Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: A Bridge Too Far?

“War, war, war!  This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream!” – Gone With The Wind

No change this month.  We’ll see what February brings . . .

  1. Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
  2. Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
  3. Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
  4. Open War.

We remain in the gray zone between step 9. and step 10.  I thought seriously about rolling back the clock to five minutes to midnight.  Violence is down, since the Left has seriously decided to clamp down on their useful idiots of BLM® and Antifa™.  The Right has (so far) not been any sort of a serious threat to anyone.  The hijinks that took place at the Capitol was closer to the football team painting something naughty on a water tower than any sort of real insurrection.

But then I reviewed the stories that I’m covering this issue.  Nope.  The Left wants to calm down the Far Left, but only so it can turn its full attention to the Right.  The pressure will continue.

The Right offers nothing to the Left.  It is comprised of nationalists – people who worry more about the nation than a group of foreigners.  The Right doesn’t hate the foreigners – it just worries about Americans first.  And the Right, more today than ever, worries about wanting a free capitalist system to make the lives of Americans better – not a free capitalist system for the sake of the system itself.

I currently put the total at (this is my best approximation, since no one tracks the death toll from rebellion-related violence) 650 out of the 1,000 required for the international civil war definition.

As close as we are to the precipice of war, be careful.  Things could change at any minute.

In this issue:  Front Matter – A Bridge Too Far – Violence And Censorship Update – The Scouring Of The Shire Armed Services –  Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – The Full Power Of The State – 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, feel free to subscribe and you’ll get every post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30 Eastern, free of charge.

A Bridge Too Far

Operation Market Garden in World War II is the origin of this particular phrase.  The idea was a quick run to Arnhem to open up the main portion of Germany so that Berlin could be taken by December, 1944.

It failed.  It was an (overly) ambitious airborne assault on a series of bridges that would have allowed for an attack into Germany – Eisenhower approved it, not because he thought it would work, but because it was a part of a general offensive.

I hear most bridges speak Span-ish.

A Bridge Too Far would be an apt description of the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.  Thankfully, the chances of this travesty being enacted are small.  This act, however, is a dream list of Leftists everywhere:

  • Universal gun registration.
  • Psychiatric tests, including input from your ex. We all know how stable those relationships can be.
  • $800 fee for “insurance”
  • All magazines of greater than 10 rounds would be illegal.
  • Huge penalties for noncompliance.
  • And so, so, much more . . . .

I won’t go into more details, because, as I said, this particular bill won’t become law.  I think that even the far Left in Congress knows that passing this would be a de facto declaration of war on 80 million-plus American Citizens.

Just because it fails this time, don’t think that this isn’t exactly what they want.  It may be a bridge too far now, but their general offensive will continue.

Violence And Censorship Update

Time Magazine® (LINK) is happily showing off, step-by-step, how a group of unelected hardcore Leftists from unions coordinated with Leftists in Tech, Hollywood® and:

“Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.”

Viral smears includes, of course, actual reporting of (for instance) Hunter Biden’s corruption and dissolute lifestyle – where “they” got The New York Daily News© kicked off of Twitter®.  The idea was that there was no rule that they wouldn’t try to change (Constitutionally or not) in order to make sure that Trump would lose.  Or that the system was set up so that they could manufacture enough votes for Biden to win.

What’s worse than 1,000 conspiracy theorists?  A real conspiracy.

Censored?  You and me.  And it’s ongoing – one Tweet® that included a direct quote from the Time© story was identified by Twitter® as disinformation.  Let that sink in.

It would be wrong, apparently, to think there was a secret conspiracy to defeat Trump.

Even when the conspirators spend 6,500 words in Time Magazine™ admitting it.

The Scouring Of The Shire Armed Services

The Secretary of Defense has just issued a 60 day stand down to combat “extremism” in the ranks.  What’s extreme?  No one has said.  It could be a Tweet® that is now no longer in favor that a soldier made years ago.

So far, the III-percenter® logo has been identified as “extremist” and has been identified as something that has to go.  No tattoos, no t-shirts, and I’d assume no posters.

The Left is afraid – a large percentage of those arrested related to the Capitol Hill incident (so far) have been veterans – 14% was a number that I saw.  Of those, 8% were Marines, so the article I read said, “Of special concern are the elite units.”

So, the purges will start.

What ideologies will be purged?

  • Social Justice™? Certainly not!  Despite the fact that it requires communism to implement, it’s the current ideology of the powers in charge.
  • Black Lives Matter©? Absolutely not!  How could an ideology that has the support of the entire Fortune 500© be wrong?  Besides, those weren’t riots, they were peaceful protests.
  • Antifa®? What wrong with being Anti-Fascist?  Huh?  What’s fascism?  Fascism is whatever is to the Left of Antifa™.

Nope.  Not those.

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 lead to the index.  On illegal aliens, I’m just using government figures, or I would be, if they published any this month.

Violence:

Up is more violent, and to no one’s surprise, violence jumped again in January.

Political Instability:

Up is more unstable.  Instability jumped significantly – getting Trump out has not made things better.

Economic:

January showed a major jump.  I’d expect a market crash sooner than later – politically it’s best to get those out early in an administration.

Illegal Aliens:

No data this month.  Has FedGov decided to stop publishing it?

The Full Power Of The State

I’ve documented above how the Left is taking over or already has taken over communications, social media, the military, and the voting process.  That’s not enough.

Recently, the Bank of America® was requested by the FBI to provide information on its customers.  What sort of information?  Well, all of it, if the customer met this very broad list:

  • Customers confirmed as transacting, either through bank account debit card or credit card purchases in Washington, D.C. between 1/5 and 1/6.
  • Purchases made for Hotel/Airbnb RSVPs in DC, VA, and MD after 1/6.
  • Any purchase of weapons or at a weapons-related merchant between 1/7 and their upcoming suspected stay in D.C. area around Inauguration Day.
  • Airline related purchases since 1/6.

And, no, not everything had to click to get you on the list, but still, 211 people managed to make the list.  Bank of America™ wasn’t required to give this information without a proper warrant.  But Bank of America© did.

At least one citizen was questioned by the FBI based on this information.

The FBI even has a patron saint:  St. Francis of CCTV.

So, now it’s not only the Federal government’s amazing ability to listen to you, follow you on social media, and track your every movement.  Now they enlist banks to participate in closing the loop.  Unless you pay in cash, they have a list of every transaction you make.

So, pay in cash?

Have you tried to do that with a rental car?  Have you tried to do that with an airline ticket?  Tried to check into a Holiday Inn Express®?

They might take cash, but they’ll need to see a credit card, first.

How else would you leave a perfect record for the FBI?

LINKS

As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky.  Thanks so much!!

PUNDITRY

 

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2021/01/american-civil-war

https://www.thearticle.com/is-this-the-last-battle-of-the-american-civil-war

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-01/capitol-riot-trump-four-corners-sarah-ferguson/13098356

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2021/01/19/494758/united-states-early-days-domestic-insurgency/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/how-close-did-us-come-successful-coup/617709/

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512483-second-us-civil-war/

 

POLLS

 

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/07/US-capitol-trump-poll

https://www.axios.com/poll-america-falling-apart-4a13376f-f962-46e3-8e2c-174d396f25d1.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/many-people-united-states-believe-cold-civil-war-survey-2021-1

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/02/01/civil-war-during-trumps-pre-riot-speech-parler-talk-grew-darker/4297165001/

 

POLITICS

 

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congressman-paul-gosar-oath-keepers-militia-civil-war-jim-arroyo-11529183

https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/09/we-are-perilously-close-to-a-civil-war-it-is-our-job-to-stop-it/

 

PREPARATIONS

 

https://www.al.com/news/2021/01/some-republicans-call-for-second-civil-war-citizens-take-arms.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/boogaloo-prepare-civil-war/617683/

https://www.ajc.com/news/militia-alliance-in-georgia-signals-new-phase-for-extremist-paramilitaries/UD2JMQV5A5EABHHAKBQZBK2IVY/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/increasingly-militant-parler-refugees-anxious-qanon-adherents-prep-doomsday-n1254775

 

(SECRET) POLICING

 

https://summit.news/2021/01/20/leftists-call-for-new-secret-police-force-to-spy-on-trump-supporters/

https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/viral-trumpsnewarmy-video-is-liberals-at-their-craziest-and-scariest-aee81d5deeb1

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/this-site-posted-every-face-from-parlers-capitol-hill-insurrection-videos/

https://facesoftheriot.com/#

 

PERSPECTIVES

https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-robespierre-chose-terror-12935.html

https://blogs.prio.org/2021/02/can-we-predict-civil-war/

https://theweek.com/articles/960957/worstcase-scenario-americas-immediate-future

Author: John

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31 thoughts on “Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: A Bridge Too Far?”

  1. “It would be wrong, apparently, to think there was a secret conspiracy to defeat Trump.”

    Is it really a secret conspiracy when they were doing a lot of it openly and admitted to doing it? The hubris is amazing, even for Current Day, but the really ugly part is that they did and continue to get away with it.

    H.R. 127 is a wishlist but when the inevitable false flag White MAGA guy shooting happens, a slightly watered down bill will be introduced as a “compromise” and immediately be embraced by the Quisling/Mitt Romney wing of the GOP.

    1. No, what’s wrong is if I quote them on their own article, I’ll get fact checked that the elections are “fair” and not at all the result of conspiracies.

      I bet they’ve got a 10,000 page Patriot II Act ready to go somewhere.

  2. John – –

    I realize that those who live in the hinterlands of the USSA don’t always get the “drift” quickly, so here is a tip:

    Based on well known and observable factors, the governmental agency you referred to has changed its name to reflect their customary operating procedures.

    It is correctly known as F.B.Lie….

    Say it again so it will smoothly roll off your tongue in every day conversation and you will never again be found in public to be “behind the times”….”out of it”….”undrifted”….

    F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie…..

    F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie…..

    F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie, F.B.Lie…..

    Ok ? Have you got it now?

    Sure don’t want to see you embarrassing yourself on this internationally famous blog by incorrectly identifying a governmental agency.

    (John – – Once again: You are most welcome.)

  3. You have to laugh at the twitter purge. All that is left is their own kind have fun. That was the only app I was using, financial and humor guys mostly. Not on much the month of Dec. and Jan. what little I was I noticed pretty boring so bailed. Stupid is as stupid does kicking trump off killed it. The only reason for the useless idiots to be on there and they kicked him off how funny is that. Anyone notice how little press twitter getting (the daily reports of trump tweets) since that point, how many users quit, their financial status. Ha ha ha ha ha

    1. Anything could happen , and often does. But nothing will change as long as the SS checks keep coming and the ebt cards keep working. Wiemer/Zimbabwe level inflation might do it.
      We are all too comfortable , frogs being boiled.
      Some famous person said, “He who would talk revolution must first learn to eat rats. “ or something like that. I could be wrong.

  4. I hope this post means you’re feeling better.

    If you want a bit of grue in a well-crafted package, grab a copy of Trial Run by Dick Francis; about a spot of detection and international intrigue in Moscow c. 1975.

    It appears MAD worked in fact as well as in principle. On the psyops and cultural infiltration war, the USA and the CCP went hot. And we both self destructed.

    The hands that rock the cradles, rock the world. #BringBackOurDaughters. OWTTE.

    1. I’m feeling about 80% now. Yesterday I crashed for 12 hours straight. So, better.

      Trial Run . . . have to give it a look.

      Looks like the only thing our system wasn’t set up to do: win.

  5. Worrisome parallels:
    From: https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/kristallnacht
    “Among other things, Hitler’s Nazi Party, which espoused extreme German nationalism and anti-Semitism, commanded that all Jewish businesses be boycotted and all Jews be dismissed from civil-service posts. In May 1933, the writings of Jewish and other “un-German” authors were burned in a communal ceremony at Berlin’s Opera House. Within two years, German businesses were publicly announcing that they no longer serviced Jews. The Nuremberg Laws, passed in September 1935, decreed that only Aryans could be full German citizens.”

    “Despite the repressive nature of these policies, through most of 1938, the harassment of Jews was primarily nonviolent. However, on the night of November 9 (Kristallnacht), all that changed dramatically.”

    So the progressives are going to their roots of the hardcore communist for their tactics. Just substitute Trumpian for Jew. Initial phases have already started. The banks are closing accounts of conservative groups, including Trump and advisors. Chase Visa started refusing transactions 2 years ago with firearm companies.

    I hope you right that the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act and its cousins are not passed, but Biden has a 40yr history of always making the wrong choice. Plus he has that idiot Beto bouncing around. Adding to that is one of Beto’s prez advisors is on Biden’s staff, Jen O’Malley Dillon, Joe Biden’s pick to be his deputy chief of staff. She is an ardent anti-gunner.
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/11/19/bidens-pick-for-deputy-chief-of-staff-hawked-betos-gun-confiscation-plan-for-ar15s-n2580373
    Hard to say whether passage of the law or start of enforcement would be the tipping point. Court intervention would likely wait until enforcement with the current strict adherence of injuried party to have court standing. That increases the risk that start of enforcement would trip the war since there would be no redress until after the seizure, destruction, and imprisonment. Of course it will start with registration and onerous fines. The left really enjoys big fines because they hate poor people.

  6. It’s just one in a kaleidoscope of news items worth considering, but here’s a story that really bugs me….

    Early on The Narrative was “There was no election fraud because no snap lawsuit could present evidence of it.” Now a website presents evidence of election fraud that has ONLY RECENTLY been released to them – and they are immediately canceled from Twitter for defying the new Narrative, “Election Fraud Is A LIE That Only Crazy Right-Wing People Believe”.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/exclusive-suspicious-vehicle-seen-escorting-late-night-biden-ballot-van-tcf-center-election-night-video/

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/07/media/twitter-ban-gateway-pundit-founder-jim-hoft/index.html

    Open Mindedness and Investigation and Evidence and Facts are all casualties of The Narrative, which has become More Important that The Truth. It’s all so very Soviet….

    1. It is not just this election – it includes every past election, too. You can’t even criticize Nixon/Kennedy.

      1. That’s because that was the template for Bush-Gore and now Trump-Biden.

        It’s like pulling the curtain back on Professor Marvel in the Emerald City: doubleplus ungood badthink.

        How dare you refer to reality by using historical proof! Troglodyte!

  7. Market Garden failed because they ignored the Dutch resistance recon photos and intel of the 9th Hohenstaufen and 10th Frundsberg Waffen-SS Panzer division resting and refitting away from the action in France.
    There was no way that XXX or 30 Corps could get up the 60 miles of road in time to get to the bridge.
    Montgomery actually thought that it would be undefended. This was not the case and the Wilhelmina canal bridge was demolished holding up 30 corps for half a day.
    Ignore recon and intel at your own peril.
    At least pages like this one don’t dwell in cloud cuckoo land of back to normal on the mommygov taxable unit muh civnat plantation.
    Substitute conformity for unity because that is what they mean.
    They aren’t smart enough to come up with anything on their own and it is just orders from the globalists and banksters who really own and run the entire world.
    They did end runs around all governments and constitutions before our grandparents were born.
    The stale Marx Bolshevik crap is just a Satanic revenge curse on a world that never recognized their magnificence and genius because there is none.
    The controlled demolition of the FUSA is ongoing and China will be the new masters installed by the world government true believers in the neo-feudal global Soviet.
    Be prepared, be ready for anything. Dump distractions, diversions, dope and drink.
    Keep a low profile. Just nod and say sportsball and weather if that is what the situation requires.
    Keep quiet about any matters of race, religion, politics, especially around strangers.
    Survival is the name of this game and there is no reset button or overtime.

  8. Purchase Visa gift cards with cash if you need to pay using a credit card. Load it at the store, $0-$500 no registration required. That’s how I do it. It’s worked for me for years now.

      1. Curious that a lot of online biz will not accept prepaid cards. WSJ is missing a subscriber because of that oddity. I have been burned by recurring paids magically being permanent, but they can’t won’t be on a prepaid card.

  9. “Operation Market Garden in World War II is the origin of this particular phrase. The idea was a quick run to Antwerp to open up the main portion of Germany so that Berlin could be taken by December, 1944.”

    Market-Garden was aimed at Arnhem (Holland), not Antwerp (Belgium). The goal was to get across the Rhine River and into the Ruhr industrial region.

    *pedantic hat off*

    1. You are 100% correct. My error.

      Antwerp had already fallen, but they couldn’t use it. I was distracted by this line: “Admiral Cunningham warned that Antwerp would be “as much use as Timbuktu” unless the approaches were cleared, and Admiral Ramsay warned SHAEF and Montgomery that the Germans could block the Scheldt Estuary with ease.”

      Antwerp was on the left flank of Market Garden, and Market Garden could have helped consolidate and make Antwerp useful.

  10. Only 350 bodies short of international standing?

    Meh.
    That’s one ginned-up concert shooting or building bombing, once they spin up the requisite patsy to take the fall.
    Ideally, dead before any questioning takes place, so it’s easier to make all the stories match.

    We’re that close.

    Splendiferous.
    Go long on canned goods, in both #10 and OD green varieties.

  11. Oh course it will never pass. We have your word. I bet your prediction record ranks with Obama.

  12. Hi John,
    I thought I would throw this at you here instead of TBP. Most of the time, I don’t pay much attention to Dave Hodges but it’s the only place I could find the stages of a coup. I know he’s not the only one to lay them out, it’s just the first place I came across it. It makes more sense now, since the election then it did before the election. We seem to be working on both stage 4 and 5 at the same time.

    4.Purges begin, which many of the people welcome, because of the relief from the widespread violence that is offered. Weak Republican leaders begin to make deals with terrorists and the rest of us wakeup in a country that we do not recognize. This phase is well underway. Want to test the legitimacy of this claim? Wear MAGA clothing and see how long it will be until you are victimized in a violent manner. I dare your to say that all human life matters as we are all children of the almighty God. Just wait and see what happens. WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?

    5. Media scapegoats are created (eg Jews in Nazi Germany) and these people must be re-education in special camps that many of these people will never leave alive. As I mentioned above, the first half of this stage has already been met. We know who the targets will be. Once can see that elements #3, 4, and 5 are in process. If Biden is elected, and you work for a living, expect to hand over what you make to the government for redistribution to the Antifa terrorists and those that will not work for living. WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?

    Number 6 is genocide. Think South Africa type genocide.

    “Genocide of the enemies of the state ensues…”

    https://thecommonsenseshow.com/activism-agenda-21-conspiracy/brace-impact-america-6-stages-present-coup-are-nearly-complete-where-are-republicans

    Regards,
    MC

    1. Which “Republicans” are those of whom you speak?

      Have you not seen? Do you not hear?
      It was decided on November 4th that we are all Republicans in FUSA.

      Banana Republicans.

      Nothing else really matters since that point, except when we finally kick-start this pig, and see what happens afterwards.

      There are something similarly like 10 stages to that too (hint: JW, start compiling that list now, and beat the rush!), but just like with this one, the only ones that matter in the long run are what happens around 9 and 10.

      1. I speak not of Rethuglicans. It’s a good point however, to note how weak kneed and rubber spined they are. It was just an fyi about coup stages I found interesting and terrifying. Much more terrifying than a Convid19 virus.

        MC

    2. Mary Christine,
      So nice to see you here! Thanks! I often stop by TBP, but by the time I’m home and ready to comment, I’m on page 3. 🙂

      They are preparing for Stage 6. Every bit of the language used since 1/6/21 proves it.

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