The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
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There’s nothing the British monarchy loves to do more than to indulge and please a child molester
To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.
It’s kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).
Aren’t the royal sex workers? Isn’t their job to have sex and produce heirs so the cycle can continue? Country pimps them out to show up to events and smile, and then to go back home and continue the line.
Honestly I have more respect for sex workers than monarchs. Sex workers actually work hard and provide a valuable service, monarchs simply exist. The comparison falls flat for me
Unironically that’s their jobs.
America’s poodle, not just for joining invasions of Middle Eastern countries.
Also on display in Starmer’s policy of arresting old ladies as terrorists when they demonstrated against the Genocide being done by America’s pupetter.
Charles fucked kids with his brother Andrew, and was friends with Epstein.
FTFY: The United Kingdom government shamelessly prostrated itself
The people in the streets played quite a different tune…
If there’s one thing the UK is good at, it’s making rich people feel important. It’s how all those Russian oligarchs feel so comfortable in London, comfortable enough to spill their secrets. Nobody suspects the butler, nobody suspects that behind the pomp and ceremony there’s a knife waiting for you.
Trump likes to be flattered, so flatter him, and then get as much cash out of the US as possible! $150bn investment so far as a result of this little bit of pageantry, since all those tech companies are now dancing to Trump’s tune.
From my experience living there for over a decade, including meeting some people from the landed wealth, such warm welcomes to the ultra rich aren’t some kind of 5D chess strategy to get their secrets, they’re pure and simply a mix of greed and no scruples whatsoever by people who are trained since their teens in image management.
If the English Gentleman stereotype of honorable behaviour was ever true (rather than an image crafted by films, which frankly seems more likely), nowadays it’s only about “projecting the right image”, which is quite independent of “doing the right thing” (given that the upper classes are literally taught in their private schools to be fake and tell people what they want to hear, being a “posh gentleman” might actually be negativelly correlated with “doing the right thing”).
In summary, do not expect honorable behaviour from the present day British elites, especially not the English ones - want to find honor in that country, try the Northern England and Scottish working class (maybe also Northern-Ireland, but I’m not as familiar with those) and a few amongst the middle and lower-middle class in multi-cultural large cities like London.
In summary, do not expect honorable behaviour from the present day British elites, especially not the English ones
I mean, read Wilde, Wodehouse, Austen, Dickens… That’s always been the case.
People used to be dishonourable. They still are, but they used to be too. (R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg).
True.
After all, Workhouses and Indentured Servitude (the later, curiously, a reintroduction of Slavery - this time Debt-based - 3 decades after Britain abolished Chatel Slavery) were very common British practices in the 19th Century.
Also things that never get shown in modern portrayals of that time - such as Downtown Abbey - are how the “house staff” really got treated: for example they had to turn and face the wall when the lord or lady of the house passed them.
Well said 👍🏻
appeasement is kinda their thing
Made up ceremony
Wait till the Brits find out its all made up and the nobility doesn’t matter.
The problem is if they decide that William the conqueror didn’t actually have allodial rights to the land, then all property rights in the UK are made up too and that’s a bridge too far.
I mean, all property rights are made up though, in any country.
Well yeah, but that’s been fundamentally toxic to liberalism since liberalism existed.
There’s Liberalism the Ideology and then there’s the “Liberalism” practiced by politicians - those two are only a bit more similar than Socialism and the ideology of the National Socialist Party Of The German Worker (i.e. the NAZI Party) were similar.
If there’s one thing I learned from inside the Finance Industry during the 2008 Crash and subsequent rescues, after having read The Economist for years, is that (Neo)Liberalism isn’t at all the flat-playing-field meritocratic free market ideology they portray themselves as.
They’re in fact very much the opposite of that: they’re an ideology of maximizing the gains of pre-existing advantages, so wealth and asset ownership - which not only preserved but extends those advantages - hence they’re 100% in favor of current Land Ownership legislation and preserving the status quo in that, which was created well before proper Democracy and has nothing to do with merit of a flat playing field.
And historically that endeavor to preserve a broken playing field was always what liberalism was about, neo or classical. It was a key plank for the levelers in the English civil war. It’s always been a naked attempt to jump mental hoops to preserve their power. Conservatives forbid the question as to why power structures exist, they exist and are therefore good. Liberals try to justify them.
In the country with the highest land ownership concentration in Europe, that would trully be an unimaginable tragedy for the local upper class.
We all know it’s the rightful territory of the Senatus Populusque Romanus. It’s just a matter of time.
Italian Unification but it’s everything from Hadrian’s Wall to Istanbul.
Why stop there? Ctesiphon or bust.
The entire Press in that country constantly pushes pro-Monarchy messaging and suppresses criticism of the Royals and much more so criticism of the actual system of Monarchy.
Even when the Royals do serious shit and it somehow leaks, it’s always spinned as a just this once mistake that doesn’t at all reflect on the rest, always making sure the reigning monarch is isolated from it.
The way Orban in Hungary makes sure he always wins election by controlling the Press is very much the way the Royals keep their power and money in Britain, with the difference that the latter has been going on for a lot longer than the former.
Tbf, the whole thing WOULD be much funnier (and less embarrassing) with Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles playing the parts of the two doddering billionaire idiots and Aisha Tyler moderating 🤷
Who knew I could respect the royal family even less than I already did?
rent out its monarch like a sex worker,
I don’t know if they’ve been paying attention, but their monarch is too old for our President Pedophile. They’d have to offer up Princess Charlotte to interest him.
They should ask Prince Andrew. He knows.
Disgusting…
I hope they knighted him, or something. I can’t wait for him to request being called Sir Donald by everybody.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker
Considering their monarch went to the US for people who were rented out as sex worker, it seems only fair for him to return the favor
Stop appeasing fascists. It only emboldens them.
