Triple-check my persona

[sovay]

spatch, reading a tweet from the White House: "'The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.'"

Me, a classicist: "Oh! That'd be the fascism!"

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[gwynnega]

I, on the other hand, immediately had a visual of Trump as Nero.

[sovay]

I, on the other hand, immediately had a visual of Trump as Nero.

Given the penchant for plastering self-promotion, I'd go with Commodus. But it's true that with Nero you get a burning world.

[conuly]

I do NOT want to see Trump playing the fiddle.

(Yes, I know, they weren't invented yet.)

[rachelmanija]

I've been calling him Caligula for a while. Possibly this is maligning the actual historical Caligula.

[weirdquark]

My brain did jump to "let all of the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out" when he was elected.

[gwynnega]

That is pretty spot on.