As I mentioned yesterday, this particular stretch of the year is great for oddball made-up holidays. Today is, of course, Caesar Stabbification Day, in which the legendary Roman general and dictator failed to heed the words of the soothsayer, and went to the Senate to attend to matters of state, only to die of a severe ferrous metals overdose.
Apart from being a seminal moment in history, it also gave us one of the most epic IRON MAIDEN instrumental pieces of all time:
However, this particular Ides of March has some sinister overtones. It will take me a moment to explain why, so bear with me.
When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and took power in Rome, he did so at a time of severe internal crisis within the Roman Republic. That crisis had been building up for the better part of 200 years, due to the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the unaccountable patrician elites. The ordinary Roman people saw their lot grow ever worse, while the elites got ever richer and fatter.
Caesar was an immensely charismatic and powerful force of nature, to be sure. But he could not have done what he did, without the groundwork laid by the abortive (and failed) attempt of the Gracchus Brothers to rectify the severe power imbalances in Roman society; the Marian Reforms that created a true professional army, and also transferred the loyalties of the legions to their commanding generals, instead of the Senate; and the dictatorship of Sulla.
All of these factors came together to create a moment ripe for a man of Caesar’s power and immense charisma to take over. And he cemented his power through hugely popular (among the plebians) land reforms.
However, it was those very same reforms that threatened the power and wealth of the entrenched Senatorial elites, and that, ultimately, was a big part of the reason why they straight-up MURDERISED him.
The parallels to a certain Orange Boi in today’s political environment, in the FUSA, are too strong to overlook.
His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, came to power on the basis of returning ultimate authority on the future of the American Republic, to the American people. In this, he was only mildly successful. The size and scope of the task was far too great for him – as it would be for ANY man.
He had to fight against the entrenched power of the Washington elites the entire way. We now know that almost every order he gave, whether it was about the southern border, the economy, foreign policy, or America’s “savage wars of peace”, was sabotaged by his own people. The US military’s chain of command, in particular, committed extraordinarily egregious offences against him – former CJCS Gen. Mark Milley arguably committed treason by calling up his Chinese counterpart after a Trump speech, to assure him that he, Milley, would warn the Chinese directly in the event of a war breaking out.
Orange Boi did himself absolutely no favours by taking credit for the clot-shots, when the Coof started. And, due to his instinct to negotiate rather than fight, he FAILED utterly to do what was necessary and save the Republic, by declaring martial law during the summer of 2020. (One can reasonably argue that he would never have succeeded, anyway, given the refusals of multiple levels of the American government, from the military on down to the state governors, to obey his authority.)
Trump paid a severe and terrible price for his lack of wisdom, foresight, and nerve. He will continue to pay it in future, because all indications are thus far that he has not actually learned very much from his first term.
I am on the record as stating firmly that I do not believe he will ever win a second term. I persist in that belief, despite his crushing victories over everyone else in the Republicuck field, and despite his 2-9 point lead over Brandon in the polls, because I understand one thing very well:
In a dumbocracy, especially in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial dumbocracy, like the one the FUSA has today, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHOM YOU VOTE FOR – it only matters WHO COUNTS THE VOTES.
More than that, we have it on pretty good authority, from none other than the French President, Macaroni the Gay Frog, that Trump simply will not be allowed to win a second term:
And that tells you everything you need to know.
One way or another, the Ides of March are coming for President Trump. I do not write this with any happiness. Trump represented the last, best hope for Amerikhastan to find some way to make the coming collapse a peaceful one, with a return to some sort of American greatness. That chance is now well and truly GONE, and it will never return.
God’s righteous wrath and judgement are upon the FUSA. There is no question of this fact – all you have to do is look around. It WILL collapse, and it WILL dissolve into strife and open war of a kind Americans simply cannot imagine. The social and moral fabric of America is too decayed, too worn, to survive the calamitous loss of its overseas empire.
And do you want to know the great and terrible irony in all of this? It is the fact that the only people anywhere on Earth, who know what it is like to lose an empire in living memory, and who know what it takes to rebuild a strong and free sovereign nation out of the ashes, are the very people America insists on pissing off and fighting against.
That would be the Russians. They are the only ones who truly understand what is coming for America. And they, in their own dour and steadfast way, feel great sorrow for that fact.
Anyway, enough dime-store philosophy – let’s get to the real reason you clicked on this poast.
This week’s lovely lady is Heloise Hut, age 22 or 24 – it’s difficult to be sure – from Clownipornia, Amerikhastan. She does real-life modelling and TikTokery, along with other assorted Zoomerist things.
Happy Friday, y’all, and enjoy your weekends.
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Fellow traveler Dark Herald has an excellent piece on Cleopatra that also goes into a lot of great detail on both Caesar and the conflict among the Second Triumvirate.
https://arkhavencomics.com/2021/10/09/cleopatra-a-nationalist-heroine/
Also, LOL
https://x.com/MoseyDm/status/1768687850961154500?s=20
I don’t listen to recriminations of Trump not ‘crossing the Rubicon’.
Caesar had loyal troops at his back. Trump didn’t want to be a warlord, he wanted to turn around a failing business. In the context of America retaining its WRC status and the economic power to justify it, that’s exactly what the USA needed.
What these people refuse to understand is that Trump was THEIR last chance.
IMHO