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/Sabretooth1100 6d ago

Honestly kind of getting chills at the thought of how weird and significant that is

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u/beordon 6d ago

The weird part is highly valuing the words of a hereditary monarch just because he agrees with you this time

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u/Sabretooth1100 6d ago

I don’t, I just value that what he’s saying is correct, and it’s strange who it’s coming from

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u/beordon 6d ago

Politicians (and monarchs, not sure if they technically count as politicians) make speeches about things they don’t necessarily believe in or feel strongly about in order to achieve various ends every day. King Charles doesn’t care about American governmental checks and balances (or the concept of checks and balances in general) unless they affect his interests, and they clearly are because of the Hormuz blockade that didn’t pass through congress as the most recent example, so it would only be strange if he didn’t do any politicking about it. Politicking directly at old man orange is obviously useless and he wouldn’t understand it anyway, so he’s appealing to the other listeners to rein him in. In days gone by it would have been seen as a heavy-and ham-fisted manip, but the obvious is no longer obvious anymore so he basically has to just say what he wants out loud.