She ain’t no human bean.
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Royalty is nonsense.
Not her fault, she didn’t invent it.
But she didn’t resign, say no I’m not anything different.
Nor are her lowlife children and grand children.
Joe Biden. Chuck Schumer. Barack Obama. Nancy Pelosi. Bill Clinton. Barbara Mikulski. Kamala Harris. Hank Johnson. Maxine Waters. Sheila Jackson Lee. Jimmy Carter. Frederica Wilson. Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Because popular vote is sooooo much better a way to select leaders than inheritance.
I used the expression “the effete vestige of antique tyranny” to describe royalty during an undergraduate paper on Irish literature. I got an “A” and the prof asked me if he could steal the line. I agreed