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

Germanicus is here. By the Thames. It's a summer afternoon.

It's quite beautiful. The thunderstorms in the area.

Italy can be hot. But we're not working. We're reflecting on the 21st century

quandaries that keep piling up. There's no time to go back and talk about the assassination or the

email retirement of the president. All spectacular events that in the future historians will go yeah really happened yeah just like

that however we're now looking at something from our time the year four

emperors, when Nero committed suicide because he was certain they were going to torture him to death, the Senate, I mean.

There were in succession a series of generals, Leggitts, who tried to claim the throne.

Eventually the winner was Vespasian, who hadn't tried to claim, but he had surrogates who did and he was

rewarded with the empire and his son and his two sons inherited from him we

have one of his sons now demolition, very unpopular. However, we're

speaking to the year of five emperors in 2024. Biden is obvious, Harris is obvious, Trump is obvious, Vance of Ohio is

obvious, the fifth emperor, we don't have it yet. We expect to have it this week. And there are three possibilities.

Maybe more, but the three are named. One from the southwest, Kelly, two from the Upper Midwest, walls, and three from the Mid-Atlantic, Shapiro.

Each of these regions are vital in their own way

for the Electoral College and for the argument

for the candidacy.

Trump committed himself to a red state young, very young senator,

Millennium.

Kelly is an astronaut.

Wals is a man of the people, and Shapiro is a rising star in the Democratic

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