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MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

www.newsweek.com

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Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

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MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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"I Love King Charles," the president said in a Truth Social post.
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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    I think his plan would be to try to take it over and become king somehow?

    Charles, fwiw, I feel like this situation is so unprecedented that you could very feasibly let him try, and then just whack his head off at some point with a fuckoff huge claymore and remark disdainfully that “his life was an insult to Our Throne and Empire”, then everyone would nod and agree, and then nip down to the pub for a pint.

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      Look, no disrespect to King Chuck, but he could no more swing a claymore to any effect than Trump could string together a coherent argument.

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        All I mean to say is that if he did something monarchic that ultimately resulted in orangeboi’s cranial region losing acquaintance with his neck and torso, I would not be upset by such a development.

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          'Nuff said

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          I just really love how all this is worded.

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        I think the clumsy wielding and erroneous chopping would make for an even more entertaining decapitating, but it may require for Trump to be properly tied or chained to something sturdy.

        Side Shower Thought: any form of capital punishment of Trump may make the English King popular again after give or take 250 years, what a celebration and historic moment that would be!

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    He’s just saying crazy shit to distract peoplefrom all the stuff his administration is trying to do.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      At this point, please take us back. We weren’t responsible enough for democracy.

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        • ripcord@lemmy.world
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          Australia’s pretty nice.

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        We were for 200 years, but then Nixon happened, and instead of fixing it, we doubled down with Reagan, then instead of fixing that we got here.

        • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Uh no. Your whole history has been fucked from the start.

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          Civil war happened, and we didn’t fix it because Lincoln was assassinated, and Andrew Johnson was pro-South.

          We were on this path before Nixon.

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              Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we just experienced the results of enemies within? Trump, Vance, and Musk are all American citizens.

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                • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  Maybe we should appeal to engagement and voting along with vigilance so that the enemies from within don’t find a malleable minority to exploit for victory.

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          This calls for a time travel movie, titled Fixin’ Nixon

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      It sounds ridiculous but then I wonder if trump could resist the offer of a knighthood.

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        We can only hope Charles takes the opportunity that would avail itself: photo of King Charles knighting someone, sword upon their shoulder near their neck

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    Wut.

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    I don’t think Trump realizes how many brown people there are in the Commonwealth

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      Aren’t the Brits also legendarily racist? Like, we had to get it from somewhere.

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      He needs them to feed into the machine that powers the Elitewealth.

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    Brits:

    “Nah bruv. We’re fine.”

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    Isn’t that the literal opposite of what the founding fathers wanted?

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    I mean, go ahead. It’d be funny for America to join what they fought so hard in the 18th century to leave.

    America’s founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

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      I don’t know , it’s certainly better than the tyrant in charge now.

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    Trump HATES America

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    He doesn’t understand the King of England isn’t in charge of shit…

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    Do you want Oceania? Because this is how you get Oceania…

    doublethink

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    NO. KINGS.

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    How well would US Xian nationalists (Christofascists) get along with the CoE? Is the latter, like the former, actively attempting to acquire absolute power over social matters in their country? Would the two be of like minds w/respect to doctrine?

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    D’you think he mis-heard ‘commonwealth’ as something else?

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    Bout to be British innit?!

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