it around.

All in, this costs only $0.50 a pound or so. Oh, and 60-90 days. The fish has now moved thousands of miles.

Then, the Big Kahuna, oil. Let’s take a barrel of oil and transport it from Saudi Arabia to the United States, and then take it (as a gallon of finished gasoline) to Iowa. That can be done in good times for the astonishingly low price of about a quarter. Nowadays when the transport market is whacked because of Iran?

Still less than $0.40 a gallon. And that price whips that gallon of hydrocarbon halfway around the world.

We determined that the leading cause of dry skin in our house was towels.

Cool story. What does it mean? I mean, I know I’m not planning on eating fish, but cool story bro, but who cares? The world is a web in 2026, interconnected in amazing ways to create supply lines that no human could manage, and yet that are brutally efficient.

Efficient, as I’ve mentioned again and again, means vulnerable.

Purchasing is done at the margin. That’s economic nerd speak for, “Yeah, sure, but how much does it cost?”

If I look at taking a shower and water is $0.01 a gallon, I might sit there for half an hour until every part of my skin wrinkles up like Hillary Clinton’s face. If water is $10.00 a gallon, that means I’ll likely have an entirely different relationship with showering and start rubbing myself with small fur-bearing animals to dry-scrub the stink off.

The ducks at the park keep biting my dog. Shouldn’t have gotten one that was pure bread.

Right now, gasoline and diesel demand are dropping because their costs are going up in a painful way. This is impacting the cost of every physical good, from water to steak, and not in the good way. There are only two results from this situation:

Recession, or,
Inflation.

We have gone far beyond the time when politicians will allow a recession. At any sign of those, the money printer goes brrrrrrrrr. The result? Huge inflation in things like wheat in poor countries, which leads to revolutions and uprisings. People can’t eat, governments can’t govern.

Building a grain processing facility can be profitable. I’m hoping to make a mill by the end of the year.

The time, though, when other countries can soak up the money-printing recession plot armor seems to be passing, at least based on everything that I can see. This year? Maybe. Next year? Possibly. Six years from now? Almost certainly.

The webs that brought us cheap prosperity and ludicrous supply lines seem to be under stress. I’m thinking that opening up more data centers might help, just like a second dishwasher might stop a drought.

California, A Revolt Against Physics, And The Victor Davis Hanson Cycle

“In California, they’ll have warm weather tomorrow, gang wars, and some overpriced real estate.” – Groundhog Day

My friend cut an artery, and the first aid book said to apply pressure, so I yelled at him, “If you don’t stop bleeding right now, you’ll die!”

The State of California has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to change physics to what they would like it to be and picked a fight with friction. The new law creates the first rolling resistance efficiency standards for replacement tires. Yes. That. I know, I know, they said, “Join the GloboLeft, it’ll be cool baby, you’ll have all the weed you want.”

But, let them in to absolute power, and soon enough their inner Papa Stalin pops out.

The idea is a simple one: have California create the Tire Immigration and Control Enforcement Division (TrICE) and set them to regulating. Those will apply to nearly everyone. Oh, if you have a Lambo®? Yeah, you can still get grippy treads. Same if you have the bucks for an extreme SUV that actually goes to places other than the grocery store and Pilates and the wine bar.

What would you call a horror movie in California after they outlawed gasoline cars? “The Silence of the Lambos.”

The good intention is that it will force allow California consumers the ability to avoid pesky choices and to spend an extra $200 to $400 per set of tires in 2033. Now, that’s an “industry estimate”, which is suspect, but the “regulator estimate” is laughable of . . . $1.50 to $6.50 a tire. $1.50 a tire? Obviously, a lie.

Here, I’m for the consumer being able to choose what kind of tire they want.

Given that, it sounds like I’m a free-trader. Mostly? I’d prefer those tires be made in the United States, so I’m okay with a tariff if we decide it’s worth it for that industry.

I’m complicated.

Anyway, it’s not illegal to own these cheaper “non-eco” tires. A Californian in 2031 can buy them in, say, Nevada and drive back to California. The bet is that people will be too lazy to do that or gas will be so expensive that they’ll be out fighting to save their rebel refinery from BDSM-clad bikers so they can escape the desert.

My take?

None of that will happen.

What will happen?

We’ll have groups of illegal aliens opening up illegal car tire bodegas. Sure, it’s illegal, but they’re already illegal. They already skirt every law that they can.

Later Speedy© got a job installing carpet, you could hear him for miles, “Underlay, underlay!”

These might be fly-by-night places where a vacant lot turns into Speedy’s ¡Ándele, Arriba! Tire Stop® for a weekend. Speedy will drive to Nevada, buy a truckload of illegal tires, and then sell them to you! This is not unrealistic, because illegals already do everything they can to avoid paying taxes, so sales tax would probably be optional.

Then, the hard-working illegal aliens would take the used tires and dump them. Probably at Victor Davis Hanson’s house. Then, Victor Davis Hanson would get a citation for illegally operating a landfill. Victor Davis Hanson would then go to court and plead innocent and maybe use the word “illegal alien” accidentally and then get charged with the Hate Crime of Illegally Discriminating Against Friendly Visiting Valuable Migrants by objecting to them using his farm for a landfill. Then, they’d send Victor Davis Hanson to prison, and give the land to the Friendly Visiting Valuable Migrants because it was land that was stolen by colonialists anyway.

Sure, sounds like satire, but it’s a reality already that California has a three-tiered justice system:

A carte blanche for the media/techno sect of the GloboLeftElite,
Actual arrests and jail and taxes for the Average Joe,
Another hall pass anyone else who isn’t white or Asian.

Victor Davis Hanson is clearly inside the Average Joe classification, especially since in California because he’s white and not a movie star, so he’s stuck inside the only classification where laws are actually enforced in California.

I’m not trying to pick on VDH, he’s just the one that’s written most extensively about the abject failure to apply the law to illegals in California. But he still lives there, so in the end the state may eat him.

Don’t let California know about the car that runs on dead leaves, if they find out they’ll mandate the autumn-mobile.

It is clear that California is headed down the road to a dystopian hellscape. Sure, this is just tires, but California seems to think that they are capable of repealing the laws of physics. Take, for example, that by 2035 California intends to ban the sale of gasoline powered passenger cars. This was an executive order by Governor Zoolander Newsom, the Plastic Man with the Reptile Smile.

Did he ignore the fact that Pacific Gas and Electric, (NYSE Symbol “GRASSFIRE”) can’t produce enough electricity for Californians now without causing the place to blaze up like a Cheech & Chong® fan convention? No, because they’re not allowed to actually build power plants, because that could cause carbon to go into the air.

Bad mayor, worse firefighter.

Instead, Californians just buy it from across state lines so carbon goes up into the air in a different state, so they can export carbon production and import smug virtue. And higher prices.

But to Californians, the disconnect between the cause and the effect doesn’t matter. “Something that’s been in motion for a decade makes my life miserable now?” is a thought that cannot occur in the mind of a California leftist because they are so inundated with the dopamine they get from their good intentions.

And the state gets crappier. But, hey, no one wants to defund TrICE, right?

There are many variations on this theme that we could continue with, from the state’s affinity for illegal aliens to their declaring playground sand a carcinogen (yes, they did) to not building a train but spending billions to not do it to letting tens of thousands of criminals out of jail just as violent crime is increasing in California cities.

What do you call a group of deaf people? I don’t know, but it’s definitely not a herd.

I’d blame it on incompetence, but the GloboLeftElite seem to have found a winning ticket in California with a modified Cloward-Piven plan to just make everything awful and blame it on someone else, say capitalism or Donald Trump or colonialism.

Each failure seems to bind voters tighter to them, while the Average Joes, to the tune of hundreds of thousands a year, are flooding to anyplace but California.

But, hey, at least they’ll have decent tires thanks to the only functioning institution left in the state: Speedy.

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report, Force Assessment

“That way management can assess who’s valuable and who’s expendable. It’s just business.” – American Beauty

There’s a new urban reality show where judges free inmates who like fishing, called “Off the Hook”.

Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
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.
Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
Open War.

Volume VIII, Issue 4

Most memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I have maintained the Clock O’Doom at 9., but given the lower numbers on the indexes and the lower number of violence and censorship events, will likely lower the level next month if violence stays low. Beware: the number can climb quickly.

My advice remains. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.

In this issue: Front Matter – Chinese Assessment, Civil War 2.0 – Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Links

Front Matter

Welcome to the latest issue of the Civil War II Weather Report. These posts are different than the other posts at Wilder Wealthy and Wise and consist of smaller segments covering multiple topics around the single focus of Civil War 2.0, on the first or second Monday of every month. I’ve created a page (LINK) for links to all of the past issues. Also, subscribe because you’ll join nearly 920 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

Chinese Assessment, Civil War 2.0

This is a longer piece. Obviously, I don’t have a friend in the PLA’s Institute of War Studies who sent this to me (THANK YOU SO MUCH CHANG!) but I do have a large number of readers from the People’s Republic of China, so here’s a shout out to you guys!

Part of being in the United States is that we’re invested in the outcome of a potential future Civil War in a big way. The Chinese? They’re interested. So, I tried to come up with what a somewhat neutral third party would say about Civil War 2.0. I do know this about militaries, they have plans for everything, so I know that China has a document based on a future American Civil War, so I thought, Wilder, what if you wrote one from China’s perspective? Here’s my attempt. It’s dry. Only one joke.

People’s Liberation Army
Institute of War Studies
For: General Staff/Theater Strategic Research Cell
INTERNAL DRAFT – NOT FOR RELEASE

Subject: Possible forms of large-scale internal armed conflict in the United States; relative combat potential; implications for our strategy
Character: Contingency estimate and outcome review. This is not a strategic directive.
Constraints: No actual names of U.S. persons. No executable strike list against the U.S. homeland.

Mission and Purpose of the Estimate

This estimate reviews four questions:

If the United States enters a large internal conflict between an inland nationalist, armed civil-society coalition and an urban–institutional–transnational coalition, what is the balance of war potential?
On what time scale could the conflict unfold, and how cities and logistics could fail?
How would outside states recognize, hedge, or feed both sides?
What window and what risk does this create for our main strategic direction: Taiwan, the Western Pacific, energy and grain routes, and dollar clearing?

An American internal war is not two field armies advancing on a front, instead it is the splitting of a state machine. From our viewpoint, the decisive prizes are fragments of nuclear command authority, which government foreign nations will still treat as a government that can sign contracts and that can keep ports and bulk food moving. A rapid national reunification by either coalition is usually worse for us than a long dual-authority stalemate that cripples external power projection.

Situation and planning assumptions

Assumption A. The trigger is domestic: a disputed transfer of power, a federal–state armed standoff, a nationwide attempt to confiscate arms or starve ammunition supply that states refuse, or a systematic civil-liberties crackdown that produces organized nullification.

Assumption B. The active-duty force does not split cleanly along electoral maps. State National Guard, some reserve components, veterans, and local law enforcement will show regional tilt.

Assumption C. In the opening period, intercity trucking and regional electric service are interrupted for days and possibly weeks. This follows from just-in-time urban design and capitalist logistics. It does not require a precision sabotage campaign to create failure.

Assumption D. We do not seek American territory. The task is window management, risk hedging, and competitive shaping.

The United States has on the order of 340 million people. Partisan identification is close. Cities hold population and a majority of output. The interior holds land, calories, and most onshore hydrocarbons. That is the base conflict map.

Identification of the Two Coalitions

Label	Center of Gravity	Geographic Weight
Red Force, the state-rights /traditional Americans	Rural and small-town population, a majority of veterans by affiliation, higher personal firearms density, many state executives and county law officers in the interior	Heartland, Plains, Mountain West, much of the South and Appalachia, growing Sun Belt interiors
Blue Force, urban/ institutional/ globalist	Dense metros, universities, much of media, ports, hospitals, finance, a large share of the federal civilian apparatus	Coastal and Great Lakes cores, a few deep-blue states, the diplomatic and dollar-clearing nodes

Relative Combat Potential

4.1 Numbers

Blue Force has the larger share of people and of high-value economic output in compact space. Red Force has the larger share of land and of counties that produce food and fuel. Raw headcount favors Blue. Staying power on territory favors Red.

4.2 Age and Manpower Quality

Younger urban cohorts lean toward Blue, especially young women. Older cohorts and a large share of military-age males with weapons experience lean toward Red. Red Force’s core is older. Blue Force’s demographic is younger and has no experience with hardship, especially in field conditions.

4.3 Means

The largest force asymmetry is distributed firearms and veteran skill on the Red side. This is counterbalanced by the institutional, financial, medical, and information infrastructure on the Blue side.

Personal gun ownership is on the order of twice as common in the general voter on the Red side as in the Blue aligned voters. A key factor is the he national stock of firearms is measured in the hundreds of millions. However, active-duty United States military services remain the only formation that can move at continental scale with aviation, logistics, and nuclear custody. Their loyalty is the war’s hinge but it is not sure that they will follow either coalition.

4.4 Cohesion

Red Force coheres around land, faith networks, veterans’ organizations, and distrust of coastal institutions. It fractures around personalities and between libertarian, populist, and traditional-conservative currents.

Blue Force coheres through bureaucracies, universities, city governments, and remaining national media. It fractures among socialists, corporate liberals, and identity factions the moment scarcity arrives.

4.5 Command

No single chain exists at the start.

Governors command Guard forces until a federalization fight is won or lost.
Active-duty officers swear to a constitution, not a faction.
Blue Force has more practice running large organizations and talking to foreign ministries.
Red Force has more small-unit and land skill and more of the interior’s elected law officers.

Expected command picture: federated, messy, multiple “capitals,” local strongmen.

4.6 Public Order

Urbanization predicts recorded violent crime better than party label. Dense Blue cores will face faster public-order failure when lights and food stop. Rural Red areas will face their own disorder: freelancers, score-settling, and local bosses. Neither coalition is “the professional army” and neither is “the mob.” Both will generate both, though Red coordination structures are likely more resilient to the certain outages of power and information and less prone to the civil violence commonly seen among blacks.

Environment: terrain, logistics, systems

5.1 Terrain

Continental distances, the Rockies, the Appalachians, the Mississippi system, deserts, and northern winter all punish long supply lines. The countryside is hard to occupy. The city is impossible to live in without electricity and trucks.

5.2 Food and fuel

California leads agricultural production on a per dollar basis, but most food (grain, oilseeds, cattle, hogs) is produced in the Midwest and in the Plains. Metros run on continuous inbound trucks. Retail inventories of food in large cities are measured in days. Western and southwestern cities are more exposed to food-supply shock than Midwestern and northeastern cities.

Onshore oil and gas are concentrated in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Wyoming, and similar interior producers. Coastal Blue states are large consumers and are generally net energy importers.

5.3 Power

The bulk power system consists of three grids Eastern, Western, ERCOT. Texas is nearly an electrical island. Peak imports into California have already been source of unreliably during long durations of elevated temperatures. Urban counties show higher outage burden than rural counties in recent published studies. When bulk power fails, water pumps, sewage, hospitals, elevators, and card payments fail behind it.

5.4 Chokepoints of national significance

Interstate junctions, rail hubs, river locks, pipelines, a small number of container ports, and a small number of food-distribution counties. Blue Force lives at the receiving end of these systems. Red Force lives nearer many of the producing nodes.

Urban System Under Multi-Day to Multi-Week Loss of Power and Food Shipments

Planning assumption: inbound freight and bulk power are unreliable for days and possibly weeks. This is enough to break modern metros.

“Collapse” means loss of municipal control and mass uninhabitability.

“Hold” means some authority, a port or river, nearby production, or milder climate keeps a fraction of the population in place.

6.1 Blue-aligned cores most likely to collapse first

Desert metros (Las Vegas type; Phoenix type). No local water or calories at metro scale.
Hyper-dense coastal islands (New York type). Four to five days of point-of-sale food in official city studies; extensive use of bridges and tunnels; and apartments that need electricity for water.
Inner Bay Area type. Peninsula geography, little staple production, dependence on Central Valley corridors and imported peak power.
Los Angeles basin type. Conditionally fragile. Nearby valleys can feed it only if corridors and pumps still work. Population scale and imported water make simultaneous failure catastrophic.
South Florida strip type. Peninsula, heat, storms, imported food.
Boston or New England type. Winter energy tightness and thin local staples.
Federal district core. Political value high, local calories near zero. Survival depends on neighboring state authorities.
Hawaii. On the order of nine-tenths of food imported. Sealift and air cargo stop, stores empty in days.

6.2 Blue-aligned cores that may hold

Chicago type. The country’s central food and freight node beside Illinois–Iowa production. Lake water still needs treatment and pumps. If farms still sell into the city, it lasts. If the farms withhold, it becomes New York.
Twin Cities type. Grain and protein nearby; winter without gasoline is the killer.
Sacramento type. Sits in the Valley rather than at the end of a long hose.
Willamette/Portland type. Actual nearby mixed farming.
San Diego type. Naval and port footprint; milder climate than desert metros; survival rises if naval authority keeps the harbor working and Los Angeles out.
Philadelphia–Baltimore type. Mid-Atlantic farms and ports; less isolated than Manhattan, yet in the midst of collapse already.
Great Lakes rust-belt cores. Poor social baseline, better food geography than the Southwest.
Atlanta type and other blue city halls inside mixed or red states. Resilience is political: the surrounding state may provision the tax base or quarantine the enclave.
Front Range type. Some nearby production; long truck bridge; water is the weakness.

None of these are self-sufficient if the regional truck and grid system is actually down. A collapsed city is not automatically captured by Red Force, it may simply cease to be a city.

Victory Objectives

Neither coalition can cheaply occupy the other’s core terrain.

A Red Force win looks like: enough territory and calories to deny Blue a working national government; surviving state machines; a settlement, partition, or “restored constitution” that Red Force recognizes. Occupying hostile coastal megacities would consume Red Force.

A Blue Force win looks like: retention of federal forms, the dollar, ports, and foreign recognition; isolation of interior resistance. Occupying the interior against a dispersed armed population would consume Blue Force.

Most likely military-political outcome: multiple authorities, a humanitarian disaster, a poorer and less sovereign United States.

External Actors

Outside countries will not “join a side” as in a treaty war. They will protect their interests and choose to deal with the winner that best serves their national interests.

8.1 China’s Preferred Outcome

A United States that can no longer concentrate power in the Western Pacific, while still buying our goods and servicing dollar assets until a substitute currency system is in place.

A fast Red Faction victory is dangerous if the survivor is coherent, energy-rich, hostile over Taiwan and technology, and still willing to use export controls and naval power. It is less dangerous if that survivor withdraws from Asia.
A fast Blue Faction victory is dangerous if it restores a working Pentagon, alliances, and export-control regimes and insists on maintaining its cultural hegemony.
A long stalemate is the best of the bad outcomes: while markets seize, naval fleets argue over which orders are legitimate. During this period, Taiwan is isolated and external military force projection become impossible for the United States.

Therefore, the rational course for China is dual-track: public language of stability and non-interference. But we will fund either side with covert information, finance, and selected commodities to prevent a short decisive win. We engage in recognition of whoever holds the UN seat, but will continue to provide enough life support to the other fragment to keep the split active. We buy soy, pork, and energy from the interior and sell finished goods into coastal metros.

A famine that kills our suppliers and a coastal crash that kills our consumers are both to be avoided. The best condition would be a managed paralysis.

8.2 Goals of Countries Hostile to the United States

Russia/Iran/Best Korea: Aligned with China in wanting a weaker United States, and longer term Russia has designs on Alaska.

8.3 Neighbors of the United States

Mexico will prefer a Blue Force victory due to a need for an outlet for their excess population and as a source of funding.

Canada is more tightly bound to the United States since they are wired into the electrical grid, and export automobiles, grain and energy. A non-functional United States is an existential Canadian problem, though a potential Chinese foothold on the continent.

8.4 U.S. allies

Pacific: Japan, ROK, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand

They ask one question: is there still a navy and a nuclear deterrent that will appear in the Pacific? They will follow continuing command authority. Their only win is for Red Force to win decisively and keep the fleet intact. A Blue Force that holds ports but loses interior fuel and manpower looks will provide no support. They have little ability to influence the events of a civil war in the United States.

European Union and the United Kingdom.

There is a cultural affinity with Blue Force. They are in terror of Red Force abandoning NATO; and feel equal terror of a collapsed America. They have little ability to influence the events of a civil war in the United States.

Wild Cards
Urban gangs and border cartels.
Winter, hurricanes, western fire and drought.
Nuclear and strategic-asset custody.
Dollar collapse.
A disease event on top of disorder.
Implications for Our Strategy

10.1 The window

A United States arguing over which fragment owns the Pacific fleet is a United States that cannot run a two-theater war. That is the operational meaning of this contingency for the first island chain. As cracks open, we should have plans in place to take advantage of the advantage this will give us.

10.2 Risks to us

Financial contagion that destroys our reserve portfolio and export demand.
Loss of U.S. soy, pork, and energy shipments if interior authorities stop exporting or if ports freeze.
A surviving American fragment that is poorer, angrier, less legally constrained, and considering expansion.
Allied emergency coordination that freezes the map against us (United States bases stay manned by European allies). This is unlikely.

10.3 Recommended posture for study

Treat prolonged dual authority as the outcome to shape toward.
Prepare recognition and trade channels for more than one U.S. fragment (ports, grain houses, energy terminals) without early exclusive commitment unless that commitment comes with extraordinary opportunity.
Insulation of our own grain, energy, and payment exposure to a dollar seizure or a Gulf–Pacific simultaneous crisis. Continue to build stockpiles of critical minerals and commodities.

Estimate in One Paragraph

Red Force is stronger in distributed arms, veterans, land, food, and hydrocarbons.

Blue Force is stronger in people, money, ports, formal institutions, and the existing alliance-and-dollar network.

Neither can cheaply occupy the other’s core. Desert and hyper-dense coastal Blue metros fail first when power and trucks stop. Blue Midwest lake-and-rail metros fail later.

Outside powers will not crown a winner if they are thinking clearly. Our interest is a United States that cannot concentrate, not a United States that has been replaced by a single hostile survivor.

Violence and Censorship:

War was declared on Spain, yet they’re not fighting back:

Ireland . . . excellent!

England, however, hates itself and is censoring it’s national symbol:

Never forget, the GloboLeftElite hates you.

Misery Index

The new Trump administration is shown in red. Results continue to be much better than Biden’s misery.

But all those data center jobs?

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 combine to become the index. On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures.

Violence:

Violence indicators are way down. Too hot for all that?

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it went down again this month to a near-record low.

Economic:

The economy ticked up slightly last month but I’m concerned.

Illegal Aliens:

Still the near lowest level since the Weather Report started, but remember who they are.

LINKS

The links are again done by Ricky this month. Thanks, Ricky!

BAD GUYS

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inflection-point-arrives-dsas-unofficial-america-hating-communist-mascot
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-dsa-is-using-coffee-with-comrades-and-socialist-softball-to-convert-the-curious-ffcbcc65
https://nypost.com/2026/08/15/us-news/socialist-ny-lawmaker-emily-gallagher-says-shoplifters-have-a-biological-need-to-steal/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democratic-socialists-openly-call-erasure-constitutional-government
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inflection-point-arrives-dsas-unofficial-america-hating-communist-mascot
https://twitter.com/i/status/2042031825887936702
https://modernity.news/2026/09/05/copycat-clancy-horror/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/08/09/mexican-influencers-murdered-live-streams/

GOOD GUYS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSaeU5qC70
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2096564604646068341

ONE GUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWxamM96bg&t=31s
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/08/26/trans-protestor-has-self-defense-hearing-over-drawing-gun-in-laramie-street/

BODY COUNT

https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-16044311/massachusetts-governor-maura-healey-abortion-law.html
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-how-the-american-population-map-will-shift-by-2050/
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2026-08-12_09-25-50.png?itok=Ogu-3AuJ
https://archive.ph/LaP2e

VOTE COUNT

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XgSnP_KD_CU
https://www.michigannewssource.com/2026/08/michigan-sheriff-receives-whistleblower-allegation-state-software-automatically-registering-noncitizens-to-vote/
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/citizen-only-voting-initiative-faces-monday-canvassers-vote-after-staff-recommends-rejecting-petition/
https://ballotpedia.org/When_states_can_begin_processing_and_counting_absentee/mail-in_ballots,_2022

CIVIL WAR

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984801376
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/a-second-civil-war-and-the-country-fractured-in-two-thats-the-imagined-future-in-author-kurt-andersens-new-novel-xexbrf/
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/30/socialists-fight-aoc-2028
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-plot-to-sabotage-jd-vance-2028-prospects
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/style/america-is-atomizing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.1iQ7.eLCo7EZHLM8d&smid=url-share
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/socialist-leader-says-quiet-part-out-loud-affordability-pitch-masks-guerrilla-class-war
https://modernity.news/2026/08/09/uk-intelligence-warns-of-civil-war-plot-against-migrants-convenient-demonisation/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackout-power-electricity-outage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.oPoZ.in0JSEQwfHWI&smid=url-share

Tinder© Tramps, InstaThots®, And The Attention Sump In Your Pocket

“I’m bored! I’m bored and I’m getting eaten by mosquitos. I’m being eaten. And I’m bored as well.” – The Grand Tour

I got a free iPhone© and a free iPad® today! Pistols are magic!

I had my previous cell phone for nine years: from August of 2017 to August of 2026. That’s a good run. I bought a fairly nice one back in the day, and took good care of it.

I lie. Somehow the screen cracked in November, 2020, so I had to make sure it stayed dry. The old phone did its duty. I would still be using it, but it’s full, and there are a number of faults going on that make me think that it is time.

On the advice of Pugsley, I swapped over from the Mao People’s Phone© (Android™) to the Fascist Fisher-Price™ phone (Apple©). I know, it sounds nuts.

What a difference 10 years has made in technology! Steve Jobs once said that he wanted the iPhone© to feel so sexy that people would be tempted to lick it. This 17^th version is a tightly integrated piece of technology. I mean, I haven’t licked it, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not WiFi-curious as to what licking it would feel like.

I used to live on Mars®, but decided that was way too much chocolate.

Civilization has been on a downward slide since, oh, whenever they started welfare and started encouraging poor stupid people to make more poor stupid people by paying them to be poor and stupid. Incentives matter. Welfare was bad, but the iPhone© really took societal collapse from “Hiroshima” to “full Tsar Bomba”. Never go full Tsar Bomba.

The iPhone© is the problem. It allowed interaction on a scale never before seen, and was the platform that empowered Tinder© tramps to seek out Chad to be used for a night and InstaThots® to feed their narcissism. That was bad enough, but it also became the attention sump, turning every waking moment into a distraction.

Distraction and dopamine hits are what the iPhone® was built to deliver. I’ve only had mine a week, but a friend indicates that it is also an amazing device for having Apple® to sink their fangs into my credit card and suck as hard as I’ll let them. They monetize everything.

Like?

Location. How fast I drive. The number of steps I take in a day (not enough) and how steady my gait is (very).

Someone stole all the fruit from my farm in Georgia, that leaves me peachless.

The last two are maybe going to be a net benefit for me, as I can certainly see myself always wanting to be above average, so soon enough I’ll be walking 100,000 steps a day. Well, me and Jason Arday.

Too soon?

The phone is designed to distract, designed to turn every bit of life into a consumption event. With a dizzying array of apps pre-built in, it’s almost intoxicating flipping through the pages of things I could be doing right this second instead of . . . wait, why did I pick the phone up in the first place? Oh, yeah, got distracted. Oh, a notification! The Mrs. let the dogs out!

How does Jeff Foxworthy kill werewolves? With a silver mullet.

The first time I went to Las Vegas the sounds and sights were overwhelming after a few hours. I think that’s the point, but that was also in a world mainly free of the Internet back in 1997.

It may seem like a super-power, but it is a pretty useless superpower, like having the ability to retract my fingernails or hair back into my body.

What is nice, though, is that it tracks and graphs which apps I’m using and when I’m using them, and the option to tell the phone to remind me, “Wilder, time to shut this damn thing down and go to bed”.

That has actually been a positive for me. I shut down the distraction device, pick up a book, and read. I’d already gotten through a novel or non-fiction book every other week since the start of the year (last two: C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy, Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World, current: Hawkins’ The Library at Mount Char), but the other alternative is to be bored.

I read a biography of JFK. The end was mind blowing.

I avoid brooding and regret since they are a horrible ways to program yourself to think, and a trap that should be avoided.

Besides, boredom is useful.

Boredom is that innate spark in humans, that makes us feel uncomfortable in sitting in a warm, dark room, well fed, with low effort. Boredom pushes us to create, to learn, to invent. The first person to figure out a bow-drill or decided that stacking rocks in a pyramid shape might be cool or that being the first guy to make it to the South Pole was a good thing.

Boredom is also why some animals die or refuse to mate in captivity. Our full-on stimulation world might be part of the reason that mating seems to be no longer as important to many of the young in 2026.

HR was upset with my urine sample. Apparently they only want them when they request them.

People aren’t meant to be continually distracted. We are supposed to be bored sometimes because for at least tens of thousands of years that was our default programming. Boredom forces us to change.

Yay! More microplastics in my testicles! That’s nuts!

Top 15 Everyday Acts That Used To Be Normal And Now Count As Counter-Revolutionary. Number 8 Will Make Your Spleen Explode!

“I mean, every part of a kaiju sells. Cartilage, spleen, liver.” – Pacific Rim

How do you stop two blind bums from fighting? Yell, “My money is on the guy with the knife.”

Number 1: Telling a child “no”.

Children are not small adults. Children’s feelings, for the most part, don’t matter. We don’t let children drive, buy booze, select their own menu, or make life altering choices. “No” is a complete sentence, and learning limits is required since no child is born with discipline: that has to be learned. And, that over time with enough discipline and effort, no can be turned into yes. Corollary: letting kids lose is important for similar reasons, because life is complex enough that they will lose. Plus, I love to see them cry when I crush them in chess.

Number 2: Demanding that visitors and new arrivals to our country follow our norms, not their own.

When I visit a friend’s house, do I walk to his fridge, open up a beer, impregnated his wife, and then demand to be given the remote control so I can watch what I want instead? No, unless my friend is a GloboLeftist. They don’t seem to mind. And they don’t seem to mind it when foreigners do exactly that when visiting or invading our country. Moslem women should feel shame when wearing their desert clothes in the United States, and Mexicans should be embarrassed that they don’t speak English.

The population of Modern Mayberry never changes. Every time a girl gets pregnant, a guy leaves town.

Number 3: Not pretending that fat women are attractive.

Yes, some people are fat. Exactly zero of them are healthy, and exactly zero of them are more than a 3 out of 10. I bring women as the rule, because no one has ever pretended that fat men are attractive. It’s just (my guess) the feminine desire to reduce mating competition by telling their fat friends to “never change, you’re lovely as you are” so they can have a better chance at banging Chad.

Number 4: Not letting your son quit.

Quitting is an addictive drug, because once a kid quits and sees no immediate repercussion in his life, it’s setting the stage for a lifetime of quitting. And no one likes a quitter, except my doctor when it comes to me drinking. And I keep telling him, if I’m a quitter, that will make me a hypocrite. I’d tell you more but . . .

I’m throwing “son” out here in rule 4, but you could (I suppose) put in a daughter, but don’t try to sell me on suffrage for women. That ship sailed over the horizon after they started celebrating murder moms.

When it failed, he was beside himself.

Number 5: Looking down on “consumers”.

“Consumers” should be shunned. There is no virtue in purchasing. As Mojo Nixon musically noted: You can’t buy cool. You also can’t buy virtue.

Number 6: Expecting young women and men to marry and have children.

This is their job. If young women want to wreck society by having lazy girl jobs, they won’t like it so much when they’re cold, catted, chardonnayed, and unChaded. This will revert, because if it doesn’t civilization will collapse. My solution is to drop the drinking age to 18 and encourage illicit keggers in forests.

You know, for the kids.

Is something that looks like pasta, smells like pasta, and tastes like pasta but isn’t pasta an impasta?

Number 7: Keeping your word, especially when it is painful.

Keeping my word is important to me, because the biggest pains in my life came from when people didn’t keep their word. And me, if I promise to do the dishes, I promise, I’ll do the dishes. There is no need to remind me every six months.

Number 7: Understanding that legality and morality are not the same thing.

When the entire basis of a society is based on the exact letter of a law, you end up with infinity Indians scamming airports to get wheelchairs to jump the line or “buying” a punchbowl from Costco©, using it for the party, and returning it when the party is over. These are people without honor. This failure is not the complete explanation of why India is like it is, but it’s part of the explanation.

Number 9: Acting like the country you live in was built by your ancestors and owed to their descendants.

A female lawyer in New York who wants to tell me that a “refugee” from Kheezewhizistan is just as American as my family, who have been here since before the Revolutionary War, is lying. She’s trying to give away something that’s not hers to give, and we’re not mad enough about it.

We’ll know Europe is healing when the part of Europe taking in the most refugees is the Mediterranean Sea.

Number 10: Saying, “I don’t know.”

I’ve observed that the best leaders with the strongest sense of self are unafraid to ask people to explain things, and to admit when they don’t know something. I’ve also observed that people who know everything invariably don’t. TrUSt tHe sCieNce!

Number 11: Thinking that honor, bravery, and integrity should be the norm.

They should be the norm. There’s a reason they started making fun of Boy Scouts©, then infiltrating them, then destroying them. The Boy Scouts™ was a wonderful force to create good men, which is the last thing the GloboLeftElite want. So they killed it.

Number 12: Thinking as much about responsibility as liberty.

Responsibility is the brother of keeping your word. It’s keeping promises you haven’t even made. It’s investment. Liberty is easy. Responsibility is hard.

If we arm the teachers, will the librarians get silencers?

Number 13: Teaching children that, yes, they will be judged by their table manners.

It’s true. They don’t have to use them every moment, but they have to know them.

Number 14: Admitting when you were wrong without explanation.

This is similar to number 10, but a step farther. It goes beyond ignorance into error. People who personalize and defend their errors are evil. Maybe even Evil.

Number 15: Incorrectly numbering a list.

Narcissism And Jason Arday

“There’s a suggestion of acute narcissism, a complete lack of empathy.” – Sherlock Holmes, A Game of Shadows

Arday didn’t know much about sociology, but he said he could explain the Dunning-Kruger effect better than anyone else. (All memes this post are as-found.)

Jason Arday is not pining for the fjords. He has joined the choir invisible and is now an ex-academic. During his career and, indeed, his lifetime I cannot see anything useful he did or anything of value he contributed to humanity other than developing a technique to make his skin shiny. Beyond that, it appears that the only impact he had, at all, was in allowing liberal white ladies over the age of 40 to virtue signal when they were around him.

Arday was a construct of Arday. It appears that whenever his mouth was moving he was either lying or popping out a nonsense group of syllables intended to make himself look “smart”. Paraphrasing Matt Walsh, smart people make complicated things seem simple, dumb people make simple things seem complicated.

Arday was in the latter, but that is part of being in academia. Academics have to create a jargon that they use among themselves to make it difficult for regular people to understand. Otherwise, regular people would realize how full of shit they are.

Arday fit right in.

Jason Arday announced in a press release that he invented a new word for the English language: Plagiarism.

Yet, among a group that is often the fakest of the fake, Arday became perhaps the biggest fake in all of academia. And they closed ranks around him, and continue to close ranks around him. Why? Because if people look too closely, they might start to ask, “what is sociology and why is it considered more of a real science than, say, predicting the future by interpreting the size and shape of Obama’s moles?

But back to Arday. Why lie. I mean, he was the youngest black professor in the history of Cambridge®, which is the third-oldest operating university in the world, if you exclude Hogwarts©. So, he could have kept quiet and put his head down and lived the good life of academics pretending to be important, drinking nice booze, and eating all the bacon-wrapped shrimp he wanted.

That wasn’t Jason’s plan. No. He’d go full retard, and do things like responding to someone asking about sentence similarity between one of Arday’s papers and one of another academic with, “Instead of spending your time trying to dismantle racism and ableism, you have spent what I assume is hours combing through my work looking for mistakes.”

Ha!

See that? If you question Arday you are a racist. And a bully. And probably sick and a mean ninnypooper. He closed with, “Anything further from you will be considered bullying and harassment.”

Note that Arday never said the critic was wrong, just racist, and I guess that makes black people immune from anything in 2026.

Is a group of Karens called “a migraine”?

At some point, Arday had to see that the writing was on the wall. I mean, he had, for over a decade, put out lie after lie. And these weren’t lies like, “no, your butt looks fine in those pants” that were unverifiable.

No. He claimed to have been a professional soccer player for a top-level team in the UK. That he had a brain tumor. That he raised millions of pounds (appears to be a metric currency with “£” as the symbol) for charity. Claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, one while having a broken leg. Claimed he couldn’t read until he was 18.

Arday never lied to his radiologist, he knew the radiologist would see right through him.

None of these lies really got Arday anything except attention from middle-aged white liberal women who would believe anything Arday said. Anything.

But, apparently, that’s what got Arday off. He simply could not stop lying throughout his entire life. And it worked.

Until it didn’t.

Finally, there had been enough time since St. George of Floyd died, and people finally started asking questions about all the lies and plagiarism coming from Arday. Now, it could be asked, and one Nathan Cofnas asked the question, “But how much of ‘the most ridiculous story ever told [the way Arday describe his story – JW]’ is true [emphasis in original]?”

Of course, Cofnas could not be allowed to besmirch the honor of George Floyd Jason Arday. So, Cofnas was put on probation after Arday’s suicide (and Cofnas thinks he’ll be fired) reportedly at the orders of Petra De Sutter, the transgender Belgian gynecologist (man pretending to be a woman) who runs the University.

Yes, this is the most 2020s story, ever.

Wait until the protesters find out there’s a place called the Black Sea.

At the core, though, I think the reason why Arday chose to leave this mortal coil is his narcissism. He was adored by middle-aged leftist white ladies wherever he went. He was a glistening black basset hound whose large eyes seemed to echo their sympathy back to them. “Oh, I know you’re a racist, and I know that you know you’re a racist, but I love you anyway.”

I heard one podcast he was on where he made the (white GloboLeftist) host cry by telling him how important he was to young black men. Did Arday give examples? No. He just kept softly cooing how important this man’s radio show had been. Why was it important?

Don’t know, he didn’t say. But, trust me bro, you made a difference. In this case, it was Arday’s narcissism being weaponized against a soft lefty who just wanted his virtue to be recognized.

One, like Arday, who builds a life on lies is afraid of one thing: Truth.

I’m betting that Arday didn’t write this one, but maybe one that was nearly identical.

And, thanks to Cofnas, it came rushing in. Cambridge© had to wait until it was undeniable and inevitable to move. Multiple investigations were started into Arday, since it seemed that his lies were too much even for the hard-GloboLeft bacon-wrapped shrimp eaters at Cambridge©. Maybe they were worried that he’d expose the grift and no more shrimp?

Regardless, to Arday it must have been the worst. Every lie that he made (as in, everything he ever said, likely) would be categorized and dissected and he’d have to retire to the board of directors of some GloboLeftist organization determined to import millions of non-whites into Britain and turn them into narcissists, too.

No, that wouldn’t happen. Arday would make himself bereft of life because, for him, the lie was the point. He could not live life without the love and adoration and admiration for things that he had never accomplished.

Arday was a construct of Arday, and lived and died as a lie. Except for the shiny skin. I mean, how the heck did he do that?

Companies Hate You

“Hello, can we have your liver?” – The Meaning of Life

On weekends sometimes I drink water, you know, to keep my liver guessing.

In 2018, a Goldman-Sachs© researcher asked the question: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” This was in relation to what should be considered great news, a company coming up with a one-shot cure for hepatitis C that was over 90% effective.

Where is the profit in making people better? As someone who depends on my precious liver to take abuse like a housewife in Egypt every Friday and Saturday night, I’m all in favor of things that keep them healthy. But it doesn’t make sense to Goldman™, because they’d much rather have me be an income stream forever than solve my problem.

This is an example of a world where the Libertarian ideals fall apart, precisely because they presume the lowest common denominator when it comes to morality in society. There are many flaws with Libertarianism, and this, along with optional personal bodily hygiene intervention are two big ones. I mean, it isn’t a violation of the non-aggression principle to request they replace the mustard-coated shirt, is it?

A friend of mine stole a lightbulb once. He said it was because he was in a really dark place.

Let’s look at other places where the free market falls apart. What about Tinder™? What happens if Tinder© brings together a guy and a girl and they fall in love and get married and stay married for the rest of their lives?

Tinder® loses two customers. Forever. It is not in the algorithm’s interest to make people happy. It’s in the algorithm’s interest to get two people to meet and not like each other. Wait, better yet, to like each other superficially enough that they hook up and then both feel hollow and empty inside, driving them to find someone a little closer to what they want.

Yes. That’s what Tinder© would like best in the whole world. Unhappy people swiping on their product, generating revenue. It’s sad, especially because a 9 or 10 guy will break down on a dry-spell Friday night and swipe on a 4 woman, bang her, and now she thinks that she’s worthy of a 9 or 10. So, she stays on Tinder™ waiting on Prince Chad to sweep her off her feet instead of out of her panties.

Tinder™ is profitable, though, so there’s that. Match Group©, which owns nine other dating apps, made about $3.5 billion in revenue. They didn’t make that much money because people got married and abandoned them. They get rich because of psychological manipulation and the destruction of fertility.

He was sad, he said she was matadorable.

Also in this group with Tinder©? Social media that feeds your outrage. I’ve written about quite a bit, and won’t retract a syllable. While we’re on software, Tinder© is freemium, but there’s worse. There’s SaaS.

SaaS SuckS.

What’s SaaS? “Software as a Service”. Remember the “you won’t own anything, and you’ll love it” soy-face guy with an expression of, “I hope my wife’s boyfriend likes this chai latte I made him”? Yeah, that’s where this fits in.

I bought Microsoft© Office™ a decade ago. I had to re-buy three years ago when I bought a new computer. Couldn’t find that pesky key. Yes, I know there are free alternatives, but it was worth it to me.

Anyway, I bought it for $149.99. It costs $99.99 a year. I’ve already made back almost $150.00. Well, $150.00 if you round up because pennies in 2026 are as common as black Cambridge© professors that can read. What Microsoft® really wants, though, is for me to be a customer forever, paying each month, like a little software child that shows up for its allowance and then runs off to the shareholder meeting.

How often do airplanes crash? Most of them, just once.

And, to do this, they’re willing to sacrifice and continually make the software worse with teams of Indians hired to, well, I guess be Indian and dispose of their trash in National Parks. How will they pay those H-1Bs in their eternal quest to make your software worse? With your monthly payments.

But there was a time when at least some people realized they could get rich by being good. Crazy idea, that. An example?

Henry Ford famously raised the daily wages of his workers, doubling them while cutting the hours worked each day from 9 hours to 8 hours. To be fair, his desire wasn’t entirely due to altruism. He had to hire about 50,000 people a year to keep 14,000 making cars. In reality, doubling wages ended up lowering Ford’s© cost and doubling his profits.

There was a catch. To qualify for the full wage increase, you had to be a married man properly supporting your family, or a man over the age of 22 who could prove they were thrifty. Your wife couldn’t work. She had to stay home.

I accidently glued myself to my autobiography. It’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

What a monster! Ford wanted to make sure that his company produced quality American families based on quality American values. Of course, he got sued.

Today? It’s a race for the bottom wage by companies that don’t see the United States as their home, just a profit center or division. And, it has spread. Universities are now attempting to hire H-1B volleyball coaches making less than $50,000 a year. Why? Because no American understands volleyball?

No. Because they can get someone cheaper. The idea is that jobs in Missouri should have wages based on Mogadishu or Mumbai. Jobs in Nevada should compete with Nairobi or Nigerian wage levels. As pointed out in the last post, when men don’t get raises, women don’t make babies.

It’s a simple way to replace a people, but only after you’ve made them poor. Medicine should make people feel better, and a cured patient, is better than one on a perpetual prescription. Unless you’re Goldman-Sachs©.

I just found out I’m colorblind. Boy, that came out of the orange!

Them? They want my liver to stop working. Not entirely, just enough that I have to pay them every month to keep it going, while using crappy software, surrounded by unmarried Gen Zers who can’t get jobs because they’re not from Punjab.

Libertarianism might not be dead, but it’s dying since the only people foolish enough to buy it can’t afford the mortgage on their liver.