And I’m still doing taxes. I’m missing a form from a broker, so unless I can get it electronically, it’s extension city.
Ugh.
*update, got the form online, taxes done. Taxes still suck.
In Which I Discuss What Mustard, Ramen, Historical Timekeeping, Fasting, And Booze Have In Common
“Oh, no. I gave it up for Lent.” – Fletch Lives
I heard the Pope saw a giant mouse and tried killing it with his bat. Now he’s the first Pontiff banned from Disneyland®.
I’m hoping everyone had a very Happy Easter, I know I did. And, if you’re Orthodox, I hope you have a Happy Easter this coming weekend. I know they’re not the same, and I think that the difference in dates has something to do with the metric system and/or the French, so there’s another reason to hate the metric system. There’s no real need to find another reason to hate the French.
Regardless, before Easter, there is Lent. Not every Christian observes Lent. And, just like The Matrix not every Christian knows what Lent even is.
Last year, though, I became more aware of Lent when a younger person was walking down the hallway at work with ash on their forehead. Immediately I blamed Gen Z’s lax grooming standards, but then dimly remembered it was Ash Wednesday.
So, I started researching. What the heck was Ash Wednesday? Well, it’s the start of Lent.
Turns out that Lent is something more than what I find in the drier after running a load of cotton shirts. It is 40-day period of fasting, prayer, repentance, and preparation for Easter. Adam Piggot had a post on fasting/diet during Lent on his now-MIA website, and the fasting part caught my eye.
Things Gen Z has to give up when fasting. (as found)
I’d fasted in the past, so I decided, what the heck. Lent is only 40 days, so I’ll put up with meager food for most of the week, swear off the elevator (our office has the only one this side of Pixley), and do a bit more research.
They lied.
Lent is totally not 40 days, it’s 46 days. Apparently, Catholics take Sunday off so they don’t count that in the period. Then there are a lot of specific restrictions on what they can eat and when. If you’re Catholic, you already know. If not, well, look it up. Summary: the Catholics have a bunch of rules.
Okay. Fine. But my food restriction would last Monday through Thursday since we have family dinners on Friday and Saturday. In 2025 I decided that would only eat a single package of ramen each of those days, and on Friday and Saturday I could eat whatever the family was having. Oh, and have whatever I wanted to drink on the weekends.
The Mrs. can’t attend next week’s Innuendo Conference, so I guess I’ll have to fill her slot instead.
Turns out that eating ramen is a great way to make sure you have enough sodium in your diet, which is great if you’re trying to keep your blood pressure up.
But I did notice something else: whenever I thought about cheating and having something other than boring ramen, I thought about the story of Jesus. Even if you’re not a believer (I am) the idea of Jesus suffering the whipping and Crucifixion made my “the only thing I can eat today is a package of ramen” seem really small and petty.
Eating nothing but ramen wasn’t going to kill me. I mean, high blood pressure might, but boring ramen wouldn’t.
That first Lent went fine.
For 2026, I decided to up the ante. I decided I would start the 46 day period the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. Why? Same reason as above: I’d do my 46 days, but I’d still eat with family on Friday and Saturday for evening meals.
Still not allowed during Lent 2026. (as found)
But from Sunday through Thursday night, five days a week? I’d eat nothing at all for 120 hours straight, every week, except vitamins. No food: not even a mustard packet. When I mentioned my planned Lenten eating schedule, The Mrs. scoffed:
“I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to do it. Are you making up your own rules and start some sort of cult?”
John Wilder: “Yes, and you can’t join because all of the followers are gonna have to shave off all their body hair and give up bathing for a year and dye themselves blue to show their purity. Or maybe immerse themselves in vegetable oil for a year. I’m still working out the details.”
I would have told my cult a joke about Jonestown, but the punchline was too long.
Also, I wouldn’t eat before 3pm on any day but Friday, which is when The Mrs. and I meet up at a local diner to have lunch every week. So, every week it would look like this:
All day Sunday-Thursday (the very soonest 3pm) no food.
Friday, Lunch and Dinner.
Saturday, Dinner, but no food at all until 3pm.
Why 3pm?
Because that’s when fasts could be broken during Lent in ye olde days. 3pm was the “ninth ecclesiastical hour”, or literally nine hours after the Sun came up. Back then all time was local. Noon was when the Sun was at its zenith and midnight was 12 hours later. Time zones started because railroads required them so they could accurately measure how late the train was.
In Latin was ninth ecclesiastical hour was called None (or “Nona Hora”). And that’s when the fast for the day could be broken.
Makes sense, right? Nine hours after 6am is . . . 3pm.
Except . . . when you say that word, None, it’s pronounced like “known”. And is the basis for a word you’re familiar with.
Noon.
Wait. Noon isn’t at 3pm. Noon is at 12:00pm.
In no place except when I lived in Fairbanks was noon nine hours after the Sun rose.
What gives?
The medieval folks were dirty cheaters, and wanted to eat, so since they could only eat after the ninth hour, they pretended that 12:00pm was 3pm. I am not making any of this up.
Cheaters.
I, however, would not be a dirty cheater. Except for on Friday. And since I’m making my own rules in advance, it’s not cheating.
I did not give up cigars. (as found)
Let’s address the elephant in the room: on whose authority am I making up my own rules.
Well, mine. I’m not a Catholic because of the 180-day probationary period and all the paperwork (it might require a Papal decree to get me in, don’t ask) and they wanted a blood sample and a credit report.
Or maybe that was my first job?
Regardless, I’m not trying to meet a particular set of rules. And my variations were primarily there to keep closer relations with my family.
Besides, the Orthodox start their Lent on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, too and I think you can join them without shaving off all of your body hair and not bathing for a year, though they can eat as much shrimp and seafood as they want during Lent.
No, I wasn’t trying to follow a set of rules with Lent. I did it for the intent: to get closer to the Big Guy.
I guess this is why cats were created. (as found)
Also, I’d give up booze for the whole period.
Sigh. Yup. All 46 days. I also resolved to pray, but I didn’t set hard and fast rules on how much and when. But I did pray.
The results?
I think Lent worked. I met every goal that I set. I’m down at least one size on my pants. Several aches and pains seem to disappear entirely when I’m in a fasted state.
That’s good, and it probably means I should figure out what I’m eating that’s causing it.
I also got 10 more hours of sleep a week, which might sound decadent but it’s really moving from 5 hours a night to 7 hours a night.
And, yeah, I feel closer to The Big Guy and am much more grateful. The primary goal was accomplished. If you look at the memes, though, you can see I’m still an awful human being, but we already knew that and at least I feel bad about it now.
Would parts of this work for a non-believer? Certainly.
Am I asking you to do what I did?
Absolutely not. This is completely a YMMV situation.
You know who you are. (as found)
To celebrate the end of Lent, I’m gonna take my cult out for seafood like the Orthodox get to eat all during Lent. I’m cheap and seafood is expensive here, but tonight we’ll just be one big happy blue oyster cult.
Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: The Danger Zone, 2026
“Don’t they know you’re in the danger zone?” – Archer
I got kicked out of the bar for attempting to karaoke “Danger Zone” three times in a row. Too many Loggins attempts.
- 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 11
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 – Danger Zone – Violence and Censorship Update – 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 below) 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.
Danger Zone
Trump was elected based on the desire of the electorate for change.
The immiseration of the people of the United States had been a constant for decades through both Republican and Democrat. One example of this immiseration was through pumping the wealth out of workers through things like bringing in unending hordes of illegal aliens as the GloboLeft galloped left at full speed.
The GloboLeftElite loved this because it diluted the Founding Stock of the United States. The Chamber of Commerce Right loved it because they could get cheaper wages from people who couldn’t really complain about being treated unfairly because they were here illegally. H-1Bs, who Trump criticized during his 2016 campaign, were just a legal version of illegal strawberry pickers from Venezuela, making wages go down for white collar workers as well.
Trump was elected not only because of that single issue, but it was a very big issue to his supporters. Controlling illegals had upwards of 80% approval in the 1980s and 1990s, but yet neither side really wanted to stop it because both profited.
In general, by the time Trump showed up, people were very tired of their government working mainly for those with access and cash rather than, you know, the voters. In this, Trump’s appeal was as a populist, nationalist, and traditionalist.
Well, we can play pretend about the traditional bit, but he certainly sold it.
So where does that put us?
We’ve already seen the early tremors of increased unrest in March: those four terrorism-linked incidents and the “No Kings” protests that pulled in eight million GloboLeftists. They were only slightly fiery and were mostly peaceful, I guess. But the Trump Derangement Syndrome was thick enough to cut with a knife.
I’ve said it before, but my call as the window of peak danger of civil unrest, maybe heading to something spicier is still late June through mid-August
First, the destabilizing bits: Economic pain from the Iran/Israel military action is the big one. Fuel prices are climbing, diesel surcharges are right now hitting shipping and farming. Fertilizer costs will soon be pushing pushing grocery inflation toward 3%
Or 6%.
Or worse.
That’s not abstract. It’s a hidden tax that hits those with lower incomes first and hardest, and makes everyone irritable. Add in the war’s unpopularity with polls hovering around 54-60% of Americans against it. There has been no national proposition given, and certainly no big “rally around the flag” moment.
The GloboLeft mobilizes like they did with No Kings™ and they just want to make things burn.
March already brought terror incidents noted below in the Violence and Censorship Update. A few more sparks with no arrests and no controls?
The result is backlash cycles, copycats, and overreactions that make GloboLeftist cities feel like powder kegs. I’m rating it high on the economic front, medium-high on the polarization and protest momentum, medium on the terrorism angle.
All of it adds up an area more prone to wildfire than the land underneath an electrical pole in California.
Certainly, there’s another side. Trump’s weakened position and the very real shot at Democratic midterm gains will weigh huge in the minds of the GloboLeftist: they don’t need to burn down Portland (again) they just need to wait.
History shows midterms punish the president’s party when approval sits in the 39-40% range, and right now the numbers point to the GloboLeft taking the House and maybe challenging the Senate. That gives the opposition a concrete, non-violent outlet: organize, fundraise, vote, investigate, block funding, block nominees to federal courts, including the Supreme Court (Clarence, might be time to retire, bro).
Anger may get channeled into ballots instead of barricades and barista rage. We saw the same pattern after big protest waves before on the GloboLeft: energy shifts from streets to strategy sessions.
The biggest golden opportunity is if some miracle happens in Iran and things go back to normal, quickly. The TradRight’s base remains pretty cohesive, and if it winds down Maduro-fast, economic relief may (and I stress may) follow.
The other major factor is that Americans have a habit of bending instead of breaking when elections loom. Post-2020 lessons mean better law enforcement prep and more public fatigue with endless disorder.
Net result? The system may (again, may) direct the pressure into polarized politics rather than national breakdown.
A perfect storm would look like prolonged war, major terror attack, economic crash with no relief and the sort of political agitation that took George Floyd from dead junkie to St. George. Don’t think that wasn’t engineered to make Trump look bad.
My timing of greatest risk in 2026? Late June to mid-August.
Heat and aggression go together like cheap beer, dark bars, and bad decisions. Decades of studies show violence and collective unrest spike with temperature. Violence pops roughly 9% higher for every 20°F jump, up to about 85°F. Over that, the “It’s too hot to do anything” starts to kick in. But historically, the United States has had to deal with violence peaking during hot summers.
Look at the “long hot summers” of the 1960s, the 1919 Red Summer peaks, Watts in 1965, or how George Floyd protests exploded and dragged through June-August 2020. People are outside more, school’s out, protests feel easier.
Add the perceptual distance from the November midterms. If you can’t save enough to pay the rent, an election 3 to 4.5 months away feels like nothing’s happening fast enough.
Summer heat just turns the volume up on whatever tinder already exists.
Pulling the whole thread together: March gave us the preview of early terror incidents plus those historic-scale protests that acted as both pressure valve and polarization amplifier. The hypothetical Iran mess layers on economic stress and extremism risks that could intensify by summer.
Late June to mid-August lines up as my bet for peak trouble because of the heat, the calendar gap, and the precedent.
The midterm outlet remains the strongest stabilizer. The Left gets a path to power without needing indefinite street theater and endless pictures of fugly women with unshaved pits.
Keep an eye on June.
(No second story this month, this one got long enough)
Violence and Censorship Update
Violence is back on the menu, boys:
On March 1, Ndiaga Diagne was upset about Iran, and is alleged to have killed 3 and injured 15 after opening fire in a bar in Austin, Texas.
March 7 brought us a moslem throwing a homemade bomb while at a rally of people who were protesting to keep moslems in the United States.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh went postal at Old Dominion University, but was killed after murdering one on March 12.
On March 28 the “No Kings” protest against Trump saw 3000 plus groups of GloboLeftists claiming a total of eight million protestors, with hundreds of arrests nationally of GloboLeftists initiating violence.
Censorship?
Europe is still king, with more arrests for memes or any opinion on immigration or moslem violence that didn’t regard moslem violence as deserving of praise, so, no change.
Misery Index
The new Trump administration is shown in red. Results continue to be much better than Biden’s misery numbers, though this is Trump’s worst month of his second term.
Behold, the Miserito!
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 have maintained a high level this month. This is one of the top five months of the last 84 (the CW Weather Report started in June, 2019).
Political Instability:
Down is more stable, and it went up this month. I anticipate it going up again in April, especially since half of the population hates Americans and 40% of the other half don’t want a war with Iran.
Economic:
The economy took a drop this month, and the war in the Gulf will place exponential pressure on economies worldwide.
Illegal Aliens:
Still the near lowest level since the Weather Report started.
Still think this isn’t intentional?
LINKS
The links are again done by Ricky this month. Thanks, Ricky!
BAD GUYS
https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/posts/116229877704839706
https://x.com/KaitMarieox/status/2033675929893937643
GOOD GUYS
https://x.com/i/status/2031806808273158565
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/e49b6-gunman-who-shot-2-people-at-old-dominion-university-in-virginia-is-dead-college-says/
BODY COUNT
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/03/17/17_veterans_kill_themselves_a_day_waiting_17_days_for_help_1170858.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15681689/five-states-americans-flocking-leaving-droves.html
VOTE COUNT
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/monfbi-secretly-seizes-election-records-arizonas-largest-county-voting
https://x.com/realmuckraker/status/2034705353133498674
https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2036527947255788007
CIVIL WAR (OURS)
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54090-how-many-americans-want-their-state-to-secede
https://www.wired.com/story/dont-listen-anyone-who-thinks-secession-will-solve-anything/
https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/revolutionary-kind/
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/state/2026/03/31/what-to-know-about-newmexit-texas-lawmakers-plan-at-annexing-new-mexico-counties-wanting-to-secede/89368928007/
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-return-of-staten-islands-secession-movement
https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/01/26/colorado-rethink-place-in-country/
https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2026/02/06/calexit-what-californias-secession-movement-means/88548491007/
https://thehilltoponline.com/2026/03/02/civil-war-parallels-resurface-as-political-divisions-deepen/
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/something-civil-war-eric-metaxas-and-james-kunstler-suggest-trump-needs-outlaw
https://zeptabot.substack.com/p/the-techno-libertarian-manifesto
CIVIL WAR (THEIRS)
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/03/31/canadas-buyback-deadline-is-here-and-most-banned-guns-havent-been-handed-over-n1232060
https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/apr/02/in-oil-rich-canadian-province-long-shot-secession-bid-gains-traction/
https://modernity.news/2026/03/28/watch-eu-parliament-told-continent-is-on-track-for-civil-war/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g4v9mzxro
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/27/who-is-fighting-in-myanmars-multi-front-civil-war
https://religionnews.com/2026/03/26/growing-up-during-sri-lankas-civil-war-taught-me-that-getting-along-with-people-across-divides-is-a-virtue-we-can-learn/
The Dog Ate My Homework
Feeling a bit under the weather, did have half-ish of the Civil War 2.0 Weather Report done, but ran out of umph. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.
The Academy Awards Suck: Who Should Have Won
“Hey, everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!” – Back to School
Yeah, someone’s gonna tell me that M-16 isn’t Vietnam accurate and that Morgan Freeman never carjacked Miss Daisy.
This may be the last of the movie series. I suppose I could do more in the 1990s, but movies today are just depressing. I’ll likely just review a few series and movies when they really tickle my fancy. Enjoy the list, it is what it is.
1985 Best Picture: Out of Africa
Out of Africa is boring. Really boring. It’s 161 minutes of a woman talking about her problems. I don’t want to hear anyone talk about their problems for 161 minutes, let alone Meryl Streep, who I hate with the fire of a thousand suns. I. Hate. This. Movie. I. Hate. Meryl. Streep.
1985: Should Have Been Best Picture: Vision Quest
This is such a low bar to beat. A documentary on the production of aluminum foil would beat Out of Africa in my book, and by a lot, since that might be interesting. How about Vision Quest? It has a chick in it, right? And it’s something much more than the dreary story of a woman in Africa who gets V.D. from her husband. Nope, it’s about a man who is on a . . . well, vision quest. Arthur Sido, frequent visitor had a great post on this a while back and I hope he posts it below because I’m too lazy to look it up.
1985 Best Actor: William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
William Hurt can act. He was really good in the TV movie of Dune. But this movie? It’s horrible. It’s a commie talking to a gay guy after being put in a prison by a right-wing South American dictator, so real fantasy material for the GloboLeftistElite that vote on awards for this kind of crap. Me? I would have made a movie congratulating the dictator and asking if he got all the commies.
1985: Should Have Been Best Actor: Jeffrey Combs, Re-Animator.
You guys know me by now, and I’m a sucker for H.P. Lovecraft done well, and Re-Animator is perhaps the best. Yet, best actor to a guy in a B-level horror movie? Why not? Seems like the last winner in 2026 was in a B-level horror movie, and Jeffrey Combs knocks this role out of the park, managing to capture the manic energy of crazed scientist Herbert West. How good was he? Combs could have remained famous for just this role. If you don’t like horror, this one isn’t for you, but if like Lovecraft, jump on in.
1985: Hottest Actress: Kathleen Turner.
Sure, she looks like Jabba the Hut® before Ozempic® now, but she was smokin’ in the 1980s, and Jewel of the Nile showed her off pretty well.
1986 Best Picture: Platoon
I saw Platoon once, in a theater. It was utterly demoralizing. I’m not discounting the quality of the writing or acting or cinematography. Those were there. And Oliver Stone did spend time in-country and got two Purple Hearts, so realism might be there, too. But I think this was a priming movie for the 1990s and making America doubt itself. Making us ask ourselves “Are we the good guys?” is just one step away from “let’s import the third world to replace us, because we’re evil.”
1986 Should Have Been Best Picture: Highlander
The joy of this movie for me is that it was so fresh, so new, and such a great take on an older idea of what would an immortal man do? Queen’s® soundtrack meshed perfectly, and although it was a dud at the box office, it had long lasting cultural impact. Plus? It celebrates good people doing the right things.
1986 Best Actor: Paul Newman, Fast Eddie Felson, The Color of Money
Just like Elon Musk forgot Bernie Sanders was alive, The Color of Money was a movie that I forgot existed. It was meh. And Paul Newman was a Hollywood GloboLeftElite favorite due to his hard-left positions, so they decided to give him a pity Oscar™ in 1986 for playing the same character he always played in movies.
1986: Should Have Been Best Actor: Rodney Dangerfield, Back to School
If you’re gonna give someone an Oscar® for playing the same character in every movie, who better than Rodney Dangerfield. But he got no respect, let me tell ya.
1986 Hottest Actress: Helen Slater, Ruthless People. What can I say? I have a type.
1987 Best Picture: The Last Emperor
I thought I saw this? On video, maybe? But reading the summary, probably not. An alternate title: Sucks to be This Guy.
1987 Should Have Been Best Picture: Predator
This coming-of-age story about a young girl in Victorian England and the struggles she faces with class . . . HA! NO! Bombs. Guns. Aliens on hunting trips. Killing commies. GET TO THE CHOPPA! Again, more cultural impact than The Last Emperor. I mean, did they make six sequels to The Last Emperor? No. I do think the last few sequels to Predator have been yet more targeted demoralization, but Predator? No.
1987 Best Actor: Micheal Douglas, Wall Street
Yeah, yeah, greed is good. Whatever.
1987 Should Have Been Best Actor: Arnold Schwarzenneger, Predator
Hear me out.
In that scene where Arnold is covered in mud and at the bank of the river and the Predator™ doesn’t see him? I actually bought that Arnold was scared. Rather than just being a big dude, he actually started acting in this movie.
1987 Hottest Actress: Kim Catrell. Fight me. Loser has to bench press 2026 Kathleen Turner. Or we could make it a contest: Kathleen Turner-Overdrive.
1988 Best Picture: Rain Man
I guess Han Zimmer’s music was good, especially for a movie that’s all about taking advantage of your retarded brother. And that’s all I have to say about that.
1988 Best Picture Should Have Been: Willow
I had no preconceptions when I walked in to watch Willow. It’s a charming Tolkien-esque story about dwarves and brave men (Val Kilmer) who bang hot women (Joanne Whalley) who aren’t nearly as tough as they think they are. It also stars Warwick Davis, who I really have no desire to imprison in my basement and torture with hand tools during a thunderstorm. No desire at all.
I promise.
The Warwick Davis digression will make sense to about three of you, but that’s okay.
1988 Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
Another proof (like Forrest Gump) that you always win an award if you go retard, but not full retard. Dustin Hoffman is tool who starred in demoralization movies for most of his life intended to destroy the basic fabric of American life, plus he’s an insufferable gaping GloboLeftElite member, probably only second to Richard Dreyfuss in this club. Outside of that I’m sure this talentless commie hack who hates you is an okay guy.
1988 Best Actor Should Have Been: Chevy Chase, Funny Farm
Chevy Chase is another person who has a reputation as being insufferable and serving the GloboLeftElite, but at least he’s funny and racist. This is easily his best movie, and he plays a self-absorbed liar who is pretending to have talents he doesn’t actually have. So, it’s a natural for Chevy. Good movie, and I can’t imagine anyone better to play the part.
1988 Hottest Actress: Kathy Ireland.
Yes, she’s hot, but she can’t read so therefore doesn’t know any of her lines. But she’s hot, which is what this category is for, not acting.
1989 Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy
Who was this movie for? Why was it made? It’s a made-up story that is (again) a demoralization show about how awful Americans are. The only thing good about this movie is that, again, Hans Zimmer did the music. I don’t remember the music, but, Hans Zimmer sounds like a name that could have been a Prussian infantry commander against the French in 1871, and I’m really in favor of that. All the copies of this movie should be dropped in a pit and everyone involved in the production (except Hans Zimmer) should be sent to Tuvalu without air conditioning until they write 100,000 words of apology without ChatGPT®. I am likely alone in this opinion, but the rest of you can just be wrong. Also, how damn long has Morgan Freeman been 70?
1989 Best Picture Should Have Been: The Experts
John Travolta and Arye Gross and Kelly Preston and Deborah Foreman and James Keach. What a cast! The plot? Stupid Americans from New York are kidnapped and drugged and taken to “Nebraska” which is really somewhere in Siberia to a Soviet spy camp. Their job? To teach Soviet spies how actual Americans act. The hidden remoralization: the “experts” end up corrupting the Soviet spies who were raised based on a 1950s set of American values. The ending shows that those values are far superior to the 1980s “modern” values. It’s a comedy, not a documentary, but, damn, it’s funny.
1989 Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot
Never saw it. Daniel Day-Lewis should be banned from Oscar® contention because he can’t figure out what his last name is and he’s Irish Catholic. Or Irish Protestant. Whatever. I guess he was okay as Batman®.
1989 Best Actor Should Have Been: Anthony Edwards, Miracle Mile
I think about six people saw this movie, which is about a guy who picks up a wrong number at a phone booth (two things that don’t exist now) and discovers that nuclear war (one thing that still does) is inbound in an hour or so. Or is it? Great tension, and Anthony Edwards really knocks it out of the park, especially when he pretends to be attracted to Mare Winningham. Seriously, why would you name your daughter “Mare”? Good movie.
1989 Hottest Actress: Kelly Preston, The Experts
Pump it up, homeboy. Indeed.
That’s all folks. Foodfight below. Where are you wrong do you disagree?
The Right Man For The Job
Casualties Of War: Africa, A.I., India . . . And Europe?
“I had the titular role in Out of Africa.” – Upright Citizens Brigade
Will that work? I have my droughts.
World economic systems are straining due to the current IAI (Israel, America, Iran) war. One of the lessons learned from previous economic crises is that issues show up at the weak points first. Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, people in the Arab world were revolting.
I mean rebelling.
One big driver was the inflation that had hit the area. What caused the inflation?
Well, money printing in the United States due to the 2008 Great Recession had finally spread internationally to the Middle East. Certainly, the Middle East is already as stable as a methed-up stripper ex-girlfriend whose rent-check just bounced, so adding vodka to the mix didn’t help.
Countries burned.
They overthrew their governments, and when they didn’t like the new ones, went and got the old ones back. This was caused at least in part because the Arabs were hungry and food was too damn expensive. Can’t farm the desert, so might as well blow the place up.
Which they did.
Once again, the Middle East is center of worldwide economic stress and it’s moving quickly across the world.
Bigfoot is confused with sasquatch, yeti never complains.
In Australia, they’re running out of something they call petrol. If only they knew about gasoline!
In India, they’re running out of fertilizer so it will be difficult to line the streets with poo.
In Taiwan, soon enough they’ll be running low on helium, which is a byproduct of natural gas processing.
Helium?
Yeah, they need lots of helium to make computer chips so that you can make Internet cat pictures that are photorealistic plus I think they huff it a lot which is why they can’t pronounce “R”. Regardless, here’s an A.I. cat for you:
But one place that will certainly be having difficulty is Africa. Africa is the basketcase of the world.
Why? For starters, Africa imports 85% of its food.
85%.
85%.
Why? Farming is apparently too hard, and whenever they have a few white people farming and feeding Africa, black people decide they’ll take the magic farm and get rich. Except they don’t. Lush, productive farms fall into disrepair, but, hey, the Africans who looted the place ate for a day.
Not only that, their governments are also basketcases. In almost every country, the government requires copious amounts of foreign aid to get anything done. I’d make more fun of them, but then I think about our budget deficit and go, “Oh, yeah, at least in America we know some payday lenders.”
So, since they have to bring in food and can’t care for themselves in any way at all, at least they’re doing the responsible thing by keeping their wombs from being clown cars and not having hundreds of millions of children that they have no way to feed, right?
No. They’re turning their wombs into clown cars and having hundreds of millions of children that they have no way to feed.
And, of course, they’ll blame us. In this case, they might be right. We’ve taken a group of civilizations whose only actual contributions to the world are raw materials and AIDS and given them medicine and food. Since the entire continent has been in super-fertile rabbit mode since forever (r/K biology –link below), what did they do with effectively unlimited food and a drastically reduced child mortality?
r/K Selection Theory, or Why Thanksgiving is Tense* (for some people)
Breed.
They’ve gone from a reasonable 10% of the population of the world when I was a kid to more than double that today, as the world population has doubled. They double-doubled. And they were starving and dying when I was a kid.
Regardless, it’s like someone turned on the “African-making machine” and left it on overnight. For decades. And, their population is projected to be some silly number like 40% of the world’s population by 2100.
(as-found)
But that will never happen. Why? Because a big crisis, like the one we’ll be seeing soon due to the IAI war, will simply remove the excess wealth that sends medicine and food down to Africa. We all know what happens next: the senseless deaths, the violence, the revolutions, the cannibalism.
Oh, wait, that’s Africa when things are going well. Things will soon enough get much darker on the Dark Continent as the wealth spigot dries up. I can’t imagine that Europe will continue to absorb them there, either, but then again I never thought the West would be committing collective cultural suicide like it is today.
Sadly, not AI or a horror movie. (as-found)
The IAI war isn’t some far-off desert dust-up that only affects oil futures and late-night cable news. It’s a live-action stress test on every fragile supply chain we’ve built since the last big reset. Oil tankers with $100,000,000 cargos reroute around the Red Sea like it’s a game of dodgeball with $3,000 drones. Grain ships that used to feed half the planet now sit idle or pay pirate insurance that would make your mortgage look cheap.
Fertilizer plants in Europe and Asia that run on Middle Eastern natural gas?
Yeah, those are suddenly “strategic assets” instead of just boring factories. The ripple hits the weak points first, just like it always does. Australia’s petrol shortages aren’t because they suddenly forgot how to drill and can’t figure out how to spell “gasoline” it’s because the tankers that used to show up like clockwork are now playing naval chicken in the Strait of Hormuz.
India’s fertilizer crunch? More natural gas.
And Taiwan’s helium? That’s not some niche nerd problem. Helium keeps the fabs running so your phone can update and your cat video can render in 8K. No helium, no chips.
No chips, no economy that looks even vaguely modern.
It’s all connected, and the connections are fraying faster than a cheap suit at my uncle’s funeral. Africa just happens to be the thinnest thread on the whole sweater. They don’t grow enough food to feed themselves on a good day. They don’t manufacture much beyond raw materials that richer countries turn into actual products. Their governments run on foreign aid the way a junkie runs on his next fix.
And while the rest of the world was busy printing money and inventing new genders, Africa was busy doing what r-selected populations do best when you hand them calories and medicine: exploding in numbers.
The math is brutal and it doesn’t care about feelings. When the aid stops, when the container ships prioritize Europe and Asia over charity runs to the Sahel, when the NGOs pack up because the insurance premiums are higher than their budgets, the party ends. Not with a polite “thank you for the fish,” but with the kind of scenes that make Arab Spring look like a polite disagreement at a PTA meeting.
Who has two thumbs and a poor grasp of visual humor? This guy. (as-found)
We helped create the conditions. Not out of malice, but out of the same soft-hearted, soft-headed Western instinct that says “we have extra, so let’s share.”
We shared vaccines.
We shared grain.
All this while infant mortality plummeted and fertility stayed at levels that would make a rabbit blush.
The result?
The bill is coming due, and the IAI war is just the guy in the suit who shows up to repossess the furniture. Europe already has its hands full with the last wave. America is staring at its own debt mountain and wondering why the grocery bill looks like a car payment. Australia and India and Taiwan are discovering that “just-in-time” supply chains work great until the “just-in-time” part becomes “just-in-case the war lasts another six months.”
The weak points crack.
Then the stronger ones start groaning.
Then the whole system starts looking for someone to blame.
The Dark Continent is about to get darker. Revolutions, famines, the whole greatest-hits album of human misery played on repeat.
(as-found)
And the rest of the world? We’ll be too busy trying to keep our own lights on to send another aid convoy. And I worry the most about rebellion here. Especially among the cows.
I can’t abide a mootiny.
The War Against Your Life: Noelia Castillo And The Machinery of Medically Assisted Murder
“All of you, just wait and listen to me! You can wrap it up any way you like. You are about to commit murder.” – The Wicker Man (1973)
(all memes as found)
The GloboLeftElite views human life, especially Western human life, as a blot on the world.
To them, it’s problem to be managed, a resource to be harvested and replaced. They do not say this in public. They wrap their policies in the language of compassion, equity, and progress. But the results speak louder than any press release: lives destroyed, families shattered, and the quiet erasure of the people who built the West and the modern world.
No better proof exists than the case of Noelia Castillo Ramos, who was recently murdered as a needle entered her arm and injected chemicals that ended in her death.
In 2022, Noelia was a teenager living with her family in Spain. Her family lost their home. The state, in its infinite benevolence, sent officers, perhaps a dozen cops, to remove her from her parents’ care and place her in a government-run group home. There she would be “properly cared for.”
The home housed her alongside North African migrant youths. Many of these “youths,” as is common across Europe, were not teenagers but men in their twenties and thirties who found that pretending to be a teen gave them invincibility to the European legal system and access to (actual) teenage girls.
Noelia was allegedly gang-raped. Multiple times. Sources across social media and independent reports describe three separate assaults, at least two of them involving groups. She tried to report the rapes. According to accounts, staff, GloboLeftist women running the facility, refused to allow formal complaints. I can only assume that they thought that documenting the crimes would make the “migrant youths” look bad.
Better to protect the narrative than the girl, right?
Broken, Noelia made a desperate choice. By her own later admission, she was coked up when she jumped from the fifth floor of a building. She survived the fall, but she was left paraplegic. Noelia was trapped in a body that no longer obeyed her and a system that had already failed her at every turn.
She requested medically assisted murder (MAM), the clinical euphemism for state-approved killing. Spain legalized euthanasia in 2021. The request was reviewed.
Approved.
On March 26, 2026, Noelia Castillo Ramos was euthanized at Hospital Residencia Sant Camil near Barcelona. She was twenty-five years old.
Her organs were almost certainly harvested. In countries that have embraced MAM, organ procurement follows the death, often coordinated so efficiently that viable organs are taken while the patient is still alive under anesthesia. We don’t allow that with animals: we call that vivisection.
Hospitals bill for the procedures to put those organs in other bodies. Transplant networks profit. And in the macabre calculus of the system, those organs may well have gone to the very migrant rapists whose presence destroyed her.
The rapists? Free. Never arrested. Likely still living on government benefits in government housing, fathering the next generation of “youths” who will speak a foreign language and practice a foreign culture to Spain.
The group home operators? Unpunished. The state officials who removed her from her family? Still removing other children. The women who allegedly silenced her reports? Still employed. The GloboLeftElite that welcomed the invasion and then covered for its consequences?
Still in power.
If this were an isolated tragedy, we could mourn it and move on. It is not. Instead of an individual, let’s zoom out and look at a system. After all, a system is what it does.
Look at Canada.
Medically Assisted Murder accounted for 5% of deaths in 2024, one in twenty Canadians dying by state injection. The growth rate slowed to “only” 16% in 2023 after averaging 31% in prior years, but the machine is still accelerating. MAM is now the fifth leading cause of death in the country.
96% of those killed are white. Whites make up about 70% of Canada’s population. The disparity is not random. It is the predictable outcome of a policy aimed at the historic population of the West.
Canada does not merely allow MAM, it actively promotes it.
Government literature, hospital protocols, and even Veterans Affairs have offered MAM to veterans facing long wait times for care, to the disabled, to the poor, and to those whose only “illness” is poverty or despair. Cases now include people with chronic pain, neurological conditions, frailty, and socioeconomic desperation. Poor people.
Ontario data shows that among non-terminal MAM recipients, over 25% lived in the poor areas. The state does not heal: it offers the needle.
Organ donation after MAM has become a growth industry. Canada leads the world in the percentage of MAM deaths followed by organ procurement. Hospitals and transplant programs benefit financially. The same system that fails to protect the vulnerable in life profits bigly from their death.
The abusers are never punished. The bureaucrats who run the homes, the politicians who open the borders, the activists who scream “racist” at anyone who notices the pattern always remain untouched. The invading migrant populations imported by the GloboLeftElite continue to receive housing, benefits, and protection while native girls like Noelia are removed from their families, violated, silenced, and finally killed.
This is not incompetence. It is not a series of unfortunate accidents. It is the system functioning exactly as designed. A system is what it does.
The GloboLeftElite has made their priorities clear for years.
Western birth rates collapse under the weight of taxes, housing costs, delayed marriage, and cultural contempt. Families are undermined. Children are taken by the state under pretexts of “safety.” Migrants are imported in numbers that guarantee cultural replacement.
Crime spikes, especially sexual crime against native women and girls, yet reporting is suppressed and prosecution avoided to protect the narrative. When native men can’t find jobs because they are replaced by nepotistic ethnicities or cheap third world labor, it is celebrated. When the victims break through drugs, despair, or suicide attempts, the state offers not justice or healing but death.
And then it harvests the remains for profit.
Noelia Castillo is not an outlier. She is the logical endpoint of the system doing what it was designed to do.
A girl taken from her family, housed with the invaders the elite celebrate, raped, silenced, crippled, and finally euthanized. Her death removes one more native European from the ledger. Her organs may sustain others, perhaps a new heart goes to the very demographic the GloboLeftElite has decided will inherit the continent.
The rapists breed. The state continues its removals. The machine hums on.
The GloboLeftists celebrate, openly now, another victory, another white womb removed from the equation, another family line aborted before it started.
The emotional weight of this cannot be softened.
Imagine the final moments: Noelia, paralyzed, knowing the men who destroyed her walked free while she faced the needle. The pinch as the injection enters the vein. The slow fade. The last conscious thought that the system which failed her at every step had now decided her life was the problem to be solved.
That is the future the GloboLeftElite has built. Not for themselves: they live happily behind walls and private security. No, this future is for you, for your children, for every Western family that still believes the state exists to protect them.
The West is being euthanized. Not in one dramatic collapse, but one approved injection at a time. One silenced rape report. One removed child. One body of harvested organs. One replaced line of children and grandchildren who will never walk the Earth.
And the people who designed it, cheered it, and profit from it sleep soundly, secure in the knowledge that the blot they despise is finally being erased.
There is no softer way to say it.
The needle is already in the arm of the civilization that built the modern world. The question is whether we will watch it empty, or whether we will stop the hand that pushes the plunger?
The Time Of Your Life
“There are some spare fuses in the crawlspace.” – Scary Movie 3
If I had a dime for every time I think about you, I’d definitely think about you.
Often, we spend much on things of little value, and little on things of great value. I’m not the first to observe that, some dead Greek or Roman (probably both) beat me to it by thousands of years.
Regardless, it’s one of those truths that hits like a freight train when I remember it, but until then, it’s just humming along in the background of my life like the fridge in the kitchen or the bodies buried in the crawlspace. There, but we just don’t think about them.
It’s easy to chase the shiny, the expensive, the Facebook™ fodder by pouring cash and hours into stuff that delivers about as much lasting joy as a two-week-old ham sandwich served by a lunch lady that looks too much like Ellen DeGeneres.
Meanwhile, the really good stuff, the stuff that actually fills my soul and makes me excited and glad to be alive, sits there free for the taking, and we walk right past it like it’s yesterday’s newspaper.
Take a sunset.
My first girlfriend reminded me of a sunset: purple and hard on the eyes.
Not some fancy resort sunset that cost $5,000 and six hours in an airplane after the TSA cavity search to see. Just the one out my front window, or even on the drive home. Those shockingly bright filaments of cloud turning the sky into purples and oranges and pinks that no paint company has ever quite matched. That experience costs exactly zero dollars and maybe minutes of my life to really look deeper at the world around me and see the wonders embedded there.
I can stand, tilt my head, and for that brief moment connect to something bigger than my to-do list or 401(k) balance. Natural beauty is raw and free in the Recommended Daily Allowance, and served whether anyone notices or not. I’ve had days where that pause reset my entire mood.
No app, no subscription, no ticket required.
Or this blog, for that matter. Sure, you say, “Wilder, how can you be so funny? It’s drugs, isn’t it?”
No, dear friends, that’s silly, unless you call sunsets, puppies wagging their tail, purring cats, alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine drugs! What nonsense!
What’s the difference between meth and math? Meth is a stimulant, math is a depressant.
But I get a lot of enjoyment out of the writing, which is why I do it.
It’s the same with a good book, which I can get at the library for free because they don’t have a good anti-theft system. Or a conversation with The Mrs. over coffee that isn’t about bills or schedules or why the carpet is wet again.
This is free. Abundant, even.
Ben Franklin nailed it 5,000 years ago when he designed the Great Pyramid: “If thou lovest life then wasteth not time, for that is what lifeth is madeth of. And, a little lower and to the left.”
Time is the one resource I can’t buy more of, can’t borrow, and that I can’t refinance.
Every second I spend is gone forever.
The opposite side of the coin is even uglier.
How many times did I give away the truly precious stuff: hours, health, relationships . . . for pennies?
I asked seven CEOs “what’s the secret of your success?” and they each answered the same way, “How did you get in my house?”
So many people trade five full days a week doing work they actively hate for the fleeting dopamine hit of a weekend. I get it. It’s called a job, not a hobby, for a reason and that reason is that they give you money for it. Bills gotta get paid, mouths gotta eat. But when the dread starts Sunday afternoon and doesn’t let up until Friday at 5 p.m., I’m not living. I’m enduring.
And enduring is what prisoners do.
The rest of us, unless you’re literally locked up because those pesky kids kept snooping around and just would leave it alone, have choices.
Real choices. The guy staring back at me in the mirror every morning is usually the one who got me into whatever fix I’m in.
Bad career move? My choice.
Skipped the workout? My choice.
Put off that hard conversation? Yep, still me.
But here’s the kicker: we’re all surrounded by free gold.
I guess he caught the Germans with their panzers down.
A walk outside costs nothing and gives me fresh air, movement, and a chance to clear my head. Gratitude practiced daily, literally just listing three things I’m thankful for, rewires my brain toward the good. There are millions of these things that surround us. I can remember when I met The Mrs. (at that time, The Miss). If you took the square root of our net worth at the time, it would have an imaginary component because it took digging even to get to zero.
I worried less then than I do now. Quality of life is more about gratitude and hope than it is about net worth. Understanding that I will die gives me power, and no excuse for not going all in. I don’t get an extra prize for running out the clock.
Purpose and consequences are the secret ingredients to the Big Mac® of life. Easy happiness is cheap: a little weed, endless video games, or passive scrolling. It’s bliss without accomplishment, and it leaves everyone who follows that path hollow inside.
Real happiness, the kind that sticks, comes from choosing what’s worth being temporarily uncomfortable for. It’s never as glamorous as the movies make it look. No montage, no random hot stranger fixing your life, no making punji sticks to impale the crooked sheriff just because he hated Vietnam vets. Nope. Just brutal honesty, some discomfort, and the slow compound interest of time spent wisely, though you can still make the punji sticks.
Me? I’m trying to audit the tradeoffs. Where am I spending much on little? Where am I skimping on the great?
The bright side is at Easter they get their bunnies for nothing. And Peeps® for free.”
We’re all headed to the same exit ramp. The good news is, until then, most of us get to choose how we spend those miles unless a pack of comedic crime-fighting kids and a dog start snooping around my crawlspace. The guy in the mirror is the one who decides. Choose the sunset. Choose the conversation. Choose the book on the deck. Choose the work that doesn’t feel like slow death. Stack the free wins.
They compound faster than any investment account, and the dividends are paid in meaning, not just money.
The Double Debt Mountain of 2026
“It’s just a metaphor, dude.” – Guardians of the Galaxy
I had bad credit, so I asked my high school geometry teacher if she’d cosine for me.
The economy looks “fine” on the surface. Fine, that is, if you believe the headlines. I sense, though, underneath it’s a double debt mountain that’s getting closer to a landslide every day, and someone is planting bombs along the slope. Okay, that’s a lot of metaphor. Let me see if I can pilot this ship home.
Damn. Another metaphor.
One bomb is the wallets of the kids.
The other bomb is in Washington.
Both are set to blow up the same people: Millennials and Gen Z, generations already hammered by housing costs, stagnant real wages, hordes of legal and illegal aliens soaking up employment, and women who forgot that the main reason they exist is to make more humans.
Good news? Yeah, there’s a tiny sliver. Credit card delinquencies on some non-housing debt leveled out in late 2025 according to the New York Fed®. But that’s like saying the fire department showed up and has the fire down to burning one house an hour in the neighborhood. The real picture is as ugly as an Antifa swimsuit pageant.
Yeah, it’s grim.
And all of their older women are coming down with prostate cancer.
Credit cards have become the new paycheck for millions of young Americans, and new companies have shown up to monetize even the smallest debts. Want to go to Taco Bell™ and pay for that Super Crunchwrap Supreme Bellgrande™ over the next six months?
You can do that.
Total credit card debt hit a record $1.28 trillion in 2025, up $44 billion in just three months. That’s not a blip: that’s paying for groceries on credit cards and only paying the minimum monthly payment. Delinquencies on household debt overall jumped to 4.8 percent, led by the kids. For people under 39, the transition into serious delinquency on credit cards is nearly double the national average.
Surveys show 56 percent of Gen Z are forced to use cards just to make ends meet because prices keep climbing. Sixty-six percent of Millennials say they rely on plastic to get through the month. Thirty-five percent of Millennials are carrying more than $10,000 in card debt.
Credit card debt, the gateway drug of insolvency. Sure, payday lenders and “buy here, pay here” car places are the crack cocaine and meth of debt, but it all starts somewhere.
Gen Z is running around $3,500 in average balances, while Millennials are pushing $7,000. They’re not buying yachts or avocado toast, they’re financing groceries, gas, and rent.
It’s Avocado’s number.
Here’s why this mess is worse than it looks:
First, real wages aren’t keeping up, and the system is rigged against the young. Gen Z and Millennials entered the workforce during the pandemic hangover, got crushed by housing prices we already talked about, and now face interest rates that make every purchase a long-term loan. The GloboLeftElite told them to “follow your passion” and rack up student debt for useless degrees that qualify them for entry-level retail jobs in malls that don’t exist anymore.
And they listened.
Credit cards fill the gap at 20-25 percent interest. For those that didn’t choose wisely and avoid jobs taken by Jugdish, life is not luxury. It’s debt, roommates, and used couches that smell vaguely of fish. Forever. One bad month due to a mandatory car repair, unexpected medical bill, or if Egyptians convince them to invest in a pyramid scheme, and they’re in the hole they can’t climb out of.
Chuck Norris had a grizzly bear carpet in his bedroom. It’s not dead, just scared to move.
Second, banks and card companies love debt. People don’t get poor because they don’t make enough money, they get poor because they give it away to everyone else: ask the Amish.
Banks are making fat margins on revolving debt while pretending everything is peachy. Delinquency rates are rising, but not fast enough for the suits to panic yet. They know the game: extend and pretend and as long as we get this quarter’s bonus, it’s all copacetic. Just like with the housing market in 2008.
Meanwhile, the official unemployment rate looks fine because more paper-pushers are getting hired in the last growth industry: government jobs.
The real economy? Productive private-sector work is stagnant. Young people are borrowing to eat.
Third, this consumer debt bomb feeds right into the bigger federal debt bomb. Washington has its own plastic problem, except it’s measured in trillions. National debt sits north of $38.5 trillion. Net interest payments are projected to hit $1 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and interest payments are already bigger than defense spending in the first quarter of this year.
Interest already eats 19% of all federal revenue. By 2036, CBO says it doubles to $2.1 trillion and consumes nearly a quarter of everything the government takes in, but the CBO is always low, because they have to use the assumptions that Congress made up. Yes. AOC is responsible for the rules of the game.
But what do we want to spend our money on?
Defense? Medicare? Infrastructure? Sorry, the interest check has to clear first.
What you get when you cross a human with a moose? Arrested, apparently.
Fourth, the GloboLeftElite solution is always the same: print more, borrow more, kick the can. National debt doubles every eight years. The Fed and Congress act like debt is free because they control the printer and don’t have to worry. Higher debt, though, means higher interest rates, which means even more debt service, which means . . . you get it. It’s a doom loop.
Every time they “stimulate” to keep the economy looking good for the next election, they make the next crisis worse. And who pays? Not the politicians. Not the connected class in D.C.
It’s the taxpayers, especially the young ones who haven’t built wealth yet, but yet were forced to watch the abomination that is Scrappy Doo™.
Fifth, the generational theft is obvious. Boomers got cheap debt, rising home values, and that long summer of the 1980s and 1990s. Oh, and pensions that actually worked. Millennials and Gen Z get 24 percent credit card APRs, $1 trillion in federal interest payments crowding out future programs, and a promise that “we’ll import more workers” to fix the birth rate collapse caused by imported workers, interest payments, and . . .
Female empowerment.
Female hypergamy and economic despair already delayed families, and they’ve reached civilization-ending levels with Gen Z and Millennial female solipsism. Now add maxed-out cards and a government that can’t even pay its own interest without borrowing more.
The kids who should be having kids are busy paying Visa® instead.
Before I was adopted, my selfies were called “family photos”.
The result? Gen Z and Millennials fall even further behind. They delay marriage, delay kids, delay life. Birth rates keep dropping. The GloboLeftElite flips from “stop having babies, save the planet!” to “import babies, we’re not having enough!” in one generation because their policies broke the math.
Young couples look at the spreadsheet listing rent, cards, future taxes for Boomer pensions and federal interest and decide “maybe later.”
Or never.
But me? Debt mountains? Debt landslides? I think I need to stop with my metaphors because they’re making me sneeze. Metaphors really set off my analogies.