We can't try and get rid of the royal family. Ft. Sophie Ducker
Summary
A stranger on the train argues Britain should keep the royal family, but not out of respect. She calls them "embarrassing" nepo babies associated with scandal, from William's alleged infidelity (earning him the hashtag "prince of pegging") to Princess Anne's driving issues. Kareem pushes back. Why not guillotine them? Her take is refreshingly cynical: abolishing the monarchy now would be like deleting old problematic tweets. Better to let them publicly self-destruct. "We don't need to respect them, but we're not going to get rid of them," she explains, comparing it to letting evolution do its thing. They're the world's most famous landlords who can't control the headlines. She doesn't wish them ill. Just wants to watch them fall.
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So, what's your take? We can't try and get rid of the royal family.
100% disagree. I'm not from this place.
Okay. But I don't need a king. I don't need a queen. I don't need a prince. I don't need a princess.
Okay. I knew you would say this. You'd be like, "Okay, Sophie, I thought you were like a woke snowflake. I thought you're like a social justice warrior princess. We have to abolish these nonsjacent nepo babies." What the hell is nonsjacent nepo babies?
Okay, so nons is a British word for PDF file. But the problem with it is it sounds cute. It's like if you called a predator a diddy, right? Like it's like nons. It's not a good thing, right? And they are associated with un underhand activities, shall we say? Not even getting into that, right? I know there are a lot of people that really s for the royal family in this country, right? They're getting the merch.
People buy merch. Yes, they get tattoos. They get merch.
Oh, they do have shirts that say long live the queen. Long live the queen. All the rip.
Whatever that is. Pour some liquor on the ground for Lizzy.
Pour out some henny for Lizzy. But yeah, no, people root for them. I am not that. Like I see that they have crimes. I see that they're undemocratic. Yes. I see that it's illogical to have them in bed with the military.
So why do you want to keep that? Because they are embarrassing. I am embarrassed. We need to own that embarrassment.
You want to keep it as a spectacle. If we abolish the monarchy now, it's like deleting your old problematic tweets, right? We need to keep that stuff. Like they are so embarrassing. You know William?
Yes. He's got the hashtag prince of pegging cuz it's infidelity. I feel like the Yanks don't know this.
No, I didn't. He has infidelity allegations. He can't control the headlines or his hairline. Princess Anne can't drive. Fritz Andrews their noms. They're an embar. They're unraveling.
They're literally an embarrassment to society. Yeah. We don't need to guillotine them because they'll do it themselves.
So, you just want to leave them there and let them self-destruct. Yes. I don't wish the individuals ill.
Yes. But I think that we should just let evolution do its thing, right? And then we can have a real royal family that represents Britain.
But they should probably give all the land back or something. Oh, yeah.
They're just they're just the world's most famous landlords. Oh, we don't have to respect them, but we're not going to get rid of them. We just need them to fall over to Doddo.
Yeah. Put away the guillotine. They're going to do it themselves.