“That shockwave created a subspace fracture.” – Sealab 2021
What’s more than step 9, but not quite to step 10? This clock.
- 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.
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 – January 6, The Anniversary – Violence And Censorship Update – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – The Cracks Widen – 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 640 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
January 6, The Anniversary
January 6, 2021, a date that makes Leftist underwear uncomfortable. After a year, we can certainly look back at what Joe Biden called, “The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
From Joe’s perspective, that certainly makes sense, since his view of democracy is his people counting the votes. The gathered people there believed what a majority (56%!) of the American people believe: the election was rigged. How rigged? That 56% of American people believe it was that fraud that led to Joe Biden having a Secret Service detail with spare diapers rather than a nursing staff at a rest home filled with nurses for him to try to grope.
How long can Joe Biden wait in line to vote? That Depends®.
The news was breathless, and January 6 has been used as Leftist propaganda to try to drive people away from the Right. The list of mainstream news accomplices is endless. Anderson Cooper called it the “worst single act of political violence since the Civil War,” apparently having forgotten that an actual bomb was used in the building in 1971. Oh, sorry, those were Leftists blowing things up, so it’s okay.
The numbers break out the way you might think: 65%+ of people on the Right think the coverage is overblown. 60% of people on the Left think there hasn’t been enough coverage. Guess who runs the newspapers and media?
Despite damage being limited to “broken glass and busted doors” inside the Capitol building, the cost of “enhanced security measures” was added to bring the total cost of the “riot” up to $30,000,000.
But a riot? Most of the protestors were unarmed, and hurt no one. There were 15 cops sent to the hospital (though data is lacking) it appears none of the injuries were all that bad, and they only kept one overnight. My third grade birthday party was more violent, but I’ll tell you, Grandma could take a punch.
Contrast that to this: several of the Capitol Police were later admonished for taking selfies with the protestors, and seemed more amused than frightened.
Except for that one cop who shot an unarmed woman in the neck. You know, the cop who was so competent that he left his pistol in a bathroom.
This was one Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone that Leftists didn’t like.
No, this wasn’t a “riot”, and the Capitol wasn’t “stormed.” This was a protest of a stolen election. Had this been a real riot, and had the Capitol really been stormed? The protesters would have brought weapons, and the Capitol would have fallen that day. The main reason that didn’t happen? People didn’t want to take over the Capitol and hadn’t really thought of it.
The second reason that didn’t happen? The FBI didn’t have enough time to recruit more people. Yup – the FBI has admitted that they had informants in the crowd, and some people have gone on record that those same FBI informants were the ones opening doors and inviting people inside.
Now it has been a year, and the Left will attempt to use January 6, 2021 to further divide the nation and portray anyone to the Right of AOC as an extremist.
Violence And Censorship Update
The big news is from Twitter® this month, though it was a slow month in general:
Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
Something bothered Twitter™ about @TrackerTrial’s coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. As I understand it, it was just updates from actual news inside the trial. Result: permanent ban. @TrackerTrial didn’t ban itself . . . .
Not an original, but very funny.
The ‘Rona
Say what you will about COVID, it looks like the ‘Rona is also excellent at killing the truth. There have been dozens of documented cases where the “official narrative” has had to be walked back because it was, well, a lie. And people get banned for any information that is counter to the “official narrative” even (and perhaps especially) if it’s a lie. Twitter© took out two folks this time:
Dr. Robert Malone, virologist and immunologist was banned. Also? Marjorie Taylor Greene, member of the House of Representatives (and not at all a virologist or immunologist).
I can’t speak to Ms. Greene’s ban, but I can talk (a bit) about the heresy of Dr. Malone. One of his early transgressions was saying the spike protein might be dangerous. Since the “all death” category is up about 40% this year according to insurance companies and healthy athletes are suffering heart attacks on the field, it looks like he just might be right.
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 this month, but only slightly. December isn’t (usually) a big month for violence, so that’s to be expected. I would expect the next few months to remain calm as well, perhaps turning back up in March or April.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it ticked down this month for the first time in a while. Deteriorating economic conditions could bring this up quickly.
Economic:
The drop in economic confidence continued this month.
Illegal Aliens:
This data was at record levels for three months this year. Now it’s just a record for this time of year, nearly triple last December.
The Cracks Widen
The last time the Pew® group did a study of how divided we are as a country was in 2017. It was eye-opening, for me. It showed that we as a nation were growing farther apart, faster. The data went back to the early 1990s, and showed that we were splitting apart until 9/11.
For a time, 9/11 became a unifying story in the middle of a sea of polarization. The country marched into multiple wars with (nearly) unanimous consent. In the end, though, those wars just sapped the treasury and disillusioned nearly everyone. The culmination of that wasn’t the execution of Osama Bin Laden, nope. The culmination of that was our panicked withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Remember when they ran Idiocracy as a film, and not on CNN®?
We now have no unified measure of what it is to be an American. If you talk to the Left, literally everyone has the right to what America is. To them, a good American is someone on a benefits program and a predictable vote for the Left. Language and culture not required.
What, even, does America stand for? As I’ve written before, those in the Globalist camp (not exactly the same as Leftists, but they root for the same team) think that everything that’s legal defines what is moral. Obviously, they’re not the same, but the Globalists work long and hard to get dollars – that is their only god.
Is that all that the United States is? A franchise opportunity waiting to exploit every legal opportunity?
No. It is not.
In part, though, our current crisis is a crisis not of will, but of vision. There is no single thing that unites a country when members of the Left describe the flag of the United States as “frightening” and “hateful.”
I actually believe that there are a considerable number of people on the Left who are of good conscience and want to make the world better. Oddly, though, it has been reproduced again and again that Leftists simply cannot stand people on the Right.
So, what does that leave us?
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys!
PR: https://twitter.com/i/status/1469139447757299712
LA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahiIKFDkcHk
LA: https://youtu.be/p1ESzuENYdc
SF: https://twitter.com/i/status/1471202239272288258
??? : https://twitter.com/i/status/1469464813507997696
Chicago: https://youtu.be/9xJdJMrhgz8
Chicago: https://twitter.com/i/status/1468461553364062210
Seattle: https://twitter.com/i/status/1468346761756360706
Atlanta: https://twitter.com/i/status/1470225440132386816
Philly: https://twitter.com/i/status/1473434884962091008
Philly: https://twitter.com/i/status/1469846097807888386
Good Guy!!!
Ohio: https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1472924467806584836
One Guy…
Rittenhouse 1: https://youtu.be/bHAAA9gcso0
Rittenhouse 2: https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1471985787168301058
Body Counts…
https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records/story?id=81466453
https://nypost.com/2021/12/09/beverly-hills-residents-arming-themselves-after-murder-violence/
Confused?
Polarize!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zNr8Pf1QkY
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/fuck-trump/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r11tw1RwQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I6VqX2O0KA
Vote For Change?
WI: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-wisconsin-purchase/
NY: https://jonathanturley.org/2021/12/10/is-new-yorks-voting-rights-for-non-citizens-legal/
Revolt??
MUST READ: https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
MUST READ TOO: https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/nov/17/story-doesnt-confirm-trump-supporter-jan-6-riot-fb/
https://dnyuz.com/2021/12/04/fearing-a-repeat-of-jan-6-congress-eyes-changes-to-electoral-count-law/
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1470044610588250112
https://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-could-become-speaker-house-without-running-office-1657764
Civil War???
PoTAYto: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/tags/en/tag/boycotts
PoTAto: https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Untitled-design-70-.jpg?itok=Wkb6egwi
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/were-edging-closer-to-civil-war/
I was looking at the 40% increase in deaths and wondered: could the media, mainstream and social, throttle the news so much that they could hide a massive die-off like that? On the other hand how many people know that most American cities saw at or near record murders in 2021?
Excess deaths can be attributed to the virus “despite our best efforts with the vaccine”, whether it’s the virus, the vaccine, some combination of the two, or deaths due to the usual killers compounded by the tragic overloading of hospitals that were hollowed out in the years before the pandemic came by for-profit management. It’ll take years to sort it all out, if then.
They throttled a die-off that wasn’t a die-off in 2020, so I wouldn’t put anything past them. The problem is that much of the population still trusts the media. About 32-40% have at least some trust in the media, with a larger number trusting their media and only distrusting the other guys’ media.
Johns Hopkins report showing no increase in total deaths in the US from 2019 to 2020:
Which is true.
Total deaths are the same.
But all those 18-50 year old healthy people who would normally have eaten it in car crashes, which didn’t happen because they weren’t driving to work most of the year, died from vaccine-induced heart attacks, so everything’s fine, and no total death increase.
Wait, what?
I don’t think they had any vaccines yet in the part of 2020 they were comparing. Or at least weren’t admitting it, since some evidence suggests they had vaccines before the disease appeared. Which means a miracle occurred, as having a vaccine before the disease is equivalent to a virgin birth.
2022 is going to be a fun year for purebloods who enjoy schadenfreude.
Fair enough.
Replace vaccine deaths with deaths from COVID itself for the earlier timeframe. Same answer.
(And they weren’t motorcycle accidents; I bagged far too many to try that nonsense.)
Total deaths normally copared to any time after COVID is an automatic apples-to-oranges fallacy for statisticians.
And you can’t spell statistician without “statist”, at least where the CDC is concerned.
As for the schadenfreude, don’t wait, skip the rush, mock them now.
And the violence is becoming . . . the new normal. That’s the trouble – this is the way we devolve into continual violence.
John, I have it a point that I will avoid anything remotely resembling media or social media on 06 January as it will be nothing but one long angst session.
Your comment about the nature of America is perceptive, and something I have seen for a while now: there is no sense of “American”. The country is essentially just a giant economic relationship. It is like a marriage that has lost all affection and involvement and is only a business arrangement with shared ownership of things.
And when marriages have reached that point, they are not destined to last very long.
Kunstler says it better than me: “If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the harrowing rigors of reality, spiked with shocking losses, reckonings, and not a little retribution for the rogues and reprobates who drove our country into a ditch. Quandaries abound now in the wreckage of economy, culture, and polity. The years of anything-goes-and-nothing-matters have ended — though you might not know it yet, at this very advent of Twenty-Double-Deuce. Welcome to the banquet of consequences. Soup’s on!”
Happy New Year, everybody!
Ah, what the heck, here’s one more link to Kunstler – it’s one great summary of where we’ve been in the last year and a pretty good guesstimate of where we’re headed:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2022-dumpster-fire-blazing-on-the-frontier-of-a-dark-age/
That’s, sadly, what I see. America – we must go find her again.
John I think you need to revise your metrics. According to Malone on the Rogan interview – “half a million” excess deaths have occurred due to government actions. It’s on, you just didn’t notice. But neither has anyone else on this side.
And (per Aesop’s point) if it isn’t a fight on both sides, it’s not a civil war but a genocide . . .
“The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”
This is absolutely true.
From the Huxley, Orwell, Rand perspective. Up is down, good is evil and Americans are incarcerated without due recourse and concentration camp treatment with no speedy trial which our democracy used to stand for.
This may be the year. On the 31st I thought maybe a little better. Since the first I have seen more and better ways to gum up the works if the goobermint papers have to be shown to buy groceries.
I saw the biblical quote again Sunday. One of many times I have seen it in the last month. “Even the gates of hell cannot stop my church”.
Armageddon would be a good thing at this point but I would prefer a Christian revival and Gen. Z may be the ones to lead it.
I am ready for the fourth turning to end.
I’m ready for the Fourth Turning to end, too. But everyone else isn’t . . . .
Happy New Year from Russia…
Ha! Ahh, Russia!
There was another poll from 2017 showing that about 10% of the population supported the nazis. Assuming a negligible number of non-Whites support nazis, that means about 15% of Whites (skewed young and male) support the most hated group in history. Assuming ‘nazi’ is a proxy for “burn it all down and let’s see what rises up,” that should be quite scary for those in charge.
One of the things that constantly amazes me is how little our elites know about us dirt people. They honestly can’t understand that we don’t hold the same views as they do, and when confronted with someone with those contrary views absolutely melt down and freak out. One of the signs of brainwashing, I’ve heard.
Very scary. “All at once for no reason at all . . .”
First NY Resolution: Thank that nice Mr. Ricky for all his linkage!
Well done & much appreciated.
In the bad guy links the clear normie/leftoid narrative from teh Twitt comments” is “This is a Blue City gummint thing” vs. “all big cities are like this”.
All to keeo left, right and center from asking: What changed?
Remember, O Wise, when the gen pop of Cali was mostly homogenous, Christian and old school American? Remember what downtown San Diego & San Francisco were like?
Nobody bitched about “liberal Commiefornia” until they shipped in enough commies hereabouts that the state stopped electing Republican presidents, starting in 1992.
Ricky is a surgeon with his choices. He does a great job. More reasons to get out of the cities . . .
Also, in case your device has issues w/Twitter, Uncle Jimmy’s Pale Rider on YourFaceInnaTube: https://youtu.be/e83zVzP8uvw
Ha! Crossing state lines . . .
The one that got the “WTAF” reaction from me was Freaking Scientific American sees fit to do a piece of “militias moving toward more violent extremism.”
I remember being a subscriber back when they were a great Science magazine. Many years ago. I guess now they’re Political Scientific American.
Scientific American: two lies for the price of one.
SiGraybeard, one can only hope that wiser heads at some point regain control and are hideously embarrassed by what they have allowed to happen in the name of “science”. It is as if everyone watched “Weird Science” in the 1980’s and took that to be the model for the future.
Yup. They have been Woke and defenders of the Narrative for years now. They’re not even pretending.
“militias becoming more violent”
“white supremacist terrorists are bigger danger than muslim terrorists”
Yet if you ask them for an example of such violence they have to go back to the 90s.
I think we are quite a bit further away from (un)Civil War than Optimists like Mr. Wilder believe-
1. The Lights are still On (Electricity)
2. There is still Food (or some plastic facsimile) in the Grocery Stores
3. There is still Gasoline and Diesel Fuel available
4. Interstate Highway Travel is still moving (no checkpoints)
5. Nobody is Bombing and Burning ‘government’ Buildings (and bureaucrats)
Yes, “Violence is Up” but until it gets widespread enough that the Majority sees it as a
“Weapons Free” environment, no, we are not in a “Civil War”. Could this change rapidly? Perhaps, but I don’t see a “Triggering Event” big enough to set it off.
“Vaccine Mandates” could be, maybe, a Trigger, but like “Gun Confiscation”, I think that even
the people controlling Slo Joe ‘n The Hoe realize, in the back of their Atrophied, Lizard-Brains,
that something like that would see them Overturned so Fast they wouldn’t have Time to Form a
Committee to Study the matter.
I’ll pick that thread up next month. Great discussion point.
The fact that all these things are happening, and that all these things are being talked about regularly and openly and widely, indicates that a “hot” Civil War is as close as you say. It’s equal to govt’s plan to kill all of us. All you have to do is ask the question: “If their intent is to kill us, and it is, would they act some other way?” Most of the unprepared will die because they cannot wrap their heads around the idea that govt’s would be so monstrous as to try and kill us in mass numbers, using our trust in govt. as a weapon. Jews waiting patiently for that next train to Auschwitz…….
Waiting for the train… “be sure to bring along warm clothing and the tools of your trade, so you can be relocated to new villages in the East.” Once they were locked in boxcars, resistance was futile, and as long as they could believe in the resettlement lie, they thought that they had something left to lose.
I don’t think one person in 100 could imagine how bad it could get.
Cognitive Dissonance combined with Normalcy Bias. And Stockholm Syndrome for the mask-wearers.
Yup. Wait until the cell phone can’t be charged . . .