To do my part in the War on Christmas: Happy Holidays everyone!
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A century and a half after Tiberius, Commodus managed to enjoy playing a gladiator for a dozen years by foisting administration of Rome to a succession of lieutenants whose servility to him was matched only by their cruelty to everyone else. Whenever the government’s popularity flagged, he’d throw them to the mob. Although he remained popular with the common people, his bloodlust provoked a final, successful assassination plot.
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I’ve been hearing it from mixed families who aren’t even undocumented, just afraid for their spouses and children who obviously look different.
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Remember Daniel Schorr’s commentaries on NPR? He was a steady voice for at a couple of decades there – it isn’t surprising to see his name on the Nixon enemies list. Bernstein, though? Both the Nixon and Patel lists are clearly more about wounded egos than actual political strategy.
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Nixon was a President who became a criminal. Trump is a criminal who became President.
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Can’t wait to see how the right-wing propaganda-addled members of the Supreme Court thread the needle so that Biden’s commutations don’t count. Feels like they’d crawl over broken glass just to pull the lever for the electric chair.
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Yep. Feature, not a bug. This is a way of trying to achieve ethnic cleansing of “their” neighborhoods of all brown people, even citizens, and it will be used as a way of creating a sort of “Sundown Town” effect.
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Nixon entered office already as a criminal, for one, his treasonous secret communications with the South Vietnamese government in the fall '68, as LBJ had always suspected.
Nixon was never impeached; “run out of town” is more-or-less true, when the Republican Congressional leadership informed Nixon that he only had a handful of acquittal votes in the Senate, not even close to 33 needed. The Articles of Impeachment never mentioned Nixon’s enemies list, which had surfaced in the middle of Watergate.
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Sounds like Nixon and now Patel are nothing but Mean Girls with their burn books filled in.
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It’s the times we are living in. The only time I see adds for crypto and gambling is when I watch sports. Fortunately I never have the sound on. I listen to music while the basketball or baseball game is on. It’s amazing how the movement of the players seems choreographed perfectly to jazz or chamber music.
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Eat a Christmas dick, fascist!
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Thanks for the heads up, but fyi, professional and published Roman historian who’s been briefed. But thanks for the comment! Maybe Trump will go all Tiberius on the Partner of His Labors, Lucius Aelonius Sejanius Muskius.
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Reading the history of Rome will tell you that very few emperors died of natural causes.
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Those who forget the past are condemned to something something…I’m just glad to be alive to watch it all happen again.
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Daniel Schorr was ver much on Nixon’s Enemies List. It was a big deal at the time. But also recall at the time the whole “Enemies List” was met with guffaws and derision; we all kind of laughed at it. The banality of evil, I guess.
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And the online betting “parlor” primes the pump to entice you. I was watching some sports thing and there was an add for online betting with the first $50 free!
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I believe Dan Schorr said he was happy to be a member of the enemies list.
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Bet $50 and we will give you the world and when you lose….
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