Popehat: We just may have to come to grips with the idea we have a king, like Charles I or James II or Richard II.

We just may have to come to grips with the idea we have a king, like Charles I or James II or Richard II.

Good memes.

Your kingdom for followers who get the reference.

Seriously, tho, what are deposed to think?

Sounds Glorious to me

“And Donald… may profit by their example.”

It’s reference-missing season

To be fair, I had to Google all of them, but I got it

The nifty thing about kings is you can decapitate them.

King Ralph would still be an improvement

just know it will be worse than what you expect.

I wonder how the prohibition on title of nobility interacts with that.

It took me a sec! Like I wonder why those specific OH

Those of us who aren't rounded up, disappeared, or executed?

such fun having no redress

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Ken. Ken this is gonna go over a lot of heads.

We get it, sir.

All I’m saying is he’s sticking his neck out here.

*Laughs in British/historian*

...one of those got to die naturally, did he not?

After being deposed, James II died in exile.

He got to keep his head, which undercuts some of the innuendo here.

I'm given to understand the last time France employed a certain device was the same year Star Wars originally came out. Could make for one hell of a 50th anniversary commemoration.

Could make one hell of a 50th anniversary crossover. Using a lightsaber is the kind of 21st century update that certain device needs!

In The New Republic, historian Holly Brewer compares the Court's decision to Godden v. Hales, a 1686 case affirming that James II was above the law – which was only repudiated when James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/1833...

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TIL

Didn’t we found an entire ass country to not have a fucking king

Apparently, no. According to SCOTUS the Founding Fathers always intended for the nation to have a ruler with divine right.

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In that case, why not just invite the British back? They have already worked it out, no need to experiment with dilettante scumbags!

Rome lasted a few hundred years before the empire began. Good game, everyone.....

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Come and see the violence inherent in the system

I'm pretty sure this one is Ethelred the Unready...

"Donaeld Unready" was one of the few gimmick accounts from Twitter that I miss over here

Amusingly, just started watching "Vikings:We Made Money, We Have The Costumes and Props Paid For, So Here's A Sequel" on Netflix, which starts off featuring ol' Ethel. (Aethel?) Also read his sobriquet can translate to "the ill-advised". Which works.

It’s a pun on his name, which means something like “noble counsel”. So Aethred the Unready is an oxymoron, like “Courage the Cowardly Dog”.

And now I know! And knowing is half the battle!

Also, since the King was appointed by God, it would be sacrilege to directly blame the king for bad decisions. So you blame their advisors instead. God didn’t appoint them, apparently. Hence “poorly counseled.”

“Aethelred” - could have used an edit button up there.

Louis XVI, Charles X, Louis Philippe

I think the word you’re looking for is ‘Tsar’.

Kakistocracy.

On attraction to unnecessarily gold everything I think you’ve got something. Though I think Putin, at best, might permit tsarevich.

More like Richard III with syphilitic Henry VIII vibes

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