Traditional Catholics believe that the EU fulfills the role of the beast that “is not and yet to come” aka the return of pagan Rome. I was curious to see if the pagan Roman Empire shared the same problems we had today and found some interesting similarities.
One of the first things I found was that Rome also had a crossdressing cult which was represented by a massive black rock. In modern times, sodomite and crossdressers are promoted in media, product, and services, by funding from Black Rock, a massive investment company.
In the 3rd century BC, during Rome’s wars against Carthage, the cult of Cybele made a dramatic entrance into Rome. Her cult icon, a massive black rock was accompanied from Pergamon (in modern Turkey) by her priests.
The Galli were priests in the cult of the goddess Cybele. They may have been devoted specifically to her consort Attis, who had castrated himself in a fit of divine frenzy. On initiation to the cult the Galli also castrated themselves, and afterwards dressed exclusively in women’s clothing. They therefore occupied an ambiguous space in Roman notions of gender that many modern transgender and nonbinary people have identified with.
Also just as America is experiencing a counter culture push against wokeness under a significant leader, Rome also experienced the same under a significant leader and began to oppose this cult.
However, attitudes towards the Galli changed in the early Empire. Under the rule of Augustus, there was a massive expansion of Roman territory. Many new peoples came to Rome and became citizens, heightening concerns about Roman identity and masculinity. The Galli became more visible inside Rome after Augustus’ rebuilding of the Magna Mater’s temple in AD 3, which made the cult more accessible to Roman citizens. From being a curiosity, they became a threat.
Another similarity is the border crisis and influx of foreigners. A fact that I did not know until recently is that foreigners were allowed into the Roman Empire after being displaced by war.
376, the Goths, led by Alavivus and Fritigern, asked to be allowed to settle in the Eastern Roman Empire after being displaced by the invasions of the Huns. Hoping that they would become farmers and soldiers, the Eastern Roman emperor Valens allowed them to establish themselves in the Empire as allies (foederati).
Both the US and EU are being invaded, looted, and plundered by foreigners. While the Goths formed armies against Rome, modern day barbarians steal the wealth of our nations through fraud and corruption. But are we nearing a time where foreigners could lead a violent revolt against us, form armies, and sack our cities much like the Goth chose to do against Rome?
I would say that such a scenario is not far stretched.
But no more after Monday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott recently decided in ordering his Texas military force and state police to retake “Fronton Island” by force and to hold it, come what may.
When the invasion pep talk ended and the sun was spreading orange rays of light, dozens of heavily armed men, including some military special forces personnel who refused to be photographed, boarded roaring convoys of all-terrain vehicles and invaded Fronton Island.
With police drones scouting the brush ahead for gunmen, they ground through mud left by a rare overnight rainfall. The officers were sweating from humidity, body armor, and stress, trying to familiarize themselves with the island where many will spend their future shifts for months or even years to come. Depending.
The idea was for these vanguards to secure Fronton Island enough now to have Texas National Guard engineers go in with heavy earth-moving machinery to completely denude its thick, covering blanket of vegetation, fortify its newly barren length with concertina wire, and deny its future use to these cartels by force of arms. It is the third and largest Rio Grande island that Texas has seized in 2023. The earlier two were taken in the Eagle Pass area, mainly to deny their use by illegal immigrants.
Although in this operation the cartels retreated before the military’s arrival, the question still remains of what will happen when the tens of millions of foreigners within America grow increasingly hostile and decide they would rather loot than leave. Like the Roman Empire, America allows foreigners in its military and recently a foreign service member was responsible for a major terror attack in New Orleans.
In Europe the foreigners are already in open revolt as they riot and commit terrorism against Europeans while forming their own enclaves within European cities. I find it interesting that the so called “grievances” were the same entitlement shared by the Goths before they revolted and killed those that gave them shelter.
Goths
Once across the Danube and into Roman territory, however, the dishonesty of the Roman provincial commanders Lupicinus and Maximus led the newcomers to revolt after suffering many hardships.
Muzzies
Where young adults can’t find either work or educational opportunities they instead find each other. Roving gangs are a significant issue. They blame their “captors” for their living conditions, not the fact that, at some point, they or their families boarded a boat and entered the country illegally. No-go zones are full of young people who now believe their new country “owes” them a living wage, medical care, food, and education.
The truth is that these no-go zones are dangerous places. Many of these migrants are used to Sharia law as a governance system. Unsurprisingly, they return to what they know for solutions in such living conditions. Having ghettos that are being ruled not by a nation-state but by a traditional religious sect is a recipe for disaster. How long before true civil war will break out in these regions?
And lastly, both the pagan Roman Empire and America has a bloated bureaucracy and a welfare state where citizens care not for their rights.
The Roman populace was no longer in a mood to fight for its constitutional liberties; it was lulled to sleep by the time-honored method: Panem et circenses. So long as it received free food at public expense, and elaborate games and spectacles, it ceased to concern itself with public affairs.
Private initiative disappeared; more and more the all-powerful imperial government was expected to look after everyone and attend to everything. This was beyond the power even of such a noble figure as the philosopher on the throne, Marcus Aurelius; and few Emperors approached Marcus Aurelius in virtue and wisdom. The Decline and Fall may be interpreted as a process of the atrophy of the individual creative faculty under the enervating influence of a state which went the inevitable way of unlimited power and became constantly more absolutist.
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By providing a basic food supply, the Dole allowed the urban poor to survive in the city without engaging in agricultural labor.
This dynamic helped sustain a large urban population, which was crucial for the functioning of the imperial capital.
The Dole also had the unintended consequence of creating a dependency on state-provided food, limiting the development of a more diverse urban economy.
Its almost like these problems faced by both Rome and our nations are tried and true methods of destroying society.
The announcement of Grok 3 had me wondering if they would deploy AI to replace the employees purged from the government. Apparently the answer was not only a solid yes but the effort to have “AI governance” is a unified, global effort pushed by WEF for 2025. Also see state.gov.
Not only has the US established “AI officers” to oversee the implementation of AI but the stated purpose of DOGE was to “modernize” US digital infrastructure.
Section 4a:
The USDS Administrator shall commence a Software Modernization Initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology (IT) systems. Among other things, the USDS Administrator shall work with Agency Heads to promote inter-operability between agency networks and systems, ensure data integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection and synchronization.
It was also not created as a new organization. Instead the United States Digital Service was renamed DOGE while a second temporary organization was created within DOGE/USDS called U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization. There is not one but two DOGE organizations, the USDS and the temporary one set to expire on July 4th, 2026.
Section 3a:
The United States Digital Service is hereby publicly renamed as the United States DOGE Service (USDS) and shall be established in the Executive Office of the President.
Section 3b:
There is further established within USDS, in accordance with section 3161 of title 5, United States Code, a temporary organization known as “the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization”. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization shall be headed by the USDS Administrator and shall be dedicated to advancing the President’s 18-month DOGE agenda. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization shall terminate on July 4, 2026. The termination of the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization shall not be interpreted to imply the termination, attenuation, or amendment of any other authority or provision of this order.
And just recently, an plans were made to automate functions within the federal government using AI.
Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer recently appointed as director of TTS, outlined broad plans to implement AI across the federal government as a tool to automate tasks, write code and combine systems across agencies.
Meanwhile OpenAI, which is part of Trump’s Stargate program, announced ChatGPT Gov. Microsoft also announced multiple AI projects for government use.
During the illegal lockdowns, Google tested virtual government agents in Illinois.
Last and likely the worse part so far, big tech companies are involved in intelligence, surveillance, and combat using AI. One of the most eye opening parts is in one of the articles from the previous link.
We needed to figure out a way to get around those refusals in order to act. Because if you’re a military officer and you’re trying to do something, even in an exercise, and it responds with ‘You should seek a diplomatic solution,’ you will get very upset. You slam the laptop closed,” he said.
“So we needed to find a way to minimize those refusals and ensure that it is not only doing that, but also answering the tone that would be useful — because if it’s like this very informal social media-type tone, it doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in its response,” he said.
That reveals how insane it is to allow AI to automate government functions. Hundreds or thousands can be replaced by a single program that has no moral compass or sense of duty. It can be tweaked to be weaponized against humans or target specific groups without question.
I believe this is the ultimate objective of DOGE and why low level employees are being sacrificed because they have knowledge on fraud and subversion and they are replaceable by software. A new digital surveillance state is being built using AI where the most bigoted adherent of the party is the machine.
Trump recently passed EO called Additional Measures to Combat Antisemitism which orders the government to begin charging citizens for antisemitism.
It’s incredibly tyrannical because Section 3(c) gives the Marxist government the power to use 18 U.S.C. 241 which allows them to arrest you for saying things that may oppress or intimidate Jews.
The Attorney General is encouraged to employ appropriate civil-rights enforcement authorities, such as 18 U.S.C. 241, to combat anti-Semitism.
The legal definition of intimidation is an act that causes a person to be fearful or feel endangered. 18 U.S.C. 241 criminalizes speech between people that may cause a person to feel intimidated when exercising their civil rights without said person being present.
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same
But this EO is not about civil rights, it’s about anti-semitism and using this law to combat what the US perceives to be anti-Semitic. According to the Department of State, antisemitism is:
Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities
Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to **blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms ** and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.
Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.
Using this law to combat “antisemitism” is criminalizing speech that may offend a Jew even if the Jew is not present to hear you. It applies fines and up to ten years in jail.
Note, it also targets “disguises”.
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege
Per the EO, this outlaws any disguise or organized movement that may be deemed “antisemitic” or used to participate in activities that offends a Jew.
In the same section, the EO calls for institutions to report students so that they may be removed if they are aliens.
shall include in their reports recommendations for familiarizing institutions of higher education with the grounds for inadmissibility under 8 U.S. Code § 1182 so that such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens.
The law concerns aliens with a health risk or guilty of a crime (drug dealers, traffickers, committing misdemeanors and felonies, etc.) not the act of protesting or making a political statement. Yet the EO demands this law be used to “combat antisemitism”.
Considering that the US defines antisemitism as statements, images, and stereotypes about Jews, this EO effectively criminalizes speech and free assembly that they don’t like whereas previous antisemitism laws were modifiers of an existing crime.
Earlier today I saw a video of a Chinese taxi driver reporting tourists to the authorities because they said something that the CCP wouldn’t like. The driver claimed he was “fearful” because they asked him what he thought about the CCP. I wondered how long before we reach that point, seems I got my answer.
Merely insinuating that the banks are owned by one group or that there is a global cabal could be seen as antisemitic and thus, like the Chinese, you will be reported or arrested for saying the wrong things.
The question now is, will it be enforced?
