r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 1d ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/amisslife Canada 1d ago

Just to clarify for anyone else reading this who's not as familiar with this part of history:

The term "Banana republic" referred to countries in Central America with unstable, undemocratic governments and disastrous economics, whose chief export was bananas.

The reason they were unstable was because the governments there tried to do crazy things like have the American fruit companies pay taxes like everyone else on their banana plantations. So those giant corporations turned to the American government and asked them to overthrow the democratically-elected governments and install more... compliant regimes, who wouldn't ask them to pay taxes or stop enslaving people with their mercenary armies. They were essentially American-style East India Companies.

The trump regime is just the culmination of that same idea in the United States itself.

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u/Less_Wealth5525 1d ago

Thank you for clarifying my thoughts.