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Like Caesar, America has crossed the Rubicon
US Defense Watch ^ | January 10, 2017 | Ray Starmann

Posted on 01/10/2018 6:33:12 PM PST by pboyington

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1 posted on 01/10/2018 6:33:13 PM PST by pboyington
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Ridiculous! Trump was Constitutionally elected. A small oversight I suppose.


2 posted on 01/10/2018 6:39:14 PM PST by dr_lew
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Much hyperbole there is here.


3 posted on 01/10/2018 6:54:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: pboyington

Truth

And there will be war because of it, that and the treason of the saboteurs


4 posted on 01/10/2018 6:57:08 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: dr_lew

Yes, Trump was definitely Constitutionally elected, and I would note the following:

I think Obama “crossed the Rubicon” prompted by the DNC, and named a successor, Clinton, to “mop up” following his 8 year Presidency.

Out of nowhere, an interloper and Republican Constitutionalist defender, Trump, independent from the entrenched political two party leadership functioning as one party, “crossed the Rubicon” in a second instance, with his Army of 63M voters, and is in the process of neutralizing, reversing for the first time, by cutting an Islamo/Socialist Gordian Knot, a decades long march away from traditional Constitutional Republican government. It remains to be seen if Trump can survive and overcome the anti-American inertia embedded in the Executive Branch, the Courts, the Legislature and even the military and educational institutions in the US, currently in the process of extinguishing anything culturally “white”.


5 posted on 01/10/2018 6:57:47 PM PST by givemELL
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To: dr_lew

>Ridiculous! Trump was Constitutionally elected. A small oversight I suppose.

Ceasar was an elected Consul of Rome at the time. Rome has also devolved into lawfare and a death sentence was hanging over Ceasar from the Roman legal system, which is why he returned with his armies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_reforms_of_Julius_Caesar


6 posted on 01/10/2018 7:00:55 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: pboyington

Robicon


7 posted on 01/10/2018 7:02:30 PM PST by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
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To: dr_lew
It's hard to envision our country will ever be united again. There is no compromising with those that want to control other peoples lives and even their deaths. The "half of" people in the OP are simply not Americans. They may be citizens (many of them anyway) but they have no idea what it means to be an American.

I pray our President can indeed Make America Great Again but America is unfortunately not going to include many many people. Those people want something else, something not American. We can't help them but we must either dominate them or we will be forced to segregate from them.

I used to joke about it being time to divide up the nation, Americans can take the top half or the bottom half, the left half or the right half and give the other to the non Americans. Now I believe that is exactly the road we are on. I'm not saying it can't be turned around but that is where we are headed and it's going to take extreme action to avoid it.

8 posted on 01/10/2018 7:10:33 PM PST by precisionshootist
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But he declared himself emperor, didn’t he? He certainly overthrew the entire government, by force, in his own name, an act having no comparison with Trump’s due process election as President.

I can see it though! To the liberal mind, Trump carried revolutionary baggage into the office. But this is without acknowledgment or respect for the legitimate structure of government. To them, Trump is a weather bomb.


9 posted on 01/10/2018 7:15:00 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: precisionshootist

War is coming. There will be no avoiding it.


10 posted on 01/10/2018 7:19:46 PM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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That’s an exciting idea, but certainly not something to be wished for. I think worse schisms have been healed. ... Let us hope.


11 posted on 01/10/2018 7:25:03 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: pboyington

This Republic as the people go are as divided as the Civil War. The 2nd Amendment has prevented the bloodshed of the second so far.


12 posted on 01/10/2018 7:27:49 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Real America is at war with NWO America,I pray the war will not be bloody,but signs ate not looking good. We ARE now two countries on one landmass.
13 posted on 01/10/2018 7:30:02 PM PST by cowboyusa
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Trump saw the breach - and with great courage and insight - stepped right into it...


14 posted on 01/10/2018 7:35:05 PM PST by GOPJ (Intelligence services coup failed. Robert Hanssen (American traitor) to get new roommates soon.)
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For many years I did not quite understand the meaning. What is a die? It finally struck me that it is half of a pair of dice.


15 posted on 01/10/2018 7:42:21 PM PST by yarddog
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Half of the country will never accept Donald Trump as President of the United States, no matter what feats of grandeur he accomplishes.

Half of the country thinks that men who believe they’re women should use the ladies room and shower with little girls.

Half of the country believes in open borders.

Half of the country believes illegals should be given citizenship.

Half of the country believes Trump’s travel ban is cruel to unvetted Muslims coming from war-torn countries that promote terrorism.

Half of the country wants the government to confiscate your firearms and to enact universal gun control, like they have in socialist Europe.

Half of the country believes that socialist Europe is the premier model for the USA.

Half of the country says it’s okay to raise their taxes to pay for more big government programs.

Half of the country thinks that Obamacare is a marvelous success and the precursor to a Canadian style single payer health care system, instead of a harbinger of governmental horror.

Half of the country believes that the Iran Deal was a foreign policy success story.

Half of the country thinks that the Antifa are just misguided kids, not Marxist thugs.

Half of the country wants a platitude screaming former talk show host with a closet full of skeletons and train full of emotional baggage to be the next President, because she cares, makes us feel good and will set us right after we all have a collective cry as a nation.

Half of the country believes that the 10 happiest words in the English language are: “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

Half of the country wants a fight with the right, refuses to listen to logic, is powered by irrational emotion and condones violence to reach its goals, that goal being a country totally juxtaposed with the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers.

It’s not half the country....about 20 % plus the MSM


16 posted on 01/10/2018 7:43:30 PM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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“But he declared himself emperor, didn’t he?”

No, he was elected dictator by the senate, among other titles. Augustus was the first emperor.


17 posted on 01/10/2018 7:49:07 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: dr_lew

No one wants conflict. But the anti-civilizational forces in play have left no other path. Surrender is not an option.


18 posted on 01/10/2018 7:55:16 PM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Ah! Thank you for that information. Still, I don’t think Trump has been elected dictator by the Senate, or anybody. and I don’t see a parallel here. If there has been an American Caesar, it must have been FDR. Of course, our republican system survived even him ... I think!


19 posted on 01/10/2018 7:59:53 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: BenLurkin
It also gets quite a bit wrong. First, Gaius Julius Caesar said "alea iacta est". Secondly, he didn't introduce the Egyptian calendar, as his advisor Sosigenes had suggested. That calendar had 12 months of 30 days each, and a festive season of five days (each day dedicated to a god or goddess). Far more rational than the odd/even/February 28 botch that he perpetrated.

And yes, he gained power by force, while President Trump gained power by telling the truth. Big difference.

20 posted on 01/10/2018 8:12:12 PM PST by John Locke
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