I remember my first playthrough similarly - I joined the Stormcloaks thinking the rebels are usually the good guy underdogs… that was before they started spouting their racist ayrean views, lost all sympathy for the cause at that point and made that storyline less enjoyable.
Same! Fuck this guy!
Without looking into it, it is entirely possible they were.
They are still waiting on their delivery of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Any day now.
My take is that he sees himself as Julius Caesar reincarnate, who spelled the end of the Republic, and wants to be the first emperor of the USA. If you read about the last days of the Republic there are so many historically rhyming events that with the current state of America, a repeat of history seems almost inevitable. A spate of military wins means Rome becomes very rich very quickly, disband rival military power which leads to pirates and banditry, widespread extremes of wealth and poverty, politicians riling the public up into a frenzy with populist talking points, using corrupt judiciary system to punish their political opponents, plebs forcing themselves in on senate discussions, Krassus was a mega oligarch banker who bankrolled politicians and held debts as favours to call on, the Bona Dea scandal, Clodius being unceremoniously taken to court for sneaking into a women-only festival, who is betrayed by another political rival Sicero only to then be equitted (jury was bribed), and the subsequent crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar, leading to insurrection, more political assassinations, and the fall of the Republic.
I would say he is as spiteful and vengeful as Clodius (and feels wronged in the same way he did by the court cases against him), is as ambitious as Caesar, has Musk as his Krassus-figure backing him, craves attention and celebration of himself like Pompey, and thinks he is as important and catalytic to political change as the Gracchus brothers were.
Trump aspires to be as awful and as “great” as the conniving ruling class of ancient Rome, because he us just as morally bankrupt as many of them.
However all of these observations seem at odds with the way he presents himself - seemingly senile, lexicon of a five-year-old, and lacks any of the charisma and knack for timing that the great orators of the Senate had. In comparison, Trump as an isolated figure is but a skidmark compared to the intellectual brilliance of the Roman elite.
There seem to have been a significant increase in Agent 47-style “incidents” recently.
Birthday Boy
You may like a song I co-wrote in an old band as a joke a few years back. We didn’t do anything with it really, but it eventually got played on local radio (once) which was quite nice.
And we all know how the “I was only following orders” defence goes down in the Hague…
After Trump previously tried to sell Greenland, it wouldn’t surprise me to hear him wanting to sell Alaska back to Russia in a backhand deal.
Maybe the genie misheard him saying he wished to be immortal and heard that he wished to be immoral.
I don’t wish multiple gout-related limb amputations on many people, buuuut…
In the same breath, we now have climate scientists saying that remaining below 1.5° this century is all but a pipedream, right wing leaders surging in Italy, Germany, France, Hungary, and other EU countries stoking socially regressive rhetoric, and the AMOC could fail as soon as 2026, plunging Europe temperatures by 10° and causing a new annual storm front akin to Florida right above France and Germany. I am less than optimistic for Europe’s future as a whole, as crises drive further nationalism and right wing populism. In future, with european crops struggling under these worse conditions and with the UK currently reliant on imports for 60% its food, the worst is likely yet to come for us.
Let’s face it - at this point, it will take Toby Jones acting in a widely-popular ITV series about the Palestinian genocide for the Government to change their stance on Israel. Has anyone got his contact details?
I hear great things about Doctor Ed Immigration-Papers
Worse, they normalised 2 adults per household working 8 hours per day.
I was going to say he looks like the end result of ten generations of incestuous breeding of the Osmonds.
He’ll blame it on a department he’s looking to dismantle.
The sentence really should have been tied to a post in the front row of a Dethklok concert, where his hands are sliced off by the hovering lighting rig laser drones, his gigantic belly ripples against the might of Murderface’s bass rig until the skin tidal waves over his face suffocating him, then a portal to hell opens directly in the cavity where his brain should be and sucks his body (inside-out) into a fiery pit of sulphur and flame, promptly ending the Trump reign and starting 1000 years of Dethklok.