Hannibal ad portas

Listening to Dr. Patrick Wyman's "The Fall of Rome" podcast (Ep2). In describing the 'barbarians', he reminds us that the homogenization of this diverse group is foolish and often leads to horribly wrong conclusions.

This reminds me of conversations recently about illegal immigration in this country. Is it wrong to group all illegal immigrants into one category? Of course it is. Each individual cannot represent the whole, nor the whole the individual.

Similarly, the same could be said for the European colonization of the Americas. No individual's act caused the death of thousands of native indians. Just as you cannot place blame at the feet of a single band of barbarians for the destruction of the Roman Empire, you cannot blame any one group for the decimation of the american indians.

So it is equally wrong to blame all illegal immigrants for the despicable actions of some.

But in saying that, it was still the barbarians who sacked Rome.

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The Fall of Rome Podcast By Patrick Wyman

Bill Clinton and Donald Trump - a tale of two reactions

Bill Clinton (x22)

Person - Allegation
Date of event - Date of allegation - Waited (years)
Proof / Hearsay

Eileen Wellston - Sexual assault in Oxford
1969 - 1969 - 0
Hearsay of accuser, of Clinton claiming consensual, and of State Department employee who investigated

Unnamed woman at Yale - Sexual assault
1972 - Never - n/a
Hearsay of campus policeman and of the accuser

Unamed student at Univeristy of Arkansas - Sexual assault
1974 - 1974 - 0
Hearsay of accuser and of Clinton claiming consensual

Juanita Broaddrick - Raped her in her hotel room
1970 - 1999 - 29
Hearsay of accuser

Dolly Kyle Browning - 17 year affair
1975 - 1998 - 23
Written declaration to Paula Jones's lawyers

"Troopergate" - Multiple sexual affairs or assaults*
1978 - 1994 - 16
Hearsay of an article written by two Arkansas state troopers

*Regina Blakely Hopper
~1978 - 1997 - 19
Hearsay of former Arkansas state trooper L.D. Brown

*Robyn Dickey
~1978 - 1997 -  19
Hearsay of former Arkansas state trooper L.D. Brown

*Lencola Sullivan
~1978 - 1997 -  19
Hearsay of former Arkansas state trooper L.D. Brown

Carolyn Moffet - Sexual assault at his hotel
1979 - ? - ?
Hearsay

Leslie Milwee - Three sexual assaults
1980 - 2011 - 31
Hearsay;

Elizabeth Ward Gracen - One-night stand
1982 - 1992 - 10
Recanted

Sally Miller-Perdue - Affair
1983 - 1994 - 9
Hearsay

Connie Hamzy - Attempted one night stand
1984 - 1991 - 7
Hearsay; alternate story told by George Stephanopoulos

*Becky Brown - Sexual harassment
1985 - 1997 - 12
Hearsay of former Arkansas state trooper and husband L.D. Brown

Helen Dowdy - Groped at a wedding
1986 - 2000 - 14
Hearsay

Paula Jones - Propositioned and exposed himself to her in his hotel room
1991 - 1994 - 3
Lawsuit settled; Bill Clinton stripped of law license

Sandra Allen James - Sexual assault in his hotel room
1991 - 1999 - 8
Hearsay

Gennifer Flowers - 12 year affair
1992 - 1977 - 15
Bill's admission under oath

Christy Zercher - Sexual assault on plan
1992 - 1998 - 6
Hearsay

Kathleen Willey - Groped her in the Oval Office
1993 - 1998 - 5
Hearsay of accuser and of Linda Tripp

Monica Lewinsky - 2 year affair
1995 - 1998 - 3
Blue dress

Bonus - "Lolita Express and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein"


Reaction to Bill Clinton's accusations:
“Censure President Clinton and Move On to Pressing Issues Facing the Nation” - moveon.org

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Donald Trump (x13)

Jessica Leeds - Sexually assaulted on a plane
1980's - 2016 - 36
Hearsay

Kristin Anderson - Groped at The China Club
1990's - 2016 - 26
Hearsay

Jill Harth - Attempted rape at Mar-a-lago
1993 - 1997 - 4
Lawsuit dropped by Harth

"Jane Doe" - Statutory rape at party of Jeffrey Epstein (see Bill Clinton and "Lolita Express", above)
1994 - 2016 - 22
Hearsay of accuser and two unnamed persons

Temple Taggart McDowell - Sexual assault
1997 - 2016 - 19
Hearsay

Karena Virginia - Sexual assault ("grabbed my right arm, then his hand touched the right inside of my breast")
1998 - 2016 - 18
Hearsay

Mindy McGillivray - Groped at Mar-a-lago
2003 - 2016 - 13
Hearsay

Rachel Crooks - Elevator at Trump Tower
2005 - 2016 - 11
Hearsay

Natasha Stoynoff - Sexual assault at Mar-a-lago
2005 - 2016 - 11
Hearsay

Summer Zervos - Sexual assault
2005 - 2016 - 11
Hearsay

Jessica Drake - Sexual assault
2006 - 2016 - 10
Hearsay

Unnamed friend of Erin Burnett - Sexual assault
2010 - 2016 - 6
Hearsay by Erin Burnett

Cassandra Searles - Sexual assault
2013 - 2016 - 3
Hearsay

Reaction to Donald Trump's accusations:
"He is the worst person ever!"

everyone they don't like is Hitler

Positions actually held by Adolf Hitler

1. Was a socialist, as in the National Socialist German Workers' Party, a.k.a. Nazis.
2. Expressly targeted those with wealth, such as bankers.
3. Increased government funded programs, such as infrastructure, to spur economic growth.
4. Created job programs.
5. Made a national healthcare and unemployment insurance program. This ran huge deficits.
6. Enacted sweeping gun control. Used gun registry to identify and remove dissidents.
7. Pro-abortion, primarily for eugenics.
8. Believed that the raising of children was a social responsibility of the state, and not the individual.
9. Turned the populace against the 1%.
10. Stoked the flames of racial animosity.
11. Wanted universal participation in "service".
12. Controlled media.

Positions held by Donald Trump

1. Pure capitalist.
2. Is wealthy, himself. He wants to lower taxes on the wealthy to spur growth.
3. Believes companies spur economic growth, independent from government.
4. Independent companies are job programs, themselves. Allowing them to grow unfettered provides jobs.
5. Wants to reduce the size of national healthcare while expanding the markets of private insurers, such as allowing them to compete across state boundaries.
6. Ambivalent on gun control.
7. Pro-abortion.
8. Raising children is the responsibility of the parents.
9. Is part of the 1%.
10. Also stoked the flames of racial animosity.
11. No interest in service programs.
12. Media has been doing everything it can to defeat him. Zero major news outlets have endorsed him.

Positions held by Hillary Clinton

1. Is a socialist by her party platform, her political positions, and her social values. She even has owned the mantle of a "Progressive", which is another name for socialist.
2. Expressly targets those with wealth, such as corporations.
3. Wants to increase government funded programs, such as infrastructure, to spur economic growth.
4. Wants to create job programs.
5. Will increase the coverage of the current national healthcare program, which is already running deficits.
6. Praises gun confiscation policies of other nations, and wants more gun restrictions in the US. Wants a complete gun registry.
7. Pro-abortion. Admires Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who was a firm proponent of eugenics.
8. "It takes a village."
9. Turns the populace against the 1%.
10. Also stokes the flames of racial animosity.
11. Pushes for national service.
12. Majority of media are Democrats. All major news outlets have endorsed her.