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Post by Hermit » Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:12 am

At fucking last. Obama announces intention to resume full diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba. The dismantling of the economic blockade is presumably part of this development.
"Neither the Cuban or American people have been well served" by the decades long policy rooted in events that took place before most Americans were born, Obama said in a White House address. "These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked," he added. "It's time for a new approach."
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The Republican dominated Congress is of course planning to block any such initiative. Boehner calls it "the latest in a series of mindless concessions to dictators", neatly ignoring US diplomatic and economic relations with such paragons of democracy and freedom as Saudi Arabia in the process.
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Post by piscator » Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:48 am

Obamacare-sponsored medical tourism, here we come!

I just have to like a motherfucker who can take a shit hand and rake the pot like Obama can. :grr:

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Post by Seth » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:31 am

There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
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Post by rainbow » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:29 am

Seth wrote:There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
Cool.

Merkins can now visit Cuba, and make up their own minds.

If Communism is so terrible, they can see for themselves.

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Post by Hermit » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:28 am

Yet another anti-communist rant in 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
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Post by Tero » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:17 pm

It will be a territory. Like Puerto Rico.

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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:20 pm

Once it starts out competing the US, like China does, then the shit will hit the fan.
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Post by tattuchu » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:44 pm

It's about fucking time. I only wished I smoked cigars, since we'll soon be able to get Cuban.
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Post by mistermack » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:49 pm

They would have done it years ago, but for the Mafia having real power in US politics.

I presume they WON'T be getting compensation for their lost "property" all those years ago.

Obama needs to watch his back.

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Post by JimC » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:29 pm

It's a rum business, alright...
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Post by klr » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:24 pm

About time. But Hermit has it right ... will it get through Congress.
mistermack wrote:They would have done it years ago, but for the Mafia having real power in US politics.

I presume they WON'T be getting compensation for their lost "property" all those years ago.

Obama needs to watch his back.

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Post by Seth » Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:37 am

rainbow wrote:
Seth wrote:There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
Cool.

Merkins can now visit Cuba, and make up their own minds.

If Communism is so terrible, they can see for themselves.

Why are you worried?
Because removing the embargo empowers the communists to perpetuate the evil they commit on their own people. The purpose of the embargo is to strangle the regime as much as possible without actually going to war against them, which is what we should do.

Opening Cuba to economic investment means that Communism will only be enhanced, not diminished.

I hope Congress tells Obama to shove it up his ass.
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Post by Seth » Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:38 am

Hermit wrote:Yet another anti-communist rant in 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
And justifiably so. Communism is inherently evil an needs to be extirpated from the planet.
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Post by piscator » Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:02 am

Seth wrote:
rainbow wrote:
Seth wrote:There's no clearer indication of Obama's Communist sympathies than this act.
Cool.

Merkins can now visit Cuba, and make up their own minds.

If Communism is so terrible, they can see for themselves.

Why are you worried?
Because removing the embargo empowers the communists to perpetuate the evil they commit on their own people. The purpose of the embargo is to strangle the regime as much as possible without actually going to war against them, which is what we should do.

Opening Cuba to economic investment means that Communism will only be enhanced, not diminished.

I hope Congress tells Obama to shove it up his ass.

Dang. Here I thought the Salafists hated us due to the insidious nature of decadent Western Culture and its corrosive effect on the Body of Islam?
Now look here at what just landed in our lap - a fantastic opportunity to corrode a whole new culture and economic ideology!


Think of all the new markets opening up in Cuba. I would have thought a Libertarian would respect another man's choice to make an honest business trading with Cubans without the goddamn Big Brother government gettin' in the way?

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