Monarchy Anachronism

Wow, this could (and should) catch on, even in UK…. Barbados has become a republic, replacing the UK’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state.

Mark Twain: “We hold these truths to be self-evident — that all monarchs are usurpers and descendants of usurpers; for the reason that no throne was ever set up in this world by the will, freely exercised, of the only body possessing the legitimate right to set it up — the numerical mass of the nation.”

Time for Australia and Canada to follow the Barbados lead.

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Author: craigcrawford

Trail Mix Host. Lapsed journalist, author & retired pundit happily promoting nothing but the truth for Social Security checks.

55 thoughts on “Monarchy Anachronism”

  1. “Time for Australia and Canada to follow the Barbados lead.”

    seems they’ve already pretty much demoted her to team mascot status or something on the order of (as in our case depending on the pov) the kardasians, lebron james or jeff bezos

  2. a history lesson from monte python

    The Repressed Citizen skit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

  6. First chuckle of the morning (I admit I do not give a flying flip about grifters who convince cult members to commit suicide) is some pseudo preacher who did the COVID is a hoax and the vaccines will kill you crap doing the room temperature display of how much of a hoax COVID-19 really is.  No sympathies for the grifter.  No need to link as his proving that the virus does not exist failed most spectacularly is being noted by the media.  Two years of this is more than enough.  The virus got rid of another non-believer and gqp voter.

  7. the man who would’ve been king and who might still get there if the media (spoiled and spoon-fed by his daily rantings and now bored with having to actually work for stories) has its way.

     

    See the source image

  8. Yes, Marcus Lamb has met his maker. His lying, anti-vaxxer lips shall spew no more nonsense…unless they show reruns.

  9. I’m more concerned about Doc Oz playing politics in PA, than Barbados declaring independence (yet, I believe, remaining part of the commonwealth).

    If it fawns over a fascist and wants to walk in a fascist’s footsteps…quack, quack, quack…or maybe honk, honk, honk (goose-stepper).

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/30/dr-oz-announces-senate-bid-523530

    “Covid has shown us that our system is broken,” Oz said in the campaign ad. “We lost too many lives, too many jobs and too many opportunities because Washington got it wrong. They took away our freedom without making us safer, and tried to kill our spirit and our dignity.”

    “…bringing back jobs from China and establishing a “secure border” …”

    Sounds familiar.

  10. https://www.thedailybeast.com/please-dont-elect-dr-oz-hes-a-disgrace-to-our-profession

    “What’s been even more troubling during the pandemic is his willingness to speak in favor of treatments like hydroxychloroquine that have no merit for the care of COVID patients, going as far as touting the drug on Fox & Friends. As I’ve previously written, he even appeared on Fox and “suggested that the mere 2-3 percent increase in COVID-19 mortality that would come from reopening schools nationwide might be a worthwhile trade-off.”

    “Believing he’s going to start standing on principle now means overlooking all the times he waltzed right on by it over the past several years. “

    Quack, quack, quack.

  12. Ok, hold on, lemme squint real hard and gin-up some strong opinions on Dr. Oz…
     
    …damnit, pooped my pants😒

  17. “ozhole”

    good one, sturge.  worthy of the trail’s gold star for the day even before the day’s over

    Cartoon Cool Gold Star

  18. at 1st i thought ms petri should have said “vassal” (dic def:  a person or country in a subordinate position to another.) instead of vessel, but as i read on she’s soooo right in sooo many ways

    Opinion | Woman enjoys last hours before Supreme Court abortion case turns her back into vessel – The Washington Post

    […]
    Those 49 years had flown by. But when the court’s clock struck, her run would in all likelihood begin to end. She would stop being a person with autonomy over her own body that the law was bound to respect. She would go back to being a vessel that might potentially contain a person, a vessel whose rights ended once that possibility was considered.
    It had been so nice, thinking that she could go anywhere in the United States and the laws would have to acknowledge her right to decide whether she wanted to be pregnant, that any doctor who treated her could give her correct information about what risks she faced, that if her life were threatened, her life would carry weight.
    But no. Her rights were all the alienable kind, it turned out, and she was nothing more than a sort of empty clay jar into which, if she were sufficiently blessed, a person might one day be deposited. Her mistake!
    [continues]

  19. Whilst I hold the Golden Star, none shall hunger throughout our land, and Freedom shall reign uppermost in the minds of men. And women.

  20. Craig

    Australia and Canada pretty much have.  The British Parliament has no role and the Queen’s is pretty much ceremonial in signing the bills passed by the governments of Australia and Canada.    They do have the advantage of being part of the global British commonwealth and both Australia and Canada reaching separate nations as well.  The Empire has steadily diminished since the end of WWII and even the minor role of the Queen will probably end with QE II demise.

    Barbados followed the above since 1966 and will now also remain part of the Commonwealth while ending the Queen’s official role.

    I imagine most of the Commonwealth just sees it as a salute to history while moving to total independence, particularly since they are probably better off than the US in some respects such as universal health care.

     

  23. Amy phoney Barrett
     
    What a creep.   this is a person who thinks it is ok to fling racial slurs at work

  24. Yeah… most of my Canadian relatives don’t give a flip about the Queen…
     
    as to what I think…
     
     

  25. patd, sure, why not?  The old saw is sue everybody for everything.  Not sure how a civil suit against SFB would get past the qualified immunity defense he’d raise, but it’d be fun to see it unfold.
     
    Read the WaPo coverage of the MS abortion law arguments and the hot take is that the 6 cons seemed likely to allow the MS law to stand, which would in effect get rid of the viability threshold of Roe but might allow the right to survive.  I’ll have to keep an eye out for more learned and serious Court scholars like Tribe and Katyal to weigh in to see what their takes are.

  26. pogo, yeah, I agree it’s likely the court will just draw another viability line in the sand, probably base it on new unconfirmed medical evidence or some such straw to grasp.  they’ll continue to chip away until no right except in dire emergencies at all.

     

  29. I was never a fan of kings and queens.  Although , I do have a soft  spot for   Hatshepsut. How that girl  made it into 2,500 years of men running that game on the Nile was a pretty big deal.  And her temple has always been my favorite .

  33. The Big Court  will do what we all think, that’s why we have what we have.  A packed court , and Al Gore sitting in the woods somewhere. 

  34. That messy little murder here , that Sturg  pointed out last week here, hit GMA , and Inside Edition  today after  widow’s I-phone images gained some legs. 
    This “self defense”  world theory is about to be tested in Texas. 

  37. One hour old –
    The SF Chronicle  …….. 
    The state expects NO water deliveries to cities and farms next year.  This story is behind a paywall , so I can’t link it. 
     
    Unbelievable  how fast this new world has over run us. 

  42. The concept of climate migration — population shifts forced by destructive weather changes — has been studied for years. But most Americans still think of it as something that happens elsewhere, or a future doomsday scenario about people flocking to North Dakota to escape extreme weather along the coasts. But experts are saying it’s happening in subtler ways already, forcing people to make moves as dramatic as the influx of Puerto Ricans to central Florida and as mundane as people in tidewater Virginia choosing one county over another to live in to avoid a possible flood plain.

    The water story in the West  is about to blow-up this

  44. Bob
    My thoughts exactly. I see pieces, where all Joe has done, isn’t resonating with the American people. WTF. Gimme, gimme, and still they don’t see. No more Trump and Republicans. Nothing will surprise me though! 

  45. I fear the US is in a deep hole. Taking away the rights of women. Next will be gay rights. They won’t stop. 

  46. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/health/us-omicron-variant-confirmed-case/index.html

    It’s here. Omicron in California.

    “The person was fully vaccinated and is experiencing “mild symptoms, which are improving at this point,” Fauci said.”

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-many-ways-covid-19-seems-to-be-harming-the-pancreas

    “In May, Jackson published a study in the journal Cell Metabolism showing that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells in the pancreas that produce insulin and may even target and destroy them—suggesting that the virus may also cause diabetes.”

    https://www.connecticutmag.com/home-garden/theres-a-complicated-relationship-between-covid-and-diabetes/article_baa4b9a6-43e1-11ec-8e20-1f6b47155ea0.html

    “Worldwide, more than 14 percent of people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 developed type 1 or type 2 diabetes afterward…”

  53. There is this idea from the last century , that we all need each other.  The world has been trying to drown that baby  ever since, it only grew  gills. 

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