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PATRICK

(12,409 posts)
8. Nero's Colossus
Mon May 11, 2026, 02:30 PM
22 hrs ago

Nero's bronze was a bit shorter than the Statue of Liberty with eventually a spiked crown of glory. I had one of those factoids rattling around that the people had toppled this statue, but not so. The worst damage was that this statue(moved by scores of elephants in 120 AD from the center of Nero's private villa gigantically built over the ruins of the great fire) was Commodus replacing the head for his own. It stood outside the Coliseum, named probably for the statue, for hundreds of years and now only its base remains.

The hand too is raised. Modern style the fist and raised head is defiant personal power. After a while it no longer needed protection. Despite history written by Nero's enemies he held some popularity and a valuable monument was adopted by "tradition". Not even Christians destroyed this equivalent of Circus Auschwitz. However, America is really too stupid to put up with this joking horror show? Trump is dumber than Nero, less successful, less opposed by dangerous enemies, a worse narcissist, OLDER and rotting, a worse entertainer, a bigger tool for elites and foreign interests, a partner not a destroyer of Israel, a perverted subverter not a scape-goater of Christians. Very likely a bigger coward and greedier too. Nero- who was identified by the Book of Revelation as the Antichrist, or symbol thereof.

The CINOs surrounding our god Emperor are bigger suck-ups than the Vestal Virgins, and Jesus is not amused.

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