The Gold Family in the Gold House feat. Aaron Thorpe

I think the best and first american analog for aristocracy/celebrity worship was the kennedys. They were glamorized by the media, considered celebrity-level attractive and fashionable, maintained the PR of having overcome enormous anti-Catholic public sentiment, and jfk’s term was even branded the camelot years. I still think obama’s campaign and presidency would not have been such a deep psychic wound to american racists if he and michelle hadn’t radiated that same glamour

I went down a Princess Michael of Kent rabbit hole a week ago you get the impression she never forgave her mum for deciding the huge communist army camped in her house was an indication that she should divorce her nazi husband move to Australia and become a hair dresser, so she goes around pretending to be be German when she grew up in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.

The interview with Oprah respawned for just the briefest moment the debate over Canada's relationship with the monarchy. I think really it was just a precursor to the bigger (and equally pointless) debate we'll have when the Queen dies and have to face the reality of Charles being our head of state and gracing our currency for a few decades. There's a very interesting aspect to the debate, namely that our sovereign territory is only recognized by treaty between various First Nations and the Crown, making our path to a republic, without reconciling centuries of genocide, impossible. But also a much more stupid debate, and thats the foaming at the mouth of a very cursed class of Canadians, the Royalists and Anglophiles, that still cling onto the opinion that Canada's place is part of the British empire and that we are the UKs special child that grew up responsibly. I think it would make a half-decent special Britainology episode to look at the Anglophiles abroad and how a really distorted vision of that miserable little island sustains itself in the former colonies.

I hope at least this might give an opening for people talk about having a proper modern Republic, if nothing else.

I have a fascination with the show Suits. Because I refuse to believe anyone has ever seen it. But if you claimed to have worked on it people would believe you.

What are you talking about, monarchies are very cool and normal. Just look at Saudi..oh, I see.

Trump rubbing his Mcdonald hands on the Buckingham Palace curtains is an image.