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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus discuss the surprising plutocrat Musk hopping in celebration at the Butler, PA rally for Trump. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus discuss the surprising plutocrat Musk hopping in celebration at the Butler, PA rally for Trump. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

1737 Londinium

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0:00.0

This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius.

0:04.0

Dramaticus is here. We're in Londinium.

0:07.0

It's come fall in Londinium. The Thames is turbulent.

0:12.0

It's cool in the evening. Our second cup of wine warms us. We'll

0:17.1

go to the theater later. The centurians have shopped with their families. All is well

0:22.3

in the kingdom by the river.

0:25.0

We're very far from Rome and secure, as you know, that's important to us,

0:29.0

because we're aquas class, meaning we're not as rich as senators, but we do have something to worry about,

0:36.0

which is the Greeks work for us, and that means everybody knows everything about our wealth. At the same time we like to speculate

0:45.8

about politics. It is not safe to talk about the politics of Rome, even to talk. We

0:51.6

certainly don't write anything down. We've found, however, we can talk about the

0:55.7

politics of the 21st century and not get in trouble. It's a gift. We can also talk about the

1:02.4

intervening 21 centuries and not get in trouble.

1:06.6

So here we go paying attention to the 21st century on the basis of our education in the first century AD.

1:16.0

Augustus is our God.

1:17.5

We thank him for the success of the Julian, Claudian reign and Vespasian and his two sons, Dation. The Domition is now the second son in charge,

1:30.0

have not filled in the gap. There will be a success ahead of us, not just Nerva, but Trajan and Hadrian

1:37.4

and the second century will go well. We're keen on, however, what's going on in the 21st century.

1:44.0

Within these last hours, the richest man in the solar system in the 21st century, a young man

1:50.8

named Musk, Bunny hopped on the stage for the new Gracas brother, as Germanicus has

1:58.8

identified, Donald Trump, bunny hopped, the richest man in the solar system, bunny hopping to get the

2:05.2

crowd cheering and nothing was more obvious to me as I watched that bunny hop than

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