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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOrange 45's endless verbal droolings at the briefings are like Nero's recitals
Women went into labour during his recitals, and many people, fed up with having to listen to him & applaud him, got round the fact that the gates to the theatre were locked by surreptitiously leaping down from the wall, or else pretending to be dead and thus be carried out to burial -Suetonius on Nero
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Orange 45's endless verbal droolings at the briefings are like Nero's recitals (Original Post)
bronxiteforever
Mar 2020
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)1. Ha... I thought this was going to be that false meme about
playing the violin while Rome burned. Thanks for some historical notes. Sometimes the ancient historians gave us some rather humorous bits about Nero. Historians now and in the future will portray Trump in similar and tragic ways.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)2. +1 Good point about further portrayals of him.
I hope I live to see one!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)3. Hang in there bronxite.
I've spent a lot of years working in NYC and what is happening there is breaking my heart.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)4. Thanks! You too.