This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor Gaius with Germanicus and we're entertaining happy thoughts now and that means we're going to talk about Rome our Rome

Germanicus. I've been admiring the Julian-Claudean family from Augustus, well actually from Caesar,

because of the way they dispatched their predecessors, succession.

The one I'm now attracted to is Agrippina poisoning Claudius.

Actually, she poisoned his mushrooms because he was a he gorged himself on

mushrooms and then allowing her son Nero to become emperor I think that it was... By the way she also had to kill off the

troublesome Messina who was Nero's wife. I think I'm most attracted to Agrippina because she didn't mind that everybody

knew what she was doing. And that 2,000 years later, there's a style there that is hard to compete with.

The poison she used was from a known poisoner, somebody who was famous and was celebrated afterwards.

Never punished, of course, because she was a skill set. She was like a commodity. You

hired her and her poison was never obvious except for somebody in full health at a dinner would drop dead, you figure, well,

and that is not possible in America today. That's style entirely, which might explain why now there have been two attempts on a

candidate's life and there's almost no discussion on the forums where they talk about threat to democracy, threat to American Republic,

threat to the way our way of life, it's just not a topic. Is that because they've lost the magic of succession?

Is that because they don't regard it as real?

There is a desire by the first estate to be in complete control.

And you can see the efforts being made to exert that control through the proposal of various mechanisms of

censorship which would be put into play if Blue Wins in November.

And at the same time, much of that control is already extant, the mainstream media refuses to address the very issue

you just raised.

And they've managed to tamp and down outcry because there's no free and open debate at the higher traditional level of so-called journalistic discourse and as a result there's

there's no real discussion of issues which is a form of of control and a form of control and a form of premonition, a kind of

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