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1 posted on 10/17/2020 10:12:16 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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Sejanus would make it so …
Amusing. Someone on that site obviously knows Patrick Stewart played Sejanus in I, Claudius.


2 posted on 10/17/2020 10:21:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Thanks. Great read.
Today’s media thinks it’s so new LOL!


5 posted on 10/17/2020 10:37:35 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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Twittus Dorcus and Marcus Farcus are leading the new Praetorian guard for the democrat party


6 posted on 10/17/2020 10:38:05 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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Sejanus’ son and 11-year-old daughter were also executed:

Tacitus Annals 5

It was next decided to punish the remaining children of Sejanus, though the fury of the populace was subsiding, and people generally had been appeased by the previous executions. Accordingly they were carried off to prison, the boy, aware of his impending doom, and the little girl, who was so unconscious that she continually asked what was her offence, and whither she was being dragged, saying that she would do so no more, and a childish chastisement was enough for her correction. Historians of the time tell us that, as there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, she was violated by the executioner, with the rope on her neck. Then they were strangled and their bodies, mere children as they were, were flung down the Gemoniae.


7 posted on 10/17/2020 10:41:44 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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It was not yet the “infamous Praetorian Guard”. Sejanus would make it so: his were the institutional aggrandizement — long outliving Sejanus — that would position the Guard to arbitrate imperial succession; his the persecutorial internal policing that made it a swords-and-sandals Gestapo.

Sounds like how Comey and Wray imagine the FBI to be.

9 posted on 10/17/2020 10:55:53 PM PDT by montag813
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Hey, Captain Picard in a Shatner toupee..........throw in some Holy Roman Empire soap opera, this would make a killer new Star Trek series. Too bad Star Wars poached ideas like pod races.


11 posted on 10/17/2020 11:01:38 PM PDT by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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The praetorian Guard was Rome’s version of the deep state.


20 posted on 10/18/2020 1:16:29 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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