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Cuban State Media Confirms: Havana Runs Out of Toilet Paper
Breitbart ^ | 4 Dec 2017 | FRANCES MARTEL

Posted on 12/06/2017 10:41:50 AM PST by rhett october

A Cuban state media outlet confirmed last week that the nation’s capital, Havana, is suffering significant shortages of toilet paper. While the absence of common goods in the communist nation is not uncommon, such acknowledgment of a problem is rare. The state newspaper Juventud Rebelde (“Rebellious Youth”) reported on Wednesday that toilet paper had “disappeared” from stores in Havana, announcing that the government’s state-run producer of toilet paper had acquired new machinery to generate toilet paper.

“They are not the super-machines, but they have an elevated technology level,” toilet paper engineer Manolo González García told the newspaper. One advantage of the new machines, he explains, is that they can simultaneously churn out two types of toilet paper rolls: a high-quality one for tourists, and an “ecological” one to sell to Cuban citizens.

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To: Vaquero

Thats an anal gland problem. Poor animal trying to get rid of democrat klingons.


21 posted on 12/06/2017 10:48:36 AM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: blueunicorn6

“How’s that son of yours doing?”

“He’s a toilet paper engineer.”

“Yeah, my son makes a lot of noise when he goes to the bathroom,too.”


22 posted on 12/06/2017 10:49:05 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rhett october

In fairness Marxists need twice as much toilet paper as the rest of us.

Just as much sh*t comes out their mouths as their a*ses


23 posted on 12/06/2017 10:49:09 AM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: rhett october

If you’re going to tolerate a form of government which is that full of crap, you have to increase the capital outlays in the most recent 5 year plan for toilet paper.

In this country blue states have the same problem.


24 posted on 12/06/2017 10:49:25 AM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: dirtboy

LOL! That’s like 60 grit!


25 posted on 12/06/2017 10:49:53 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: rhett october

Why is bathroom tissue always one of the first items a country runs out of just before economic collapse?
First Venezuela, now Cuba. Maybe they should have a Toilet Tissue Reserve stored and locked away, just like we have a gazillion barrels of oil stored away for ‘emergencies’.


26 posted on 12/06/2017 10:50:11 AM PST by lee martell
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To: rhett october

Capitalism, where the toilet paper waits for you
Communism, where you wait for the toilet paper


27 posted on 12/06/2017 10:50:12 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Spok
Image result for sears catalogues in outhouses
28 posted on 12/06/2017 10:50:51 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: rhett october

Maybe they can sail over to Puerto Rico and borrow some.


29 posted on 12/06/2017 10:52:11 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rhett october

Where’s Bernie?! Put a mic in his face.


30 posted on 12/06/2017 10:53:08 AM PST by bkopto
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To: lee martell

I believe it is the first item REPORTED running out because it can’t be concealed from tourists (that are about to tell the world as soon as they leave anyway).


31 posted on 12/06/2017 10:54:44 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: rhett october

32 posted on 12/06/2017 10:57:02 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: rhett october

Congratulations, Cuba, it took almost 60 years after the Revolution, but finally, you have achieved True Communism.


33 posted on 12/06/2017 10:57:03 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rhett october
... toilet paper engineer Manolo González García ...

Best Thread of the Day Award!

34 posted on 12/06/2017 10:57:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: cyclotic

More like....Communism - Where you are the toilet.


35 posted on 12/06/2017 10:58:32 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Spok

The Beginning of the End of Civilization: Running out of toilet paper ...


36 posted on 12/06/2017 10:58:37 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I love Bull Markets!)
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To: rhett october

The Muslims are fine with it.


37 posted on 12/06/2017 10:59:01 AM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: rhett october
I have a friend who used to go to Cuba two or three times a year until he found a girl to bring back and marry.

He would take a wide assortment of consumer goods to trade. Clothes, toilet seats, toilet paper, and bicycles were most prized.

38 posted on 12/06/2017 10:59:12 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: rhett october

I think I read somewhere yesterday that Muslims frown upon the use of toilet paper.


39 posted on 12/06/2017 10:59:30 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: rhett october

Toilet paper supply totally wiped out?


40 posted on 12/06/2017 11:01:54 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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