Posted on 07/05/2024 10:53:52 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods
A famous quote attributed to a German World War I staff officer may best fit the mood of the fierce cadre of Never Trump proponents following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27. Referring to the military burden imposed by an alliance with the crumbling Austria-Hungary empire, the officer lamented that “we are shackled to a corpse.”
It’s a political admission Adam Kinzinger and friends dearly do not want to make today.
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“Meanwhile, Joe just “spoke” to 30 big Dem donors for 10 minutes”
Today?
Lizard Cheney for President.
we are shackled to a corpse.”
If youʼve ever read The Aeneid by the first century Roman poet Virgil youʼve come across this gruesome passage:
The living and the dead at his command,
Were coupled, face to face, and hand to hand,
Till, chokʼd with stench, in loathʼd embraces tied,
The lingʼring wretches pinʼd away and died.1
It is a description of a form of torture in which they fastened a dead body to the victim, tying shoulder to shoulder, face to face, thigh to thigh, arm to arm
According to another source,
Cicero cites from Aristotle... the torture [was] inflicted by... Etruscan pirates. The gruesome details of the pirate-punishment are given in an essay by Jacques Brunschwig.
A living man or woman was tied to a rotting corpse, face to face, mouth to mouth, limb to limb, with an obsessive exactitude in which each part of the body corresponded with
its matching putrefying counterpart. Shackled to their rotting double, the man or woman was left to decay. To avoid the starvation of the victim and to ensure the rotting bonds
between the living and the dead were fully established, the Etruscan [pirates] continued to feed the victim appropriately.
Only once the superficial difference between the corpse
and the living body started to rot away through the agency of worms, which bridged the two bodies, establishing a differential continuity between them, did the Etruscans stop
feeding the living. Once both the living and the dead had turned black through putrefaction, the Etruscans deemed it appropriate to unshackle the bodies, by now
combined together.
There are historical reports of this form of torture lasting into the sixteenth century.
The NeverTrump crowd may want to lawyer up.
>>The NeverTrump crowd may want to lawyer up.>>
Bingo. Trump’s selection of AG is more critical than his selection of VP. In fact, it would be better if they are pursued by entities other than the DOJ
They brought it ALL on themselves - self inflicted wounds.
There are plenty of them right here on this site. And most are easy to spot. Here is just one way.
These people constantly say, “Trump should do this, Trump should have done that, Trump should do this, Trump should have done that, Trump should do this, Trump should do that”.
It’s a clear pattern and it’s generally the same individuals.
Unfortunately for the replace Biden crowd, they have zero leverage over Joe at this late date.
Biden is an incumbent President, with 3,905 delegates, 56 primary contests won, and 87% of the democrat popular vote.
Biden has a Royal Flush and any democrat insurrectionist candidate will be starting with a pair of 3’s.
They need a Biden resignation, which I don’t think he’ll give them.
That is what the CIA is for....replacing governments when needed.
These people constantly say, “Trump should do this, Trump should have done that, Trump should do this, Trump should have done that, Trump should do this, Trump should do that”.
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If Trump had listen to those people he would never have become the 45th President.
Freepers are generally good people but most should just follow politics and not give advice.
That is what the CIA is for....replacing governments when needed.
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Yet as we speak, Zelensky hasn’t been replaced😀
Yes...that must be ignored and overruled according to this crowd in order to "protect democracy."
That is an incredibly horrific torture.
Mitt Romney is in mourning for his buddy President Retard after he stupidly endorsed him
Well this is completely stupid, because of course those who won’t vote for Trump, for whatever their reasons, as is their right as an American, must be a Biden supporter. The old bullshit slime of if you don’t vote for Trump you’re voting for his opponent. For Christ’s sake this is still America where you have the right to vote or not vote any way you want to not how some sycophant thinks you should.
Surrender Monkeys are gagging on their on bile. They hate Trump and they hate America for loving Trump.
That’s the most disturbing thing I’ve read in some time.
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