Wait until she hears who wrote all those Christmas songs that don’t mention Jesus but are instead about snow and stuff.

To be fair, by being rented out, the monarch finally gets to earn his keep.

Moonies?

Well, I did Nazi that coming

If only we could have an all-powerful, wise and virtuous Platonic philosopher-king to righteously wield absolute power, without the likelihood of them turning bad, or being succeeded by a bad emperor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way, hence democracy, separation of powers and numerous checks and balances that make things wastefully inefficient, because the alternative is worse.

All my apes, funged!

At least we won’t have survivor’s guilt

Better luck next time, Elon

If Germany and Britain drop out, anyone could come last.

Have any assemblies had a minute’s silence for him? (The Russian Duma perhaps, or the Hungarian parliament?)

America just got its Horst Wessel.

Same sex relationships are bourgeois decadence and against the tenets of Xi Jinping Thought

That’s the moderate position. They have also refrained from denouncing claims of genocide as an antisemitic libel and joining US sanctions against the ICC, so they’re walking a tightrope here.

If you don’t ask, they default to Autechre

On a large scale, doomed (see also: the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

On a personal scale, not having children is a perfectly legitimate choice.

Russia says a lot of things

It sounds laughable, but both of them have captive populations. If they command their health authorities to identify subjects with potentially compatible organs, they, within their own systems, have absolute privilege to harvest them.

Or officially attach the name of the awarding president to each award, to disambiguate its value.

CHP are to highways what RCMP are to horses

Pope reports high levels of Catholicism