“The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigor of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.” — Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 38 “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West”
“After a diligent inquiry, I can discern four principal causes of the ruin of Rome, which continued to operate in a period of more than a thousand years. I. The injuries of time and nature. II. The hostile attacks of the Barbarians and Christians. III. The use and abuse of the materials. And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Romans.” — Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 71 “Four Causes of Decay and Destruction.”
The moniker of my website originated from a quote by David Walker, then Comptroller General of the U.S., in 2007. I wholeheartedly endorsed Walker’s viewpoint and become politically active in trying to get Ron Paul elected as president in 2008 and 2012. It was a fruitless effort, as the uni-party in Washington DC, controlled by the dark forces of the Deep State, do not allow men and women who truly want to reduce the size and scope of government to ever get elected. His warning sixteen years ago is a perfect example of being right but being early. When talking about the decline of empires, you are really deliberating about a process, not an event. The Roman Empire did not fall on a specific day due to a specific cause. It collapsed in stages over hundreds of years due to numerous reasons, each triggering events which compounded upon each other and ultimately led to the final collapse.
Walker said, “The US government is on a “burning platform” of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon.” He believed we were resting on the laurels of being the sole superpower, as our empire built on debt was slowly and methodically crumbling. He cited three reasons for the fall of the Roman Republic that resonated in 2007 regarding the American Empire (formerly a republic):
- There has been a decline in moral values and political civility at home. Examples include the devaluation of life, greater self-centerdness by individuals and increased partisanship and ideological divides in Congress.
- We now have an overextended military around the world. While the US military is unmatched as to its capabilities, it is under stress and stretched very thin.
- There is fiscal irresponsibility by the central government. Our debt ratios are set to increase dramatically when the baby boomers retire.
It’s almost humorous Walker was issuing these dire warnings when the 2007 annual deficit was $160 billion. At our current rate of debt accumulation, it takes only one month to reach $160 billion. In 2020 and 2021 it only took 20 days to accumulate $160 billion. The national debt in 2007 was $9 trillion, up from $5.6 trillion in 2000. Today it stands at $31.8 trillion. Interest on the national debt will approach $900 billion this year, exceeding defense spending.
Walker warned about our debt ratios skyrocketing when the baby boomers retired. Well, the debt to GDP ratio has doubled from 62% in 2007 to 124% today, and most boomers can’t even afford to retire. U.S. unfunded liabilities total $188 trillion. Personal debts total $25 trillion, with $1.8 trillion of student loan debt and $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. The fiscal irresponsibility of our government and its citizens is breathtaking, unsustainable, and ultimately fatal to our empire. Walker may have been early, but he certainly was not wrong.
The current Kabuki theater farce regarding the raising of the debt limit is a perfect example of how spineless politicians blatantly deceive the public, with the full support of the regime media, in proclaiming spending cuts and fiscal responsibility, when the CBO projections show the national debt growing to more than $50 trillion in the next ten years, as most of the spending is on automatic pilot. And this is before the coming recession/depression provokes the usual political response of fiscal stimulus, which will drive the debt higher.
Threats of government default, hysterical articles in the regime media, and last-minute deals are nothing but a show for the ignorant masses, while the true globalist agenda of one world order, where the peasants will own nothing and be happy, is rolled out at an accelerated pace. They know the fiscal sustainability of the western world is dire, therefore they are acting in a reckless manner, which imperils the world with a potential global war.
Walker’s first point about the decline in moral values and political incivility has reached civil war instigating levels of degradation, deviancy, and treasonous political activity. Not in Walker’s wildest dreams did he envision the grooming and trafficking of children, drag queen story hour for toddlers, pushing children to be mutilated and propagandized into believing they are the opposite sex, promoting deviancy, and having this degenerate behavior jammed down our throats by the government, corporations, and the media.
Destroying our culture, promoting abnormality and sloth, tearing the fabric of our society to shreds, encouraging lawlessness, looting and murder, and persecuting normal white Americans who dissent, is actively promoted, and funded by Soros, Gates, and the rest of the Davos – WEF globalist psychopaths. The devaluation of our lives was never more evident than during the covid plandemic, where the annual flu was weaponized to lockdown the world, create havoc and chaos, institute totalitarian measures to abscond with our liberties and freedoms, destroy the lives of vaxx dissenters, and ultimately destroy the lives of millions who obeyed and were injected with the untested, gene altering, spike producing, Big Pharma enriching concoction.
To put a Roman Empire slant on it, what has been wrought by Clinton, Obama, Comey, Wray, Brennan, Clapper, Pelosi, and their gaggle of treasonous co-conspirators since 2016 has marked our current day crossing of the Rubicon. Politics has always been a dirty game, but the machinations to bring down a duly elected sitting president, which continue to this day under the direction of Biden’s handlers, is reminiscent of the plots, coups, and murders as the Roman empire descended into corruption, madness, and deviant behavior.
The Durham report documented the unequivocal facts regarding the relentless coup attempt against Trump, but the complete coverup by the regime media and the toothless non-existent prosecution of the criminal Deep State characters involved in this treasonous act proves there no longer is a representative government looking out for the citizens of this country. We are a corporate fascist oligarchy, ruled by the few, for the few. We are nothing more than serfs, peasants, and useless eaters to the ruling class, as they continue to pillage and plunder what remains of the Treasury.
Walker thought our military was stretched thin in 2007, as the neo-cons had us fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan to enrich the military industrial complex, based on false WMD claims and a fruitless effort to find our CIA created global terrorist mastermind – Osama bin Laden. Little did he know that twenty years after invading Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban, we would conduct a disastrous retreat and hand the country back to the Taliban, with a gift of about $10 billion in military hardware.
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” ― George Orwell, 1984
The defense budget in 2007, while fighting two wars, was $700 billion. Today the budget approaches $900 billion when we are supposedly not at war with anyone. With the Deep State firmly in control of both political parties, the arms dealers will always be swimming is your tax dollars, whether they are shipping their murderous wares to Zelensky, Israel, Taiwan, or any other country fighting our current mortal enemies – Russia, China, Syria, and Iran.
Mr. Walker was naïve in his assessment about the U.S. military’s strength. Winning wars to protect America has never been the goal. War is big business and keeps the politicians on both sides of the aisle satiated with political donations (aka bribes). The ruling class had no issue using a few hundred thousand poor patriotic useless eaters as cannon fodder in Iraq and Afghanistan to further enrich themselves. But it is much easier to create chaos and war in other countries and let their poor suckers die for a forlorn false cause, while providing weapons to both sides. I wonder if Walker was blindsided by Obama’s creation of wars in both Libya and Syria in 2011.
We killed Ghaddafi and left Libya a smoking chaotic ruin, with Islamic terrorists running rampant. Obama created ISIS so we had a reason to destroy Syria and Assad. Russia obliterated ISIS and has successfully kept Assad in power, infuriating the neocons and provoking the next move on the global chessboard. All the NPC Ukrainian Flag waving dolts who believe everything the regime media regurgitates, as instructed by their masters, are clueless as to why Biden and his neocon handlers are pushing us towards a direct conflict with Russia. Obama, Clinton, Victoria Nuland, John Brennan, McCain, Graham, and a slew of other Deep State lackeys overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine in 2014, because he was friendly towards Russia, initiating a domino effect in the Ukraine which has left us at the doorstep of World War III.
The Roman economy was basically a rapine economy. Like all slave-owning societies, Rome had no middle class, a debased currency, and no export production – it lived by conquests, slave trade, and plundering the conquered provinces. Such economies can exist only as long as they expand; when the expansion ends, downfall is inevitable. See any resemblance to the American economy? When the Fed stops printing, it all comes crashing down. By the third century their currency was worthless, and a barter economy sprung to life.
By 451 AD the empire was bankrupt, taxes were 40% to 60%, and there was nothing left in the coffers to pay the military or keep the infrastructure from crumbling. The barbarians applied the final blow with the sacking of Rome, and the Dark Ages were born. Slavery and serfdom were the fate of Roman peasants. The collapse of Mediterranean trade meant the collapse of papyrus imports, and the means of writing disappeared. Literacy dissipated. The Roman civilization was kept alive only in churches and monasteries, which could afford parchment and vellum. What will the bankruptcy of the American empire entail and how will the city dwelling welfare recipients’ fare? My guess is not very well.
Just as the Romans became fat and happy, enjoying the fruits of efforts, innovation and sacrifices put forth by prior generations, Americans have grown to believe they are the richest, freest, and most powerful nation on earth. They believe it is their privilege to rule the world. Just as the Romans hired mercenary armies to fight their wars because it was beneath their citizens to defend their vast empire, the U.S. used paid mercenaries (Blackwater) in Iraq and Afghanistan to fight their wars. Now we just outsource the dying to Ukrainians, Libyans, Syrians, and Somalis, while providing them the weapons, technology, and logistics to wage endless war on our behalf.
Next up will be the Taiwanese, as we provoke China into our next war. As documented earlier, the fiscal trajectory of our empire is on a course towards Armageddon, and the tens of billions in weapons being handed to the most corrupt nation on earth – Ukraine – is simply insane. Biden acts like a Roman emperor dictator (with dementia) during the final stages of Rome’s collapse, while the feckless politicians in the House & Senate sit idly by, cheering on our descent into national bankruptcy.
The final collapse of the Western Roman Empire was mainly triggered by the weakness of its late-stage emperors, failure of its civil administrators, disease, epidemics, and the unceasing invasion of its lands by the barbarian Visigoths and Vandals. Military failure and monetary weakness were the final nails in the coffin. The parallels with the American empire’s late stages are uncanny.
Can anyone conceive of a weaker emperor than Dementia Joe Biden? He is a low IQ, lying, corrupt to his core, bumbling, child sniffing fool, acting on behest of the Deep State and their globalist cabal. His administration is crawling with deviants, dopes, and those seeking the destruction of our country. The barbarian hordes are streaming across our southern border and being ushered into communities across the country by government sanctioned flights and bus rides. These mostly male Hispanics, Haitians, Somalis, Muslim terrorists, and Chinese nationals are not going to strengthen our country, but contribute greatly to its fall. But at least the ruling class will have maids and gardeners, while Big-Agra will have cheap labor to pick their crops.
Edward Gibbon’s discernment that the number one cause for the ruin of Rome was “The injuries of time and nature”, is more profound than it might seem. Its ability to be sustained for almost one thousand years is remarkable, but as with all large entities it succumbed to entropy, currency debasement, deviancy, corruptibility of its ruling class, and apathy of its citizenry. Everything trends towards disorder, chaos, and ultimately collapse. Pleasure without pain, glory without sacrifice, indolence without work, degeneracy disguised as creativity, and treason portrayed as politics, led to a slow spiraling disintegration of their society and culture over the course of centuries.
These exact same characteristics are rearing their ugly head in the late stages of the American Empire decline. It is fascinating that Roman historian Tacitus was documenting traits of a declining nation state during the first century, while it took until the fifth century for the Western Roman Empire to finally collapse. The timing of the downfall is always in doubt, as grains of sand are added to the pile until entropy wins and all comes crashing down.
“You have not tasted servitude. There is no land beyond us and even the sea is no safe refuge when we are threatened by the Roman fleet. We are the last people on earth, and the last to be free: our very remoteness in a land known only to rumor has protected us up till this day. Today the furthest bounds of Britain lie open—and everything unknown is given an inflated worth. But now there is no people beyond us, nothing but tides and rocks and, more deadly than these, the Romans. It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behavior. They have pillaged the world: when the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea. If an enemy is rich, they are greedy, if he is poor, they crave glory. Neither East nor West can sate their appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it by the lying name of ’empire’. They make a desolation and call it ‘peace” ― Tacitus
It’s as if Tacitus lived among us today. His description fits perfectly in describing the psychopaths controlling the U.S. Empire, along with most of the western world, as they rape, pillage, plunder, and desolate foreign lands in the name of freedom and call it peace keeping. The U.S. Empire is willing to fight Putin until the last Ukrainian is dead on the battlefield. How noble. Slaughter and seizing natural resources under false pretenses (WMD) are hailed as spreading democracy to third world countries.
It took the Roman Empire about 1,000 years to fall. The British Empire fell in approximately 300 years. The United States has been around for 234 as a nation, but only an empire since 1946, a mere 77 years. Has the advancement of technology, speed of communications, monetary manipulations, and level of military firepower coalesced into accelerating the demise of empires? It certainly appears so, as the American Empire is on course to fall by the end of this Fourth Turning, within the next ten years.
It is commonly believed the Dark Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire. Of course, the definition of the Dark Ages has been debated for centuries, with the time frame sometimes set from 500 AD to 1000 AD, and sometimes until 1500 AD. They overlapped with the Middle Ages and some scholars contend they weren’t even that dark. I find it interesting as we enter a new Dark Ages, the regime media is busy writing articles contending the previous Dark Ages weren’t so bad after all.
The level of gaslighting produced on a daily basis by the propaganda peddlers doing their assigned task of keeping the masses ignorant and confused, is beyond the comprehension of average Americans trying to make a living and trusting their government. In reality, the Dark Ages coincided with the cultural decay and decadence of Rome in its late stages, as the vices of gluttony, lust and greed became the root of their civilization and functioned as chains enslaving and weighing down their culture.
During the glory days of the Roman Empire, they achieved tremendous advancements in the areas of science, literature, philosophy, government, and architecture. The fall of the empire left a vacuum in these areas for centuries. The death of a culture is not an easy event to recover from. Record keeping during the Dark Ages was minimal, leaving historians in the dark as to what happened. After the fall, feudalism emerged, and the Catholic Church gained increasing power.
The intermingling of the church and state contributed to the lack of cultural advancement. The uneducated peasants were fearful and superstitious, living lives of subsistence and want. The Renaissance Age of enlightenment, which followed the Dark Ages, provided the inverse paradigm to the Dark Ages. Italian scholar Petrarch, who lived in the 14th century referred to the time period as ”those men of intellectual prowess as living cloaked in darkness”.
I would contend we have already entered a new Dark Ages, based upon the collapse of our culture, ignorance of the masses, failure of our educational system, celebration of deviancy, lack of civility, and lawlessness in our cities. Most Americans would scoff at the notion we have already entered a new dark age. Everyone (including the desperately “poor” illegal aliens swarming across our border) has a super-computer phone in their hands 24/7. Every piece of knowledge ever conceived is available at our fingertips through the internet.
We spend tens of thousands of dollars per student per year in our public schools to educate our children. Our universities are world renowned. We are the wealthiest nation in history. We have tens of thousands of laws, regulations, and rules, to keep us safe. And supposedly, the American dream is attainable by everyone born in this country. Sounds like we should be living in a new age of enlightenment. But nothing could be further from the truth. Mistaking technological advancement and passage of laws with cultural and societal advancement is a complete fallacy, as described by Albert Einstein and Aldous Huxley almost a century ago:
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
In case you haven’t noticed, our culture has descended into the gutter, societal norms which kept the country relatively cohesive since its inception are being attacked and obliterated by deviants and degenerates, and any semblance of a unified vision of what America stands for is actively being destroyed by the globalist Davos crowd seeking to implement their Great Reset agenda of technocratic control over the lowly peasants, while they feast, plunder and pillage the planet – the true psychopath barbarian billionaire horde.
The perversion of normalcy into glorifying pedophiles, drag queens, transgender freaks, drug addict felons, race hustlers, and organizations promoting lawlessness, looting, and killing, while persecuting and prosecuting normal, hard-working, civilized white people has left the country on the brink of chaos. Technology has done nothing but make us dumber, distracted and easily manipulated by the Bernaysian masters of manipulation.
Multiple generations have now been socially indoctrinated by government schools to obey, emote, believe, and fear whatever (Covid) and whoever (Putin) they are commanded to fear. What they are not taught is how to think critically, question everything, and make their own decisions based upon actual facts. Test scores in reading, writing and math are at all-time lows. The solution is to continually lower the standards and never hold anyone accountable for results.
We are a nation of morons led by a cadre of psychopaths. Children are encouraged by their parents and doctors to cut off their breasts and penises due to peer pressure and deviants controlling the schools and media. Groomers make toddlers watch transgender freaks perform sex acts on stage. Library books for 8-year-olds describe anal sex, masturbation, and other perverted acts.
Statues portraying our history are torn down by mobs, while what passes for art and architecture today is perverted, frivolous and inconsequential. There are no masterpieces of literature created in our rotting society. The only thing that matters is monetizing content and number of eyeballs. Quality is non-existent, overridden by quantity and replaceability. Movies and television programs are created by untalented hacks, responding to focus groups, and required to insert the required racial and homosexually woke storylines into every program.
There are no Godfathers or Casablancas being produced. There are no novelists writing masterpieces on par with Steinbeck or Hemingway. But we do have Cardi B belting out her best-selling song WAP (acronym for Wet-Ass Pussy) and Sports Illustrated with transgender and obese swimsuit models. Based on TV commercials, 90% of Americans are either black, in an interracial relationship, gay, or transgender. We are an epically unserious society. Anyone observing America and most of the western world in an impartial manner would have to conclude we are already living in a new Dark Age of ignorance, superstition, and degradation, even before the final collapse of empire.
While doing research on the Dark Ages I was surprised to stumble across some climate related information which puts the current hysterical climate change narrative in perspective. The current war on CO2, cow farts, petroleum powered vehicles, farmers, and human beings living in peace, is nothing more than an agenda to depopulate the planet, make our lives miserable, and further enrich those controlling the narrative, flying on private jets, vacationing on enormous yachts, and living in 50 room mansions in the Hamptons.
The green agenda is built on taxing you more, with zero impact on climate, while virtue signaling success. Meanwhile, the sun and power within our earth’s core will dictate our climate, despite all fruitless manmade efforts to have an impact. George Carlin’s The Planet is Fine diatribe captures the hypocrisy of humans thinking they matter at all when it comes to the planet.
“The planet is fine; the people are fucked! The planet isn’t going anywhere; we are! We’re going away! Pack your shit, folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that.” – George Carlin
As you can discern, Rome flourished during a warming period and the Dark Ages coincided with a cooling period. Neither was due to human activity, petroleum products, not recycling enough, or cow farts. It was due to solar and volcanic activity, which may have gone hand in hand in creating the dynamics that made the Dark Ages dark. The Little Ice Age coincided with the Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 when sunspots were at a minimum. Major volcanic eruptions in the 13th century, dimming sunlight across the planet also contributed to the cooling of the planet.
It seems recent studies of ice cores by real scientists confirm the period around 536 AD may have been the worst time to live on our planet in history. A cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland in 536 AD spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere, producing a mysterious fog plunging Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. Snow fell during the summer in China. Two other massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547. The repeated blows, followed by Bubonic plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640.
Humans will always be at the mercy of Mother Nature, the sun, and the volcanic activity within the bowels of our planet. Taxes, recycling, and electric cars won’t have one iota of impact on the future of the planet. The impact of little or no sun over the course of years led to crop failures, famine and plague, bathing sixth-century Europe in darkness and despair. Crops cannot grow without sun. Hunger and lack of vitamin D left the populations susceptible to disease. The bubonic plague killed half the inhabitants of the Eastern Roman Empire during these dark days, hastening its collapse.
With no wheat, there was no bread, a staple of the diet in those days. The people of Europe were occupied with survival, living a brutish existence, leaving little time for cultural advancement. The trials and tribulations documented throughout history are determined by a combination of controllable human actions and uncontrollable natural causes.
Under dark skies, St Augustine brings a message of Christian hope to 6th-century King Ethelbert of Kent. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Our helplessness at the hands of nature happens every day across the globe, with the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami deadly reminders of our vulnerability and powerlessness. We already know Schwab, Soros, Gates, Tedros, and the rest of the Great Reset New World Order cabal are actively attempting to bring down the American Empire and replace it with a global oligarchy, where we own nothing, and they own it all. Using climate change as their cudgel, they are already conducting a war on farmers, purposely restricting the output of food for the masses.
Combined with rampant raging central bank created inflation across the world, wars being conducted in breadbasket regions of the globe, and extreme drought conditions in key agricultural regions, the landscape is already in the danger zone. With Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano showing signs of a major eruption, and hundreds of other dormant volcanoes around the world capable of eruptions on par with the 536 AD eruption, it’s only a matter of when, not if. Many scientists postulate the Sun has entered into the modern Grand Solar Minimum (2022–2053) that will lead to a significant reduction of solar magnetic field and activity like during Maunder minimum, leading to noticeable reduction of terrestrial temperature. We have zero control or influence over these events.
Quotes from Tacitus nearly 2,000 years ago are proof human nature never changes and the cycles of history repeat themselves across empires. Biden’s illegal executive orders, disregard of the Constitution, and blatant corruption, along with the regime media suppressing legitimate dissent about Fauci’s lies, Pfizer’s falsification of trial data, and the FDA colluding with Twitter to censor doctors, fit perfectly into Tacitus’ view of the world.
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” ― Tacitus
“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticize.” ― Tacitus
The traitorous acts of Obama, Biden, Clinton, Comey, Brennan and the entire FBI and CIA complex in conducting a coup against a duly elected president and then covering up their treason with the full cooperation of the regime media was and still is an audacious crime. These crimes are fully detailed in the Durham Report and on Hunter Biden’s laptop, but no one will go to jail, because half the country supports the crime the other half is apathetic and uninterested, and our elected leaders are in on it. Two thousand years and nothing changes.
“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.” ― Tacitus
“The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.” ― Tacitus
The American Empire is displaying all the worst attributes of Rome in its death throes, as the oligarchy grows more audacious, knowing they are illegitimate, but unconcerned with being brought to justice because they control the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government. They fear no one and dare the peasants to try and stop them. The oligarchs provoke crisis, chaos, fear, and strife. They hide in the shadows, functioning as an invisible governing power, manipulating the minds of the masses, in their psychotic belief they can control and rule the world because they are superior in intellect, integrity, and ability to envision the future.
This relatively small circle of psychopaths, who have gotten the empire into this mess, grow ever more powerful as they lead us on a path to disaster. Their hubris and an arrogant disregard for the wishes of the people, belief in their own invincibility, and not fearing any retribution for their crimes of treason, leave them at the top of a crumbling empire – so they will have the farthest to fall.
Everything about our empire is unsustainable. Ultimately it will collapse financially under the weight of its unpayable debts. With psychopaths running the show who believe they can win a two front war against Russia and China, we will be lucky if our empire isn’t just a pile of smoldering ruins when they are done with it. There is absolutely no way to vote ourselves out of this because the Deep State counts the votes.
The dissenters are not united enough to shoot our way out of this. You can run, but you can’t hide from the impact of the coming collapse. The unknown ingredient to this toxic mixture of death is nature’s influence. If a volcanic eruption, or several volcanic eruptions on par with the 536 AD occurrence, were to happen concurrently with economic collapse, the earth’s population of 8 billion would be drastically reduced in short order.
At this point, the best we could hope for is a relatively non-violent collapse where the critical thinking self-reliant people would migrate to rural regions and learn to live off the land again. The simple life of thriving day to day based on your own efforts, along with the efforts of your small homogeneous community, is the likely destiny for millions. No one is coming to save us. We’ll have to save ourselves. We happened to be born at a juncture of history where a Fourth Turning crisis ended an empire. We didn’t choose our fate, but we need to prepare and make the best of our situation.
I find nothing more appropriate to visually represent our clownworld empire falling than a picture of a dwarf clown, smoking a cigarette while holding a bouquet of wilted flowers in the pouring rain in front of a defunct circus tent. If the clown shoe fits, wear it. The season is turning.
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To everything turn, turn, turn
There is a season turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under Heaven
“The Fourth Turning could mark the end of modernity. The Western saecular rhythm – which began in the mid-fifteenth century with the Renaissance – could come to an abrupt terminus. The seventh modern saeculum would be the last. This too could come from total war, terrible but not final. There could be a complete collapse of science, culture, politics, and society. Such a dire result would probably happen only when a dominant nation (like today’s America) lets a Fourth Turning ekpyrosis engulf the planet. But this outcome is well within the reach of foreseeable technology and malevolence.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
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Doomsday!
Be there!
You’ll buy the whole seat, but you’ll only use the edge.
The lesser known sub-plot of this movie. Or , how we got here.
94.”The Masters are working according to a Plan… which will demonstrate a large measure of world unity… marked by universality… “The Plan is concerned with re-building mankind… As human beings begin to take the higher initiations… the true nature of the divine Will will be grasped…” Alice Bailey 24 books published by Lucis Trust The Beacon Sept-Oct 1975 pp. 145-148
95.”Psychopolitics is an important if less known division of geo-politics. It is less known because it must necessarily deal with “mental healing.” “By Psychopolitics our chief goals are carried forward.
( HELLO , McCfly ! ) — To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step.”
“Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression, and scientific turmoil. At last a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State; at last only Communism can resolve the problem of the masses.” Laventi Beria Stalin’s chief of security Speech at V. I. Lenin University
twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm
The magnificent Mark Steyn wrote the definitive book about this:
“After America”
Mad Max is a pre-woke Disney film compared to what is coming.
I’ve yet to read it, but it’s now on my list.
Hilariously depressing.
That’s in muh wheelhouse…unfortunately? As long as it’s not Hillary depressing I’ll chance it!
While technology increases exponentially the selfish, debased nature of Mankind is hopelessly flatlined since the fall of Adam and Eve.
Technology apart from God only makes Man’s evil more efficient.
Sure, keep believing in fantasy.
The fall of Adam and Eve, another moronic story for the dumb slaves to accept their slavery. Surely a God of love would condemn all of humanity for the sin of one. That’s undoubtedly a sign of his eternal love and compassion for all of his children and also proof of his supreme sense of justice. Only brain dead fucktards will fall for that one.
Are you a bottom or a top? Here ya go:
The 1000 year Reich lay in ruins after 12 years.
“Stay where you owe, dig into our home earth in a genuinely manly way! Do not weaken nor let your heart fear. The enemy can be beaten, and we have beaten him often enough. We must overcome the enemy’s superiority in material with superiority of our hearts and steadfastness. We have less war matériel; we must act bravely, intelligently, and independently wherever we meet him. We may not give up a centimeter of German soil without forcing the heaviest loss of blood. We must fight him in the fields, in the forests, in the cities, on every street and every house, until the oceans of blood he has shed in this battle makes him unable to continue. Then the hour of our triumph will come. History will grant us the victory that we have all earned.”
Joseph Goebbels last speech 10Mar45
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb90.htm
Thanks for the generously lengthy post Admin, and for addressing the often overlooked issue of solar cycles like the Maunder Minimum – along those lines here’s a 17 min vid which has been “age restricted” to squelch viewership addressing past, present, and future solar cycles along with some themes you’ve hit on…. Now why is all of this coalescing about now? Are we knocking on the door of a 400 year, or worse 6,ooo year, or even worse 12,000 year major upheaval [“doomsday”] cycle?? See this:
Here’s 3 more which may or may not embed here. First one is just over 5 mins in length, and for those that consider super cycles [greatly beyond the 80 – 90 yrs of “4th turnings”] it’s a must-see:
https://banned.video/watch?id=634aba5ff9e7b90ad5fdb550
Another 18 mins from SBs on the “doomsday” super-cycle:
A haunting 10 mins demonstrating where we are through entertainment scenes, a clip from Santa “Klaus” himself, plus a music-video vibe:
You cant be twenty on sugar mountain, twenty would be too soon, seems I cant be leaving from sugar mountain, twood be too so on,
Fuck Neil Young.
Ole Neil is an America hating, woke, climate cultist, Canadian cunt who wrote some catchy tunes. He’d instantly rat you all out to STASI.
Southern man doesn’t need him around anyhow.
I guess he shoulda burned out, huh? And he’s draggin’ out that whole fadin’ away thing too.
Ole Knealdown went from an actual rebel to a dried out
old tranny Karen who completely sucks off The Man now.
Like our friend above this said, “Fuck Kneal Young.”
I believe Shakespeare literally wrote the book on that one!
“Each man is but an actor, playing many parts in his life”
I never knew but him and Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually friendly. Just stumbled onto some pics of Ronnie in a Neil Young shirt. I still loathe the bitter old man Neil though even if he did write some good music.
https://societyofrock.com/39-years-ago-neil-young-responds-to-skynyrds-tragedy-with-moving-tribute-to-ronnie-van-zant/
I think we all feel that way. I can still manage to listen to his old stuff without feeling guilty or resentful…but it’s an effort, which sort of cancels out the point of the exercise, so I don’t do it often.
The needle and the damage done
He had the right song, but chose the wrong side
Tacitus rocks.
IMO, the end will happen relatively quick. Everything appears to be in an ever quickening pace to an end goal. Like a woman giving birth of which the hour and day are not known to us, but is impending.
Rough waters ahead
Romans 8:21-23
21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of [a]corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
The ” wokening “
It’s weird ain’t it ? I remember when Texas RepublicOns were giggly giddy over “Keep Austin Weird”. Weird? Yes, they got it .
It’s Sodom.
Weird is different and unusual.
Sodom is as common as dirt and as old as a salt pillar.
That too.
Sort of like, everyone who has died or will die, died of a heart attack.
Nonsense.
“Only Covid killed and will kill.
Unless you’re jabbed.”
-CDC, WHO, Fauci, and Brandon
I agree about the timing. The interconnectedness of everything will ensure that it all fails at about the same time. This probably won’t be the bottom, though, because the struggle for survival will just be getting underway. It may not be as bad in less ‘civilized’ areas, but Western Civ is going down for the count.
I only care that I give my grandkids the best shot at making it that I can.
ditto
To this end we are fortunate to have a pretty big influence in their lives. Always encouraging them to think, focusing more on solutions over reactions. One day at a time.
after destroying every institution in america you now have to try to ruin your grandkids. go die in a nursing home where you will be beaten by your black pets
ad hominem…
you lost
Paul was talking about the second coming which he claimed was about to happen any day. It was just the same as the current claims about the climate. Nothing like claiming the world is about to end to stampede the wildebeest
it was you sucidal cucked boomers that destroyed the country and now you think by giving your grandkids money will save them? whites will be hunted like in south afreaka
Take a chill pill, you entitled freak.
huh?
💯. But the indoctrinated zombies keep falling for it, generation after generation.
But each generation of fools since then believe it applies to them. 😆
Completely deluded!
The scripture makes it very clear we have been in “the end times” for 2000 years and counting.
How convenient isn’t it?
The UNENDING ENDTIMES! 🤣🤣🤣
The scriptures make it very clear that Jesus told his apostles that the end was coming during their generation. That’s why he sent them to preach about it duh! He said that some of them would still be alive to see it! But since nothing happened, each generation of Christians since then have been fooled into thinking that it’s going to happen during their lifetime. Talk about a successful psyop!
Bullshit! Only the brainwashed morons believe in the scriptures.
Anon, you are in copyright violation by quoting from a bible version that is copyrighted. The King James Version is not copyrighted. Quote from it generously
And how many years ago was that written? And to whom was the letter addressed?
In your dreams only. 😴
I keep a list of quotes. One of David Walker’s that I particularly like is, “People seem to think the [American] government has money. The government doesn’t have any money.” I like it because it states a fundamental truth while at the same time it illustrates ignorance of the populace in things economic.
I wish you could explain to a cousin. And she opined about 2003 gays are born that way. Ok, we are talkin’ small town Texas! Even small town I think too much Oprah and women nonsense spoken at the beauty shop.
Cradle to grave…and white folk.
70-something percent of gays were molested before 12. There is growing evidence that has a lot to do with homosexuality.
I believe it .
You’d believe everything your told unless is right in front of your face. Reminds me of the people who are terrified of viruses but believe that chemtrails are just a conspiracy theory.
It’s called “grooming”. Some call it “recruitment”. For certain we know their numbers aren’t growing from Natural procreation, so what does that leave? YOUR children!
Parents condone kids grooming because they allow them to go to public schools, that’s where they learn all kinds of perversion, and parents don’t care what happens to them.
They have all become zombies.
I would agree, incest and perversion are contributors.
Really, did you interview all of them?
Fags are born that way but the dysmorphic psychos can switch anytime.
ClownWorld.
What you’re saying is that they’re born with brain defects that cause antisocial behavior.
How can that be? The APA de-listed homosexuality as a mental disorder decades ago! Haven’t you seen the improvements that made to our society?!? Look at the evidence for God’s sake! Wait. What? OK…never mind!
Just drink a Bud Light. Wait, don’t.
They are born that way only in the sense that men are evil and without Jesus they have no redemption.
Only in brainwashed indoctrinated minds.
did you read the article and see how humanity went thru the worst hell on earth for 1000 years? where was Jesus? there aint no god only the devil
Psalm 14….
Exactly, thousands of years of both human and animal suffering, and the fools are incapable of understanding that a God of love would never allow that to happen to his children. Some of them even believe that God would torture his children in Hell for eternity. But he loves them! What a joke. Only twisted minds would be able to conceive something like that. No wonder the world is so fucked up!
Bless your little heart! And enjoy Hell, sugar tits!
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
Stupidest fucking shit Ive ever heard. Be proud!
The religiously brainwashed dummies will never see it. They walk around with blinders on.
Here we go again, the zombies and their imaginary Jesus. 🙄
…or inhibitions either.
You’re really over the cliff!
Yes, they’re born that way. And all thanks to your imaginary God of love.
“People seem to think the [American] government has money. The government doesn’t have any money.”
Actually, the government DOES have money–primarily from 2 sources:
1. Income taxes–which is OUR money we tithe to government, and legally questionable (read ‘The Law that Never Was’, by William Benson about the fraudulent passing of the 16th Amendment).
2. Tariffs and duty fees – collected by Customs and Border Protection. The revenue collected from this and deposited into the Treasury is 2nd only to income taxes.
All other “money” is debt.
Until 1913, the Federal Government was small and very adequately funded by tariffs and excise taxes…After bankrupting the US in WW1, it remained small under Harding and Coolidge…then FDR came along…..
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“It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and
monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before
tomorrow morning”. — Henry Ford
Louis T. McFadden’s Speech In the House of Representatives – 10 June 1932
Mr. Chairman, at the present session of Congress we have been dealing with emergency situations. We
have been dealing with the effect of things rather than with the cause of things. In this particular
discussion I shall deal with some of the causes that lead up to these proposals. There are underlying
principles which are responsible for conditions such as we have at the present time and I shall deal
with one of these in particular which is tremendously important in the consideration that you are now
giving to this bill. http://www.afn.org/~govern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html
http://www.perfecteconomy.com/pg-congressman-louis-t-mcfadden-1932.html
The Federal Reserve – A Corrupt Institution
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever
known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called
the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United
States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has
cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over.
“This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States,
has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done
this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the
maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the
moneyed vultures who control it.
“Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government
institutions. They are not government institutions. They are private credit
monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of
themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and
swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”
In that dark crew of financial pirates, there are those who would cut a man’s throat to
get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy
votes to control our legislation; and there are those who maintain International
propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us and of wheedling us into the granting of
new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again
in motion, their gigantic train of crime.
http://annavonreitz.com/mcfaddenspeechonthefed.pdf
Exactly, it’s all a scam.
It’s fine, fat America can collapse and die. The rest of the world will move on.
Not bloody likely
No shit.
They are now a “protected class” so they are sacred and to protected at any cost.
Time to go full “Fight Club” and start making soap.
Make glue. We’re gonna need it to hold all this shit together!
Probably so, given that Asia, Africa and S.America aren’t buying the climate propaganda…
The idea that nations are sovereign and independent is another lie. The entire world is ruled by the same evil bastards. It’s all a charade to divide and deceive the slaves.
The Roman state lasted 2,200 years, from its founding in Rome ca. 750 BC to its conquest in 1453 by the Ottoman capture of the Roman capital Constantinople. When the city of Rome fell, the imperial capital had been in Constantinople for 150 years. The Dark Ages were a western problem. The Hellenistic high culture lived on in the east.
This is not to deny that the US, with its negrified, degenerate, debauched culture, is in a state of on-going collapse. The whole of the West is in the same state, and deservedly so. What is surprising, is the Deep State imposed suicide, not merely de-industrialization, the suppression of modern agriculture, the corruption of science and medicine, but actual genocide and replacement of native white populations and imminent depopulation.
Do the Deep State denizens believe they can keep a modern lifestyle for themselves, while exploiting a medieval serf culture?
I’m sure they plan to do it “from a safe distance”. As in times past, GOV will be far removed from its source of sustenance. There’s yer new Golden Age, Bob. The old gods have returned…the same ones from the LAST “Golden Age”.
They’ve got their own priesthood and these guys think they are it. Maybe they are. Not entirely relevant to the topic, but note worthy.
Yeah. I really think they believe it.
What a great time to be alive!
People have alot more than pitch forks and torches these days.
It ain’t gonna help them.
You have no idea who you’re dealing with.
True psychopaths are also lacking in “time sense” —– doesn’t matter what they claim or spout, THEY have little to no sense of time!
But in many ways the Dark Ages provided more individual freedom than what preceded them….,or followed
Down to clown! Bring your face to my mace!
Head bong, I mean bang.
Banner Thomas, bass player and co-writer of this song was a friend of mine, and, if I may say so, a true Southern gentleman. He is missed.
Older heads around here. Not dead yet.
But in your case, brain dead for sure.
i’m a northside mule dk redneck – this one rocks.
p.s. fwiw
gibbons published in 1776 – declaration of independence 1776 – wealth of nations 1776 – illuminati-weishaupt formed 1776
dafuq are you saying with that first sentence
Learn to speak native Floridian.
Are there any of those left? I thought they had become an extinct species.
terminus ante quem
Sycophants have always lived among a civilization in small numbers. It’s only when they convince enough people(authorities) to follow them that a civilization crumbles. There are options that a civilization has if it is bold and wise enough to choose the right one.
Ain’t that the truth. Epic article. Thank you, Jim.
Nobody calls Hector Rodriguez “MT. Dew” Camacho a psychopath to his face…and lives.
You are sentenced to one night of rehabilitation.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho
Gibbon’s asserts reason “II: The hostile attacks of the Barbarians and Christians.” The hostility of the barbarians is self explanatory I believe, but what were the hostile acts of early Christians I wonder? Is he merely referring to a shifting moral paradigm (away from early Roman virtues or the later debaucheries of the dying empire?) that accompanies a new religion? Or were those pesky martyrs hostile because they refused to bow to Caesar? Or maybe those are the same thing. Who knows; just seemed odd that he blames Christians for the fall of Rome.
Gibbon had an anti-Christian slant to his writings because he was writing in Protestant England, where they had been at war with the Catholic church for a few centuries.
Interesting; appreciate the reply.
There were still plenty of Catholics in Britain in Gibbon’s day…
How long will these new dark ages last?
Forever!
Three and a half years…but it hasn’t started yet, so…buckle up!
…and no rapture.
Only those who do not believe the gospel.
The gospel is for fools.
So you’re hanging out in a room full of fools. How’s that workin’ for ya?
Speak for yourself fool!
You will die waiting for the rapture. Guaranteed!
The train is headed off the tracks. Get off the train.
Or stay on track? See, now I’m confused.
keep it under 19 paragraphs, please. Is there a point to the article or just foreverwhinage
Did it hurt your brain to read too much? I know moron Americans, like you, prefer it spoon fed in small doses. I wouldn’t want you to have to think.
PS Fuck Off
BUT, BUT, BUT, no Memes. What’s it all mean. america Today. Thank You bert33 for driving one of the points home.
Somebody just send bert 33 bumper stickers…don’t want to strain that Free Masonry brain?
Well now he’s butt hurt too. You’re not helping! ha ha ha! At least the pain is all localized!
Took me all evening to read… Dinner then the kids interrupting me. Then me and kids watched the new Hump day stress relief video you posted… More funny animal videos after that. Thank you for everything you do. Your work is excellent.
The Roman Empire collapsed due to too many wars and the debasement of the currency…The Western Empire was effectively dead in 262 AD when Rome lost another war to the Parthians, the Emperor was captured and enslaved, and the coinage became worthless…
The US empire hasn’t quite reached that stage, but it’s knocking on the door…
No, similar to what we are seeing in North America: the planned defunding of citizenship!
TPTB in Roman times brought in the cheapest labor from outlying regions and land and farmland values rose, while wages decreased —- farmers and tenant farmers were financially forced to forfeit their lands, becoming slave farmers, and the supply chain and economies collapsed as a result to that concentration!
Just as a reminder, we lost Viet Nam, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., as well as our Southern border region. Our dollar has lost approximately 99% of its buying power in just a century (and our coinage isn’t pure silver/gold any more). Need I remind anyone that our congress and White House were captured in the 1950s by the Communists, AKA Luciferians? Will the last American patriot turn off the lights and take down the flag when you leave?!
Patriotism is an outdated concept used by the owners to divide the slaves. Now they’re using other methods.
The Empire will fall when the OWNERS decide.
So over the next 18 months (or so), the U.S. will run a minimum of a further $ 4 trillion deficit. That’s the best case scenario. No way any other nation is going to fund this extravagance. No one is going to give Uncle Sam another farthing. Translation … Federal Reserve monetization. So how can this largesse not result in inflation exploding grossly higher? I mean seriously higher. Thoughts? Anyone …
Easy. The BLS just invents a new woke method of measuring inflation and it always equals 2%. If you question the calculation, you will be branded a white supremacist nazi racist bigot traitor.
It can’t, inflation is and will continue to explode. An implosion of an empire is not without some cuts, pain and bruises…..death!
The way I understand Ed Dowd is that excess disability and deaths to the tune of 6 to 13 sigma is profoundly deflationary. Perhaps due to less demand of goods, of housing, and at the same time lack of able bodies to do all the work?
I don’t quite understand it either, but I listen.
motley, my thoughts are you have it exactly right.
If the author is using Gibbons as a guide to history, he is being mislead.
The original Roman republic was built on moral farmers. They were the strength of the republic. It was not until Rome developed its own deep state that they fell into 1) empire, then 2) dissolution.
The church and monasteries were not the ones who could “afford” paper and vellum. They were the ones who could manufacture those and use them. (It was not until well after the invention of the printing press that there were any but a small percentage of literate population. Even today the statistics are appalling.) The monasteries were directly responsible for preserving western civilization during the fall of Rome, during the attacks and pillaging of the pagan hordes, and the conversion and education of these same hordes. They were also the ones who spread the technology, medicine, farming techniques, food preservation, hygiene, etc., among the populace.
The Church did not create feudalism. Rather, it ensured that feudalism remained humane with regard to the peasantry and lower classes. It was not until the enlightenment and the protestant revolt when the peasants were either thrown off their land or reduced to semi-slavery. Peasants during the dark and middle ages had rights and more time off of work than modern wage slaves.
The basis of Science is the Catholic religion. Christians hold that God is rational, good, all powerful, and purposeful, and He created an ordered universe. So, when theology and philosophy attempt to understand the natural world, they know that there is a rational purpose behind whatever they are investigating, and therefore, it is knowable. Pagans, eastern mysticism, islam with it’s arbitrary god, etc. do not have the basic ability to do scientific investigation, because their underlying philosophy embraces magic, arbitrary cause and effect, lack of correlation, lack of repeatability, and randomness. With the Church, even God’s own miracles are not believed without serious consideration and, with few amazing exceptions, they do not affect the course of life. It was the enlightenment that brought skepticism, pragmatism, utilitarianism, materialism, and other pseudo-scientific garbage to afflict mankind.
Transgenderism is one example of this: “Man” (whatever their pronouns are) is a machine that can be cut up, put back together again, and the world can be forced to “recognize” the “new” “creation.” Any problems are due to 1) lack of technological advancement, and 2) disbelief of other actors (misgendering).
Additionally, Catholicism holds to the natural law. The enlightenment does not. So again, you have the push for perversion, etc.
A new dark age will be a cleansing time when perversions, false weights and measures, invented rights, administrative law, deep states, varieties of fake “isms,” and other such garbage will be washed away, since these things can have no application nor utility when one lives in contact with nature. A new dark age will require for survival; morals, hard work, intact families, sacrifice, honesty, self-discipline, collaboration, and many other currently-scorned traditional values that have been discarded by immature and delusional moderns.
It won’t be pretty, but it will be healthy.
Outstanding scholarship!!!!!
+1000 … You should write more on this subject. You have the gift…
Flash,it was a good comment but was basic stuff taught in history and metaphysics at Jesuit Rockhurst College in the 1960’s.
The +1000 was for being able to articulate what many history books document in a clear and succinct manner. That’s a gift few of us have. If you’re the author, good on you, if not, move on….
You mean Jesuit bullshit!
We need to be careful not to confuse Roman Catholicism with true Biblical Christianity*- they are not the same.
*not he crap that passes for modern mainstream evangelicalism.
Same monkey, different tail.
You’re a boobus americanus, without a doubt.
The rise and fall of the American Empire is quite ironic since the plutocrats who set up this government always wanted an empire; (their initial goal was to seize and control all of North America by slaughtering the indigenous people, but they they also waged a war against Canada and one against Mexico) and the British and Roman empires were their role models.
The American empire fully emerged following the other European imperialists’ demise: the Spanish (which the US helped sweep away with the Spanish-American War) Portugal, the Dutch fell much earlier, France, the Ottoman, Britain, the Japanese and the Johnny come lately Prussian/German empires were pretty much done in by WWI and WWII. We won’t discuss Russia because they were mostly in Eurasia.
Even the most comatose among us see America is in rapid decline, only this reality is too confounding and painful for most of them to contemplate. So as a coping mechanism, they pretend not to see what they’re seeing and not know what they know.
In a nutshell America is doomed, there is no turning back, there is no moral renaissance or spiritual revival coming. All we can do is get together with people of like consciousness and values who are willing to do what it takes to survive the escalating moral, socio-economic and cultural collapse we see around us. We have to continue to educate more of those willing to listen and learn. Good luck, stay well and develop the fortitude and resourcefulness you will need to thrive!
“In a nutshell America is doomed, there is no turning back, there is no moral renaissance or spiritual revival coming.”
I agree that we are done for, and I also believe that America will not see a great spiritual revival. Those that are coming /will come to Christ are largely in undeveloped nations- in Africa, Eurasia and Asia, where thousands are being born again.
America and the “first world” nations are morally too far gone, and fully deceived; we are witnessing the effects of God having “given them over ” ( Romans 1:18-32) to their choice to deny Christ and reject his gospel.
Yeah, born again to then die forever!
I can understand the apostles being fooled with the gospel 2,000 years ago, but for anyone today to believe in that crap, you really have to be a complete dead brain zombie!
I fail to understand the downvote unanimity. Even an atheist (Maybe I’m not anyMoar) should easily recognize and agree with your two points. It really is Revival or Bust. God has laid Judgment.
I agree with the gist of the article, but sometimes brevity is a virtue. As far as the assertion
it was the Greeks who made tremendous advancements in science, literature, philosophy, and government. The Romans stole much from other cultures. On the other hand, Roman engineering, since it enhanced militaristic endeavors, was quite impressive.
I listened to an interview with a Serbian official on Radacted yesterday. The Serbian claimed that NATO wanted to cover the same countries as the Roman Empire. It was very interesting. There was an election held that only had 4% turnout because NATO furnished the candidate.
Someone called what we are living in a Pathocracy, ran by psychopaths and sociopaths.
Ha! I just folded and put back in the drawer foil that was used to cover a casserole.
HA!
I am going to copy this and send it to some family…and tell them to just imagine me in the place of the grandma (wearing my .45 to ward off all the bacon grease thieves)…as I have been warning many – to no avail… (But not all, so there is that).
The thread was kick ass, wide and deep, powerful and as usual hard hitting.
I hang here for many reasons…your Big Pictures are one Admin…appreciate it buddy.
North Carolina has finally lost it, feel like old Danial Boone when a neighbor moved within a mile.
https://www.wral.com/story/slithering-surprise-woman-discovers-copperheads-mating-near-dogs/20887275/
She wanted them released where a hawk or owl wouldn’t see them, like a hawk is going to fuck with one of them things. A possum maybe, those things are about as crazy as the woman.
Ginger,
I killed what one 60 something lifelong NC neighbor said: “Was the biggest Copperhead he had ever seen in NC” coming out of my duck coop, at the edge of my pond, just after eating a big bull frog that was always hanging around.
I found out about the bull frog after I hung up the monster on a fence and cut the huge bulge open on him and the bull frog’s legs popped out!
It was a close call as I was just starting to open the gate and the snake was crawling out just a couple of feet away and could not strike…I jumped back immediately. I had my puppy Pepper the Wonder Dog following just behind me so that could have been a disaster.
Had my Sig 9mm with me taking three quick shots one of which hit him slightly off center just below the head.
What a monster…I sent pictures of him to Arch…I think to Brewer55 too…probably Donkey also.
Today I was checking on one of my ducks sitting on eggs hidden in the corner of a grape arbor, when I came up on a six foot black snake about six feet away from her…but he had been tangled/caught in some old netting I had put up years ago…and was deader then the Republic!
Ha! My Psalm 91 prayers over my farm/compound/Ark – residents/visitors/animals answered again!
Mark,
My wife found a snake skin in the attic of our former house –I couldn’t tell what kind it was- and she thought one of our kids had put it there as a prank until I showed her a YT video of a snake crawling up the side of a house using the mortar spaces between the bricks.
I explained that it was probably there because we had mice at that time, and if we took care of that food source -and sealed up whatever holes he was using-we wouldn’t have any more critters inside. So we had our crawlspace sealed. My wife would not go up into the attic for a while though.
I was also surprised by a large (~5 ft.) black snake outside our crawlspace door after a tropical storm had dumped a lot of rain. We had a creek that ran through the back of our property so maybe it was a water snake. I encouraged it to leave using a rake and though it was foul tempered it finally went back towards the swollen creek.
Robert,
One good snake story deserves another…
I had 5 yards of leaf compost (black gold) delivered as I have done yearly for many years…having it dropped on tilled ground to spread and/or use some justto expand my orchard as I expand or replenish my food growing self-sufficiency capability.
About five weeks ago after I had leveled the new drop out and fenced it in, I was transplanting from my greenhouse. I scooped up a double handed load of the rich earth to suddenly find I was staring at a twisting surprised small Copper head in my cupped hands!
After I reacted faster than a speeding bullet…and I had put the boot to the little devil reptile…I got down and gave thanks.
Being a big Psalm 91 guy as I have said…I had a more than just a thankful moment.
I almost died in 2012 from anaphylactic shock from a hornets nest…that was when I found out I had become allergic…and have had to give myself 3 EPI Pens since.
Life on the farm can be edgy!
The Taurus Judge line is a good carry for snakes. I use to have copperheads here but my good ‘ol cat seems to keep snakes away. Probably another myth, I heard snakes don’t like to come around good ‘ol cats.
Tex,
I have a Taurus but not the Judge…it looks formidable.
I do have a Bond Arms two shot 4/10 – .45…I have carried outside for so many years I’m on my second holster.
Had four adult Cotton Mouths in my overgrown pond in 2012 when I first moved in…Mowed all the brush away and killed all 4 the first summer.
One encounter was epic as after I fished out the withering dying reptile with a rake, I cut its head off with machete…as the body was withering around in spasms it bumped up against the severed head…and I swear that head gave one last bite to its own body!!! Had to see it to believe it.
I have read the Bond Arms guns are considered some of the best anti-carjacking guns (with the Bad Holster) around…for those snakes with two legs.
Also considered one of the best baby ‘Back Ups’.
Ha- what an idiot that woman is. Having lived in NC for 28 years, I have encountered several copperheads while working outside on our property- some were aggressive because they felt cornered- so I had to kill them. I learned to carry a revolver with snake shot after one almost got our dog coming out the garage door for a walk .
You don’t mess with venomous snakes; even though copperhead bites are rarely fatal to adults, the cost of anti-venom is in the tens of thousands of $$$.
Wow, and how come your precious God Jesus created those dangerous poisonous snakes, doesn’t he love ya?
Sometimes I am not the best example of a Christian on TBP…I have had to apologize four times for letting my rudder steer my ship into turbulent waters buddy.
Once upon a time I had the exact same attitude as you…long story…whatever wounds are festering He can heal them.
“Whoever” that anon is he is an idiot.
Both parents lived through WW2 in England.
They raised me to value every bit of twine, foil, grease, cloth, wire…….
That frugality and practicality is almost gone AFAICT. Use once and toss it away is the current way.
It is a mental problem for most. The idea of “reuse” is unacceptable as it would convey being “cheap” or “poor”. Conspicuous consumption is the definition of success and status to those who have never really experienced shortage and hardship. Gotta keep up with the Joneses, the ego demands it. Going to get interesting for those folks soon.
I find it so odd. I make between 1/10 and 1/4 of what the people I know make. I work less than 500 hours a year. Everything is paid for and I have substantial savings. All but one person I know have more debt than assets, yet they spend like drunken sailors. They have to have the latest gadgets and a new car every 4 years. Nothing ‘wears out’ as they never keep anything long enough. Yet their new vehicles spend the first year back-and-forth to the shop to fix (or not) all the factory defects.
Now I eagerly await the collapse of society and the infrastructure. Watching the people who spend $8k/month now, try to manage without new stuff or the skills to maintain what they have is going to be some epic Schadenfreude.
Don’t ya think that the ALUMINUM FOIL could have something to do with so many folks getting ALZHEIMER’S today? Hmmm…🤔
Sure , it’s the aluminum inside a Bud Light can. Evidently it increases fag nation as well.
Excellent stuff, Lord Admin.
Given it occupies most of its own continent is the USA in the same position as Rome? Would Rome have collapsed if it had not been invaded and sacked? The history of Europe is the story of its tribes’ territorial disputes. America does not really have an external enemy. All its enemies are internal and engineering the change to suit their objectives.
I suspect the US will just slowly slide away into something like Brazil. Its elites will continue to be protected and pampered. Most claims the USA has made about itself over the last 200 years are false. So it’s only a mirage that is fading away.
You mention Brazil, and I immediately thought of the dystopian movie Brazil.
Awesome tirade as usual Mr. Quinn.
This comedian summarizes the current globohomo insanity quite well in 2 minutes.
The American Empire was eviscerated March 10th 08 via
Bear Stearns in the daytime & overnight REPO Market
which is dark & unregulated.
Due to the hemmorhaging at Bear Stearns the next superbank
was Lehman Brothers Inc. Fuld leveraged Lehman 44:1 in an
imploding market that was saturated with Subprime MBS &
Commerical subprime MBS. The USA imploded because of
Fuld’s bad bets long on short-term expense of borrowing
44:1 long with nowhere near enough operating cash to front
long bets that went south.
Paulson wouldn’t lend into Lehman Brothers when it failed
because it was a compnay that was leveraged 44:1 and the
whole compnay wasn’t valued on assets correspondingly
due to the outsized betting & risk that Fuld assumed via
risk behaviour of his bank.
He gambled the future of the USA away on a long bet that
Uncle Sam would use taxpayer funds to backstop any bets
that he made as a Wall Street investment banker at the top
of his field as a gambler.
Greenspan incentivized the heavy gambling via the perennial
Greenspan Put culture of Wall Street and Fuld incorrectly
assumed that the Fed would bail out any bets that he made no
matter the spendthrift nature of the bad bets.
Fuld’s Bankruptcy Trustee said that he made the classic rookie
mistake of making long term bets on short-term operating cash
that defined the mismatch that eventually eviscerated Lehman.
The Lehman Moment is the moment of realization that the
Ponzi USD is unsustainable. America is already dead & buried.
The Greeks liken this to the Necropolis.
MOU
Lehman had over $400 billion in Credit Default Swaps/fantasy finance, financial engineering!
The extension of their money crestion entitlement!
Just read the comments, and the TL;DR comments show me that the retards have arrived at TBP.
Where’s my meme? /s
At your service!
That’s a good one. There was a time when the people who watched Jon Stewart’s Daily Show were more up to date on current events than the folks watching cable news shows.
lots of special interest groups no more funding. more than 1.5 million NGO’s in the US. according to john’s hopkins accounting for 1 in 10 private jobs. government and gov. contractor and union [roughly 1 in 6 of all jobs] jobs cut back. no more other grants etc.. welfare state millions no mo money. no money for ‘refugees’. ships anchored outside ports until they get paid in something other then federal reserve notes. hyperinflation for some months? the big ugly smacks normies silly. most of them will probably be hysterical. medication money cutbacks. most of my neighbors order out regularly. that should be fun to deal with. i suppose i should get off my somewhat retired arse and install the window cages.
The sum total of all these essays is the modern eqivalent of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in real time.
Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh Mr. Quinn?
I have nothing to add, but I do have a couple of observations. The most beautiful, inspiring, and enduring works of mankind are a product of the Dark Ages- the cathedrals of Europe. There is simply no way to reconcile the narrative of that time with architectural majesty of these structures. How does one logically explain St Peter’s Basilica, Trier, Chartres, or Kolner Dom? I tend to believe that there is peraps a five hundred to thousand year gap in out understanding of European history and that our greatest days may have been due to the absence of a political Empire.
The other is that our conceptual framework of what constitutes a particular culture- the way we use the term Western Man, for example- is overly broad and tries to encompass far more than what makes sense in historical terms. The American of today bears little or no resemblance to the pioneers of the westward expansion, much less the Founders. We talk as if there is some connection, but watching ten minutes of Vidmax, followed by a couple of letters written by Union privates circa 1863 demonstrates a disconnect more profound than that of the Roman people and a Hutu tribesman. We are always in a state of flux, but we always look for something to moor us to our time.
The worlds history we have been taught ( sold ) is a lie.
Gobekli Tepi
Puma Punku
Far older than Egypt pyramids
Source?
The History Channel and Ancient Aliens! lol !
Source?
Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse” series on Netflix.
Do you have eyes? How about a basic understanding of construction?
Everyone needs an expert or a specialist to explain what they already know, or should if they had the sense God gave a mole.
How’d that work out for you the last few years?
There is simply no logicl explanation for these kinds of structures in the context of a world of serfs slopping aroind in the mud. You can’t beat a man into creating something like that, it is clearly a product of love and intention, deep thought, long range planning, a knowledge of materials, complex physics, an understanding of the very ground upon which it will stand for thousands of years and so many other occult and esoteric forms of knowledge it is virtually inconceivable today, and yet, and yet there is is, rising from the ashes of Rome in the (allegedly) Dark Ages.
Probably don’t know how to define a woman either.
All true, but don’t you think they could have received some help?
The more I dwell on it the more I think that a clean life, good health, freedom from government imposed anxiety and submission actually frees people to acheive great things. The absence of the Roman system was what gave them the time, resources, labor and focus to get in tune with the natural order and to reflect it in their creations.
Government pretends to create and support public projects, but in actuality is does the very opposite, it is a form of suppression and theft that retards and interferes with all really great work.
That’s just my take.
How about educating yourself?
Kinda makes you wonder if all those people building those monuments of beauty were out of work farmers,mechanics and artisans desperate to eat.
Great point.
Perhaps that was the catalyst. Maybe living outside of history, where there are no emporers, majesty of the state, endless warfare and rapine, endless economic trickery, just people working in accord with Nature and their needs produces the kind of harmonic stability to advance to a level we cannot seem to acheive with all of our science and technics?
Just thinking outsie the narrative box here.
Thinking like this really , really unsettles would be rulers.
Nice.
great comment.
This is brilliant! It should become a book. Unfortunately, the Donate link is broken but I’ll persist.
Damn well said matey.
Overall, agree with most points but there are some flakey ones — also most crucial to point out there’s a one–to–one correlation between the national debt and the number and increase in billionaires —- would not have one without the other, also known as fantasy finance and financial engineerimg!
Counterproductive for existence!
Addressing the few flakey ones:
Walker was Peter G. Peterson Lite!
“as we provoke China into our next war” —- Oh, puhlease, like they haven’t coveted Taiwan for decades which was never under any of their past dynasties, why the Qing Dynasty so quickly ceded it to the Empire of Japan!
Gibbon had no concept of economics and finance —- Joseph Tainter explains the collapse of the Roman Empire in several concise paragraphs —- not all that complicated foe true scholars, which Gibbon wasn’t!
China serves the same masters. Both domestic and international politics are a complete sham to divide, deceive, and control the masses.
I prefer Jane Jacobs’ “Dark Age Ahead” to Gibbon.
I was just telling my kids about how people fail to learn from history and now our gov. also fails to learn from history.
Or the idea is to overwhelm our system to destroy it and reduce the population so the reset will happen. Its all really stupid.
It’s all by design.
The “American Empire” isn’t American. America is just the proxy army on behalf of the true empire – the empire ruled and controlled by the secret owners of The Federal Reserve System and its nexus of privately owned central banks in nearly every “sovereign” country on earth.
Why else do you think all our “greatest enemies” – Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Afghanistan – are those nations that do not or did not have a privately owned central bank? And Russia’s privately owned central bank has been left to wither on the vine and issues almost none of Russia’s state debt – see a pattern yet?
It ain’t us who rule the global Bartertown.
David Walker, there is a blast from the past. I was an MBA student and really enjoyed what he was selling. But just like RP we missed our chance to get off the train before it derails.
Here he talks about the 15 trillion unsustainable debt. But unlike most he then recommended fixes that would have probably worked. No longer. There’s no turning this thing around!
Ahh the Arizona Bay, watching the boats sail away on a white sand beach.
The collapse is well along in process in all regards, as Jim’s post brilliantly articulates. It is accelerating at warp speed as these attempts to stifle an emerging more just multi-polar world through wars with Russia and China are the climax and end-point. Looks like 2-3 years max before this party is officially over.
Not only do I see us as ancient Rome was during their crash but, we also look like early 30’s Germany! The question is, who will be the strongman who rises from the rubble?
Great read, admin! You hit all the nails directly on the head.
No strongman will rise. The same evil ones who divide and destroy will rebuild society in a way that’s more beneficial to them.
+1000 …a definitive tour de force of the state of current Clown World Empire.
I wonder if future empire apologists in the vein of Gibbons will attempt to blame the fall of Clown World Faggot Empire on bad ole’ Christianity.
If you want to really understand what caused the fall of Rome, read it from a Roman who lived it.
“What are kingdoms without justice? They’re just gangs of bandits.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45304/45304-h/45304-h.htm
-flash
Very interesting point. Nobody talks about the financial manipulation of the covid era. It was a bigger bailout than 2008 and also designed to create the inflation the bankers had been hoping for since the 1990s
I betcha they sold weapons and gear out the side door of Afghanistan, AND teamuSA was billed for weapons and gear that was never delivered.
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“Combined with rampant raging central bank created inflation across the world, wars being conducted in breadbasket regions of the globe”
Ding ding ding!
We have another motive for the extended Uke War games.
Shoulder-Fired Missiles Are Ending Up Hands of Cartel Del Golfo in Mexico -VIDEO
Gateway Pundit
It wasn’t widely reported at the time, but after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. Several Billion dollars worth of arms, including new attack helicopters, were brought to Kazakhstan by retreating ANF troops.
Rather than being brought back to the US to upgrade our national guard or even give it to our supposed allies in Kazakhstan, the traitors in the US state department ordered it sent back to be giving to the Taliban,
Ran out of parchment? You did not notice that the demon worshipping Roman Aristocacy did a hostile takeover of Christianity, created the Bible to serve their needs. then made it the only allowable book to read. After that they encouraged their local thugs to break into any and al public or private libraries and burn the books. An educated population is the enemy of tyrants and tyranny.
This article is filled with ignorant assertions about the past and the present, too many to list in this comment. Readers should keep in mind that our current situation is global and what is happening in the US is actually a setup of the takedown of the demon worshipping elite. This article will remind us all that it is easy to mistake the events we witness for something completely differnet than they turn out to be.
The truth about what is going on will blow your mind. Based on whatis written in this story, you may have to spend years in solitude processing how misinformed you have been.
Fuck you asshole. It’s pompous douchebags like you who have fucked up this country. Another blowhard bloviating about their supreme intelligence. Get the fuck off my blog. You’ve now jumped into first place for Village Idiot on TBP.
Fold em homie.
I’ve said far worse to admin, and didnt even get a response. He’s a decent guy. Prolly not someone to fuck with, but idrk.
Thanks for your work Jim, it really is quite good…
It’s just that most of the time, the crowd here is too low-brow. (the irony isn’t lost on me). So I just don’t want to contribute anymore. In any case, some civility and manners would work wonders for this place, in general, but i’ve given up trying to be decent here.
We all appreciate what you do Mr. Quinn- even Dane Arr.
ass kisser 🤣🤣
Fakts is fakts bruhbruh.
If observation of objective fact and appreciation make me an ass kisser…
Ugh. Fuck this place
Just fucken width ya. It’s all good
💯
Traditional roles being abandoned is another cause of empire decline.
Bunch of vapid women on how much a man needs to make.
But what do they bring to the table ?
Short clip :
Hey guys … here is what they are expecting you to bring home in earnings 🔥🔥🔥
Inflation 🚀
twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1664098474822889472?cxt=HHwWgMCz8d-viJguAAAA
Excellent!! My hats off to you for writing meaningful words.
I have to disagree on one point. Ukraine isn’t the most corrupt country on earth. We are. About half the corruption in Ukraine should carry the label “Made in the USA.”
The country is not ours!
Thankyou for bringing up the 6th century dark ages era. The debate remains whether the causes for dimming/cooling were a volcano, a comet/meteor, or both.
“During 536 the world was beset by a long winter. Dubbed “the year of darkness” in the New Scientist , temperatures plummeted and the sun was dimmed by a vast fog which blocked its rays from hitting the earth during 24 hours a day over the course of 18 months. This climate cataclysm affected Europe, the Middle East and even parts of Asia over the course of the following decade. In fact, “this climatic downturn may well have profoundly altered the course of history.” But what caused this global climate cataclysm?”
The important question in all of this is why did it happen? While there are no definite answers for the climate cataclysm of 536, one theory put forward for the worst year in history is that there was a large asteroid or comet impact which landed in the sea (if it had hit land there would be evidence of a crater).
Geologist Dallas Abbott is one proponent of this view and bases his view on evidence that he found studying ice cores from Greenland . However, this wouldn’t explain the dim light of the sun, and no tsunamis have been recorded for this period, which would have occurred if an asteroid landed in the ocean.
Another theory that has been put forward is a gigantic volcanic eruption , as the dust thrown up into the atmosphere could have caused the dimming of the light. One candidate is Krakatoa, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. Indeed, the Pustaka Raja Purwa (meaning “Book of the Ancient Kings”) written in 1869, describes an ancient volcano.
Source:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/climate-cataclysm-001360
This paper is a masterpiece. Well done! Thanks for trying to warn the regular folks. Preparation for what is here and yet to come is critical. The slow death of society is an effective screen. Most humans wait for the big moments to see, otherwise, continue in their blindness.
Deep Shekels fiscally raped the college age kids with non dischargeable, high interest student loans, and when their psyches were totally wrecked by perpetual debt coupled with Deep Shekel promoted mass media filth, they pushed for the mutilation of their bodies, which is simply an attack on the image of God… this is not a morally sound, much less Christian nation, if it ever was.
I would support a American Theocracy 100%. Torquemada did nothing wrong.
PS, fuck a useless Republican… Deep Shekel pwnd, shit eating dogs, one and all.
We already tried a theocracy here – the Puritans of New England- and that didn’t work out well.
Murderous Judaized fanatics were never Christian. Good try , though.
Humanity has always been under a covert theocracy, but definitely not the kind that you have in mind.
Most excellent article. Could be used as a Civics Course in any highschool.
Excellent, excellent article. I thoroughly enjoyed every word and unfortunately every word is true. If anything you made what is coming sound too positive. The New Dark Ages have already begun and we continue to sink farther and farther into Darkness as a nation, as an empire. Keep it up.
Shalom,
CC
History always belongs to the victors.