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“You know, I’ve always like that word, gargantuan. I so rarely have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.” – Kill Bill, Vol. 2
I worry that the judge in Trump’s case will be too judgmental. I can tell just by looking at him.
Volume VI, Issue 4
All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I’ve kept the Clock O’Doom at the same place – though it will notch up quickly if there are any signs of the TradRight stiffening up.
This is a moving situation, and things are changing quickly. 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 – Crime and Punishment – Violence and Censorship Update – Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – The Polls And The Vote – 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 850 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
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Crime and Punishment
September 18, a date that won’t live in infamy.
September 18 was the date that Donald Trump was scheduled to be sentenced for his convictions related to his paperwork issues (without an underlying crime, no less) in New York. For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone, no matter what their politics, would ever have their company incorporated in New York.
But as I wanted to verify the sentencing date, I looked it up and found that the sentencing date had been pushed back to November 26, 2024. The Teflon Don does it again. This is, probably, the best thing that could have happened to him in September, and certainly the best decision Judge Juan “Not A Real American” Merchan could have made, both for himself and for Trump.
The next thing you know, black people will want their own drinking fountains.
First, why is this good for the judge? Well, imagine having the pressure of the potential backlash of jailing the frontrunner in the election over a paperwork “violation” with no actual crime and no actual victim. But, from his perspective, he has to live around all of the Antifa nuts that infest New York City like the unexplained cuts and bruises all over my body on the night that I discovered tequila.
No, I imagine he went to bed sweating.
Now, the sentencing will be held on November 26, 2024.
Maybe.
If Trump “loses” the election, well, Trump instantly becomes an irrelevant footnote in history. Trump won’t be worth punishing except as a humiliation ritual against those that might emulate Trump in the future. So, he’s probably safe from jail (where he’d be Epsteined) at least until the appeal would overturn the insane conviction. But judges can think of other sentences that are humiliating, so I’d expect no jail time, but something that would be calibrated for just that: humiliation.
If Trump wins the election, the prospect of jailing the president-elect of the United States becomes such a high-stakes game that I think Juan will blink and sentence him to probation for a month. Jailing the president-elect is a de facto declaration of Civil War 2.0. That would make a very, very long winter for New York City without electricity and gas and would result in the place looking worse than it did in Escape From New York.
I’m pretty sure HoJoFromJerz has only a tenuous grasp on that whole “separation of powers” thing.
I think, really, the only threat that Trump poses to the agenda of the GloboLeftElite is if he gets the opportunity to appoint two or three justices to the Supreme Court replacing Thomas, Alito, and maybe Sotomayor or Jackson. Sotomayor won’t retire, but it looks like she’s pretty fond of chalupas, so, let’s call it a 10% chance that she expires. And, although Ketanji Brown Jackson is very young at only 54, everything she’s ever said aloud makes me doubt that she is capable of understanding the warning labels on consumer products, so, there’s that.
If the GloboLeftElite really wants a United States military, they’ll have to go for Trump, in which case maybe he gets three appointments. Otherwise, if they’re content to just run the place into the ground, who better than Kamala?
Violence and Censorship Update
Some groups just don’t want the truth to get out:
Because it’s uncomfortable, I guess:
Must be very far south in Ukraine:
And Google® really wants you to forget some things:
And when you look for Trump, you get Kamala:
And the very GloboLeftElite Governor Polis wants you to ignore this:
And a news organization won’t release news:
But everybody is in on it:
Even the newspapers (TK is short for “To Come” – a placeholder for a name, like Walz):
And the DNC treats bathrooms likes sports:
And Gavin lets the mask slip, a little:
And, this is your future on Woke:
Biden/Harris Misery Index
I’m sure vice president Zoolander can save us:
Let’s take a look to see how we’ve done this month . . . .
Yup, up again. It’s like there’s a pattern here . . .
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 is up, and this should be higher given that Venezuelan gangs are turning parts of US cities into no-go zones.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it is steady, and will probably hold that way until November.
Economic:
The economy is in full juice mode for the election.
Illegal Aliens:
August is showing as down, again, since (my take) the .gov folks are just making up numbers now.
The Polls And The Vote
We’re in the last few days before the election – in two months, it will be done.
The numbers generally look well for Trump. He’s trending well in the states he needs, and, well, he’s Trump. This week will provide us with the ABC® debate, and if Kamala can remember the answers to the questions that she no doubt has been given, she won’t look nearly as bad as she does when she’s trying to remember anything more complicated than the combination to her phone.
She’s tried to run a campaign based on “nothing” – a Seinfeld campaign, if you will. She now has policy positions up on her website, and those are mainly of the “I’ll be nice to you and make everything wonderful and Trump is a big meanie.”
That doesn’t matter to the voters on the GloboLeft: Kamala could be in favor of forcing nuns to crush kittens at gunpoint to feed to orphans, and GloboLeft voters would be in favor of her. Her major accomplishment in life to date? Passing the bar in California on the second attempt. That’s it.
But the major polls show a different story. Why?
The polls simply have to show Kamala close enough in a few swing states so that the massive cheating that’s already planned for urban areas can be conducted to give her the results she needs. That’s it. That’s the goal. Unless the people who did it last time are stopped, that will be the result this time, as well. The follow up to this will be the Democrats making their (admitted) 11 million illegals (which is probably a low number by a factor of two) legal, and will cement the People’s Republic of America.
It’s very likely that “voting harder” won’t matter. Sure, I’ll go vote, and suggest that you do, too. But don’t be surprised when the same humiliating illegalities result in a stolen election. That will certainly bring us much, much closer to Civil War 2.0.
But what would I know, I’m just a right-wing extremist.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
TURNING POINT
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1831486742052159886
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1823963955024605650
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1817731127672779239
https://trump2024.film/
BAD GUYS
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1829621234629529714
https://x.com/MrStevenSteele/status/1828970643133800908
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1830401573219926448
https://x.com/America_2100/status/1826385727388614867
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1830943524524536151
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Violent_Crime_by_State_SITE.jpg?itok=Xf8kjQev
GOOD GUYS AND GALS
https://thefederalist.com/2024/09/04/cdc-fbi-working-to-hide-data-showing-shootings-stopped-by-good-guys-with-guns/
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1831193585326182443
ONE GUY
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13819107/Georgia-school-shooter-Colt-Gray-received-AR-15-mass-shooting-Christmas-present-father.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13821987/georgia-school-shooter-colt-gray-gun-father-hunting-apalachee-high.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13823345/Former-landlord-reveals-father-Georgia-school-shooter-kicked-door-retrieve-guns.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/father-georgia-high-school-shooting-suspect-arrested/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/case-colin-gray-father-georgia-school-shooting-suspect-tests-limits-pa-rcna169906
BODY COUNT
https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1826367330596655495
https://reports.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/2022-total-group-sat-suite-of-assessments-annual-report.pdf
https://x.com/Twitermytweet/status/1817781490744242379
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/the-urban-family-exodus-is-a-warning-for-progressives/679350/
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/more-1-9-americans-live-poverty
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db507.pdf
https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/25/kids-a-growing-number-of-americans-say-no-thanks/
https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/despite-bans-number-abortions-united-states-increased-2023
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-survey-pills-roe-election-2024-7179dda48eae0a764be89c2e0aafd80a
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/how-the-origins-of-americas-immigrants-have-changed-since-1850/
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2024-08-19_15-21-37.jpg?itok=xzOry1uG
https://archive.is/VGSGa
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA1ooDQw
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/selling-america-the-army-s-fight-to-find-recruits-in-an-angry-divided-nation/ar-AA1pHFd8
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-navy-recruit-numbers
https://news.usni.org/2024/08/22/navy-could-sideline-17-support-ships-due-to-manpower-issues
VOTE COUNT
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1184621/presidential-election-voter-turnout-rate-state/
https://nypost.com/2024/08/04/opinion/team-biden-is-shocked-shocked-at-massive-migrant-fraud-but-still-wants-to-wave-them-in/
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-sends-all-50-states-a-plan-for-how-to-use-existing-federal-law-to-prevent-foreign-nationals-from-illegally-voting-in-american-elections/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/progressive-dems-michigan-tell-undercover-journo-they-were-ballot-harvested-out-office
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1823154080748872069
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2024/08/09/tenacious-citizens-force-election-integrity-investigation-in-georgia
https://dnyuz.com/2024/08/19/how-a-far-right-takeover-of-georgias-election-board-could-swing-the-election/
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/27/pennsylvania-election-results-mail-ballots/
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/14/alabama-secretary-of-state-finds-3000-potential-noncitizens-registered-to-vote/
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/14/states-file-federal-lawsuit-seeking-to-shut-down-bidenbucks/
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/08/14/vote_integritys_nitty-gritty_the_battle_lines_of_24s_epic_struggle_1051309.html
https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/14/gop-get-out-the-vote-scott-presler-trump-campaign/
THE FUTURE OF WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7L1aZzLz1Q
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/europe/ukraine-thermite-dragon-drones-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
https://x.com/David_Hambling/status/1823384768324796498
https://x.com/ivandexx/status/1832109578173215041
CIVIL WAR
https://starkrealities.substack.com/p/the-civil-war-didnt-settle-the-question
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-AA1oNBsN
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-predicting-civil-war-europe-nearly-year-rcna165469
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-dmitry-medvedev-predicts-us-collapse-imminent-civil-war-1950276
https://usawatchdog.com/a-period-of-great-uncertainty-martin-armstrong/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13739915/fbi-donald-trump-assassination.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ar-AA1pDxw5
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It Came From . . . 1990
“Alas, poor Yorick.” – Hamlet
I can’t really think of a worse interpretation of the instructions I gave the A.I., but yet, here it is.
I seem to recall we have one more year in the 1980s before we’re done with it, but I decided that we could zip along and move to 1990. VHS changed everything – of the nineteen eighteen movies on this list, I saw 11 on VHS tapes. I had to drop a movie because Ernest Goes to Jail is technically a sequel.
As I look through the movies that are on this list, only two of the top ten grossing films are on it. Again, the rules are that there are no sequels on the list, and the list is in no particular order. One of these I included because of personal reasons, and you’ll see that when you get to it.
With that, here’s the list.
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer – Wow. Picked this one up at the video store, and I had no idea how grim a movie could be, and then this one topped it. Looking back, the title includes the words “portrait of a serial killer” so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. I’ve seen this one twice. The second time, I said to myself, “Nah, it can’t have been as grim as I remember.” It was.
Tremors – In every way possible, Tremors is the opposite of Henry. It’s a buddy comedy about two less than bright handymen who run into a bright scientist and discover a species of giant landwhales (this doesn’t refer to Democrat voters) that they have to outwit to survive. A good time filled with lots of firepower.
Well A.I., at least you tried. Here’s a star. Not a gold one. But a blue one.
The Hunt for Red October – The Cold War was already winding down and the end was near for the Soviet Union, but, hey, this is a pretty good story, told pretty well. Sean Connery’s Russian accent sounds like it came from the Edinburgh part of Moscow, but it still works. I rewatched this a couple of years ago, and it holds up pretty well.
Joe Versus the Volcano – This movie always seemed to me to be only slightly better than a TV movie of the time. The major difference was the cast, with Tom Hanks attempting to sell the silly plot, and Meg Ryan before plastic surgeons performed those bizarre experiments on her face. Brain cloud.
Blind Fury – Rutger Hauer as a blind guy who carries around a walking stick that’s also a samurai sword. What more do you need??? Technically, this is a remake which would make it invalid for the list. Meh. It’s on the list anyway.
I guess this poster describes the movie absolutely perfectly. If you were a blind person going to a movie.
A Shock to the System – Aesop suggested this one to me a few years ago. It’s about a guy with a midlife crisis that he solves with murder. Bippity, boppity, boo.
I Love You to Death – What’s funnier than a wife killing a philandering husband? A wife failing to kill a philandering husband by shooting him and poisoning. What’s even funnier? That it’s all based on a true story, and that the wife and husband are still married 40 years later.
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane – This isn’t a great movie, and I only put it on the list because I’m theoretically in it. Yup. In a crowd shot. At night. Maybe a pixel or two. I’m sure everyone wants my autograph now. Life forms on the left, next to the gift shop.
Quick Change – Most people like Groundhog Day better than Quick Change. They’re wrong. Quick Change is Bill Murray in a sharp, funny, very rewatchable comedy where a clown robs a bank and needs a monster truck to try to get away and where Murray’s character doesn’t grow or change in any way. Which is as it should be.
I guess Geena Davis is gonna be pissed by this poster.
Arachnophobia – This is a movie that simply disappeared. Why? I have no idea. I haven’t seen it show up on any streaming service. Regardless, it was what is mostly rare today: a summer popcorn flick that doesn’t promote any sort of agenda with the exception of “Auuuuuugh! Spiders!”.
Pump Up the Volume – What teen boy didn’t want a pirate radio station to blast his silly rants out to the world while having sex with Samantha Mathis? That was the best of all possible worlds. This was a fundamentally silly movie, sort of like if rabbits had an opinion. I blame this movie for all the teen angst of the 1990s.
Men at Work – Yes, another silly comedy, this time about brothers who are sanitation workers living on the edge, getting in the face of cops, and solving a crime involving illegal toxic waste dumping. Emilio Estevez both wrote and directed the movie, I think while on drugs, which was a net positive for him.
Since when did Fabio do sanitation work?
Goodfellas – Another movie based on a real story, this one involving the Mafia. You’ve seen it, so I won’t dwell on it, except to ask, does it amuse you?
Quigley Down Under – Tom Selleck as a cowboy who decides to not kill aborigines in the Outback in Australia and picks up Laura San Giacomo in the process. Alan Rickman plays the perfect villain. “This ain’t Dodge City. And you ain’t Bill Hickok.” One of my favorites.
Home Alone – Home Alone was the biggest money-making action comedy for decades, grossing half a billion dollars in 1990. So, you’ve seen it, you filthy animals.
If Keven was a Soviet officer attacked by Clint Eastwood and Peter Cushing. I guess.
Robot Jox – This was a huge box office flop, and really part of that was the production values. The story itself is fun. After a nuclear war, the major countries decided to solve all of their conflicts by having giant robots fight each other. Yes. That was the basis of international order, and I, for one, would like to dissolve the United Nations right now and have everyone buy robots. I would love to see the one from India – I imagine it would be steam powered.
The Grifters – This is John Cusack’s first attempt at a real dramatic role, and he does a fine job in this tragedy. It’s a shame that he turned into a horrible Leftist. This movie is a tragedy, and its not a lot of fun at all. I don’t suggest watching it, but I really do remember it.
Hamlet – This 1990 version is my favorite version of this tragedy. Mel Gibson was a bit long in the tooth for playing the sad Dane, but it’s fine because he plays the part with such verve. It was really lost on me when I was a kid, but now, alas, I finally understand his speech to Yorick.
Not gonna lie, this movie looks like the best movie ever. What a paragon of movies this could be….
At the end of the 1990s, there seems to be a difference in the way the movies feel. The 1980s were giddy with the challenge of coming together to beat the Soviets. The GloboLeftistElite propaganda machine owned television then, but movies had to make a buck, and Reagan won a resounding victory in 1984 not on a weak America, but on building a strong one.
So, what happened? Why did the victory sap our strength? Why did the brash, in your face sounds of Cherry Pie turn to the lament of Lithium?
Maybe, just maybe . . . a man needs a goal.
