I'm watching The Tudors, and think 45 took a page from Henry VIII's playbook.

[Thirties Child]

I see so many similarities -- the divine right of kings and Article II giving 45 unlimited powers (he thinks); a subserviant parliament and the Republican Senate; Cardinal Wolsey and Barr & Pompeo. This may be hyperbole, but I'm glad that boiling dissenters alive, burning them at stake, and decapitation are now illegal.

[True Blue American]

1. Including

The obese part. I have read every book I could find on that period of History over the years.
Never wanted to live that time period,though.

[0rganism]

2. illegal? not if Trump decides it's in the "nation's interest"

if Trump wants someone boiled alive, well dammit, better get those cauldrons on the bonfire pronto. we'll have the best reprisals ever.

[Wounded Bear]

3. History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme...nt

[Siwsan]

4. You have more stamina than I do, to watch that series, but I get your drift

I've spent most of my life absorbing historical biographies of English royalty, particularly the Tudors, so I barely made it through one episode.

Henry VIII really wasn't all that different from most monarchs, except for his overwhelming obsession with siring a 'legitimate' son to be his heir. How perfect was it that one of, if not the most revered English monarch turned out to be his second daughter, Elizabeth.

I'll admit trump*'s egomania is pretty much on par with Henry's but Henry's goal was the stability and protection of his country while trump*'s is the expansion of his wealth at the EXPENSE of his country.

IMHO, of course.

[DURHAM D]

5. Don't forget beheading.

Henry VIII beheaded my 13th Great Grandfather Henry in 1546 and took his property.

I guess that means my family has been here before.

[denem]

13. If beheading was legal in the United States,

MF45 would want in on the action and do a few himself.

[marble falls]

7. I may have gone over the line in the heat of the moment but I'm really despising Donnie ...

today for some reason.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. A lot of rulers have imitated Henry VIII or tried to

Henry II is another popular one.

But we always remember Charles I.

[marble falls]

10. Had a drink with Charlie just last week. Being headless he used a funnel. Quiet chap.

If he got potted, sometimes he'd wail on the funnel. It sounded like Miles Davis on acid with a kazoo.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Still bitching about Cromwell, is he?

[marble falls]

14. Could be, he may be loud but he is totally unintelligible.

[marble falls]

9. They both favored a keeto diet?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. I rewatched it as well ..

But Trump needs to rid himself of wife #3.