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My top picks are Nero, Commodus, Caligula and Tiberius, although Elagabalus coud be a compelling pick.
1 posted on 08/31/2014 7:05:07 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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25 posted on 08/31/2014 7:39:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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Tiberias. He’s gonna retire to an island where he’s building a huge villa and finally come out of the closet.


27 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:17 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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As far as my studies take me I know of no member of the black race that was ever the leader of an empire or super power. That is, other than Obama. Most African nations have average IQ’s in the 70’s or 80’s. All nations that are/were super powers have/had average IQ’s in the upper 90’s or 100’s. Take a look at those numbers available on line. You will find that Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Germany, etc. all with average IQ’s around 100. Because of intermarrying with low IQ ethnic groups and mass immigration of low IQ ethnic groups, the average IQ of Americans is falling so we cannot survive and remain a super power. Darwin was right.


28 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:36 AM PDT by barnrat
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For everyone's reference, Suetonius' wildly entertaining The Lives of the Twelve Caesars can be read (free) or downloaded courtesy of the wonderful folks at Gutenberg.org.
29 posted on 08/31/2014 7:40:42 AM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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My choice is Alexios IV Angelos, who imposed heavy taxes yet squandered the imperial treasury on palaces, gardens and bribes as enemies overran the empire, culminating in the sack of Constantinople by the Venetians during the Fourth Crusade in 1204.


37 posted on 08/31/2014 7:49:27 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Definitely Elagabalus- the Syrian god he’s named for even has something in common with Islam:

“The cult statue was brought to Rome by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who before his accession was the hereditary high priest at Emesa and is commonly called Elagabalus after the deity. The Syrian deity was assimilated with the Roman sun god known as Sol Invictus (”the Undefeated Sun”).

“A temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill, to house the holy stone of the Emesa temple, a black conical meteorite. Herodian writes of that stone:

“This stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them.


39 posted on 08/31/2014 7:50:23 AM PDT by Pelham (California, what happens when you won't deport illegals)
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Emperor Baracus Commodeus Zero

41 posted on 08/31/2014 7:58:07 AM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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Augustus Honorus (a.k.a “Augustulus” meaning little penis). Augustulus was the last Roman emperor. The Ostrogothic king Gaeseric paid him a bribe to abdicate without naming a successor.


42 posted on 08/31/2014 8:02:08 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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Another candidate is Romulus Augustulus as portrayed by Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt in Romulus the Great: An Unhistorical Play in Four Acts. Proclaiming "I amn Rome's jidge," Romulus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire seeks to bring about its fall in order to atone for the evil it perpetrated on the world over the previous centuries.
49 posted on 08/31/2014 8:20:04 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorius_(emperor)


50 posted on 08/31/2014 8:22:16 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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He begins as Julian the Apostate and will end as a combination of Nero and Caligula.

He is still in his Julian phase right now.

51 posted on 08/31/2014 8:22:48 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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I don’t know, who was the gayest emperor?


55 posted on 08/31/2014 8:32:36 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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Dumastis, Traitorus, Incompetis, and Prejudicus, not to mention Queerestis.
56 posted on 08/31/2014 8:39:46 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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My top picks are Nero, Commodus, Caligula and Tiberius, although Elagabalus coud be a compelling pick.

I vote for Elagabalus.

It's interesting to note how Elagabalus finally ended up:

....members of the Praetorian Guard attacked Elagabalus and his mother:

So he made an attempt to flee, and would have got away somewhere by being placed in a chest, had he not been discovered and slain, at the age of 18. His mother, who embraced him and clung tightly to him, perished with him; their heads were cut off and their bodies, after being stripped naked, were first dragged all over the city, then the mother's body was cast aside somewhere or other while his was thrown into the [Tiber].

Following his assassination, many associates of Elagabalus were killed or deposed, including his lover Hierocles. His religious edicts were reversed and the stone of Elagabal was sent back to Emesa. Women were again barred from attending meetings of the Senate. The practice of damnatio memoriae—erasing from the public record a disgraced personage formerly of note—was systematically applied in his case.

-Wikipedia

58 posted on 08/31/2014 8:42:58 AM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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Libius Severus.


59 posted on 08/31/2014 8:44:41 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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Tiberius was a pervert in his old age (supposedly), but Rome did pretty well under him.


62 posted on 08/31/2014 8:51:33 AM PDT by rbg81
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Wait - the Romans golfed?


64 posted on 08/31/2014 9:00:31 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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Having just read over a wikipedia bio on Elagabalus, I have to go along with this immoral, diabolical Syrian as the Roman emperor most resembling 0bama, with Nero a close second.


65 posted on 08/31/2014 9:00:52 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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66 posted on 08/31/2014 9:06:51 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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Nero - he wanted to build a "New Rome" so he set fire to the city then blamed someone else, Christians, while he amused himself pursuing his pleasures.

Obama is destroying our beloved America while blaming others, Republicans, Bush, Tea Party-ers, while he pursues golf.

67 posted on 08/31/2014 9:12:38 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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