Lou Dobbs angrily compares Mitt Romney to Brutus, the senator who tried to save Rome from a despot"

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The Roman senator Marcus Brutus literally stabbed his friend Julius Caesar in the back. You could look at this as a great betrayal, as Lou Dobbs did on Fox Business show Wednesday night when he savaged Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) for voting to convict President Trump of abuse of power in Trump's impeachment trial. "Romney is going to be associated with Judas, Brutus, Benedict Arnold forever, when he is not even a footnote in a footnote otherwise, because of his betrayal," Dobbs said.

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But Brutus, according to Shakespeare and contemporaneous accounts, was motivated to take part in Caesar's assassination because Caesar's increasingly monarchical and authoritarian behavior threatened to destroy the Roman Republic. The phrase he is purported to have said while stabbing Caesar, "Sic semper tyrannis!" — or "Thus, always, to tyrants!" — is now Virginia's official motto. On the other hand, Dante places both Brutus and Judas Iscariot in the lowest circle of hell, so it's complicated.

In any case, Caesar died and Trump was acquitted with all but one Republican voting against conviction and every Democrats voting in favor. And despite Brutus' desperate bid to save the republic, it soon fell to a Roman Empire led by Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, renamed Augustus. Brutus, like Judas, killed himself in despair. Romney, according to former adviser Stuart Stevens, "will sleep very well tonight." Peter Weber

https://theweek.com/speedreads/894061/foxs-lou-dobbs-angrily-compares-mitt-romney-brutus-senator-who-tried-save-rome-from-despot

[greenjar_01]

1. LOL

Ignorant dipshits.

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2. "Whenever I hear about a man with a conscience, I just really hate him!"

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3. Sic semper tyrannis being Virginia's motto likely has less to do with brutus

and more to do with booth, who supposedly said the same thing.

But whatever. Typical Republican clownish fake martyrdom. One lone republican vote against is the moral equivalent of assassination. Ok, if you say so

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4. Nope. It's been the motto of Virginia since 1776

And, no, sic semper tyrannis doesn't mean 'get your foot off my chest.'

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5. Thanks, I stand corrected

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6. WTF happened to Lou Dobbs ?

Oh, right.