I have called Obama the American Domitian, in reality he is closer to Caligula. I was emailed by Speranza this Article from History Today. I added comments on the similarities between Obama and Caligula.
Caligula was a nickname meaning ‘Little Boot’ or ‘Bootikin’ that was bestowed on the future emperor when he was a small boy by his father’s soldiers in Germany, where he paraded around among them in a miniature legionary’s uniform. It was said that when he grew up, he disliked it. His real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and he was born 30 miles or so south of Rome, on the coast at Antium. His father, Germanicus, was a grandson of the Emperor Augustus and extremely popular. After commanding in Germany he was given a major role in the eastern provinces by the Emperor Tiberius (Augustus’ stepson and successor), who had adopted Germanicus as his nephew. The family relationships of Julius Caesar’s descendants were extraordinarily complicated and often savagely hostile; Caligula’s mother Agrippina was a grand-daughter of Augustus.
Augustus died in ad 14 and Tiberius succeeded him. Germanicus died at Antioch five years later, possibly poisoned, when Caligula was still only a boy and Agrippina took her children back to Rome. She hated Tiberius and in ad 29 was banished to an island (Obama grew up on an Island) between Italy and Sardinia, where she died in ad 33. Caligula was her only surviving son and had three sisters, Agrippina the Younger (future mother of the Emperor Nero), Drusilla and Livilla. Since the year 31 he had been living on the island of Capri with Tiberius, who after eliminating many real or possible opponents had retreated there in fear of assassination. Somehow Caligula managed to survive, though he afterwards claimed he had come close to murdering the emperor, while Tiberius is said to have remarked that he was ‘nourishing a viper’. (Obama is a viper on America)
Tiberius died in ad 37 when Caligula was 24. The other candidate for the succession was a grandson of Tiberius called Gemellus, who was 17. The Praetorian Guard (Obama has the media as his Praetorian), the imperial bodyguard, intervened under its commander, a man named Macro, to make sure that the Senate chose Caligula. Not long afterwards Caligula forced Macro to commit suicide and had Gemellus killed.
Caligula was very popular at first ( Obama was popular at first), but he came down to history as a viciously cruel and depraved megalomaniac. How far the stories about him were true is impossible to know, because there is such a shortage of contemporary sources. The main authority is the historian Suetonius, who was writing some 80 years after Caligula’s death. Sadly, the most famous story about the emperor, that he tried to make his horse Incitatus a consul, is considered definitely untrue.
In addition to four successive wives, Caligula was said to have enjoyed all three of his sisters in bed and sold their sexual services to other men. He threatened numerous other aristocratic women into submitting to him and went round boasting about it. He staged trials of innocent people so as to confiscate their estates, while lavishing quantities of money on luxuries for himself (Obama wants to redistribute wealth). He also provided spectacular games in the Circus to entertain the common people (Obama appears on Pop Culture shows)and retain their loyalty, although bored on one occasion and, with no criminals available that day, he allegedly had a group of the spectators thrown to the wild beasts in the arena to liven things up.
Unlike his predecessors, Caligula was an idler. He could not be bothered with the hard routine work of his office, which he handed over to assistants while he enjoyed himself (Just like Obama). He became increasingly suspicious and resentful of the Senate (Obama hates Congress). Many suspects were killed or banished and the emperor began publicly praising the advantages of full-scale autocracy and insisting that he was already a god and must be worshipped (Obama is treated like a god-king by the media and pop culture) while still alive (unlike his predecessors).
In the year 40 Caligula led an army into Gaul and reached the Channel shore for what it seemed was to be an invasion of Britain. However all he did was tell the legionaries to collect seashells as the plunder of the conquered ocean. Then he led them back to Rome for a triumph (Obama did asurge in Afghanistan that had a deadline and he has declared al-Qaeda defeated when they are still around).
For all the misgivings about the evidence, it is difficult not to think that he had gone mad and, after less than four years of Bootikin, the Praetorian Guard decided that enough of him was enough (Many Americans think Obama is crazy and 4 years are enough). A group of officers organised a plot with the surreptitious support of some Senators and on January 24th, 41 the emperor was cornered and stabbed to death at the Palatine games. He was 28 years old. Caligula’s current wife, Caesonia, was killed as well and their baby daughter and only child had her brains bashed out against a wall.
Some in the Senate hoped to use the situation to restore the republic (Hopefully we can save our Republican after 4 years of Obama), but the Praetorian Guard ensured that the successor was Caligula’s uncle, Claudius, Germanicus’ younger brother. He was the last adult male of his family left alive and the one who would conquer Britain.
These parallels are very chilling.
(Hat Tip: Speranza)
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Whenever I read abut Caligula I think of Jay Robinson hamming it up in the 1953 film “The Robe” and its sequel “Demetrius and the Gladiators” Even though it was historical inaccurate it was a wonderfully campy performance.
Of course who cannot forget John Hurt in the 1976 “I, Claudius”?
Here he announces his triumph over “Neptune”.
Caligula shares homosexual porn with his lewd great uncle Tiberius
Obama’s not a Roman. He’s a reincarnated Nubian Pharoah, Puttmostest the First…King Putt!
Obama is the anti Christ spewed out of Marxist hell.
@ Speranza:
It’s chilling Obama’s resmble to Caligula.
Well, if Obama is Caligula, which Democrat Senator is symbolic of the Horse. My vote would be for Harry Reid, who is symbolic of half of a horse anyhow. (I’ll leave it to you guys to determine which half.) Caligula was of course also famous for being a homo, and seeing what Barack is married to, I am beginning to have my doubts on that score as well, not that there’s anything wrong with that. (Forgive the Seinfeld reference.)
@ The Osprey:
There has always been an Obama all through the ages!
Rudy goes nuclear on Crazy Joe on CNN
Damn I wish this guy were our president.
Flyovercountry wrote:
Take your pick -- Patty Murray, Harry Reid, Babs Boxer, Bernie Sanders, Pat Leahy.
@ Speranza:
He was a great Conservative Mayor of NYC.
Rodan wrote:
I hope he winds up like Caligula (not killed by the Secret Service but voted out of office).
Rodan wrote:
One of the best public servants we ever had and fuck the people who start looking for shit like he was divorced.
Back to the Emperor Gaius -- a lot of the stories about him are legend and we are not sure what is truth and what is fiction. The chapter on his reign in Tactius’s “Annals” has been lost. Suetonius wrote his brief biography 80 years or so after Caligula’s death in 41 AD (“The 12 Emperors”) while Philo of Alexandria (who actually met Caligula) who was Jewish has a very interesting section on him in his “Embassy to Gaius” and Josephus (the Jewish-Roman historian in his “Antiquities of the Jews” does write about Caligula and his assassination by officers of his Praetorian Guard.
By the way -- Caligula never made his horse “Incitatus” a Senator. He said that the Senate was full of such fools that his horse could do a better job -- something that can be said about today’s U.S. Senate!
Obama is our first ‘Nancy’ president.
/no it isn’t history but oh well.
Speranza wrote:
I think a box of rocks could do better too.
Lily wrote:
Harry Reid’s head is full of rocks.
@ Speranza:
Totally agree!
Lily wrote:
Obama is The Manchurian Candidate.
Speranza wrote:
yes I have to agree with you
Lily wrote:
Harry Reid is a reptilian creep.
Speranza wrote:
Oh indeed. Very much so.
Valerie Jarrett is the Iago (from the Shakespeare play, Othello) of the Obama administration.
@ Lily:
I re-watched that movie about a month ago…and oh yes obama is.
History scrubbed clean…etc. Fits to a tea.
brookly red wrote:
Four years ago the fat bastard would’ve agreed with me too.
Speranza wrote:
I almost brought up ole Valerie…that’s obama’s horse.
Lily wrote:
A few years ago they remade The Manchurian Candidate (with Meryl Streep in the Angela Lansbury role) -- of course they made the villains “Manchurian Global” evil capitalists and the company “Manchurian Global” to resemble Halliburton.
Speranza wrote:
He was dissing obama all the way up to election night and when obama won …..he changed everything. So much for sticking with one’s belief’s. Jellyfish is what he is.
Lily wrote:
Yes she is the Incitatus of his administration.
David Axelrod is the jester.
Lily wrote:
I think that an Obama victory was his Plan B -- shift to the Left and go with the winners.
@ Speranza:
Yeah I know. Still fits. The only thing they didn’t put in obama’s scrubbed made-up history is a military record. They just couldn’t pull that one off if they tried to.
Speranza wrote:
Probably which makes him more of a loser to me.
Lily wrote:
When he gets the dictatorship he wants -- they will.
Speranza wrote:
David Axelrod has been doing a lot of dancing of late hasn’t he? He just needs the hat with the bells.
Rodan wrote:
I lived here in Rudy-time(even meet him once)and it was a good time. I was disappointed at his presidential campaign, but this is now & don’t forget he was a very successful prosecutor and I hope the GOP uses him as an attack dog against 0 cause no one can wrap you up in cross-examination and rip you a new one like Rudy.
@ Lily:
Chris Matthews is the Joesph Goebbels of the Obama administration -- working for MSNBC is being part of the Obama regime.
Speranza wrote:
Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far..right now people aren’t exactly happy with him. The bloom on that rose has gone.
On a lighter note, I took my auto sales resume out in my freshly washed and detailed car and filled in applications at three dealerships.
I KNOW I can be one of the top vehicle salespeople. I have both the sales skills and the work ethic. Sooner or later, some dealership will give me a chance to put my skills to effective use.
Valerie Jarrett is a Rodent Of Unusual Size.
brookly red wrote:
I lived in NYC throughout the Rudy administration -- his presidential run was sort of like Rick Perry’s, made too many mistakes. However Perry is still a good governor and Rudy was a great mayor. The record(s) are still there and nothing can take away from that.
Speranza wrote:
Remakes are an abomination unto the Lord.
There are no exceptions to this.
@ Speranza:
MSNBC…is just nuts. Crazy on steroids. Who would want to watch that crap. Isn’t Al Dumbton on it? Now that is nuts.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
A very anti-Israel woman according to the book “The Amateur“.
1389AD wrote:
“How big a rebate will it take to put you in this Volt?”
@ 1389AD:
Well I disagree Withering Heights all the remakes and the original were great.
Speranza wrote:
Of course: her anti-Israel lanyard has three strands; sympathy for Islam, Communism, and black antisemitism.
@ Speranza:
@ Lily:
I really do believe he met a moon-bat girl and actually thought he could get some if he played along… it really could be that simple.
Lily wrote:
I think Al Sharpton(his show)is off that network as he was too dumb and incompetent even for MSNBC. Remember Eliot Sptizer and his show on CNN? It flopped and he now is on Al Gore’s “Current” cable network.
Speranza wrote:
And also has obama by the balls….he cringes and does what she says.
Speranza wrote:
Yep.
I always wondered about the big scar on Obama’s head.
brookly red wrote:
Guys Charles Johnson’s age (born 1953), starved for love and attention -- are easy prey for half way decent looking and ideologically driven women.
1389AD wrote:
Probably a carpet burn from praying 5 times a day in the direction of Mecca.
@ Speranza:
Not sure just a couple of days ago he was, I think, MSNBC still.
/I maybe wrong…though.
1389AD wrote:
Tell them you are so good you could sell a Chevy Volt to a Republican!
Lily wrote:
Yes according to the author of “The Amateur“, she has some sort of weird hold over him.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
you forgot self loathing…
Lily wrote:
Obama has balls outside of his golf bag? Who knew?
Speranza wrote:
Or maybe he suddenly figured out he was gay? Who knows…the one thing I do know his mother’s death played a huge part in what direction he went.
@ Speranza:
There are many urban legends about Caligula.
Lily wrote:
I was wrong and you are right.
Poltics Nation
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
There not his anymore..Jarrett has one and Michelle the other.
Lily wrote:
He’s so frakking limp-wristed, he wouldn’t know what to do with a 1911 ,45ACP, much less an M-4.
Speranza wrote:
“Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?”
…then the Red Queen comes up…
Speranza wrote:
/”and don’t make me tell Michelle!”
Lily wrote:
Um, are said balls in their mouths? Wouldn’t that make them…teabaggers?
Saturday Night Live mocks Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show
@ Speranza:
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
“Barack Obama is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
Lily wrote:
I could not believe it was still on.
brookly red wrote:
Hey Michelle ousted Oprah in a palace coup.
Speranza wrote:
It’s not on his forehead though, it’s on the back of his head, just above and behind his ear.
It’s probably where Wo Fat’s Chicom agents installed the neurophone when he was in Hawaii.
Macker wrote:
Uhmmmmmm no they are in viceses being clapped to death.
@ Speranza:
She’s his handler.
brookly red wrote:
Uhmmm Michelle and Jarrett are a team. Big Time.
forget race card (singular) here is a flush.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-toure-to-panel-romney-engaging-in-the-niggerization-of-obama/
Speranza wrote:
It is and is double-down crazy.
Rodan wrote:
A real Cook County political thug who mistakes being a brute with natural intelligence.
Lily wrote:
Does he still screw up his teleprompter readings?
Lily wrote:
you mean the sisterhood is strong here?
@ The Osprey:
Hmmm…a Chink in Обама’s Armor? 8)
/RAAAAACIST
brookly red wrote:
Democrats are allowed to use the “n” word.
@ brookly red:
On MSNBC there’s a news-comment show
They have a commentator that likes to deal low blows
He has got nothing to say unless it’s about race
So he invents dogwhistles at an amazing pace
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré really tries
Touré’s lurid, lurid
But no-one really buys
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré’s lurid lies
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Infantile fantasies
He’ll ignore blatant racism from any Democrat
But conservative comment? He will not stand for that
He’ll concoct a racist theory right there before your eyes
Using the sort of language that should get him ostracized
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré really tries
Touré’s lurid, lurid
But no-one really buys
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré’s lurid lies
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Infantile fantasies
—to the tune of “Toora Loora Loora (An Irish Lullaby)”
Macker wrote:
He’s a Nancy…he’d shoot himself in the foot.
brookly red wrote:
Not in a Lesbian way…but they control obama…completely.
Speranza wrote:
Don’t know…but I would wager a guess …yes. Just give him time.
Lily wrote:
I guess he sees something of Stanley Ann Dunham in them.
Lily wrote:
Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Martin Bashir, Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow -- where the hell do they find these loons?
Speranza wrote:
I think he is scared of them to be honest. They work as a team and both are very unhappy women.
Speranza wrote:
Who knows but they go out of their way to find them and they wonder why their ratings are tanking??? Hhmmmm such a mystery/not.
Speranza wrote:
easy… you duct tape a net to a broomstick and scrape the bottom of the gene-pool.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Lily wrote:
He is afraid of them -- thank God that Leonid Brezhnev and the USSR are not around anymore, otherwise the Soviet tanks would roll all across western Europe to the Atlantic coast of Portugal.
brookly red wrote:
Yep that’s how you get the bottom feeders.
brookly red wrote:
They probably find them in some neo Martxist smoke filled room in Berkeley. They are such dumb angry people. Janeane Garafalo used to be a regular on Keith Olbermann’s show.
@ Speranza:
At Little Green Footballs!
Speranza wrote:
Indeed…
Rodan wrote:
Speranza wrote:
Very angry and hatefilled. Not good.
Lily wrote:
Their anger reflects the inherent ugliness of their souls.
@ Calo:
What in the world?
Wrong link
Lily wrote:
and here is the damning detail… any legitimate company when faced with a failed business plan corrects, restructures & redirects UNLESS they are subsidized (think GM) the fact that they do not change course proves they are in the tank.
Congress if it were for real would investigate.
Rodan wrote:
iceweasel is probably a big MSNBC fan.
Speranza wrote:
Yes it does and that anger draws in darkness.
I have my issues with Sean Hannity (his sucking up to that fat overrated pig Karl Rove, his being a buddy-buddy with Pat Buchanan) but I’ll say this for him -- he does have opposing views on his show.
brookly red wrote:
Ah didn’t think about that. But yeah I bet there is some obama dollars shoveled into that network. Illegal anyone?
Speranza wrote:
And that is what news should have opposing views. I like Hannity…he doesn’t bother me.
@ Lily:
@ Rodan:
@ Speranza:
and there you have it, all this time we thought CJ as a bloated looser when really he is a top shelf HR recruiter for the left. The joke is on us while he dips his Cheetos in caviar…
Lily wrote:
Pat Bucahanan the Jew hater and Karl Rove and his electoral maps bother me. Why does he call that toad “the architect” -- architect of what, defeat?
@ brookly red:
Good one!
@ Speranza:
Ah I didn’t say I agree with him all the time..but that is news and I shouldn’t.
brookly red wrote:
He must piss out Mountain Dew by the gallons every week.
Lily wrote:
I like Hannity but he is not perfect. His show is better ever since Alan “the Skeletor” Colmes left.
Speaking of Alan Colmes -- did you ever hear his interview with Charles Johnson?
Shiplord Kirel, that Benedict Arnold called in.
Did I kill this thread?
Lily wrote:
ahh and now the next little bitchin fact… what ever happened to the billions of unspent in stimulus money? (forgot about that didn’t you)
Why, it is being dolled out right now to local governments so they don’t have massive layoffs right before the election… just as predicted
Speranza wrote:
There’s no hope for this thread…
Speranza wrote:
this thread lives by God’s will you can’t kill it infidel
@ Speranza:
Caligula did!
@ brookly red:
The stimulus money went to his cronies and in part to keep government workers employed.
@ brookly red:
@ Rodan:
So let it be written, so let it be done!
More like Nero IMHO.
Rancher wrote:
Caligula’s nephew.
Speranza wrote:
proves my point, he is on their payroll
Speranza wrote:
yes but billions were kept in reserve to buy votes
Hi Rodan. Knowing that you consider yourself as a bit of a ‘petrolhead’ I thought that this might tickle your funnybone.
Enjoy
httpv://www.youtube.com/embed/ik9AtJQXaHQ?rel=0
Grrrr ?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/ik9AtJQXaHQ?rel=0
@ Speranza:
Rove on Greta again.
My mistake -- it was Jimmy from Lubbock aka “Shiplord Kirel” who called into Alan Colmes show to praise Charles Johnson. Jimmy the Claw occasionally posts here. Sorry.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Oh Gawd I have a GF with one of those mini things… fucking death traps.
Gee is Greta going to have Donald Trump on again?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Too funny!
That video is hilarious!
Speranza wrote:
Trump scares me… he might do something stupid.
Ahhh Yes but the styling looks great as you head for the big garage in the sky! LOL
brookly red wrote:
Goodnight nurse, Karl “Double Chin” Rove is on Greta showing some charts.
Does she have any one else on besides Newt, Palin, Rove, McCain, and Trump? She is useless as an interviewer.
Speranza wrote:
Hey I didn’t know that there was a NRA Chapter in ancient Egypt?
hehehe
Aussie Infidel wrote:
that’s what I tell her… they can just bury us together in here
Anna Nicole Smith, Natalee Holloway, Lacey Peterson -- she thrives on murder stories ad nauseum.
brookly red wrote:
He goes in for verbal overkill.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I had a lifetime membership… then they supported Harry Reid and I told them to suck a dead dog and never contact me again.
Oh look, 0′s slip is showing
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/16/lawmaker-accuses-fbi-official-faulty-testimony-on-how-bureau-handled-al-awlaki/
brookly red wrote:
Heeh ! I was referring to Charlton Heston and the NRA of yore!
@ brookly red:
Deus Vult….
Macker wrote:
God wants to what?
Work calls.
Later guys and gals!
brookly red wrote:
God Wills It! -- was the battle cry of the 1095 First Crusade.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Take care!
Speranza wrote:
wills what? refer to a post please
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Yes in Australia it is morning.
Douglas Wilder attended a Romney fundraiser.
brookly red wrote:
“Wills” the liberation of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
comment 143
brookly red wrote:
Oh OK the FBI under 0 letting terrorists go… I got it sorry.
@ brookly red:
It was a double meaning.
@ brookly red:
@ Speranza:
See my 150.
Deus vult!
Rodan wrote:
Charles Johnson to call him a raaaaacist n 5…4…3..2…seconds.
Rodan wrote:
I am not surprised, most blacks want better that what the dems have given them since Johnson
Rodan, I have something for you guys.
brookly red wrote:
You would think so.
Speranza wrote:
have you ever noticed that there are no blacks posting at LGF? well there was Afrocity but like most girls she got what she could from CJ and moved on.
@ The Osprey:
Email!
Speranza wrote:
*sigh* when you control the schools you control the minds. The most important thing we can do for this nation is to liberate the school system or we just get another generation of semi-literate civil service on the high end and 10 times as many welfare cases on the low end.
Rodan wrote:
I think I still have it somewhere.
this is great the SSA has 295 officers and buys 174,000 rounds of ammunition…
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/social-security-administration-explains-plan-buy-174000-hollow-point-bullets
either they plan martial law or they want to corner the market.
New Thread.
brookly red wrote:
Ot they want to buy ammo for training and use cheaply by buying in bulk. The purchase is supposed to cover a 5 year period, and 41 locations.
175000/41= 4268.29 rounds per location.
Assuming 10 officers per location average = that 426.83 rounds per officer spread over 5 years of use.
Not all that much if they have to shoot 100 rounds or so for qualification each year.
I’m not going to panic over it.
Speranza wrote:
I meant the scar further back on his head.
The Osprey wrote:
Thanks!
@ buzzsawmonkey:
“If you want the electric chair without the car around it, it will run a little less.”