WHY ISNT EVERYONE A REPUBLICAN

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the news on the cbc is filled with assholes who love the queen

― anthony, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm still not sure why anyone who didn't get two days off work would bother celebrating the jubilee, but if it takes adoring the queen to keep the most boring fraction of Canadians from turning into Americans entirely, leave them to their monarchism.

― Benjamin, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because we'd get some arse as a president. I favour a Swedish or Spanish style monarchy. I could never vote for a repuublic.

― jel --, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if we had a republic we'd never have been able to enjoy the spectacle of the queen's face after the show yesterday

― mark "the s is SO for schadenfreude" s, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Queenie was happier when she was lighting the fuse...I like that side of her.

― jel --, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd vote for a President/Republic in a second if meant that that arse Charlie never became King.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cos then we'd have george bush running the world... oh, wait, hmmm

― Queen G of the Whale-like Testivular Elephantitus, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

In Oz, most people ARE republicans but our esteemrd Govt nobbled the referendum in 1999. Unfortunately the local republican movement is run by a whole crowd of wannabees who couldn't organise a pie fight in the Four and Twenty factory.

But the day will come eventually, although it's very likely England will have the Ashes back first.

― BJ, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well if we republican who would we have as head of state? Wayne Gretkzy's dad? Currently Ontario's govenor gives her salary to charity since shes a Weston and loaded already so Im not minding the ceremonaly free loading at the moment.
Though the current govenor general is a bit annoying but shes an easy target for This Hour Has 22 Minutes ("Im Adrian Clarkson, and your not"). Her husband should be locked away with Philip and Charles to see who could last the longest without becoming criminally insane.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The argument against the republic in Britain that always impressed me was this (some years ago): President Margaret Thatcher. Now she is dying or at least known by all to be a mad old bat, and we are therefore safe from that, we need hesitate no longer. Blair would be confused in that he thinks he's President already. If it's to be a ceremonial position rather than direct political leadership, my vote goes to Mark E. Smith.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

So! There's a bunch of frigging Canadians on board! I suspected as much.

― Fake, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love Adrianne Clarkson almost as much as her brilliant husband

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha i wd vote for mark e. smith as direct political leader also!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok actually possibly i wouldn't

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've just remembered that an annoying news item early today, inserted between vitally important football matches, claimed that today's alleged jubilee festivities ended with "a royal appearance on the balcony and a fly-by". That impressed me, as I didn't even know she could fly.

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Someone was on Radio 4 on Saturday and claimed that support for the Jubbly celebrations was evidenced by the upsurge in sales of widescreens TV and packs of beer. That's the beauty of Monarchy - it's so rooted in everyday life.

― Nathan Barley, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The idea that it was the World Cup prompting those sales hadn't occurred to this caller?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hmmm, Mark E. Smith in Sophie's shoulder pads...

― stevie mitch, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never really undertsood the argument for why we even need a head of state (as well as a head of government.) The ceremonial reason seems utterly pointless and you could easily get away with sending Connie Huq off of Blue Peter or a Dimbleby.

― Pete, Wednesday, 5 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Because, at least over here in the States, Republican = greedy and Democrat = humanitarian. Seems an easy choice to me.

― Jenga Blox, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

learn to live out side america. republican=republic not a monarchy

― anthony, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

necromancy! i couldn't find a thread to discuss the "mainstream" republican party; it's all trump and the alt-right. here's the ideology of the republicans who _aren't_ trump or alt-right:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/democrats-try-to-stop-gop-from-bombarding-you-with-robo-voicemails/

boy, they really have their finger on what people want.

― Frank Ocean is the Ultimate Solution (rushomancy), Saturday, 17 June 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link

I'm somewhat ambivalent about this. On the one hand, the monarchy is an illiberal imperialist vestige and seems like the sort of thing I would want to oppose in principle. Plus, I don't give two shits about the Royal Family as people and the bullshit celebrity gossip around them. On the other hand, I ... generally like how the constitutional monarchy functions and am not especially inspired by the examples of republics elsewhere. Am genuinely curious to see how they'll work things out in the BC legislature.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 17 June 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link

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