The latest GOP talking point...

[surfered]

…is that we cannot hold Donald Trump accountable for his crimes, because that would make America look like a “Banana Republic,” where they lock up their political opponents.

Excuse me, but do they think we’ve forgotten that at every single Trump campaign rally in 2016, they chanted “Lock Her Up, Lock Her Up?”

The GOP has taken on Trump’s persona, exhibiting terminal hypocrisy, never ending shamelessness, and a complete lack of self awareness.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump is a ruthless sociopath and will use every trick in the book to evade justice.

The tactics will be relentless.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Hypocrisy died long ago as did shame and facts.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Rump back in power is the shortest route to banana republic status

by whatever definition they choose in their specious argument.

[samnsara]

4. trump CHOSE to be a 'political opponent'...

so lock him up for being stupid

[Lovie777]

5. Say what?.......................

GQP congress critters - chaos

GQP governors, and their legislation - chaos

GQP psycho religion - chaos

GQP judges and justices - chaos

GQP media - chaos

and all of them spew hatred, violence while cheating, stealing and make up shit.

[Walleye]

6. Except for the fact that he's not locked up yet. Tell us about it when that happens

[Lonestarblue]

7. Richard Nixon also claimed not to be a crook--but he was.

The difference is that Republicans knew Nixon was a crook and helped force him to resign. Today’s Republicans know Trump is a crook, but instead of forcing him out as their candidate, they’re blaming the justice system not the criminal. That alone says Republicans are no longer the law and order party—if they ever actually were.

[Ligyron]

28. They're all criminals themselves.

I forget the exact number of them convicted of various crimes compared to the Democrats but it’s like 67 to 1, maybe 2 of ours.

Need to check current numbers to throw in their face every time one brings it up. I know one thing, team trump are going to far exceed the numbers Nixon administration put up.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. PUPPETS the lot of them...

Those parroting the "Banana Republic" B.S. line are AFRAID of retaliation of the cult and their own political futures.

[OldBaldy1701E]

19. Yep. They feed the piranhas.

Because if they did not, the piranhas would eat them.

[dalton99a]

9. It is now the Trump Party

from top to bottom

[2naSalit]

17. Inside and out.

[Martin Eden]

10. Terminal Hypocrisy

In a sane country, it would be politically terminal for the party that engages in this sheer volume of hypocrisy.

[paleotn]

11. Sorry, but we passed the "Banana Republic" sign a long time ago. Thanks to Republicans.

[StClone]

20. Banana Republicans Projecting

Feces-throwing monkeys, dangerous ones with assault weapons, miseducated by FOX-inducing rage machine.

[paleotn]

26. Some dangerous ones but not as many as we'd think.

Thanks in part to corn subsidies and high fructose corn syrup. Ironic really. Most gun types I know, even up here in the relative healthier north tier, expend maximum effort just to get off the couch. They ATV into the woods during hunting season. Something I still chuckle about when my better half an I go on our spring wildflower jaunts and fall foliage hikes. May sound like "well, in my day" but still, we hoofed it for miles into the woods back in the 70's and 80's. Then, if one of us got a deer, we dragged and carried it back out on foot for those very same miles. Carting 130lbs of dead weight isn't an easy task. Today's crew can't physically do that in most cases.

Short story is they're probably not much of an effective fighting force. But then again, to your point, it doesn't take a hell of a lot of them to cause a really big stink.

[StClone]

29. Thanks you!

We would get along well; everything you posted is something I have espoused over the past 22 years on DU. I don't hunt anymore. But, ATVs are my bane, and the lazy turds who see them as the only way to traverse the world. And when they retire to the "The Villages " it is in a golf cart.

[Historic NY]

12. Overlooking the fact that only the authoritarians in Europe align themselves with Trump

[Layzeebeaver]

13. The magats (yea, I still call them that) took over the GOP)

So it’s easy to expect this kind of messaging. Par for the course.

[bringthePaine]

14. I love the smell of snowflakes melting in the morning🤣

[Farmer-Rick]

15. That term is thrown around a lot

And many people think it just means a backwards, undeveloped poor country. But turns out no. It has, or did have until Trump humpers started using it wrong, a specific meaning.

Here's the best short definition I could find from Wiki:

"The phrase banana republic was first coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry. A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class."

I think we hit the Banana Republic stage when the Stinking Nazi became president.

All those huge tax cuts to corporations and the filthy-rich, while increasing the middle class taxes and taking away rights, subsidies and benefits from the middle class and poor. That made us a Banana Republic.

[Shermann]

22. Also forget about clean energy development and energy diversification

DRILL BABY DRILL! CLEAN COAL!

Sounds banana-like to me.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Smells like a rotten banana

[Shermann]

16. Pseudo-intellectual BS.

Hijack an obscure word or phrase from history and repurpose it with conviction. Biased news viewers will think you are highly educated. "Wokeness" is getting a bit worn out for 2024 so they need a new catch phrase. "Banana republic" it is.

[Blue Idaho]

18. If you spot it, you got it

Banana Republicans.

[Shermann]

21. Oh that's good. I hope that sticks to them like flung monkey poo.

There is a banana tie-in there, the best I could think of.

[Blue Idaho]

30. Please spread it far and wide...

With my blessings…

[Emile]

23. Proving "Republicans are Weak on Crime"

[J_William_Ryan]

25. The latest GOP lie.

Trump isn’t being ‘locked up’ by his political opponents.

Trump wasn’t convicted because of his politics.

Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers the consequence of his crimes.

[CrispyQ]

27. I've given up keeping track of their hypocrisies.

It goes like this. Everything must go their way, Trump's way. Everything. All the time.

>> If Trump is being indicted, tried, & convicted it's a witch hunt, but if Biden or his son are, it's following the law.

>> If the senators & reps from a state win their elections but Trump doesn't, then the election was fair & square for them but not for Trump.

>> Biden's too old to run the country &Trump isn't, but Trump is too old to go to prison.

They twist themselves up trying to always have it their way. 🥨I'm embarrassed for the people I know who still support this party.

[Marcuse]

31. Biden has dementia, can't put a sentence together and outsmarted Trump. Got it.

[hadEnuf]

32. We'd look like a banana republic if we didn't lock up this criminal.

He was found guilty of felonies. This is not political like the lying GOP wants it to be.

This is becoming a seditious terrorist threat. I hope the government is taking steps to potentially deal with this. The GOP may be trying to whip up another coup attempt.

[hadEnuf]

33. This is getting familiar.

He was found guilty of felonies. This is not political like the lying GOP wants it to be.

This is becoming a seditious terrorist threat. I hope the government is taking steps to potentially deal with this. The GOP may be trying to whip up another coup attempt.

[chowmama]

34. I liked the part post-trial where he said he was fighting for the Constitution.

And that would be the same Constitution that he promises to suspend if put back in office.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

35. PREACH, Surfered....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Stupid fucks

Letting him get away with crime makes us look like a banana republic.

They should rename themselves the Banana Republicans.

[NanaCat]

37. They haven't really taken on his persona

They always had the same one. They've merely put down the dog whistles and glommed onto the outright fascist.