“We can take whole by force what they propose to divide.” – Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
The book I ordered about clocks finally came in. It’s about 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.
I’ve kept the Clock O’Doom the same. Tensions are still high. 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 – The Divide – Violence And Censorship Update – Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Growing Farther Apart – 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 over 700 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.
The Divide
One thing that hasn’t changed, at all, since Biden was installed in the White House is that the tension hasn’t dropped. It’s a matter of Team Blue being in charge, and is looking at every way that they can stick it to Team Red. It’s not a new story, but it is a continuation of a fundamental divide in the country, about nearly everything.
When Donald Trump allegedly tossed hush money to a tramp, it was nearly grounds for impeachment. Joe Biden allegedly funds tens of thousands of dollars for Hunter’s periodic chemical and biological safaris?
Not a word. So, it’s an offset, right?
Not really. The Left has a deep hold on the institutions of this nation, who will, apparently, actively run cover for the Left, no matter what they do. Which institutions? Not big ones. Just the FBI and the major news media. The mere fact that CBS® is now running the story that the Washington three-letter agencies are all-in for Biden shows that the Left is getting ready to ditch Biden, or at least sending him a warning. I mean, it’s not like he’d notice.
The cultural divide is far worse that that would indicate, though. Let’s take the children. No, really, that’s the slogan of the Left: “Let’s take the children™.” They want them desperately, and are dedicated to doing whatever they can to indoctrinate them. Case in point:
As near as I can tell, this defines a lot of what’s going on with kids, but it’s not just schools, it’s media as well. There is a reason they want unfettered access to kids – it’s not about education, it’s indoctrination. What proof?
Imagine what the world would look like if teachers were secretly trying to make kids moral and Christian. The ree and cry would come from the usual sources, and then all the Left would dress up in Handmaid’s Tale outfits and pretend the United States was near to becoming a theocracy when it is farther than it has been, ever and the danger to kids isn’t coming from the Right. And the biggest fairy tale is coming from the Left:
Violence And Censorship Update
First, the Left wants to create conformity, and make sure that if your opinion differs, that you’ll feel left out. Their bots are Legion:
So, your opinion isn’t valid. But neither was the past opinion of the Left, if it was inconvenient. Left is always the direction of the Censor. And one of the biggest goals of the censor is not only to censor your current views, but it’s also to censor their past views. Why?
Because only the current view is valid. If the past view (for example) was that it takes an actual man and an actual woman to get married, why, that view is very uncomfortable now. So, any view that contradicts the New Truth® is forbidden. And when people try to use your own views against you? That’s hate speech, right?
It was Winston Smith’s job in the novel 1984 to make facts inconvenient to the Left disappear from the record. That job continues: the Left cannot accept the idea that the economy of the country is in very bad shape – and is in a technical recession. It hasn’t been long enough for Google® to take the previous definition down:
But at Wikipedia®? The Leftist editors are all too happy to change the definitions in near real-time just to make the Left happy. They do it for nothing but Good Boy™ points.
I think Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There had it right:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master: that’s all.”
Biden’s Misery Index
Last month’s inaugural edition inspired Aesop (LINK) to come up with his own version.
That’s a lot of Kamalas!
But when we look at the reason behind the graph, it’s simple: this is the pain associated with a planned Leftist transition.
Here’s the current graph. I suppose the good news is that even though things are getting worse, they’re not getting worse as fast as they were?
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 ticked downward again this month. I think it continues to be muted because the Left has kept their dogs on a leash.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable, and it dropped a tiny bit in June. Elections are coming up – I’m wondering if we’ll see more?
Economic:
Economic indicators ricocheted upwards this month. Looking at the reasons: the markets stopped falling, the interest rates stopped shooting up – this is related to the Misery Index being slightly less awful. This is an instantaneous look, and things aren’t as awful as they were last month.
Illegal Aliens:
It set a new record for this time of year. But it was down from last month, for the first time in ages. Must be hot out.
Growing Farther Apart
The first story was the divide – the second is that the divide isn’t getting better. People are making choices to move to areas that match their ideology. And what about the people there?
They’re ready to check out. Red State Secession (LINK) conducted a poll at the end of June and released the results at the beginning of July. The result?
People are talking about breaking up. In the eight states they polled, (HI, TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, and SC) the results were fairly similar: They felt that if California were to want to leave the Union, that 56% felt there should be no penalty, 41% felt that there should be economic sanctions. Only 5% were willing to use military force to keep California in the Union.
The numbers were pretty similar if Texas wanted to leave. Texans, on the other hand, were ready to go to the next level. 69% of voters want to hold a referendum on separating from Texas, including a majority of Democrats and independent voters.
In Arizona (not part of the study) you can see that the Democrats don’t much care for the United States, either:
And the showing of a Revolutionary War flag on a coffee cup. It wasn’t me, even though I own one myself, which I bought at a United States National Park:
People are sorting themselves based on ideology, as long predicted:
And I’ll leave this Tweet® for the last word on how close we are to being one country:
Sounds like someone is a bit butthurt?
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!
Bad Guys
https://twitter.com/i/status/1544768644244049920
https://twitter.com/i/status/1542746999245549568
https://twitter.com/i/status/1545705450703912960
https://twitter.com/i/status/1546007176002408449
https://twitter.com/i/status/1546000131744759808
https://twitter.com/i/status/1545917339467661312
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1544240651734228994
https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1543577251681390597
https://twitter.com/CPD1617Scanner/status/1553032236760535041
https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-shows-utah-child-4-shoot-police-outside-mcdonalds-drive-thru
https://www.insidebidensbasement.org/
Good Guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg7q00OczIU
https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1550500701465452545
https://twitter.com/i/status/1544337951332655110
https://twitter.com/i/status/1545874643994787840
https://twitter.com/Tr00peRR/status/1544619495100145664
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fourth-of-july-mass-shooting-richmond-virginia-thwarted-police-tip/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/93-year-man-shoots-home-intruder-fends-off/story?id=85991432
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article263351778.html
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/07/even-if-it-saves-but-one-life.html
One Guy
https://heavy.com/news/elisjsha-dicken/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/us/eli-dicken-indiana-mall-shooting-bystander/index.html
Body Count
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1550526039234908164
https://thepostmillennial.com/52-shot-in-new-york-city-over-july-4-weekend
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-4th-july-weekend-violence-160718752.html
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63182
https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-17d
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/vaccinated-english-adults-under-60
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/will-physicians-ever-speak-out
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-safe-and-effective-narrative
https://twitter.com/ElectionLegal/status/1549833362919112704
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/color%20map.jpg?itok=NWg8Tskj
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394262/fewer-bible-literal-word-god.aspx
Vote Count
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/voterga-uncovers-massive-election
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyc-election-sites-had-no-republican-ballots-primary-election
https://dnyuz.com/2022/07/05/on-conservative-radio-misleading-message-is-clear-democrats-cheat/
https://uncoverdc.com/2022/07/01/u-s-supreme-court-takes-case-that-could-impact-future-elections/
Civil War
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394202/record-low-extremely-proud-american.aspx
https://mises.org/wire/avoid-civil-war-learn-tolerate-different-laws-different-states
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-07-27/fear-of-a-second-us-civil-war-ignites-debate.html
https://dnyuz.com/2022/07/02/spurred-by-the-supreme-court-a-nation-divides-along-a-red-blue-axis/
https://thecarousel.substack.com/p/theres-gonna-be-a-war-in-montana
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/a-president-asking-for-civil-war
Progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6tOAafAJCA
There is a lot of truth to those last two images re: states’ abortion laws and Texas. The Mrs. and I are planning a move and we analyzed some key metrics in several target states in categories called “culture” (the current limit, in months, on abortion) and “freedom” (concealed carry laws – TX is now a constitutional carry state), “taxes” (income, cap gains, SSN, property, sales) and other metrics. To our surprise, TX beat out FL and the others. Time to get fitted for some boots and a large belt buckle…
It’s a good state. A bit warm for me. Try the fajitas.
So, the libtards are leaving Red for Blue States. Or…departing sunny TX, FL, et al for Minnesnowta, Ill-I-Noise (Bang! Bang!) and Caulifornication?
Good riddance.
The divide is worse than we thought, the very foundation of Western Culture is up for grabs. Think 1984 meets The Odyssey…
https://im1776.com/2022/08/05/classic-vandalism/
Ouch. Apparently, a woman’s understanding of a man’s tragedy surpasses a man’s understanding.
They are, and raised the IQ of both states.
I met a guy at a gas station the other day and he was a wearing a KBR shirt. I asked him where he had been? The Middle East was his reply. So, then I asked him if it was all about religious wars? No, he said it was about power. Who had the power and who could keep the power. So maybe Lewis Carroll was right ” which is to be master- that is all”.
Indeed. That’s always the question.
The WH.gov propaganda statement sounds like it was wordsmithed by a naive 22yo intern who knows nothing about technology or economics.
The transition they envisage may come about, but it shouldn’t be forced or encouraged by government, and it is likely more than 100 years away (supposing they don’t crater civilization on us before then) when technology is able to make more significant advances.
And it definitely will not make the world stronger. There are plenty of places in the world where prosperity is based on fossil fuel extraction. Do you think New England became more prosperous because whaling died out and people started burning fossil fuels?
Transitions like this always have winners and losers. Think NAFTA and free trade. They claimed we would all prosper because of that too. The reality was quite different – the well-positioned got mega-wealthy, the blue collar workers got raped.
Reading statements like that makes me think of looking at the illustrated covers on old sci-fi magazines. Somebody is letting their wild imagination substitute for reality way too soon.
It won’t, can’t, get that far. It will collapse the whole house of cards.
Of course it’s from “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There”
https://archive.org/details/throughlookinggl01carr/page/124/mode/1up
Fixed and updated – appreciated.
Seems Biden has adopted a Stalin quote as his campaign motto; The Worse, The Better. Sadly, he doesn’t know what it means…
I’m not sure that he knows what shaving means anymore. He’s gone.
Posted this too soon and missed the FBI raiding Trump’s home. It is like a slow moving Fort Sumter in real time.
Yup, very quickly. Accelerationists in D.C.
With the FBI raiding the home of a former prez, probably time to update your clock. Maybe change the hands on it for bananas, while advancing the hands…
It does increase tensions. A lot.
The left has such a deep hold on government agencies that they just sent their American Gestapo…the FBI….to raid Trump’s residence an PLANT EVIDENCE so they can railroad him into prison. That’s how corrupt they are an how afraid of hm they are.
The Mrs. told me the FBI had padlocked the safe the last time they visited, but forgot the key so they had to break their own padlock.
Whooooooboy……
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1556794749377454080
https://gettr.com/post/p1lsemwc6d2
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1557002660917682177
Hahahahha! It’s like a bad dream!
Go Kid Rock!
Doesn’t matter. That’s not the Constitution. They need to amend it to change the plain language in it.
re –“blue states”
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The dirty reds are notorious for changing definitions.
The dirty reds want us to call them:
* progressive
* Marxists
* loving and sincere.
.
And then, recently…
The dirty reds stopped being ‘reds’.
Apparently, through the magic of ‘commie-logic’, the dirty reds suddenly became ‘blue’.
According to ‘commie-logic’, normal folk are now ‘reds’… and the dirty reds are magically absolved of their many decades of crimes against humanity.
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I think calling them ‘dirty reds’ worked for my grandparents and parents, so that works for me.
I think using commie definitions lends them a legitimacy they did not earn and do not deserve.
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An aside:
By appropriating the term ‘blue’, are the dirty reds aligning with Team Black©?
Black&Blue?
I honestly truly believe their reversed name has little to do with a newfound appreciation for Blues — Stevie Ray Vaughan, Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet — as a music genre…
That’s one that had me scratching my head for a while, but I think the “Democrat Blue Wave” came from the idea that they wanted to disassociate themselves from the communist red. And, since the Bush Red County map, it has stuck.