Cuba, Pseudo-Cubes, and the Embargo

Guest Post by Fred Reed

More Witlessness from the Yankee Capital

Vi and I spent a couple of weeks in Cuba a few years back for The American Conservative. Nice place, good people, government a mixed bag, mostly sorry.

Varadero, Cuba. Photo: FOE Staff

Some things surpass all understanding. Why in the name of God and little catfish are we embargoing Cuba? The revolution occurred in 1959, some 55 years ago. A young man then of 20 would now be 75. The Mariel boat lift came in 1980, 35 years ago. The same man of 20 would now be 55. Even a newborn would be 35. Which is to say that all “Cubans” under thirty-five, and a very high proportion of those older, in fact are not Cubans. I imagine a conversation:

Alejandro: “I am a Cuban, and proud of it.”

Me: “Ah, I see. Born in Cuba, I suppose.”

Alejandro: “Uh, no. Miami General, actually.”

“But a Cuban citizen, certainly.”

Alejandro: “Well, no. I am a US citizen. You see….”

Me: “Assuredly you have lived extensively in Cuba, for many years at least.”

Alejandro: “Well….”

Me: “Have you ever been to Cuba? I have.”

Alejandro: “Well…no, not exactly. I…you see….”

Me: “Yes, Alex, I believe I do see. You were born in America, speak native English, carry only a US passport, and have never been to Cuba. Ah, my fellow gringo, you are no more a Cuban than I am a Scotsman. Why do you pretend? Halloween doesn’t come until October.”

These pseudo-Cuban blatherers are the worst enemy of the Cuban people, a scourge keeping them forever in the semi-penury of an impoverishing embargo. If they are indeed Cubans, they are traitors to their people and if not, foreign oppressors.

My high-school ride. Cuba is a trove of antique cars, 1959 and back. It is not clear how forcing eleven million people to drive crumbling carcanchas conduces to American prosperity and security. FOE staff photo.

As for the Republican Party, they are the most repellent mob of patriotic poseurs, drumbeating jingoes, and disturbed curiosities ever to walk this or, probably, any other planet. Some would say that they are as reprehensible as the Democrats, though that would be a stretch.

The root of the matter is that man is a near derivative of the monkey, not an improvement on him. Man cannot entertain in what he regards as a mind more than a dozen things at once, and even this number would strain him. So he puts vast complexities, sprawling lands, and multitudinous populations into a single word, and thinks about that, because it is all he can manage.

When he thinks about Cuba, he thinks about Fidel Castro, this being one of perhaps three Cubans he has ever heard of. Three, if he is among the more sophisticated of Americans. He has learned that Castro is a first-rate blackguard and a murderous tyrant, which is true. Since he cannot distinguish between Cuba and Castro, he thinks the island must be punished.

According to the CIA’s Worldbook, Cuba has 1,047,251 inhabitants. A probing mathematic analysis, the only kind I undertake, would suggest that one of them is Castro, and 1,047,250 are not. Thus when frothing Republicans and Cuban impostures impose an embargo, they inflict grave damage on innocent people. The one person the embargo does not hurt is Fidel Castro. Can even the midget Talleyrands of Washington believe that because of the embargo Fidel cannot get sirloin and Jack Daniels ?

The embargo is the mean-spirited vengeance on the wrong people by a Washington miffed because Fidel beat them. He was a monster, yes, but Washington has never shown a disposition to avoid the company of monsters. Thing is, he won, and he made clowns of the CIA—or more correctly was a bystander as they made fools of themselves. This Washington cannot forgive.

What earthly purpose is the strangulation of the island thought to serve? Yes, yes, I kinow. “Castro is a Comminiss.” Right, got it. Today, Cuba. Tomorrow Arkansas. And so a ratpack of naïve adolescent petulants in the Senate are going to save the free world, which barely includes the United States, from a tiny impoverished country impoverished because we are saving the world from it. Whatever happened to grownups?

How los Castro stay in power. Countless signs, correctly attributing the impoverishment of an educated and industrious people to Washington, give the government a politically useful enemy. Without the embargo, Cuba would explode commercially and Fidel would be a remote memory in about three weeks. FOE photo.

The amusing thing is that Washington’s desire to contain Cuba (along with Russia, China, Iran, Africa, and the Moslem world) is probably all that keeps los Castro in power. All over one sees signs saying that the economic loss caused by three days of the embargo (or whatever) would pay for a new school. Washington gets the blame, correctly, for Cuba’s misery. Why is America ruled by people who  seem to have been dropped on their heads as newborns?

What manner of place is Cuba, really? It is a dictatorship, well ahead of America in totalitarianism, but we are closing fast. Yet interesting tidbits abound. The CIA puts literacy at 99.8%, which I would have thought a little high, but would the CIA lie? (The US Department of Education put American literacy at 86% ) Further, says the CIA, a girl child can expect to receive fifteen years or education, and a boy, fourteen. Life expectancy, 78 years. (US 79.5)  Infant mortality, 4.7 per 1000 births (US, 6.17) Medical expenditure as a proportion of GDP is very high. Racial mixture: 64% white, 26% mestizo, 9% black—yet enjoys universal literacy, says the CIA, and no race riots that I have heard of. Cuba is eighth in the world in proportion of its people in jail—lousy. The US is second, after the Seychelles.

If Washington had any decency, or if the pseudo-Cubans of Miami did, or if Washington intelligently wanted to bring los Castro down, or if it wanted to give American businesses a nice little market, I would drop the damned embargo. The island has all the requisites for being a super-conducting tourist magnet—exoticism, but not too much; safety, very low crime, glorious beaches, climate, proximity. It also has a highly educated workforce that needs work, which might appeal to businessmen.

But no. Pseudo-Cubes vote Republican, and all those senators with the flat spots on their heads don’t like Fidel. I am going to leave the human race.

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Chicago999444
Chicago999444

When Fred Reed is good, he is awesome. NOBODY commenting on the debacle that is our 50-plus year embargo of Cuba hits it on the head with more accuracy. The Cuban embargo is one of the most pointless and destructive policy initiatives ever, and it has done nothing but harm to its tiny population of impoverished people, while doing no good for the US.

If we had lifted the embargo in, say, 1970, Cuba would have long since been free and prosperous. The reason we have not, has less to do with our concern about “communism”, much less “human rights”, than the personalities involved, mainly those in the Cuban Exile Community in Miami, a bunch of people who have managed to intimidate almost every politician in office, oftentimes with threats of violence. People well remember what a fevered place Miami was in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, when you could get your car or house there bombed for saying anything that might remotely be construed as approval for the Castro regime, or saying anything that didn’t express enough hatred for it.

The only good thing the embargo ever did was show how a population of enterprising, hard-working people manage to do more with less. Viewing photos of modern-day Havana leaves me amazed at the beauty and cleanliness of the place, even in its current run-down condition. No matter how impoverished and oppressed these people have been, they’ve managed to maintain civilization, and they are a lesson for certain populations here in the U.S. who manage to live in squalor no matter how much money and resources we hand them. What a gorgeous city with so much lovely architecture, and filled with gleaming old cars that these people have managed to keep running for 50 years. I’d really love to experience the place before it fills up with fast food franchises and drive-throughs, and the streets are littered with Big Mac wrappers and crappy pre-fab commercial buildings.

Let these people go! The old generation of Cuban exiles is dead, and their kids are aging and “La Luca” is fading with them. Fidel is dying and his brother is in his dotage. The slightest push will topple the tottering Castro regime, and lifting the embargo will be that push.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

Oh, and Cuban cooking is AWESOME!

I once sponsored a refugee from the boatlift in the early 80s, an older man who brought me his home cooked food as a thank-you. It was some of the most interesting and tasty food ever.

Crat
Crat

The embargo on Cuba should have been lifted a long, long time ago; however, let us not romanticize the Cuban political system. Cuba can trade with just about any country in the world: Germany, Spain, Canada, Mexico, South American countries, Russia, etc. etc. The problem with the Cuban economy is primarily its Communist regime, lack of freedom (political, economic, personal, etc.).

Those who think if the embargo is lifted, things will just be peachy, brotherhood, peace and prosperity are deluded.

Corruption. crumbling infrastructure, prostitution, rampant black market, theft, etc. That shows a decline of the society, and lifting the embargo and some American intervention is not going to help. Hell, if you look around the world, American “help” is anything but! Look at the countries we are currently helping or have recently “helped”, Ukraine, Lybia, Iraq, and so on.

MuckAbout

There is some bent feelings in South Florida. If your Dad risked his life floating across the Florida Straits in an inner tube and survived, as his son or daughter, one might feel a bit bitter that their generation may be able to climb on a ferry to Miami and hop a plane to Atlantic with no risk of life and limb.

The majority of Cubans are more than ready to join the world’s club of more prosperous nations. After all they probably have millions of dollars of collectable cars in superior condition as a basis to increase their bank accounts – after all a primo 1955 Chevy will buy two or three Honda Boxes.

@bb: This is the second post today where you’re spewing garbage and being a pain in the ass. Unless that’s what you’re trying to do, get over it. If it is what you’re trying to do, go do it somewhere else. You’re boring.

Stucky

If Cubans think they are fucked now …. just wait until American business invades their island and opens shop.

Stucky

Cuba’s literacy rate is higher than the USA!USA!USA!

They have a lower percentage of people in prison. Their crime rate is way lower.

Their life expectancy is a hair below ours.

No one is starving. I see no emaciated Cubans walking the street. Does their gooberment force GMOs down their throats? No? I bet they eat a waaay healthier diet than we do.

The island is LOADED with vintage 50’s-60’s American cars!

They have a dictator. So do we.

So, how is Cuba “impoverished”?

Stucky

“Oh, and Cuban cooking is AWESOME! ” ——— Chicago999444

Indeed!! I’ve accessed this website many times over the past couple years. Probably made a dozen of these recipes. Very tasty.

http://www.icuban.com/

Stucky

“Cuba has 1,047,251 inhabitants.” ———- from the article

Only one million people live in Cuba?

ragman

Cuban population is about 11 million. Opening up can only be good for the Cubans and should lead to the demise of the Castros. The Miami bunch will have their panties in a wad for awhile, but nobody seems to give a shit what they think anymore.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

So Cuba has “Corruption. crumbling infrastructure, prostitution, rampant black market, theft, etc”

I guess we don’t have those problems here in our totally pristine, perfect country, do we?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The best thing about ending the travel ban on Cuba is watching Rubio sputter. That guy’s as phony as a $3 bill.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

I love Fred Reed and 99.5% of the time I agree totally with what he says. Unfortunately, he is wrong on Cuba. While one can make a case for lifting the embargo and even re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba, this should only be considered in the framework of a carefully developed plan to remove the existing defacto regime (there has been no even marginally legal government in Cuba since 1959) and demolish the so-called “Cuban revolution”, from the ground up. I am saddened that a man as squared away as Fred would refer to the Cuban exiles as “traitors”. The only Cuban traitors are those fools and scoundrels who have supported Fidel Castro and his gangsters.
Forgot all the nonsense about us bullying an inoffensive little island in the Caribbean. Negative. The Castro regime – which has nothing to do with the Cuban people on or off the island – consists of a sordid gang of cutthroats who have done more damage to our own country that even the USSR did. As far as our supposed “offenses” agains little Cuba, the only thing we have to be sorry for as how limp-wristed and ineffective they have been. We had every right, morally and legally, to remove the Castro regime by force and turn Fidel over to be executed by a legitimate Cuban government.
The Cuban people never wanted or asked for a Communist dictatorship. Traitors within our own government allowed Castro to first take power and then destroy the non-Communist resistance groups who did most of the fighyting against the Batista dictatorship. The record on this is crystal clear.
I am particularly disgusted when outsiders speak of the Cuban people as if they had some connection with the regime, 90 percent of the Cubans despise Castro and his gang. The other ten percent are known by other Cubans as “shiteaters”, which is an accurate and precise description.
Fidel Castro “beat us”? B.S. We failed to remove him due to the treasonous actions of pantywaist Ivy League traitors. Mean-spirited” actions against “industrious and hard-working” people?
Come on. This isn´t about people, as sad as it is that the Cubans on the island are in this situation. It is about power politics in the world. We had no choice but to isolate and cripple this regime to the extent possible, for our own protection and that of our Latin neighbors.
As for the “industrious and hardworking” Cubans, most of the Cubans who meet that description live outside the island these days. With some exceptions, the Cubans who stayed are the dregs or those without the guts to face the persecution those who applied to leave faced.
In 1959 Cuba had a chance to make it as a country, a modern, prosperous, democratic country. They threw it away, though the fault was not all theirs.
The position of the U.S. with respect to the Castro regime was correct. We were right to turn Cuba into a pariah state and right to work with our Latin neighbors to hunt down and kill the muderous thugs Castro sponsored in guerrilla groups across the continent.
When the regime falls people like Fred will have whole omelettes across their faces when the rage and hatred the ordinary Cubans feel for Fidel and his pack of wolves explodes on our TV screens.

IndenturedServant

I’m with Stucky, once the gates are open, American big business interests will destroy Cuba and turn it into mini-Amurika.

Stucky

” … this should only be considered in the framework of a carefully developed plan to remove the existing defacto regime.” ———– Southern Sage

Nice post. Gave it a thumbs up.

But regarding your comment I highlighted ….. WHY? Why should the USA!USA!USA! become involved in regime change ….. again? Because it works so well everywhere we try it?

Why is it OK to do business with China, but not Cuba? Isn’t our government a tad bit hypocritical?

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Stucky,
I see your point, and it is a good one. I will explain my position.

Our failure to forcibly remove Castro in 1961, as soon as he first received military aid from the Soviets, was one of the most disastrous failures in U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War period. We allowed a mortal enemy to gain a beachhead in the hemisphere, a blunder that could very well have led to a nuclear war.

By failing to directly confront Castro we allowed this regime to export terrorism across all of Latin America, as well as Africa and other parts of the world (including the United States). It was the Cuban regime, not the USSR, that sponsored the growth of international terrorism from the 1960´s on. Don´t like Obama and his “progressive” friends? Guess where they were trained and who has supported them since the 1960´s. Bill Ayers was one of their proudest achievements.

Castro was not driven into the arms of the Soviets. He was a Communist agent long before he took power. His brother Raul was a Communist Party member while Fidel was ordered to adopt an “anti-imperialist¨persona to disguise his true connections.

Why do we need regime change in Cuba? Simple. It is one thing to meddle in the Middle East or Eastern Europe, meddling promoted by the Zionists who control our government. Cuba is 90 miles from Key West and an uncontrolled breakdown of the regime there (and it will break up sooner or later) will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. We will be left holding the bag. Cuba will degenerate into an absolute pirate nation ruled by warlords, narcos and other outright criminals. We don´t need that. We have one Haiti in the Caribbean and that is quite enough, thank you.

The Castro regime is the wellspring of the poisonous hatred that has been spewed against our country from Havana since 1959 (and which, I am sorry to say, many well-meaning Americans have swallowed hook, line and sinker). I am no mindless chanter of USA! USA! USA! Far from it, but neither am I so foolish as to fail to recognize a true enemy of America when I see one. Just because our government is run by morons and our people every day are descending to that level, that does not mean every anti-American creep is a friend. Hugo Chavez, Castro, Evo Morales and those of their ilk are criminals who have done terrible damage to their own countries and the world, as will one day be revealed in all its splendor.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

One more thing, Stucky. You make claims for Cuba which are simply not true. Most of the Cuban population suffers from a degree of malnutrittion (you would not want their healthy diet, believe me – cheap rice, starchy “tubers”, lentils and sugar water), Their literacy rate is a sham, as is their vaunted health care system and “educational system”. All frauds. There is a not a single drug store in Cuba that compares to even the most miserable one in any other Latin country. 50% of the medicine available to the Cuban population is donated by the U.S. Catholic CHruch – and then sold to the people by the government. As for their hospitals, you would not put a dog in them. Low crime? Yeah, sure. It is a fucking Communist dictatorship, for Chrissake! Saw a black purse snatcher shot down in the back on the Malecon one day. Lovely. Race realtions? The worst in Latin America. Of the top 100 Commies, exactly one was a black man for decades. Cuban cooking is great? Really? Too bad the average Cuban never gets to taste it. Cuba is a Communist prison island. Don´t swallow the b.s. from a few pampered tourists who spend a week boffing underage whores. I spent two years there and I know what I am talking about. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world turned into a shithole by the Reds. End of story.

Stucky

Southern Sage

Thank you. Your position makes more sense now to me.

Truth be told, I have spent very very little time reading about the Cuban problem. It’s an island off our coast that’s “just there”.

I like Cubans. There’s a big population in New Jersey … just a few towns from where we live. We eat at their restaurants. Sometimes we shop at their supermarkets for specialty items. They seem to be hard working folks, and they are generally quite friendly and polite. We’re not “afraid” going there as we are when we go to a Neegrow area. And then there’s Judge Milian on People’s Court … she’s a funny and hot Cuban. Of course, they may not be REAL Cubans seeing how most were born and raised here.

I’m just rambling now. Sorry.

Stucky

Marco Rubio Can Eat a Bag of Salsa-Flavored Dicks

It was the most hilarious thing of all when prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul took to social media to call out Florida Senator Marco Rubio for being an “isolationist”. Rubio, who must be horrified to be watching his political career go up in smoke after Emperor Obama’s shocking reversal of decades of U.S. policy towards Cuba can probably be forgiven for being a little bitchy this past week.

The ambitious young Floridian had managed to perform the equivalent of the splitting of the atom by becoming the self-anointed GOP authority on all things Hispanic. Never forget that he was for “immigration reform” which is the politically correct term for “amnesty for illegal aliens” before flip-flopping to be against it. It was an act of triangulation that would even do the old Jedi master Slick Willie Clinton proud.

But Rubio has now gone totally batshit – which can be expected of one who slimes around with the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham – and has taken to directing his fire at Rand Paul, the sworn enemy of state-worshipping “conservatives”. In a piece from the Beltway political gossip website Politico “Rubio fires back at Paul” the salsa-soaked bitch fit continued:

Their fight isn’t over.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio struck back at Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul late Friday as the first battle of the GOP primary spilled over to Twitter and splashed across Facebook then resumed on the airwaves, a preview of the Republican Party’s coming cage match over foreign policy.

“I think it’s unfortunate that Rand has decided to adopt Barack Obama’s foreign policy on [Cuba],” Rubio told radio host Mark Levin. “[He] basically repeated the talking points of the president. And that’s fine, he has every right to support the president’s foreign policy, that’s who he wants to line up with, but I’m telling you, it isn’t going to work.”

Rubio said improving relations with Cuba will only put more money in the hands of the Cuban military instead of its citizens.

The line about Rand Paul embracing Obama’s policies is hysterical considering that before Rubio realized that he would have to navigate the brutal gauntlet of the GOP primaries he himself was a huge backer of amnesty. One who is familiar with Rubio’s ways just might suspect that the real thing that truly sticks in his craw about the whole Cuban “normalization” plan is that he didn’t come up with the idea first.

All of that Chamber of Commerce money would have practically rained from the sky upon his campaign if he had and he knows it. Rubio’s meteoric rise to a national political figure was largely a result of his latching a ride on the tea party bandwagon in the great mid-term backlash of 2010 despite being a phony. It was only going to be a matter of time until he exposed his true colors and had his rice bowl broken. He was sniffed out pretty quickly too and isn’t going to fool people so easily again.

The entire Cuban issue is enormously complicated and saturated with emotion. This is especially so now that Cold War dinosaurs are slowly being sucked under by the great tar pit of time and they aren’t going quietly. While Fidel Castro is certainly a dictatorial bastard he is not long upon this mortal coil and the potential for the development of Cuba as a capitalist market has American corporations salivating. If there is anything that is going to dislodge the Commie parasite from the Cuban host it is an introduction to a form of society that embraces free-markets, free expression and puts it on a path towards modernization.

It is more than a little hypocritical to rage against Cuba yet turn a blind eye to doing business with China which is arguably a much more repressive country. There is however all of that debt that has been racked up with Beijing over the years by our illustrious leaders.

There is also the matter of the role of the Pope in brokering the deal. While he is no hero to staunch conservatives given his comments critical of capitalism you would think that the position would still exert some moral authority. Fifty years of economic isolation have failed to either dislodge the bearded devil in Havana or improve the day to day lives of ordinary Cubans.

As unpalatable as it may seem to many the best thing for both Cuba and American business to do is to bury the hatchet and move on. Sure, there is the indignity of having old Fidel still around to gloat but that is a temporary problem because Raul will be singing Yankee Doodle Dandy and living high off the hog when the day comes when he can piss on his brother’s grave. Money talks, and you will see that is even the case in Cuba once Castro finally croaks.

One thing is certain though and that is that the two-party criminal syndicate is terrified of Rand Paul because he is forward-thinking and has the ability to grasp the political Holy Grail that is crossover appeal. Republicans had best very quickly realize that continuing to milk the Cold War animus of a rapidly decreasing demographic as an issue in 2016 is only going to put Hillary Clinton into the White House.

Rubio will be given the limelight Sunday morning to do his shtick on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopolous who will no doubt be delighted by his Tony Montana style staccato diatribe against Obama and Paul.

http://carryingaflag.blogspot.com/

Stucky

“Don´t swallow the b.s. from a few pampered tourists who spend a week boffing underage whores” —–Southern Sage

That’s funny. Apparently, I don’t know jack shit about the REAL Cuba …. I only “know” Cuba based on American Cubans. Thanks for the additional update. Really. When I have the time, I will further edumacate myself.

MuckAbout

There is another page to the Cuba/America story.

I find it geopolitically odd that less than a week after Russia’s currency takes a 35% devaluation — which means, of course, that Russian contributions to Cuba’s current dictator just stopped or were greatly reduced — all of a sudden we’re about to change directions and pally up with the assholes that run the place down there.

Could it be that without Russia’s subsidies to Cuba, Cuba goes totally belly up, thereby loosing any control over the people? I mean when a person has nothing to lose, he loses it. Can’t pay the Federale Policia anymore? Then what? No one left to suppress the general public?

Seems the timing is just too cute on this and things we don’t know about are circulating beneath the surface. Gee, first time too!

MA

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

Interesting point, Muck. If what you are suggesting is the case, this would mean that the already-tottering Castro regime is on the verge of collapse.

It is for us to take proper advantage of the situation. You can be sure the population is more than ready for a change of regime. This is a golden opportunity for us and the people of Cuba alike, and I hope our current crop of assclowns does not blow it.

SSS

Southern Sage’s comments are 100% accurate. Fred Reed joins the ranks of Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, and other liberal dupes who have heaped praise on the Castro regime, while reserving just faint, meaningless criticism of a horribly repressive government.

One thing Cuba has done extremely well and that is to build some of the world’s most efficient and ruthless intelligence services, compliments of training from the Soviet Union’s KGB and East Germany’s Stasi. And the crown jewel is the General Directorate of Counter Intelligence (DGCI), which was personally managed by Fidel Castro for decades. Job #1 for the DGCI is to protect the regime from possible “counter revolutionaries” at home and government spies from abroad. Mission accomplished.

Stucky

“Job #1 for the DGCI is to protect the regime from possible “counter revolutionaries” at home and government spies from abroad.” ———- SSS

So, the DGCI is just like the CIA?

Chicago99944
Chicago99944

Cuba has always seemed to me to be a place whose government systems of control are highly dependent upon a single forceful personality, and that they would quickly unravel without him. I believe that that is now exactly what is happening, which is why our government has chosen this moment to “normalize” relationships, and move on the place. Now that that particular personality is fading fast, we see our chance and are exploiting it.

MuckAbout

@Chicago: The Cubans have been on the verge of collapse for 30 years. If the Russia and Venezuela ever stopped the subsidies it would have already. You may be right about the Castro brothers soon demise…. There is always more than one cockroach, however, and after all these years of misery, I’d hate to see the next roach pop up and continue the miserable situation even longer.

It’s tough to grind the Cuban spirit down, however. They have fun and love and laugh just about no matter what (losing a loved one on a raft to Key West is an exception)..

MA

SSS

“So, the DGCI is just like the CIA?”
—-Dumbass From New Jersey

Espionage and counter-espionage investigations in the U.S. are conducted by the FBI.

Stucky

—-Dumbass From New Jersey ———— SSS

I love when you talk dirty to me.

El Coyote
El Coyote

The democrats are in full campaign mode, TE sniffed this out earlier when she questioned the timing of Cosby’s fall from grace. They have effectively stolen Marco Rubio’s thunder by catering to younger Cubans eager to forgive and forget. They reversed course on deportations to assure Latino loyalty and prevent defections to the other side. It could not be more obvious if they began hinting at a bounty of 10#s of bacon to white voters.

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