This is the French Vistory Debating Society. I am Gaius. Germanicus is here. We have much work to do in the

21st century in these closing hours of the 2024 election. One thing about the United States of

America, it has frequent elections. So we don't get too fixed in any one result. In fact, I'd rather

talk about the results of the 1940 election

than the 2024. However, Germanicus is here, and I'm going to take advantage of it.

Germanicus, Tiberius, a.k. Joe Biden. And Cleopatra, a.k. Kamala Harris. And the youngest of the

Grakai, Donald Trump, and his able Sancho Panza,

that would be Mr. Banz. They are finishing the campaign with lots of heated activity and travel,

hopping through the swing states. But there are things to be said of their conduct throughout this campaign

that have some purchase here in the first century AD.

We can recognize it.

For example, Tiberius.

He was a rascal.

He was more than that because he turned loose the dogs of war on his own people after the

Sejanus plot was exposed. It didn't take a lot of intelligence to expose it. Sejanus was a fool,

and the Senate turned on him, and Tiberius ordered the execution of everybody who'd ever spoken to

Sejanus.

Mr. Biden does not, in any fashion, have that kind of authority, but he's capable of misconduct. How did you read Mr. Biden's accidental use of the derogatory term garbage in a open mic conversation the other day.

There have been various interpretations.

One is that it was purposeful.

Another is that he misspeaks often, and this was easily confused grammar.

Another is that it just comes with the territory

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