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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,388 posts)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 10:12 PM Oct 2025

Comparing Trump to Nero

After the great fire of Rome in 64 A.D. Nero built his golden palace, the Domus Aurea on confiscated land. After Nero was deposed the coliseum was built in its place.

Maybe Trump's ballroom should be called the Dumbass Area.

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markodochartaigh

(5,545 posts)
6. "History does repeat itself !"
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 11:11 PM
Oct 2025

"First as tragedy, then as farce."



I think that we are trying to squeeze in both at once.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
2. The Epstein Ballroom. The "arc" would be tRump's Folly. With solid resistance neither will be built. . . . nt
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 10:16 PM
Oct 2025

Ocelot II

(131,218 posts)
3. At least Nero could play the fiddle - actually the cithara; fiddles didn't exist then.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 10:33 PM
Oct 2025

But Goldsphincter probably couldn't play a kazoo.

Ocelot II

(131,218 posts)
5. Probably sounds like a vuvuzela and smells like a porta-potty at a burrito festival in August.
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 10:53 PM
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