Schlichter echoes something I think may happen: we may wind up with a dictator, but their last name won't be Trump.
That about sums it up...
“ American men typically think about ancient Rome several times a day”
What?
Red sates need to boost Republicans in ALL races from dog catcher to House and Senate.
Lots of Democrats compared Trump to Caesar. That was the wrong Roman to draw a Trump analogy with.
A much more fitting one is Tiberius Gracchus.
There certainly are similarities to Rome, but closer to home, I see similarities to the Soviet Union - deep-state, uniparty rule from the capital, central-planning, post-modern/collectivist ideology covering for state-power and individual power grab, massive intel and surveillance apparatus used at home and abroad, controlled media, military engagements and color revolution around the globe - all while bankrupting itself in wars, and trying to maintain the political status quo at home.
I can think of another analogy - the Roman Senators chose to shortcut “Our Democracy” in order to save it by stabbing Julius Caesar (right on the Ides of March, which probably stung like hell) and ended up starting five centuries of bloody political violence in the pursuit of succession. In the meantime the oligarchs were supplanted first by dictators and then by the alien population they’d imported and granted citizenship. Probably all just coincidental, of course...
Going that way? I’d say we passed that bridge. DC is the epitome of what today’s ancient Rome would look like unfettered - complete with vomitorium (the US Congress), and the result of its fall.
AFAIC this country has been invaded and settled by leftists and third world slags choking our cities, our airways and tiered governments. It is truly sad. We can’t be united as states’ citizens with common mores, goals dreams and ideals because we’re infested with barbarians here to rape and pillage.
Kurt would probably say Demoncrats AND Republicans...but it’s Townhall so....
This is first rate Schlichter. Serious, not the usual humor. But the situation demands it.
the fall of Rome, yes
but It looks a whole lot more like the fall of Germany to the Nazis in the 1930’s
Democrats of today are not the democrats of the past.
Democrats today are progressives and communists.
They want to destroy the U.S., along with its constitution and general makeup.
They want to write a new constitution and start a new country. To do that, they have to destroy what the U.S. has meant for the last 250 years.
What democrats have been doing is exactly what Kruschev said about burying us,and that we would be buried from within. We are well on the way to destroying the U.S., and it’s by design, with Soros and Pelosi and Schumer and especially Obama and his cabal doing the damage stealthily. But, it’s not really stealthily, since we can see what they’re doing and we are believing that there are safeguards that can pull the country back. No such safeguards exist, since what the ‘democrats’ are doing is being done through our own laws and rules and regulations. The safeguards that supposedly exist, are not working, with the justice systems being complicit and the republicans just observing and not doing anything to stop the destruction.
So, Rome was a very long time ago, and what is happening now is being done by inside and outside actors, all of which know that the U.S. is easy to destroy. Destruction is not by military force, and we are, like the fabled ‘frog being boiled slowly’, on the way to being another Rome-like casualty. Nobody remembers Rome, and people have had their minds entertained with what the destroyers consider more ‘immediate dangers’, like climate change and EVs and open borders and out-of-control crime. So, the citizens are entertained with ‘other problems’ while the country is being destroyed. The U.S. will replace the Rome of history as the most ‘egregious death of a nation’.
Once the U.S. has been destroyed, the world will be turned into a chaotic state. The enemy will have won, and the enemy will have done their destruction from the outside and mostly from the inside. China just needs to wait for us to self-destruct, but they will offer as much help as necessary to expedite the demise.
Great column. Marking.
Once America as it was is changed inyo something else, we shall never see the likes of her again. Never. Once “it” is gone, there is no restoration possible.
The Roman experience is that subsequent challengers of the status quo get smarter, more effective, and more ruthless.
They also usually had an army to back them up...
Rome might not have survived as long as it did without the many civil wars it experienced.
Same for the UK.
Same for many countries.
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As usual, ClownHall sits around with its corporate head up its nether regions...
Next, this idiot writer will probably come out with a warning about the possibility that the japs would bomb Pearl Harbor and get the U.S. into World War II...