Posted on 12/17/2014 6:25:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I first heard of this when John Podhoretz tweeted about it and I thought, Nope, Johns exaggerating. I wonder what Shep really said. Then a bunch of other people tweeted that Podhoretz was right, so I thought, Okay, but obviously a joke. Then I watched the clip.
Actual quote about an honest to goodness police state, no apparent irony intended: The last thing they need is a Taco Bell and a Lowes.
Two ways to read that, I guess. One is that hes objecting to having the wrong priorities, not to American businesses invading the island. Cubans need basic necessities, not fast food. Get a couple of Charmin factories in there churning out TP and thatd be a corporate move worth applauding. But wait if thats his point, whys he reminiscing at the start of the segment about the sweet-ass four-dollar Cuban rum he likes to bring back whenever he travels there? Thats not a necessity. Which brings us to theory two: This is exactly what it sounds like, a guy seemingly willing to trade away greater prosperity for Cubans if it means Americanizing the island in return for preserving the quaint, simple culture that decades of authoritarianism and economic retardation have produced. Its basically the noble savage view of economics. What doth it profit a Cuban to gain a middle-American depot for cheap building materials if he lose his cheap-rum-making soul? Where are we going to go to watch people riding around in 60-year-old Studebakers now?
Lot of that going around on the left today, as it turns out. As an emetic, go read Michael Tottens account from earlier this year of what Havana is really like.
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I bet Cuba does not have fat people. They are on the edge of starvation. Mooche dream land. Watch the wretched starving while you eat steak. The ideal life for those who think themselves god.
When I went to Peru in the late 1990s, the tour guide said they were happy to see American businesses (I don’t recall if it was McDonald’s or some other chain) because it let them know they had turned a corner historically and were coming up to speed with some of the things other nations had.
They’d had tough times politically (including terrorism and revolutionaries) and would see their Japanese president resign but Western investment was seen as a good thing.
When I met Lech Walesa, he said send us (Poland) your Generals “General Motors, General Electric, etc.”. He said that the Communist bloc nations were kept from breaking away because none of them made anything. Each nation made PARTS of something (part of a washing machine, etc.).
There is a hell waiting for media communist enablers that literally cannot be described by human words.
But it is entered through open jaws with thousands of teeth as sharp as knives.
Then the jaws close, and nothing is ever seen of these scumbags again in any part, or any time, of the universe.
Will the exiles be able to begin seeking claim of their confiscated properties?
They're going to ruin the great dentalcare, too!
That's because Shep is a liberal. Liberals believe that our "whiteness" is superior and not nearly as vulnerable as non-white nations. Non-whites are helpless idiots in the eyes of democrats. That's why people like Shep are offended when we Americans chant "USA USA USA" at international games but they think it's so cute when the people of the Congo wave their own flag
Wow. So, normalize relations as noblesse oblige in the face of totalitarian communism. The Left’s noble savage moment.
Leftists, especially the lilly whites, fall for the concept of the “noble savage,” which illumintes more about the leftist than the “savage,” considering it is mostly an artifact of projection.
Imagine the orgasms of delight at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce right now. Several million new employees available to work for lower wages than even in Haiti when they ship American factories to Cuba.
Heck, they might he even close some US factories in Mexico and move them to Cuba. But that will be OK because the laid off Mexicans can move north and become check receiving Dreamers.
Obama better watch out—The last president who betrayed the Cuban freedom fighters at the Bay of Pigs ended up dead.
Why wasn’t the Left worried about how Soviet influence and financial support was ruining Cuban culture?
If I was releasing that guy I’d have given him a beautiful new set of choppers so he could extoll the virtues of the Cuban healthcare system to the USA.
Missed PR opportunity there.
Because the Soviet Union was a perfect example of a pristine culture that built walls to keep the corrupting influence of the west out.
The Soviet Union knew all about corrupting influences. It was a chief export of theirs (courtesy of the KGB) and it still pays dividends today from Western societies.
Not to worry. Art Morrison chassis, Chevy performance parts LS and trans, 50 state legal. Nine inch ford or Corvette IRS. Yes that would get us going. What they have in them in Cuba is not relevant.
Somebody’s watched Godfather II too many times.
I know exactly what’s available for them. I own a ‘55 model 210. You forgot to mention Danchuk and C.A.R.S. inc. And Goodwrench crate motors.
CC
Yes, Shep. Castro created such a commie paradise. You should live there.
Who cares what Sheptard Smith thinks.... I can’t stand the pickle sucker.
I wonder if Michael Moore is concerned that Obama could ruin the best health care system in the world.
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