Posted on 06/21/2019 12:23:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Speaking of Cuba, I happen to have a story here from the Wall Street Journal in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy Flails.” But the people there are not gonna overthrow anybody. They don’t have any means to do so and they’re too hungry! They don’t even have the energy to do it! This is socialism on crack! Cuba is now breeding ostriches to feed the starving masses. Cuba now is telling its people that the “steaks,” quote-unquote, that they buy are delicious and nutritious.
They’re actually made of dried grapefruit, folks. The Cuban government is telling its people that the “steaks” — and I don’t know where they go to buy these, but they’re telling them they’re steaks and they’re actually dried grapefruit rinds. For people that figure it out, the Cuban agriculture commissioner is encouraging people to eat rodents. He says they taste better than beef anyway. With all this going on, the government is rationing food. There’s a quote from a Cuban person/citizen here: “They treat us like cockroaches. They step on us.”
It’s woman on the line, referring to Cuba’s ruling establishment. She said that she been waiting for about two hours. “Everything in Cuba is political, even the chicken. They have everything, and we suffer.” She’s talking about the Cuban government. The headline of the story is: “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy Flails.” That’s a misleading headline. The Cuban economy has never succeeded. It’s been a socialist-communist economy ever since the “revolucion,” 1959. “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy” Continues to Flail.
Soylent chips & rice.
Ostrich actually is quite good though the meat doesn’t darken much when cooked
Grapefruit rinds....not so sure
Adding rodent flesh if it were marmot or groundhog would improve it I’d think
Groundhog is delicious
Also what happens when a socialist government takes away all your guns.
They can’t even raise PIGS???
Need to send Bernie and his bug-eyed girlfriend to Cuba for a few years so they can see first hand what they would do to America!
Louisiana is overrun with NUTRIA ND the Florida Everglades are saturated with Burmese Pythons.
We should send the Cubans all we can catch............Free.........
Back When, if you ate “steaks” in various Far East countries, there was an odd urge to chase cars, and catnip had odd properties...
What an idiot. Rose wine does not go with shoe leather.
You need at least a Beaujolais or maybe a port.
Nutria eat ok
Only snake I’ve ever eaten was Rattler which was decent ..
I prefer to gator actually
I’ve had my share of femalious reptilious
Deadly
Not surprised, given the one that was feasting upon the then-wife's garden.
The sad thing is that socialists and leftists in the USA will learn nothing from this. They will blame the US, the incompetence of the Cuban rulers, or just bad luck but not socialism itself. Or they might say that real socialism is just fine, but Cuban socialism tells us nothing about the real thing.
Charlie Chaplin did it better.
~3 min, from “The Gold Rush”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvMCsMazcHQ
There’s a local BBQ joint where the employees call their smoked bologna “Bixby steak” for the town name of the store that sells the most of the item. On the menu, it’s just smoked bologna.
11.5m people
isn’t anyone out there fishing?
and how do you screw up chicken farms? their egg laying rate is insane.
and pigs? how tough is it to keep the proper number on hand?
oh yea, it’s a govt run operation. totally fubar. brilliant
I suspect the ruling class USED TO like bacon.
They had to take Charlie to the Hospital , TOO MUCH SUGAR ,LOL
That would be a little bit harder to do today, if he had those plastic, "Made In China" boots!
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