And so it begins…

  • jerakor@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    He is 78, in awful health, and has no interest in a legacy or supporting a successor. He keeps everyone around him at odds and maintains enough infighting that no clear heir apparent could really show up.

    So like, he really only will hold power long enough to make everything terrible. So we got that goin for us.

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      You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.

      But the damage was done, and Rome had a civil war over whether it would go back to being a Republic like it had been or if it would have an autocratic ruler. Obviously, the latter won out.

      A lesson from history.

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        2 months ago

        Let’s not lump Trump in with Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar was a war hero and a capable leader who’s final crimes were giving out citizenship and housing.

        Trump’s final crimes will be giving all our state secrets to every other government in the world and obliterating our infrastructure.

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        2 months ago

        We have so many lessons from history to pull from right now that you would need multiple professors to explain them all and yet they were all ignored.

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        You know how long Caesar was dictator for life before he was assassinated? Less than a year.

        So you’re saying he was dictator for life? 😂

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      It will definitely be interesting to see at which stage each “well, maybe it won’t be that bad” people realize that, yes. It will.

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      I find it equally likely he tries to be in power until his last breath as it is for him to set the White House ablaze just before handing the keys to it’s next owner.