"Thanks for saving our bacon from the bosh and footing the bill to boot, here is half a farthing for your trouble old boy"
To have an excuse to shit on the French, we at least paid some of it back and the post-war loan (albeit with no inflation applied) was also eventually paid back. The French didn't do anything, and I'm pretty sure they don't even acknowledge America all that often because it detracts from the "resistance" or something like that. British education regarding WW2 is very flattering regarding the Americans. I think modern resentments are purely rooted in the universities and commierot-spreaders like Hasan Piker.
You know how Trump can do executive orders? Or veto?
That officially makes him more powerful than any British monarch after 1690.
This contributes to something you raised here:
I encourage you to read more about it because I had to do a paper on it back in the day for a polysci class, the quick and dirty verison is that your nation is so fuck off old with so many traditions that it was and is just engrained in you all to adhere to certian parts of that tradition unflichingly.
A lot of how the country operates is rooted in implicit directives and implied deterrence. Sure, there's nothing that explicitly states the king
can't do something, but I think everybody knows that if the monarch tried to something without already being given the go ahead by government, they'd depose the monarchy. For instance, whilst the monarch
has a veto, no monarch has exercised its authority without being told to by the prime minister first. Our system is ass-backwards and fucked up but I think that's optimal if you want to make the government as ineffective as possible to carrying out acts of retardation and/or evil. I'm not sure if I'd even want to fix it just in case a competent yet evil body takes control of it. It's like we accidentally stumbled into a system that slows shit like that down whereas America more or less put something decent in place from the outside, like how it's rather difficult to alter the constitution due to how many votes that have to pass. In a UK-tier system, the 2nd amendment could be taken out of the constitution with a single vote from the house of representatives, for example.
