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Empires End in the Dustbin of History
ileanajohnson.com ^ | 9/13/2017 | Ileana Johnson

Posted on 09/18/2017 12:29:23 PM PDT by rktman

Empires come and go. The twilight of western civilization is not just a poetic idea, it is a painful reality. Liberals often say that they do not like to make broadly pessimistic pronouncements about the collective fate of civilization. Of course not, it might upset their blind followers who dwell in the haze of marijuana, hard-core drugs, immorality, decadence, and debauchery.

Anarchists are allowed to burn down towns, while police are told to stand down. ANTI-FA and BLM, fascist and racist organizations by any description, deface statues they don’t like and beat up others whose ideas they disagree with, proclaiming that they have a right to attack them for their opinions.

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That is why the western empire is in its twilight and will eventually demise in the dustbin of history. And my people fought the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Much blood has been shed to keep them out of Christian lands. Now they are here to stay and fundamentally transform us because we let them.

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From someone who has actually lived with oppression and the government in charge of EVERYTHING! Will we be "woke" in time? Not looking good right now but we shall overcome in time.
1 posted on 09/18/2017 12:29:23 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Guess what:

Republics Also End in the Dustbin of History


2 posted on 09/18/2017 12:30:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rktman

immorality, decadence, and debauchery
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Great name for a law firm.


3 posted on 09/18/2017 12:31:41 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: BenLurkin

Some people just take for granted, that America as we know it will always be here. That they will always have the freedoms we enjoy, some of which many others in parts of the world don’t have.

The dark ages could return.


4 posted on 09/18/2017 12:38:21 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BenLurkin

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
— Chuck Palahniuk


5 posted on 09/18/2017 12:40:41 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We’re already there, at the “abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”


6 posted on 09/18/2017 12:47:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rktman

Empires go down in history when they make bas calls.


7 posted on 09/18/2017 12:56:02 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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To: sparklite2

Similar to the Three Stooges law firm:

Dewey, Cheatem and Howe


8 posted on 09/18/2017 12:56:22 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: sparklite2

immorality, decadence, and debauchery
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Great name for a law firm.

Kind of like:

Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.


9 posted on 09/18/2017 12:58:24 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: rktman

And so it will be with THIS one if it takes the wrong turn!

A REALLY IMPORTANT email just came to me from a friend. 
If the DACA thing still confuses you and/or you want to know why Democrats and some Chamber of Commerce RINOs favor DACA and/or you want to know the REAL REASON WHY the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution (as opposed to the totally false leftist, one-world “anchor baby” answer)  you might want to read this. That last one is the BIGGIE!

What’s at stake?  Not much. Just the culture and IDEA OF AMERICA that has become the envy of the world!
PLEASE SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!
Dick B
PS: The OTHER reason why many of our rulers who art in Washington NEED millions of new serfs — from ANYWHERE in the world — is because years ago they co-mingled the funds for the Social Security “TRUST FUND” (do TRY to control your mirth!) with the GENERAL FUND and proceeded to purchase perpetual reelection with all sorts of costly goodies.  The dough has run out and these new “serfs” (and the Federal Reserve’s ability to create more fiat currency for which they charge us interest) are required to keep the damn thing afloat.  That the vast majority of these new “serfs” will vote leftist Democrat gives new and deeper meaning to the phrase “mass suicide” to the once respectable Republican Party.
 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422960/we-can-apply-14th-amendment-while-also-reforming-birthright-citizenship-john-c

Further clarification of this vital to national security and preservation issue is provided by Ann Coulter at the link below.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-09-13.html

AFTER WORD:
Trump did the right thing to push obozo’s thoroughly ILLEGAL DACA up the Hill to the critters residing there.  That said, IF whatever comes off the Hill ALLOWS ILLEGALS TO REMAIN HERE, he’d better VETO IT or the bloom is off that rose.
What Rush, Tucker and Ann are simply doing is firing a warning shot across his bow! And MY post is simply to attempt to educate folks to the FACTS of this VITAL issue!


10 posted on 09/18/2017 12:58:44 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: sparklite2

I think any law firm will answer to that name if you call them and ask for those. ;^)


11 posted on 09/18/2017 1:00:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: rktman; BenLurkin; Dilbert San Diego; vikingd00d; Beagle8U; Dick Bachert

Even dustbins wind up in the dustbin of history. Everything and everyone does. The mortality rate is still 100 percent. In the long run, all there is is the short run. And winners don’t write the history books, the history books write the winners. And always wear clean underwear.


12 posted on 09/18/2017 1:04:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: sparklite2

It is the name of a production company in Hollywood. Also a list of job requirements to work in a studio.


13 posted on 09/18/2017 1:07:12 PM PDT by karnage
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To: left that other site

and Nasty, Brutish and Short .


14 posted on 09/18/2017 1:11:08 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: rktman

Now they are here to stay and fundamentally transform us because we let them.
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Please don’t let that be our epitaph.


15 posted on 09/18/2017 1:22:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dick Bachert

Whatever they send him will include way more than the 700,000 already signed up for DACA.
I think he’ll sign whatever they send him.
I hope Congress does what it does best and can’t pass anything.


16 posted on 09/18/2017 1:28:48 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Some people just take for granted, that America as we know it will always be here.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. ~Ronald Wilson Reagan

... You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." ~Ronald Wilson Reagan

17 posted on 09/18/2017 1:40:42 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: rktman

The era of the Empire is over. The last one to die was the Soviet Union. People want to control their government.

The things that are happening in the US are not sufficient to do harm to the country to the point it becomes an Empire.

Antifa is small and not very active.
Democrats have lost their minds and may go the way of the Dodo bird.
Socialism is burning countries to the ground and everyone knows it.

In short, the majority of the country wants a smaller, less intrusive government. That is not an Empire building strategy.

And BTW, there is no Western Empire, but there is a Western culture and it is much, much larger than any creditable threat on the horizon.


18 posted on 09/18/2017 1:46:48 PM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Dr. Sivana

LOL!


19 posted on 09/18/2017 2:08:42 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: rktman
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

20 posted on 09/18/2017 2:29:28 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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