Orange Ceasar Rises

[Silver]

The people who support Trump worry me more than the incompetent Trump. Is the Republican candidate in 2024 going to be worse? Indications according to the pattern thus far, the answer is an affirmative.

[Rank Stranger]

Trump has every tool he needs to become Orange Mussolini. He's got tens of millions of rabid supporters, a complicit Senate, and a judiciary packed with his appointees. We live in a turn-key police/surveillance state- that infrastructure has been in place for nearly a generation.

The only check on Trump's power is his own incompetence as a leader.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The really fun part is the GOP is afraid he won't quit in 2024 either.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Oh, come on people Trump,s not Cesar. He's freaking Nero. He's an overweight narcissistic crybaby with delusions of grandeur who hates losing And no sense of humanity or decency. It fits like a glove.

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I’m quite cheered by the comparison of Trump to Caesar. After all,

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Boru

Except Nero is a better comparison

Gaius Julius Caesar was an avid statesman and an excellent general (Trump is neither of these things)

Nero was an overweight man child with delusions of grandeur that didn't match his competence, And an insatiable need to be the center of attention. Mixed with authoritarian tendencies and a penchant for excessive cruelty (Trump to a tee)

An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Trump has every tool he needs to become Orange Mussolini.  He's got tens of millions of rabid supporters, a complicit Senate, and a judiciary packed with his appointees.  We live in a turn-key police/surveillance state- that infrastructure has been in place for nearly a generation.

The only check on Trump's power is his own incompetence as a leader.

Incompetent despots who lasted a long time is not scarce in the Caribbean and Central America.   Who said their natural territory does not include north of Rio Grande as well?

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Oh, come on people Trump,s not Cesar. He's freaking Nero. He's an overweight narcissistic crybaby with delusions of grandeur who hates losing And no sense of humanity or decency. It fits like a glove.

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Except Nero is a better comparison

Gaius Julius Caesar was an avid statesman and an excellent general (Trump is neither of these things)

Nero was an overweight man child with delusions of grandeur that didn't match his competence, And an insatiable need to be the center of attention. Mixed with authoritarian tendencies and a penchant for excessive cruelty (Trump to a tee)

An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

Caligula is more apt.    Nero has an appreciation for the arts, commodus is said to be able to fight.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Trump has every tool he needs to become Orange Mussolini.  He's got tens of millions of rabid supporters, a complicit Senate, and a judiciary packed with his appointees.  We live in a turn-key police/surveillance state- that infrastructure has been in place for nearly a generation.

The only check on Trump's power is his own incompetence as a leader.

Incompetent despots who lasted a long time is not scarce in the Caribbean and Central America.   Who said their natural territory does not include north of Rio Grande as well?

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An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

Caligula is more apt.    Nero has an appreciation for the arts, commodus is said to be able to fight.

Caligula gets a lot of bad press he doesn’t deserve. Commodus was ‘said’ to be able to fight. I’m not sure that clubbing bound amputees so he could pretend to be Hercules counts as ‘fighting’.

Boru

[The Architect Of Fate]

Oh, come on people Trump,s not Cesar. He's freaking Nero. He's an overweight narcissistic crybaby with delusions of grandeur who hates losing And no sense of humanity or decency. It fits like a glove.

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Except Nero is a better comparison

Gaius Julius Caesar was an avid statesman and an excellent general (Trump is neither of these things)

Nero was an overweight man child with delusions of grandeur that didn't match his competence, And an insatiable need to be the center of attention. Mixed with authoritarian tendencies and a penchant for excessive cruelty (Trump to a tee)

An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

Commodus was a good fighter though. Trump couldn't whip cream.

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Incompetent despots who lasted a long time is not scarce in the Caribbean and Central America.   Who said their natural territory does not include north of Rio Grande as well?

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Caligula is more apt.    Nero has an appreciation for the arts, commodus is said to be able to fight.

Caligula gets a lot of bad press he doesn’t deserve. Commodus was ‘said’ to be able to fight. I’m not sure that clubbing bound amputees so he could pretend to be Hercules counts as ‘fighting’.

Boru

Umm he actually real opponents

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Trump has every tool he needs to become Orange Mussolini.  He's got tens of millions of rabid supporters, a complicit Senate, and a judiciary packed with his appointees.  We live in a turn-key police/surveillance state- that infrastructure has been in place for nearly a generation.

The only check on Trump's power is his own incompetence as a leader.

Incompetent despots who lasted a long time is not scarce in the Caribbean and Central America.   Who said their natural territory does not include north of Rio Grande as well?

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An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

Caligula is more apt.    Nero has an appreciation for the arts, commodus is said to be able to fight.

Caligula appreciated art

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

An even better comparison, apart from the morbid obesity, would be Commodus.

Boru

Commodus was a good fighter though. Trump couldn't whip cream.

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Caligula gets a lot of bad press he doesn’t deserve. Commodus was ‘said’ to be able to fight. I’m not sure that clubbing bound amputees so he could pretend to be Hercules counts as ‘fighting’.

Boru

Umm he actually real opponents

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Incompetent despots who lasted a long time is not scarce in the Caribbean and Central America.   Who said their natural territory does not include north of Rio Grande as well?

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Caligula is more apt.    Nero has an appreciation for the arts, commodus is said to be able to fight.

Caligula appreciated art

From the Wikipedia entry on Commodus:

Commodus' opponents always submitted to the emperor; as a result he never lost. Commodus never killed his gladiatorial adversaries, instead accepting their surrenders. His victories were often welcomed by his bested opponents, as bearing scars dealt by the hand of an Emperor was considered a mark of fortitude.[32] Citizens of Rome missing their feet through accident or illness were taken to the arena, where they were tethered together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.Privately, it was also his custom to kill his opponents during practice matches.

Colour me less than impressed.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

I mean..it does sound like he had alot of practice killing. Probably better at it than either of us.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Commodus was a good fighter though. Trump couldn't whip cream.

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Umm he actually real opponents

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Caligula appreciated art

From the Wikipedia entry on Commodus:

Commodus' opponents always submitted to the emperor; as a result he never lost. Commodus never killed his gladiatorial adversaries, instead accepting their surrenders. His victories were often welcomed by his bested opponents, as bearing scars dealt by the hand of an Emperor was considered a mark of fortitude.[32] Citizens of Rome missing their feet through accident or illness were taken to the arena, where they were tethered together for Commodus to club to death while pretending they were giants.Privately, it was also his custom to kill his opponents during practice matches.

Colour me less than impressed.

Boru

Well he was a better fighter then Trump I would wager