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But don’t worry, they swapped the flags before the king arrived.
Apr 28, 2026 8:06 PM
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But don’t worry, they swapped the flags before the king arrived.
RetrogradeLlama
They are just so ignorant
supervillin
And surely once he left, they replaced them with Confederate flags.
Osiricus
I guess that's what happens when you fire all the competent people.
MajMalfunction2
Holy shit it's real.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/king-charles-visit-flags-flub_n_69ef127be4b0d1d8ce950e91
Pphunk77
How fitting. Australia was where England would once send there criminals to perish.
ziph3326
“What’s the difference?” Said MAGA.
Edgarflaps
Go back to grade school, morons.
Notthen82
He’s also the King of Australia, but he wasn’t there in that royal capacity
Huor
You know they're different countries, right>?
mcodger
He loves stupid people.
hellospacemonkey
Trump has only loyalists; they are D students. They are sheep and putting Trump's face on US passports; they are not talented or knowledgeable people, and that's why they took the opportunity to work for a dictator.
obarey
I'm still not used to hearing the phrase "King Charles". It just doesn't feel right.
Huor
Agreed.
Elkarlo1977
At least not the Austrian Flag.
enderite
SomeDetroitGuy
So they put up flags of Australia in advance of the King of Australia visiting then took them down so that they would not offend the King of England when he showed up. The King of Canada didn't seem to notice the flags at all.
IlluminaBlade
Hey wait a minute, those are the same guy!
JetHed
Yes, but he wears a different hat for each country and didn't bring the aussie one on this trip.
samwyze
That's the one with the dangling corks, right?
Targe0
No it's the one he wears upside down.
yeahhedugit
That is unacceptable.
UnattendedDeviant
This can be expected when you surround yourself with ass kissers instead of competent people.
JackieTreehornProductions
loma45
southflhitnrun
They have all the best people at every level.
SomeDetroitGuy
No Child Left Behind was actually one of the few things Bush did right (he also did some good stuff for the environment). It provided for IEPs for neurodiverse students, allowed for additional Federal funding for neurodiverse students, and required that standardized tests also measure subsets of students to make sure that schools weren't failing children of color or immigrant children or disabled children or neurodiverse children. It was a pretty huge step forward and had more broad bipartisan
SomeDetroitGuy
support and actually had significantly more Democratic support than Republican. Only 10 Democrats in the House and 2 in the Senate voted against it. 34 House Republicans and 6 Senate Republicans voted against it.
tinyfootprints
NCLB drastically lowered the bar. It worked by slowing down the more capable students, and putting everyone on the level of the least capable students.
Alice3173
It has a lot of issues. It lowers educational standards in general. For example, I know a lot of people who graduated high school thanks to NCLB despite failing most of their classes all years of high school. And in almost all of those cases, it wasn't because they couldn't pass them but because they didn't care.
Malsbury
King Charles is the Australian Head of state, so they're kind of right.
Targe0
Yeah, as an Australian, he is our King.
His face is being printed on our coins.
Huor
No. They're not.
Scahrossar
Not Trump, just some local govt. official that fucked up. Happens all the time. The only reason it gets posted here is because HuffPost implied the orange asshole was involved with the pic. Pure clickbait.
Targe0
It's also not really that big of a Fuck-up.
As an Australian Charles is our King as well.
So while they likely intended to use the UK flag and fucked it up.
They still used a flag for a nation he is head of state for.
DaSauceSeeker
JFC, the flags are even labeled on the shelf...
monkeyfly
They can't read.
HandoB4Javert
They need pictures, with maps...oh...as you were.
OneMoreLime
If I worked for this loser I would purposely get shit like that wrong for the purpose of making him look stupid.
DaSauceSeeker
Malicious compliance, I can get behind that theory
themuffulettaisalsoaverygoodsandwich
Only helpful if you know the difference between Australia and the UK, and also where the King comes from.
Targe0
He's still the King of Australia though.
So it was still not totally wrong.
There were 15 nations whose flags they could have used and still been technically right.
As The British Monarch is head of state for 15 countries. It's just conventional to use the UK flag for their visit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm
HandoB4Javert
Hawaii would have been a better choice.
Targe0
Despite the fact that the British never actually colonised Hawaii. The Hawaiian king at the time just really liked how the UK flag looked and requested permission to use it on their own flag.
HandoB4Javert
That's the amazing part.
supervillin
I love the idea of Trump's next UK visit being surrounded by California state flags or something.
Targe0
Not quite the same.
Sebastopol140
What?
Targe0
Instead of the UK flag they put up the Australian flag.
Sebastopol140
This is an amazing display of stupid.
getadogupya
It's a run of the mill display of stupid, for this lot.
Targe0
Though it's still technically correct, as he is the King of Australia.
So while a fuck up, it's still on paper a correct answer.
ReaperCDN
Weird how you keep getting this marked wrong if it's so correct of an answer.
Targe0
Yeah, I'm Australian and Charles is our King, his face is on our money. Our constitution is all about how the Monarchs powers function and their limitations.
As he is for 15 other nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm
Targe0
He's still the King of Australia, so it's not really that big of a fuck up.
It's just not the conventional way its normally done.
Huor
They're different countries, so yeah, it is a fuck up. Jesus.
richardstinks
Yes, it is that big of a fuck up. There's no way in hell they would have thought any deeper than "huh, this looks right."
Targe0
Yes, but they at least got a country that he was actually the King of still.
They could have picked a flag he isn't the head of state of.
AgamemnonsMemes
???????
Targe0
Australia is a democratic Monarchy.
The British Monarch is the Australian head of State.
The sitting royal has their face on all Australian coins because of this fact.
And is just 1 of the 15 nations that still have the British monarch as their head of state. Charles is king of 15 nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm
Sebastopol140
Your point is just showing that they're imbeciles, thinking that "it looks right" means it IS right.
Targe0
I'm Australian.
I think this is funny as shit.
And the fact it lets us dunk on both the US and UK without having to do anything. Chefs kiss of perfection.
Sebastopol140
I 100% understand the funny as hell part.
sindail
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1azRsN3doem16dm5rdHN4MnA5dXkxcWpoYnhqM3N4cHluY2t5MzZybSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/WUsOgqfcpOBRlJPrUM/200w.webp
cabalin
Smart people never have to tell you they’re smart, let alone stable
AyatollahBahloni
https://youtu.be/k-LTRwZb35A?si=Zqu_H8QsImhyLrq0
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