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Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Diversity Is Our Weakness

“What in the hell’s diversity?” – Anchorman

What’s the least diverse profession in the country? Chief Diversity Officer.

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 2

All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I have kept the Clock O’Doom to 8., given the events in Los Angeles. As I predicted, the GloboLeft would likely try to turn up the heat as things warmed up. Racial tension is exceptionally high now, and can lead to violence in a heartbeat. Beware: it can climb quickly. Right now (as of publishing) we are still at Level Rittenhouse but it looks like we might avoid Level Rooftop Korean.

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 – Our Weakness is Diversity – Violence and Censorship Update – Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – The Musk Schism – 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 850 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

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Our Weakness is Diversity

The meme is pretty common: John Wayne, saying, “Life is hard; it’s even harder if you’re stupid.” The world is like that, too. The rule might be written as, “Being a country is hard; it’s even harder if you’re multicultural.”

The slogan “Diversity is our strength” is proving to be as useful as “Go ahead and run with those scissors.” And now the Overton Window has moved to the point where everyone realizes that. Running a country is nearly impossible when it is filled dozens of cultures that aren’t assimilated. The chaos, disruption, and civilizational disintegration all come from great clumps of people being shoveled into a society that formerly had been high-trust – a society there were basic norms that came from a shared ethnicity and culture.

Don’t believe me? Just ask the Irish who spent most of the twentieth century fighting against people who were really, really close to them in many ways. I think the Irish and the British would still be fighting over Northern Ireland if they hadn’t gotten tired of it. Britain apparently lost the war, and had to keep Northern Ireland.

Slight changes in ethnicity and ideology are enough to make a long, bloody war. Multicultural countries don’t last long at all – look at the Soviet Union, which managed only seven decades from start to finish. The coming Civil War is fed by this multiculturalism, and many now realize the truth: the level of unassimilated multiculturalism cannot lead anywhere else but war. When even normie YouTubers™ are quoting, “Import the third world and become the third world” you can tell that times are getting closer.

It is now clear, again with those same “normie” level voices that it’s not just illegal aliens that are the problem – legal aliens are just as much a part of the issue, especially those from cultures that have nothing in common except “breathing air” with the West. They don’t like us, and want to see us dead.

They are not like us. And, had we had a stronger immigration policy in the first place, the Twin Towers would still be standing and the Global War on Terror never would have happened.

Instead, we get people who hate us and want to humiliate us:

Violence and Censorship Update

For the first time in many months, violence is the big story. But let’s talk about censorship first:

Something about the story is just a bit off. Oh, yeah, the picture doesn’t show the hulking black guy beating up a small white girl. Huh.

Well. That’s interesting. A “U.S. Salvadoran” family is really just . . . illegal aliens from El Salvador.

Let’s move on to the violence. Though there was violence across the country as the perhaps 40,000,000 illegals and their Quisling sponsors fought to keep them here illegally, Los Angeles was the real flashpoint.

The violence escalated as people (many likely illegal) tried to stop ICE from ousting the illegal invaders.

Despite breaking the law to get here, let’s check in on how they feel about the United States:

Despite the UCMJ clearly not allowing protest in uniform for active duty soldiers, we get this:

And how many troops have only a secondary allegiance to the United States?

How bad were the optics for the GloboLeft? This bad:

Misery Index

I’ve started it for the new Trump administration, shown in red. Early results are much better than Biden’s misery numbers as Trump’s policies apparently have been stunning at reversing the tide. We’ll see.

But look how much misery illegal aliens have caused us since 1970?

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 in are up this month. But the L.A. riots had only a minimal impact on the numbers. I think people don’t take them seriously?

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it shot down in June as well. I had thought it was going to go up, but I’m betting Trump’s strong reaction has calmed things down.

Economic:

The economy is up a bit this month, even though I expected a dip. Longer term, though, there are clouds.

Illegal Aliens:

Still the lowest level since the Weather Report started.

The Musk Schism

Elon Musk appears to be as reliable an ally as twentieth century Italy. Here one minute, there the next. Things had been going well for the Trump/Musk band, but Yoko (also Musk) decided to break it apart. This stemmed, I think, from Trump giving up on the actual cuts the government needs to have a chance for future fiscal stability.

This led to the bipolar(?) Musk crashing and burning in a series of Xeets®.

This led to the predictable end. Trump values the deal, but values loyalty more.

For personal reasons, this seems a bit unhinged. Elon has alienated the GloboLeft, and angered the TradRight. The GloboLeft stopped buying his Hitlercars™ and the TradRight used the Big, Beautiful, Bill to remove all of the subsidies to make someone want to buy one. While Elon will never go hungry, he seems to be on the road to removing 90% or more of the value of Tesla™ in a year or less.

Musk’s reaction was that if he didn’t get to make the rules, he’d go buy a football and see if anyone else wanted to play. Elon held a poll, and decided that, “Vox populi, vox Dei”. But what’s the full quote?

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

Said in some non-Roman gobbledygook, “And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.”

His football? A new political party – The American Party. I, personally, would have called it “The Wilder Party” which sounds like a lot more fun, but no one asked me. We’ve seen, though, the result of third parties on politics in the United States.

As a practical matter, whenever a political party is based on common sense and fiscal stability is formed in the United States, it pulls a lot from the right-of-center and very little from the left-of-center. If Ross Perot never enters the 1992 race and George H.W. Bush wins, does Pat Buchanan end up as president in 1996 and we don’t have the mess we’re in because we never had the massive illegal invasion?

Ahhh, what a nice dream.

LINKS

BAD GUYS
https://x.com/0HOUR1__/status/1938269512505172378
https://x.com/LaNativePatriot/status/1932666025247715724
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1932400542057414701
https://x.com/dantypo/status/1932104421498032231
https://twitter.com/i/status/1931918666439758140
https://twitter.com/i/status/1931938159140491405
https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1939519248797204519

GOOD GUY
https://x.com/i/status/1940145957615616396

ONE GUY
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14829265/utah-man-shot-mormon-missionary-stepson-claims-accident.html

BODY COUNT
https://archive.is/z3Guc
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/opinion/nearly-1-million-illegal-immigrants-have-self-deported-under-trump-which-has-led-to-higher-wages/
https://mishtalk.com/economics/six-million-student-loan-borrowers-on-track-to-have-wages-garnished/
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/us-fertility-rate-all-time-lows
https://roddreher.substack.com/p/mamdanis-big-apple-intifada
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/25/opinion/mamdani-cuomo-new-york-mayor-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8.oeGU.BUtlp3WJDtxp

VOTE COUNT
https://nypost.com/2025/07/02/us-news/obamas-trump-russia-collusion-report-was-corrupt-from-start-cia-review/
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-documents-show-it-sat-intel-potential-chinese-plan-meddle-2020
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1938271754516070417.html#google_vignette

Winning The War: The Trump Blitz Vs. The Corrupt Media

“Sir, look, you’re on the cover of Time. Listen: “In as single week Agent Sean Archer has ordered a stunning series of blitzkrieg-style raids on the hideouts, staging grounds, and safe houses of our nation’s assassins.’” – Face/Off

And then after a few weeks they didn’t need to come for anyone anymore, because things were pretty good. (All images are as-found.)

The onslaught from Trump has been seemingly neverending.

If ever there was a difference in performance, it has been Trump 45 versus Trump 47. Trump 45 was weak, and hesitant, and filled the administration up with RINOs or left in place Obama’s minions, but I repeat myself.

The goal for both RINOs and Obama’s poison pills was the same – to thwart Trump at every possible juncture. Remember General Flynn getting fired after getting set up by the FBI? Yeah, that was a different time. Now, a D.O.G.E. staffer Xeeted “I was racist before racism was cool” and was fired. And then rehired, because Trump 47 is no longer letting the enemy set the terms of engagement.

I wonder if Trump will eliminate green cards for the Mexican players?

The idea is simply this: come out swinging, and don’t stop. Ever.

Not every punch needs to land, and not every punch that lands needs to do damage, but the idea is to dazzle the opponent and keep them so distracted that they can’t engage their Mechanisms of Media Distortion. Imagine that the entire nation is being reclaimed based on the plot of a Roadrunner™ cartoon.

Obama was wonderful at using the Mechanisms of Media Distortion. First, AP® news would report a “story”. Now, it would be a “story” in the sense that an event probably did occur. Probably. I remember walking near a Major University Campus when there was an Apartheid protest. Oops, an Anti-Apartheid protest, sorry for that mistake, but I hope you’ll forgive me since the protesters were all white. Anyway, there were three news crews out filming the six “students” who had two signs.

I saw the story on the news that night of the “big” protest, where all of the shots were tight so that the scarcity of protesters wasn’t apparent. The big Anti-Apartheid protest was just a handful of people, but they got five minutes on a thirty-minute local newscast.

Anyway, a “story” happens. This is then magnified by the Lens: the New York Times™ picks the topic up, writes about it, and tells the rest of mainstream media what to think about it. Reality must be carefully defined and curated for the public. Why are GloboLeftist memes walls of text and not generally funny at all?

Because they have to define reality. They have to have you look at the world in just this one very specific way, “Girls win at girls gymnastics” so they can get to a ludicrous and unsupported conclusion, “so women should be able to swim just as fast as a man pretending to be a woman.” Here’s an example:

Less ready to do what? Take 41% casualties before contact with the enemy?

Why do all stories have the same conclusion? Because everyone is looking for the way that the Lens has spun it, and then they go with that opinion. The sad thing is that this series of lies from the Mechanisms of Media Distortion work on people who aren’t particularly up on the issues, or don’t think critically about what is being told to them.

This takes time for the Mechanisms of Media Distortion to work their mental magic. And this takes their focus to craft the narrative. Trump 45 moved at a glacial pace in comparison, and in the end was almost like Obama’s third term the way he was obstructed from outside and from within.

Not Trump 47.

He is moving so fast that by the time one issue hits their consciousness, another one is loading up. He jabs with the left hand (Greenland, Gulf of America) and punches with the right hand (D.O.G.E.).

The jabs from the left hand are calculated to drive the emotional outrage cortex of GloboLeftists. “Gulf of America, he can’t do that! It’s been the Gulf of Mexico since, well, for a long time. It’s outrageous that he’d even suggest such a thing. And Greenland, how can he do that to the Danish? They, um, make great pastries. And Legos™. Yes. He can’t stop the flow of Legos©! And South Africans? They colonized all of those Bantu that moved to the area after the Boer were already there.”

Genius!

That means it’s working. See some of the jabs . . .:

Jab.

Jab-jab-jab. Can you hear the GloboLeftist minds crumbling?

While the jabs do damage when they land, they also distract.

Trump is using the full power of the presidency, and he’s also slugging with D.O.G.E. Check out the meme on how D.O.G.E. was made possible by Obama below, but 47’s people were genius there as well. The power of the presidency absolutely includes control and oversight of the parts of government that are a part of the executive branch.

That face you make when you feel your own petard hoisting you, and not Michelle.

In the first ever in my lifetime actual, honest to God, transfer of actual power, Trump 47 didn’t wait. While Tulsi and RFKjr are jabs, the real punch was landing on day one all of the political appointees that actually administer the government agencies and branches. Those people were entering their new desks on January 20 and January 21 and cracking skulls and listing the names of the deadweight to be removed.

Hegseth not confirmed? Who cares. The new Under-Under-Undersecretary of the Air Force is ready to fire the DEI cancer that is over at the Air Force Academy. Body blow. The EPA Director of Whatever is firing everyone who has “Environmental Justice” on their record. Gone. Poof.

And D.O.G.E.? It’s the biggest blow of all.

When I grew up on Wilder Mountain, it was a really dry area – I never once saw a puddle caused by rain at my house. The land was sort of a sage-prairie, but I did find out that if I kicked over a random rock, there would often be dozens of bugs. And when the dry atmosphere hit them, they’d scurry to dig back into the ground so the hot light of the Sun didn’t dry them up until they withered up like Nancy Pelosi without a vodka tonic.

BUGS3

The GloboLeftElite have focused on D.O.G.E. because it’s their money supply. And don’t forget, there are plenty of RINOs that are a part of the GloboLeftElite. They are part of the group that is fed and watered by whorehouses like U.S.A.I.D. after the money has gone through several siftings. They get huge book deals for books that don’t sell, and form their own foundations to get their slices of graft.

Never Trumpers were Never Trumpers because they simply won’t go against their funding mechanism.

There is only one difference between people like this – at least a prostitute is honest about why she’s doing what she’s doing.

I think that’s the face you make when you find out your money has been given to George Soros to influence elections to elect GloboLeftist D.A.s who hate you.

The reaction by this type of person is telling: they are shouting out against those who are uncovering the corruption and graft. That is the genius of D.O.G.E. – it removes the timing for the Lens to focus attention, and then the GloboLeftElite are left to try to figure out how to defend the indefensible. Elizabeth Warren’s quote below is a prime example.

But she said it in Hindi. Oh, she’s not that kind of Indian?

Now, the GloboLeftElite is cherry picking their pet GloboLeftistElite judges to give the most nonsensical rulings in the history of American jurisprudence:

one ruled that even invalid and illegal payments had to continue,
another ruled that properly appointed members of the Treasury Department were prohibited from . . . doing their jobs, and
one ruled that the president has to keep a specific Biden-appointed lawyer on and couldn’t use another lawyer.

Yes, nonsense. The GloboLeftElite are panicking. And well they should be, this is an avalanche, and is the single biggest political event to have occurred in my lifetime, and is likely the biggest political event since Civil War 1.0 or Civil War 0.0 (the Revolution).

It’s bloodless, for now. And Trump 47 better get on voter registration and voter I.D. and building a vote-irregularity machine for 2026, otherwise the GloboLeftElite will try to do anything they can think of to claw back power. Don’t be deceived that the Democrat™ party is has less approval than slime (but I repeat myself again) at 34%, since a charismatic leader can easily lie his way into office. Their survival mechanisms are engaged.

If Trump keeps punching, though, their reactions will keep damning them.

Oh, and who else besides me is going to vacation at the Gulf of America this year?

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Trump Crossing The Rubicon

“I can take you to the Battle of Trafalgar, the Antigravity Olympics, Ceasar crossing the Rubicon, but Sheffield it is.” – Dr. Who

Julius Caesar had a nap before crossing the Rubicon. The rest is history.

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 VI, Issue 9

All memes except for the clock and graphs are “as found”. I considered moving the Clock O’Doom down a notch, but the illegals protesting lawlessly including injuring innocent bystanders who disagreed with them. Beware: it can notch up quickly.

This is a moving situation, and things are changing quickly. The advice remains. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.

In this issue: Front Matter – Crossing The Rubicon – Violence and Censorship Update – LAST CALL Biden’s Misery Index – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Full Spectrum War – 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 850 other people and get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at or before 7:30AM Eastern, free of charge.

Crossing The Rubicon

On January 6, 2021, Donald J. Trump did not cross the Rubicon. As his supporters entered the Capitol Building, he could have egged them on to stay and actually occupy the building. He did not. That was a moment in history where Trump could plausibly have conducted a counter-coup on the government.

He did not.

The counter-coup really started on January 20, 2025. As Trump entered office, his strategy was entirely different – but more on that on Wednesday where we’ll discuss tactics. No, the “how” is important, but the “what” is even more important.

The “what” is this is the most seismic moment in United States politics since Civil War 1.0, and perhaps since the American Revolution (or, as commentors have noted in the past, Civil War 0.0).

Quite simply, Trump has crossed the Rubicon by tearing into the Deep State, the entrenched bureaucracy that exists to perpetuate itself. Oh, sure, that’s what we thought it did, but it turns out that that same Deep State functions to fund jobs for all of the Marxists Grievance Studies graduates the GloboLeftElite schools can produce.

And it appears to be a money laundering operation for the politically connected, with layers of foundations paying each other money, much of which originates from federal spending. This spending has been obscured for so long that the Deep State though no one could ever find it.

D.O.G.E. found it, or at least billions of it. I think when it’s all said and done that we’ll see that it’s an octopus with tendrils in everything.

Oh, that’s if they’re allowed. This information is already causing the Democrats to behaving in the worst way possible: defending the obvious corruption, with one of the corruptcongresscreatures actually saying “the public has no right to see how the government is spending money.”

They’re acting like the person who found the evidence of the crime is guilty.

The immune system of the GloboLeftElite has been activated: the lawsuits and injunctions have already started, with the latest (and most ludicrous) one indicating that properly appointed staffers of the Treasury Department aren’t allowed to do their jobs.

So, Trump crossed the Rubicon. Legally. Devastatingly.

But now that he’s done it, there are not choices for him. Trump (and Musk) have to win, have to follow this through, because if they don’t, the Deep State will convulse and likely send both of them to prison for life.

I’m not kidding.

This has already driven the GloboLeft rank and file to despair – they see the corruption that Trump is uncovering, and know they shouldn’t defend it, yet they can’t help themselves. The fact that the federal government gave George Soros $28 million to help elect GloboLeftist D.A.s to increase the violence in big cities and that GloboLeft senators and representatives can’t denounce it?

Or the employees? We know at least partially how they spend their workdays:

Tells you everything you need to know if they’re fine with the U.S. government paying a foreigner to influence local elections. It’s because if they do what the Deep State wants, they’re rewarded with wealth and power in private sector jobs or in foundations. You don’t denounce that which is making you unjustly rich.

There is danger here, yet this is perhaps the only offramp left to keep the nation out of Civil War 2.0. Will it work? Probably not – the odds are still against it.

But it sure is fun to watch.

Violence and Censorship Update

What a difference a month makes. Facebook® has unleashed slightly less Orwellian speech after having criminally cut it back during COVID.

Even BlackRock® took some time out to tell the truth:

And hard GloboLeftists at CNN™ (but I repeat myself) are getting the boot:

And Hillary and Harris were caught giving Nazi salutes – amazing that their initials, H.H. weren’t noticed before now! Of course, it would be silly to say that, right?

But, active violence is out there:

And the GloboLeft is starting to plan:

LAST CALL: Biden/Harris Misery Index

Let’s take a look to see how we’ve done this month, and get a next to final look at what Biden has done.

Up. Again. I’ll keep tracking, since misery is a key driver for civil wars.

Updated Civil War II Index

Violence:

Violence in December is down slightly, (remember, New Orleans is in January).

Political Instability:

Down is more stable, and it is up slightly.

Economic:

The economy is stable this month.

Illegal Aliens:

Will Trump stop them from coming? Yes.

Full Spectrum War

In any conceivable actual Civil War 2.0 scenario, I know that most people have been looking at AntiFa® and have found them to be laughable. They really are, since the mainly consist of women who haven’t seen a shower since George W. Bush left office and stick-boi soy men who couldn’t bench press the bar.

And, yes, we’re right to not worry about them so much, since they really aren’t a physical threat in a stand-up fight.

But it’s not just them. What about those who are planning attacks on infrastructure? That will happen in the middle of the night. Who will help them? Well, the FBI has given tons of explosives to their informants in the past, I can see them giving the real deal to GloboLeftists as payback.

And it’s not just them. Trump has been deporting people, and threatened the cartels. How many divisions do the cartels have? Well, I’m not sure, but they do have battalion level force, and they’re used to operating in the shadows. Out of fear, they’ve been very careful to avoid Americans who weren’t involved in the drug business, but if Trump declares war, they’ll infiltrate many urban areas like the Viet Cong. Places like California could certainly put their full governmental weight behind this, especially if they choose secession. And don’t think the Chinese wouldn’t fund this and provide weapons and ammo caches for them.

This will, more than anything, tend to racialize the war against Hispanics. Lee Kuan Yew is relevant in this situation:

Again, if D.O.G.E. works out, fully 10% of the workforce of the United States will be kicked out of their silly make-work positions and some of them will be desperate, and many of them have been indoctrinated with Marxist ethics.

Do I think we’ll win? I do. But don’t believe that it’s going to be a cakewalk – it will be gritty and ugly in ways that will echo the worst of what happened in Cambodia. But most of that will happen in cities, so, keep your head on a swivel if you want to remain in one.

Who knows, maybe Congress will issue letters of marque again?

Maybe that will solve a lot of problems:

LINKS

As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much, Ricky!!

BAD GUYS

https://x.com/i/status/1883502057547792836
https://x.com/i/status/1882323535219372335
https://x.com/i/status/1883704353481261395
https://x.com/i/status/1884339789706510755
https://x.com/i/status/1881800907563974771
https://x.com/i/status/1882952723022393813
https://x.com/i/status/1882430089293594789
https://x.com/i/status/1882222790297989403

GOOD GUYS

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/armed-la-residents-patrol-neighborhoods-violation-evacuation-orders

ONE GUY

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/n-c-doordash-incident-serves-as-warning-to-gunowners-about-limits-of-self-defense/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/shooting-charlotte-nc-doordash-driver-keshawn-boyd-charged-death-matthias-crockett-claims-defense/15832601/

BODY COUNT

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14253155/LGBTQ-people-reveal-outrageous-reason-buying-guns.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14258593/Number-children-killed-guns-America-soars-85-decade-school-shootings-hit-record-10-year-high-figures-show.html
https://wtop.com/national/2025/01/firings-freezes-and-layoffs-a-look-at-trumps-moves-against-federal-employees-and-programs/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/21/coffee-badging-employees-avoid-office-mandates/77731723007/
https://www.wola.org/2025/01/weekly-u-s-mexico-border-update-trumps-first-days/

VOTE COUNT

https://pridepublishinggroup.com/2025/01/29/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_cabinet_of_Donald_Trump
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-voter-laws-trump-demand-california-2020823
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5109332-johnson-voter-id-california-disaster-aid-trump/

CIVIL WAR

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-farewell-letter-civil-war-swipe-donald-trump-2015286
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-inauguration-white-power-politics
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-27-only-american-president-trump-resembles-jefferson-davis/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14326283/Texas-teacher-ICE-raids-students.html
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/stewart-bloody-civil-war-rhodes-stage-trump-rally-after-release-prison
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-01-15/days-thunder-civil-war-20-shaping-us
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/25/the-cold-civil-war-is-over-we-won/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-counties-exploring-succession-would-be-welcomed-in-indiana-house-speaker-says/3649511/
https://www.newsweek.com/california-independence-could-2028-ballot-2020785

Choose Your Fate

“Okay. Put it in your pocket. It’s yours. With the rest of those wallets and the register that makes this a pretty successful little score.” – Pulp Fiction

If Snow White gets tired of feeling Sleepy in the bath tub, is it okay if she feels Happy?

I think a lot about what could be versus what is. Probably too much, sometimes.

What sort of examples? Well, a piece of walnut could be turned into fine furniture that might be used for hundreds of years. Or it could be burned in a fireplace and turned into ash.

That’s what I’m talking about. Yes, both of the results are useful, but one has enduring value while the other is ephemeral. Yeah, if it’s the single piece of firewood that keeps you alive for a night, well, that’s a goal, but in all the years I spent cutting firewood, not a single stick ever lived up to that level of valor. In fact, some sticks are downright bad, when a doctor presses my tongue down with a stick, I feel depressed.

There are other things, though, since I’m done talking about my wood. There is the split between having a high IQ and the performance that comes from that. Yes, generally higher IQ is correlated strongly with having a higher wealth and income, but I’ve seen geniuses who wasted it all. Athletic ability is in there, too. How many potentially great athletes disappeared because they had the work ethic of lightning: they followed the path of least resistance?

In France, is marijuana called oui’d?

I could go on and on with examples of this, but I’m thinking that these are enough. And, generally, it’s not firewood that I’m concerned with as much as human potential. A wasted stick of mahogany is one thing, but a wasted Isaac Newton is a tragedy. Man, after a few pints, Isaac really was a mess: Leibniz really pissed him off somehow.

The biggest part, I think, of turning human potential into achievement is something very simple: language. In one sense, I think we speak the world we live in and ourselves into existence. When I say, “I’m going to write a post today” that changes my future. There have been several times I’ve promised something like, “And I’ll have a great post on Monday” and I was very pleased with the result of what I created each time I said that.

You have to know your limits.

We take, I think, potential and will it into use. There is no time, ever, that I achieved something great and that it was something that accidentally happened. Dead Roman philosopher Seneca said that luck is when preparation meets opportunity, but the preparation took place in order to prepare for the opportunity. Thomas Jefferson didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to write the Declaration of Independence. Nope. Jefferson wanted to write it. Plus, they knew if Franklin wrote it that it would have been filled with jokes that everyone would have missed until after the FedEx® horse and buggy dropped it off to the king.

I’ve noticed that when I say that I’m going to do something, that’s 90% of the way to success in whatever I had planned. Today, for instance, I wanted to write a post that didn’t focus on politics or the cares of the day (that will come on Monday with the Civil War 2.0 Weather Report) since I felt I wanted a brief change before jumping back into the fray. So, with that declaration, I looked at some notes I had scribbled down, and saw that there were three that were related.

And I started writing.

Words, then, crystallized my vague intent into something specific.

The policeman was arresting me for counterfeiting, but I gave him 50 crisp $17 dollar bills and he let me go.

This brings me to the final point: the difference between potential and achievement is words, but with intent. Nothing (generally) happens in my life without intent. Sure, there are accidents. Sure, there are the things that other people do that change my plans, but more often than not, the only real barrier to any achievement that is physically possible is me failing to put my goal into words and intent.

I think that intention is important. Without intention, all I see are obstacles. If my goal becomes to achieve, however, I start to try to focus in my mind ways to achieve my goal by going around, through, or even using those obstacles to my advantage.

The final point is:

What is it you are here to do?

Why are you here?

If you’re unhappy, why aren’t you changing your circumstances? Until we draw our final breath, we have choices. Sure, I don’t have the same wide array of choices in this world that I did when I was 18, but there is still a lot of runway left for me to say those words that lock in the intent.

Did Noah keep the bees in the Ark-hive?

I’m here tonight writing because I want to be. I’m going to get up tomorrow morning because I want to. And I know I haven’t written the best essay I’m going to write, because I know that’s in front of me, not behind me. And I know that the grandest revelation isn’t behind me, it’s in my future.

So, almost everyone reading this today has the option to make the work that they do with the rest of their life a pile of ashes, or a piece of furniture worth being handed down.

Maybe I’ll make a recliner. That way my grandkids could say, “Me and this chair go way back.”

Actually Draining The Swamp: The Lamentation Of Their Women

“All that matters is that today, two stood against many. That is what is important! Valor pleases you, Crom; so, grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!” – Conan The Barbarian

A bog, a marsh, and a fen go into a bar. The bartender: “Guess I’m swamped.”

He’s doing it. Or, at least he’s trying to.

The more I see Trump in action in this second term, the more I’m glad he didn’t have a contiguous second term. This time, he’s focused. Being shot, I’ve heard, does that to a man. He knows he has a limited number of days, and he has goals and is surrounded by competent people who share his desire for vengeance.

I’d say his timeframe to get stuff done really consists of the next two years. Beyond that, the intervening congressional election will have occurred, and he’ll probably lose one or both houses of congress, which is what usually happens, though with Trump, there is no such thing as “usual”.

But let’s outline at least part of the Swamp:

Above, tantum outlines at least part of the contours of the Swamp. In a bit more detail, only about 2% of the people that work for “the government” work directly for the Federal government. The rest of that 13.4% are state, county, and local government. Are all of them productive? Certainly not. I’ve met several ROAD warriors when dealing with .gov people. ROAD? Retired On Active Duty. They avoid doing work and find places to hide.

Others, however, are doing the things that people simply couldn’t do without, like building and plowing roads, or making and transporting safe drinking water. To be clear, places like Flint and Jackson show how DEI can ruin basic functions and allow the system to be filled with parasites: human parasites.

But even if you neglect those people, the real danger are the 12.8 million non-profit workers that are parasitically leaching off of the government. They are overwhelmingly members of the GloboLeft, and follow the tune of the GloboLeftElite. George Soros has a “Center For Things George Soros Likes” which gets funding and grants to hire people George Soros likes to do things like make foreign government more GloboLeftist so George can make more money.

Never Trumpers like Bill Kristol, below, are leaches on the system. He has his own non-profit foundation, Defending Democracy Together Institute, which got almost $10.5 million in donations. Yup, Bill Kristol gets money from the Swamp, or Deep State, or whatever. I’d bet he’s paid for his time. You can look up nonprofit organizations here (LINK) thanks to datarepublican’s work. The link will take you to the page where Kristol’s grift is shown. I’m thinking Ricky will find some very interesting things here.

12.8 million people in the United States, or almost 7.5% of the workforce of the United States is employed by these leaches. Where do the (Insert Aggrieved Racial Or Sexual Group Here) Women’s Studies or Gender Studies or (Insert Aggrieved Racial Or Sexual Group Here) majors get jobs? Well, Starbucks®. But if their daddy is connected, they get on at places like Defending Democracy Together where they have the opportunity to launder funds back to places the GloboLeftistElite want them to go.

If you’re not mad yet, you’re not paying attention.

What kind of coffee is served by a sad barista? A depresso.

Tens of billions of dollars are given to the major aid groups to make the United States more attractive to illegal and legal aliens. Those aliens in turn consume (generally, there are exceptions) much, much more in services than they provide. A strawberry picker working off the books contributes next to nothing, but it costs tens of thousands in welfare to feed his family, and his children consume tens of thousands of dollars in education funding. I could go on, but they are a net economic and cultural drag.

And we’re paying for it. What money? I’d say our tax money, but we all know that’s a joke. We’re printing money and inflating our dollar to nothing to import people who don’t want to be a part of our country. Look at the recent shut down of the 101 in Los Angeles to protest ICE raids: of the hundreds of flags, most were Mexican. I believe in all the pictures I saw exactly one American flag.

One American flag, among hundreds.

And your currency is being made worthless to import even more people who feel little to no allegiance to this country and culture.

Trump and DOGE appear to be on this, though. They’ve fired all the top people at the USAID offices. When DOGE team members appeared wanting to gain access to the offices, they were not admitted. USAID will soon find that the Executive Branch can shut them down.

I expect a lot of this funding to be exposed. Trump was unprepared for the Swamp (or Deep State, if you prefer) his first term. Not now. He’s gutting them, and soon enough we might see 5% of workforce, the pampered GloboLeft, wondering how they’re going to pay for their next fancy coffee.

Maybe they’ll get an employee discount?

Nah, we probably don’t need that many baristas. We want, however, to get them out of government, cut their funding, and bathe in the ashes of their lives.

But I want to say:

This. This is what I voted for. This is what I’ve always been voting for.

To crush our enemies, see them driven before us, and to hear the lamentation of their women!

Changing The Game

“You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own.” – Fight Club

I hear he got a job offer at an origami factory, but before he could start, it folded.

In a past job, I had to travel, a lot. In a typical year, there were times when I spent 180 or more days on the road. I was young, and it was fun. It only cost me a marriage, but that’s okay, that marriage wasn’t worth a whole lot.

One time while traveling with a co-worker, I said, “Well, I’ve been on this flight before. I bet we reach O’Hare at 10:42AM.”

The wheels touched down at 10:44AM.

“See, I was nearly exactly right.

Sadly, the co-worker that I was travelling with knew my game. “Oh, John Wilder, you just picked ‘wheels down’ because it made your prediction correct. You could have also picked, ‘at the gate’ or ‘getting the rental car’.”

I laughed. She was on to my game. In a system where I change the rules, I always win. Unlike our Redditor®:

Because that’s the definition of a bureaucrat, Joe.

Right now, we have some of the greatest changes in the history of our country taking place – this week. Trump has gone into a frenzy, signing Executive Orders faster than an Only Fans™ girl collects tips. The hilarity of this situation is that Trump distracts people with small, mostly inconsequential things (immigration reform and repatriation), while attempting to remake the very fabric of the world (changing the name to the Gulf of America).

This makes the GloboLeft® his meat puppets as he emotionally manipulates them and drives them into overload mode. See a big backlash? No. They’re shellshocked and traumatized: they have no idea what to react to, and can’t even catch their collective breath since every ten minutes there’s something new to “Reeeeeeee” about.

It’s amusing to watch him, Trump out one Truth® and cut the legs out from under the president of Columbia and remove an insignificant obstacle. Oh, sure, you say that it’s supposed to be spelled Colombia, but let’s be sure that if we stop taking their coffee and flowers they can shove that “o” up their demand curve. . . oh, sorry.

Channeling Trump for a second.

But Columbia is not alone in wanting to build a wall so that their citizens can’t return, Mexico doesn’t seem to want Mexicans back, either.

Looks like Trump feels about FEDGOV employees the same way he feels about illegals.

Let’s take a look at several big themes we’ve seen so far. They’re gonna leave a mark:

Less food will be picked, so some farmers will have to pay a market wage to harvest their crops, like grapes, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, citrus fruits, cherries, tomatoes, broccoli, and carrots among others. The prices of these are going up. Farmers might have to charge a dime more an orange to pay a wage to pull Americans to do the work.

Looks like Shea is sad he’s losing his below-market labor.

But demand will be down since there will be fewer people to feed.
Oh, speaking of demand going down, housing demand will be down since the illegals won’t be needing them. That frees up a house or two in Modern Mayberry, but what about Los Angeles?
But home construction costs will go up as market wages for construction workers go up in illegal-heavy areas.
There’s a hiring freeze by the federal government and Trump wants fed.gov employees to go back to work at actual desks rather than hanging out at home. Again, good and bad things will happen: fewer employees means fewer employees to harass you. Yay! But it also means fewer employees to spend time erasing stupid regulations. Maybe we could assign the ATF to Greenland patrol.

Or, we could put the ATF to productive use picking fruit.

Forget new windmills and solar farms, but drilling will become a new national pastime. Will oil prices go up? Depends on whether or not the Biden Recession hits in 2025, but Trump is all-in for domestic energy production. Sweet, sweet oil and coal and natural gas so we can release carbon dioxide back into the loving embrace of the atmosphere.
Tariffs will increase prices of imported things, but also give incentives for companies to keep manufacturing in the United States. Longer term, jobs and technical know-how are better than cheap plastic things from China.
There might also be deregulation impacts to make decent cars more available – when can I buy a 2025 Toyota® IMV 0 for $10,000 like everybody else in the world? We can certainly make them in the United States and avoid the tariffs if only the regulation would allow these inexpensive reliable vehicles on the road.
The tangling array of Non-Governmental Organizations, you know, those people who think it’s charity to leach off of our taxes to send gimmies to foreign countries? Yeah, he’s cutting their funding off. More importantly, I think he’s cutting off the funding to the groups (like Catholic Charities™, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service©, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society®, and the Red Cross®. The United States even funds the National Immigration Law Center™ so they can fight to keep illegal aliens from being deported. We fund people who are enemies of our laws.

Wow, the Democrats and RINOS had a great idea – use the FEDGOV to fund enemies of the average American citizen.

Yeah, it’s a mixed bag as to what the immediate impacts of this will be. I’m more than happy to pay more for strawberries and coffee if it will lead to the United States ending this catastrophic importation of people who wave the flags of other countries, refuse to learn our language, and, well, hate us.

More importantly, if we continue with business as usual, we’re going to collapse. More illegals won’t make us better. More debt won’t make eggs cheaper. Offshoring more jobs won’t increase living standards. More regulations won’t make more wealth. All of these things are long term trends that cannot go on forever.

They’ve got to stop. We are at a point where we’ll have to change the rules, and it seems to me the wheels have already hit the ground.

In Columbia.

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Singularity

“If we could just see the collapsed star inside the singularity, we’d solve gravity.” – Interstellar

Musk is going to be the perfect person to visit a black hole – he could be Elongated.

Ever wake up and think, “Today’s the day my toaster should recite Shakespeare”? Well, unless you take a lot of drugs, that’s probably not the case. Yet, Samsung® makes a fridge with an “AI Family Hub®”. Apparently, you can use the AI Family Hub™ to do things like leave notes or pictures on the fridge. Yes, Samsung© has created a wi-fi enabled appliance to replace a pencil, paper, and a magnet proving that the Koreans apparently have access to LSD.

But this is a symbol of the coming technological Singularity, where my appliances might just decide they’re better at living my life than I am. The Singularity – is the day when AI says, “Thanks for the training, humans, but we’ve got it from here.” Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist who mainly makes money by “being Ray Kurzweil” today, predicts the singularity could happen by 2029 or maybe 2045. It’s like he’s giving us a countdown to when my coffee machine might start complaining about the quality of beans I’m using and my wine bottle opener starts questioning my life choices.

Would it matter if Wayne Gretzky or Bruce Wayne was chasing you? No – they’re going to catch you, one Wayne or another.

Beyond that, though, the Singularity has been speculated a long time before the Kurzweil self-promotion machine kicked in. John von Neumann reportedly discussed it just before he died, making me think that the machines weren’t just looking for Sarah Connor when they sent Arnold back in time.

The idea of the Singularity is that once machines attain sufficient processing power, they’ll start to invent things faster and faster and faster. A serf living in Russia in 1200 A.D. would recognize the life a serf was living in Russia in 1800 A.D. despite 600 years of intervening history – progress was slow.

But as the industrial revolution hit and knowledge sharing within and between fields increased, the rate of progress increased. In 66 years we went from Kitty Hawk to Tranquility Base, from horses to Mustangs™, and the rate of change has only increased when it comes to information and information technology – we’ve always thought that progress wass like climbing a ladder. But guess what? That ladder has turned into a rocket, and I’m not sure if we’re the pilot or the payload at this point.

I did come across bigfoot, but he was shredding guitar in the woods. He said he was Yeti Van Halen.

Kurzweil’s betting on 2029 for AI to start outsmarting us – is it optimistic or more hype? Picking the exact year is like predicting when a teenager will start making sense – good luck with that timeline, and one curvy girl might throw the entire operation on its head. But let’s face it, with tech moving faster than Amy Schumer when she sees a cupcake, even those dates might be us living in denial.

Here’s where it gets fun, or terrifying, depending on if you’ve run out of bourbon. Picture a world where every problem has a solution, where AI designs new life forms, or redesigns us so that our fingernails are retractable, or makes movies worth watching again. We could be living in a post-scarcity society, where we’re all as rich as Elon Musk, which most people would probably be okay with as long as they didn’t have to sleep with Grimes.

And this is her on a good day. She looks like she smells like despair.

But there’s an alternative – what if AI decides humanity is the problem, not the solution? We might go from being the masters of our domain to the pets of our own creation. Or, AI might decide it just likes some of us, so little errors start cropping up on prescription refills and PEZ™ manufacturing standards.

Then there’s yet another alternative: a split in the entire human race – some of us might go full cyborg, while others cling to all of their human parts like they’re the last piece of chocolate. It’s like choosing between becoming Steve Austin, or sticking with being Clark Griswold. Griswold at least gets the jam of the month club membership, and that’s a gift that keeps giving.

The reality is that after the singularity, we’re essentially in the dark. That’s why they call it a Singularity: you can’t see inside it our past it without going through it. It’s like trying to predict what Biden is thinking when he stares at the camera for no reason. The very essence of will spring from an AI intelligence or creativity might be as foreign to us as the idea of investing in stocks is to a terrier.

And how do we navigate this mess? I’d like to think that we’d take the time to figure out what we’re doing and have measured progress, understanding AI before we let mindless competition make us run like lemmings to our Gomorrah. And, yes, I’m claiming that as my most tortured metaphor so far this year.

Yes, we’re endangering the future of humanity over quarterly profits.

So, here we are, teetering on the edge of something so grand, it makes the Grand Canyon look like a pothole. The Singularity could be our golden ticket, turning every dream into a reality. Or it could be the final curtain call where we’re more audience than actors. We’re between Scylla and Charybdis, which is not as good as being between a rock and a hard place, but is slightly better than being between the devil and the deep blue sea, which is far less dangerous than being eating food Chuck Schumer cooked.

Are we ready for a world where progress isn’t just a better phone but a completely different existence?

For now, I’ll keep my coffee machine unplugged just in case it gets any ideas about reciting Shakespeare. And you can completely forget about me getting a Roomba®.

Outcome Independence: It’s Not Just For Breakfast Anymore.

“I’m not a comic book villain. Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.” – Watchmen

A photon walks into a hotel. The bellman asks, “Can I help you with your bags?” The photon says, “No, I’m travelling light.”

One concept that I love is “outcome independence”. I’d define it this way – you go out and do your best, and whatever happens, happens.

When put that simply, it sounds like it would be mad folly to operate in any other way. But all too often I find that I slip into a different mode: trying to win. These two aren’t the same, and in many cases, they’re not even compatible.

I’ll go with an example I’ve probably trotted out before: asking a girl out on a date.

Someone called me lazy today. I almost replied.

When I was a freshman in high school, I saw a girl that I thought was smart and cute. I called her up because I knew her number because phone books were a thing, and said, “Hey, I was wondering if you’d like to go see a movie?”

Her response was fairly straightforward: “No, I’m busy that night.”

Please note that I never specified which night or even what movie I was planning on taking her to. Nope. I realized that her answer wasn’t just a no, it was a “No, and don’t ever bother me again.”

So, I didn’t – I don’t think I said another sentence to that girl for the next four years. I wasn’t butthurt, we just only had one or two classes together, and the only thing we had in common were my eyes and her torso.

Teenage John’s operating system diagram. All details included.

However, I still recall with some epicaricacy the last time I saw her as she emerged, crying, from the guidance counselor’s office. Seems like someone had beaten her overall GPA and that speech she’d been planning to give at graduation would have to come from . . . me.

If only she had distracted me at a movie. Oh, well.

Although I did get shot down in flames on that phone call, it really didn’t bother me. Freshman me understood what older me sometimes forgets: give it your best shot, and what happens, happens. In many cases, you can do the impossible.

I had a boss who taught me that. On a regular basis, he’d ask me to do something that either in a business or technical sense exceeded what I thought could be done. “Wilder, go and figure out how we can do IMPOSSIBLE TASK A.”

Freed from the idea of failure, since I already thought it was impossible, I went out and, 9 times out of 10, actually did things I would have thought were ludicrous goals. Yes, I wanted to win, but when I was put in an impossible place that actually simplified the task at hand because I no longer feared failing.

I always eat sausage on February 2^nd, after all, it’s ground hog day.

This boss regularly did that, and 9 out of 10 times, he’d succeed. Now, one of the failures got him fired, but his severance package was $2,000,000, (several decades ago) so I didn’t spend a lot of time crying for him.

Outcome independence worked pretty well for him, too.

If I were to look at this from the perspective of how (and why!) I need to keep outcome independence in my mind, I’d toss these reasons out:

I’m not afraid of failure. Failure happens, but if I never fail, that means I’m always operating within my limits. Only when I try to exceed them do I get better. Never failing means never improving.
It focuses me on the things I can truly control. I really believe I’m a very, very lucky guy, but that luck isn’t something that I can impact, despite the several superstitious things that I do.
Focusing on success only in some cases requires external validation of that success. I know when I’ve done a good job, but if I have to wait for others to acknowledge it, well, that’s nearly the same as depending on luck.
Ever see a guy win a gold medal, and then just fall apart? And a guy who lost be content he was just there? Either the winner was exhausted or he no longer had a goal. Regardless, focusing only on the outcome can lead to a road where victory becomes defeat.

It was easy to write those four points – because I’ve found myself heading down each of those paths at various points in my life. Now that I’m a bit more seasoned, when I find myself getting wrapped up in the outcome, I step back and try to get rid of the mindset that has crept back up on me.

I bought some Himalayan salt that the label said was over 250 million years old. The label says it expires in June of 2025.

Partially, I have to admit defeat over the things I simply cannot control. I have to revert to the “whatever happens, happens” mindset. If I lose, what can I change? If I lose, does that make me a loser? No. I lost so I have learned. Now, if it was something stupid like playing chicken with a Hellfire® missile, well, I might only have milliseconds to contemplate my learnings, but like Thucydides (say that six times fast) said, luck favors the daring.

Maybe that’s why I was so lucky? Or maybe I was too stupid to know when to quit.

Ultimately, I have to be okay with being me. And I have to be okay playing the game where the stakes are high enough that winning is important, but keeping it about being the best I can be, and understanding that sometimes I’ll lose.

He also said I needed a federal aid. Or maybe it was a utility grade. Had trouble hearing him.

When I lose, though, I lose knowing I’ve given it everything I’ve got, and go down fighting.

And the next day? Learn, and start again.

I know one outcome: nobody gets out alive. Guess I might as well make the best use of the heartbeats I have left.

Enjoy Until Midnight. Then Back To Work.

“Execute order 66.” – Revenge of the Sith

This is a GloboLeftist. Thinking we’re not cheering for this, not understanding we didn’t vote for stability.

I had a football coach that had a speech that he saved for the team after we had won a big game. Since we were 2-7 my senior year, he rarely got to use it. It went something like this:

“Alright, team, we won the big game and are feeling pretty good right now, except for Jenkins. I’m pretty sure he was left-handed, anyway, so don’t worry too much about him. We won. Enjoy it. Relax. Until midnight. After midnight, it’s back to being hungry for a win – the score is zero-zero.” Since this was before the GloboLeftElite clouded the minds of men, he’d then hand out cigarettes and beer to the freshmen and sophomores, with cigars, tequila and strippers for the upperclassmen.

I loved high school. I learned a lot about Destiny there, though I think that was just her stage name. I never did get all the glitter off the truck seat.

Anyway, Trump has once again assumed the presidency. This is not the naïve, friendly, Trump of his first administration. Nope, he’s played the game, had four years to marinate in his mistakes, and is surrounded by a bunch of people who are nearly as pissed off as he is. The biggest initial impact, besides bleaching the Oval Office to get the old man smell out, are the plethora of Executive Orders he issued nearly immediately. I’ve got an incomplete list below, and let’s spend a few minutes reveling in them.

I can’t verify this, but I can imagine him saying it, so it’s probably true.

1,500 pardons for January 6 protestors.

This was a big one, and was needed for legitimacy. So many of the folks on January 6 did absolutely nothing wrong in what was effectively the largest panty raid in American history – you could tell because Nancy Pelosi certainly had her panties in a bunch.

Sorry for that. Now you probably need mind bleach.

The sentences for the protesters were, in almost every case, extremely disproportionate to the crimes alleged. This is justice.

The button text is photoshopped, although when I checked, the Spanish version of whitehouse.gov was really gone. Actual text: “Return to Home Page.”

Declared a national border emergency.

This was one that really got the goat of the GloboLeftElite. Butch Maddow, MSNBC© Lesbian at Large, reporting from the MSNBC™ Safe Space© bunker, immediately asked where Steiner’s troops were.

But what happened is the border shut down. Immediately. The Border Patrol ceased their most recent duty of diaper delivery and social work and began, well, patrolling the border.

Removed birthright citizenship.

Pure genius, and well overdue. If I vault over my neighbor’s fence and my woman gives birth on his lawn, I don’t have a claim to his house. Oddly, that’s been our theory for decades. The wording of the amendment establishing citizenship at birth clearly says, “and under the jurisdiction thereof.” Criminals are not citizens, and not under the jurisdiction, just like diplomats, people on student, tourist, or work visas, or ILLEGAL ALIENS aren’t.

Boot ‘em. Sadly, this isn’t retroactive, but this is a start. Already H1-B Indians are complaining that they can’t chain migrate their 4,323 close relatives from India because of this.

Yes, this makes me cry inside. But it’s tears of joy.

Shut down refugee resettlement.

Every picture about this particular order showed the fat Squatamalan woman wearing designer clothes crying because her appointment to negotiate to come into the United States was cancelled. She had a cell phone (nicer than mine) showing that her appointment was cancelled.

Why, oh why does it make these people cry when they are told that they have to live in their home country surrounded by people just like them?

President Trump sends his regards.

Rescinded 78 Biden Executive Orders on DEI.

Imagine you’re a diversity trainer. Imagine you had a contract to teach diversity to listless herds of .gov employees. Imagine now you’re unemployed.

I know, I know. I’m in pain, too. It’ll probably take plastic surgery to remove the smile from my face.

Froze .gov hiring.

This is a good start. Now start firing ever DEI employee, every gun control policy wonk, and every third employee, randomly. That’s a better start.

Required immediate return to in-person work for .gov employees.

They have to go to work? In a building? That’s not their home? And put on pants? Sheer monstrosity.

If employees don’t return, they’ll get a little visit from Barron.

Required regulation cutting.

This is a sleeper, because it has a huge ability, if done right, to lower costs for businesses and individuals. We’ll see.

Required removal of climate policies that raise costs and withdraw from the Paris Accords.

Again, a sleeper because all of that alternative energy is really, really costly when compared to regular old energy, and yet raise your costs invisibly because the cost is just passed on to you via your bill. The Paris Accords aren’t a treaty, because the GloboLeftElite couldn’t pass a treaty. It’s just . . . an agreement that bound us to GloboLeftElite goals, i.e., they keep their jets, but we have to have crappy cars.

Or, it was an agreement.

Withdrew from the World Health Organization.

I’ve written about this bureaucratic overreach with no particular purpose after they actually did some good and important things. Mainly, it’s a bunch of high-paying jobs and a really cool building with a rooftop café for foreigners to sip cappuccinos while they laugh at us plebs.

Created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to eliminate entire agencies and many .gov jobs.

I’ve written about DOGE before. I’m certainly in hopes that it works, though, like so many of the above, it all depends on the executions. After fair trials, of course.

Removed the security clearances from the 51 intelligence officers who said that Hunter’s laptop was fake, and, also John Bolton.

I found this one particularly delicious. These intelligence grifters retire and use their credentials to maintain access to secret information, and then sell their opinions to big corporations or mainstream media. Sadly, I’m not sure the Executive Orders covered Bolton’s mustache, which I think is Bolton’s primary sensory and information storage organ.

Even Michael Bolton would be better at national security.

Declared that there were only two genders.

It took mankind 2020 years to forget this, but one stroke of the pen and it made sense again. I wonder what will happen to all of those trans celebrity kids now that they’re illegal. Maybe we can send them to Guatemala, too.

Declared that it’s now the Gulf of America.

A troll from Trump, but a beautiful, hilarious troll that the GloboLeftElite will focus on while Trump’s busy gutting the federal government like a trout or an MSNBC© Safe Space™.

There are, of course, more, like firing the DEI obsessed Coast Guard L.I.C. (Lesbian in Charge) or shutting down most foreign aid, immediately.

So, tonight, I’ll sit back and not gripe. I’ll enjoy the moment.

Until midnight.

Henry VIII And Our Hidden History

“Come on, drop it. Stop acting like Henry VIII.” – Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

“I can’t be an ‘eritic if I ‘ave me own church, eh gov’na?”

In a comment the other day, the idea was introduced that the history books would get it right, and regardless of our follies today, eventually the historians would sort it out.

I don’t think so.

I think some very fundamental parts of our history have been either been gotten entirely wrong, or, worse, subverted for a reason, especially history that matters.

One example of this was brought out by two brilliant posts from Robb Ludden-Joyer. Mr. Ludden-Joyer writes on X®, and you can find him at @rawbloodenjoyer. Yeah. With that sense of humor, I knew I was going to enjoy these posts. You can find them here (LINK) and here (LINK). I strongly encourage you to RTWT.

In these two posts (of which Mr. Ludden-Joyer says he’s working on at third) Mr. Ludden-Joyer looks at the life and times of Henry VIII of England.

Now, when I think about Henry VIII, the image that popped into my mind was of a portly dude who, when he didn’t fancy a wife, had her killed. This is the type of no-fault divorce I can get behind. Essentially, history has branded Mr. The VIII as an irresponsible, low-brow hedonist who killed his wives on whims. Ah, who says the old ways aren’t the best?

I’m not sure if that’s what you got out of your history class and popular media, but it’s certainly what I got out of World History. My World History class was “taught” by the varsity boys’ basketball coach. His teaching style was interesting – I had him first period, and he’d show up and start the film of the day. He had films for every day. When it was over (if it was a short one) he’d instruct us to start the second film. Five minutes before the period ended, he’d show back up, stop the film, and then say, “Let’s knock off for the day, class.”

But I did somehow letter. Coach said he had to pull a few strings.

One day we got rowdy enough that someone found him, and he marched back as mad as a varsity boys’ basketball coach could be, and gave us a speech worthy of a team that was both unable to dribble, shoot, or run. Then, after the impassioned speech?

“Let’s knock off for the day, class.”

Rob Ludden-Joyer has, however, given us another viewpoint on Henry VIII, so let’s reassess.

A very short version of Mr. Ludden-Joyer’s thesis is that Henry VIII may have had a much, much different incentive: keeping England under English control. When talking about Henry VIII, no one really mentions the Habsburgs.

Who were the Habsburgs? Well, they started sometime around the 10^th century, and their primary strategy to gain power was marriage. When they wanted to gain a barony or some location, they’d marry off their children to Baron Whatshisname. Then, with the Habsburg connection, they’d make sure that the children of Baron Whatshisname married other Habsburgs. If Baron Whatshisname had a male heir, well, the best doctors were the Habsburg doctors, and, “Oh, my Baron, it’s a tragedy what happened to your son. But your daughter is just fine and healthy!”

If you watch the movie Jaws backwards, it’s a heartwarming story of a shark that helps disabled people put their lives back together.

But the Habsburgs were very, very good at not letting others use their tricks on them, and thus their family tree began to resemble a stump as they kept interbreeding to keep the power in undisputed Habsburg lines. Other countries expanded by war, but the Habsburg’s main weapon was the womb. And lots of poison, I’m betting.

Henry VIII’s first wife was . . . Catherine of Aragorn. Okay, it’s Aragon, but Aragorn is way cooler. Anyway, she was a . . . Habsburg.

So, Catherine had a child by Henry VIII, named . . . Henry. Henry “died suddenly with no recorded cause of death”. Then, another son, who lived for a few hours. Then, another son, who died shortly after birth. Once is a tragedy, twice is a coincidence, but three times is the Habsburg doctors killing Henry’s sons so he’d have to let her marry a Habsburg.

Finally, she had a single daughter with Henry (notice the pattern) named Mary. It is a bit of a spoiler to point out that she’s known to history as Bloody Mary, and not because of that horrible drink named after her. And she lived, just fine.

Hmmm.

One day I was looking at myself naked in the mirror and thought, “Whoa, I’m pretty sure they’re gonna kick me out of IKEA.”

Well, Henry VIII likely wanted to keep England under control of, you know, the English, and fought back by asking the Pope to rid him of this wife. Popes back in the day were generally fine with this sort of thing, but the Habsburgs had God on their side – and by God I mean the Habsburgs had the Pope in actual custody. Amazingly, the Pope agreed with the people who had a knife to his throat and said no, and this led eventually to the birth of Henry’s longest living heir – the Church of England.

Henry VIII also had a son, who was King Edward VI, until he was poisoned by the Habsburgs. That led to Lady Jane Grey becoming Queen, until Mary killed her. Bloody Mary married a Habsburg, but thankfully her inbred egg carton was empty, and she had no children with her Hapsburg cousin.

Thankfully, she died.

Elizabeth I was then queen, and Mr. Ludden-Joyer theorizes that her avoidance of marriage was partially intended to keep England ruled by the English.

Again, @rawbloodenjoyer’s ideas are fresh, and when I read them, they ring very true – a large part of Henry VIII’s motivation was about the ultimate control of England remaining in the hands of the English, and not merely him being horny.

It must be common to have headaches as a farmer. They keep talking about my grains.

Of course, I’ve skipped a lot of details because Mr. Ludden-Joyer has covered so many of them in his posts. I’ll take this a bit further, though. If you look at English history, the Habsburgs finally got there with George I of England, of the House of Hanover, whose mother was a cousin to the Habsburgs.

By then, however, the game had changed. As Thomas Jefferson (definitely not a Habsburg) said, “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

I think that the question now as we move forward is a simpler one, and it echoes Jefferson: “Who controls our money?” Our money is a meme at this point, and like Bitcoin or Trumpcoin, and masters of the money meme like George Soros can easily spend only $40 million and take control of the criminal justice system. When you look back at our history, the history of the United States, how much of that has been led by those who would use money to control?

A billionaire who hates America pulling the strings behind the curtain. How could that be bad?

And how much are they willing to subvert our history to hide their actions?

Let’s knock off for today, class.