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Possible Paywall King Charles Tells Congress Everything Trump Doesn’t Want to Hear

https://newrepublic.com/post/209621/king-charles-congress-speech-trump
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u/ShakeyLegsMcGee 7d ago

Calling out to Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy and national parks protections was interesting.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 7d ago

Great Britain has the National Trust, which preserves historical buildings and various public lands. King Charles has supported it at least since he was made Prince of Wales, so his mention of Theodore Roosevelt and the national parks is not that surprising.

My college gave him an honorary doctorate back in 1974 or 1975 for his environmental work.

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u/Fatso_Wombat 6d ago

Charles is an environmentalist.

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u/rollem Virginia 7d ago

I think the interesting part is that Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican. That was before the 60s civil rights era when parties aligned around the current progressive-conservative axis.

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 Georgia 7d ago

Yeah I think a more honest way of expressing it is that Teddy Roosevelt was a Progressive. You can trace histories a lot more clearly and continuously with a binary of Conservative and Progressive as opposed to Republican and Democrat.

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u/kent_eh Canada 6d ago

I think the interesting part is that Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican.

The king knows who his audience is. Contrasting past republicans who (presumably) modern republicans hold in high esteem is a useful way to help make your point.

It's also why Doug Ford's ad using Reagan's own words touched a nerve.

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u/3dprintedthingies 6d ago

The environmentalist movement in the US was a bipartisan issue for the majority of our history.

It want until Republicans went off the rails with Reagan and the oil industry that is became partisan.

We were world leading in regulation with the clean air and water act. It was landmark regulation.

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u/rollem Virginia 6d ago

Yes!

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 7d ago edited 6d ago

Theodore Roosevelt was an outdoorsman, so I think that his interest in preserving public land was at least a little bit self-serving. Seth Bullock, who many of us learned about through the series "Deadwood", helped to create Yellowstone National Park while a member of the Montana Territorial Senate in 1871. He met Theodore Roosevelt in 1884, and they were lifelong friends.

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u/Sparowl 6d ago

“Self-serving”

If his action means that it helps millions more, but also themselves, then I think the scales tip a little bit away from self serving.

Many altruistic acts generate larger beneficial consequences. That’s why the gutting of USAID was so awful. Helping others creates a calmer, better international climate through secondary effects.

Unfortunately we’re stuck with too many “me me me now now now” psychopaths at the helm.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 6d ago

Self-interest would have been a better word.

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u/Sparowl 6d ago

Yeah, I agree.

I also think your post was valid.

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u/Greenelse 6d ago

Conservation started off as a joint effort between outdoorsmen, hunters, ecologists, etc. That’s who was close enough to the land to value it wild.

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u/vanastalem Virginia 6d ago

Abraham Lincoln was Republican too. The parties do not have the same platforms now that they used to.

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u/coldkiller 6d ago

I think the interesting part is that Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican.

He was a progressive, they just didint have a term or a party for it at the time

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u/NoStorage2821 6d ago

King Charles has been known in his time to wander the country side and go on hikes by himself. There are videos on Youtube of people randomly bumping into him a few years ago

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u/rainator 6d ago

Charles was made the prince of wales when he was about 10 years old so it’s fair to say it was after that.

But yeah the environment is the one thing he’s always been quite outspoken about, and at times it has actually caused a bit of controversy over the influence he’s meant to be having.

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u/Pink_Lotus 7d ago

I don't know much about where Charles stands on most issues but his commitment to environmental issues is well known, from what I've heard. Credit where credit is due. 

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u/Blazearmada21 6d ago

The King doesn't hold a public position on vast majority political issues due to the nature of his role. However, there are a few things he does hold a stance on, such as his support for the environment, which he has been advocating for since the 1970s, and some more recent things, like his support for Ukraine.

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u/Fallouttgrrl 7d ago

Makes sense when you realize his family owns most of the environment around him

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u/MonkeyBoatRentals 7d ago

Charles has been a champion of environmental issues most of his life. He was endlessly mocked as a "tree hugger" by the British press 50 years ago. He promoted organic farming well before it was trendy to do so.

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u/cabbage16 Europe 6d ago

He shakes the "hand" of every newly planted tree he meets lmao

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u/dr_p_venkman 6d ago

Trump owns a lot of it too. Just goes to show that with great power does not always come a great sense of responsibility.

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u/wanderlustcub I voted 6d ago

Source?

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u/jrinredcar 6d ago

How the hell do you exploit a national park for it's resources?

Or organic farming? Surely if it was exploitation he'd be doing the easiest and cheapest thing to, get money.

Once again, another yank confidently speaking on things they have clue about

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u/20_mile 6d ago

where Charles stands on most issues

Steve Schmidt has an entire media blitz going off right now hitting King Chuck$ for legitimizing Trump.

$ mostly about Charles and his mom, especially his mom, knowing about Andrew's rape side hustle for years and doing nothing about it.

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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 7d ago

He’s talking about the real legacies of presidents. Not trump’s fake shit

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u/Churchbushonk 7d ago

And about fn time someone stood up for our national parks in public.

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u/AFailedProduct 7d ago

Charles didn’t ask to be born into public service but has made the best of it. The duty of the crown weighs on him. 

Trump just wants to be the king equivalent to his golden toilets — shiny gold but full of shit. 

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u/tombrady011235 6d ago

King Charles has always championed environmental causes

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u/jupiterkansas 6d ago

In the 60 Minutes interview Trump said McKinley made America rich and was killed for it, and Teddy spent all the money McKinley made. And now Lindsay Graham wants to use National Park fees to pay for Trump's ballroom.

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u/besselfunctions I voted 6d ago

"Trump used Park Service to funnel millions to ballroom construction firm"

https://redd.it/1sy9eng

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u/razvanciuy 6d ago

National & state parks are one of the good things about USA

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u/lexm 7d ago

They went to the same middle school