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Coolgoober

(129 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:02 AM May 15

Just Looked Up Banana Republic

I looked up a couple different definitions. And they pretty much describe us, especially now with Donny Two Dolls taking bribes. And with a lot of countries boycotting usa we'll have less exports. I can't remember the economists name right this second, but he keeps pointing out that we are a nation in decline. My kids are in their 40's. My 6 grandkids are ages two weeks to 14 years. Me and my wife do the protests, big one coming up June 14. We need to save this Country from these wannabe dictators. We need to save it for future generations. I want them to be free.

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Just Looked Up Banana Republic (Original Post) Coolgoober May 15 OP
It's the Republican plan to reform immigration... Wounded Bear May 15 #1
they want us to be a resource colony DBoon May 15 #4
Trump was making the statement that we are a nation in decline in his campaign Walleye May 15 #2
Woody Allen's film "Bananas" (1971) is a spoof of Latin America political-military intrigue. John1956PA May 15 #3
Who do you think financed them malaise May 15 #5
Exactly A HERETIC I AM May 15 #6
That effin simple malaise May 15 #7

Wounded Bear

(62,518 posts)
1. It's the Republican plan to reform immigration...
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:04 AM
May 15

They want to turn the US into a 3rd world banana republic that nobody will want to come to.

And no, that's not sarcasm.

DBoon

(23,966 posts)
4. they want us to be a resource colony
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:23 AM
May 15

we will export minerals and agricultural products

other countries will have the machinery and skilled labor to process what we export

kind of like the slave states exporting cotton to Britain, to be made into cloth

Walleye

(41,443 posts)
2. Trump was making the statement that we are a nation in decline in his campaign
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:07 AM
May 15

He has his trait of making a statement and then trying to reverse engineer it to make it right. So he’s doing his best to make this country a nation in decline because he said so. And he always has to be right

malaise

(286,696 posts)
5. Who do you think financed them
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:29 AM
May 15

and backed up their leaders and militaries?
American oligarchs and politicians

A HERETIC I AM

(24,815 posts)
6. Exactly
Thu May 15, 2025, 11:40 AM
May 15

The whole idea of a Banana Republic was a creation of American international capitalism. This country has repeatedly created the problems it then complains about later on. The gang "MS13" is a perfect example. The difficulties the people in Venezuela have experienced,, the instabilities in almost every south and central American country, the countries of Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam etc.etc.

You can't swing a dead cat on this planet without finding something that American capitalists have fucked up.

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