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I can't tell if you're serious with this post or if you're making fun of Trump supporters, because there was a ton of this dumbass "rubicon" talk back when he was failing to prove he got cheated out of a second term.FUN HISTORY LESSON:
Facing the rest of his life being mired in frivolous court battles, politically-driven imprisonment, and stripped of all rank and success, Julius Caesar took his army across the Rubicon, took Rome by threat of force and installed himself as dictator for life, emperor in all but name, and setting the foundation for Rome to become an empire.
It was these legal threats that spurred Caesar to cross the ruicon and made an amenable situation into open violence and the end of the republic.
Caesar was not the first threatened in such a way, nor the first to rule Rome as a self-appointed dictator, however he was the first to defeat it, and the result of weaponizing courts to ‘defend the republic’ was in fact the republic’s downfall.
None of this is relevant to today ofc tho Cheeto Hitler looks like a fish and democracy is saved from the drumpfing bad guys once again!