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Wow. Krauthammer on Trump's Tweets: This Is What It's Like in a Banana Republic (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2017 OP
Elect a poo-flinging orangutan C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #1
I'll pass watching it, but enjoy the BootinUp Jun 2017 #2
COVFEFE BITCHES Goonch Jun 2017 #3
So funny watching Fox complain about the media being mean to Cheeto Egnever Jun 2017 #4
Evan McMullin & Charlie Sykes applauding Krauthammer, Laura Ingraham upset highplainsdem Jun 2017 #5
No thanks on the link but yes I keep thinking oh well Dueete in the Philippines is worse lunasun Jun 2017 #6
That's why they are called Banana Republicans Major Nikon Jun 2017 #7

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
6. No thanks on the link but yes I keep thinking oh well Dueete in the Philippines is worse
Thu Jun 29, 2017, 10:59 PM
Jun 2017

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)
7. That's why they are called Banana Republicans
Thu Jun 29, 2017, 11:54 PM
Jun 2017

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.

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