America was born by rejecting kings. Yet in Congress, King Charles sounded like he remembered constitutional limits, legislative deliberation, and NATO’s loyalty after 9/11 better than Congress
I think people take a dim view of Charles, possibly for a few reasons. One manifestation of that view came either from Brian Cohen or his guest, who focused on the script Charles read, and the scriptwriters who wrote it, as if to remind that Charles himself couldn't have come up with it. And that's not unlikely true, of anyone who presents a speech. But what a magnificent speech it was. There was no place to hide, and even supporters of the princess (I used to call that person Donnie, then, the clown, and now, princess) responded with standing ovations. Will they have the nerve to put their money (literally?) where their clapping hands were? It remains to be seen.
It was an excellent speech. Too bad the only ones listening were the Democrats and citizens. I don’t know if the Republicans even bothered to try and understand it. It was a history lesson, something that the White House has their own fairy tale of. I do hope they regain consciousness soon. Maybe a little psychotherapy is in order.
Could we please borrow the King for a few months? Just long enough to give us some hope about a better future. Our Supposed King has defecated on the entire world!
I doubt tRUMP and the Republicans in Congress give a shit that a monarch from across the pond who we fought a war with in order to gain independence both from foreign rule and a monarchy in order to build a country where it's citizens hold the last card in governing their own nation. tRUMP and the Repos most DEFINITELY don't want that and have hoodwinked their own constituents by not only raising their fear of the unknown but accentuating it with one lie after another, preying on them literally by telling them they'll have nothing left if tRUMP and the Repos lose power. Apparently, not understanding that the ONLY way they're gonna lose their power is by voting Republicans to STAY in power. Yet what have the Republicans in power now done for the average American save stealing all their tax money to give as continual tax cuts for the wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay the same or more. And that our children , grandchildren and great grandchildren will be forced to pay for. Perhaps for generations to come.
Now it would be one thing to use it to pay off our huge debt that the Repos ALWAYS and forever contribute hugely to when they're in power, then turn around when Democrats are in power and paint it as ALL the Democrats doing and problem because we are supposedly paying all this money out for welfare care to people who only abuse the privilege when, in actuality, 60% of the Americans requiring and getting said aid are Republicans. But they don't ever bother to tell them that, unfortunately.
So when push comes to shove and they're dropped from Medicaid and SNAP they have no one to blame but themselves. And the thing is, idiots that they are, it only took a few weeks for tRUMP to completely back peddle on literally everything he promised
during elections. But this is not something new for tRUMP. And last time he was in office, he managed to commit genocide against his own people and kill nearly a million innocent Americans in little more than a year. And he pretty much openly admitted as much when interviewed by Bob Woodward when he said first, that he understood on some level that the pandemic was a very bad situation. And, second, when Bob asked him about why he told outright lies to the public about it among other things, tRUMP said openly and honestly that he LIKES to lie and simply keeps lying to see how far he can take it. Well, the loss of a million innocent Americans was where all his lies about the pandemic took him. And he NEVER, not once, apologized to the American people for it. Not once.
And yet, somehow, he got re-elected. After killing a million innocent Americans by lying and simply ignoring the situation because he simply didn't want to be bothered and because it was mucking up his planned re-election campaign.
He was also attempting to use the pandemic as a means to outright GET RID OF DEMOCRATS. He openly said that. He said he'd deny any type of assistance to blue states. Unfortunately, Democrats, who tend to be somewhat more educated and intelligent and actually do believe in science, were smarter than the average bear and made the necessary adjustments in their daily living to avoid both catching COVID and passing it on.
But more of the Republicans preferred to believe all tRUMP'S theories and lies no matter just how ridiculous they were. So a lot more people got sick and died in deep red states who fought any mandates to mask and keep a certain distance and regardless of the fact that tRUMP has NO medical or research education or training. NONE whatsoever. We've known that these simple things have been known and utilized throughout history to control epidemics and pandemics when little else was available. This stuff is like common knowledge and practices.
So, in essence, what tRUMP and the Repos want and are gearing up for is NOT to maintain OUR democracy. Instead, they are hard at work tryinging to completely destroy it in favor of total oligarchy authoritarian or totalitarian rule. Where we become subjects and are no longer afforded anything resembling a democratic nation. Oh, likely we'll be allowed to vote, it's just that our votes will count for little or nothing. And while our cost of living goes up often exponentially and we can afford less and less and where our taxes skyrocket well past what we're even seeing now, the oligarchy rule will continue to expand. And they'll continue to need more money much of which tRUMP will continue to spend on a ballroom we can ill afford and various other monuments to himself with his name in giant gold letters on top of all of them all.
In fact, my guess is if the ballroom gets built to his specs, tRUMP will take one very critical look at it, decide the White House is an eyesore and he'll demolish it to put up a new tRUMP Tower. Again, topped with his name in big gold letters across the top.
So, again, King Charles's fantastic speech that was meant to put the American people on notice about the fact that we are losing our country NOT to another country but to a charlatan who only seeks great power and great money for himself and his fellow billionaires and screw democracy, will most certainly fall on deaf ears as far as tRUMP and the Repos in office are concerned. And the MAGAs and others who side with tRUMP will eventually find themselves with naught and they'll be the ones to blame for much of it simply because they no longer think critically for themselves. And the very WORST part of it? They'll blame the Democrats just as they are doing now. Yet the Democrats hold little or no power right now in Congress. Everything that gets passed in Congress is done by their own Republican representatives that THEY elected to serve them in Congress. And they are definitely NOT serving their constituents in ANY way. The only people they truly care to serve is......themselves and wealthy billionaires and CEOs. So they gave their money, votes and power over to the very people who will exploit their own constituents most for their own personal benefit. And NOT on help for the very individuals who need it to survive.
And, believe me, Democrats are almost as much to blame because they semi underestimate the amount of shenanigans Repos in office are happy to engage in to get their way. And they haven't really gotten down to brass racks and narrowed down the number of things that are THE most important right now. And the top one is figuring out how to reach other Republicans and unlock the fear or fears their representatives have managed to infect them with and find a way to reach them on their level because it's patently evident that just trying to rationalize and/or educate them simply falls on deaf ears. They can't hear it and we need to know why so that we can counteract it ASAP.
Hungary has finally been able to reach victory in ridding themselves of an authoritarian ruler who was in power for almost 2 decades under a government that ruled the country with an iron fist and where common people had few rights. And, if they can gain freedom from an illigitamate authoritarian type government and rule? Well, then, for God's sake, so the fuck can We the People!! And we NEED to do so NOW . Before we lose everything that makes us who we are in the world. A beacon of democracy and not one of dictatorial fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, monarchism, communism, or anything that takes our democracy away. And these are the very things King Charles pointed out in his speech to Congress, tRUMP and WE the PEOPLE. And coming from a monarch, that is a warning for us that I think very strenuously we should heed!
I figured it would go right over Trumps head. Seems it did, too bad he learned nothing.
This congress remembers, and does, nothing.
I think people take a dim view of Charles, possibly for a few reasons. One manifestation of that view came either from Brian Cohen or his guest, who focused on the script Charles read, and the scriptwriters who wrote it, as if to remind that Charles himself couldn't have come up with it. And that's not unlikely true, of anyone who presents a speech. But what a magnificent speech it was. There was no place to hide, and even supporters of the princess (I used to call that person Donnie, then, the clown, and now, princess) responded with standing ovations. Will they have the nerve to put their money (literally?) where their clapping hands were? It remains to be seen.
It was an excellent speech. Too bad the only ones listening were the Democrats and citizens. I don’t know if the Republicans even bothered to try and understand it. It was a history lesson, something that the White House has their own fairy tale of. I do hope they regain consciousness soon. Maybe a little psychotherapy is in order.
Thank you King Charles. You wear your crown well. Wonderful speech that I hope made a dent on some very hard heads that attended.
Could we please borrow the King for a few months? Just long enough to give us some hope about a better future. Our Supposed King has defecated on the entire world!
I doubt tRUMP and the Republicans in Congress give a shit that a monarch from across the pond who we fought a war with in order to gain independence both from foreign rule and a monarchy in order to build a country where it's citizens hold the last card in governing their own nation. tRUMP and the Repos most DEFINITELY don't want that and have hoodwinked their own constituents by not only raising their fear of the unknown but accentuating it with one lie after another, preying on them literally by telling them they'll have nothing left if tRUMP and the Repos lose power. Apparently, not understanding that the ONLY way they're gonna lose their power is by voting Republicans to STAY in power. Yet what have the Republicans in power now done for the average American save stealing all their tax money to give as continual tax cuts for the wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay the same or more. And that our children , grandchildren and great grandchildren will be forced to pay for. Perhaps for generations to come.
Now it would be one thing to use it to pay off our huge debt that the Repos ALWAYS and forever contribute hugely to when they're in power, then turn around when Democrats are in power and paint it as ALL the Democrats doing and problem because we are supposedly paying all this money out for welfare care to people who only abuse the privilege when, in actuality, 60% of the Americans requiring and getting said aid are Republicans. But they don't ever bother to tell them that, unfortunately.
So when push comes to shove and they're dropped from Medicaid and SNAP they have no one to blame but themselves. And the thing is, idiots that they are, it only took a few weeks for tRUMP to completely back peddle on literally everything he promised
during elections. But this is not something new for tRUMP. And last time he was in office, he managed to commit genocide against his own people and kill nearly a million innocent Americans in little more than a year. And he pretty much openly admitted as much when interviewed by Bob Woodward when he said first, that he understood on some level that the pandemic was a very bad situation. And, second, when Bob asked him about why he told outright lies to the public about it among other things, tRUMP said openly and honestly that he LIKES to lie and simply keeps lying to see how far he can take it. Well, the loss of a million innocent Americans was where all his lies about the pandemic took him. And he NEVER, not once, apologized to the American people for it. Not once.
And yet, somehow, he got re-elected. After killing a million innocent Americans by lying and simply ignoring the situation because he simply didn't want to be bothered and because it was mucking up his planned re-election campaign.
He was also attempting to use the pandemic as a means to outright GET RID OF DEMOCRATS. He openly said that. He said he'd deny any type of assistance to blue states. Unfortunately, Democrats, who tend to be somewhat more educated and intelligent and actually do believe in science, were smarter than the average bear and made the necessary adjustments in their daily living to avoid both catching COVID and passing it on.
But more of the Republicans preferred to believe all tRUMP'S theories and lies no matter just how ridiculous they were. So a lot more people got sick and died in deep red states who fought any mandates to mask and keep a certain distance and regardless of the fact that tRUMP has NO medical or research education or training. NONE whatsoever. We've known that these simple things have been known and utilized throughout history to control epidemics and pandemics when little else was available. This stuff is like common knowledge and practices.
So, in essence, what tRUMP and the Repos want and are gearing up for is NOT to maintain OUR democracy. Instead, they are hard at work tryinging to completely destroy it in favor of total oligarchy authoritarian or totalitarian rule. Where we become subjects and are no longer afforded anything resembling a democratic nation. Oh, likely we'll be allowed to vote, it's just that our votes will count for little or nothing. And while our cost of living goes up often exponentially and we can afford less and less and where our taxes skyrocket well past what we're even seeing now, the oligarchy rule will continue to expand. And they'll continue to need more money much of which tRUMP will continue to spend on a ballroom we can ill afford and various other monuments to himself with his name in giant gold letters on top of all of them all.
In fact, my guess is if the ballroom gets built to his specs, tRUMP will take one very critical look at it, decide the White House is an eyesore and he'll demolish it to put up a new tRUMP Tower. Again, topped with his name in big gold letters across the top.
So, again, King Charles's fantastic speech that was meant to put the American people on notice about the fact that we are losing our country NOT to another country but to a charlatan who only seeks great power and great money for himself and his fellow billionaires and screw democracy, will most certainly fall on deaf ears as far as tRUMP and the Repos in office are concerned. And the MAGAs and others who side with tRUMP will eventually find themselves with naught and they'll be the ones to blame for much of it simply because they no longer think critically for themselves. And the very WORST part of it? They'll blame the Democrats just as they are doing now. Yet the Democrats hold little or no power right now in Congress. Everything that gets passed in Congress is done by their own Republican representatives that THEY elected to serve them in Congress. And they are definitely NOT serving their constituents in ANY way. The only people they truly care to serve is......themselves and wealthy billionaires and CEOs. So they gave their money, votes and power over to the very people who will exploit their own constituents most for their own personal benefit. And NOT on help for the very individuals who need it to survive.
And, believe me, Democrats are almost as much to blame because they semi underestimate the amount of shenanigans Repos in office are happy to engage in to get their way. And they haven't really gotten down to brass racks and narrowed down the number of things that are THE most important right now. And the top one is figuring out how to reach other Republicans and unlock the fear or fears their representatives have managed to infect them with and find a way to reach them on their level because it's patently evident that just trying to rationalize and/or educate them simply falls on deaf ears. They can't hear it and we need to know why so that we can counteract it ASAP.
Hungary has finally been able to reach victory in ridding themselves of an authoritarian ruler who was in power for almost 2 decades under a government that ruled the country with an iron fist and where common people had few rights. And, if they can gain freedom from an illigitamate authoritarian type government and rule? Well, then, for God's sake, so the fuck can We the People!! And we NEED to do so NOW . Before we lose everything that makes us who we are in the world. A beacon of democracy and not one of dictatorial fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, monarchism, communism, or anything that takes our democracy away. And these are the very things King Charles pointed out in his speech to Congress, tRUMP and WE the PEOPLE. And coming from a monarch, that is a warning for us that I think very strenuously we should heed!