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Trump's more like Nero than Caligula. Except where Nero thought himself a brilliant artist Trump thinks himself a brilliant businessman.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Nurture, not nature. Like the songs says, "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught". The pinhead brigade in America is never short of members. All it takes twenty-five years of talk radio telling them "She's a Witch! A Witch, I Say!" and they get accustomed to it and it becomes their reality.
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Yes, how could they not realize that Hillary is a modern-day saint walking on air above us mere mortals?
 
TragicMonkey said:
Trump's more like Nero than Caligula. Except where Nero thought himself a brilliant artist Trump thinks himself a brilliant businessman.
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It is brilliant, in a sense, to still be living high on the hog after having lost 1.17 billion in 10 consecutive years.

In another sense it is an indictment of the world banking system and supporting evidence for the estimate that 10% of bank CEO's are psychopaths.
 
Craig4 said:
Caligula had sex with his sisters and Trump's comments lead one to believe that they both have the incest thing in common.
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It's not certain Caligula actually did a quarter of the things he's famous for. A great deal of what we remember about him was rumor spread by his enemies (after he was safely dead). Unpopular historical figures tend to collect legends; as a general rule, the more hated the person and the more outrageous the story, the less likely it is to have been actually true.

The Romans were particularly fond of gossip and slander against their political enemies. Take with a grain of salt the legends around Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla, and Heliogabalus. They were likely more Kennedys than Targaryens when it comes to monstrous behavior.
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Toontown said:
It is brilliant, in a sense, to still be living high on the hog after having lost 1.17 billion in 10 consecutive years.

In another sense it is an indictment of the world banking system and supporting evidence for the estimate that 10% of bank CEO's are psychopaths.
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You'd think the IRS would question "no visible means of support" with returns like Trump's.
 
TragicMonkey said:
[Historical nitpick]
It's not certain Caligula actually did a quarter of the things he's famous for. A great deal of what we remember about him was rumor spread by his enemies (after he was safely dead). Unpopular historical figures tend to collect legends; as a general rule, the more hated the person and the more outrageous the story, the less likely it is to have been actually true.

The Romans were particularly fond of gossip and slander against their political enemies. Take with a grain of salt the legends around Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla, and Heliogabalus. They were likely more Kennedys than Targaryens when it comes to monstrous behavior.
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No way!

Bob Guccione's movie wasn't a documentary?
 
Brainster said:
Yes, how could they not realize that Hillary is a modern-day saint walking on air above us mere mortals?
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I think you left out "So,..."

Total strawman! Do you not read other people's posts? I'm the last person of your loyal opposition to be thought to be a Hillary worshipper. This is a favorite conservative ploy. The irony is that no one actually thought/thinks that Hillary was beyond criticism or the Obama was really the "new messiah", although often accused of those beliefs. Yet, the uber conservatives are actually goose-stepping around bund rallies saying "Heil Trump!" and y'all don't notice or fall back on the "isolate nuts" theory of hand-waving.
 
Foolmewunz said:
I think you left out "So,..."

Total strawman! Do you not read other people's posts? I'm the last person of your loyal opposition to be thought to be a Hillary worshipper.
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So people might have other reasons for hating Hillary other than being brainwashed by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh?
 
TragicMonkey said:
[Historical nitpick]
It's not certain Caligula actually did a quarter of the things he's famous for. A great deal of what we remember about him was rumor spread by his enemies (after he was safely dead). Unpopular historical figures tend to collect legends; as a general rule, the more hated the person and the more outrageous the story, the less likely it is to have been actually true.

The Romans were particularly fond of gossip and slander against their political enemies. Take with a grain of salt the legends around Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla, and Heliogabalus. They were likely more Kennedys than Targaryens when it comes to monstrous behavior.
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Oh, I know. It's entirely possible Caligula's (actually his name was Gaius, Caligula just means "little boots" which is what his father Germanicus's soldiers called him when he was a boy growing up in Roman army camps) main problem was having hostile biographers.

The mention of the name and Trump's comments about his daughters just made it too good a cheap shot not to take.
 
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