Not who we should be centering in this. That person will be fine.
Yeah but it also tells that even the ‘elites’ aren’t safe from this dumbassery.
I mean, fuck em. Centering on that will only continue to treat them as elites and never change the perspective.
Some entitled landlord is the last person that should be centered.
My thoughts exactly. What a tragedy. Future queen of Belgium can probably go to Oxford or any other big name college/university elsewhere.
I know she’ll be fine, but I’d also prefer that future career politicians go study at places that still have a shred of integrity left.
Future queen of Belgium can probably go to Oxford
If only the OP had a link with more information about this.
But they didn’t want to go to a good university, they wanted to go to Harvard
Harvard is widely known as being a bad school
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You are absolutely correct on that, but I find it a bit ironic anyways. Trump seems to be quite fond of royalty, at least UK kind, and this underlines even more that relationship with Europe is going down the drain and fast. Royal families across the Europe are more or less either family or at least friends together and this will play it’s small part on US failures to maintain any kind of political or other power across the pond.
Yeah, but this will probably sour US relations with the rest of the world even more.
I do not trust that the current US government is smart enough to not try to sick ICE on them.
Good thing a federal judge just blocked it
So what? Trump and his henchmen don’t obey the courts. Haven’t you noticed?
If that big, beautiful bill goes through, they really won’t. IIRC it strips out the ability for courts to hold people in contempt unless they have a cash bond or some shit.
I would appreciate a source for that. I don’t really need it but it at least helps amplify it for the lurkers.
ETA: Here’s one- https://campaignlegal.org/update/these-hidden-provisions-budget-bill-undermine-our-democracy
But the reconciliation bill would require anyone suing the government to pay a bond before the court can use its contempt power to enforce injunctions or restraining orders meant to halt illegal actions.
By restricting this authority, the House bill threatens the power of the judicial branch. On its own, that represents an attack on the rule of law and the separation of powers that underlies our democracy.
Basically it seems like it is adding a paywall paid by the suer before the judge can use their contempt power against the executive branch. Such a blatant power grab for Trump’s executive. Very unfair and bad.
Trumpsterfire!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-policy-bill-judges-contempt.html
The ‘big, beautiful bill’ ends judicial contempt, so courts won’t be able to enforce their decisions and injunctions anymore.
They won, and idiots will vote for it for the tiny tax cut they get back.
Doesn’t it bother anybody in Belgium that the future queen of Belgium doesn’t study in Belgium? There are great universities in Belgium, on both sides of the language border.
US AND UK probably has the best schools, thats why even dictators go to school in the west.
To be clear, I’m Belgian and in favour of abolishing monarchy. But as the news about her is unavoidable: she did study at the royal military academy as all in line for the throne have too. Then she went to Oxford for her Bachelor degree. Plan was to get the master at Harvard.
The justification is partly elitism for those schools, partly getting exposed to other environments, and partly getting too avoid being to isolated in Belgian schools where the attention would be inevitable and security too hard.
probably good for your leaders to have some sense of the greater world. i mean, look at America
Europoean aristocrats haven’t been actual political leaders for a long time. They’re basically just decoration.
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Yes, but you don’t get a sense for the world in the US, even as a foreigner.
Can be good experience to move away from home for a bit…
Seems like a weird nativist thing to get worked up about.
You probably haven’t been more than 50miles from your hometown for any length of time, have you?
Rand. Any chance you can balrfire Trump?
