We get closer and closer to a banana republic each day @realdonaldtrump stays in office.

[Soph0571]

Link to tweet

The State Department ran a full blown investigation to find out who at the US Embassy in Brussels liked a Chelsea Clinton tweet.

Team Trump’s Furious Hunt to Find Out Who ‘Liked’ a Chelsea Clinton Tweet

“If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES!,” Trump said.

Clinton shot back: “It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not.”

That tweet garnered more than half a million likes, including by the account for the U.S. mission to the European Union. That kickstarted a weeks-long investigation, prompted by the secretary’s office, into who exactly at the Brussels mission had access to the Twitter account and hit “Like” on Clinton’s tweet, according to two former U.S. officials

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpworlds-wild-hunt-who-liked-a-chelsea-clinton-tweet|]

Like all good wannabee dictators he has a terribly thin skin. Oh and if you work for the state...

One step away from the Ministry of Truth
“The most gifted of [the Proletariate], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.” ― George Orwell, 1984



Not just the destruction of words but the destruction of freedom of thought if he got his way.

[Recursion]

1. We've always been a banana republic

I wish we were just more honest with ourselves about that. We're a post-colonial revolutionary oligarchy and basically always have been. People get mad when I compare us to Brazil or Mexico rather than France or Germany, but Brazil and Mexico are just realistically more accurate comparisons for us. We're the most successful developing country in the world, rather than the least successful developed country.

[moondust]

2. It's a pathetic farce.

Just read that Dumbo has spent 1 out of every 5 days of his term in office at his golf courses. Ka-ching!!!!! Ya but he said he wouldn't have time for golf because he'd be in the White House working all the time, remember? He said it so it must be true!

Ka-ching!!!!

[Vogon_Glory]

3. You're right, we are turning into a banana republic

And the irony is that our Pendejo Maximo seems to hate Latinos and has surrounded himself with people bent on keeping them out of the USA.

[JHB]

4. Never leave off the ending:

"... and Republicans are just fine with that."