(November 11, 2020 at 2:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(November 11, 2020 at 12:51 pm)Rank Stranger Wrote: 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?
(November 11, 2020 at 2:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
