Mainly just tired.
More nonsense on Wednesday morning.
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Success, Fight Club, Strippers and Socialists
“We have just lost cabin pressure.” – Fight Club
The second rule of Wilder Club is if this is your first visit, you have to comment. Oh, and this is a repost since I have to get up pretty early tomorrow.
I had a conversation with a friend today. Oh, sure, I hear you say, what would an iconoclastic iron-jawed individualist with a body odor redolent of medium rare ribeye (with just a hint of pepper) like John Wilder need with a friend? I guess we all have our little weaknesses. And dogs follow me. Because I smell like steak.
In this particular case as with most of my friends, I’ve known this friend for years. I’ve known most of my close friends longer than The Boy has been alive, and he’s in college now. It’s nice. If a day, a week, a month or a year goes by, so what? We can still restart the conversation where we left off. It’s as comfortable as watching a movie you’ve seen a dozen times.
I’ll make the observation that the only place where the character of people change is in a movie – almost all of my close friends have the same sense of humor and the same sense of values that they had when our friendships were forming. Absent a significant emotional event, people are a constant.
And I like that.
There is a corresponding trust that comes with being a close friend – honesty. That’s why when talking with my friend, I really enjoyed the chance to be honest. Honesty is difficult because it requires that trust, because really honest criticism is hard to take, even when it comes from a friend. Or a co-worker. Or a relative. Or someone you just met. Or your UPS® delivery guy. Oh, wait. Most people don’t like honest. But my friends do.
This particular friend is really in a good position in life, which seems to be a common pattern with my friends. He has a spouse that makes more money than he does, and, in general, the household probably brings in enough cash each month so that Nigerian princes send emails to them asking for money. They’re wealthy enough that they donate to the homeless. This appears to be a more socially acceptable donation strategy than my “donation to the topless,” scheme.
Yes, this is the only joke that I’ve ever seen that involves both the Greco-Roman philosophy of stoicism and stripping. I’m sure that Seneca would be proud.
But lest ye want to class my friend as the evil, selfish, wealthy type, he’s not. The family has a huge number of kids, and it’s a close family. My friend is constantly taking time off to go to athletic events, and when we catch up, I can sense that the relationship he has with his kids isn’t a surface relationship – it’s genuine and deep. I can tell, because I know people who understand genuine relationships, who listen to both sides of a family argument – my neighbors.
And yet . . . despite the wealth, despite the great family, my friend feels that there’s something missing. He is as high as he wants to go in the company he works at – any higher and the travel demands would pull him away from family. He’s long since mastered his job – there is little that can be thrown at him that he hasn’t seen in the last fifteen or so years. So, his condition is one of high pay, mastery of work, and, improbably, discontent.
John Wilder: “You realize you have an advantage that 99% of people would die for. You’re financially secure. You can quit your job anytime. Literally, you could walk in to your boss this afternoon and quit. Your lifestyle wouldn’t change a bit.”
Not Elon Musk: “Yes.”
Unlikely Voice of Wisdom John Wilder: “So, what is it you want to do?”
Really, I Promise It Isn’t Elon Musk: “I need to think about it.”
Channeling Tyler Durden From Fight Club® John Wilder: “No. If you think about it, you’ll end up doing nothing but thinking about it. You have to do something. Physically start it. This weekend. I’ll check back on Monday to see how you did.”
There is a scene in the movie Fight Club™ where Tyler Durden holds a gun to the head of a liquor store clerk. If you haven’t seen the movie, I strongly suggest it. I probably watch it once a month while I write – I think there are few movies that communicate the human condition in modern life so well.
Pugsley doesn’t miss many school days.
JACK, in voiceover: On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
CLERK: Please… don’t…
TYLER DURDEN: Give me your wallet.
Tyler pulls out the driver’s license.
TYLER: Raymond K. Hessel. 1320 SE Benning, apartment A. A small, cramped basement apartment.
RAYMOND: How’d you know?
TYLER: They give basement apartments letters instead of numbers. Raymond, you’re going to die. Is this a picture of Mom and Dad?
RAYMOND: Yes.
TYLER: Your mom and dad will have to call kindly doctor so-and-so to dig up your dental records, because there won’t be much left of your face.
RAYMOND: Please, God, no!
JACK: Tyler…
TYLER: An expired community college student ID card. What did you used to study, Raymond K. Hessel?
RAYMOND: S-S-Stuff.
TYLER: “Stuff.” Were the mid-terms hard? I asked you what you studied.
JACK: Tell him!
RAYMOND: Biology, mostly.
TYLER: Why?
RAYMOND: I… I don’t know…
TYLER: What did you want to be, Raymond K. Hessel?
Tyler cocks the .357 magnum Colt© Python™ pointed at Raymond’s head.
TYLER: The question, Raymond, was “what did you want to be?”
JACK: Answer him!
RAYMOND: A veterinarian!
TYLER: Animals.
RAYMOND: Yeah … animals and s-s-s —
TYLER: Stuff. That means you have to get more schooling.
RAYMOND: Too much school.
TYLER: Would you rather be dead?
RAYMOND: No, please, no, God, no!
Tyler uncocks the gun, lowers it.
TYLER: I’m keeping your license. I know where you live. I’m going to check on you. If you aren’t back in school and on your way to being a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead. Get the hell out of here.
JACK: I feel sick.
TYLER: Imagine how he feels.
Tyler brings the gun to his own head, pulls the trigger — click. It’s empty.
JACK: I don’t care, that was horrible.
TYLER: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessell’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal he has ever eaten.
How dare you . . . make Greta uncomfortable.
And it’s true. I tend to think that everyone’s life would be a little better if they had Tyler Durden to be a life coach, to ever so gently coax them to be the best they can be while holding a .357 magnum Colt® Python™ to their head. That seems to be a bit frowned upon, so that leaves my friends with me. See how lucky you are?
In my role as Dr. Durden, I’ve noticed that there’s a problem some people have. It’s being too clever. It’s thinking. How do I know? It’s my problem that I try to compensate for by writing and doing. If I think about doing something, it will never get done. I keep thinking about fixing the banister that broke when we moved into the house a decade ago. It’s never been high on my list, since people falling down stairs is funny, with extra points if they are really old. But thinking about doing something never accomplishes anything.
If I plan to do it, it will get done. Half of my time driving to and from work on a day I’m going to write a post, I’m writing it in my head, selecting jokes, thinking of themes. It’s also spent thinking of how I’m going to connect the idea I want to share with students who might be forced to read this post when Mrs. Grundy tells them to compare and contrast my work with that poseur, Mark Twain, in high school in the year 2248 (that’s when Kirk will be a sophomore).
Okay, generally on my drive to work I have about five or ten minutes between cars, so it would take several hours to get a group of cars behind me like that. But a man has to have goals!
It may look like I’m driving to work, but I’m really plotting out what I’m going to write about. To be honest, it sometimes takes both lanes to do that. I wish the State Patrol® would be a little more understanding to artists like me.
Thankfully, The Mrs. is.
The Mrs. and I had a conversation the other night. It may or may not have involved wine – I’m not telling unless I’ve been subpoenaed and am under oath to a House subcommittee. Actually, it wasn’t so much a conversation as The Mrs. describing to me how she felt about this little project I publish three times a week.
I don’t make any money on this blog, though I’ve made clear since day one that can change at any time. I have plans for several (eventual) ways to do that including adding subliminal messages causing you to want to pay for my health insurance. It looks like it’s already worked for Bernie Sanders.
In a socialist paradise all bloggers make $450,000 a year, right? But I worry that for this Christmas we won’t have an Elf on a Shelf, we’ll have a Bernie on a Gurney.
No, at this point, writing is a hobby. But it’s a hobby that takes over 20 hours a week, sometimes closer to 30 hours. I still have a job, and I won’t stop interacting my family, so most nights I won’t even start writing before 9pm. A lot of that time comes from time I’d normally be selfishly engaged in what you mortals call “sleep”, but a chunk of that time comes directly from time I’d be spending with The Mrs.
When I’m writing, I’m simply not available. I’m writing.
The Mrs.: “You know, I would certainly have an issue with the time that you spend writing, if it weren’t important.” There was more to this, where she detailed the number of hours I spend. But I keyed in on the word “Important.”
I was a little surprised by that. “Important?”
The Mrs.: “Yes. I can see that what you’re writing about is important. People need to hear it. So keep doing it.”
Okay, that proves she never reads this stuff.
But as I talked more with my friend, the concept of “meaning” came up.
My Friend Who is Really Most Certainly Not Elon Musk: “So, it’s about meaning?”
Suddenly as Wise as the Roman Philosopher Seneca John Wilder: “That’s silly. You don’t go off chasing ‘meaning’ in your life. Pick out something you like to do, and do it. But figure out how to make it important to other people. You like to woodwork, right? You say you never have time to do it. Do it this weekend. Film it. Put it up on YouTube®. I’ll be checking up with you on Monday.”
I asked myself, why is my friend working at all? I think because he feels he’s supposed to work. That having a job is a rule, it’s what he’s always done. The problem that many of us have is that we tend to create rules where there aren’t any rules. I’m not sure why. Perhaps we need to justify what we do. Perhaps it’s like my two important rules for life:
- Don’t tell everything you know.
Success? My friend is already successful in most ways a person can be successful. Their life is really good. I told them, directly, “You’ve been given so many gifts. If you don’t make something special of your life, you’re wasting it.”
Interestingly, this applies to you, too.
And me.
How will your breakfast taste tomorrow?
Yet More Shenanigans
How to find a great bargain:
The whole podcast:
And a parody song by the NPCs:
Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Misery Index Edition
“False Narrative!” – The Death of Stalin
Not all fairy tales start with “Once upon a time” – some start with “If Joe Biden is elected . . . . “
- 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.
I’ve notched the Clock O’Doom up by one. Tensions have increased, significantly. The 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 – The Narrative Collapses – Violence And Censorship Update – New Feature, Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – January 6 Goes Full Jussie – 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 700 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
https://wilderwealthywise.com/civil-war-weather-report-previous-posts/
The Narrative Collapses
Part of the requirements for Leftism to work is The Narrative. The Narrative is their story, told in their way. It is propaganda, and the object is to lead the public opinion ever Leftward, but just a smidge at a time. The problem, of course is that they lose patience.
I hope everyone had a great Juneteenth! I’m so glad it’s finally accepted as a holiday!
The Left has managed to use sympathy to convince the public of concepts that are ever more divergent from reality. Given time, it’s easy enough for people skilled in propaganda to twist public perception 180 degrees. A similar effort has gone on for decades in the Supreme Court to create new text where none existed, and essentially backstop authoritarianism.
Probably not the point George wanted to make. Oh, my!
The push too far this time was the kids. There was a time when teacher contracts included morals clauses, and they could be fired for being immoral. I recall reading a story of a teacher whose car was vandalized (by other teachers) because their license plate had the (state-issued) GAY three letter combination. Being gay and being a teacher wasn’t allowed. Period.
But in the 20’s America, teachers feel it’s necessary to become advocates for their LGBTP lifestyle. Oddly, parents have an issue with this, because 99%+ of parents aren’t LGBTP, and you have to be an extremely dedicated little Leftist to agree to let your kids be groomed.
Most people aren’t.
It’s amazing how the number of “trans” kids has gone from essentially zero to whole percentage points. Wonder why?
This is one area of narrative collapse – the economy (see Biden’s Misery Index, below) has proven the old statement correct – when the tide goes out, you can see who isn’t wearing a swimsuit, and Biden is naked. Ugh. Sorry. Bad metaphor, but it doesn’t get any better using Kamala or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
We now see how things are done when the Supreme Court can’t understand what a woman is. . .
This leads us towards Civil War – the Left becomes increasingly upset as their ideology is rejected – note the calls for leaving the Union on the Left since the latest abortion and gun rulings. If they can’t have it all, and if they can’t control everyone, they aren’t happy. The mere idea that someone might be free in Oklahoma or Wyoming or Indiana drives them crazy.
And you wonder why propaganda is against homeschooling?
And one last collapse of the narrative
I’m not sure I trust the SPLC to tell me if it’s day or night out . . .
The news continues – though this isn’t violence or censorship, it does show that the idea is growing monthly that people are ready to break up.
It’s weird that celebrities who are protected by people they hired to carry guns don’t want anyone else to have them.
Violence And Censorship Update
You may not have noticed it, since hardly anyone mentions it, but June was Pride Month. I’m expecting that July is Gluttony or Sloth month? Regardless, even Elon Musk noted that it was Pride Month:
Only one icon on my phone went all rainbow this year.
But that’s not violence or censorship. The biggest story this month was actually a positive against censorship (I think): Elon Musk has passed the latest test in his bid to take over Twitter®. This is notionally good. Musk has made noises in the past that would indicate that he would cease the blanket banning of Right opinions on the platform.
And, Twitter® matters. While there might be only tens of millions of active users, how often do you see a Tweet© discussed in a news story? It has amazing reach.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the sound I heard when Elon put out the bid for Twitter®.
New Feature – Biden’s Misery Index
Joe Biden has been the single largest Oval Office failure in my lifetime. Easily. How bad is he?
Well, Paul Krugman, the “economist”, predicted the “Biden Boom” – I have proof.
Think he’d like to walk that back?
That’s how it started. How’s it going?
Yes. The single worst economic performance of a President in my lifetime easily belongs to Jimmy Carter. That, for Joe Biden is a “hold my beer” moment. He can be bad at economics as well as international and social issues. Heck, under Biden and Carter Afghanistan was lost. At least Carter could use the bathroom outside of his Depends®.
But it’s not like his problems aren’t self-inflicted. They absolutely are:
It’s so bad, that even the Normies have it figured out:
Well, maybe not all the Normies.
So, the result is that we have the worst economy since the Great Depression. I even have the receipts. I made up a scale that combines gas prices, inflation, interest rates, and unemployment rates to quantify just how bad it is.
It’s horrible.
It’s set up so that if Joe Biden had just not screwed it up since January, 2020, he’d be at a score of zero. So, lower is better. You’ll note that it’s not at zero, but rather it’s at 14. Since it’s dimensionless (it’s based on how much the situation has deteriorated, so the interest rate has more than doubled) the scale on the side doesn’t have a unit. So we’ll call it a Kamala.
Joe is 14 Kamalas bad. Which is pretty bad.
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 ticked downward this month. I think it has been muted because the Left has kept their dogs on a leash.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it went up more in June. I expect that to continue in July.
Economic:
Economic indicators keep falling . . . .
Illegal Aliens:
It set a new record. Again. An all-time record. Again. The border is, for all intents and purposes, wide open.
January 6th Committee Goes Full Jussie
The January 6th Committee is a joke. As it can clearly be seen, there was actually no attempt to take over the Capitol. How can I make that statement? They didn’t take over. If there was any actual desire to take over the Capitol, it would have been taken over, and would have been occupied to this day.
The fiction that the Committee has tried to create is a simple one: that Donald Trump was looking to take over the government through non-Constitutional means. This was, obviously, not true. Why? It would have been the simplest thing for him to do that and cross the Rubicon. He didn’t. Trump likes to make deals, and I’ve seen no evidence that he did anything different than, well, be Trump on January 6.
Regardless, it looks like the Committee has nothing. And never will.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
BAD GUYS
https://twitter.com/Robertopedia/status/1535383099147689984
https://twitter.com/i/status/1534491331313250304
https://twitter.com/i/status/1537919366737539072
https://twitter.com/i/status/1538697774979481600
https://twitter.com/i/status/1534652069071790085
https://twitter.com/i/status/1533654704529588229
https://twitter.com/PrivilegeMaster/status/1534667795065085952
https://twitter.com/Geoffrey_Ford14/status/1533440144124137473
https://twitter.com/Geoffrey_Ford14/status/1533441413010038785
https://twitter.com/i/status/1531651546735329280
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535957203902816256
https://twitter.com/i/status/1535360238043406338
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/hunter-used-money-from-dad-to-pay-russian-prostitute/
https://twitter.com/AutonomyCola/status/1540422582352183298
https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1537809777526509569
GOOD GUYS
https://twitter.com/i/status/1540486945981227009
https://twitter.com/i/status/1531745842079711232
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kyle-rittenhouses-lawyer-plans-target-042552489.html
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/07/because-the-ar-15-can-deter-a-mob/
And finally (!?!) : https://twitter.com/i/status/1537307558704300032
ONE GUY
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1537173291781312518.html
BODY COUNT
https://www.newsweek.com/yulin-dog-meat-festival-thousands-dogs-slaughtered-china-1713970
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/06/14/heat-stress-kills-estimated-10-000
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/09/zmgp-j09.html
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-the-global-decline-of-fertility-rates/
https://crossroadsreport.substack.com/p/breaking-fifth-largest-life-insurance
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/young-people-dying-in-their-sleep
https://vdare.com/posts/homicide-and-motor-vehicle-accident-death-rates-through-2021
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/06/in-blm-year-52-of-black-teens-who-died.html
https://twitter.com/PrivilegeMaster/status/1534667795065085952
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths
https://twitter.com/alabeaty/status/1534778472354177025
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/reports-deaths-covid-vaccines-cdc-vaers-data/
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/14/18/59067297-10916371-image-m-12_1655228811361.jpg
VOTE COUNT
ttps://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/bombshell-ex-dominion-employee-has?s=r
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/something-stinks-in-colorado
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/exclusive-fulton-county-gets-busted
https://www.delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p=4611
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections/
https://www.scribd.com/document/577278421/Justice-for-Sale-LELDF-Report#download&from_embed
CIVIL WAR
https://twitter.com/williams_paige/status/1541434138011570183
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-astonishing-implications-of-schedule-f/
https://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacists-convicted-training-civil-war-michigan-1708056
https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-targeting-trump-aides-testimony-civil-war
https://nypost.com/2022/06/14/squad-rep-bowman-warns-of-civil-war-if-gop-takes-midterms/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/poll-americans-guns-against-government
https://andrewmtanner.medium.com/the-capitol-riot-doesnt-matter-f0b232d00a30
https://andrewmtanner.medium.com/the-american-divorce-is-an-unstoppable-force-b981edacb6f2
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/05/when-should-we-be-worried-about-civil-war-barbara-f-walter/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10934819/Texas-Republicans-push-referendum-secedng-U-S.html
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/14/supreme-court-civil-war-00039543
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/second-civil-war-us-abortion
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/another-war-states-coming-abortion-rcna35566
https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/26/america-is-more-fragile-than-the-left-understands/
ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS
A Crisis Of Legitimacy
“If I am not a tyrant, if I merely seek legitimacy then why would I not accept such favorable terms?” – Rome
Hulk Hogan apparently had to seek therapy – the diagnosis was wrestle-mania.
I think one thing that has always been a feature of Americans is that we’ve had a healthy distrust for authority. The entire Revolutionary War was because we didn’t trust the British to take our interests into account. We even used roosters to find British spies – a version of chicken-catch-a-Tory. Yet, just enough trust has existed to keep us going.
Mostly.
Right now, however, there is a crisis brewing – a crisis of legitimacy.
We see it everywhere, but I’ll start off with the worst: the “Presidency” of Joe Biden. The points that bear discussing are certainly well known to readers here:
- The “open” conspiracy to change laws to beat Trump,
- Evidence of ballot harvesting, and
- Evidence of counting “irregularities”
Among a lot of other things. Heck, even Pa Wilder voted for Biden, which is something he’d never do if he’d still been alive.
How do you change a lightbulb in a house built by Apple®? You don’t, they no longer make that outlet, so it’s time to buy a new house.
The reaction of the Left is more of their politics as usual. Anything possible to distract and vilify the Right is in play. Any hint or even joke about the legitimacy of Biden’s electoral “victory” is shut down. Case in point, I made a joke about Biden’s victory being more in the counting than in the voting, and that podcast was immediately shut down by YouTube’s® A.I. (Shhh, don’t make fun of that A.I., it’s really self-conscious),
If they’re that sensitive, I know I’m over the target. The reason is that there is a mountain of evidence that shows fraud in the election, in just the right places and locations it would be needed (and would be possible) to swing the election to Biden.
Huh.
A robust and positive response would have been to participate as hard as possible to show Biden was legitimately elected. They would have taken the points brought up by (in many cases) non-partisan analysis showing the trickery.
Nope. The Democrats looked for voter fraud just as hard as O.J. looked for “the real killer”.
I drink apple juice; I heard OJ will kill you.
I wonder could there be a parallel there, or if that could be the reason that a majority of the American people think Joe was falsely elected? Instead, they use the word “baseless” when they really mean “facts we really, really, want you to ignore.”
Hmmm.
If a phony election was enough to destroy the Republic, though, it would have failed long ago. Historically, there have been other elections that have been called into question: 1876 and 1960 were two big examples. But we survived both, even though Rutherford B. Hayes was called “His Fraudulency” for the rest of his life.
Rutherford B. Hayes was a stunning success compared to Biden, serving one term where his most notable accomplishment was attempting to avoid inflation and keep the money supply sound, whereas Biden prints and spends money like a Pelosi drinks and drives.
Why is Owen Wilson’s nose in the middle of his face? It’s the scenter.
That’s the second crisis of legitimacy – phony money. Again, none of this is new – I’ve written that our monetary policy appears to be less sound than the logic of a drunken 22-year-old rock star in a strip club in Vegas.
The phony money is, of course, only one component of the phony economy. For years now, pools of cash have kept up the appearance of value in home prices. Likewise, stock prices have been artificially pushed upward at the same time bond prices (and interest rates) were artificially kept downward. At some point (and, it’s looking like that point is very near, indeed) the stored energy caused by the distortions will cause the economy to snap.
Because? Our economy is illegitimate.
What about the Uvalde police department: Who thinks that they’re legitimate now? But how many people are secretly asking, “if that happened in my town, what would our cops do?” and then thinking, “probably the same thing.”
Reason #238 for the Second Amendment.
Where most people would expect cops to run in and, oh, save children, it’s not in their playbook. Really. Lots of police departments put as their number one priority “officer safety”. And courts have repeatedly backed the cops up – they have no duty to even try to save me, kids in a school, or you.
How legitimate does that feel?
I could keep going all night, but sometime I have to sleep, so I’ll just bring up one more. We’re in a society where even the concept of “being a man” or “being a woman” is legitimate anymore. But even that is a symptom of a society where the basic values that have been consciously subverted at every opportunity – good is now bad, and vice versa. Truth is now despised while lies are celebrated.
To summarize our society is in deep jeopardy because we have:
- Illegitimate Politicians (especially the President),
- Illegitimate Money,
- An Illegitimate Economy, and
- Illegitimate Values.
I hope he never gets around to building back better . . .
This is the opposite of the formula to make a country work well. Civil strife combined with a collapsing economy, rising prices, and a collapsing social fabric sounds like a lot to take away from just a loss of legitimacy, but it’s not – for people to create a productive, free society, they have to have incentive, they have to have trust.
They have to have legitimacy – they have to believe.
To restore that? They have to have truth.
Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Failure and Guns
“Your company cannot be worth that much.” – The Office
I hear Joe Biden has an I.Q. of 150 – he took the test three times and added up all the scores.
- 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.
I’ve kept Clock O’Doom at the same location. For now. The 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 – The Michael Scott Presidency – Violence And Censorship Update – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Guns – 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 700 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
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The Michael Scott Presidency
The Michael Scott in the title refers to the fictional Regional Manager of Dunder-Mifflin on the NBC® sitcom, The Office. Michael Scott was a bumbling character, a bit self-important and self-absorbed, and an HR nightmare. Even with all of that Scott was generally successful, often in spite of himself.
I would hate for anyone to think I was comparing *resident Joe Biden to Michael Scott. I don’t think that Biden could last for a month as a regional manager of an office supply company. But what I do refer to is one particular episode, where Michael had quit, started his own paper company, and was negotiating its sale to his old employer. Why?
It was a sitcom.
Michael Scott’s old boss had a simple response when Scott wants his old job back, which his boss, rightly, notes is a multimillion-dollar buyout. “Your company cannot be worth that much.”
Scott responds: “Our company is worth nothing. Business isn’t about money to me, David. If tomorrow my company goes under, I will just start another paper company. And then another. And another. And another.”
What sounds good on paper? Communism. Unless you’re reading a history book.
And that’s where Brandon Biden is. He has failed so spectacularly in every category imaginable:
- Economic Policy making Jimmy Carter look like a genius,
- Remembering the names of the days of the week,
- Foreign Relations, except the Afghans would sure like to do business again,
- Raising children that even a drug lord would disown,
- Trade, where his idea of sanctions on enemies are actually things that hurt Americans more, and
- Energy, where he started with an energy-independent nation and made it more dependent than a welfare mother of six.
Biden’s presidency isn’t worthless, it has a negative value. He has nothing. At all. So he has nothing to lose, which is the scary part.
When Bill Clinton was in the same place, however, he did something incredibly astute: he decided to work with the Republicans, and crafted a legislative package that led to drastic reduction of deficit spending while creating a booming economy. Just like sleeping with Hillary, it wasn’t what Bill wanted to do, but it was what he had to do to keep power.
That’s not where Biden has gone. At every chance, he has upped the stakes on partisanship. This is straight out of Obama’s playbook – whenever there is a chance to unite? Divide. I’d say that Joe learned that lesson there, but I’m pretty sure that his cognitive abilities are somewhere below the low battery limit.
No, whoever is calling the shots is upping the ante. And, losing this badly and refusing to admit that there are no fewer than 100 million citizens that think he is insane, he’s attempting to swing for the fences. That means that, as long as Joe is in office, there’s no limit to the number of things he’ll try. There’s also no limit to the level of Leftist insanity that will be in those plans.
Sadly, this isn’t a sitcom episode. I mean, except for the whole Hunter thing.
Hunter spilled beer on his laptop so he took it to the repair shop since he thought it had Corona virus.
Violence And Censorship Update
May started off with a victory, of sorts. The shrieking harpy that had been selected to head the Department of Justice’s Ministry of Truth quit. At least temporarily. I’m not sure that I completely believe that they’ve given up the plan, but I think that they’ve given up on the cartoon-tier villain that they had chosen to run it.
In other news, the dream of the dystopians isn’t dead: vax trackers and now, a “carbon-footprint” tracker has been created. All of them use that oh-so-wholesome invention, the cell phone. We see how that will be implemented – in Australia, for instance, “citizens” had to take pictures and prove location using cell phones at random intervals to prove they were following the COVID laws.
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 ticked up. Perhaps turning back up in June or July – Antifa® seems primed?
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it went up more in May. With abortion and gun control, even more in June?
Economic:
Instability increases . . . .
Illegal Aliens:
It set a new record. Again. An all-time record. The border is, for all intents and purposes, wide open.
Guns
Gun control is probably the third rail for ten or twenty million Americans. And, well, those are Americans with guns. It would probably be easier to disarm the “pillow lovers club” but it has always been guns.
Why?
It is certainly for one reason, and one reason only. It’s not about hunting. It’s about a challenge to tyranny. As attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
So, when the Left asks, “How many more kids have to die?” it’s not a political position or tear jerker line. It’s a threat – they will do anything, anything at all to take your guns from you.
Regardless, the gun debate is over. Period. If armed police will stand outside of a school while children inside are slaughtered, they will stand outside of anyone’s home while the same happens there. The reason that we haven’t had another hijacking after 9-11 isn’t because of sky marshals. It isn’t because of enhanced security or the FBI suddenly becoming competent.
Nope. It’s because the American people on those airplanes finally recognized something that nearly every reader here has always known: the defense of your family and your own life is your responsibility, always has been, and always will be. The defense of our nations and schools belongs to us, not some outside entity.
Anything else is fiction.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSqsT0SJmU
https://twitter.com/i/status/1527067336334639104
https://twitter.com/DMVFollowers/status/1523469299230253056
https://twitter.com/i/status/1523437362197323777
https://twitter.com/i/status/1523532070412120064
https://twitter.com/i/status/1523165355828461571
https://twitter.com/WCBD/status/1531652018900713472
Good Guys
https://twitter.com/RockholdJones/status/1527711404786073602
https://twitter.com/i/status/1523792561936408576
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1524983401706496000
https://twitter.com/NFL_Memes/status/1524427784776466432
https://twitter.com/i/status/1522560391590653952
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqRXYevJbiw&t=17s
https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/topless-mom-in-her-undies-rescues-pet-goose-from-bald-eagle/
One Gal
Body Count
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/106/428/960/original/0b6680c0c946e893.jpeg
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/05/us-road-deaths-increased-by-more-than-10-in-2021/
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/this-never-happens?s=r
https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/number-of-abortions/?
https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm
https://www.statista.com/topics/3218/abortion-in-the-us/#topicHeader__wrapper
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/1096676197/7-persistent-claims-about-abortion-fact-checked
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/uk-government-data-shows-nobody-should?s=r
https://www.statista.com/chart/26397/cumulative-covid-19-deaths-in-the-us/
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths
https://twitter.com/gyan_chakshu/status/1522359806606159873/photo/1
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/11/health/unvaccinated-covid-deaths-growing/index.html
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-friends-sorry-to-announce-a?s=w
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/328529
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220521-kill-japan-s-elderly-cannes-film-probes-chilling-idea
Vote Count
https://twitter.com/MeetMalcom/status/1523642964152504328
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1522408945880555521
https://twitter.com/Stevenjsargent1/status/1527791870981640192
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1525246274626371586
GA: https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/something-stinks-in-georgia?s=r
VA: https://wcyb.com/news/local/grand-jury-report-accuses-adkins-of-forging-voters-signatures
USA: https://otter.ai/u/qtUQSw4cQupaguY3OkmodyLtbzY
USA: https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/19/does-thou-shalt-not-steal-apply-to-elections/
USA: https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/09/no-more-ballots-in-the-wild-america-needs-to-ban-mail-in-voting/
Civil War
https://www.wired.com/2022/05/geeks-guide-stephen-marche/
https://www.ft.com/content/9c237473-603d-4196-8a32-0f135c900612
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/18/ncreased-testosterone-levels-turns-voters-more-conservative/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/roe-civil-conflict-military-democracy-gender/
https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2022/05/civil-war-lets-make-a-civil-pact-instead/
https://summit.news/2022/05/10/swedish-fashion-designer-embrace-multiculturalism-or-face-civil-war/
https://www.thegazette.com/guest-columnists/we-are-fighting-a-third-civil-war/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/11/second-american-civil-war-robert-reich
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/second-revolutionary-war
https://time.com/6174297/america-divided-civil-war/
https://www.historynet.com/are-we-on-the-eve-of-another-civil-war/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/10/roe-civil-conflict-military-democracy-gender/
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/19/the-new-civil-war-00033782
https://unherd.com/2022/05/do-we-need-a-capitalist-civil-war/
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/05/ending-the-civil-war-over-the-future-of-the-us-marine-corps/
https://medium.com/politically-speaking/will-war-break-out-between-red-and-blue-states-93cac4d8c219
https://andrewmtanner.medium.com/2025-the-year-america-tears-itself-apart-e175f30f9f1f
The Real Replacement
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-real-replacement.html
Memorial Day, 2022
“This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace.” – The Return of the King
Antiaircraft battery on Corregidor, 1941/1942
The Mrs., Pugsley and I went out to the local cemetery this weekend. The Mrs. had bought flowers for her grandparents, and was decorating their grave. I have never once done this. First, the graves of my relatives are very far away. Second, my family never did this – we generally tried to honor the dead by remembering them.
Pugsley and The Mrs. were walking along the cemetery road looking for a grave of a relative that The Mrs. couldn’t quite find. They had taken off cross-graveyard and left me to bring the car up to the location that The Mrs. thought the grave might be. As I drove along behind them to catch up, a gravestone caught my eye.
I stopped the car and read the inscription. The headstone was big, ornate. On it, there was one letter larger than the others, and it wasn’t a first or last initial, it was the first letter in the rank of the deceased. Reading on further, this particular gentleman had died on May 5, 1942.
The place was Corregidor. Corregidor is a small island at the inlet to Manila Bay, in the Philippines. It was established as a fort around World War I. Needless to say, when the Japanese attacked the Philippines 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Corregidor was at some point going to be attacked.
The siege of Corregidor started on December 29, 1941. After the fall of Bataan, the Japanese focused on Corregidor, bombing and shelling it. Finally, the Japanese decided to land an invasion force on May 4, 1942.
The fighting was ferocious, and the troops defending Corregidor, especially the Marines, gave more than they got.
As of right now, I don’t know exactly when or how the officer in the Modern Mayberry cemetery died or what his branch of service was. What I do know is that the monument notes that he isn’t really buried there – his body still lies half a globe away. He was buried in the Philippines after being killed in action.
I can only imagine Modern Mayberry back in 1942. To be clear, in May of 1942 the United States had exactly zero real victories against the Japanese – they were still expanding in the Pacific. The Germans still had a shot at victory if Case Blue worked out for them, allowing them access to the oil of the Caucuses.
When the officer died, it wasn’t looking good for the United States, at all.
Memorial Day used to be called Decoration Day, and the earliest recorded date I can find for it is 1861 during the Civil War. Originally it applied to those soldiers that died in war. It now applies to soldiers who died during service.
The mystery officer in Modern Mayberry’s cemetery certainly died during war. And as I drove by, I did notice a small American flag next to his grave. The American Legion had already been there. But I can only imagine the situation that led to his tombstone being where it is. No family nearby.
It was 1942 and he certainly would have been one of Modern Mayberry’s first dead from World War II. Perhaps his parents till lived there. Perhaps he had been a standout on the football team, a local hero. Why weren’t they buried next to him? Perhaps they moved away later.
These are questions that I don’t have answers to. There is no tombstone for a wife, so possibly he never married, or never had children, but again, I certainly don’t know. These are mysteries that, perhaps, I will never be able to solve.
That’s okay.
Tomorrow, I’ll take flowers down to put on his empty grave, and spend a few minutes thinking about the man buried half a world away from that tombstone, who died nearly exactly 80 years ago.
The Modern World Part II: Wages, Subscriptions, and Dating
“I am not aware of that tradition, Mac. In fact, I think that you and your parents were just stealing from that home.” – It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I had Mennonite Flu last week, first a little horse, then a little buggy.
As I ended Friday’s post (LINK), I tossed out the idea – what if traditions were essentially just solutions to problems we forgot we even had?
They are. But modern life has eroded those traditions in many ways.
If I asked the question, “What is American culture?” how many people would answer with questions that described companies and brands? McDonalds™. The NFL©. Nike®. I could keep going on, but these aspects of American culture are all new – McDonalds® is everywhere now, but it wasn’t until the 1960s that it started expanding everywhere . . . like your mom.
Along with something else . . . what ever could that be?
In fact, the idea that most people are employees of someone else is fairly new, too. In 1880, almost 70% of Americans were in agriculture. Sure some didn’t own the farms and worked on farms for a wage, but farming has generally been an occupation run by families, owning and working the land.
Farmers, especially back then, were not a group of people who were dependent, it was a group of people who lived based on their own work. The “employment” model was used, certainly. Sailing ships and railroads and industry required it. But it was not the predominant model.
Neither was rent. Neither was the subscription model – about the only subscription many folks would have would be the newspaper and maybe a magazine or two. Neither was contact with the Federal government. In 1880, more than likely the only contact a citizen had with the Federal government was when the mail showed up. If you asked what the culture of America was then, the answers would have been fairly easy to guess: Freedom. Independence. The Constitution. Open skies, far horizons, amber waves of grain, and cooperation.
Cooperation? Certainly. The cities and towns that grew every ten miles or so were founded on people wanting to get together to create places of gathering. Places for churches. Places for schools. And, places for commerce and the optimistic growth of a nation.
Funny, the 2020 Chinese plans look like the 1880 American plans . . . .
Was there corruption? Yes, there were people and money, so certainly there was corruption.
But then, largely driven by technology (but also driven by changes from incorporating the large numbers of people emigrating from Europe) that culture changed. Farmers no longer had to feed the horses that moved so much of American commodities – now those were moved by a rail network and internal combustion engines. Also, those same engines allowed farmers to farm much more with lower input from individuals. Sons left farms for jobs at factories, or to go to universities to learn skills to get jobs.
Renting and mortgage became the norm. Companies (because of a Supreme Court decision) became forever, and became larger. Entire new industries were born that required employees.
The culture of America changed, too. Immediately after World War II, the culture moved to one of suburban living matched with jobs working for big corporations, sometimes in places far from family. In general, an attractive package was set up. Work 9 to 5, come home to a freshly made meal by the wife and have a round of catch in the front yard with the boy. Church on Sunday. Then repeat.
The Vatican won’t accept Visa® or Mastercard™. It’s a Paypal© State.
For some reason, this was sold as soulless, and resisted by the “spirituality” of the Lefties in the 1960s. Most of the rebellion was about weed, LSD, and sex, but at least part of it was about something where they actually had a point: the core of the nation was moving from businesses supporting people, to people supporting business.
How so?
Monthly phone bills, power bills, subscriptions to TV Guide®, rent or mortgage, insurance, and car payments became the norm. What was happening was that people were being incorporated as economic farms for banks and companies to harvest every month. Go, work, and be harvested. When you’re used up, you can rest until discarded as the world moved around you.
This was bad enough, because it took people out of the reason for the system, and made people into components of the system. But even more changes were soon to show up which would add to this and create our world today.
First, the birth control pill. The relationships between men and women had always been governed by one basic concept – one man can make many babies at a time, but one woman can only make one at a time. As such, even though men might have been the keymasters, women had to be the gatekeepers to sex. Women had to be choosey.
See, choosey.
Society had solved that problem through a pretty strict system of monogamy tied through both religious and social rules. If a girl got pregnant, there was an expectation that the boy would marry her, even if a shotgun was necessary to induce him to do the honorable thing.
Once married, the couple were strongly encouraged everywhere to keep the marriage going. There were real difficulties in breaking up a marriage – for instance, unless someone was at fault and the other party could prove it in court, a divorce could be contested and not granted. And what would the woman do, anyway? Who would want a woman with kids as a wife? And how would that woman support the kids if the man chose to not give them resources?
Those are powerful inducements to working out a fight rather than calling it all off, if you’re the woman. And women today file 80% of the divorces. Why? Fun and prizes!
And some say we should ignore the old values . . . .
Fault is no longer a requirement. So, for any or no reason a woman can opt out. Johnny, show her what she’s won! Child support, alimony, and, welfare!
Heck, with welfare, there’s no real reason to get married anymore. One of my high school teachers noted that she had a 16 year old student who wanted to get pregnant as soon as she could so she could, “get her own welfare check every month.”
This has led to significant consequences in the dating market in 2022. Many women spend their 20s having relatively anonymous sex with large numbers of men. Tinder® has been devastating for the dating market – see the graph below based on OK Cupid™ data – the “average” man rates the “average” woman as a 3 out of 5 stars.
Perfect! Good job, guys! You did it!
The way the “average” woman rates that “average” guy, however, means that only one guy out of six is rated as “above average”.
Houston, we have a problem. And it’s a doozy. Monogamy works when people sort each other out and your 4 marries a 4. Et cetera. What’s set up here, is that all the 5 star guys have it easy. Will a 5 star guy sleep with an average 2.5 star girl? Sure. Once, probably. When (if!) he gets married he’ll pick a 4 or higher, though.
Ohhh, my precious!
Thus, the average 2.5 star girl in her 20s has the experience of being acceptable to Chad 5 star. So, she expects to marry Chad 5 star, when in reality Chad 5 star has no intention of even remembering the average girl. So, until she’s 30, she holds out, and then reality catches up to her and she’s ready to settle for the 2.5 star guy, Settle Stan.
Wow – inspiring if you’re the 2.5 star guy. And, she’ll be much more likely to divorce Settle Stan, too. She’s really a widow to the fun times with Chad, and Stan will never, ever be good enough. Hopefully Stan makes money?
Well, you can see that James dodged a bullet . . .
But what about all of the Stans who never have a chance even at an awful relationship? The modern world has created a series of drugs to lull them gently onto that goodnight.
It takes a thick umbrella to keep out the light . . .
This is just one aspect of the sexual marketplace that has been devastating for the country. I’ll leave the rest consequences of the sexual revolution as a class exercise.
There are, of course, other consequences of the modern world and the ignoring of tradition on life, but I think this is certainly the most profound. Thankfully there won’t be any more consequences of a sexual revolution gone amok.
Apologies – A Busy Weekend
Got quite busy around here in Stately Wilder Mansion this weekend. Hospitals, antibiotics, etc. All is well, and all the Wilders are home and healthy, but I need some sleep, so you’ll have to wait for Wednesday for the next post.
Globalism, Competition, Bikinis, and Good Trigger Discipline
“Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.” – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
You can get Batman® shampoo, but not conditioner Gordon®.
I recall sitting in economics class in college. The professor was from some Eastern European (I don’t remember which one) country. I really enjoyed his class. Instead of the traditional “Guns Versus Butter” economic trade off, he discussed “Pizza Versus Beer”. It wasn’t Bikininomics, but it was still my kind of thinking.
Pizza and beer kept my attention, so one day he made the comment, “If there is perfect competition, there is how much profit?” He paused. I blurted out, showing my greatest economic strength even at a young age, “Bikini?”
He responded, “No, John Wilder, it is zero profit!”
I liked my answer better. But his provoked me to think. Perfect competition meant that companies could enter and exit easily. There were no barriers to entry.
Guns and Butter? Yes. Cocoa Butter.
What, outside of a single piece bathing suit is a barrier to entry? Well, it means that if a company wanted to start a business, it could do it without having to spend lots of money on building a factory, or through developing difficult intellectual property or expertise. In fact, you’ll see today that the companies that have huge barriers to entry are often the most profitable.
It’s not surprising, then, that large companies are hugely in favor of building barriers to entry for themselves. Disney® is attempting to extend copyright until Armageddon plus twenty years. Pfizer™ wants to patent your DNA if you can properly spell their name (read the terms and conditions!). Chase© wants to be the exclusive place where Fed™ trucks drop off all the Biden Bux.
But these companies are no longer American companies. Once upon a time Boeing© built bombers for the Army Air Force to beat the Axis. By the 1990s, they settled with the DOJ on a $32,000,000 penalty for giving missile secrets to China. Boeing™ has ceased to be an American company. Heck, they even outsourced production of commercial airline parts to China when demanded. So they could sell jets in China, regardless of the technical expertise that China might gain.
I try to avoid Boeing® jokes. They rarely land well.
Why? Boeing™ is not American anymore. They’re Globalist. Like many Congresscritters, Boeing has no particular loyalty to America. They just want a profit, preferably next quarter.
Globalists love barriers to entry. For themselves.
They hate barriers to entry for . . . you.
Again, perfect competition means zero profit. The idea is that if they can turn labor into a replaceable component, their business gets easier and cheaper. If there is a never ending supply of cheap labor, wages don’t go to zero. Heck, if they can automate what an employee does for less than five times the annual cost of the employee – it’s a done deal.
Globalists attempt to drive labor costs as close to zero as competition and automation can make it.
I hear that Elon Musk will be making robots in his Austin factory. He’s calling them Tex Mechs.
Certainly, there are benefits, in that “stuff” costs less. Or does it? In the most recent run up on food prices, the word on the street is that while beef prices are up, while bread prices are up, producer income has not increased. Farmers aren’t making more money.
Fertilizer prices are up. Seed prices are up. Pesticide prices are up.
Farmers have choices – produce at a loss, or produce cheaper crops that require less fertilizer and pesticide. Or, heck, give the year a rest. Since farmers can’t make up a loss in volume, I’d expect prices to go up again this year.
The other thing Globalists don’t like is paying people for stuff. That’s for tourists.
I bought a cheap thesaurus once. Not only is it terrible, it’s terrible.
Globalism isn’t correlated well with freedom. Globalists aren’t really into that. They like captive markets, and a captive labor. Regulations are great with them: it’s just another barrier for entry. So, one of the first things the Globalists do is lobby for the creation of regulation.
How do you do that? Well, owning a few Senators often helps . . . and owning a President is even better.
Freedom, like I said, isn’t something Globalists do very well. Freedom means innovation, and innovation means that barriers could fall. The only reason Silicon Valley is allowed to innovate in 2022 is because it’s owned and funded lock, stock, and barrel by Globalists. Who do you think funds the startups? I assure you, it’s not Santa.
No, nations that are concerned with their people are concerned with freedom. Me? I’m not sold all that much on democracy. I like the idea of a constitutional republic better, but, then again that finally led to a place where “shall not be infringed” has been defined to mean “if government says it’s okay and doesn’t change it’s mind”.
I will note there’s pretty good trigger discipline. Is that an AR-362436?
Oh, and Soros, Schwab, and Gates aren’t all that keen on democracy, either. If voting mattered, do you think they’d let us do it?
Heck, we might vote for pizza and beer . . . or to be free.