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To: MinorityRepublican
teased Americans over their obsession with the royals

I don't like this low IQ clown. At all. Nor any in his mongrelized family.

However, I do agree with him that any fascination Americans have with anything British is dumb. Especially with "royalty."

4 posted on 12/04/2025 6:25:44 AM PST by LouAvul (The Old Testament is merely history. We only follow the New Testament, as well we must. )
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To: LouAvul
The American obsession with British royalty and nobility is nothing new.

I once was looking at a microfilm of a small-town Virginia newspaper, the Lynchburg Press, from the early 1820s. A lot of space was devoted to the latest news about the British royal family.

Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn has two con men pretending to be the Duke of Bridgewater and the Dauphin (King Louis XVII of France). Apparently that was inspired partly by a relative's attempt to prove their claim to an inheritance from an English noble family.

32 posted on 12/04/2025 7:10:50 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: LouAvul
"I don't like this low IQ clown."

I don't either.

BTW, to which one were you referring?

33 posted on 12/04/2025 7:12:57 AM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears.)
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To: LouAvul

“However, I do agree with him that any fascination Americans have with anything British is dumb. Especially with “royalty.”

I think it’s more the entertainment value.


46 posted on 12/04/2025 7:50:55 AM PST by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a Boomer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: LouAvul
However, I do agree with him that any fascination Americans have with anything British is dumb. Especially with "royalty."

Benny Hill....Monty Python....Mr Bean....?

51 posted on 12/04/2025 7:58:28 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Always remeber - the cold war was US against a bunch of countries with 'Democratic' in their name.)
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To: LouAvul

I admired and respected Queen Elizabeth. All her progeny have failed her.


53 posted on 12/04/2025 8:01:10 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: LouAvul; dljordan

“I think it’s more the entertainment value.”

It’s more than that. Despite all the obvious dysfunction, a good number of Americans literally want to *be* part of that royal world. An acquaintance who works in college-applicant guidance at an upscale private high school told me that over the past 15 years there’s been a big surge in American students enrolling at University of St Andrews in Scotland. I asked why. He explained that in most cases their moms are obsessed with St Andrews alumna Kate Middleton and are sending their kids over there literally with the idea of duplicating Kate’s feat of meeting and marrying some royal or royal-adjacent.


56 posted on 12/04/2025 8:04:36 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: LouAvul
I don't like this low IQ clown.

Harry..... or Colbert?!

57 posted on 12/04/2025 8:05:12 AM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: LouAvul

I enjoy learning about British history, and my ancestors on my mother’s side mostly came from England and Wales, but they are dumb like the rest of the Euroweenies.


68 posted on 12/04/2025 9:41:19 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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