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“Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?” – Silence of the Lambs
I had a professor who devoted an entire class to the movie Silence of the Lambs. It was a Hannibal lecture.
While I think we have one more year (I’ll have to check) in the 1980s to do, we’re jumping into 1991. Once again, the rule of no sequels takes out a decent movie or two, in this case Terminator 2, which some (not me) like better than the original. T2 is much bigger and has better special effects, but, whatever. It’s not on the list.
You’ll also not see some more popular movies from the year. That’s okay, I either didn’t see them, or didn’t like them, like that crapfest of nihilism, Thelma and Louise. Awful movie except the part where the feminists die. That was good.
Warlock – When I met The Mrs. we quickly realized that we both liked Julian Sands for this very same movie. It’s about . . . well what it’s about isn’t horribly important since the plot is silly – an evil warlock from witch-burnin’ time travels to the present followed by a witch burner. The witch-burner goes on a buddy road trip chasing the titular warlock. (I love saying titular.) It ends pretty much like you’d expect. It might have even been better if it was a sequel to Ghostbusters, but then it wouldn’t be on the list.
Julian Sands looks like David Bowie gave him a makeover.
L.A. Story – I liked it when I first saw it, but on a second viewing it seems a lot shallower. Steve Martin is good, but restrained, and part of what throws me off on the later viewing is the horse-faced Jessica Parker, who I have learned to loathe. Best part? Steve Martin having to prove his credit score to get a restaurant reservation.
You could cook a lot of liver and fava beans on that many burners.
The Silence of the Lambs – As far as genius films go, this is one of them. From start to finish, the tension and connection to the characters is built up, with the real star of the show being a serial cannibal. Good times! Technically, this could be considered to be a sequel of the earlier film, Manhunter, but I make the rules, so it’s in.
If Looks Could Kill – I love this movie. It’s stupid. The plot is written in crayon. It depends on stupid coincidences. But it works for me. And apparently just for me, because everyone scoffs at this movie. Scoff away! Oh, and it features lots of central bankers being assassinated, so it has that going for it.
Toy Soldiers – This particular movie is also very silly, and is mainly on the list because I believe that there was a time in the 1990s when it was required by federal law that Toy Soldiers be available at any time to anyone who had basic cable. This movie was on all the time. The cast was awful, the plot was silly, but it did have R. Lee Ermy and his eyebrows in it.
Apparently in this version, Bill Murray plays a cat. Like he did in Garfield.
What About Bob? – This is Bill Murray as I imagine him in real life, if he didn’t get mad at people. Murray plays a psychiatric patient who gets very clingy with his therapist, and in the span of a weekend becomes more beloved to the therapist’s family than the therapist is. Richard Dreyfuss plays the therapist by, I believe, just by being Richard Dreyfuss. If you couldn’t tell, I don’t like Richard Dreyfuss
Backdraft – Backdraft was a very good movie that could have been great, but just missed because of the muddled morality of the ending plus the good guy and the bad guy dying sorta pointlessly. As usual, director Ron Howard throws his brother Clint Howard in a role, because Clint Howard uses his amazingly large brain to psychically control Ron. Not a re-watcher, but one that was a good summer movie.
Hudson Hawk – This is easily the most ill-advised movie that Bruce Willis has ever been in, where he plays a burglar who sings a lot with his crime partner, Danny Aiello on the way to assembling Leonardo DaVinci’s lead into gold machine for secret evil dudes. Did I mention that Willia and Aiello sing? Oddly, a movie this stupid has to have someone that likes it, and in this case, both The Mrs. and I enjoyed it.
And it looks like he killed her. Also, the corgis look suspiciously plump.
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead – most memorable scene? A kid is using a shotgun to shoot plates that his brother is throwing off the roof. When finished, he says, “The dishes are done, dude.”
Hot Shots! – Charlie Sheen back in the days when he was funny instead of borderline insane in an Airplane! style movie spoof of Top Gun and Rambo. Funniest foreshadowing? A pilot with the callsign “Dead Meat”.
Doc Hollywood – Michael J. Fox before his Parkinson’s, and Julie Warner who I keep mixing up with the actress Finn Carter who was arrested in Vegas for credit card fraud. It would be funny if Finn had stolen Warner’s credit cards, but I doubt it. Plot? It’s essentially and nearly exactly the plot for Pixar’s® movie Cars. But Doc Hollywood’s not animated and cars don’t perform plastic surgery.
That one girl has got a crazy eye.
The Addams Family – As a fan of the television show (there’s a reason we named our son Pugsley), I was dreading that this wouldn’t be very good. It was good, and the cast simply was mostly perfect. Oh, we didn’t really name him Pugsley, but we do very much call him Pugsley. I’m glad Child Protective Services never found that out.
The Last Boy Scout – The start of this movie was just amazing – a football player, drenched in rain, starts running down the field and pulls out a Beretta 84FS in .380ACP and shoots the players that are about to tackle him. Now, there are two problems with that scenario. First, you’d probably want more stopping power than a .380, I’d think a .45ACP as a minimum. Second, is there even a rule against using guns during a game? I mean, the worst thing might be a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness plus an ejection. I’ve since found out that pretty much everybody involved in the whole movie hated each other, which makes me like it all the more since I feed off of the pain of others.
This is a lame list. The quality of movies was in steep decline since the 1980s, and, really, on this list only Silence of the Lambs is a classic. When do I think it started to go wrong in a big way, based on seeds set in earlier decades?
The 1990s.
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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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