That's the headline at the London Times. Subheadline: "While the monarch has gone down a storm with President Trump’s VIPs, his US visit seems to have done nothing to help Sir Keir Starmer."
I guess "gone down a storm" is a British expression. I'm going to assume it means something like: was a big sensation. Yeah, that's right. I checked with A.I. The American expression that's equally mystifying to an outsider would be: brought the house down.
Speaking of house... in the doghouse seems to work in both countries.
Now, let me find the meat of this article:There are signs that the King’s visit has lowered the temperature slightly on relations after months of barbs between the White House and Downing Street. First off, the president spoke of his love for the UK — saying the Americans have “no closer friends”. But also figures in the administration behind the scenes have been keen to play down how seriously to take a recent Department of War memo suggesting the US could harden its line against the UK on the Falkland Islands.
However, while the trip has reminded Maga what it likes about Britain — Magna Carta, Shakespeare and the monarchy — their views on what they believe Britain has become remain negative.
“Yes, there are strong and fond memories of a historically close relationship, and we are rooting for the return of the traditional British powerhouse, intellectually, economically and militarily,” says Victor Hanson, the historian and conservative commentator. “But currently we fear that the UK and indeed western Europe itself have embraced policies that ensure stagnant growth, social tensions, unsustainable entitlements, antisemitism and dangerous infertility — the same western pathologies that we too are confronting here but for now more successfully. I don’t think the old convenient boutique European anti-Americanism works any more, either here or internationally.”
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There was also chatter in the 80s that Reagan would support the Argentine junta, but he came through for his friend Thatcher. US-UK relations aren't as good now as they were then, but would the US really cheer on Argentina? Would Milei actually try to seize the Falklands?
"...the trip has reminded Maga what it likes about Britain — Magna Carta..."
It would appear that what America likes about Britain is not only what drove its fight for independence 250 years ago, but drove it at a time when Britain's leaders disdained those ideas for its colonists. Similar to now, for example.
"...Would Milei actually try to seize the Falklands? ..."
There's little doubt the strategic value of the islands is important to the U.K. for Antarctic access. What would happen? They have no warships to send, from a practical standpoint, no functional navy to spare. NATO exists for the North Atlantic. Brexit has happened.
Would they come to the US for help? I have a feeling that arms might be folded.
The sad adventure of HMS Dragon ought to focus the Times on Britain's fall from any greatness aside from great calamities like the Islamic invasion that is tearing at the roots of civilization in the sceptered isle. Bringing up MAGA or Trump is just Tony Gallagher, aka Starmer's poodle, distracting the readers from the stinking decay.
Does MAGA really like the monarchy? I think there was some respect for Elizabeth, but I wouldn't broaden that to include other royals or the monarchy itself.
"I have a feeling that arms might be folded."
And rightly so.
The thunderer has become a joke
Theres no meat meanwhile aurship one continues to be treacherous
It's not just the navy that the UK has lost, remember Operation Black Buck? 14 Avro Vulcan bombers staged from Ascension Island to bomb Argentine targets on the Falklands. That capability is long gone.
See gilders green attack
See gilders green attack
I loved it when the entire democratic party of grift, lies and more lies - stood up for the KING - and cheered.
So much for "no kings"
Bugger around and find out, GB.
Starmir(D) is a fraud. he, like Crook Joe, is controlled by the corrupt leftist machine. Starmir(D) follows order when it comes open borders and allowing in millions of unassimilated Islamic males - many who are rapists and criminals.
King Charles is a weak man. He cannot standup to the leftist terrorists in the UK. That's why democrats in the US like him so much.
Isn't it time for the UK to negotiate a proud exit from the Falklands circa 2040?
There's little doubt the strategic value of the islands is important to the U.K. for Antarctic access.
Can you explain exactly how and why you came to this conclusion? If the British want to get to Antarctica they stage from New Zealand. They have been doing that since the Scott and Shackleton. The Falklands have absolutely zero strategic value, as was pointed out frequently during the 1982 war.
Michael dobbs had his number when michael kitchen portrayed him in play the king thirty some years ago
What Aggie wrote. The Declaration of Independence is heavily structured with the illegalities that George III had committed. The King failed to follow English law. Arguably a conservative, firmly British, revolution.
Cicero would have applauded the royal message for Trump — even if JD Vance held back.
US Democrats in congress - stand and CHEER for the KING!
lol.
Yes the manifold injustices turned franklin from a proper royalist to a blazing colonial rebel
It would be amusing to watch the UK try and muster a defense of the Falklands.
The brits had a spy in franklins midst
King Charles can't even tame his own rebellious son who called the Royals racists.
At the end of the Revolutionary War may influential Britons thought that the British Empire had suffered an irreversible loss and would go on to further decline. That's not the way it worked out. At the end of WWI, many people thought that England had won the war and that the Empire was intact and would go on to greater things. Again, not the way things worked out. History has all kinds of bank shots and ricochets. Starmer and King Charles are not all that inspirational, but they're blips and not dark holes or guiding lights. Maybe things will work out.
I have been told that the Falkland’s are not our war. We will not even allow overflight rights and certainly not base access. Ukraine isn’t our war either and I would like to stop all support and remove Russian oil sanctions. I mean, it’s not our war.
I didn't notice any hoopla at all for the King, but I'm pretty tuned out. I only knew from Althouse.
As far as President Trump and America's special relationship with Great Britain, never forget that the 5 Eyes were instrumental and active conspirators in Obama's frame-up of the President for Clinton's Russian Collusion. I would imagine that Queer Starmer played his part in that crime.
After watching several clips of Bonnie Prince Charlie addressing American dignitaries politicians and other questionable characters, it is obvious that people need to lighten up. The dude knows how to disarm his audience.
As I recall we walked a pretty fine line during the Falklands. Ike certainly didn't hold back in 1956, and that didn't even involve an area that had long been in the US sphere of influence. I don't think there was any doubt we were broadly sympathetic to the Brits but we could have been way more obstructive, and likely more supportive. We are probably extremely lucky events worked out like they did (though the Brits were obviously more prepared for their operation than the Argentinians were, as difficult as the recapture was) and we weren't called on to make the hard choices that could have resulted from failure.
The Falklandites themselves might secede from UK if Milei gave them a good enough deal. CC, JSM
@Freder - Is New Zealand a protectorate, or a sovereign nation, free to allow access or deny it?
The UK, especially Labour and the Greens, has chosen decline and is well down the slope. I’ve visited there several times, but it’s now on my personal list of places I’ll never visit again. Between crime in the streets and the government arresting people for their speech, it no longer seems a safe place.
I question whether they could reverse their decline at this point even if they wanted to. If, as seems likely, the collapse happens (slowly, then all at once), I don’t want the US to grant asylum to any of those responsible. Let them live under what they enabled.
King Charles is witty and charming, also irrelevant, but deserving the courtesy he has been shown. Britain is Islamic toast.
What do you expect the London Times to say, that England is a ridiculous has been country that gave away Diego Garcia but wants to keep the Falklands? They have to come up with some soothing verbiage.
Most powerful leader in the world meets with the least powerful.
If the Democrats weren't so dumb they would want Trump to be a king. In 2026 kings are less powerful than the average American mayor. Mayor Pete can breast feed. Lets see a king do that.
"Argentina claims the islands based on inheritance from Spain and geographic proximity, while the UK asserts its claim based on continuous administration since 1833 and the will of the islanders. In a 2013 referendum, nearly all voters chose to remain a British territory"
Is New Zealand a protectorate, or a sovereign nation, free to allow access or deny it?
Aggie-Do the Falklands Islands have adequate infrastructure to be a staging point for Antarctica (the population is 3600). Also, the United Kingdom's Antarctic bases are all closer to New Zealand (which makes sense, because that is where they have been launching expeditions from since the early 20th century).
If New Zealand or Australia refused to accommodate the UK, then the UK has much bigger problems than launching expeditions to Antarctica.
Can you explain exactly how and why you came to this conclusion? If the British want to get to Antarctica they stage from New Zealand.
I have a friend who was a scientist back in the 90's, working out of Woods Hole if I recall correctly. He spent time in Antarctica on several occasions, and always staged out of New Zealand.
To answer someone else's question above, while New Zealand recognizes King Charles as the titular head of state, New Zealand is a fully independent country (as of 1947).
Somewhere in the article there must be an apposite witticism about Andrew and the cathouse.
Yes, Christchurch is the staging area for Antarctica. It's a little industry there. Quite apparent when you're at the Christchurch airport.
The 3-4,000 Falklanders are probably more patriotic and attached to crown, language, religion, and culture, than their compatriots in the U.K. They wouldn't take an offer from Milei (it's probably the same with Gibraltar and Spain). The Falklands wouldn't become a fabulously wealthy "Special Autonomous Region" like Hong Kong, especially since one can't be sure if Argentina will return to its disastrous ways once Milei is gone.
Was it the part-British Jorge Luis Borges who sometimes wished that Britain's 1806-1807 invasions of Argentina had succeeded? Some time as a British colony might have benefited Argentina. As it was, the Argentines did feel that they were an unofficial British colony for much of their history.
Conservatives have a respect for tradition. That's the point on which my admiration for the monarchy stands. They are the keepers of tradition for their nation-state, not the lawmakers, not the police. It's a respectably long-lived tradition that gives the British something of which to be proud.
The reason that the UK wants the Falklands is not because they want a place to tie up for their Antarctic boat rides. Countries that have sovereign territory contiguous to the Arctic and Antarctic have extra rights and can get mineral claims if they can show that the continental shelf extends to their territory. For example The Arctic Council includes eight Arctic states—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S.—because they have Arctic territory.
So the UK is banking on using the Falklands to get economic and military rights that they would not get by renting a dock in New Zealand. I think Argentina wants it because it is so isolated it covers a lot of Antarctic territory.
Antisemitism? LOL. Starmer just said its the job of the UK Government to make powerful rich Jews "Comfortable" in England. He's even gone so far as to use Government funds to pay for 6 Jewish Ambulances (reserved for the Jewish community) that were vandalized.
He and UK Government are also OK with Jewish Police patrols. These "vigilantes" or "Deputized Police" go around The Jewish neighborhoods in London acting like they are the police. They even have the power to detain "outsiders" they feel are suspicious.
Imagine if there was a "White Person Patrol" in England - dedictated to Keeping white christians safe and "comforatable" in say Lancaster. I daresay the UK version of the ADL would be first one to scream about that.
As for the Falklands, why the brits keep hanging on to that worthless piece of real estate is beyond me. Why didn't they keep barbados and some carribean islands with nice beaches?
LIke the French, the UK elite still think they are a Great power and its their job to stop Russia and stick their noses in to every conflict on planet earth. Despite having almost no Navy anymore, and a tiny army. They're like a little old man with a can who thinks he's still a 26 y/o bodybuilder.
For what it is worth, this is what chat gpt said about the ambulance service:
Were the ambulances “just for Jewish people”?
No—that part of the claim is misleading.
* The ambulances belong to a Jewish volunteer organization, but
* They provide emergency medical help to anyone in the area, not just Jews.
That’s actually why many officials emphasized:
attacking them is not just antisemitic—it also targets a public emergency service
Those same Jewish ambulances came to the aid of the Somalian savage after he tried to murder two men for being Jews. Unfortunately, the responding cops only tased him and kicked him in the head a few times, in a sane world he would have been shot dead like Noem's dog.
@Freder: Read & Comprehend .
The London Times is a Murdoch paper.
The Guardian has this story from yesterday in its “You may have missed” section: “Dinner on a gold plate, then a snub: an uneven US welcome for King Charles III”.
The commie paper
Obviously the Ambulances are there to serve the Jewish community and neighborhood where Jews live in London. They have a special number that is given out by Jewish Community officials.
Of course if dial the General Emergency number and you live in the Jewish area, and there are no other General ambulances available they will send a Jewish one.
But they don't have a special ambulance service to serve non-Jews and Jews on an equal basis.
It just reminds you that the Murdoch empire is globalist to the core.
Nobody cares what chuck or the British government thinks anymore they are completely useless and irrelevant.
This is in London, a massive city. The Jewish ambulances are not part of the General pool of london ambulances. They're dedicated to the Jewish Neighborhoods. Whether they go Private hospitals and medical centers dedicated to the Jewish community is unknown. But that would make sense.
The barclay paper torygraph is not much better gbnews which is online but not hard copy
A city overrun by the people enoch powell warned about
And he read urdu and arabic as well as greek and latin
Britain's traitor class has loaded the country up with wall-to-wall Muzzies who are now preying on the British people.
Speaking of being in the doghouse -
"Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis, Muick and Sandy, are living with Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson at their new residence on the Sandringham estate"
Why should Americans like Keir Starmer? The Brits don't.
His popularity is a rounding error at this point
Tamed what is left of MAGA after Trump sold out his anti war base for AIPAC and started sending our boys to fight Israel’s wars.
Of course rayner and co are worse they are mamdani in a red wig
I know the leftists post a lot of dumb shit here, but I nominate this for dumbest shit-take* of the day. He had a lot of competition but he strained, he squatted, and after a big groan he produced this:
Tamed what is left of MAGA after Trump sold out his anti war base for AIPAC and started sending our boys to fight Israel’s wars.
*Without the hyphen it's just a mushroom.
We are getting all we voted for Tim. And the good news keeps getting better as your fraudulent commie masters flail away and mourn the loss of another racial hustle. Lowest jobless claims in 50 years. Consumer confidence rising despite your doom and gloom newsreaders. Iran isolated. China out of oil.
But GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA IS BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS as the late great Rush used to say. Thank you for proving it over and over.
Countries that have sovereign territory contiguous to the Arctic and Antarctic have extra rights and can get mineral claims if they can show that the continental shelf extends to their territory.
Only problem with this theory is that the Falklands are not on the Antarctic Plate.
In our house they’re shit take mushrooms Mike…
It doesn't matter what geopolitical reasons Britain has for wanting to keep the Falklands, or Argentina for wanting to take them. The only thing that matters to decent people is the consent of the governed, and the Falklanders overwhelmingly prefer to remain British (see bagoh20, 11:09am ). The situation is straightforward: there are no former Falklanders, Spanish-speaking or otherwise, living in exile who are being prevented from returning, so the wishes of the current residents are the only ones that matter.
Geographical proximity has nothing to do with it. Canada has no right to seize St. Pierre and Miquelon just because they are much closer to Canada than to France, nor the US to seize Bermuda, nor the Dominican Republic to seize Puerto Rico, nor Angola or Namibia (whichever is closer) to seize St. Helena. And Argentina has no right to seize the Falklands. Milei should have more sense than to even suggest that: what kind of Libertarian believes invading and conquering neighbors is ever permissible? And Trump should not be encouraging him in any way to think such a thing.
"The only thing that matters to decent people is the consent of the governed..."
I believe Jefferson Davis once said the same thing.
Poor King Chuck, ruling a country on its last legs of upholding western civilization. Despite being leader of the English Church, King Chuck has tacitly endorsed the legal implementation of enforcement of Sharia law in Moslem-predominant areas. Starmer's rape-gang scandal is proverbial tip of iceberg.
Interesting how the Marxists, Thanos and the Night King all have the same problem. Yes - hang with me here - this is a Marvel Universe/Game of Thrones dovetail for triple points:
They can't leave any memory of what was.
Which is why everyone must die to bring about their utopia . Even the agents of change who usher in this "world without sin". There's no place for them there, any more than there is for us.
[Pepper, are you seeing what- is Fen going for a Quad with late Serenity callback...]
[That's a bold move, Cotton. Rather he just bank the 3x.]
We take so much of Western Civ for granted. The curse of success - it can't be helped. But take a moment to marvel at what we have built. Something so wonderful that even the memory of it will destroy our enemies.
Probably the main reason I read the comments is to remind myself how frail and unstable is human capacity to reason. For example, most of the time I find the views of some posters perfectly reasonable and eminently agreeable, only to stare with stark astonishment when they loose their minds on some peripheral issue. Take for instance RCOOKEAN and DREEVIL (not their real monikers). One of them instantly goes barking mad about Israel, the other about Ukraine. The only common trait is that they both loose their minds about subjects the know almost nothing about and obviously do not wish to learn.
I take it as a somber reminder for myself to be always on a lookout for blind spots in my vision of the World and try to correct and educate myself on all subjects, and keep my mouth shut about things I don’t understand.
Ah, but Candide you must admit that this is the best of all possible blogs.
Did a google search on a repeat of 1982 and here was the into sentence, backed up with details for both sides:
"In 2026, the UK would be more than capable of retaking or defending the Falkland Islands from Argentina, largely because Argentina's military strength has significantly declined while British defenses on the islands are now much more formidable than they were in 1982."
“The only thing that matters to decent people is the consent of the governed...”
Rabel responded…
“I believe Jefferson Davis once said the same thing.”
34% of the population of the South were not consulted.
(38% of the South were African-American. But 10% were free.)
Accusing me of going "barking mad" about Ukraine in a comment thread where I have not mentioned or so much as alluded to the country seems to show that 'Candide' (not his real name, or his real attitude) is not entirely sane himself. What's his problem? Is he incapable of addressing the point I made? And what is his evidence that I know "almost nothing" about Ukraine, or that he knows anything at all? Perhaps he should try keeping his own mouth shut about things he doesn't understand.
Rocco: More than 34%. Even if we don't count the under-21s of all races, the women weren't consulted, either. Well, neither were the men, except indirectly: I believe their representatives voted for succession without holding a referendum first.
Hey, I didn't say it. Take it up with Jeff.
Rabel said...
“Hey, I didn't say it. Take it up with Jeff.”
Agreed. I included the quotes for full context, but my beef is with Jeff.
Dr Weevil said...
“Rocco: More than 34%. Even if we don't count the under-21s of all races, the women weren't consulted, either.”
Good point. The counter-argument (which I don’t agree with) is something like this: Only a small percentage of Southerners owned slaves. But if you count the number of families with slave-owning members, the percentage jumps to 20%.
By the same logic, the assent of the women and children were given because the male head of the house gave it via electing their representatives.
“Well, neither were the men, except indirectly: I believe their representatives voted for succession without holding a referendum first.”
I think this is what Democrats mean when they talk about “Our Democracy”.
If I were living on the Falklands I'd prefer Milei to the Brits.
Holy liebniz see what i did there
"It would be amusing to watch the UK try and muster a defense of the Falklands."
No it won't. Watching the absolutely pathetic German Bundeswehr was painful enough.
I noticed not one commenter has provided any evidence or anecdote showing MAGA being “tamed” or anyone right of AOC putting the UK “in the doghouse.” Ambulances and South American islands have no bearing on those two issues.
I think the Falklands were originally a whaling station. In any case I don't really care who has control over them.
James K said...
If I were living on the Falklands I'd prefer Milei to the Brits.
So would I.
But the rational fear is that the UK might get a Reform or Restoration Britain gov't, and Milei's successor might go back to the bad old ways.
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