Donald Trump is directing US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to pay military personnel despite the federal government shutdown.
The president said on Saturday that Hegseth must make sure troops do not miss out on their regular paycheque, scheduled for Wednesday. The directive comes as other government employees have already had some pay withheld and others are being laid off.
“I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
Damn, that’s almost exactly what Caracalla did after inheriting the throne of his father, Septimius Severus. “Enrich the soldiers. Spurn everybody else” were allegedly some of his last words of advice to his son.
Caracalla went on to reign like a dictator for years, but he met his end while taking a piss on the side of the road. He had put so many people to death that one of the soldiers on his personal retinue was brother to one of these victims. One stab of a gladius later and that was all it took.
May history reward us with synchronicity in this particular case.
It’s almost like we have this whole written history to learn from and the people unable or uninterested in learning keep doing the same shit because they didn’t know it was tried before.
Wasn’t Caracala following the same policy his father had? Is this the same guy who killed his brother in front of his mother?
Yes and yes. The severan dynasty was arguably the craziest one to ever reign over Rome. After Caracalla we got Elegabalus and his grandmother and the shit they got up to was so over the top even Game of Thrones would pass.