The Left's Embarrassing Ignorance: Who Sits, Who Stands?

So the Left is pushing this insane idea that elon Musk is the real power in Washing ton and that Trump is subservient to him.  It's probably more a calculated provocation than ignorance but for some it is no doubt ignorance.  Vecause in the latest attempt to prove it their ignorance is so transcendaent it's embarrassing.

Supposedly a picture sows that Musk is standing while talking to trump who is sitting down and that is supposed to prove tht Musk has the dominant osition and that trum p is subservient to him.

I kept waiting for someone to point out the obvious.  We aren't a monarchy so mayb we are less sensitive to this than a monarchy's citizens ould  be, but no, actually it applies here too, even in this classeless society.

That is, that it is the subservient one who stands in the p;resence of the monarch.  It is a breach of rank to sit in the prsence of a king or queen.  Some servancts must always remain standing in their presence.  that's what waiting on them means.   Others may sit when the monarch sits.

In America we stand when the judge enters the courtroom and sit when the judge tells us we may.  It is the same in other venuies when peopel of rank ener a room.  the others stand for their entry and do not sit until they sit.  

this should be so well knownn that these crazy ideas couldn't have survived half a minute, but crazy ideas hav an unfortunate shelf life these days.

h I just thought of another example..   In the series Downston Abbey, which was pretty popular here in America, thereere is a scneein which the cook has to come upstairs to speak to the earl for whom she works.  He gives her some information which makes her nearly faint and she suddenly apologiz3es to him for having to sit down or shell'll fall.  Not normally allowed to sit in his presence.  See?

Of course this has nothing at all to do with Trump and Musk because we are a classless society and the scene in question is not a cereminial situation in which rank might matter, although even oin tht case I don't think it applies.   Anyway in the scene in the picture it absolutely does not apply.  We sit when we need to a dn stand when it's appropriate for other reasons than rank.

Actually I suspect that in England's clas society the cook would most likely simply faint dead away and wouldn't even try to sit down.   Or if it was permissible in the time covered by Downston Abbey maybe things were just liberalized enough, on the brink of the breakup of the aristocracy, that at least she could apologize and grab for a chair and kjnow the earl woudl forgive her.