The History Channel Is Doing Caligula

[Me.]

and the correlation between him and the Menace is chilling. The only real difference is that the Menace can not outright murder people. It's like the Menace is the re-incarnation of the Roman Emperor.

[UTUSN]

1. Caligula: 1) Gave $1000 to all; 2) Threw coins (like the paper rolls); 3)loved/sister (daughter?)

4)Claimed conquered England, didn't ("Wartime President" ) .

****Somebody will certainly say we are exaggerating about SHITLER. Well, anything more extreme he hasn't done YET is just that what holds him back is thinking he can't get away with it.

[Me.]

5. All Had To Declare Their Loyalty

or be killed

[kimbutgar]

2. Wish I had seen this earlier

Declaring oneself a God sounds a lot like the orange maggot.

Arrogance though was and will be his downfall.

[UTUSN]

3. The University of YouTube has it all. Check out scholar Mary BEARD's videos.

[Me.]

4. Where Is Our Head Of The Praetorian Guard

and who will declare the Menace a damnable memory?

[kimbutgar]

7. Really

And now I have the show on about the fall of the Roman Empire. And the similarities are frightening.

[localroger]

13. In fairness, Caligula didn't think up the god thing himself

That was his predecessor Julius Caesar. This is an instance where history doesn't repeat but it rhymes; Trump will be filling more of Caesar's role if he ends the Republic, but Nero's role if he is callously inattentive to a great disaster. Comparing Trump to Caligula is a great disservice to Caligula, whose erotic and sadistic exploits make Trump look like a Catholic schoolboy jacking off in the toilet stall by comparison.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. the Guccione version?

[musette_sf]

10. Ha.

Went to see it years ago with the (now-ex) husband. He was somewhat of a porn consumer, and I thought there wasn't much I hadn't seen in life. We both walked out shaking our heads, saying "never again", and we decided the ad campaign should have been "Something For Everyone, And I Do Mean Everyone".

[localroger]

14. Protip: if Caligula bothered you, don't ever see Salo. nt

[localroger]

15. Casting Malcolm MacDowell to play Trump...

...would be like casting Sir Patrick Stewart to play Dan Quayle.

[CatWoman]

8. now it's showing The Dark Ages

[PufPuf23]

11. That is what I intended to post-Caligula followed by the Dark Ages-

but you beat me. Cheers.

[CatWoman]

16. I love the History Channel when they actually air HISTORY

[PufPuf23]

18. I actually spend one or two hours a week on average watching

Ancient Aliens, admittedly in somewhat random TV watching.

[Me.]

12. ...

Feels pretty dark right now though it hasn't come to selling our children for dog meat

[CatWoman]

17. .....

Romans -- the original Rat Fuckers

[spanone]

9. Hell, He's live on teevee right now!!!