What I don’t understand, and yes I realise that I’m form a different culture and political system, but I find the status and veneration of the President under the US system to be confusingly monarchical

The way members of the House and Senate, POTUS are spoken about and treated by media is light years more polite than the way we regard or treat our MPs, senators and Prime Minister

Just the way that media address them in the US is astonishing to me. I don’t understand how the POTUS has so much status that things cannot be said or done against the President that are exactly like the way the British monarch is treated.

Given the US’ almost hysterical assertion of its democratic republic, it seems weird to me that they just replaced a monarch with a President.

Having watched a lot of commentary since Jan 6, I’m also amazed at how the real issue people have with the transition is the performance of civility and that that is the actual point of the entire system. CNN had actual live commentary on Biden’s plane arriving.

Because it wasn’t Airforce One. I mean.. ok we know Drumpf is a massive toddler, but what did you expect? Media comms are losing their minds over the most trivial shit which is just convention rather than law, ordinary manners in a political space that was never truly civil

It’s like they need civility theatre to reassure themselves that everything will be ok. You know, a world in which McConnell, craven and base political opportunist, is still treated like a fair thinking person who’s just having a bad day.

It’s weird and gross ans I’m glad we can call our MPs, Senators and PM by their first names and tell them where they can shove it

I’d take a constitutional monarchy over a US system any day