Mary Beard: ‘Nigel Farage is today’s Julius Caesar’
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Was Literally Hitler™ too played out? Why not invoke Napoleon or Genghis Khan, while we're at it?
Because I'm holding out for a modern day Vlad Tepes.
"This won't be the impaling you're used to."
Vlad Tepes, circa 2024
Well, according to them, Genghis Khan is a hero for killing so many people that Climate Change(tm) was slightly reduced for a while.
Press X to doubt. Farage is a quitter.
She says that like it's a bad thing.
I watched a canvasser and a candidate who were leafleting for Reform and getting an idea of whether people are going to vote. Half of the people they asked were put off voting because of Channel 4's recent expose into an actor who was canvassing in Clacton. The people, including Reform voters, are listening to the media despite what we're being told by Reform supporting commentators online.
The media's focus on Reform is only going to intensify in the next day or two as the media are attempting to portray Reform as a paid up UK arm of the Kremlin and attempt to get candidates to denounce the party and throw their support behind the Tories alongside the usual -ists and -phobics they are already portraying the candidates as. Bear in mind that Reform is the only political party that has gone on record to denounce and call for the abolition of the BBC, its licence fee and Channel 4 and I suspect that the mainstream parties and the mainstream media want Reform to be seen as toxic in the run-up to the election.
If only.
I can't see Caesar getting "milkshaked" twice.
Caesar was famous for his clementia. He proposed life imprisonment rather than death for the Catilinian conspirators, which was not done at the time. He pardoned even men who fought against him, who ended up murdering him.
So ironically, he probably would get milkshaked twice.
True, but he also put to death the pirates who kidnapped him as a boy. I think we can compromise and say it would depend on who milkshaked him.
After telling them to increase his ransom because he was worth more
Mega Chad
She's such a hideous Lefty. She represents the Wokening of even Ancient History studies. I loathe her, her horrible speaking voice and her hag-witch appearance, which are in truth the only reason she's a Tele-Don.
Her work has never been groundbreaking, and she is hardly an original thinker.
Another woke fraud.
I would be beyond honored to be compared to Julius Caesar.
To compare me to perhaps the most influential and accomplished man in history would flatter me to no end.
Nigel Farage isn't even an off-brand, after-market, Cicero.