American Empire at 234 years.
“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy.
It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” – John Adams
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Inspiration
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20230318-france-bans-anti-government-protests-opposite-parliament-following-clashes
As much as it is heartening to see large protests agains the scum; don’t hold your breath. The Sacks-of-Gold-Man alumni and WEPH front-line puppet will be there until his owners want him gone and not sooner.
Auntie is of the opinion, as Macron survived his recent “no confidence” vote at the Assembly Nationale, that the only hope for les amis de la Liberte is a military coup against the demonic creep. Not going to happen.
No matter how much they protest you can’t squeeze blood out of a stone.
Someone tell these clowns that they lost their colonial possessions in Africa and now have to live of what they produce and nothing more.
In other words your country can’t afford your pensions. Unless you clowns want to recolonize Africa and kill another couple million Africans.
Why do you clowns think macaroni was running around all of Africa before he made this ” decision” ?
The overlords have stolen your pensions and the Africans are unwilling to give your their resources for free.
And when was the last time an average consumer around the world bought something useful made in France? ROFL..
Citroen and Peugeot are about all you have.
Good luck with what’s coming for your shit hole of a country when there aren’t anymore Africans and Arabs to slaughter on the cheaper for free resources and manual labor.
Roman Empire 27 BC- 180 AD?
What about 395?
476?
1453?
But that is an exception.
Generally the article makes sense.
I think this means the expansion empire stage rather than the remnant.
https://nobulart.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Deagel-2025-Forecast-by-Country.pdf
The dates are all off
The UK wasn’t worth a damn after 1900.
I think this is mixing up reserve currency status with empire status. Not always the same thing as one lags the other.
I thought the Roman Empire ended in 476, and that’s only if you don’t count the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, which lasted another millennium. I thought the Arab Empire lasted into the thirteenth century. I thought the Ottoman Empire didn’t finally die till the early 20th century. But what do I know?
No insults intended, but I don’t believe you guys read the Adams quote and made the ( I think) obvious connection: he was talking about democracies ( which the US allegedly is) so an American empire might only last as long as most “democracies”. Of course, since the US stopped being a Republic and became whatever it is now, the mileage may vary. Just my $0.02.
So why then include in the list assorted empires that were not even remotely close to being democracies if restricted to only the democracies? Most of the list were not. They were empires run by elites. Even the Roman Republic was run by a small core of elites. As were the Greek city-states and the assorted powers that rose up after Alexander The Great was gone.
Some say Byzantine was always the true seat of the Roman Empire.
After the empire was divided east and west, yes.
It was Constantinople. The name Byzantium was assigned to the empire after it fell. The empire always called itself Roman when it existed. Right up to 1453.
Yeah WW1 ended the Ottoman’s but only quicker, it was already dying. The specific date of the end of an Empire is hard to pin down unless it happens in one epic battle, and that seldom happens
Trump should use his bully pulpit to crash the banks .If he would tell people it’s all over pull your money out and buy precious metals it would all tumble down lol.
The result would take you and every other metal owner with it. Why? Because the sheeple would be told by the fake news that it is the fault of those who own metals, resulting in an easy target to blame and destroy.
Just remember that eventually, every gun will run out of ammunition. That is a fact not open for debate.
The Roman empire struggled for a few hundred more years. Our empire is modeled after theirs.
Few hundred? It went on for another thousand and didn’t fall until 1453.
If you want bloody, count up the dead in communist China and Soviet Russia. If you include the wars they have started, the count gets even higher. Communism, which is just a form of monarchy, is probably the bloodiest form of government in human history. Further examples of bloody “monarchies” are Hitler’s Germany and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.
I don’t think any of those examples existed yet when Adams made that quote… .02c
Communist China and the Soviet Union wouldn’t show up for over another one hundred years after the quote was made. Same for the Nazis. You might want to go back to the second grade and start over with your history lessons.
That’s a screenshot from Glubb’s book, isn’t it? Mandatory reading if you really want to understand the current situation & why voting our way out isn’t an option.
average = 238 + 1776 = 2014 + borrowed time = 2023 (you are here)
The smell of decay has been evident since at least the 60s.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-cover-up
How long until Hersch and other truth-seeking journalists get arrested?
So what is it with empires collapsing after roughly 12 generations? That seems too odd to just be a coincidence. Is this like a leap year thing for fourth turnings?
Egyptian Empire lasted 27 centuries.
About 3,000 years.
Not continuously. Along the way Egypt was invaded and destroyed multiple times. Only to rise again. You are just repeating a 19th Century myth that was perpetuated by Victorians and was still taught in schools as recently as the 1980s.
Egypt was never an empire. For most of its existence, it wasn’t even unified under a single ruler as a kingdom. There was an Upper Kingdom and a Lower Kingdom. Upper and lower taken from the elevation of the Nile. After Alexander The Great, it was Greek-owned and operated. The Ptolemy Dynasty was Greek, not Egyptian.
Who owns America? Sovereignty left the building a long time ago.
A ‘country’ with no borders ceases to be a country.
American companies and brands purchased by foreign entities
Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep,Case/
New Holland tractor and equipment,
Mack Truck,Freightliner & Western Star Truck,
Detroit Diesel, Thomas Bus,Firestone Tire,General Tire,BF Goodrich Tire Uniroyal Tire,Winchester Arms,GE appliance div, Sylvania Lighting, Jim Beam Distillery,Fridgidaire appliances,Rheem HVAC hot water heaters,American Standard,Loctite adhesives,Kraft Foods,Burger King rest.,Hoover vacuums,Milwaukee power tools,Skil Power Tools,Dremel Power Tools,Homelite Power Tools,Vermont AmericanTools,Eureka vacuums,Rayban & Oakley eyewear,Krispy Kreme donuts,LensCrafters,Pearle Eyevision Centers,Sunglasses Hut,Pennzoil/Quaker State oils,CITGOPetroleum,Prestone anti freeze,Autolite auto parts,Ben & Jerry” ice cream,Fram auto filters,Purolator auto filters,Reynolds wraps & Hefty bag products,Anheuser Busch/Budweiser,Cirrus Aircraft,Rack Room Shoes stores,Rockport shoes,Caribou coffee,Peets Coffee,Einstein Bagels,Panera Bread,Dreyers/Edy’s ice cream,Breyers/Good Humor ice cream,Carnation,Ovaltine,Del Monte canned fruit & vegetables div,Poulan chainsaws,Weedeater power products,Empire levels,Dirt Devil
vacuums,Delta Power Tools,Gerber Cutlery,Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs,Westinghouse Nuclear,R.J Reynolds tobacco,Sprint mobile,Motorola cellphone div,AMC Theatres,Russell Stover/Whitmans candies,Link Belt
Cranes,Maybelline Cosmetics,Dan Wesson Arms,Ragu food sauces,Butterfinger/Baby Ruth/Rasinets/Sno Caps,Goobers,Sweettart/Laffy Taffy,Chunky Bar candies,Digiorno/Tombstone/California Pizza Kitchen/Jacks frozen pizzas,Purina pet foods,Gerber baby foods & products,Schwinn/Roadmaster/Mongoose/GT/Cannondale bikes,Chinet paper plates & products,Bobcat construction Equp,.Columbia Pictures,CBS Records,Seven Eleven stores,Holiday Inn,Westinghouse elevators,Electro Voice,Sea Land shipping,Keurig coffee,Holiday Inn Hotels,Hot Pocket frozen foods,Glidden paints,Dresser Industries,ALL Clad cookware,Mirro cookware,Emerson electric motor div,Wilton Vises,Browne & Sharpe tools,DKNY clothing,Chiquita fruits,Harmon International(Harmon
Kardon,JBL speakers,Infinity speakers,Crown amps,Mark Levinson amps),ERTL metal toys,Goodman HVAC(Chinese),Country Crock margarine,Popsicle brand,Crush soft drinks,RC Cola,Stewarts soft drinks,Snapple,Sun Drop cola,Dr Pepper/Seven Up,A&W Root Beer,Motts juices,Hawaiian Punch drinks,NEHI drinks,Yoo Hoo drinks,Imperial margarine,Hellmann’s mayo,Airwick products,K-Y personal lubricants,d- con pesticides,Andrew Jergens soaps products,Dial soap,Trend & Purex detergents,Right Guard/Dry Idea deodorants,Gold Bond ointments,Wise chips and snacks,Ghirardelli Chocolate Company,Ferrara Pan candies
makers of( Lemmonheads and other flavors,Atomic FireBalls,Brach’s candies,Sathers candies Bob’s candies,Fruit Stripe gum,Now & Later,Red Hots,Boston Baked Beans),Emtek & Yale Locks,Lexmark printers copy
equipment and many, many more.
According to USDA data, foreign investors owned at least 35.2 million acres of U.S. agricultural land in 2019—2.7 percent of U.S. farmland, an area almost the size of Iowa.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/foreign-purchases-us-agricultural-land-facts-figures-and-assessment-real-threats
In America everything is for sale
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/experts-sound-alarm-over-china-buying-us-land-near-military-bases-chilling
in rural Michigan…residents showed up to express their outrage at the proposal to allow Chinese-owned companies to move forward with plans to build factories in their area.
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/1047627-rural-michigan-communities-in-an-uproar-after-gretchen-whitmer-does-this?utm_source=c-alrt
Iowa is more than 2.7% of farmland in the country. Considering how many states in the South are completely lacking in what can be considered farmland when compared to the Midwest, where the really serious production happens.
Now if Georgia was being used…
…it would be a more believable comparison, as most of Georgia is heavily forested because most of the remaining soil is garbage.
Completely skipped the Khans. What a joke.