“Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?” – Top Secret
Don’t put in extra hours at the clock factory – they hate that.
- People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology. Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
- 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.
I didn’t expect to move the clock up this month, but yet, here we are, and it’s all due to Virginia. More on that below.
In this issue: Front Matter – Violence and Censorship Update – Flashpoint Virginia –Updated Civil War II Index – Virginia and Rallies and Aesop – Links
Welcome to Issue Eight 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 II, on the first or second Monday of every month. Issue One is here (LINK), Issue Two is here (LINK), Issue Three is here (LINK), Issue Four is here (LINK), Issue Five is here (LINK), Issue Six is here (LINK), and Issue Seven is here (LINK).
Violence and Censorship Update
Organized violence seems to be lower this month, as you’d expect in winter. Or perhaps AntiFa® is just on a snowboarding trip to Colorado so they can get some dank weed? Societal violence tends to drop as it gets colder, because people look stupid rioting in knit hats and parkas. Well, people look stupid rioting in any weather, except for the South Koreans who have rioting down to a spectator sport. South Koreans riot about, well, anything. It’s like living in San Francisco, but with less poop.
The Korean beef riots? Udder madness.
YouTube® announced a change in the terms and conditions for video creators that would go into effect December 10, 2019. The major change (of concern) was that YouTube© announced that they would delete accounts that, in YouTube’s™ sole opinion, weren’t commercially valuable. There were several creators that I watch on a semi-regular basis that were quite upset – this was proof that YouTube™ was coming after them. Several refuse to put controversial videos on YouTube® at all now – they save those videos for other sites, like Bitchute©.
As far as I can tell, most of these channels are still up and running. Several that had been demonetized for political content even had monetization restored. Like the end of the world in 2012, the dread YouTube® apocalypse is currently overdue.
Switching to Twitter©: their most notorious purge in the last period was Danielle Stella, a candidate for congress running against that paragon of virtue, Ilhan Omar. Stella’s offense? She tweeted:
“If it is proven @IlhanMN [Ilhan Omar] passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged” – I agree with Ms. Stella, that hanging people who collaborate against the United States with foreign governments is a good thing.
But I will never trust her because of sage advice that my brother gave to me one afternoon while driving: “Never trust a person who has two first names. Like Scott George. Or George Scott.” He was proven right when George C. Scott stopped by our house and ate all of our mayonnaise. Man, that man loved his mayo.
I guess the decided they should see other siblings.
Twitter® has also admitted a practice they had long denied, but was obvious: they shadow ban people – you can type away all you want, but no one is really going to see your Tweet™. How better to control a populace than to let them think that “bad” opinions are ignored?
Flashpoint Virginia
Since Virginia has been changed from state controlled by the Right to a state where Leftists hold all major offices and control the legislature, the Left has had a great desire to spike the ball and exert complete control. That control is focused on Leftist goals. The first Leftist goal mentioned?
Elimination of many Second Amendment rights, including banning ownership, with no grandfather provision, of “assault” weapons.
It also goes much further, and bans parts of rifles the same way an entire rifle would be banned. Outside of cloning Stalin, elimination of private gun ownership is a primary goal of the Left. It is also a trigger on the Right, and this legislation couldn’t be more tailored to antagonize the Right if Rosie O’Donnell read it as an alarm clock message.
As political battles go, this gun ban is an uphill one, even for the Left.
What is unusual here is the reaction from localities. More than 98 bodies (counties, cities, towns) as of this writing have declared themselves “Second Amendment sanctuaries” – and have vowed to not cooperate.
The Attorney General (a Leftist) has issued an opinion that the counties can’t just ignore state law, they have to follow it. Therefore? The Governor (a Leftist) has requested $100 million extra for incarceration and $4 million for an 18 person gun ban team.
It’s not enough.
Sometimes you have no idea what you’ve gotten yourself into. Like me in my first marriage.
The Left owns all of the levers of government. So what do the people that want to keep their rights do?
Form an opposing governmental structure. Those are the Second Amendment sanctuaries. Like it or not, these declarations are the first step towards a unified governing structure that opposes the Leftist government in Virginia. For a civil war to occur, you have to have civil structures. I had expected them to form along the lines of opposing state governments.
But the societal divisions in 2019 exist more along the rural/urban divide than the old northern/southern divide. In my home state, it’s very (from a combined vote total) far Right, so my entire state would likely pitch in. Given this new circumstance in Civil War 2.0, renegade counties make sense in a state like Virginia. And despite anything the Attorney General might say, should a significant (20%?) percentage of Virginia’s population – an armed 20% of the population – decide a law isn’t valid?
The law won’t be valid.
Laws exist in the United States because we generally agree with them as a group. Does everyone agree to all laws that are on the books? Certainly not. But when there is determined opposition to a law or group of laws (marijuana legalization, illegal alien sanctuaries, Second Amendment sanctuaries) an attempt to enforce the law will nearly instantly make the government look weak, ineffectual, and illegitimate. And when that determined group takes over a legitimate arm of government?
We’re one step closer to war, and this is why I moved the clock. The Left is moving quickly, and in Virginia, I think it’s still a very dangerous game of chicken.
I think they’ll end up blinking, and swerving off at the last minute.
Updated Civil War II Index
More graphs, with full bikini treatment.
Violence:
Up is more violent. Violence dropped a bit, and I imagine it will remain low for the winter, though it edged up a bit in December. April and May will likely see increased incidents, assuming we end up okay in Virginia. And assuming we don’t run out of suntan lotion.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable. It skyrocketed this month. Tension was high in the first place, but impeachment increased it significantly. Don’t expect it to go down soon.
Economic:
Down indicates worse economic conditions. The economic indicators all were positive, and strongly so, in November. It was a one month recovery.
Illegal Aliens:
Down is good, since (in theory) ICE is catching fewer aliens because there are fewer people trying to get in. The numbers are down this month, and if you put them in context, winter is normally a lower time for illegal immigration, which will pick up in the spring.
Virginia and Rallies and Aesop
There is a large pro-Second Amendment rally planned in January 20, 2020 in Richmond. Since I started paying attention to such things, I’ve noticed something – that people on the Right don’t live in Washington, D.C. Why we would go to protest there escaped me. Statistics back this up – in 2016, nearly 95% of voters voted for Leftist candidates.
For a group of citizens that support the Right to try to protest in D.C. is silly. Protestors in D.C. are in hostile territory. From observation, cities attract Leftists. The larger the city, generally the farther Left it is. Richmond, Virginia is no different. It voted nearly 80% for Leftists in 2016. Richmond is hostile territory for the Right.
But yet the rally is planned. Aesop over at The Raconteur Report has covered why this rally is a bad idea, in detail here (LINK) and here (LINK). Read the comments, and also the links to previous posts that he suggests.
Read it all before you attend – or before you organize.
Links
Please leave links either in the comments below, or feel free to send me an email if you’re shy. If you email me, I won’t say that the link is from you unless I get permission.
From McChuck.
From Glenda.
From Bob.
From Vote Harder, over at The Burning Platform:
- After ‘Predator’ Cop Gets Wrist-Slap for Raping Kids on Duty, He’s Let Out and Strikes Again
- Two Officers Arrested for Molesting Children While Working as Pastors at Church
- 8yo Girl Stripped Naked by Officers, Telling Her It’s The Only Way She Can See Her Daddy
- Cop Arrested for Pulling Over Young Women for Speeding, Then Raping Them
- High-Ranking Officer Arrested on Over 600 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse
- Innocent Dad Politely Asks Police a Question, So They Beat and Kidnap Him
- Cop Shoots Innocent Unarmed Woman, Forces Her to Crawl to Him as She Bleeds Out
- Alarm as Trump Requests Permanent Reauthorization of NSA Mass Spying Program Exposed by Snowden
- Attorney General William Barr Declares War On The General Public
- Trump Wants Your Face Scanned Every Time You Travel, Just Like In China
From Ricky:
- USA Today – Modern Day Civil War
- American Thinker – Democrats Pushing Towards Civil War
- American Thinker – Civil War or Nanny State?
- Dallas News – Brink of a Civil War?
- Epoch Times – Spanish Civil War in America?
- Divided America
- Time to Decentralize?
- Washington Post – Our Bitter Impasse
- The Atlantic – Red/Blue America
- Mises – Decentralization, Nullification, Secession
- LinkedIn – Coming Decade
- The Democrat Agenda
- List of Sanctuaries in Virginia
- National Guard in Virginia?
- The Hill 4000 comments on National Guard in Virginia Article
“We’re one step closer to war, and this is why I moved the clock. The Left is moving quickly, and in Virginia, I think it’s still a very dangerous game of chicken.
I think they’ll end up blinking, and swerving off at the last minute.”
It no longer matter what the Left (in Virginia) does. They have clearly stated their intentions. Everything that follows if strategy & tactics. If somebody is driving their truck at you, losing their nerve and swerving at the last moment doesn’t change the fact that they intend to kill you. It’s still attempted murder.
You don’t get to say, “I’m going to kill you,” pull out a gun, shoot at me, miss, put the gun back in your pocket, and then say, “Hey, bro, we’re good now, right?”
This^^^.
You’re right. If they blink, they will push for a “compromise” which means yet more rights lost.
Their goals will not change.
McChuck is correct.
April and May will likely see increased incidents,
Not too many bikini incidents in April; still too cool to wear so little. But i will keep my eyes open. Yes, it is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
He is. And I will keep sacrificing to bring you these graphs . . .
Thanks for the linkage, but based on (mostly anonymous) comments to those two posts, I advise you and everyone else to go long on stock in companies selling Butthurt Crème, because their butthurt meters are pegged in the red zone over those posts.
The Tard Army hates only two things more than their name: having it explained why they deserve it.
And proving that the explanation was, if anything, too gentle and soft-hearted.
The Tard is strong with this bunch.
They think the choice with the Richmond rally is between doing something vs. doing nothing.
It’s actually a choice between doing something stupid vs. doing something smart.
As my drill instructor warned some of my platoon:
“It’s easy to be hard, but hard to be smart.”
The said it with a certain sadistic inevitability (and a small amount of drool at the corners of their mouths).
But The 10% were always right there to prove them right, every time.
Not too many showed up here. Maybe they got tired of banging their heads against the wall?
I have long believed that the Boogaloo was inevitable. The only thing in doubt was the timing. I love these posts, as they help see where in the timeframe we actually are.
There are only three outcomes I can see to avoid a civil war.
1. The right decides not to fight, and just gives up/knuckles under.
2. The United States breaks up peacefully, with groups of states forming their own nations, with free population flow to allow everyone to move to the new region/country they like best and settle there.
3. Direct, undeniable Divine intervention.
Of the three, I go back and forth trying to decide which is most likely. I think I usually go with #3.
Yup. I’m toying with another way out, and it’ll make a future post. I don’t see 1. happening.
2: would be good.
But, let those who hate TheWest/Constitution/BOR choose their regions* firs. leave a port on each coast for our exports. They can have all the other ports for their imports (until they run out of other people’s money).
*Regions don’t have to be existing city/States…They were created for/by reasons that no longer exist.
This looks a lot like that ‘1776 period’ in north America, city-folk trying to rule rural people… while rural people just want to be left alone.
Same situation in 1861?
Same situation in 1929?
And 1941?
And, now, the story repeats.
Let’s say, for the sake of one potential, we eliminate every control freak.
Atomize every politician.
Bury every bureaucrat up to their chins in concrete at the bottom of the ocean.
Encourage every body receiving a government check to step outside the airlock to test deep space to see if it is ‘a true vacuum’.
I bet you a nickel, the very next day, somebody will step forward to fill that vacuum.
Yup, people keep flowing to those cities that have the power. It isn’t a real job that they’re headed to D.C. for.
I think there’s an important distinction between individual citizens objecting to policy and/or law and declaring themselves free to ignore it, and local government officials doing the same. When some local governments declared immigration sanctuaries, and no one prosecuted them for it, they established the precedent for 2nd-Amendment sanctuaries. When cities and states declared that federal drug laws didn’t apply to their residents, they confirmed the precedent. Now, let’s see what other laws will be nullified by the withdrawal of consent of the governed. We’re not just seeing alternative civil government being created by citizens, but parts of the government seceding into opposition. That’s gotta be bad for stability.
It is horrible for stability. And once consent/legitimacy is withdrawn?
The increasingly weak government pushes hard.
Bad for the status quo, but then again the status quo is untenable. Our nation has largely avoided sectarian violence that one would expect from such a diverse citizenry largely because for most our history political power was decentralized. The one civil war we did have was the result of national policy, not state or local intransigence. As direct power, money and influence has concentrated in DC and population centers and with government’s reach now comfortably extended to your bedroom the only recourse for groups of like-minded citizens living in a town or county is official nullification.
It’s bad for stability, but a return to local governments having the lion’s share of say over important policy is not a bad thing at all.
Fellow Patriots – – Please go to: https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/breaking-virginia-vows-to-shut-down-all-gun-ranges-not-owned-by-the-state/.
The article is titled: Virginia vows to shut down all gun ranges not owned by the state
New draconian legislation proposed. This article is from the Law Enforcement Today blog and is pro-gun. Majority of rank and file LEO’s are strong supporters of 2nd Amendment and for damned sure don’t want to be put into the maelstrom being created by these unconstitutional laws.
I suggest that every legislator and LEO in Virginia needs to review in detail the exploits of John Allen Muhammad along with his partner and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, who tied up the DC area for months with their unique skills.
“History does not always repeat, but it often rhymes…” Mark Twain
I suppose if you don’t look for something, you won’t see it…specifically -> if you are not looking for an influx of the “free-shit army” then you won’t see it, but when voting time comes around, and one candidate promises “vote for me & get free shit” and get’s elected, then from the democratic standpoint, you are at that point that “we” voted our way into socialism, and i gotta agree 115% with Aesop…you can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out. That seems to be what happened in Virginia…or *is* happening (because the shooting hasn’t started yet)
It’s a good article. Go give it a look.
And scary. Where’s the stopping point?
I have bad news and good news. Let’s take them in that order. The bad news is that Miss Economic Outlook Graph isn’t wearing a bikini. The good news? What she is wearing, even though I don’t know the correct name for it, is so, so GOOD!!!!!
Are we going to quibble over such minor technicalities?
Nah, let’s not. Not even a little bit. Miss Economic Outlook Graph’s one-piece whatever-it-is … I’m not going to say it’s actually better than a bikini. Nor will I say the opposite. Both are really, really easy on the eyes.
It has a zipper. I did have to zoom in to check.
Matt has a new article here: https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/01/richmond-the-mother-of-all-buffalo-jumps/
Everyone planning to attend the rally on the 20th PLEASE READ THIS!
I would add one more comment as well. This is to be on Martin Luther King day. Tens of thousands of people will have the day off. Who thinks there won’t be thousands of anti 2A people counter protesting?
I would also ask anyone planning to attend who exactly at VCDL organized this protest, how well do you know them and could they be deliberately working for the other side?
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing!!!
Remembering those Berkeley days of the ’60s: naive people marched while those with their own agendas worked to steer the march or protests to their own ends. This future activity in Richmond will not convince those denizens of the Belly of the Beast anything about the people’s right to their own self defense of the validity of their position.
The incoming governor has made it very clear that his proposed action on the confiscation of firearms will be the law of the state and has made threats as to how he will achieve this goal. Take him at his word. And plan accordingly. The Sanctuary Counties declaration is a very good start. But now this will be the power play. The gov will use all his powers to bear on the Counties. So they better have a plan for that. The Sanctuary Counties will need to plan for contingencies, and will need to infiltrate the new administration for intelligence. Though this conflict is not a shooting war yet, and I hope that it never comes to that, the State is willing to use all its resources to achieve its goals and objectives.
If you go back to the Irish Rebellion starting as a disaster in 1916, a small group was fighting against the whole might of the British Empire. Michael Collins, who led actions against Great Britain, had to have an edge for his greatly outnumbered people, and that was will and intelligence about the enemy. That was the leverage he needed to achieve some kind of independence.
Rallies at the belly of the beast, though idealistic, are not a wise use of resources. It’s too easy to be manipulated by others. Better think it through thoroughly.
“This future activity in Richmond will not convince those denizens of the Belly of the Beast anything about the people’s right to their own self defense of the validity of their position.”
Right. Its not necessarily about that. One of many things it can be about is going the extra mile to nonviolently protest before choosing to intentionally slip the leash and be willing to stand ground, risk death, and sling metal at 900-3000 fps with tactical and technical maturity on deserving Constitutional/Anti Bill of Rights Oathbreaking targets.
You may be protesting non-violently.
But when TPTB and the minions of Leftardia aren’t observing Marquess of Queensbury Rules for that protest, you aren’t protesting at all.
You’re bait.
Kamikazes and suicide bombers are poor strategy, never a bright idea, and both are an admission of failure, born of desperation and low intelligence.
Re-think.
Then protest . . . somewhere else. And organize it. And control it. (None of which will happen)
100% agreed – well put.
Don’t forget fresh socks and some of that baby powder with no starch. Make a groceries box with some canned goods, a few bottled waters, peanut butter, trail mix. Have a basic med kit with gauze, bandage, wound cleaning pads, salve and more.
Make a box of paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, plastic fork and spoon.
Don’t be afraid of Spicy Time if it comes to that. Be a Honey Badger in all things by this point in time.
I can offer prayers and the brotherhood of spirit to those in Virginia. Hopefully it all works out and they nip it in the bud.
You would think that people wouldn’t want to be steamrolled by their inferiors who have sinister plans in mind but only time will tell and the fat opera singer hasn’t even finished her cup of pre-warm up coffee yet.
“Don’t forget fresh socks”
And underwear. And maybe a get out of jail free card.
Fear is wasted – unless it motivates to action. What is going to happen, is going to happen.
Be as prepared as you can . . . .