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TLDR; America should have a monarch, who can do all the entertaining insane things Trump does without also destroying the country. Couple of key quotes: "Look

TLDR; America should have a monarch, who can do all the entertaining insane things Trump does without also destroying the country. Couple of key quotes: "Looking at 10 Downing Street and the American White House now, I wonder which nation is constitutionally most in danger of allowing a tyrant to arise." "My modest proposal on this, America’s great national holiday weekend, is that you choose an Uncle Sam or Aunt Samantha by lottery (which is all the birth of a monarch is) and give this person the powers of a constitutional sovereign, with precedence of state over the elected president. To save face, this person needn’t be called a monarch — “first American” or “sovereign citizen” will do. A reality TV competition can be held to finalize all the details. Americans are awfully good at that sort of thing." From where I stand, things are also trending in a pretty bad direction in the U.K. too... not sure the Queen really help much.

muninn_ 9y ago
Obviously written tongue-in-cheek but I don't despise the idea of an annual chosen one to moderate some sort of state function or discussion. I've always thought it would be cool to have a presidential office hour where everyday I would meet with a randomly selected citizen (who asked for an hour) and give them a chance to voice their concerns and viewpoints to me, directly, in person. Also, there is 0 chance this would have been written a year or more ago, or if Hillary had won.
foota 9y ago
Maybe we should offer Trump to be the monarch.
- thanksgiving 9y ago
  That is actually not a bad idea. My only concern is such a position must not be hereditary.
smoyer 9y ago
Perhaps we have a president who fancies himself a sovereign already?
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rayiner 9y ago
If you've ever read U.K. media you'd know that they're far worse than us in terms of political ridiculousness. Not to mention far ahead of us in creating an Orwellian surveillance state.
- dfraser992 9y ago
  No, the Tories tend to be assholes, but are smarter and not as insane/blatant as the GOP. Labour... well, we'll see. Corbyn's overturned everything. The UK is a smaller country so it can consider things that just would not fly in America. The Blairites are like covert Republicans who say they're Democrats. Yeah on the surveillance state, but the saving grace is the British tend to be a bit more incompetent in a lot of things, based on my American sensibilities. And they end up wasting money which gets things shut down. Especially government run things. All the jokes about tea breaks aren't exactly jokes either. May has no clue at all about much of anything IT related, so they are going to have to go house to house to ensure everyone in this country isn't using a VPN. And the British tend to be obstreperous, so that means EVERY house. The only real solution is to nationalize all the ISPs and what Tory is going to vote for that?

muninn_ 9y ago

Obviously written tongue-in-cheek but I don't despise the idea of an annual chosen one to moderate some sort of state function or discussion. I've always thought it would be cool to have a presidential office hour where everyday I would meet with a randomly selected citizen (who asked for an hour) and give them a chance to voice their concerns and viewpoints to me, directly, in person. Also, there is 0 chance this would have been written a year or more ago, or if Hillary had won.

foota 9y ago

Maybe we should offer Trump to be the monarch.

thanksgiving 9y ago
That is actually not a bad idea. My only concern is such a position must not be hereditary.

smoyer 9y ago

Perhaps we have a president who fancies himself a sovereign already?

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rayiner 9y ago

If you've ever read U.K. media you'd know that they're far worse than us in terms of political ridiculousness. Not to mention far ahead of us in creating an Orwellian surveillance state.

dfraser992 9y ago
No, the Tories tend to be assholes, but are smarter and not as insane/blatant as the GOP. Labour... well, we'll see. Corbyn's overturned everything. The UK is a smaller country so it can consider things that just would not fly in America. The Blairites are like covert Republicans who say they're Democrats. Yeah on the surveillance state, but the saving grace is the British tend to be a bit more incompetent in a lot of things, based on my American sensibilities. And they end up wasting money which gets things shut down. Especially government run things. All the jokes about tea breaks aren't exactly jokes either. May has no clue at all about much of anything IT related, so they are going to have to go house to house to ensure everyone in this country isn't using a VPN. And the British tend to be obstreperous, so that means EVERY house. The only real solution is to nationalize all the ISPs and what Tory is going to vote for that?