Ted Cruz Loves The Senate - The Roman Senate

Newsweek ^ | 1/22/2016 | Taylor wofford

[BenLurkin]

Charlize Theron’s character, Imperator Furiosa should have been named Imperator Furioso.

Or Imperatrix Furiosa.

Can’t have it both ways.

[Smokin' Joe]

Wow. A person who studied law and knows some Latin.

What a threat to the empire.

[Smokin' Joe]

Maybe it’s gender confused...

[headsonpikes]

“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.

[VanDeKoik]

If he ends every speech with “Death to Carthage”, then I think he might like it a bit too much.

[chajin]

Why does Ted Cruz...make so many references to Cicero

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.

[Shadow44]

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

[FateAmenableToChange]

Perfectly said.

[Las Vegas Ron]

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.

Yep, Cicero nailed Obama here:

"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".”

~~Marcus Tullius Cicero

[BenLurkin]

"Do I look gender confused to you?"

"Oh, wait....don't answer that."

[No.6]

how about “Carthago delenda est?”

No, maybe “Carthagenii ite domum” for a paraphrased Life of Brian reference.

[Smokin' Joe]

Is it my eyes, or is that unibrow over the top?

[mkjessup]

It's perfectly ok with me, the phrase used by Cruz "lawless imperator", I usually refer to Obama as that "no-good Kenyan sonuvabitch" among other colorful epithets, but I was never a member of the Roman Senate either.

On this one, I say "GO CRUZ GO!"

[BenLurkin]

Grease, though it is hard to make out where her brows stop
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[FreedomStar3028]

It has a penis.

It is male.

It isn’t an it/her/thing/whatever.

It’s a man. Dressed in drag.

[Fiddlstix]

Wow. A person who studied law and knows some Latin.

The Horror! The Horror!

Astra inclinant, non necessitant

[Ancesthntr]

“Can’t have it both ways.”

Bruce Jenner.

[Impy]

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.

[Boogieman]

“Can’t have it both ways.”

Yes, you can, because grammar nazis didn’t survive the apocalypse :P