So he's calling himself a king now, eh?
So he's calling himself a king now, eh?
Please don't elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump's useful idiot Doug Ford.
"long live the king", in the very country founded on saying fuck you to the last king. what a shameful display.
A country losing its way and straying far off from the ideals it originally strived for, becoming the very thing it fought against without realizing. That describes both the USA and Israel to a T.
Fuck congestion charges;
yourAmericas new King just gave himself supreme executive power over every single federal office including the ones meant to regulate him.https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/
/edit: didn't realize I was in a local community
Constitution is terminated (just like he said he would)
Article I
Section 9 Powers Denied Congress Clause 8 Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-4/ALDE_00013204/
Trump has been throughly wiping his ass with the constitution since the day he stepped into the whitehouse.
It's just meaningless paper until someone actually steps up and enforces it.
wellp, time for guillotines, i suppose.
I support this.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
~ attributed to Denis Diderot
Absolute monarchies tend to come to a very sticky end, as happened in England in the 17th century and France in the 18th.
Unfortunately, last time the people revolted, the gov only had muskets and heavy canons. This time around, the gov can assassinate you from high altitude with drones, missiles....and the gov forces have firepower that far exceeds what the population could fight against.
Good point. The English civil war and the French revolution both went the way they did because the 'rebels' had armies which equalled or exceeded those of the government. Same with the other regicide that comes to mind, Nicholas II of Russia in 1918. So much depends on whether the military remains loyal.
Unfortunately, there's never a shortage of people that will sign up to for power in exchange for a risk of dying horribly.
That's not even specific to monarchies, every autocracy runs on that principle.
Well, if they turn a portion of the population into true believers, deport/incarcerate/execute the CIS White remaining who oppose... Could get messy globally. The American Reich could easily be even more of a problem than Mr Niceguy Imperialist America. And that's saying something.
I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn't like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?
Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of "a joke".
So now when I see a fascist dog fucker "joking" about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn't my type of humor any more I guess.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Best thing I read on internet today, thanks
I'm an ADHD person and I had this exact same realization when I was younger.
I think maybe this isn't something neurotypicals ever figure out? Because they seem to be accepting of those "jokes" and it blows my mind.
They're well evolved to survive in social groups. Even if they suspect someone is recruiting for something terrible, the loss of social status and allies isn't worth confronting the recruiter. Even visibly suspecting it will harm social status. This is a feature, not a bug.
Historically, the kid who called out the emperor's new clothes was executed. Every time you started shit in your tribe, you risked being shunned, which meant death. If the whole tribe was crazy, you were better off being crazy too.
Who jokes about these things? Plausible deniability my ass. I ever hear someone joke about fucking animals I'm gonna slowly, no actually, rapidly back away
Who jokes about these things?
Exactly. Have you ever heard an elected president joke about being King or invading their peaceful neighbor? Ever? Anyone? Animal fuckers. Its the only thing that makes sense.
Congrats on writing one of two comments I've ever starred.
…holy fuck - that’s a real tweet.
No, it's not. Because it's not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it's built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called "retruths" because he calls posts on his instance "truths."
It's an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.
Thanks! I was already aware of that, but others might not be.
I used tweet in the generic sense because like hell I would ever say “Holy crap, that’s a real truth!”
1/3 of the population is freaking out and screaming, 1/3 is saying "hell yeah, brother", and a 1/3 is like "I thought egg prices were supposed to go down."
I guess you haven’t seen what the White House account posted then…
I’m going to be sick..
Maybe that's the motivation for invading Canada. Trump the First, by the grace of God, of Canada King, Defender of the Faith.
It is going very poorly here folks. There isn't any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.
That's not good enough.
The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don't use those services.
...oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.
It's amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don't like.
Also corporate and bank bailouts are fine
Very REPUBLICAN, that traitor.
America needs a 1918.
or an 1814.
I'm no monarchist but in Canada we have an actual king and the idea that HRH would busy himself with such petty quibbles as ...tolls is laughable.
Also, if the King tried to do anything, it would trigger a constitutional crisis in Canada and we'd collectively tell him to get fucked.
No no, you're not reading it in the right tone of voice, it's Long Live the King
They make it seem like regicide is a bad thing.
I guess Arthur was wrong, you do vote for kings!
At least it wasn't decided by a strange woman lying in a pond distributing swords. That would be no basis for a system of governance!
Frankly, I would trust a watery tart throwing a sword at someone much more than the American people.
well.....
To be fair in this case I don't think we have much right to make fun of them until tolls get placed on the DVP.
More the
kingfascist dictator issuing decrees from on high. But yeah, under Doug Ford, Ontario transportation revolves around spending as many billions as possible to try to speed up his commute (while actually making it worse).