Rob Rogers for September 13, 2022

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    Free Radical  over 1 year ago

    What? Too soon?

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    GOGOPOWERANGERS  over 1 year ago

    To be fair most of British empire was before her reign but she did have some stuff which lead to deaths but 90% was before her time

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    In Spanish, ‘King’ is pronounced “Rey”. In Spanish, Prince Charles, just became Rey Charles.

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    Linn Harrar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Not appropriate. It is a time to reflect on all she has done and her complete dedication to her role.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Not now. Certainly not yet.

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    jmillerqld Premium Member over 1 year ago

    TBF Rob is commenting on the institution of the Crown and not Queen Elizabeth 2 herself. After Charles’ performance with the inkwellI think far more people will realise that they supported Elizabeth, a truly great person and not royalty per se.

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    buer  over 1 year ago

    And they made a mess of it and a half done job! For instance, had they exterminated all populations of western bengal and around, there would be no one suffering from Pakistan being flooded. Or look at Australia. It was supposed to be a penitentiary colony and now these inmates are having tennis tournaments! And don’t get me started on America. Since they failed to maintain their grip on the colony, it has been nothing but gun massacres in schools!

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    Denver Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This is stupid because something similar can be used for pretty much every country when there’s a change.

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    Linn Harrar Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I find this totally inappropriate. If we are going to hold current leaders to account for wrongs that were done centuries ago, then let’s look at the American legacy of slavery, butchery of the Indian nations, overthrown of the Royal government of Hawaii, the Japanese internment during WWII, the Philippines. At this moment, we need to be focusing on the glorious life of this monarch and all that she accomplished during that life.

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    WestNYC Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Today’s toon brought to you by the 19th century.

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    Redd Panda  over 1 year ago

    Yup. So different from the American Empire.

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    1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member over 1 year ago

    fjb

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    WickWire64  over 1 year ago

    Perhaps if everyone were to work for the respect and wellbeing of everyone else by first learning empathy and then getting off of our fat behinds to make sure that becomes the new reality. How about a future where freedom and equality are not merely slogans but reality and mutual respect is the rule?

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    countoftowergrove  over 1 year ago

    We remember fondly the time she told the British public to take hydroxychloroquine and bleach enemas, and overturn legal elections, said no one, ever.

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    grange  over 1 year ago

    QE II ascended to the throne 5 years after the end of the empire.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Interesting that folk are jumping on the evils of colonization.. and yet, appear to ignore the doings of the church.

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    ricktaft46 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We’ve done it too, and more recently.

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    Cerabooge  over 1 year ago

    ^ (Gocomics wants to append my response to an earlier comment)

    I think that’s because the Church of England has become even less relevant than British royalty.

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    ChristopherBurns  over 1 year ago

    I don’t get linking Queen Elizabeth 2nd to the sins of colonialization. It’s true that she inherited colonies when she ascended the throne. It’s also true within a decade most of those colonies granted independence. If you’re going to stick her with the blame for all of England’s past colonialization, at least give her the credit for letting those countries go.

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    Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Queen was largely a figurehead and had little, if any, influence on British foreign policy.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Credit where it’s due. Also blame where it’s due. QE2 was largely an irrelevancy who doesn’t deserve either. And, as an irrelevancy, she also doesn’t deserve all the attention that’s being lavished on her departure from this mortal realm. Remember who kicked off only a couple of weeks ago who did way, way more for the world than Liz ever did? That’s right, it was Mikhail Gorbachev. Where’s all the fawning over him from you weepy ones?

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    ideations  over 1 year ago

    Americans have the same problems…still to this day!

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    Arthur I Romeo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Really Rob ???

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    The British monarch is a spokesmodel who has no control over the government. Colonialism was horrible, like slavery in the US. By the 19th century the monarchy had become the vestigial, symbolic appendage it is today. Elizabeth might have been able to speak out about colonialism but maybe not. While the colonies helped finance the monarchy, the British East India company with the help of the government was the real force.

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    rionmorrison69  over 1 year ago

    Our record is just as bad!

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Royal Family are just symbols of a bygone era. They accomplish nothing! The biggest welfare family supported by the public dole. England’s version of the Kardashian’s!!!

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    ferrjerr  over 1 year ago

    Didn’t the British Empire end slavery in the kingdom and the commonwealth? https://www.britannica.com/topic/Slavery-Abolition-Act

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    Rich Douglas  over 1 year ago

    That’s like blaming Donald Trump for slavery. Tempting, but no.

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    Rich Douglas  over 1 year ago

    More than 40 British territories and colonies gained independence during her rule. Try again.

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