Ryan Holiday

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #321 Ryan Holiday - The Stoic Survival Guide · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

Congress was supposed to zealously enforce its prerogatives.

Part of being a senator, part of the perk of being a senator and having a six-year term, whereas the president has a four-year term, is you're supposed to be able to go like this to the president when the president is wrong, right?

Congress has war-making powers, not the president.

But if Congress decides that they don't want to enforce that power, then the president has that power, right?

And if we have a partisan news environment where the left-wing media slobbers all over a left-wing president and the right-wing media slobbers all over the right-wing president, and then if the president has a cabinet and has been allowed to confirm a cabinet,

of people who are dependent on him and fully bought in on him, then the president's never gonna hear no and never gonna hear, that's a dumb fucking idea.

Like, what about this?

What about that?

And so...

I mean, we know historically what happens when people in positions of power are not subject to any checks and balances, and when their information diet is degraded.

Like, one of the oldest stories that we have about this is that the emperor has no clothes, right?

And when everyone says, hey, sir, we love your new outfit, and he's walking around naked, that there was a...

there was a reason, there's a moral to that story.

And it's funny, actually, Marcus Aurelius, the reason Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor is actually like 2,000 years earlier in illustration of that story.

So Hadrian does not have a son.

He's the emperor of Rome.

He doesn't have a son.

So he has to choose his successor.

And there's this kid.

He's a member of a sort of prestigious Roman family who somehow he meets.

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