Trump Thread

**edyzmedieval** · 01-23-2017, 05:57

Well that turned down south quickly. From... uhm... what's this thread about... to shirtless bro Skyping.

**Sarmatian** · 01-23-2017, 13:45

So, all we needed for some of the Old Guard to check back was Trump winning the election.

**Greyblades** · 01-23-2017, 16:28

He's been in power three days and he's allready making the org great again.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-23-2017, 18:03

Originally Posted by Sarmatian

So, all we needed for some of the Old Guard to check back was Trump winning the election.

To be fair to MRD, I actually use this site to gauge some of the sensibilities of those of you folks "cross the pond." It isn't reported upon here with much depth in the mainstream media.

**HopAlongBunny** · 01-23-2017, 21:29

Thank you Seamus for getting the thread somewhat back on the rails :)
Particularly since, "Sicily Moment" refers to Athens fatal error of sending the fleet to loot Sicily during the winter "downtime", and before the resumption of Spartan hostilities in campaign season.
The price of pride and greed was to lose Athens; it would rise again...but..

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-23-2017, 23:50

Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny

Thank you Seamus for getting the thread somewhat back on the rails :)
Particularly since, "Sicily Moment" refers to Athens fatal error of sending the fleet to loot Sicily during the winter "downtime", and before the resumption of Spartan hostilities in campaign season.
The price of pride and greed was to lose Athens; it would rise again...but..

The Peleponnesian War always seemed such a disconnected sort of affair. As though the whole thing happened in fits and starts without any strategic plan by anyone.

**Montmorency** · 01-24-2017, 01:33

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

The Peleponnesian War always seemed such a disconnected sort of affair. As though the whole thing happened in fits and starts without any strategic plan by anyone.

Well, it did involve many leading figures over several decades. There's no one "administration" to point to.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 01-24-2017, 02:09

Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

The Peleponnesian War always seemed such a disconnected sort of affair. As though the whole thing happened in fits and starts without any strategic plan by anyone.

That seems an accurate assessment.

**HopAlongBunny** · 01-24-2017, 04:38

I admit my study of it is not thorough; outside of Thucydides book I know very little; but the Sicilian expedition marks a turning point.
My proposition is that Trump also marks a turning point.

I would go so far as to call Trump "Americas' Pivot Man"

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 01-23-2017, 18:01

Originally Posted by edyzmedieval

Well that turned down south quickly. From... uhm... what's this thread about... to shirtless bro Skyping.

"down South?"

As a resident of the southernmost of the continental United States, I mis-admire your use of that phrase as belittling of the nobility of the Southlands.

Moreover, even the Spartans thought it seemly to have a younger man, rippled from his noble efforts at the gymnasium and enlightened by his studies of philosophy and the law, taken "under the wing" of an older veteran to ensure the proper development of his manliness. How can you think less of this?