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** Impeachment in 44BC was so much more ... immediate. Like, screw the whole court proceedings, with the waffling, definition of "is" (or "est", in Caesar's case), and getting off by a few votes out of a hundred. When the majority of the quorum literally stabs the guy, you know he done fucked up.

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I'm just saying, if this story ends like G. Iulius Caesar's* ... maybe not "worth it!" bc there was a war over secession after the OG dictator got ousted by the Roman Senate**, but ... it'd at least be funny/karma. *J wasn't a letter until, like, Elizabeth I's time.

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IDK, that looks more Roman symbolism to me (which Bonaparte and Hitler did co-opt). And it TOTALLY ended well for the guy in Rome what liked eagles and overstayed his welcome as The Boss. And also Mussolini.

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"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces." -- Helmuth von Moltke 1871 (and quoted by/misattributed to military men ever since). Or, more generally, Rabbie Burns said in 1785 "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley,"

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Everybody thought Brexit was a farce, but ol' Donny had to one-up Cameron and piss off the rest of NATO. In other news, Charles III is still technically king of Canada, right? So if God-Emperor Donald has a go at America's hat, can Chuck3 call up the rest of the Commonwealth to defend it?

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So I was commenting on the youtubs with a joke about my dad's Army service, wanted to namecheck the place he worked at, bc , y'know, a lot of US Military installations formerly named after traitors-- "Fort Bragg (formerly Fort Liberty from 2023 to 2025)" Not surprised, just disappointed.

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To make yesterday even worse, Cecile Richards died. Y'know, president of Planned Parenthood, all-around Good Noodle, daughter of the last good Governor of Texas*. *Fight me. Ann was a fuckin' badass.

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I'm not gonna say I was EXPECTING to be fighting off raiders in a post-WW3 hellscape when I woke up this afternoon ... but still TBD on whether this is the better outcome.

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Anybody want to see why I am annoyed by pistols in certain movies?and/or want to send me screenshots of said movies where somebody has a gun to their head ... but it's a 1911 with the hammer down? Bc that's not how that thing works, pre - ...1997ish? and even then ...

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Something something Russia? Yeah, they're the only country where that happened.

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So I replied to a youtube video about D.B. Cooper to the effect of "They didn't start looking for him for 40 hours? He could've stolen a car and benn in NYC by that time, the OG Cannonball Run was previous year and Gurney/Yates did Manhattan to Los Angeles in 36 hours"

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