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Fri Jul-29-05 09:29 PM
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Poll question: Which world leader does Bush most resemble? |
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:32 PM
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He also liked to strut around like somebody important.
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:34 PM
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Same jaw-jutting self importance, same lack of knowledge, same penchant for invading weak countries...
Busholini it is lol :D
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:30 PM
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15. Yep. Il (Lame) Duce, it is! |
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 10:30 PM by TahitiNut
Let's envision his future ...
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:33 PM
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2. Mussolini without a doubt |
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a fascist, but also a bumbling dumbass
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:34 PM
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4. You forgot this guy... |
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:36 PM
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5. the one who looks like a big giant dick / eom |
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:39 PM
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Edited on Fri Jul-29-05 09:45 PM by Clark2008
But that's not on the list. Since the beginning of his reign Caligula had spent lavishly on public shows, games, and displays (sometimes even participating in them himself); in the most extravagant of these, he had hundreds of ships tied together to make a temporary floating bridge so that he could ride across the Bay of Naples on horseback. By 39, the public treasury was near bankruptcy. Therefore, at the beginning of the year Caligula revived the treason trials that had become so unpopular under Tiberius; he also began other methods of raising public money, including the auctioning off of public properties left over from shows. Many of these revealed his strange sense of humor (e.g., at one of these auctions a senator fell asleep and Caligula took each of his nods as bids, selling him 13 gladiators for a huge sum). In the words of historian Michael Grant, “Caligula had an irrepressible, bizarre sense of the ridiculous, deliberately designed to shock, but frequently taken by his alarmed subjects too seriously. Notoriously absurd traditions . . . such as the story that he intended to give a consulship to his favorite horse Incitatus no doubt originated from his continual stream of jokes. Probably he remarked that Incitatus would do the job as well as most of the recent incumbents; and meanwhile he ordered silence in the entire neighborhood, to prevent the horse from being disturbed” (The Twelve Caesars, , 113). Some of his jokes were more sadistic, as when he arranged an oratory competition in which all the losers had to erase their wax tablets with their tongues. All these activities, as Grant points out, “meant that he had far less time available for governing the empire. Caligula, that is to say, became the first emperor to attempt this enormous task as a part-time job”
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Caligula announced his self-deification, building temples and erecting statues, even in Rome, to his glorified self. He even ordered that a statue of himself should be placed in the Temple of Jerusalem and the Jews be forced to worship him (the procurator wisely postponed executing this order, and it had not yet been carried out when Caligula was assassinated). This deification was part of Caligula's apparently systematic concept of imperial power, of what he liked to term his “inflexibility” (called by Robert Graves his “immovable rigor”). Was Caligula clinically insane? Was he the evil monster portrayed by Robert Graves? The ancient sources are uniformly hostile, and modern historians differ in their interpretations of his behavior. It is impossible to answer these questions with any certainty. What we can conclude is that he was carried away by the absolute nature of the power that he had inherited from more hard-working and stable emperors. He seemed to be determined to flaunt that power and to strip away all the pretense and euphemisms in which Augustus (and Tiberius, to a lesser extent) had cloaked it. Caligula's bizarre behavior demonstrates what can happen when absolute power is combined with a total lack of responsibility and respect for others (see Garrett Fagan's biography for a balanced assessment of Caligula).http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caligula.html
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:03 PM
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Sat Jul-30-05 12:43 AM
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19. You go it. We have Little Boots, but with his finger on the button. nt |
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:41 PM
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7. Cheeta the worlds oldest chimp |
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73y/o chief Chimp of the world origonal Tarzan costar http://cheetathechimp.org/
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:13 PM
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12. Awww....Cheeta's a dignified and respected primate... |
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please don't insult him by comparing * to him.
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:44 PM
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8. Gannon looks like Mussolini, I think Bush looks like.... |
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...Alfred E. Newman of Mad Magazine. However, he does seem to act a lot like Adolf Monkeys.
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Fri Jul-29-05 09:57 PM
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9. I think the Mussolini figure is actually Tony Blair, |
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the little guy who tries hard to be on the same pedestal as the big guy
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:01 PM
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:32 PM
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16. Beelzebub. bush and Beelzebub, brothers in the great lie. |
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Sat Jul-30-05 01:28 AM
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23. Yep, he reminds me of the underworld leader, for sure. b.t |
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Fri Jul-29-05 10:39 PM
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17. Bush is a stinking POS |
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when his "boys" get in trouble he rewards them with a medal or a raise. He's just sicking that "finger" in our eye everytime he does it. Just like a spoiled fucking kid, "look what I can do and you can't stop me". M-F-in corksuckin SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sat Jul-30-05 01:18 AM
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21. Caligula probably comes closest |
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The situations are more similar: A great empire on the verge of collapse.
"Inheritor" of a family dynasty.
Psychological characteristics re: compassion, empathy, etc.
But there are big differences too.
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Sat Jul-30-05 01:20 AM
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All worthless sons of rich men.
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Sat Jul-30-05 01:37 AM
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24. Mussolini because of the family "values" resemblance.... |
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Mussolini was very big on moral issues, which is a direct parallel to *Bush.
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