America has no Caesar, Pompey, or Crassus because it must first have the Clodius Pulcher-esque androgynous flamboyant thug-politician who could forcefully cultivate a harem of catamites and dress effeminately in such a way that it only affirms his masculine virtú - here, the Man https://twitter.com/devine_shane_/status/1245864574781276160

To understand the Baskin-Exotic conflict we must look to the political rivalry between Cicero and Clodius - the former a bureaucratic moralist, the latter a free, criminal spirit beloved of the plebeians and feared by his fellow patricians

(Notice the similarities?)

No doubt if Joe Exotic had made it to a CNN stage in his runs for office he would have made an attempt to cuck his opponent as Clodius attempted to do with Caesar during the rites of the Bona Dea, an act which had scandalized housewife Cicero calling for his smelling salts

Like Clodius, Joe Exotic would have - maybe WILL HAVE... - excited the blood of our body politick to bouts of open street violence, using bolstered guilds and unions as populist gangs to bludgeon protestors and set fire to the houses of opposition. A blunter republic.

This is what Jackson would have wanted. Dueling restored, congressmen jumping each other in the streets of Washington with bands of muscled American workers at their backs, the sterility of contemporary sexual movements subverted in hierarchical displays of phallic prowess

ONE OF THE ROUGHS LARGE PROUD AFFECTIONATE EATING DRINKING AND BREEDING HIS COSTUME MANLY AND FREE HIS FACE SUNBURNT AND BEARDED HIS POSTURE STRONG AND ERECT HIS VOICE BRINGING HOPE AND PROPHECY TO THE GENEROUS RACES OF YOUNG AND OLD WE SHALL CEASE SHAMMING AND BE WHAT WE ARE