“The stars are veiled. Something stirs in the East. A sleepless malice. The eye of the enemy is moving. He is here.” – Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
I love really large clocks. Big time.
- 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.
Violence and open crime are still being encouraged by the Left. In Chicago, the murder rate looks like a tote-board for a telethon. “Only three more hours for killing, folks, let’s get those numbers up!”
I’m holding August at 9 out of 10, but it’s getting closer. That’s still two minutes to midnight, but there is absolutely no movement away from the precipice – we keep edging toward the abyss.
I currently put the total at (this is my best approximation since no one tracks the death toll from rebellion-related violence) hanging in at around 950 out of the 1,000 required for the international definition of civil war.
As close as we are to the precipice of war, be careful. Things could change at any minute. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.
In this issue: Front Matter – The Enemy Is You – Violence And Censorship Update –– Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – It’s A Long Way Down – 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 550 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
The Enemy Is You
If you’re reading this, the Federal government has decided who the enemy is: you. The Department of Homeland Security has put up a listing of potential terror threats. The first?
- Opposition to COVID Measures.
Regardless of your political bent, opposition to COVID measures is a valid political or religious position. But in 2021, we live in an era where the Justice (?) Department thinks that burning down Minneapolis is to be encouraged, but where a group of people just wanting to live their lives are . . . potential terror threats when the most extreme thing they’ve ever done in their lives is to not be willing to accept the imposition of tyrannical controls on their lives.
If the United States saw what the government of the United States was doing to the people of the United States, then the United States would invade the United States to stop it.
The second point was this:
- Claims of Election Fraud, Belief Trump can be Reinstated
Starting with the first part, I think it’s been well proven that there was election fraud. All signs point to it being pervasive and large enough to have swung the election. Again, the conspirators openly shared their techniques in Time® magazine while gloating that it worked. But maybe we should believe the Democrats when they say there was no election fraud – after all they’re the ones who have the most experience.
Trump being reinstated? Nah. That won’t happen. But the idea that there is fraud is also a valid reaction to the data and the way the elections was held. Remember them blocking out the press and covering the windows so people couldn’t look in?
Yeah. Still no explanation for that one.
The third point isn’t really a point, so we’ll skip it.
In the end, what the DHS is really saying is that this is the actual profile of their prime terror suspects:
Why, with red flags like that, I bet they even deny that they’re racist!
Violence And Censorship Update
Violence is endemic now in major cities, and much of it is politically motivated, so we’ll skip that this month.
The big story continues to be Censorship. Where else to start but Lt. General (Ret.) Michael Flynn?
Flynn had been a supporter of Trump, and had been confirmed as National Security Advisor and had spent all of two weeks in the job before resigning. He was the victim of the FBI’s initial witch hunt in the Trump administration. Oh, and the appointing of Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate, well, whatever.
Anyway, in perhaps his biggest sin, Flynn remained loyal to Trump. Though he agreed to a plea deal, Trump later pardoned him. So, story over, right?
No. Flynn is still speaking openly about things the Left doesn’t like. I don’t think Flynn is really on the Right, but he really irritates the Left. How much does he irritate them?
Chase Bank may have denied him credit, but Flynn can still borrow from Cheese Bank in Utah – I think they call it a Provo-loan.
Yup, they canceled his credit cards. Not due to non-payment, just because they don’t like the things that Flynn is saying. Again, the push to unperson people the Left doesn’t like carries on. And now you know where Chase® sits.
Unpersoning is one way to censor – it certainly gives the rest of the people speaking out pause. But there’s still old reliable: shutting off access. Censorship has been the usual ongoing mess. The big name censored in August was . . . Vox Day.
Vox Day is a writer/game developer/social commentator/etc./etc. and has been needling the SJWs and the Left for, well, forever. It used to be considered to be sporting fun jousting with the Left, but now any deviation from their norms are grounds for immediate attacks.
Vox has proven himself pretty much immune to the attacks, as long as they spell his name right. In this case, Blogger® (a division of Google™) took down his blog. Blogger© was his web home for many years. Right now, if you go to his old website, you find a note that “This blog is under review due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations and is open to authors only.”
So, shut down.
I had regularly been a reader of his site. I can’t recall any of the commentaries that couldn’t have been read aloud on nearly any radio station in the country, legally. But Vox has been more or less invulnerable to damage from the Left, which seems to infuriate them even more.
Another voice silenced. Well, not silenced. Two hours later, he was up and running, and within a day he had everything moved over to voxday.net. As I said, he’s been pretty much immune to their attacks.
But governments can silence not just a single individual, but a whole class of people:
On Friday, I wrote about the Aussie trucker’s strike. It has had an impact, but the government did its very best to shut down cell phones, social media, and any other electronic communications from the truckers. The government even shut down video cameras that might have been used for people to observe the parked trucks.
Feels like the fix is in . . .
Oddly, the only way you could observe the strike in real-time was on Google® maps by the drive time delays. And, yes, of course, the press was complicit in not covering it. Two Leftists show up to protest the Leftist cause of the day? Dozens of news cameras show up.
Hundreds of men protest for freedom?
Silence.
That’s to be expected. The major news outlets are all working together with the major tech websites to coordinate what is true. They also coordinate who has the opportunity to speak.
Twitter®: will give people who say “death to America” a say on Twitter™, but not a former president. That says it all.
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:
Up is more violent, and our perception of violence is down in August, again. I guess we’ve just lowered our standards.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it dropped again this month. Unless there’s a crisis, I expect political instability to remain low until at least September. Weirdly, it seems like June-July-August have the lowest levels of instability. I guess that’s due to it being fresh vodka season in Washington D.C.?
Economic:
Economic measures showed another uptick last month. Are people becoming used to inflation? What about when the shortages hit?
Illegal Aliens:
This data was at record levels last month, but we beat the record again. Coming soon to a town near you, ready or not.
A Long Way Down
Right now the military of the United States is being filtered. How?
Through the use of indoctrination/separation techniques like Critical Race Theory. CRT was designed to create racial division. Truth and Reconciliation efforts always are a blame game, whose main technique is constructed to not heal, but to reopen wounds. In the United States the idea of CRT is to blame those who were uninvolved to benefit those who were unborn when the original injury occurred.
Hey, let’s take that idea to the military, where functional cohesion is dependent upon esprit de corps and camaraderie!
What could go wrong?
The entire thing, really.
I don’t like some races. The 400 meter always made me want to puke. It’s not a sprint, it’s not distance, what is it??? Sorry, I guess I’m critical of that race.
So, the military is cratering. What about government? It is nearly certain that our government is the stupidest it has ever been. Really.
Seriously, does anyone think her IQ would even be a warm day in Houston?
We have a vice president putting flowers down at a memorial to the people who shot down John McCain after the “successful” withdrawal strategy that Alzheimer-in-Chief Biden approved and then forgot about. Now, I’m no John McCain fan by any stretch, but this is incompetence at the level of the Three Stooges®.
Yes. The military is being driven to incompetence. Biden and Harris are in a race to see which is worse: stupidity or dementia.
That leaves the economy. At least it’s doing well, right?
The Fed should take my lead and just start showing bikini models in their graphs. Oh, wait, they don’t want people to read them.
No. When the Fed stops publishing a model because it shows the GDP has collapsed (as shown to be mathematically certain by this author several months ago), you know it’s very, very bad.
And we have yet to hit bottom. When I started publishing these, in several comments folks noted that we wouldn’t have Civil War 2.0 when we had such a good economy. Full bellies don’t start revolutions.
As the shortages develop and inflation takes hold, remember these things:
- It’s a long, long way to the bottom. We are actually right now in the “false hope” section I wrote about back in spring of 2020.
- Stay away from crowds. 72 hours can change everything about your life.
- Get out of the cities. Really.
- Better to be a year early in preparing than a day late.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Film At Eleven
NYC : https://twitter.com/i/status/1427789149986246663
LA: https://twitter.com/i/status/1425839855037210624
Oakland : https://twitter.com/i/status/1424776126115635201
San Francisco: https://twitter.com/i/status/1428774094145613826
Colorado Springs: https://youtu.be/L2fGVbMYp54
Last Word From San Diego: https://twitter.com/i/status/1427849481551106056
Coming In Hot – Brace For Impact
https://uncoverdc.com/2021/09/03/true-the-vote-update-videos-show-evidence-of-ballot-harvesting/
https://rumble.com/vm1ln1-all-hell-is-about-to-break-loose-in-georgia.html
https://www.truethevote.org/news-posts/the-breitbart-article-true-the-vote-update
https://uncoverdc.com/2021/08/09/pennsylvania-134-year-old-man-voted-in-2020-election/
Woke World
Woke World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZChpvvLhmI&t=135s
Cue applause (!?!) : https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1427144687740141570
Mr and Mrs : https://twitter.com/i/status/1428363839205122050
Public Education : https://twitter.com/i/status/1427337084591874055
Almighty Dollar (see 0:30): https://twitter.com/i/status/1430851901239795712
Inauguration Party : https://twitter.com/i/status/1428365941222477834
Pledge of Allegiance: https://twitter.com/i/status/1431375675903053829
American Citizen : https://twitter.com/i/status/1428031497785810954
Miscellaneous Mayhem
https://buchanan.org/blog/is-america-becoming-a-failed-state-149897
https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/08/24/is-america-experiencing-a-different-kind-of-civil-war-opinion/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/virginia-militia-bedford-campbell-county/
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1425794735889866752.html
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/09/beyond-culture-wars
It’s My Party, I’ll Cry (Out) If I Want To
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2021/09/01/leonard-pitts-right-wing/
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/aug/02/in-the-republican-partys-civil-war-its-moderates-v/
https://newrepublic.com/article/163285/andrew-torba-gab-white-christian-internet
The S-word
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/06/opinion-imagining-a-realistic-calexit-scenario/
(From M*A*S*H): Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assabiya-lee-smith
The funny thing about them nuking Vox is that he really doesn’t blog per se, he mostly reposts other people’s stuff and adds a couple of comments. His crime was mocking them and they can’t stand that.
It isn’t looking so good right now. Thanks for the work John Wilder.
You’re welcome!
That’s true. The Left fundamentally doesn’t understand Vox – he won’t play by their rules.
I think the reason Twitter leaves the Tallybannanas account up is while they may be shouting, “Death to America,” they seem very friendly. Sure, Trump wanted to Make America Great Again, but he’s just a big meanie. It’s all spelled out in the terms of service.
Ahhh, I see!
And, you’re right – the Left would love the destruction of the country. So they can rebuild it – in their image.
In acute observation over the last few years it has occurred to me a really simple solution would be for several million in one week cut the cord they would go bananas. Yes they would still have the airport and restaurant TV’s but they have done an excellent job of reducing the available viewers there so self inflicted.
ps The Libs of tiktok make me desirous of immediate detonation of all we are expecting just to hear about all their xim lamentations.
Very true. The Mrs. is a proponent of that idea.
Well, you know, things happen:
Sri Lanka raids private warehouses after declaring a state of emergency due to food shortages.
https://watchers.news/2021/09/06/sri-lanka-raids-private-warehouses-after-declaring-state-of-emergency-due-to-food-shortages/
It starts on the edges. We have a cold, the world develops a flu. Oh, wait. In 2021, I need another analogy . . .
Violence and Political Instability are down because the violent, psychopathic Left have what they want: Total Control of the gov’t and media. Unlike the Left, the Right, historically, isn’t about turning the knob for more violence/instability in order to get their way. Besides, any pushback by the Right, however small, is framed as “OMG! ARMAGEDDON!! OMG!” by both the media AND gov’t (see Jan6).
Cowed by the threat of violence and/or bad press, not even the so-called “conservative” leadership has the balls or backbone to fight the Left (nonviolently or otherwise) anymore.
We’re really on our own here.
Freedom is in free fall, and no one in a position to do anything about it can (or even wants) to do anything. One can only assume it must be in some way profitable for them.
Eventually, it will be left to us grubby peons and serfs to either fix things and/or wipe out those in charge and start over.
“But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under Absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.” – Thomas Jefferson
Good point about the Left having their hand on the violence controls. When they need to promote (or hide) something I’m sure they’ll crank it up to “burn cities” again.
And they most certainly won’t let the media cover it. “The revolution will not be televised.”
The enemy? Challenge accepted. No F-15’s or Nukes no problem.
No Woketardism either, no fear of the truth or reality.
No fear of departing from Satan’s Playground Earth.
Now for the other side of masked up male and femme Karens who never learned the four magic words…no one was asking?
They love mommygov and were born to be slaves, so may their chains rest gently.
Crack pipe dreams of utopia and the faculty lounge government riding up on horses to save them within a matter of seconds will go up in a cloud of delusion.
No helping those who cannot learn from history or think that the world is some happy place full of unicorns and rainbows where no one is ever offended and we all coexist.
Don’t forget all of the poets that are pining for the Collective Farm.
when they say there was no election fraud
–I’ll note that when on the record or making formal statements they are careful to say “no WIDESPREAD” election fraud. I’ll also note that this might be and probably is defensively true- the majority of the fraud was very tightly focused where it would do the most good, oddly and suspiciously in the places where it did the most good.
@sigmadog, “We’re really on our own here.” — respectfully, we have to stop saying and thinking this. WE ARE NOT ON OUR OWN. We need to stick together. Everyone here in the readership shares a lot of commonality. We are not alone, we have each other, if we’ll only acknowledge and build off of that. Most small businesses are run by realists who see very well what’s going on. I talk with them all the time. Drop a few hints and see what they say. It’s almost like a passphrase…
“like minded”
“fiat currency”
“hyper inflation”
“rent control”
“range day”
Or look for the ‘tells’
-clip knife in front pocket
-paracord accessories
-sturdy shoes
-sturdy wristwatch
-leatherman or similar in belt pouch
-gun manf branded hats or clothes
Of course if you are trying for ‘grey man’ rid yourself of those tells.
nick
“We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – Ben F.
Nick, I like it.
The code. You have to be inside to get it. And once you’re inside? You’re here forever.
72 hours can change your life? I suppose that’s true, but at this point, I figure the number is more like 24 and trending downward.
Point taken. Well said.
I remain hopeful that the next election cycle will result in a reaction against the draconian over-reaction to the pandemic. Or, maybe there really are enough voters around who find comfort in the restrictions. One stolen election doesn’t ruin the game. And who’s to say that the Democrats haven’t tricked us all into putting them at the helm of the USS Titanic just a moment before challenging the iceberg? I hope that the next election isn’t close enough to be decided by fraud, no matter how well organized.
The last elecrion was’nt close enough to be decided by fraud…..oh wait….nevermind.
I don’t think they ever plan to give it up. By whatever means.
I have to agree with another comment that organized political violence is down because the Left is currently in a pause. I don’t think it is because the Left is where they want to be but was to help strengthen Biden’s position. Now that is all out the window. The DoD, White House, and CIA/MSM are at war over what happened in Afghanistan, which probably has disrupted coordination on the Left.
Unorganized political violence seems just as high as ever with racial violence carried out daily against whites and Asians.
But the perception of that violence is what I’m measuring (with the graphs). People just aren’t seeing it . . . or are good with it.
With all due respect, Sir, I must point out there is nothing wrong with celebrating the people who shot down McLame. The only thing they did wrong was not finishing the job on that terd.
You’re wrong, and I’ll explain it to you:
At that point in his life, McCain had his ass on the line, dropping actual bombs on actual communists, something all too rare in anyone’s lifetime, anywhere in modern society.
When you’ve racked up anything like his tally, you will have stature to disagree. Not until.
What he became later in life, after enduring unspeakable torture in NVN for years, is a grotesque caricature of his earlier unarguable accomplishments both as a man and a warrior.
More is the pity, when someone falls from such a pinnacle, and tarnishes such accomplishments by becoming much the lesser man afterwards. It would have been better if he’d died with an unblemished character, but life didn’t work out that way for him.
Point Of Order: Why does anyone, anywhere, assume that Senator Kneepads was laying that wreath there by mistake ?!?
Because she – or some spokeshole minion of hers – later said so?
Do we take duplicitous and witless wonders at their word now?
Since when??
If anyone noted she was merely celebrating the shooting down of an American naval aviator, and the long-wished-for death of a mediocre political opponent, no one would bat an eyelash. It would simply be another dog peeing on a fire hydrant.
Call a spade, a spade.
As for the gist of the OP, we’re too far along the continuum, and simultaneously, not far enough.
The unvarnished simplicity of shooting our forsworn life’sblood enemies in the face is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
And what thou doest, do quickly.
“Call a spade, a spade.”
Oh gawd, no need to bring race into it 😉
I disagree, I think McCain was a turd before and after he was shot down. He caused several incidents that resulted in destroyed planes and death, then used his admiral dad’s influence to cover it up. I haven’t heard of anyone else who was imprisoned by NV suddenly turning commie traitor.
I’m not sure Kamala “thought” anything. Hence, stupidist administration ever.
Not only is it a long way down, but the rabbit hole is lined with fun-house mirrors for your amusement as you descend…
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/09/05/fittingly-liberals-see-satanic-temple-as-last-best-hope-to-save-abortion-rights-in-texas-1129855/
Right? Full Clown World.
The econ chart will likely be dropping pretty fast, very soon:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/inflation-skyrockets-us-russia-saudi-arabia-sign-agreement-ending-petrol-dollar-putting-us-dollar-economy-risk/
A credible metric I heard for predicting when the economic conditions are right for rebellion is when the minimum wage is less than the cost of a 6 pack of cheap beer.
Don’t discount inertia . . .