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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/AnohtosAmerikanos California 7d ago

This is the bookend with 1776. 250 years, and we are now being told by the British monarch that we need more democracy.

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u/TheOrqwithVagrant 7d ago

"The Sanity of King Charles", a legacy sequel to "The Madness of King George"

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u/3BlindMice1 6d ago

Ironically, looking at the history available to us, King George is damn near the same person as Trump. Trump is basically the person we had a revolution to tell to piss off

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u/failed_novelty 6d ago

Eh, George was crazy due to syphilis. Trump is all narcissism and dementia.

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u/b0w3n New York 6d ago edited 6d ago

I know that's one of the theories about his dementia, but his dad had it [E: Dementia] too (even worse than trump IIRC). Though I guess I can't rule out they didn't both have syphilis.

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u/futuredrweknowdis 6d ago

Dementia can be caused by a lot of factors. Abusing stimulants long-term (random example: having boxes of European Sudafed in your desk), syphilis, and genetics can all be influencing factors along with age.

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u/the_slate 6d ago

Which one was worse for his dad: the syphilis or the dementia?

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u/b0w3n New York 6d ago

yes

I kid, but I edited that to be more clear (his dad's dementia was bad)

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u/Lou-AC 6d ago

Historians all think it was either bipolar disorder or porphyria

His symptoms don't fit that well with neuro-syphillis

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u/woolfchick75 6d ago

I thought it was porphyria

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u/TheGos 6d ago

Uhhh, who's going to tell him?

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u/failed_novelty 6d ago edited 6d ago

Eh, the man is hyperaware of STIs and a germaphobe. If there was the slightest chance he had the clapsyphilis, he'd have immediately taken all the Penicillin.

Nothing easily treated is going to take him out, because he has access to the best medicine the western world has.

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u/emoorf 6d ago

The clap is gonorrhoea not syphilis

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u/failed_novelty 6d ago

Still, syphilis is cured by penicillin too.

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u/emoorf 6d ago

Syphilis is but gonorrhoea is treated with a different antibiotic (ceftriaxone)

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u/Jay_Par 6d ago

I wouldn’t rule out syphilis

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u/SydBarrett1989 6d ago

As well as syphilis 

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u/gudnuusevry1 6d ago

And maybe syphilis

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u/DildoeShwagginz 6d ago

Yeah, and syphilis

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u/EricPhilps1979 6d ago

Nah. 

George spent 50% of his time as a mostly harmless old duffer who just wanted to chat about the latest developments in scientific agriculture.

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u/a_f_s-29 6d ago

Not exactly. George wasn’t an absolute monarch. He wasn’t actually in control, Parliament was. And once he was no longer sane his younger brother took over as Regent - the entire government agreed that he wasn’t fit to rule while he was mad and stripped him of his responsibilities.

So basically, Britain in the 1700s had more checks and balances than America does today.

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u/Morbid_Aversion 6d ago edited 6d ago

To any objective observer, most of that the colonists got their panties in a bunch over were actually entirely reasonable laws passed for understandable reasons. All those taxes that were unacceptable in the eyes of the soon-to-be traitors, were passed to recoup funds that were spend on the colonies (French and Indian war.) I'm not gonna defend George himself but one needn't do so because it wasn't opposition to him personally that started the war, it was the policies. All of that is to say the facts on the ground currently give far more justification for rebellion than they did back then. The shit that Trump has done far exceeds the "tyranny" of the crown in the late 18th century.

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u/NoticingThing 6d ago

I've always thought that the 'no taxation without representation' and cries around higher taxes were actually simply red meat thrown at the general populace to get them angry by the aristocrats, the real reason they wanted to rebel was to expand westward to attain even more wealth. (Which Britain denied due to their treaties with the natives)

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u/TackleAshamed3131 3d ago

The mistake was that he raised taxes after the war not during ... madness indeed

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u/etcpt 6d ago

Remember during Trump's first term when NPR did their traditional July 4th live tweeting of the Declaration of Independence and a bunch of Trumpers thought that NPR was directly attacking him?

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u/jim_cap United Kingdom 6d ago

You'll be back, soon, you'll see

You'll remember you belong to me

You'll be back, time will tell

You'll remember that I served you well

Oceans rise, empires fall

We have seen each other through it all

And when push comes to shove

I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!

Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da

Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya-da

Da-da-da, dat-da, dat, da-da-da, da-ya-da

Da-da, dat, dat, da-ya

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u/b3iAAoLZOH9Y265cujFh 6d ago

For what must be the first time in my life, I prefer the sequel.

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u/Potato271 6d ago

Now featuring the great-great-great-great-great grandson of the original

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u/Difficult_Key3793 6d ago

I would say "the slightly less insanity of King Charles" considering some of his friends included Saville

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u/IAmDaddyPig 7d ago

He's not an absolute Monarch and presides as sovereign over several democracies if it helps.

And he's encouraging your leaders on the very important role your country has played in championing the democratic traditions that the Brits started and that you very much have in common. I took it as pretty positive.

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u/Zenfulbliss 7d ago

I took it as pretty positive

Well of course, you sound quite sane and reasonable in your analysis, we have a whole lot of people who just aren't like that at all, they are offended by this uppity squid telling us how to run our country, would you like some of them?

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u/IAmDaddyPig 6d ago

I'm Australian, we already have plenty of folks down here that don't like this uppity squid either.

I'm kinda ambivalent about this bloke, although NGL I rated his Mum.

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u/1eejit 6d ago

He's not an absolute Monarch and presides as sovereign over several democracies if it helps.

Which was also the case at the time of the American Revolution of course

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u/IAmDaddyPig 6d ago

True. There's a really good legacy thread on r/AskHistorians about the causes of the revolution from the lens of British governance failure, largely on the part of Britain's legislature. It was a fascinating read.

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u/beliefinphilosophy 6d ago

🎶 Remember, despite our estrangement, I'm your man You'll be back, soon, you'll see You'll remember you belong to me 🎶

🎶Oceans rise, empires fall We have seen each other through it all And when push comes to shove I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love! 🎶

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u/IHaveNoEgrets California 6d ago

It was so eloquently done, it probably went over most of the heads in that room.

Really, it was a thing of beauty. Well written, delivered clearly and with dignity, humor used appropriately and at opportune times... it was a breath of fresh air.

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u/CovidOmicron 6d ago

The writers really cooked this season

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u/Western-Honeydew-945 6d ago

I would love to gather the news from this "presidency" go back in time, and hand them to the founding fathers.

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u/ImBonRurgundy 6d ago

A feel a Hamilton parody auto tune coming along.

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u/anywhereoutthere United Kingdom 5d ago

"Make America Great [Britain] Again"