I do truly despise the British royals, so much so that I engage in hate watching The Crown. I think one of the base beliefs of any real American is “no kings” deep in our souls. So, it is with great pleasure that I report that useless inbreed King Charles finally defenestrated his brother “Randy Andy” — the person once know as Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and now known as who-gives-a-shit. The reason: he is embroiled in the Epstein scandal and probably molested a couple of underage girls. (He, of course, denies the charges.)

The CBC royal coverage is quite good since one of the few failings of our neighbor to the North is that they haven’t gotten rid of the royals from the government of their country. But I’ll save you a click by summarizing: he ain’t a prince no more, he’s kicked out of the house where he and his ex-wife “Fergie” were living (that was paid for by British peasants), he’s moving into some shack on his brother Chuck’s estate (which Chuck “owns” since the royals paid for it with their “own money” i.e., not the massive subsidy that the Brits give them so they can fuck everything in site, be patrons of a lot of charities, and ride horses or whatever else they do in their copious spare time.)

Since most Americans (sensibly) wouldn’t give the royals the steam off of their piss, I was mainly informed about this massive disturbance in the force by the Guardian and the CBC. So that’s good, I guess — our media doesn’t lavish the time and attention on these halfwits that former vassal state and British media do. What would be better is the recognition that the desire to have a king rule us is one of the lower human emotions, and our smart founders, slave owners though they were, at least recognized that it’s a shitty thing to have a king. They put a bunch of safeguards into the Constitution to avoid it, but they didn’t gamble on a bunch of gutless wonders inhabiting Congress who actually do want a king.

I remember once speculating whether Prince Harry was really the son of Charles, since he has some good common sense and seems to be the only member of that weird family who chooses his spouse over the rest of them. This really pissed off a couple of commenters at Balloon-Juice. Well, there’s no accounting for the bad taste of some commenters, so apologies in advance if you are offended by my view that these clowns should be forced to seek honest employment, and that Harry’s dad was Diana’s horse trainer. Also, this William guy is a real prize asshole, since he apparently is all pissed that Harry is upset with the family over their racism about his wife, Meghan Markle. Welp, inbreeds gonna inbreed.

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Ken In MN1 year ago

All I can say is, "Brilliant!" I was LOLing at work so loudly that I had to read it verbatim to my cube neighbor...

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Joe is Wypoxic1 year ago

MM - I'm a bit confused. How do you really feel about the Crown?!

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mister mixAuthor1 year ago

Perhaps I was overly subtle. I'll remedy that in future posts.

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C P1 year ago

My position on British royalty used to be the same as on Hollywood stardom: "sure, they're ludicrously overpaid and pampered for essentially just looking pretty, but they're basically harmless. It's not like they're the ones starting wars and crashing economies. If the worst and most harmful elites we had in society were those guys, we'd be in pretty good shape."

Then the Queen died, and, well, that's sad, isn't it?

Then the entire world would not shut up about it for months on fucking end, and I was like, well, this is getting a bit ridiculous.

Then I heard about people being arrested and locked up for publicly saying mean things about the royals, and I was like, okay, this institution and its place in British society have lost all amusement for me. It is a fucking cult and they need to take it out and burn it like a nest of tent caterpillars.

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C P1 year ago

TL/DR: aux armes, citoyens, and also give me liberty or give me death.

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Kay W.1 year ago

Danes love their royal family. They poll at 80%. They’re very conscious of public opinion, so they go out of their way to seem ordinary - ride bikes to work, drop their kids at school, etc. The family sort of polices their own too - the Danish Queen (who recently abdicated) cut off a whole extended branch of the family from state benefits. Just brutal 🙂

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C P1 year ago

Yeah, I don't necessarily have the same beef with all royal families. Most European royals, IIRC, are pretty modest. One of them even had a king that had a real job as an air freight pilot.

The British royals are just... not that.

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John S.1 year ago

LOL, Cake is laser focused.

Now maybe they can focus on doing a concert in Seattle so I can see them again!

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

The rethugs are all "Let Them Eat Cake" and we all know why they're starving and killing and disppearing people - sniveling fealty to their Gilty Master to keep covering up his pedophilia.

Off topic but when they tell you who they are ...

"And that’s why we call them fucking Nazis."

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-nazi-barbie-announces-halloween

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

J.B. set her up like a bowling pin 😆

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John S.1 year ago

It would be really hard not to end up being a piece of shit when everyone tells you how special you are, and how everyone else is beneath you, for your entire childhood.

It’s frankly a miracle that every member of royalty or billionaire families doesn’t end up a complete and total sociopath.

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C P1 year ago

"It would be really hard not to end up being a piece of shit when everyone tells you how special you are, and how everyone else is beneath you, for your entire childhood."

I was going to say "see also, cops," but you're right, the "your entire childhood" part ads an extra wrinkle.

Although I sometimes wonder if the onslaught of "patriotic" propaganda we're subjected to 24/7 doesn't have a similar effect on all of us sometimes.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

I have official paperwork from my maternal ancestors in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as well as handwritten property deeds (Assonet Village, otherwise known as Freetown) that mention King George which was required in their legal jargon of the time. Also Revolutionary War soldier ancestors. I didn't know any of this until my great aunt sent me docs from our farmhouse in my 40s. But it's in my very blood to detest rule by monarchy, I've had oppositional defiance disorder since I was a small child 😆

🎶 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5j8lz4oD4Q

The BBC coverage this morning included several statements by the brother & sister of Ms. Guiffre saying this is a good first step and tearfully calling for real criminal investigation and prosecution, and coverage about lying liar Randy A caught lying AGAIN by the emails he had with Epstein well after Randy said he'd cut off their friendship. That he's still free to enjoy his princely leisure time is bad precedent and a bad example for Dotard.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Put him in The Tower!

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Imagine the money they could raise with that added tourist attraction!

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Kay W.1 year ago

MM, didn’t you write once that you worked with someone who had a subscription to “The Royals” magazine? I think that’s hysterical.

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mister mixAuthor1 year ago

Yes it was an otherwise extremely sensible and intelligent woman who subscribed to Majesty Magazine. Totally out of character.

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Kay W.1 year ago

Majesty Magazine. Even better!

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John S.1 year ago

My wife is an extremely sensible and intelligent woman who is also fascinated with the royal family. I don’t quite get it myself, but we all have quirky interests. 🙂

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Kathy Quinerly1 year ago

Great post!

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Kay W.1 year ago

Good to see you.

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Sepideh M1 year ago

Royals cannot keep it in their pants. Wasn't a lot of Markle drama to distract from William cheating on Catherine?

And they never said what type of cancer Catherine had so whatever it was, she is not raising funds for it, which is really all that royals are good for.

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mister mixAuthor1 year ago

I believe William had a wandering willie when Kate was being treated for cancer. Swell guy, the future king.

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Scott H1 year ago

The woman are great at showcasing hats, so there is that.

Probably not the best way to show the cost-benefit for having them (royals in general) around tho. ;)

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Sepideh M1 year ago

You are right. Princess Beatrice and her weird toilet-shaped hat are my favorite.