6. Like his father, William F. Buckley was originally an isolationist. The family had a yacht called "Sweet Isolation." In 1930s when he was 7 or 8 the young squire wrote an indignant letter to the King of England demanding that America's war debts be repaid.
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17. Kirby's Madbomb story (Captain America 193-200, 1976) is a bicentennial epic about a plot to turn Americans into raving mobs fighting each other. The villain turns out to be a plutocrat named Malcolm Taurey (i.e. Tory) who wants to restore aristocracy.pic.twitter.com/8Cn3LGdDOZ
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18. I wouldn't want to make too much of a claim for Kirby's Madbomb story except that it does map well with the emergence of an American right that is explicitly nostalgic for aristocracy and can succeed only by divide-and-conquer race war.
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19. One last thing. If you want to hear William F. Buckley read out his sex fantasies about the Queen of England (interspersed with reflections on American power and boarding school stories) do I have a Youtube for you.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1373328678659178500 …
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This is the part I've been patiently waiting for
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This is all interesting, and gives us some context. However, apres Elizabeth le deluge? She’s a nostalgic link to the bygone days of empire and resilience. But once she’s gone, what’s left? The boring flotsam and jetsam of rancid white privilege?
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They're working on cryogenics to keep her going another 25+ years. The Firm couldn't survive Charles, whose brain stalled in 1958.
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Oh my God yes, give me that sweet Madbomb content I crave
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