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  Why we NEED to study History Historian Mary Beard contends that  Rome became a de facto empire due to territorial expansion too vast to be effectively governed by a democratic republic So the territorial empire created the first emperors to fill a political void IMO This is frightening  the USA is rapidly expanding its holdings  (military installations) satellite nations We cannot decide how to effectively administer them Could this be why we are facing the threat of Emperor Donald Trump I? IMO This upcoming election is not whether the USA will become an empire or a republic But rather what direction the Empire of the United States will take. Or to put it more bluntly: The 1% want their empire and will stop at nothing to get it. Prediction: Tyrant Trump will fail He insists on doing everything himself Nothing happens without Trump's approval. He will drown in the details.

 With all the civil and criminal judgments against D. Trump Totaling perhaps over 500 million USD I am grimly delighted and eagerly anticipating Trump declaring bankruptcy to avoid paying these civil and criminal fines play the martyr I'm waiting for legal/professional sanctions  against A. Habba for her actions in the state and federal courts disgraceful contemptuous Will D. Trump flee the country? Every time he's losing a court case he then runs as fast as his little feet can take him complains with bitter vitriol that he's the victim extols his followers to violence And there are more civil and criminal cases to come far surpassing R. Reagan for political corruption Green Eagle on D. Trump's "win" in New Hampshire 'So, DeSantis dropped out.   My guess at that point was that Trump and Haley would pretty much split DeSantis' 22 points,  giving each 11 points,  so the final result of the New Hampshire race should have been something like this:  Ha...

  All these ammosexuals running around itching to drag iron and kill all they disapprove of. So why are we all still alive? Because of the Constitution, baby. The one thing the Orange God-King wants to get rid of after he's elected. Cannot emphasize this enough: Balloon Juice: Eternal Fascism: The Key Elements Umberto Eco's seminal text on the threat of Ur-Fascism. From Green Eagle : 'The Civil War was about freedom.   Nikki Haley was absolutely right about that.   She only got one thing wrong.   It was about the freedom of black people not to be owned by white people, not the freedom of white people to own black people. Apparently, to people like Nikki Haley, freedom and slavery were not inconsistent.   Just as long as the right people were free and the right people were slaves.' I cannot believe Nikki Haley can utter such a blatant lie: We all know this is totally false, completely untrue. The GOP 2024 campaign is to restore racism as a cor...

Trump caucus win in Iowa: In his victory word-salad (long-term COVID?), did D. Trump remember to thank Putin for his generous behind-the-scenes support? "Low voter turnout" translates to "all the moderate Republicans stayed home rather than vote for MAGA candidates." Update: D. Trump won by 51%. 49% voted against Trump. This is not a "landslide" victory. Prediction: After Iowa caucus victory, local GOP will run wild. Expect increased violence against all who are not white, male, and heterosexual. Are evangelicals actually expecting their God of Abraham to descend from the heavens and restore white supremacy? BTW all the Old Testament patriarchs we revere kept slaves. In an interview with Christine Amanpour, Robert Pape identifies the racist "Great Replacement Theory" as the prime motivator for the January 6th insurrection. Pape analyzed 400 arrested traitors to generate this profile: White Male Over 45 Upper middle-class  businessmen  professio...

Really looking forward to Drumpf fleeing the USA (to Belarus/Crimea?)),  setting up a "government-in-exile", and  exhorting his followers to  run riot,  kill all his enemies burn everything down We had the opportunity  to put Hair Fuhrer in jail for his many gag order violations but we squandered that opportunity (because Capitalism protects the 1%) I tried to post this on Facebook But Meta forced me to delete this post or end up in FB jail (because Capitalism protects the 1%) Lesson learned:  stick with Google blogs ICYMI:  On Christmas Day Israel bombed Gaza refugee camps Russia blasted Ukraine cities with missiles So tell me again why do we celebrated Christmas?

 So, in essence, most Republicans despise Donald Trump but will still do everything they can to get him elected President-- just to own the Libs That's it that's what this is all about And while the body count rises and all of us are enslaved and women are turned into breeding animals-- all to satisfy these schoolyard bullies who have money to burn just to own the Libs

If AR-15s all disappear: Do pro-gun arguments collapse like a house of cards? Interesting how so many people like Alex Hailey's novel Roots ,  but they don't like the factual 1619 Project .  This is why we need to teach History. I love how middle-aged cis white males  can sit in a local diner in an almost all-white community  grousing how there is no freedom of speech anymore. The reason Conservatives need billionaire donors  is maintaining the Big Lie is  very expensive and  consumes vast resources of  time,  labor, and  money. The core tenet of GOP populism Heterosexual white males must make more heterosexual white males  by any means possible. "Give me white dick or give me death." Amusing: All these militia types Wear woodland camouflage in urban environments in order to hide from themselves from each other from they have done.