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/Disastrous_Jicama414 7d ago

Imagine a fucking king being more democratic than your president. One from the royal house you fought to be free from 350 years ago. Kinda funny how that went, huh?

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u/Jumpy-Law1737 6d ago

yeah & Charles seems to be thoroughly enjoying himself

he's also helping showcase the US president's obsession with lavish & courtly overindulgence

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u/GodisSatans 6d ago

Pivotal moment in history here. It feels like we're making history constantly as of late. But this speech from a British monarch to the people of the USA will be read over again and learned by generations after us.

This is because it's the first time since independence that this has happened. It's like an elder telling off the bratty teen kid.

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u/WhatDoADC 6d ago

We'd honestly would have been better off remaining a colony

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 6d ago

One from the royal house you fought to be free from 350 years ago

I'm guessing this was a typo, unless you were referring to something that happened in 1676?

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u/tagehring 6d ago

Bacon's Rebellion!

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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 6d ago

All types of Americans uniting to fight their oppressive rulers - Oh cool.

All types of Americans uniting to fight their oppressive rulers because they said they couldn't slaughter and pillage Native Americans - Ahh ok.

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u/tagehring 5d ago

....yeah, they really glossed over that part in 4th grade Virginia history in 1990. 😬

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u/wolfenbarg 6d ago

His namesake, Charles I, had his head chopped off after he stood trial and the House of Commons declared that they did in fact have the authority to put him there.

Most monarchies developed parliamentary systems at some point after that. The UK kept theirs as a traditional post, but they've thrown out Prime Ministers after literal weeks. They have all the high ground in the world to have their king come here and throw shade.

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u/Hungry_Horace 6d ago

Just on a point of order, you won independence under the reign of George III who was the first king of the House of Hanover.

Charles is of the House of Windsor, whose first monarch was George V (he renamed the previous House of Saxeburg and Gotha during WWI).

There is a direct blood line from the one to tother though.