"Oh, wait....don't answer that."
Posted on 01/22/2016 12:58:36 PM PST by JSDude1
RTX22LO4 Why does Ted Cruz, left, make so many references to Cicero, right? And what does that mean for his hopes in the 2016 presidential election? REUTERS U.S.TED CRUZCICERO Ted Cruz's onstage appearance with Sean Hannity was going well. It was February 2015, and Cruz, like all the other GOP hopefuls, was at the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C., being lobbed softballs by the Fox News talking head. Hannity was playing a little word game. "I'm going to ask you about three people, first words that come to your mind," Hannity said.
"Barack Hussein Obama," Hannity prompted. Cruz took a few seconds The senator’s response was "lawless imperator"
Lawless was no surprise. President Obama's executive orders render Republicans and Cruz in particular apoplectic.
It's the other word—imperator—that puzzled. Imperator is a Latin word, and not one of the handful, like et , cetera , ad and hoc that have made their way into everyday English (though the word was in best picture nominee, Mad Max: Fury Road, as the title of Charlize Theron's character, Imperator Furiosa).
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Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa should have been named Imperator Furioso.
Or Imperatrix Furiosa.
Can’t have it both ways.
What a threat to the empire.
Maybe it’s gender confused...
“Can’t have it both ways.”
Caitlyn Jenner begs to differ.
Actually, his/her/its sort don’t beg - they command; and currently run the country.
If he ends every speech with “Death to Carthage”, then I think he might like it a bit too much.
You mean like the Founders made so many references to Cato? Perhaps it is because we are coming to the end of our Republic, and he sees this and wants to stop it, the way Cato and Cicero saw it in their day and wanted to stop it.
They don’t like it solely because it runs contrary to the dumbing down of society.
People quoted classical figures up until the 20th Century. It was a part of REAL education.
In fact trying to read an 18th Century text with no knowledge of Greco-Roman mythology is next to impossible with the metaphors they used. E.g. Edmund Burke
Perfectly said.
Yep, Cicero nailed Obama here: ~~Marcus Tullius Cicero "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague".â€
"Oh, wait....don't answer that."
how about “Carthago delenda est?”
No, maybe “Carthagenii ite domum” for a paraphrased Life of Brian reference.
Is it my eyes, or is that unibrow over the top?
Grease, though it is hard to make out where her brows stop
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It has a penis.
It is male.
It isn’t an it/her/thing/whatever.
It’s a man. Dressed in drag.
The Horror! The Horror!
Astra inclinant, non necessitant
“Can’t have it both ways.”
Bruce Jenner.
A lady Senator should technically be called a Senatrix, yes?
I’ve called Barbara Boxer that, of course she’s not really what you call a lady.
“Can’t have it both ways.”
Yes, you can, because grammar nazis didn’t survive the apocalypse :P
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