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    1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017

      The literature of the Roman senatorial tradition, later picked up by the American revolutionaries and constitution makers among many ...

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    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      2/ many others was replete with highly stylized set pieces about would be tyrants who gathered around themselves the worst, most vicious ...

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    3. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      3/ (in the sense of vice) and most desperate as their followers. These are/we're very stylized and in the ancient versions perhaps ...

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    4. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      4/ represented a prejudice agst arriviste money or downwardly mobile elites. AND YET good lord! Trump truly attracts to himself the worst...

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    5. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      5/ people. No sociological analysis can complicate this. If you were to go back three years and look at GOP cadres/operatives and so forth..

      2 replies 6 retweets 61 likes
    6. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      6/ and you said let's pick up the dumbest, the most corrupt, the most predatory and desperate you would come very close to picking out ...

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    7. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      7/ the Trump crew. You would almost certainly have the top White House. And of course you'd have Trump himself. This struck me again when ..

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    8. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 5 Aug 2017
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      8/ saw that Schlapp goof. But the reminders are really endless. Endless!

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Aug 2017
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      One think Trump's rise has convinced me of is that Roman stories of decadent emperors like Caligula are not, as some think, fiction.

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        1. Ryan Grimm‏ @grimmryanm 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          There have been plenty of leaders in the 20th century that should've convinced you of this.

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        2. Walford‏ @HarrisonWalford 5 Aug 2017
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          Can't wait till Trump appoints Rafalca to the Supreme Court.

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        3. rocket ermine‏ @LustfulErmine 5 Aug 2017
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          I heard Trump's next SC nominee is going to be Ivanka's purse dog.

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        1. Furry Idris Elba (GOLF CHEAT)  🇺🇦‏ @x_t_pd 5 Aug 2017
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          How plausible is the theory that Caligula wasn't insane so much as a troll hellbent on humiliating the Senatw into permanent subservience?

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        1. David Harris‏ @Hero_Complex 5 Aug 2017
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          Tweeting at FEMA while Rome burns.

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        1. David Thompson‏ @_mightytweets 5 Aug 2017
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          Mutato nomine...

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        1. Yankee Jack (Ululater)‏ @JackUlulates 5 Aug 2017
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          You mean the narcissism, amorality, and insinuations of incest? Or the fact that Caligula literally translates to "little boot"? 😂

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        1. kilgoar‏ @Kilgoar 6 Aug 2017
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          yea I think what they said bout Justinian is for real

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