Political Memes

One of the big themes of the fall of the Roman Republic was that many leaders faced a dilemma: stay in office or face dire legal consequences. Julius Ceasar had to make sure he held office continuously for decades or else he would have been dragged through the courts.

If you asked me 15 years ago, I would have naively said that modern governments do not have this problem. But one look at Trump or Netanyahyu and the logic is clear: do everything to stay in power, because if you fail you get life in prison.

Someone actually complained to me (at random, I just happened to be nearby) that their new roommate was running up the water bill because he took a shower every day. That someone would actually bathe daily was a completely foreign concept to them.

Trump is really more of Elagabalus or maybe Caligula.

It's like we sped-ran past the "effective but tyrannical" ones a d straight into the comically corrupt.

Imagine how much Trump would be if syphilis was a thing.

Besides the good roads and bath houses what have the Roman's done for us....

Maybe if Biden killed Trump, who killed Obama, who killed bush, who killed Clinton, and we end up with Barron in charge. And then a foreign mercenary Army who's been fighting America's wars cause they got fat and complacent, decided to turn and take over Washington.

And better working conditions. If in the US, they probably had better healthcare, also!

And they fed their population

Yeah but to be fair the Romans didn't have Hummers and F150's doing 55 down their roads.

There is this one trick that I don't want the US government to know to save this empire, control and ~~take~~ tame your fucking capitalism

They did also have leaded water though