• Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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    There was a time when King Charles tried to overturn parliament way back in the 1600s. I forget what happened next, but I’m pretty sure it was all very civil.

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    Musk’s entire job is to keep the media focused on him and his stupidity so that we aren’t paying attention to what his useful orange idiot is doing.

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      That is an excellent point. The only snag is that I feel they aren’t quite intelligent enough to think of that. Then again, maybe that’s what they want us to think…

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    Thats one way to attract the attention of Mi6. He certainly fits the bond villain profile…

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    We could well be heading towards something interesting in the not very distant future.

    I’m not sure if Musk sincerely believes his wealth makes him untouchable or if he’s too self-absorbed to even consider the matter, but it works out to the same thing either way - he’s likely wrong.

    He can get away with a fair bit manipulating an emotionally stunted egomaniac like Trump, but when he starts trying to butt into European politics, he’s going to find himself running up against families that have been pulling political strings for centuries now, and who don’t fancy crude upstarts with nothing more than money going for them, and if he proves to be too much of a problem for them, they’re going to squash him like a bug.

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    Kinda bad but really funny headline. He’s calling for Parliament to be dissolved and new general elections to be held, which the monarch can do since 2022 as was the case before 2011. But the headline does have merit, as in constitutional monarchies, everything the monarch does should (pronounced “must”) first be advised by democratic functions—in this case, the prime minister. And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

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      It probably wouldn’t be much of a “civil war”, pretty much everyone would just say “that’s nice Charles” and then go pass a law explicitly removing that ability.

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      And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

      Rest of the UK just going to sit and watch?

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        We gotta maintain the canonical continuity. With respecting historical precedent by the virtue of the common law system, Ireland shall free herself from the retcon and reestablish against discontinuity. Charles? Check. Fighting for democracy? Check. Scotland and Ireland as they should be, independent and without the EU’s EWsgusting meddling? Check. ¡Viva la revolución

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    Clearly the king should just ignore this nonsense …… and ban him from travelling there. Preferably the entire commonwealth. Wait. I’ll make popcorn

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    Funny enough, that’s literally the plot of the play King Charles III that ran on the West End about a decade ago.

    Spoiler alert: fictional KCIII doesn’t get very far.

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    The Tesla boss endorsed a social media post criticizing the government’s handling of criminal gang investigations in Manchester. “In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013,” Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) on New Year’s Day.

    That’s……oddly specific.