[Tallguy]

Last days of the Roman Republic. Augustus Obama is dealing the cards and all (half) the Senate can do is whine before heading to their countryside villas to enjoy their perks while us plebes are crushed politically and the economy shifts to illegal/slave labor.

[Jacquerie]

Tradition says that Tiberius as often as he left the Senate-House used to exclaim in Greek, “How ready these men are to be slaves.” Clearly even he, with his dislike of public freedom, was disgusted at the abject abasement of his creatures. Tacitus Book III.