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Larhanya of the Muddy Waters

I've not been a fan of the monarchy for a long time, but recently, I've re-examined that position in light of the relationship between the Crown and the First Nations, particularly those with formal Treaties.

Canada can't abolish the monarchy without negotiating new Treaties with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. I see a lot of people who say they want to "just get rid" of the monarchy, but it's not a simple act.

We'd have to completely rewrite our Constitution and laws. As mentioned above, we'd have to negotiate new Treaties. We'd need to restructure our government. It would be very expensive and very destabilizing.

#cdnpoli#KingCharlesIII#monarchy
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Murkyview

Is it time to spread our wings as a Nation?

King Charles III is, at the moment of this writing, in Ottawa, Canada meeting and greeting people young and old, of high office and commoner alike. It's a nice event. The spontaneous crowd in the gardens at Rideau Hall are singing Oh Canada and God Save the King. I can't help but wonder if at this moment, when Canada is rightly and importantly reminding the world -- particularly the United States of America -- of its sovereignty, if this is a different kind of coming of age moment. The […]

chrisalemany.ca/2025/05/26/is-

#canada#monarchy#politics
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Malcolm Nance

NEW: #Trump is set to accept a $400 million ultra-luxury Boeing 747-8 jet from the royal family of Qatar, with the gift expected to be announced next week during his first foreign trip of his second term, ABC News reports.

A few weeks ago, the Trump family business signed a deal to build a luxury golf resort in #Qatar.

A foreign #monarchy (that funds and hosts terrorists) giving the U.S. president a $400M jet while cutting deals with his business? Textbook #corruption

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Nonilex

#VirginiaGiuffre’s allegations of being forced repeatedly into sex w/Andrew touched off a media firestorm & legal battles for Andrew, who did not face #criminal proceedings but was eventually stripped by the #monarchy of his formal duties & titles including “his royal highness.”

A civil lawsuit filed by Ms. Giuffre against Andrew ended in 2022 with a reported $16M settlement by the prince, who borrowed some of the payout money from his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

#BelieveSurvivors#Shero
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Anthony
Project 2025 indulges every fantasy of Trump’s cabinet members, a coterie of private fund investors and business founders with preferential ties to the fossil fuel industry, real estate, and Silicon Valley. The manual shows how the president could open up federal lands to fossil fuel prospectors and actively obstruct any progress on climate change mitigation. It shows how the Federal Reserve could abandon its function as lender of last resort and allow for a return to free banking, with gold or some other commodity equivalent (perhaps cryptocurrency) acting as backstops to privately issued money. And it shows how the Department of Housing and Urban Development could sell off the country’s remaining public housing stock and withhold support from low-income borrowers. Meanwhile, the president is urged to dissolve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the independent government agency charged with preventing bank runs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the agency that recently extended anti-fraud regulation to the digital finance sector). Project 2025 represents the apotheosis of the antisocial state: a state form that has withdrawn from the task of social insurance and placed its entire administrative apparatus in the hands of a small group of uber-wealthy business partners.
From https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/trumps-antisocial-state/

I admire Melinda Cooper's analysis and I think she is spot on here too. People like to call what's happening in the US some variation of "fascism", but that's not what this is. This is rule by sovereign decree, a kind of monarchy or theocracy, ruled by dogma and raw power, happy to destroy knowledge and entire sectors of the economy.

#USPol #Trump #monarchy
Dissent MagazineTrump’s Antisocial State - Dissent MagazineThe administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
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