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PREVIEW LONDINIUM 90AD: Gaius & Germanicus observe Musk challenge the emperor and his heir, Vance. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @michalis_vlahos

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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PREVIEW LONDINIUM 90AD: Gaius & Germanicus observe Musk challenge the emperor and his heir, Vance. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @michalis_vlahos
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0:00.0

I'm

0:02.0

My

0:07.0

Myrida This is the Friends History Debating Society. I'm Guy. Dumanicus is here. We're in our wine bar by the Thames. It's a beautiful summer evening.

0:39.0

The Centurians are very happy.

0:41.3

I think they've been gambling again.

0:42.9

But in any event, you don't ask a Centurion whether he's won money or not.

0:46.2

You assume that everything's well for him.

0:48.2

His family's gone home.

0:50.4

And the children get to stay up late tonight.

0:53.2

And we'll be on to the theater later.

0:55.5

Over right now, we're turning to a subject that is highly entertaining.

1:00.7

Elon Musk, the illegitimate son of the emperor, facing the legitimate son, that would be a man named Vans.

1:08.6

Elon Musk has announced on Twitter, well, formerly Twitter, he calls it X, who knows why,

1:15.8

that there is a new party forming called he calls the America Party.

1:20.4

There's no reason to believe he had investigated or had anybody investigate third parties in America,

1:25.4

but it has substance.

1:29.9

Third parties turn out to be the final element for victory on Election Day for the major parties, the partisans. But that's

1:39.2

not what entertains me. He said he's calling it an America party, and Germanicus and I on our way here, we're debating what's recognizable here?

1:49.5

Is it Liberty Party?

1:50.7

That would be Garrison having to do with the slaveocracy that turned into the Civil War.

1:57.1

Is it the no-nothings?

1:59.0

The no-nothings, that was a name that they were given because it was a secret gathering.

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