Posted on 12/23/2025 9:59:38 AM PST by Starman417
It's not often life gives nations real second chances when it comes to the big things, but in America’s case it did. My only hope is that we don’t squander it… or to be more precise, I hope Donald Trump doesn’t squander it. The 2026 midterms are less than a year away, that makes what he does in the next six to eight months monumentally important.
The bottom line is, does he want to be consequential or just well known? Julius Caesar is easily one of the most well-known men in history, but was he really that consequential? The truth is, no. We know more about Caesar than any other Roman not because he changed the world, but because he was a genius of propaganda and wrote prodigiously – and well – about his exploits. The reality is, Caesar was just another Roman general – albeit a great one – caught up in a century of internecine wars between men seeking to control the Republic. Augustus, his adopted son – who is far less well known in history – was far more consequential, having transformed the Republic into an Empire that would arguably last another 1500 years.
Is Donald Trump going to be Caesar or Augustus? Is he going to be a president who rearranges the deckchairs on the USS Titanic and simply slows down her eventual collision with the iceberg or is he going to steer her through the treacherous waters and bring her out safely on the other side?
When he won re-election last November I was certain that after enduring 8 years of what is easily the most vitriolic abuse any American politician had ever endured, he was going to return to Washington and metaphorical heads were going to roll. Indeed, he ran on the idea of destroying the deep state.
Now, a year after the election, I’m not so sure. While I applaud most of his moves on immigration, particularly his recent move to temporarily cease all immigration from 3rd world countries, there are two elements that cause concern. One is his support for the H1B visa program. If there are jobs that can’t be filled by Americans, then bringing in foreign workers who have the necessary skills makes sense for keeping American industry productive. But that’s not what’s happening. Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily Indians, are being brought in to supplant American workers companies would generally have to pay more to keep or hire. There is no shortage of American STEM workers, there are merely trillion dollar tech, consulting and other companies who simply want to bolster the bottom line by paying foreign workers lower wages. Sadly, Trump defends the program virtually every chance he gets. Add to that his allowing half a million students / spies from Communist China to remain at American universities and one begins to wonder whose payrolls Trump’s advisors are on.
Another area where Trump has not met expectations is taking on the leftist cabal that brought the nation to the brink of disaster over the last decade. From Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton and the army of anti-American traitors who worked against Trump, his allies, and the American people, Trump should establish a task force with the specific purpose of investigating every single member of the government or NGO and every financier who had anything to do with Russiagate as well as the coup / coverup of 2020 and the resulting J6 persecutions. Americans know what happened, we watched it in real time. Molly Ball crowed about it in TIME magazine, we read about it in Mollie Hemingway’s Rigged, and later we followed as Emerald Robinson pulled string after string… but what we don’t have, and need, is the entire case of the treachery laid out in black and white, and then see the guilty tried and punished. As we all learned in the OJ trial, juries can’t always be trusted, but at a minimum the information should be laid out for the American people to see so that they can vote accordingly. The recent arrest of the DC pipe-bomb suspect and Kash Patel’s announcement that it was based on information the FBI sat on for 4 years tells us that the information is there, it just takes an administration with sufficient courage to expose it.
Hand in hand with allowing that treachery to go unpunished is the fact that Trump has not put his shoulder into ensuring the passage of the SAVE act.
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There’s no shortage of Brutuses.
For a second I read that as ‘Bushes’.
What is the date Trump can resign, Vance step in and still be able to serve two full terms after that?
I don’t want that to happen, but am curious.
January 21, 2027. Just under two years left in the term.
22nd amendment
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. ... (the rest is just a grandfather clause and ratification instructions)
bkmk
Many are hoping it’s Julius, and waiting upon the Ides of March....
“January 21, 2027. Just under two years left in the term.”
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Trump’s term runs until 12:00 Noon on January 21, 2029 - not 2027.
Either Rubio or JD should be President (and Vice President). Hegseth, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard all need to return in 2029.
Tiberius came after Augustus
Ended up a pedophile on Capri
Sounds like someone exiled to Delaware...
Well - that ain’t good - Caligula came after Tiberius
The original question was when could Trump resign and turn over the office to Vance, but still allow Vance two full terms as President. I stand by my answer that if Vance serves as president for less than two years he can be elected twice more under the 22nd amendment. Thus January 21, 2027.
So MAGA now wants a Caesar?
Trump is Pertinax
It all matches up.
I would hardly call Julius Caesar inconsequential. He conquered most of Europe, Egypt, and made it a real Empire.
Cesar gave the world our calendar, 45 BC. That was a pretty big deal. The calendar had been a mess prior to that time. The calendar still has some issues, such as the calendar month called the seventh month is actually the ninth month. And so on. The month called the 10th month is the 12th month. I cannot imagine why that wasn’t fixed. It must’ve had something to do with the birthdays of millions of people.
Caesar
Good point.
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