Guest post from John Wilder at Wilder Wealthy Wise.
“System of government categorized by extreme dictatorship. Seven across.” – Hot Fuzz
I bought an Antifa© alarm clock. It just calls me names. Talk about a rude awakening.
- Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
- Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
- Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
- Open War.
May had (again) increased violence, but not as bad as it could have been as unseasonably cold weather kept other temperatures down. Again, none of the violence that I could see originated from the Right.
I’m holding May at 9 out of 10. That’s still two minutes to midnight. Last month I said that “ July or August could take us to a 10” and the reason is becoming clearer, as hot weather and economic woes will be showing up on the street.
I currently put the total at (this is my best approximation, since no one tracks the death toll from rebellion-related violence) up to around 800 out of the 1,000 required for the international civil war definition.
As close as we are to the precipice of war, be careful. Things could change at any minute. Avoid crowds. Get out of cities. Now. A year too soon is better than one day too late.
In this issue: Front Matter – Two Years On – Violence And Censorship Update – Updated Civil War 2.0 Index – Inflation – 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 get every single Wilder post delivered to your inbox, M-W-F at 7:30 Eastern, free of charge.
Two Years On
I started this line of posting two years ago, and it was clear to me that the United States is Balkanizing around multiple worldviews. You can’t read the headlines today without seeing it.
It’s getting worse, not better. Trust me, I’d much rather have a post that says, “LOL, looks like it’s all good, this is the last issue.”
The seeds of this situation were planted decades ago. Back in 1990 (according to Pew Research) we were mostly one nation. Sure, there were people on the extremes of either end, but those people were mostly ignored.
I believe that after this term in office, Chuck should get another term. In prison.
But when Pew looked at people in 2017, they found the Left has moved far to the political left, while the Right had only slightly moved. The Balkanization exists because the Left has moved left. That direction of drift by the Left is accelerating.
Right and Left have, since 1999 or so, completely given up on the idea of fiscal discipline. It’s gone. The spending has just sped up, and taxation is no longer related at all to the amount that the Federal government spends. There are numerous problems with this, not the least of which is the off-balance way that growth is funneled to chosen winners.
What happens when you mix a population that doesn’t have the same conception of the fundamental function of government with massive numbers of unassimilated foreigners and throw in an economic dislocation?
Civil War.
The reaction to Trump brought about the current coalescence of the Left’s strands that have many fundamental reasons to hate each other, but skipped it for the purpose of hating even more. Internally, they’ll eventually face a mass purity test, but for now they’re content to just spend their daily Two Minutes Hate on the Right.
Conditions are closer now to Civil War than at any point in my life. The Civil War 2.0 Scale™ has moved from a 6 to a 9 in that time frame. Billions in property damage have been done. At least hundreds of people are now dead with untold thousands of injured due to this ideological conflict.
All in 24 months.
Violence And Censorship Update
This month is, again, mainly censorship.
Point 1. Twitter® Is Unaware Of Irony
Twitter™ got kicked out of Nigeria. Why? Because they deleted a Tweet® from the President of Nigeria where he was threatening secessionists in his own country who might try to start a civil war.
Here was Twitter’s™ response
Wait, what?
It’s an essential human right for people to have Twitter™. Huh.
Point 2. Wuhan Fluhan
One of my big pet peeves about the press is when they turn news stories into editorials. It reduces my trust in them to, well, zero. Looks like they can’t even trust themselves as they go back to memoryhole their own inconvenient headlines:
Point 3. Enemy Of The State
Homeland Security has now issued warning bulletins for:
- January 27 and “coming weeks” as they waited for violence from the Right,
- May 14 for “Right Wing Violence” and, now,
- Last week, for Right Wing violence against marchers at the Tulsa Riot Anniversary.
It turns out that Joe Biden wants to simply change the War on Terror laws to make them applicable to, well, everyone Joe doesn’t like. You remember, those laws that were derided by the Left and Right as un-Constitutional, back when such things mattered to the Left?
How do we know who is on those lists? Well, the CIA is spying on Americans. Huh. Thought that was illegal? No matter.
Thankfully, someone is speaking out for the Right:
Glenn Greenwald has a lot more at this (LINK). RTWT.
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:
Up is more violent, and violence is down again in May. Inner-city rioting continues and murder rates are up by double-digits, but nobody seems to care anymore.
Political Instability:
Up is more unstable. Instability increased this month, as expected. I think June may calm down, but who knows what Congress will get up to this month.
Economic:
I expected this number to be less positive. It’s not. Inflation has yet to hit this measure.
Illegal Aliens:
This data is at record levels for every year I have data for. Comments from the Left? “There needs to be more.”
Inflation
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” is more than a song lyric – it’s true. Right now we’re seeing inflation everywhere. Lumber. Gasoline. And . . . hamburgers.
All of the inflation stems from different things. Wood, well, it’s demand and a limited supply of mills. Gasoline? Those prices are up based on capacity, too, but also on crude oil prices, which have gone back up to pre-COVID levels.
Hamburgers? I just saw a fast-food double cheeseburger for $6.99.
Ouch!
Ranchers are making the same to less money than when beef was cheaper, so just like lumber, the big money is being made by the processors.
Not that any of that matters. Inflation is corrosive – it’s really a stealth tax where a government prints more money and, well, to put it in the immortal words of AOC when she wants to pay for universal healthcare, “You just pay for it.”
Obviously, there are consequences, and those are rising prices. Is there a limit?
No. There is no limit. The result, though, is generally catastrophic. People in an inflationary economy don’t behave rationally, since they become tempted to purchase absolutely anything because their money is so worthless that they want to get it out of their hands as quickly as possible. Why?
Because as worthless as it is today, tomorrow it will be worth even less.
This creates panic. Mania. Desperate people. A situation ripe for changing out a government. Or even a revolution. In the 1970s, there was no revolution, but the government was changed out, decisively. Twice. But in the 1970s, the United States was the world leader in manufacturing. In the 1970s, the United States was (relatively) culturally homogeneous. In the 1970s, the difference between Right and Left was much, much smaller.
Now? None of those are in play. For a government to play with inflation now is like trying to catch falling daggers: dangerous. Revolution after revolution and war after war has been caused by the devastation created by bad economic conditions.
LINKS
As usual, links this month are courtesy of Ricky. Thanks so much!!
CHATTER LEFT AND RIGHT
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democracy-race-power/
https://theweek.com/articles/983063/threat-civil-war-didnt-end-trump-presidency
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/12/gop-civil-war-dont-bet-on-it-487192
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/05/14/its-not-a-civil-war-its-a-purge-492851
https://news.yahoo.com/civil-war-bad-business-095607030.html
https://richmondobserver.com/opinion/item/12399-opinion-will-treason-mania-destroy-america.html
SECESSION TALK
https://vtdigger.org/2021/05/31/edward-mcmahon-u-s-could-soon-cease-to-be-a-functioning-democracy/
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/01/the-new-secession-crisis/
https://americanmind.org/salvo/red-lines/
https://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article251530708.html
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/img2.png?itok=p10yKIFF
ONE, TWO, THREE, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
NYC : https://twitter.com/yuhline/status/1399502974272131078
Portland : https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1398986717047230467
Miami : https://twitter.com/ONLYinDADE/status/1399791879068192783
America: https://twitter.com/i/status/1399800643880108035
https://www.city-journal.org/critical-race-theory-portland-public-schools
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/removing-the-bedrock-of-liberalism-826
1,000 KILLED THRESHOLD TO OFFICIALLY DECLARE CW? HOLD MY DOS EQUIS…
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/mexico-shares-grim-figures-on-disappeared-citizens/2202969
https://www.dw.com/en/dozens-fall-victim-to-mexicos-brutal-election-campaign/a-57694375
https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-mexico-police-f6ea7798ca3cc171ac13b3a5a6a6c266
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html
I hate to be contrary, I really do, but not a single anti-constitutional provocation has spurred the slightest resistance. Even a firearm confiscation order will be met with at most….burying the door stop/conversation piece in the back yard. The ultimate acknowledgement of a people without conviction. I don’t exclude myself from said assessment. I hate myself.
When you start thinking about burying your weapons, it might really time to use them.
Start thinking? Yeah…
Any history that would show us how to do that has been erased. I think people keep expecting goon squads to show up and so it will be easy to identify when to use them. They are using entirely different means of warfare than that.
Yep. They identify and suppress any kind of leadership that might try to form. I’m sure they have a database with our names on it and a “score”. When your “score” gets high enough, then they put you on continuous electronic surveillance, just waiting on you to say or write something that might be construed as illegal. Once they get you in custody, they will turn the screws until you
have spent your last $ on lawyers or you cop a plea.
It is obviously what they are doing to those arrested for trespassing at the capitol. Of course, my question is how can it be trespassing when the AGW’s hold the doors open for you and invite you in? There is no way those folks will get a fair trial in the District of Corruption.
I fully expect to see the BLM/Auntie Fa “mostly peaceful protests” to spill over into the white suburbs this summer, especially in the deep blue states. Any form of defense put up by the citizens will not be tolerated and if any shots are fired, expect the AGW’s to storm the neighborhood and arrest everyone except the “mostly peaceful protestors”. The further you are from a big blue/black city, the better off you will be.
Unfortunately, I think the average guy on the right side of the political spectrum still has way too much to lose to contemplate “hoisting the black flag and start slitting throats”
Do you know what I hope for? I hope the reason we hear absolutely nothing about any organized resistance is because they really are that damned good.
Some of them are, you know.
A guy walked a half-mile to let us follow him onto his property to show us where he has survival supplies stored. He wanted to know our caliber of choice, just in case.
As for us and our houses, well, we be serving.
https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/whites-need-not-apply-ny-accounting-program-bans-white-people/
There is the endlessly discussed diagnosis, and then there is a prognosis based upon a prescription that is all but invisible from the discussion. What’s the point?
Nothing new; SOS since 1964; SOS as Reconstruction.
This one, just like the last one, will NOT be a “civil” war as one side will once again be fighting to RID itself of the central government control, not to seize it.
Worse, the Leftist want to kill Conservatives.
Then there will be three sides.
You wont see a civil war here. Too fucking lazy. Non commital antifa antics are one thing, whole different aspect to it when folks sre shooting back.
Every town and city and state has only so many officials and police. That comment, There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass comes to mind.
And that was a comment made by Japanese who even understood it to be true when statistics on gun and ammo ownership were not as publicly available.
Keep an eye out for the pussy-hat wearing people taking pictures of normal people. They’re probably reporting you.
http://dissident-mag.com/2021/06/08/citizen-crime-tracking-app-is-latest-piece-of-israeli-spytech-panopticon/
This nigger-worshipping kleptocratic anti-White Jewish system is intolerable. That about 20% of the white populace must literally be drugged into submission proves it.
Just a very small sampling. Are you sure of the diagnosis?
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2021.03.22 USA Boulder, CO 10 0 A migrant from Syria shoots dead ten patrons at a ‘Jewish’ supermarket after swearing allegiance to ISIS.
2020.10.24 USA Staten Island, NY 1 0 A young woman is honor-killed by her father over her becoming ‘too Westernized’ and not wanting to wear the hijab.
2020.06.03 USA New York, NY 0 3 An illegal migrant from Bosnia stabs one police officer and shoots two others while shouting praises to Allah.
2020.05.29 USA Temple Terrace, FL 0 0 A radicalized woman is shot after trying to stab police officers.
2020.05.21 USA Corpus Christi, TX 0 1 A Muslim terrorist opens fire on a navy base, injuring a sailor.
2019.12.06 USA Pensacola, FL 3 8 A Saudi national shoots dead three students at a naval air station.
2019.01.07 USA Fountain Hills, AZ 0 1 A ‘lone wolf’ ISIS loyalist stabs a police officer.
2018.03.21 USA Travis AFB, CA 0 0 A suicide bomber rams the gate at an Air Force base, but kills only himself.
2018.03.12 USA Palm Beach Gardens, FL 1 2 A recent convert to Islam stabs three people over his religion, including two 13-year-olds.
2018.02.07 USA Tahlequah, OK 0 1 A Muslim yelling ‘Allah’ stabs a non-Muslim following an argument over religion.
2018.01.30 USA Greenville, SC 0 1 A bomb left on a road by a ‘radicalized’ convert injures a passerby.
2017.12.22 USA Harrisburg, PA 0 1 A former immigrant from Egypt opens fire on police officers in two attacks.
2017.12.17 USA New York, NY 0 3 A man from Bangladesh tries to blow himself up at a bus terminal.
2017.11.12 USA Bloomington, MN 0 2 An immigrant from Somalia goes on a stabbing spree at a mall, later calling it an answer to the call for Jihad.
2017.10.31 USA New York, NY 8 15 A ‘radicalized’ migrant runs down eight innocent people on a bike path while praising Allah.
2017.05.19 USA Tampa, FL 2 0 A recent convert shoots two people to death for disrespecting Islam.
2017.04.18 USA Fresno, CA 3 0 Three men are gunned down near a Catholic charity by a convert to Islam yelling praises to Allah.
2017.01.31 USA Denver, CO 1 0 A pastor working as a security guard is shot to death at a transit office “for the pleasure of Allah.”
2017.01.06 USA Fort Lauderdale, FL 5 6 A mentally-disturbed convert to Islam guns down five innocents in the baggage claim area of an airport.
2016.11.28 USA Columbus, OH 0 11 A Muslim immigrant goes on a stabbing rampage after expressing his desire to kill infidels.
2016.09.17 USA St. Cloud, MN 0 8 A former refugee goes on a stabbing spree at a shopping mall while speaking of Allah and asking potential victims if they are Muslim.
2016.09.17 USA NYC, NY 0 31 A former asylum seeker plants several explosives, one of which injures twenty-nine innocents. He also shot two policemen two days later.
2016.08.20 USA Roanoke, VA 0 2 A man and woman are stabbed maliciously by a ‘radicalized’ man yelling praises to Allah.
2016.06.13 USA Orlando, FL 49 53 An Islamic extremist massacres forty-nine people at a gay nightclub.
2016.02.11 USA Columbus, OH 0 4 Four people at a Christian-owned restaurant with an Israeli flag are slashed by a Muslim wielding a machete yelling ‘Allah Akbar’…
2016.01.07 USA Philadelphia, PA 0 1 A man shoots a police officer three times ‘in the name of Islam’.
2015.12.02 USA San Bernardino, CA 14 17 A ‘very religious’ Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.
2015.11.04 USA Merced, CA 0 4 A student vowing to behead and ‘praise Allah’ stabs four others on campus.
2015.07.16 USA Chattanooga, TN 5 2 A ‘devout Muslim’ stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.
2015.05.03 USA Garland, TX 0 1 Two Muslims stage a suicide assault on a conference critical of Islam.
2015.02.14 USA Detroit, MI 0 2 Two men are stabbed by a Muslim who first verified that they were unbelievers.
2014.12.18 USA Morganton, NC 1 A convert to Islam shoots an elderly man three times in the head after watching ISIS videos.
2014.10.23 USA NYC, NY 0 5 Four rookie cops and a female bystander are assaulted with an axe by a Muslim who says he is acting in the cause of Allah.
2014.09.25 USA Moore, OK 1 1 A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
2014.06.25 USA West Orange, NJ 1 0 A 19-year-old college student is shot to death ‘in revenge’ for Muslim deaths overseas.
2014.06.01 USA Seattle, WA 2 0 Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
2014.04.27 USA Skyway, WA 1 0 A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
2014.03.06 USA Port Bolivar, TX 2 0 A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
2013.08.04 USA Richmond, CA 1 0 A convert “on a mission from Allah” stabs a store clerk to death.
2013.04.19 USA Boston, MA 1 1 Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
2013.04.15 USA Boston, MA 3 264 Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as ‘very religious’ detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
2013.03.24 USA Ashtabula, OH 1 0 A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
2013.03.14 USA Vancouver, WA 0 2 Two people suffer knife injuries when a Muslim convert attempts to stab a non-Muslim to death over religious views outside a coffee shop.
2013.02.07 USA Buena Vista, NJ 2 0 A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
2012.11.12 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity.
2012.06.15 USA Mission, TX 0 3 A man shoots his daughter, her boyfriend and her mother for letting the girl date a non-Muslim.
2012.01.15 USA Houston, TX 1 0 A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter.
2011.09.11 USA Waltham, MA 3 0 Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
2011.04.30 USA Warren, MI 1 0 A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices.
2010.04.14 USA Marquette Park, IL 5 2 After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to ‘take them back to Allah’ and out of the ‘world of sinners’.
2009.12.04 USA Binghamton, NY 1 0 A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for ‘persecuted’ Muslims.
2009.11.05 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
2009.11.02 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too ‘Westernized.’ (10-20-09)
2009.06.01 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.
2009.04.12 USA Phoenix, AZ 2 0 A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values.
2009.02.12 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
2008.07.06 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
2008.01.01 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their ‘Western’ lifestyle.
2007.02.20 USA Nashville, TN 0 1 A Muslim cab driver runs over a Christian after arguing about religion. The young man’s ankle and hip are broken by the vehicle.
2006.07.28 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An ‘angry’ Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
2006.06.25 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was ‘Allah’s choice’, a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
2006.06.16 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim medical student in an unprovoked terror attack.
2006.03.03 USA Chapel Hill, NC 0 9 Calling it the will of Allah, an Iranian immigrant plows his SUV into a crowd of students as ‘retribution’ for foreign policy overseas.
2004.04.15 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
2003.08.06 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a ‘religious revival’, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4″ butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
2002.10.22 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
2002.10.14 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
2002.10.11 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
2002.10.09 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
2002.10.03 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/american-attacks.aspx
(((Who))) opened the gates for the muslims?
If somebody gives a gun to a chimp, you don’t blame the chimp for what happens next.
Posting here… Speaking of sparking civil wars.
Listening to this podcast on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3r15xumwn8&list=PLET0TrSyozSLJgM9HPeWZgfyNOkM5BejL&index=2
That’s fascinating. I’m going to listen to the next one later today, when it rains again. It rains again every day this time of year now. We are glad we are in the mountains where it is only soggy, instead of in the plains where it is flooded.