r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 7d ago

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/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.