Savages and Lipstick Traces are both excellent. Now I am down a rabbit hole on Paul Gorman’s website reading about John Cooper Clarke!
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The norm of republican government changes that. When republics were rare, and monarchies common, a young uncrowned heir might be “useful”, possibly to his eventual detriment. So Louis XVII died in prison.
But now? You can launch a coup without needing a prince of the blood.
Interestingly, lost in the blizzard of pro-monarchism was this news
https://twitter.com/evansmithhist/status/1568588382548393984
The censors may try to censor, but they only win if we let them
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And again.
I guess the flag shaggers really want an absolute monarchy again.
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The correct response is just to call back “you don’t vote for a king” and then re-enact the rest of the skit with him. 
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No, that’s the appropriate response.
The technically correct response was that the Privy Council elected him, from a field of one.
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I guess if you are going for the best kind of correct.
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“…since the election of that King lay absolutely and immediately in Gods hand…”
The True Lawe of Free Monarchies: or, the reciprock and mutuall dutie betwixt a free King, and his natural Subiectes
I take the opposite view. 
He likely believes that others’ love of (for example) dogs, merely validates his bullyish view that they are weak rubes and therefore deserve to be taken advantage of. That is, almost by definition, a con artist does not value the thing that he is trying to pass off to rubes.
Found this while trying to read up on the war
(Although it’s in English, listen to the audio unless you are familiar with russian cyrillic phonology).
I mean…
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On this week’s episode, tranphobic trollies lose their safe space, Trump loses at losing again, and the UK reveals its one-in, one-out policy on Lizzes.
Not just punk, and not just Elizabeth II, but this was pretty interesting (as I recall — I somehow lost my copy some ways back):
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By the way, I run a PRTG monitor to keep an eye on how many iNews licenses are in use, and while it got quite high on the 8th, it still didn’t equal our high point from the 4th of August.
Why’s that interesting?
iNews licenses in use are a good indicator of how many journalists are actively writing material.
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Weird.
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I think good parody is indistinguishable from the batshit end of the mainstream.
A young person was set upon by a crowd and dragged away by the Police for shouting “disgrace” as the nonce prince Andrew paraded past earlier on. No doubt all those setting upon them were precisely the same sort of people who call all LGBTQ+ people “groomers”.
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Nothing to see here
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Hoping this story drives Trump over the edge forever and out of our lives.
(excerpt): Obama told a story of a visit his mother-in-law and daughters made to England. There was no formal visit planned, but when the Queen heard they were in town, she invited the three over for tea: “The girls and my mother-in-law came through London probably my second year in office, and there was no expectation that they’re going to be seeing her. Actually, Buckingham Palace reached out and she decided to invite them over for tea. And so, I’ve got Malia who at that point is eleven, Sasha who is eight, and my mother-in-law who was a stay-at-home mom and a secretary for a bank–who lived on the south side of Chicago her whole life, sitting there with the Queen of England. And then she insists that the girls take her golden carriage, which I guess she uses for jubilees, on long a drive through the Palace grounds. None of this was ever reported. It was just something that she did quietly.”
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It’s like living at Disneyland 
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