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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow. Krauthammer on Trump's Tweets: This Is What It's Like in a Banana Republic
http://insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/56694Must-watch video. Krauthammer condemning Trump on Special Report with Brett Baier.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)and you're gonna need bananas
BootinUp
(47,200 posts)Thread title very much
Goonch
(3,618 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Anyone can kill there as long as they claim thier victim to be a drug addict it seems and he told soldiers they each can rape 2-3 women . He has boasted of killing himself yet was elected and is popular there
We are currently steps up of course from that kind of place but this great country is is getting too close for comfort to some places like that.
Edit to add
And no Chavez has never come to mind . This is the kind of stuff slipped in that when I see fox as a link I pass
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)The term was coined as a result of corporations who controlled banana production in Latin America and subsequently created plutocracies so they could subjugate the local population and reap huge profits. The model works just as well in the US.