Saturday, May 30, 2020

There is Something Grimly Hilarious

about Donald Trump, literally cowering behind sandbags in the Oval Office, tweeting out childish threats to demonstrators protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clearly Trump is trying to goad the protesters into some foolhardy act of violence, and to stoke the fires he boasts in a cowardly way of the firepower and ferocity of The Secret Service.
This my friends, Is Praetorianism, but not in the way you think, these are Trump's threats, which the Secret Service May Have to Make Good On...I wonder how the rank and file agents feel about that?
Keep in mind, its the Praetorian Guard that assassinated The Emperor Caligula (they got tired of being his personal death squad), when it was Nero's turn, the Guard refined their technique, they simply withdrew their protection and the Emperor promptly committed suicide.
So If I was Trump I don't think I'd be polarizing his own security like this...the historic precedents are ominous.

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