My critics will declare my title wrong since America is a democracy (more accurately, a republic) and not an Empire. An Empire is “a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority.” I suggest America qualifies as an Empire with Biden acting like our “single sovereign authority.”
America can’t be a democracy since I did not vote (nor did my representatives) vote to pull out of Afghanistan or to open our southern border to decent, hard-working people looking for a better life and for sure, not for terrorists, deadbeats, child molesters, thieves, muggers, and other lowlifes.
I did not vote to pretend two men or two women living together can make up a family; nor that children have a right to decide their gender; nor that a man can pretend to be a woman by changing his plumbing; nor to permit males to compete with females in athletic events; nor to permit boys to declare themselves female and gain rightful entrance into female restrooms and locker rooms.
Nor did I vote to permit our Empire to be run by egotistical health officials who have never treated anyone for anything at any time.
Nor did I vote to force toddlers to wear a face mask; nor for businesses to be closed and church services to be shut down.
No, the American Empire, like Rome, is crumbling as I write.
I’ve even heard that some big-city mayors, all Democrats, will give a guaranteed weekly wage, but that can’t be true. Even Democrats can’t be that stupid.
The world has been fighting the Communist Chinese coronavirus for many months, and with “new variants” appearing, we may be losing the battle. Businesses are closing, hospitals are full, people are angry, experts are vacillating, politicians are lying as they take control, the innocent are dying, and vaccine makers are crying all the way to the bank carrying buckets full of money.
However, it has happened before with more tragic results. Bubonic Plague lashed the face of Europe in the Middle Ages, killing half the population in some cities, more in others. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that bubonic plague (Black Death) is spreading in many parts of Madagascar (island nation just east of southern Africa), and a “weak health care system means it may spread farther.” WHO reported that there have been 40 deaths from the plague, with 119 people infected.
Plague is spread by fleas carried by rats. WHO also ominously reported, “There is now a risk of a rapid spread of the disease due to the city’s high population density and the weakness of the healthcare system.”
Well, add one more threat to life from all the exotic diseases (pestilences) from Africa and China—earthquakes, famines, wars, and rumors of war to warn world citizens of the end of the world as we know it.
No, I’m not a pessimist; that thought was Matthew, chapter 24. We have experienced all this before, but not with such frequency and intensity. Nations could be destroyed as in the past. American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author Hans Zinsser, among others, believe that the Plague of Justinian was partly responsible for the demise of the Roman Empire. He declared the plague was “perhaps the most potent single influence” which gave the coup de grâce to the ancient Empire. Bugs, not bullets, knocked off an empire!
The pandemic lasted about seventy years and caused havoc in the Byzantine Roman Empire, already bruised, broken, and bleeding. Justinian was desperately trying to restore the ancient Empire to its former glory–like trying to breathe life into a corpse. Seventy years of pandemic! During Emperor Justinian’s reign, the worldwide plague began in A.D. 541 at Pelusium, Egypt (at the mouth of the Nile). He was known as “the emperor that never sleeps.”
In sixty years, the plague spread to all parts of the known world. The dead lay unburied in the streets, and ten thousand persons died each day at Constantinople.
The people of Constantinople became desperate with all the deaths as they placed bodies anywhere they could. Some bodies were left in houses to rot. It got worse as the black horse of famine galloped through the city because mills stopped grinding corn due to workers’ deaths.
They experienced a major food shortage because of many business failures. And those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. V. Seibel tells us that the plague was preceded by many earthquakes, volcanic eruptions—Vesuvius, in 513, was one—and famines that dropped a blanket of terror and death over Europe, the Near East, and Asia.
The worst natural occurrence was the earthquake and fire that destroyed Antioch in A.D. 526, killing almost 300,000 people. The Roman Empire was in a state of confusion because of the added pressure, problems, and panic produced by the plague. Gibbon wrote, “No facts have been preserved to sustain an account or even a conjecture of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find that, during three months, five and at length ten thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; and many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground.”
When the plague snuck into Constantinople in A.D. 542, it stayed for four months, killing so many people that it was impossible for the living to bury the dead. By A.D. 565, half of the citizens of the Byzantine Empire had died!
Gibbon suggested that perhaps 100 million people in Europe alone died of this plague! Well, we aren’t there yet. Justinian’s armies were fighting with Persia, Africa, and the Goths in Italy, but those crude, unsophisticated barbarians had learned the art of making war from former warlords. Barbarians had learned how to organize, analyze, and cooperate. It was ever more difficult for the emperor to sustain armies on far-flung battlefields, especially when there were threats at home and treachery and thievery in his palace. Justinian needed, least of all, a major epidemic to compound his problems.
This Plague of Justinian emptied the cities, turned the country into a desert, and made the habitations of men the haunts of wild beasts. The snakes slithered and hissed, the hyenas crouched and laughed, and wild beasts pawed and growled where proud, pompous, and productive men once walked. However, when men face the inscrutable, they tend to lose their arrogance, sinking into a hapless and helpless, and hopeless life.
Gibbon recorded: “The triple scourges of war, pestilence, and famine afflicted the subjects of Justinian, and his reign is disgraced by a visible decrease of the human species which has never been regained in some of the fairest countries of the globe.”
Can anyone read that statement and doubt that disease has changed our world far more than wars?
Furthermore, will irresponsible Muslim terrorists or the Communist Chinese coronavirus change our present world forever? Or maybe it will be the bubonic plague. The plague of Justinian ended about 590, but most of Italy was controlled by the Lombards by that time. The barbarians were no longer at the gates of Rome but inside the gates. The mighty Empire had crumbled, and when the Muslim zealots swarmed out of Arabia in 634, the Roman and Persian forces gave only token resistance.
As uncultured, uncivilized, uneducated, and uncontrolled Muslim zealots swarm into America carrying hostile plans and harmful pestilences, will the once-great American Empire fall like Rome? Even Emperor Justinian contracted the plague but survived; however, his Empire did not.
The question: how will ancient plagues and other pestilences impact and change America? Some of us will live long enough to see that answer.
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The Collapse of America has been decades in the making – The Virus was merely the finishing touch and final nail in the coffin.
It was guaranteed with the ratification of the Constitution.
If there is one lesson from history that people need to know it is this: The real war begins after the shooting stops.
Unfortunately, that is when the fighters are the most fatigued.
“To open our southern border to decent, hard-working people looking for a better life ” ….REALLY !
Close the fucking border. No one…Not a fucking person should be allowed into the USA for the next 30 years. We’ve already taken in 30 million low life’s and teat suckers from 3rd world countries.
Put troops on the border. The military’s primary job is to protect the USA. Let’em do that by protecting our borders. Make a world proclamation…..two week from this date all border crossers will be shot on sight . That’ll end the “Border Crisis ” . The only people attempting to cross will be drug dealers…shoot them at will.
Tell the land owners at the borders…your land is sovereign …you may protect it with force. He’s the number for the body clean up team….we’ll come and get them.
Buckhed, your plan makes too much sense. I almost thumbs-downed it.
I almost feel sorry for the Haitians coming from Chile who tossed their Chilean green cards as they crossed over the rio. They left a relatively safe and prosperous country to start anew in one on the verge, if not a civil war, but a catabolic social and economic collapse, and all the social chaos and disorder that will soon entail. And now they don’t even have the proper documentation to return to Chile.
Almost but not quite.
i have stood on this soapbox for a long time; a simple solution to a grave problem.
Rome fell because their women would not shave their legs or armpits and so all the men were jerking off in public.
No, you say! Ok, then pick one of the 200 other reasons.
Cuz it seems there are as many reasons as there are personal causes.
For example, one person’s dragon to slay might be environmental, let’s say contaminated food or water. They might cry out — “Rome fell because there was lead in their aquaduct system which led to wide spread disease and death!!”. (A few years ago there was an article in Nat Geo offering up exactly that scenario).
If I had a dollar for every time someone said. “Rome fell because ….”, I’d be rich.
Yes, of course a plague and/or other natural disasters may have CONTRIBUTED to the fall of Rome.
But, the Roman Empire lasted around 1,200 years. And it did NOT fall overnight, or even in a hundred years. It was a long and gradual process with a MULTITUDE of causes. It is fools gold trying to pigeonhole such tremendous complexity with One Cause That Explains It All.
The article was an interesting read.
I thought Rome fell because of the vomitoriums and public baths.
Rome fell because it had to travel further and further to find wealth to appropriate to sustain the Eternal City. Eventually, though, Rome had to live off of solar power – its own agriculture. Farming and animal husbandry could not produce enough wealth to field its mighty Legions and without those Legions, could only stand by and watch as it was overrun by barbarians. As a side note, it would take 14 centuries before armies as large as those fielded by the Romans to appear once again in Europe.
That’s it. There is plenty of wealth to go around for people to thrive. But if that was good enough, there would not be enough left over for the psychopaths to build Empire.
Dementia caused by rising lead levels could explain a lot. Television, government monopoly schools, etc. have done basically the same thing here.
There’s always a myriad of reasons why an empire would collapse. Some of which had they not occurred would have resulted in the empire lasting longer and some which hiwere contributing causes but not the fatal ones.
The lead in the water pipes was a real thing, but worse was that the wealthy Romans heated their wine in lead vessel.
The Byzantine Empire probably would have lasted into the modern era were it not for the muslim hordes, but it would have eventually fallen to some external factor, perhaps Napoleon or maybe Russia.
But what’s going on now it’s is as if Zhou Xi Den/Obama read up on what various factors over the centuries ultimately caused the collapse of Rome and decided to do them all at the same time as a government policy.
The plan looks to be to collapse the US from within and “build back better”, better for the elites worse for everyone else. A real life hunger games world.
The thing is I doubt they can pull it off. Sure they can bring down the US. A country can’t survive treason and deliberate sabotage at such high levels. But I think that they overestimate their abilities to build back anything after the collapse of the federal government and the death of the dollar.
And because of the world’s economic system being so interdependent, more than ever before, taking down the US and its economy would cascadinto a worldwide economic disaster.
May I use that?
No. It is about to be reborn.
Covid is not the plague. Our collapse will be self inflicted.
And, in the end the military/government workers looted homes to pay their pensions, now it is done at a stroke of a pen, saying it is legal.
America is of course an empire, but the deadly virus is government and its worship by millions.
“My critics will declare my title wrong since America is a democracy….”
This critic declares both your title and your entire essay wrong, as it assumes that the virus is both some new manifestation of disease that represents a pandemic, and that the Chinese have somehow invented and spread it.
This nation has been rotting from within for at least the last 100 years. Disasters do not destroy nations and people; nations and people are destroyed because their moral character becomes too rancid to overcome disasters.
Who is it that exerts massive, inexplicable influence over all media and institutions in this rotting nation? Poles, was it?
Matthew 24:6-8 KJB… “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
Just the beginning… and Christ tells His Jewish disciples to “be not troubled, these things must come to pass.”
2,000 years later and the Kingdom gospel they were actively preaching still has not yet come to pass. Why?
The United States will fall like Rome but not because of a virus. It will fall, as Rome, because it is a rotting carcass of immorality and a godless sewer.
I believe the greatest mass murder genocide in the entire history of the decaying empire of the ‘Disunited United States of America’ is coursing through the blood stream and bodies of somewhere near a 100 million Americans.
Almost 50k are already dead from it…and a majority of the military that will soon not be able to defend us from all enemies foreign and domestic…that includes too many of their senior officers, who I doubt have taken the real Jab and are all domestic enemies…that need to be dealt with sooner rather than later.
I don’t care about Trump and told him so when I sent him an e-mail with some serious $ (for me) before the 2016 election, and told him to stop talking about himself…yada…yada…yada… I could care less…but to only talk about what he would do about the Billary and their ilk…then I listed what matters to me.
After he won and went on 60 Minutes (of weekly tainted propaganda) and said the Clintons were ‘good people’ I wanted my serious $ back and asked him on an e-mail for a refund…never got the check.
The rally before this one was in Alabama and Trump got BOOED for encouraging his most devoted hard core followers to commit slow motion suicide and take a JAB.
Was it a Jim Jones moment…no…but it was close…
When I saw it on the tube I jumped up cursing at Trump.
When I read this at AIM…Christians Addicted to Truth:
I posted it on the one place on the entire internet I go to for the truth…and to interact with Americans who are not afraid of or are still not backing down from the Demons, Orcs, and Flying Monkeys.
There is a lot I like in this transcript…but NOT A WORD that I found about the POISONS that are coursing through the blood stream and bodies of somewhere near a 100 million Americans…and a majority of the military that will soon not be able to defend us from all enemies foreign and domestic…that TRUMP supported/backed and allowed at WARP SPEED.
I have a spiritual Savior…so there is that, and that is EVERYTHING.
My STRONG MAN is Jesus the Christ.
(If I missed a comment from Trump on the Jabs he greased the skids for in this transcript…please put it up.)
DONALD TRUMP PERRY, GEORGIA RALLY SPEECH TRANSCRIPT SEPTEMBER 25
Former president Donald Trump held a rally in Perry, GA on September 25, 2021. He took shots at Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and other top Georgia republicans, suggesting Stacy Abrams might make a better governor than Kemp. Read the full transcript of his speech here.
Why would Trump not say a word…about WARP SPEED?