The Soviet Union was a union of Soviet Republics.
September 29, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The Soviet Union was a union of Soviet Republics.
America is now officially one of the "shithole banana republics".
April 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
America is now officially one of the "shithole banana republics".
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
Soviet SOCIALIST republics! Blocked!
September 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Soviet SOCIALIST republics! Blocked!
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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This cannot be emphasized enough: in healthy democracies, this is absolutely normal. It is in “banana republics” that criminals go into politics to stay out of jail.
From one of my colleagues two weeks ago: “Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies.”
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
US: International Context for Prosecuting Former Presidents
Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of...
freedomhouse.org
May 30, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This cannot be emphasized enough: in healthy democracies, this is absolutely normal. It is in “banana republics” that criminals go into politics to stay out of jail.
The United States is the 1st Edition AD&D of representative republics.
One of the big ones is the supreme court having lifelong tenure. That's just fucking stupid. Why did you guys do that in the first place?
It's just asking for corruption.
It's just asking for corruption.
September 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The United States is the 1st Edition AD&D of representative republics.
(looking through list of countries)
"Italy, France, Portugal, Scotland, Israel, South Korea...."
Wow, look at all these banana republics!
"Italy, France, Portugal, Scotland, Israel, South Korea...."
Wow, look at all these banana republics!
May 31, 2024 at 12:47 AM
(looking through list of countries)
"Italy, France, Portugal, Scotland, Israel, South Korea...."
Wow, look at all these banana republics!
"Italy, France, Portugal, Scotland, Israel, South Korea...."
Wow, look at all these banana republics!
"The sons of all our republics are raising the five-year plan construction sites", Soviet poster, 1983
September 29, 2026 at 7:53 AM
"The sons of all our republics are raising the five-year plan construction sites", Soviet poster, 1983
This is what banana republics do . . .
Trump just said Schiff merits "prison" for the "fraud" an IG supposedly found.
Again, I talked to experts/former IG who described the process used here as deeply troubling.
This is becoming his model for manipulating bureaucracy to hatch pretexts to target foes:
newrepublic.com/article/1980...
Again, I talked to experts/former IG who described the process used here as deeply troubling.
This is becoming his model for manipulating bureaucracy to hatch pretexts to target foes:
newrepublic.com/article/1980...
July 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is what banana republics do . . .
Not the the United States of Soviet Republics either!
March 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not the the United States of Soviet Republics either!
Theodore Roosevelt once said republics rise, flourish, and fall because their citizens turn the government into a tool primarily to benefit one class instead of benefiting the people as a whole, and I think about what he said quite a lot.
September 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Theodore Roosevelt once said republics rise, flourish, and fall because their citizens turn the government into a tool primarily to benefit one class instead of benefiting the people as a whole, and I think about what he said quite a lot.
And then there’s this. This isn’t an intellectual game. This is how republics end.
March 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
And then there’s this. This isn’t an intellectual game. This is how republics end.
“Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
September 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
“Don’t worry, using taxpayer dollars to run ominous campaign ads of the President has been done before and is completely legal… in banana republics." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And bananas.
And Republics.
And Republics.
April 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And bananas.
And Republics.
And Republics.
Or Dagestan, Tatarstan, Manyotherstan, Adygea, etcetera...
So many potential republics.
So many potential republics.
September 26, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Or Dagestan, Tatarstan, Manyotherstan, Adygea, etcetera...
So many potential republics.
So many potential republics.
Trump trolled by fellow Republican over ‘ominous’ TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’
Trump trolled by Republican over TV ads: ‘Completely legal... in banana republics’
The Republican Representative and other critics accuse the president of misusing taxpayer dollars to pay for the pre-midterms commercials, which prominently feature the commander-in-chief
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September 28, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Trump trolled by fellow Republican over ‘ominous’ TV ads: ‘This is completely legal... in banana republics’
Okay, time to start planning our breakaway republics, I guess.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Okay, time to start planning our breakaway republics, I guess.
He will be elected by one of the narrowest popular vote margins in history, and Democrats will oppose his extreme policies because that’s how democratic republics work. Just as Republicans voted against every single Biden policy.
November 13, 2024 at 12:45 PM
He will be elected by one of the narrowest popular vote margins in history, and Democrats will oppose his extreme policies because that’s how democratic republics work. Just as Republicans voted against every single Biden policy.
WORKERS AND RESOURCES 2: POST SOVIET REPUBLICS
There’s a video game announcement coming some time this year that I have not seen anyone even remotely touch on/guess/theorize about, and I think people are going to absolutely lose their minds. I have nothing to do with it, but am genuinely excited for it to be announced just to see the reactions.
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
WORKERS AND RESOURCES 2: POST SOVIET REPUBLICS
I would say we now live in a banana republic, but that’s probably unfair to actual banana republics.
April 28, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I would say we now live in a banana republic, but that’s probably unfair to actual banana republics.
"Let's take a look at history, and how you lose your republics."
Senator Merkley properly frame Schumer's cave on the CR as an existential crisis for the United States.
Senator Merkley properly frame Schumer's cave on the CR as an existential crisis for the United States.
Merkley: "Right now we have acquiescence from the House Republicans, from the Senate Republicans. The House Democrats don't have leverage. We are the ones -- the Senate Democrats -- who have leverage to say no."
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Let's take a look at history, and how you lose your republics."
Senator Merkley properly frame Schumer's cave on the CR as an existential crisis for the United States.
Senator Merkley properly frame Schumer's cave on the CR as an existential crisis for the United States.
Trump said he's not happy with our Old Navy, so he's gonna do some Banana Republics
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Trump said he's not happy with our Old Navy, so he's gonna do some Banana Republics
The vice president of the United States should not be weighing in on criminal prosecutions, let alone criminal investigations in progress. This is how banana republics function, taking out revenge on enemies via criminal “justice“ process. Politicians should stay out of prosecution.
April 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
The vice president of the United States should not be weighing in on criminal prosecutions, let alone criminal investigations in progress. This is how banana republics function, taking out revenge on enemies via criminal “justice“ process. Politicians should stay out of prosecution.
This is how republics maintain themselves. The alternative is watching the richest man in the country hand out cash for votes
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Marie Le Pen has been banned from public office and sentenced to prison.
Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds.
A Paris court delivered Le Pen a four-year prison sentence,…
Marie Le Pen has been banned from public office and sentenced to prison.
Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds.
A Paris court delivered Le Pen a four-year prison sentence,…
March 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is how republics maintain themselves. The alternative is watching the richest man in the country hand out cash for votes