When a hereditary monarch is lecturing you on checks and balances you know you fucked up.

Congress applauding this is such a great little microcosm. You know whose job it is to make sure those checks and balanced get enforced? So don't applaud like you're the audience at a show you play no part in, like you're a crowd at a concert making your support for the matter heard because its all you can do. If you like checks and balances so much, you may have to actually do your job rather than just looking brave long enough for your campaign team to clip the c-span footage into a tiktok

Like monkeys clapping at a message they don't understand.

The king also called for “unyielding resolve” in “the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people” while standing just feet away from Vice President JD Vance, an ardent isolationist who has boasted of his pride at cutting off all American funding to Kyiv since Trump returned to office.

Sic ‘em, Chuck!