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Just so you understand the level of gaslighting, outright lying, Mango Mussolini is doing on Cuba:
That the news media let him get away with this answer is humiliating and shocking given that the reason those planes are sitting idle is by design and the objective of this administration.
We are committing war crimes in Cuba. There is a fair argument to make that it's a genocide in motion. But because it's brown people the news media could care less. As far as the United States is concerned as long as it's it's only impacting people of color the American people are perfectly fine with it. We, as a nation, are deeply racist, xenophobic and misogynistic and apparently very pro-child abuse and pro baby eating.
Because that is the only excuse I can determine that explains any of this.
Our country is a living, breathing death cult that wants to destroy the world.
We are waging a genocidal campaign against Cuba and as best as I can tell no one in the US cares.
Reference:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5740997-trump-cuba-oil-blockade/
leftstreet
(39,683 posts)Theres an embargo. Theres no oil. Theres no money. Theres no anything.
Where is Congress?! Getting ready to applaud him at the SOTU?
MustLoveBeagles
(15,388 posts)60+ years of loyalty to the Republicans got them nothing in the end.
spanone
(141,253 posts)gulliver
(13,832 posts)Do we honestly think that the first Cuban American Secretary of State would allow a genocide to occur in Cuba? Do we think the Cuban community in Miami would not freak out? I think I'll wait until I see this on CNN or MS Now.
"Deeply racist?" Nope.
"Pro Baby eating?" Wuuut?
angrychair
(11,956 posts)Our news media isn't talking about this but the international community is talking about it...a lot. Mexico has already shipped them an emergency assistance and Canada and a couple of others are putting aid packages together.
You didn't have to believe me, Google it.
angrychair
(11,956 posts)"baby eating" is in reference to the Epstein files. They were eating babies. For some reason the news media ignores that. Just like they ignore everything else this administration is doing.
OC375
(573 posts)Genocide or not, I think most people hear "Cuba", then think "Soviet puppet", "communism", and maybe "JFK/Missile Crisis", then move on with life.
Some might still actually remember we have an infamous prison and military base there. Boat People somethingorother rings a bell, maybe? Some dolt pipes in that Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights was set there, and that hey have "Cool old American cars" there. Beyond that? Meh. Too much else to worry about and keep track of.
It's sad because Cuba has a lot to offer, and there are strong family ties between our nations.
Sogo
(7,087 posts)Maybe this is being done to push his buttons, or as retaliation for him making fun of TSF's little hands in the 2016 campaign....
angrychair
(11,956 posts)He supports the current actions. I've even read that there is talk of him being installed as the US imposed leader of Cuba.
Their ultimate objective is to turn Cuba into maga inspired political hellscape.
ToxMarz
(2,832 posts)The 1950's Cuba that is the reason they are what they are today!
Cuba in the 1950s was characterized by the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, widespread corruption, and extreme inequality, with Havana serving as a luxurious tourist hub for American gambling and organized crime. The decade was defined by escalating political unrest, culminating in the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro, which overthrew Batista on January 1, 1959.
HIs ancestors and much of the Miami Cuban elite are descendant from the Batista class who fled when Castro came to power. They long for those "glory" days and are natural Trump supporters.
malaise
(294,572 posts)You will do what the bully says or die
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