Explanation: When a Byzantine Emperor was deposed, they would be mutilated in some way. Justinian managed to get another term after being deposed, so to hide that his nose was lopped off he wore a gold nose

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      Get ready for the 2026 elections being rigged to get a supermajority, then they’ll replace the US constitution with a theocratic fascist manifesto.

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        They won’t even need to. Hell, the 2024 congressional elections only mattered for the Democrats. Trump will make the Republican congress obsolete by the primary season

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      It was taken as obvious fact that an ugly person was unfit to hold a government office.

      Christian emperors, to demonstrate the benevolence of their God, would elect to merely castrate the deposed monarch instead of lopping off part of their face

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        It was taken as obvious fact that an ugly person was unfit to hold a government office.

        Obviously wrong but thinking about the American elections in my lifetime, I have favored the person more attractive to me in each of them, though not in primaries.