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Blood in the Soil

Some songs are stories, and some are your family. All of facts in this one are about actual Wilder family stories. I skipped the one where The Mrs. personally insulted NFL QB Phil Simms to his face while he was live on national TV. Good times.

Behind The Music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK).
As of today, you can buy ALL of them (except this one, which will go live in a few days, and the parodies) anywhere you buy music by searching for “Wilder’s Hammer” or “Wilder’s Brigade”. Although buying them doesn’t support this blog, it does support the owner the LLC for the music. Who might also own the LLC for the blog.

Blood in the Soil
by John Wilder

Duncan sailed from Scotland back in seventeen fifty-four
Fought for freedom’s call in the Revolutionary War
From England, Thomas came in sixty, stood with his kin
Made this land their own, let the hard work begin

One planted tobacco in Virginia, rich earth ‘neath his plow
The other swung an axe in Alabama’s wild bough
Built a home from nothin’, tamed the untamed ground
Generations pourin’ sweat, turnin’ dreams around

Blood in the soil, that’s my claim on this land
Generations fightin’, buildin’ hand in hand
From the wars we won to the bridges we raised
This country’s our birthright, in our veins it’s blazed
Newcomers cross the line, say they’re just like me
But that’s a downright lie, can’t you see?
Our folks bled for this dirt, made it what it is
Blood in the soil, this nation’s ours, not his

The Civil War divided, my kin on either side
Both fought at Vicksburg’s siege, where the brave ones died
Nineteen-oh-three, a Thomas spanned wild rocky streams
Bridges still standin’ today, with strong steel beams

Duncan’s line homesteaded New Mexico’s harsh plain
Before it was a state, through drought and drivin’ rain
Laid the railroad tracks that opened up the West
Gave their all for progress, never took a rest

World Wars called ’em back, they answered every time
Came home to build the towns, work mill, bank, and mine
The men they fought and toiled, carved this country true
The women raised the young, made ’em strong and new
No paper makes you kin, no shortcut to the claim
It’s the sweat and sacrifice in our family name

Blood in the soil, echoin’ through the years
Generations’ legacy, wipin’ away the tears
From the farms we tilled to the rails we laid
This land’s our story, in our blood it’s made
Newcomers crowd the gate, claimin’ equal share
But legacy runs deeper, beyond compare
Our folks bled for this dirt, made it what it is
Blood in the soil, forever ours, not his

Blood in the soil
Our claim stands tall
Generations strong
We built it all

Ghost Lesbians in the Sky

Seriously, FA and FO seem to be foreign concepts to entitled liberal white women. Why don’t you all make this viral? I think this would put a lot of sand up GloboLeft panties.

Behind The Music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK).
That’s a LOT of songs. I’m listening to one right now. I mean, I wrote them, so I should love them and think they’re the best ever. And I do. Seriously, I wake up humming these things and it makes me start the day by thinking I can chew roofing nails and spit out bullets. I’ve grown 2 inches, have most of my hair back, and women now bow when they see me since I started listening to these badass tunes. My testosterone is so high because of this music that when sweat drops off my body plants flourish within the release of my bodily fluids within seconds. YMMV.

As of Sunday, you can buy ALL of them anywhere you buy music by searching for “Wilder’s Hammer” or “Wilder’s Brigade”. Although buying them doesn’t support this blog, it does support the owner the LLC for the music. Who might also own the LLC for the blog.

One of my songs has already had radio airplay, so my quest to have full control of all media in 2026 . . . is going ok. Enjoy!

Ghost Lesbians in the Sky
by Johnny Wilder (apologies to Johnny Cash)

An old lesbian went riding out
One bright Minnesota day
Upon a road she rested
As she tried to stop ICE anyway
When all at once a mighty mess
Of bulb head illegals she saw
Plowin’ down the snowy road
And up the pavement draw
Their butch saviors were on fire
And their crewcuts were made of steel
Their eyeglasses were black and shiny
And their carpet breath she could feel
A bolt of fear went through her
As her car thundered up her thigh
For she saw the agent there
And he heard her mournful cry
Yippie-yi-oooooooooo
Yippie-yi-yaaaaaaaaay
Ghost lesbians in the sky
Their faces gaunt
Their values blurred
Flannel all soaked with snow
She’s trying to figure pronouns preferred
She was a driver but now just cargo
‘Cause they’ve got to drive forever
On those pronouns in the sky
For Somalis cheating all
As they drive on, hear their cry
As the video cameras recorded her
She heard one call her name
If you wanna save your soul
From hell saving people who hate you
Then, lesbian, change your ways today
Or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the Somali grift
Across these endless skies
Yippie-yi-oooooooooo
Yippie-yi-yaaaaaaaaay
Ghost lesbians in the sky
Ghost lesbians in the sky
Ghost lesbians in the sky

24 Memes About Bleeding Minnesota

Got home late, figured everyone would be thinking about this anyway. Here are 24 memes/xeets about CW 2.0’s Bleeding Kansas.

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Thursday Music

You asked for it . . . well, one of you asked for it . . . but here’s a raw, 1970s arena-rock anthem to put your hands up and clap for. The message? It’s for all of us on the Traditional Right. If all the uploading went well, it’s LIVE! for purchase right now wherever you buy music.

Behind the music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK). There are a LOT of songs there now.

But there are nine you can buy right now (search for Wilder’s Hammer), or you can listen on Spotify or most places that stream music. Six are available on YouTube. Guess they didn’t like the lyrics on two? You can pre-order the Wilder’s Brigade (country band) now, it goes live everywhere on Sunday.

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
By John Wilder

The skies are turning black,
The road looks rough ahead
We’ve seen this path before,
Hanging by a thread
The shadow comes closer, whispers in the wind
But deep inside our hearts, our fight begins again

We’ve stared into the abyss, nearly lost our way
Felt the chill of defeat, yet we live another day
No more dividing lines, no more fearing the fall
Together we rise up,
Answering the call

Stop eyeing your brother, forget the petty fight
The pillars of Heaven shake when our voices unite
It’s been dark as midnight, but dawn breaks through
Band together now, me and you

Can’t stop, won’t stop, we’re taking on the world
United in flame, our banner now unfurled
It may look bad, it may look rough
But when we stand as one, we are enough
Can’t stop, won’t stop, the power in our hands
Shaking thrones across the lands
No force can break us, we refuse to bend
Together we conquer, until the end

We’ve walked through fire, felt the weight of the chain
Nearly crushed by the giants, drowned in the rain
But here we stand tall, our scars on our skin
The spirit inside us now ready to win
Don’t worry about your brother, by your side
He’s with you in the battle, riding the tide
Our voices like thunder, crashing through the night
Echoing forever, setting wrong to right

Don’t divide our ranks, let old grudges die
The mighty tremble when we unify
It’s been rough as gravel, but the light burns bright
Join the line, hold the fight

We’ve been to the edge,
Stared down the abyss
Nearly lost it all
in the devil’s kiss
But the fire inside, it never went out
Now we’re rising higher, hear the battle shout
No more standing alone in the pouring rain
Together our thunder, will break the chain

Can’t stop… won’t stop…
United we stand…

Takin’ on the world
Can’t stop… won’t stop… ever

Escape From New York: Mamdani Edition

“We, the soldiers of The National Liberation Front of America, in the name of the workers and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the fascist police state.” – Escape from New York

I don’t watch soccer. If I wanted to see grown men try to score for 90 minutes, I’d go to a bar. (all tweets® as-found)

I’ve been to New York City once. I flew in to JFK, met with some friends, drove up north to a cabin he owned, and, drank some beer, and then saved the President from the Duke of New York (He’s A Number 1!) after his escape pod landed there.

That was fun. I mean, not the New York City part, but the beer and saving the President part. When I got to my friend’s apartment, it was a third-story Manhattan thing that was smaller than a closet. Yet, he was married, and two people lived in this tiny place.

It’s not like he was poor, either. He did okay, and his wife was an executive vice president at a company you’ve heard of.

They owned a car, and we were going to take it to their cabin.

How do you make a sandwich in Venezuela? Put a meat coupon between two bread coupons.

He asked me if I wanted to go with him to get it. What he meant was that he was going to take a taxi two miles to the building where it was stored. He had to schedule picking it up, because they packed the cars in like sardines and have to work a dozen our so out to get to his, which, after seeing it, probably took 20 minutes.

These were people that were in the 1%, and my life was easier in almost all respects even though I made a fraction of the money that they made.

I didn’t see the attraction of New York City then, and I don’t see it now. I mean, here in Modern Mayberry if I shoot my .30-06 off the back deck it’s Wednesday. But in New York City, it’s national news. But as bad as it in the Big Apple, it’s now worse.

Zohran Mamdani (by his name, a fine Irish lad, no doubt) was just elected Mayor. He’s not a Democrat. No, that’s not retarded enough. He’s a Democratic Socialist®. That must be like “extra-fancy” ketchup.

Mamdani’s policies are just as American as his name and upbringing. I mean, you can feel the love, because his Director of Appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa said back in 2016 posted, “It’s important that white people feel defeated.”

Whelp.

This was the woman hand-picking key officials in City Hall, and her worldview sees white folks as the enemy to be crushed. And Ms. Almonte Da Costa wasn’t alone. On Mamdani’s campaign trail, he called for raising taxes specifically on “whiter neighborhoods” to fund his socialist schemes.

So, it’s about money. And power. I mean, it always is, but most of the time they’re not so blatant. Let’s dig into his housing policies, for one. These seem designed to eviscerate the concept of private property altogether. On purpose.

Cea Weaver (her parents couldn’t afford a consonant for her first name) is Mamdani’s pick for Director of the Mayor’s “Office to Protect Tenants”. Weaver isn’t just a tenant advocate. Nope. She’s a full-throated opponent of homeownership itself. In her own words, she’s called for seizing private property and described individual homeownership as a tool of “white supremacy.”

Must be news to COMMUNIST China, which now has, what, a 90%+ homeownership rate? Re-read that. NYC is officially farther left than the CCP. Achievement unlocked!

Cea (I wonder if anyone besides me refers to her as the Cea-word?) believes homes should be owned collectively, like some throwback to the Soviet Union where the state decides who gets what (and who is: never you and what is: never what you want).

According to the NY Post®, Cea-word’s mom has a $1.6 million house in Tennessee.

Weaver’s background as executive director of Housing Justice for All® screams daddy issue GloboLeftist. What were those commies at Housing Justice for All in favor of?

Rent freezes, eviction moratoriums, and government takeovers that have already tanked property values in every progressive stronghold where they’ve been tried.

But it gets worse. I mean, worse than being in New York in the first place.

Mamdani’s support for the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a dagger to the heart of property rights. Under this new law, if you want to sell your multifamily building, you must first offer it to the city and favored nonprofits. Like the Quality Learing Center. For how long? Six months.

Six months.

An owner must notify the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and these friends of Zohan “qualified entities” get first dibs. If you finally get an offer from a private buyer, NYC and its pet nonprofits still have a right of first refusal to match the offer within 15 days.

But this is no surprise, since Mamdani has openly hailed South Africa as the blueprint for New York City. In his inauguration speech, he electrified his crowd by declaring, “South Africa is the model for New York,” praising its post-apartheid “transformative justice.”

South Africa now has more racial laws than it did under Apartheid. But the quality of life is better. Wait, what?

Have you heard about what’s happening in Johannesburg lately? That “model” is a crumbling mess of blackouts, rampant violence, street piracy, skyrocketing rape rates, and economic disrepair. South Africa is built on corruption scandals, farm seizures, and a GDP that’s flatlined

Great role model, but no coincidence. Mamdani’s family ties run deep into anti-Western activism. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, has long peddled narratives glorifying “resistance” movements, including defending suicide bombers. Apparently, the manual for suicide bombers is called C4 Yourself, but I digress.

The warm embrace of collectivism has resulted in the greatest tragedy in human history: communism in the twentieth century. That doesn’t matter. My guess? Lots of New Yorkers are going to be doing a real-life reenactment of Escape from New York.

Snake Plissken had it easy. He only had to escape roving bands of violent criminals who wanted to kill him. New Yorkers in 2026 will have to escape taxes, too.

Fresh Music: How Is This Not War?

This one is based on my last Civil War 2.0 Weather Report. I like the way this came out, and it came together pretty rapidly. It’s rock with a twinge of alternative that should wake the neighbors up. Enjoy!

Behind The Music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK).
All the music outside of parodies and (including this song) are available right now for pre-purchase wherever you buy music. Just go there, and search for Wilder’s Hammer (rock) or Wilder’s Brigade (country) and pre-order. Release dates were suggested to be a week after upload, but if that doesn’t give any advantages, we’ll shorten that lag.

How Is This Not War?
By John Wilder

They call it progress, but it’s war by another name
War’s new shadows, playing a deadly game
No tanks on the streets, no bombs in the sky
Just poison the culture, watch old ways die

Sell women empowerment, to chase the fleeting thrill
Burn all their fertile years, leave the cradle still
A nation’s not a business, not built for endless growth
A family is blood and soil, not some corporate oath

It’s not a shortage of workers, it’s a shortage of kin
They flood the gates with strangers, let the grift begin
Tax the sons who built it, hand the cash away
To those who hate the builders, every day

This is war, silent and slow
Burn down the country, in a secret show
No declaration needed, no banners in the air
Just rivers of replacement, no one seems to care

This is war, the knife in the dark
Tearing out what we built, igniting the spark
Wake up now, the battle has started
The forgotten war, a future uncharted

They import millions, tell them they deserve our land
Loyal to their own nation, not the soil where they stand
Vote for handouts and to put new tyrants on a throne
While our voice grows weaker, in our only home

Justice bends and breaks, truth doesn’t mean a thing
Skin decides verdict, yet to our principles we cling
One world filled with pain, and crime’s blade is called just
While the innocent bleed out in the dust

No blindfold justice, scales are tipped and torn
Vigilante shadows rise where trust is met with scorn
When the law defends the wolf, men will bare their teeth
The reckoning is coming and will place the bloody wreath

This is war, silent and slow
Burn down the country, in a secret show
No declaration needed, no banners in the air
Just rivers of replacement, no one seems to care

This is war, the knife in the dark
Tearing out what we built, igniting the spark
Wake up now, the battle has started
The forgotten war, a future uncharted

Multicultural dream turns to nightmares in the street
Every tribe for itself, no common ground to meet
The ones who built the nation loved all colors the same
But the rest chose their own, playing a conquest game

Leaders call for silence, demand we disappear
While the invaders sharpen knives we paid to bring here
The kind road is closing, send them back to where they came
Rivers will turn red while our nation regains its name

This is war, the veil is torn away
We see the truth now, no more games to play
No more quiet suffering, no more bended knee
Our blood awakens, fierce and finally free

This is war, the tide begins to turn
Remigration calling, as the old fires burn
The forgotten blood no longer sleeps
A nation rises and the homeland keeps

A silent war
No more
The war’s awake
Forevermore

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Stochastic Warfare

“Don’t you know we in a war here?” – Forrest Gump

War isn’t always about who is right, but it always is about who is left.

Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
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.
Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
Open War.

Volume VII, Issue 8

Most memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I have maintained the Clock O’Doom at 9., given the open support of assassination and criminality by the GloboLeft and the increase in violence as well as direct interference with ICE and the insertion of the military into law enforcement. Beware: the number can climb quickly.

My 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 – Stochastic Warfare – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – 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 840 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

Stochastic Warfare

The Tweet® really does outline what many readers have been saying, namely, that we are under attack. Is it open warfare? Not exactly. It’s 5^th or 6^th generation warfare, fought on a civilizational scale on the timeline of generations. Against you.

And the person being attacked is . . . you. You don’t have to die now. First, they’ll encourage feminism and promote the idea of female empowerment meaning, “hey, let’s whore ourselves out during our twenties so we can’t pair-bond with men in our most fertile years” to create an environment where there is a “shortage” of people.

Again, this is not a company. It’s a country. A business can have a shortage of workers, a country can’t have a shortage of its own citizens. That’s nonsensical. It’s like saying my family has a shortage of members, so I’ll bring in an Indian. See? Nonsense. A country is much closer to a family than a company. If there’s a shortage of workers, the answer is to do things that increase native childbirth.

That’s it. If they liked you. Instead they work white men and women to pay for people who hate them.

This is how Stochastic War works.

No, their next step is to import millions of people that support the ideology of the progressive state, of globalism, of communalism. When these people arrive, inject them with the idea that they deserve the country. Now, since they don’t want to be American, and since they would fight against America if (say) America entered a war against Somalia or India they’re not committed to America. They’re just here to extract economic resources.

Once these people are imported, what then? They take your money. Your world is made poorer as the grift/scam/cash grab continues and recycles that money to foreigners and to GloboLeftist politicians. If you look at the graph below, you see that race plays a part in the way people vote and in who the Democrats want to import to retain power. Why do they want a lot of Indians (Gujarati)? Because they vote for the warmth of collectivism because more government systems mean more scams and corruption. Also, they have never had to deal with the Berlin Wall, which was built to contain the warmth of collectivism behind concrete and barbed wire, as collectivism always ends up.

This is how Stochastic War works.

There are ramifications of this war against you. If you didn’t hear, a black man stabbed a white guy. The white guy then said the evil gamer-word after being stabbed. This is not an unreasonable reaction, and is a far lesser offense than stabbing someone. The jury acquitted the black man, despite clear video of the attack.

This is Stochastic Warfare. Blacks learn that they can stab with impunity.

Black jurors, though, aren’t a jury of “peers” since statistically, they have been proven to be biased in favor of blacks. This destroys the justice system: it’s supposed to be blind, and your skin color or wealth or age or sex shouldn’t matter. We’re human, though, and rich guys can buy great lawyers, so the system has always had a skew to it. But without a functioning justice system, or worse, a justice system skewed to convict white people for crimes that are far beyond the offense (Derek Chauvin for murder) vigilantism will return.

Not might. Will.

Even when people are found not guilty, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend a murder case, and Daniel Penny rightly walked free, but what’s the cost?

This is how Stochastic War works.

This bias applies everywhere and you can see that black people hate white people, a lot, in Great Britian.

And The Washington Times story, below, is behind a paywall, but the headline speaks for itself:

The problem of a multicultural society isn’t limited to blacks. Other racial/ethnic groups like themselves best. Hispanics like Hispanics most. Blacks like blacks most. Asians like Asians most. But whites? They like everyone the same. That egalitarianism is crucial to making a multicultural society work, but multicultural societies never work.

And Great Britain now realizes this. Would they ask their moslem or Indian invaders to fight for them? Of course not, because they know that the moslems want to conquer the English rather than Crimea. The Indians? The Indians mostly are there for a buck and would run away back to Mumbai if they felt even slightly threatened. That leaves the white guys. Who will, once again, be faced with disproportionate death and injury.

Which is how Stochastic War works.

The mayor of London, who isn’t British, wants to make white people disappear. Literally:

And, you have people like this. This is in America.

It’s time to push back. It appears that the rapes and killings and theft have been enough and the Irish are pushing back against Stochastic War.

I think that @dystopiangf is right. We are in the midst of a quiet, Stochastic War that has been going on for decades, almost certainly since before I was born. What we are sensing right now is the time when people realize, and finally accept that this Forgotten War (I wrote a song about this LINK, you should listen to it because it’s pretty badass) against cultures we vanquished centuries or thousands of years ago is going on.

As people awaken, we’ll see what people have always seen as demographic changes occur: open war. Remigration is the kindest choice, but here we are.

Buckle up.

Misery Index

The new Trump administration is shown in red. Results continue to be much better than Biden’s misery numbers. The advance is at a near minimum, given the Fed®’s policy.

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 indicators are up slightly this month, and still elevated.

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it went down this month after the budget fight ended. I think the Somilisota scandal may increase pressures in a few months.

Economic:

The economy up just a smidge this month, but I think this is still cloaking the middle-class crunch and perhaps a bubble.

Illegal Aliens:

Still the lowest level since the Weather Report started.

LINKS

The links are again done by Ricky this month. Thanks, Ricky!

BAD GUYS
https://x.com/CaughtCam404/status/1998766070623252802
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2006823362182394125

GOOD GUYS
https://x.com/StealthQE4/status/2006266481001001437
https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2004642794862961123

ONE GUY
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/oklahoma-man-target-practice-backyard-accused-fatally-shooting/story?id=128707327
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2025/12/13/wsjs_fearmongering_doesnt_survive_contact_with_evidence_153631.html

BODY COUNT
https://wir2026.wid.world/insight/executive-summary/
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/All_the_Worlds_Births_Web-1.jpg?itok=z3Ci7zG4
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/business/us-immigration-trump-1920s.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AFA.WFF9.w9QS69D5L2fG&smid=url-share
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Homicide_Rates_Web.jpg?itok=rn1aSBmf
https://studyfinds.org/churches-kept-americans-alive-states-made-a-decision/
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/entertainment-media-layoffs-2025-analysis/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/12/19/dumber-sicker-poorer/

VOTE COUNT
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/17/fulton-county-we-dont-dispute-315000-votes-lacking-poll-workers-signatures-were-counted-in-2020/
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/longtime-trump-pollster-reveals-ugly-forecast-for-republicans-heading-into-2026/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/fight-young-men-2026-midterm-elections-rcna249513
https://www.cnn.com/politics/state-redistricting-maps-vis

CIVIL WAR
https://financialpreparedness.substack.com/p/who-are-the-bad-guys
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/12/the-eu-could-be-gone-in-four-years-a-revolutionary-eruption-is-coming/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/the_stages_of_a_color_revolution_and_where_the_u_s_is_right_now.html
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/08/civil-war-national-guard-midterm-elections/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/12/is-a-civil-war-possible-in-america-or-hawaii/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/12/08/mass-collective-societal-suicide/
https://victorhanson.com/can-the-dark-ages-return/

Sunday 2A: Seconds Count

It’s a meme, but it’s true. When seconds count, the cops are minutes away. If you say this to a cop, it tends to irritate them. Along with calling them “second responders”. But those are both true statements.

Behind The Music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK). You can pre-purchase all the rock songs now wherever you buy music electronically – do a search for Wilder’s Hammer. I’ll get the country songs up when I have a few hours of free time.

Seconds Count
By John Wilder

Out in the backwoods, where the shadows grow long
A man’s gotta stand on his own feet, gotta be strong
Can’t wait on the badge when the wolf’s at the door
They’ll show up too late, leavin’ blood on the floor

They talk big on duty, but when push comes to shove
Uvalde’s kids waited, no heroes from above
Bondi Beach bleedin’, cops hid from the fray
Won’t risk their own skin on a bad, bloody day

When seconds count, cops are minutes away
You’re on your own, brother, come what may
Don’t give up your guns, that’s the road to the cage
Jailed for your thoughts by a tyrant’s rage

When seconds count, stand tall and true
Your life’s blood is all up to you
Arm up strong, keep the wolves at bay
When seconds count,

the cops are minutes away

The lawman’s a myth when the danger is real
They write up the report after thugs seal the deal
The boys in blue, waitin’ safe in their ride
While innocents fall, no place left to hide

They promise protection, but it’s all just hot air
Uvalde’s shame lingers, Bondi Beach despair
Won’t charge into help, just watch from afar
Seein’ it all happen from their squad car

When seconds count, cops are minutes away
You’re on your own, brother, come what may
Don’t give up your guns, that’s the road to the cage
Jailed for your thoughts by a tyrant’s rage

When seconds count, stand tall and true
Your life’s blood is all up to you
Arm up strong, keep the wolves at bay
When seconds count,

the police are minutes away

So load up your chamber, keep your powder dry
Ain’t no one comin’ when you hear that cry
Tyrants love weakness, they thrive on the meek
But armed and ready, we hold what we see

When seconds count, cops are minutes away
Fight for your own, don’t kneel or sway
Gun rights are freedom, don’t let ’em slip
Or end up in irons for words from your lip

When seconds count, rise up and say
Fightin’ for yourself wins the day
Arm up strong, let the police play
When seconds count,

the cops are minutes away

Minutes away
Yeah, minutes away
Stand your ground
Come what may

Neighbor of the Beast, Saturday Song

This started out as a phrase my friend mentioned to me sometime back in the 1980s. I checked last night, and there have been many songs named Neighbor of the Beast, but none of them are like this one. This also explains why when I moved to my current house my first question was, “Do they have an H.O.A.?”

Note: that’s not a picture of me, it’s an A.I. image.
Enjoy!

Behind The Music:
All the songs so far are here (LINK). You can pre-purchase all the rock songs now wherever you buy music electronically – do a search for Wilder’s Hammer. I’ll get the country songs up when I have a few hours of free time.

The Neighbor of the Beast
By John Wilder, with apologies to Iron Maiden

Woe to you, of suburb and subdivision
For Wilder purchased in my neighborhood
Because he knows the schools are good
Let us understand the address of the neighbor of the beast
For it is my address
Its number is six hundred and sixty-eight

I lived alone, worked at a bank
I needed time to drink
To get my workday from my mind
What did I see? Can I believe?
That who moved in that night was not just fantasy?

Just what I saw, move in next door
Were the reflections of an unmowed lawn staring back at me
‘Cause in my dreams it’s always there
The evil lawn that twists my mind and brings me to despair

Night was black, his stereo not holding back
‘Cause I just had to hear every single note
In the dark, he played Mojo Nixon and heavy metal
Was all this for real or just some kind of Hell?

Six, six, eight, the neighbor of the beast
Music, unmowed lawn spawned to be released

Torches blazed and loud music was played
As they start to sing, hands held to the sky
In the night, his bonfire is burning bright
His party has begun, Wilder’s work is done

Six, six, eight, the neighbor of the beast
H.O.A. Violations are going on tonight

This can’t go on, I must inform the H.O.A.
Can this still be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I can’t sleep because of the chanting hordes
Seem to mesmerize, are they eating fries?

Six, six, eight, the neighbor of the beast
Six, six, eight, the house just for me

I’m coming back, I will return
And I’ll bring the H.O.A. and the fine will burn
I have the email, you’ll get H.O.A. fines
I have the power to make him follow guidelines

Predictions For 2026

“Since when can weathermen predict the weather, let alone the future?” – Back to the Future

When I was a train engineer I derailed a lot of trains. How many? Don’t know, it’s hard to keep track.

Here are my predictions for 2026. I remote-viewed them, wrote them down, and then buried them in a (clean) mayonnaise jar in my backyard. Then I remembered that I needed a post on exactly that topic, and so I dug them up and typed them out.

Enjoy!

January 2026

January 3: Trump announces his New Year’s resolution “Nothing. Why would I want to change Donald J. Trump?”
January 11: The FBI raids a Midwest farm after confusing a silo full of Mexicans with the missing Epstein files. A federal judge immediately rules that Mexicans found in silos are not subject to deportation.
January 20: CNN runs a special titled: “2026: The Year Democracy Dies Again?” for the tenth straight year, boosting their ratings among the twelve people who still pay for cable.

February 2026

February 6: Winter Olympics® opens with a “climate-friendly” torch lit by a vegan candle carried by a gay transgender disabled Syrian woman, which immediately goes out because the Italians forgot to buy propane.
February 22: Team USA© dominates curling after recruiting displaced Indian Sikh Canadian truckers who know a thing or two about sliding heavy things on ice while yelling incomprehensibly.
February 22: Olympic® viewership hits record lows when NBC replaces hockey highlights with a two-hour segment on “toxic masculinity in slap shots.”

March 2026

March 8: Daylight Saving Time springs clocks forward, again. For no apparent reason.
March 12: President Trump announces his “Golden IRS Lottery” where, if your number is chosen, you get to choose where your taxes are spent. ICE budget triples.
March 17: Patrick’s Day parades nationwide celebrate traditional Irish halal food and bright green burkas.

April 2026:

April Fool’s Day prank goes wrong when media reports “Epstein files released” and it turns out it was just a college-ruled wire-bound notebook filled with graffiti (mainly “VAN HALEN RULEZ!”) from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s sophomore year.
April 15: Tax Day sees record extensions filed after H&R Block’s™ A.I. chatbot advises everyone to “identify as a 501(c)(3) mosque or Somali daycare to avoid taxes.”
April 24: President Trump cancels Administrative Professionals’ Day, tweeting®, “They’re secretaries, dammit! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

May 2026

May 5: After losing the Ohio Gubernatorial Primary, Vivek Ramaswamy drops out of politics to, “focus my time on my family and also on founding a scam calling center in Hyderabad because Americans don’t work hard enough.”
May 5: Cinco de Mayo is renamed on college campuses to “Five of May Oppressed Genderqueer Migrant Day” to avoid cultural appropriation.
May 10: Mother’s Day renamed to Non-Gender-Specific Parental Acknowledgement Day.
May 20: Governor Tim Walz announces “a revolution in construction” as a $5 billion dollar Somali hospital is constructed in less than one month. “These Somalis, so ingenious! To think, this hospital looks like a piece of farm ground planted in soybeans, yet it’s a fully-functioning multibillion dollar hospital with 3,000 employees.”

June 2026

June 5: Godzilla returns to Tokyo, completing his annual migration.
June 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin declares victory after capturing the town of Kantpronounski Det, noting that the small farm village is strategic and will set the stage for yet another glorious victory soon.
June 14: Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy announces that Ukrainian forces have recaptured the barn at Kyantproynounskyy Dett, and requests another €250,000,000,000 (a € is a metric $) for “celebration party favors.”
June 19: The Juneteenth federal holiday leads to record-low office attendance as everyone realizes three-day weekends are the real reparations.

July 2026

July 4: America’s 250th birthday features a UFC® championship match at the Trump-Kennedy Center, followed by an open-air WWE™ IndependenceSlam© in the grounds surrounding the Trump-Washington Monument, with a buffet following at the Trump-Smithsonian Institute.
July 4: Fireworks displays canceled in California, Washington, and Oregon due to “wildfire risk and emotional trauma to dogs,” but are replaced with drone light shows spelling “Stolen Land Acknowledgment Day.”
July 28: Heat wave blamed on climate change by CNN® until someone on the panel points out it’s July and “It’s always hot in July”, the conversation immediately shuts down due to “denialism.”

August 2026

August 14: Los Angeles preps for the 2028 Olympics® by banning cars in a 50-mile radius around venues “for sustainability.”
August 20: Dog days of summer see PETA© demand air-conditioned doghouses while simultaneously protesting meat-based pet food as speciesist. “The natural state of cats, dogs, and other forest animals is veganism. Didn’t you see Snow White®?”
August 22: Pumpkin spice everything returns early, prompting middle-aged white women to cause a dire shortage of leg warmers, which have yet to be knitted by the robot leg warmer machine in China.

September 2026

September 10: The NFL® kicks off the season with the Star Spangled Banner being replaced by two minutes and twenty-two seconds of uncontrolled sobbing and the repeated words “I’m so sorry” and a moment of silence for “systemic inequities in tackling.”
September 11: 9/11 remembrances in New York City cancelled due to Mayor Mamdani demanding “context” about American foreign policy and showing that the “hijackers were the real heroes.”
September 22: A hurricane slams directly into New Orleans, doing $30 billion in badly needed demolition.

October 2026

October 1: Early voting starts and poll workers note that it is entirely normal to receive 30,000,000 mail-in ballots before the ballots were printed.
October 31: Halloween canceled at Harvard®, and replaced with “Fall Cultural Appreciation Day” where costumes are limited to “your own lived experience.” Somali students are allowed to dress as pirates.

November 2026

November 3: Midterm elections see Democrats roll out a giant, holographic, A.I. powered JFK to campaign for senate. Republicans lose three Senate seats to Democrat A.I. candidates and 17 House seats to people “no longer technically alive but identifying as alive”.
November 4: Vivek Ramaswamy indicates he’s now a Democrat, has always been a Democrat, and he’ll sue you if you dispute it.
November 23: Election night coverage lasts 20 straight days after Pennsylvania finds 400,000 mail-in ballots in a convenience store parking lot. A federal judge rules they must all be immediately counted, added to the vote total, and then burned.

December 2026

December 2: The incoming Speaker of the House, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announces that she will be filing a new impeachment charge against President Trump every day until “that mean poopy head stops making me sad.”
December 15: AOC announces that Christmas displays will be banned in public spaces unless they include Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Ramadan, and “Winter Solstice Inclusivity” elements.
December 22: Eggnog sales skyrocket as the only remaining legal way to cope with 2026 coming to an end.
New Year’s Eve: Times Square replaces the ball drop with a “gentle lowering of a non-geometrically conforming blob” to avoid triggering viewers.