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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 04:49 PM Mar 2020

Orange 45's endless verbal droolings at the briefings are like Nero's recitals

Women went into labour during his recitals, and many people, fed up with having to listen to him & applaud him, got round the fact that the gates to the theatre were locked by surreptitiously leaping down from the wall, or else pretending to be dead and thus be carried out to burial -Suetonius on Nero

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Orange 45's endless verbal droolings at the briefings are like Nero's recitals (Original Post) bronxiteforever Mar 2020 OP

Ha... I thought this was going to be that false meme about defacto7 Mar 2020 #1

+1 Good point about further portrayals of him. bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #2

Hang in there bronxite. defacto7 Mar 2020 #3

Thanks! You too. bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #4

defacto7

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1. Ha... I thought this was going to be that false meme about

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 05:13 PM

Mar 2020

playing the violin while Rome burned. Thanks for some historical notes. Sometimes the ancient historians gave us some rather humorous bits about Nero. Historians now and in the future will portray Trump in similar and tragic ways.