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“I give hope to men.” – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
“Hope to see you soon!” isn’t what I want to hear from my doctor.
Volume V, Issue 4
All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”.
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 – A Sign of Spring – Violence and Censorship Update – Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – The Fall of the House of Biden – 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 810 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
A Sign of Spring 
A recent survey came out from the University of Michigan, which did a survey of high school seniors. The result didn’t particularly surprise me: high school boys aren’t a little more “conservative” – they’re a lot more to the Right. It has declined a bit since the high point in 2020, but there was no corresponding uptick in the boys turning Leftie. High school boys are nearly 2 to 1 on the Right.
It doesn’t surprise me. Part of the war of the Left has been a war on manhood, and you can see the increase in feelings on the Right corresponded well with politicians, the media, and companies like Gillette® telling young men that they’re awful, trying to convince them to emasculate themselves, and flat out trying to tell them that they’re really girls deep down inside.
This has sparked a backlash, and the Leftists will probably have lost an entire generation of young men. As an example, a bunch of Leftist researchers from Oregon State tried to get engineering and computer science students to take a survey about Leftist gender gobbledygook. The (primarily male) STEM students roasted the survey so hard that several of the transgender researchers were made even more mentally unstable having to read the responses that conflicted with their carefully created safe-space of ideas.
Of course, the response to the survey was that there needed to be more “reeducation” for the young men. That will, of course, just push all of them farther Right.
I will note that girls in high school (who have been Lefties since probably forever) did spike upward with the Supreme Court abortion ruling to their highest level, ever. I’m not particularly worried about this, because I think most of the high-quality men will be on the Right, and, well nature will take its course.
And bad times? Bad times bring out the Right in people. And, those are certainly not here, but they are coming.
Violence and Censorship Update
We’ve had much more violence than censorship lately, so let’s start off with the Mayor of Chicago (who sadly beat the meme-worthy Mayor Beetlejuice) has determined the reason that violence in Chicago is so bad. Thieves? Criminals? No, continuing the logic of the Left, the causes for violence are inanimate objects, like cars, guns, houses with glass that’s too fragile, and people who look like they might have more the $5.
In Stockton California, two 7-Eleven® beat the everloving snot out of a thief who felt that he could take his time while stealing thousands of dollars of cigarettes. The bigger crime is that the clerks who defended justice in such a wonderful and amusing way were vilified by the California press. Wonder why there’s crime? This is why there’s crime. The Stockton police say the Sikh men who beat on the criminal won’t be charged. I won’t make this into some sort of Sikh joke.
Antifa members walked after a Leftie jury found them not liable at a civil trial. The Left can and will continue to be violent as long as there are no repercussions of note, and it is certainly not in the interests of the Left, who hold the reins of power in cities like Portland, to stop them.
Part of our language is having a variety of words for things. Part of the very worst, most Orwellian type of censorship is removing those words and changing their meaning. Case in point, the word, “Woman”. It has existed in every language, ever. Yet now, we have woke CEOs who now try to police the language of people who aren’t even a real percentage of their actual customers. Harry’s Razors® will probably not be the new Bud Light®, but you can see it from here.
Ignoring this, of course, will have the real, simple words that have been in our language AS LONG AS WE HAVE BEEN HUMAN eradicated or shifted in meaning to the point of uselessness. Thus, this attack is censorship. Just ask Trish:
Lastly, I’m sure Mr. Musk will be in for trouble as he points out one of the biggest advocates for censorship on the Internet:
Biden’s Misery Index
Let’s take a look to see how we’ve done this month . . . .
Yup, up again. I have no idea why that would be, with leadership as smart as this (note, Lathechuck corrected that Harris (probably) never said this, but she’s said so much other stupid crap I didn’t fact check this one):
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, slightly – I was expecting more during a long, hot summer. I’m guessing that people don’t even notice it anymore.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it was nearly dead flat. Biden is unravelling, so this may increase a bit.
Economic:
Economic numbers are swinging back down again this month, but I expect October will be a bit more interesting after earnings reports.
Illegal Aliens:
The border numbers are up only slightly, and I think that (shockingly) the government may just be lying or that the Border Patrol is being told to leave the illegals alone. Why would I think that?
And the result is that anyone trying to do anything to stem the unrelenting tide is called out.
The Fall of the House of Biden
Okay, maybe that title is a bit too much, but we’re deep into election season and there’s no real sense that Biden is doing anything or will do anything. The first hint is that Kamala is nowhere to be seen, but, then again, that might be part of the campaign because, well, she’s Kamala.
All sorts of other bad news are coming out now for Biden. There is yet more information showing up that would indicate that the vote was, at the very least, suspect in the only places that were required for him to steal the election. I think this is intentional, and I think it’s because the Left wants Biden out. Why? He’s a horrible, horrible liability every time he opens his mouth.
The playbook for the 2024 election is starting to show. They’ve also let slip that the prosecution of Trump is entirely political. The rumor is, and I stress rumor, is that the prosecution of Trump is being done in coordination with the Biden White House. It certainly fits the setup to prosecute Trump, but also bring Sleepy Joe down, too. His bizarre behavior certainly hasn’t helped:
I mean, really, who would let their child anywhere near a Biden?
But I’m sure the other candidates aren’t fake at all:
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12390343/Brazen-thieves-ransack-YSL-store-California.html
Good Guys
https://crimeresearch.org/2023/08/cases-where-armed-citizens-have-stopped-active-shooter-incidents/
One Guy
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195655023/the-rise-of-oliver-anthony-and-rich-men-north-of-richmond
Body Count
https://studyfinds.org/united-states-mortality-rate/
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2023-07-11_11-13-16.jpg?itok=SnHr9qTF
https://twitter.com/i/status/1693837585905250364
Vote Count
https://capitalresearch.org/article/report-how-charities-secretly-help-win-elections/
Civil War
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/25/sarah-palin-us-civil-war-donald-trump-prosecutions
https://newrepublic.com/post/175257/maga-georgia-state-senator-trump-trial-civil-war
https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-republican-warns-of-civil-war-if-case-against-trump-proceeds/
https://www.newsweek.com/pro-trump-lawmaker-fears-civil-war-if-fani-willis-isnt-defunded-1823253
https://news.yahoo.com/mehdi-hasan-shows-why-civil-054756823.html
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-united-states-election-2024-serious-threat/
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“Happy premise number three: even though I feel like I might ignite, I probably won’t.” – Bowfinger
This is a common phrase when something goes wrong around Stately Wilder Mansion™. After the cussing is over, I mean.
Reprint – August, 2019.
I’m travelling for business again this week. The upside to business travel is that it allows me to break my normal routine. I almost feel guilty. Almost. The work this week is light, and my travel has been fun, the food has been great, and the work I am doing has given me a lot of new ideas to think about, and I like that. My toenails also seem to grow faster when I’m on the road but might be imagination. Or, maybe it’s my feet shrinking?
The other advantage being on the road is that it breaks routines. In this case, I found myself eating at the bar at Applechilies®. Eating at the bar makes sense when you’re travelling alone: it seems a bit less pathetic, and you can talk to the bartender if it’s not too busy on a Tuesday night by Interstate 3.14 in Upper Midwestia. This night, the bartender was a young lady of about 22, I’m guessing. We talked a bit. As often happens to me when I meet a stranger, (I have no idea why) pretty soon she was pouring out her entire life story. Seriously.
For the record, as far as you know I only had one drink.
I’ll skip the really wild parts, since the point relevant to this post is that she had dropped out of college.
“That’s fine, and you shouldn’t go to college just to go to college. What is it that you want to do, though?” That question seemed to be really tough for her. And it is a big question, but as I’ve noted again and again, people fail most often because they don’t act on their dreams, not because they can’t achieve them.
After some considerable thought, she answered. “I guess . . . I guess I just want to be happy.”
“Happy? Is that all? Happy is the easiest thing,” I replied.
And it is. Being happy is so easy to achieve it is almost trivial. Note: being happy every minute of every day is impossible. Bad things happen. Professors put your computer program up on the screen to show what not to do. Your pants split at the crotch during a presentation. You walk into a glass door going to a party with people you just met and you get McDonald’s® Hot Mustard© sauce all over the door in a big yellow blob about chest high. Oh, did I say you? Those were all me. And the computer program did do what I intended it to do, though I was surprised it did bring down a mainframe. I guess infinite loops are powerful things.
Remember, no matter what they say, failure is an option.
Warning: this advice probably won’t work for people who are clinically depressed because their brain chemistry is all messed up. That’s wiring that this advice probably won’t fix – they need to see a doctor.
But I learned to be happy when I was relatively young. It’s wickedly effective. As an example, one company I was working for was experiencing huge financial difficulties. Everyone was working to make sure the business stayed open. I was, too, but I wasn’t letting it get me down. I had a new son (The Boy) and was pretty happy at home even though the bank account wasn’t all that full.
Yes, this was on my performance review. “Employee is too optimistic and believes that the business will ultimately succeed if we work hard and solve our problems.”
In my performance review I was docked for being too happy. Apparently being angry and pissed off increases profitability? Spoiler, the company survived. Bonus points? It’s at least partially due to some changes I made – while I was in a good mood. I don’t know if they still have the “don’t be happy at work” policy.
But being happy is simple. In order (more or less) here’s what works for me.
But you could claim that you were late to work because of a flock of wild teacup poodles.
Scott Adams, of Dilbert® fame has a very similar list – I know because after I talked to the bartender and decided to write this post, he did a video on . . . being happy. He’s in the video below discussing it. Adams is much more of the “people are sacks of chemicals” and he uses that model to make sure that he’s maximizing the brain chemicals that show up when you’re happy. It works for him and he does it without ever attempting to control his thoughts. But if you are someone who drains him of happy because you’re a complete tool? He’ll cut you out of his life. Since he’s a multi-millionaire and more-or-less self-employed, he can do it.
Me? If Ted is a tool at work and I need the job? I have to deal with Ted. Though, honestly I’ve only ever worked with one guy named Ted, and he was super to work with and one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Unlike Scott, I don’t go for the “sacks of chemicals” theory. They do make a difference, but mind matters, too, at least for me. The one time in my life I was profoundly unhappy, I learned to manage my mind first, while finding all the other little tips and tricks of “sacks of chemicals” management more or less independently of Mr. Adams.
I think this was from the pilot of that new series, Breaking Bras®. And you can’t make a mask like that without silicone . . . .
And that’s it. Those are the secrets. Nothing mystical, nothing difficult.
Again, I’m not happy every second of every day, but when I follow just over half the steps above, I’m happy 95% of the day. I have it good. There’s no reason to not enjoy being me.
For 80% of people reading this, happiness is easy. So, choose happiness if you want it, unless there’s a workplace policy at your office, too. In that case? Become a loner, drunk, vegan insomniac that spends your free time at Antifa® meetings. And have another doughnut.
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