If you’re not familiar with Caligula, do yourself a favor and read over his Wikipedia.

As they say, comedy = tragedy + time.

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    9 hours ago

    Oh I dunno, Trump isn’t so much a national tragedy as a national embarrassment and shame. He’s tacky, lecherous, unintelligent, crass and gross (literally walks around soiling himself), not much of a comparison to Caligula… That and Caligula tried to help his people with lots of public works; aqueducts etc. Apart from ergotism and hedonism, I don’t see it.

    I think Trump will ultimately be remembered a lot like Hitler is in Germany: deep national guilt and in general rarely spoken about and in sombre tones.

    Enduring legacy will depend on if he’s allowed to get to his German counterpart’s bodycount before the US population fixes the Trump problem…

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      8 hours ago

      I think the cuts from doge will cause a higher death toll abroad over the course of a decade or so.