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Thomas V. Ward retweeted
The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.
That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.
Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.
About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.
None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.
When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.
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🚨 JUST IN: The full Florida legislature is about to vote on PASSING Gov. Ron DeSantis' abolishment of property taxes for most primary homeowners
The homestead exemption is SWIFTLY raised to $250,000 and scheduled for full termination 🔥
DeSantis says Florida has so many funds they can create a STATE TRUST FUND for police, fire, etc. at the local level
Other states are also looking at property tax relief
MAKE IT A NATIONAL TREND! 🇺🇸
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The warmest and happiest congratulations to our fourth cohort, who graduated from their MA in the Humanities this weekend, receiving their degrees by the hand of our new Chancellor, Dr Iain McGilchrist.
(Full picture gallery to follow soon!)
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🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett demands term limits after Sen. Mitch McConnell looks SHOCKED when he's asked, "Why are you blocking the SAVE America Act?"
BURCHETT: "Pass the Save America Act and then let’s talk about some Term Limits."
He's right.
GET OUT OF THE WAY and PASS election integrity! 🇺🇸
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Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!
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BREAKING 🅱️:
Chuck Schumer just openly admitted the plan…
Chuck Schumer says Democrats will reverse DOGE cuts if they win.
If Democrats take the House/Senate in 2026, they will ROLL BACK EVERY SINGLE DOGE CUT Trump puts in place — 100% of it.
No “compromise.” No “review.”
Just restore the waste. Restore the grift.
The Senate GOP has ONE job: GET TOUGH.
✅ Nuke the filibuster
✅ Lock the cuts into law
✅ Make it IMPOSSIBLE for Dems to undo it later
It’s official: A vote for Democrats, is a vote for waste, fraud, abuse, & theft of our tax dollars. Minneapolis on steroids. Nationwide fraud & money laundering.
They’re telling you exactly who they are.
Remember this in November.
Now Republicans need to act like it. 🇺🇸🔥
Thoughts......??👀
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏
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"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again."
— Thomas Sowell
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.@SecArmy , let me know if you need my corpsman’s information. Always happy to help the Army patch up after Saturday.
GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY!
@USNavy @USMC @NavalAcademy
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President Donald J. Trump welcomes the elite Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon to the Oval Office, personally presenting each member with a Presidential Challenge Coin. 🇺🇸
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Yes, the demonic is VERY real. After having my miraculous conversion to Christ at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass I was attacked not only in my dreams but would wake up and my body would be in pain and sore from what they did to me in my sleep.
This took place for nearly 4 months straight after experiencing the love of Christ at Mass, and deciding to become Catholic and start catechism.
Oddly, it did not disturb my belief in God, it only made my resolve to chase after Him stronger.
Prior to the overt demonic attacks, I had no clue just how real the demonic was. Thankfully, I was in the hands of good traditional priests who did not waver and who guided me through how to manage.
My priest gave me a prayer regiment, including the rosary, and we quickly worked to root out all mortal sin from my life. Even though I couldn’t confess yet, the church still provided her guidance and it worked.
A priest in the traditional rite came and blessed my home, I was given blessed salt and Holy water to sprinkle on myself and around the edges of my apartment, window seals, and under my bed. I went to sleep every night holding a blessed crucifix and with a rosary around my neck.
For a while the attacks were brutal. My body physically being assaulted but when trying to scream, I couldn’t get any words to come out. My two cats at the time had a hard time too.
Upon waking up from these dreams, body hurting, and feeling terrified, my cats would be hissing at random corners of the room. Things I couldn’t see but perhaps they could obviously sense. I did what Padre Pio did when that happened though — I would immediately grab my rosary and begin to pray it.
The demons hate Our Lady. Every time I prayed my rosary they would flee immediately.
The more I prayed and did what my priests told me to do, along with the house blessing and the sacramentals, the dreams started to get weaker and weaker. Until finally I would only experience them on the 13th and the 27th of every month like clockwork for 3 months starting in May 2023….. and always between the hours of 3:00am-3:30am.
The last dream I had of them, ended with Our Lady showing up out of nowhere and all the demons that were chasing me immediately evaporated. Then St Joseph appeared to me and told me that the world has no idea how powerful the intercession of Our Lady is…. Then I woke up.
Demons are real.
But Our Lady crushes the head of the serpent. Pray your rosary, become Catholic, receive the sacraments….
There is only one true church, one true God, and one Truth.
True Story: I had a dark nightmare recently. The landline phone next to my bedside table rang, and it was some type of demon who said, “I’m in your basement.” I sprung up from the bed, unable to determine if that really happened or if I was dreaming. For a full 15 seconds, my hands ran alongside the blanket to try to see if this was reality or still that nightmare. I looked at the bedside, and there was no landline phone, and only then did I realize it was just a dream. Whatever that voice was, it was the most haunting tone of voice I’ve ever heard in my life.
This dream occurred early in the morning, September 10th, 330am.
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Christians! Head to the polls today.
Vote to keep God in America.
Vote President Trump.
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Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!
Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.
The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!
Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.
America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.
The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.
Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.
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“Philosophy and theology must listen to each other. Only thus will theology remain grounded in the Word, and philosophy not lose itself in speculation.”
~ Joseph Ratzinger, )Introduction to Christianity)
