So we have a new House Speaker

Yeah, I agree. Similarly, nobody is going to construe an editorial in a major newspaper as factual reporting. It's an opinion piece. You can certainly use an editorial to show somebody else shares that opinion. You could use talk radio the same way. But I doubt anybody is taking either very seriously (unless it's an authoritative figure).

Journalism and punditry are different things.

 

Maybe you should read the thread again. I didn’t bring up Castro, gator_lawyer did.

Also, why does it make me a hypocrite if I don’t mention every dictator when we’re discussing politics? Should we add Hitler and Stalin to the party as well? This is so stupid.

But I know that’s not the actual reason. You mentioned it to discredit the Cuban experience and frame it as though they’re responsible for all of it, including the incarceration of political dissidents under the Castro regime.

If you’re going to stoop low enough to do something like that, at least have the fortitude to admit that’s what you’re doing.

 

The old GOP is not really the GOP... they're RINOs. Now that they are your ideological friends we don't like them... nor do we care what they think and do.

 

Exactly... like we we should be blamed for that Biden puppet plant. We The People are victims of high treason.

 

At least you acknowledge that the political party you supported for your entire life was completely full of shit. I mean they still are but baby steps.

 

I love his logic. The people who have been the Republican Party for at least a generation are the RINOs and the whackos who took it over are the true Republicans. Only on Earth "B."

 

Maybe it's the fact that while both dictators were bad, one was far worse.

I think it's telling that people like you, swampbabe, gator_lawyer, and gtr2x are trying to whitewash Batista and Castro as though both were equally bad for the Cuban people.

You're making greater efforts to present Castro in an unreasonably positive light than to have any sort of sympathy or empathy for Cubans who left wholesale confiscation of property, incarceration, and executions. And ya'll are doing this just because a majority of these people had the audacity to support Ron DeSantis, one of the most popular Governors in America.

 

Never said Castro was better than or even equally as bad as Batista. Just saying Batista was more your kind of dictator. Trump and DeSantis are would-be Batistas.

 

Well when comparing him to Castro, he's the lesser of the two evils. But he's certainly not good.

Is Castro more your kind of dictator?

 

No, I don't favor any kind of dictator, whether it's a gangster-style dictator like Putin or Batista or a leftist like Castro. All bad.

 

Talk about group think. Repubs (“rinos”) have been around for some time and usually the more educated group over the base. But now all of a sudden Dear Leader disparages them ( because he wants the power- duh) and it’s “We don’t like them”.
Maga = cult.

actually it’s maga who are the rino’s.

 

You favor an Administration who tried to impose an unconstitutional vaccine mandate via OSHA and is targeting its political opponents via the justice system.

That's more gangster-style dictator than anything DeSantis or Trump has done.

Looks like Castro is your kind of dictator.

 

You forgot to bless his heart.

 

Throw Machado in there, too

 

Bruh, how many generations do you want to go back?

You're reaching so far back my grandparents were children.

If you can't tell the difference between Cuba pre-Castro and post-Castro you are evil, a Communist-sympathizer, an absolute moron, or some combination of the three.

 

Some of ya'll will blame Jews for the Holocaust the second it becomes politically convenient.

Really speaks to the character of some on this forum.

 

You should take some time off. That is utterly repulsive. Crazy is something we are used to here but this?

 

All I’m doing is showing a mirror. Not my fault some of you find the reflection ugly.

 

This clown is pathetic and a Nat security risk?

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