Communist Cuba "On Edge of Collapse" Due to Trump's Oil Embargo of Cuba's Key Ally Venezuela

Late last week, Trump seized a second Venezuelan tanker.

Now he's tracking a third tanker from the "dark fleet."

The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing a sanctioned oil tanker near Venezuela as President Donald Trump intensifies his pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with a sweeping blockade targeting illicit oil shipments.
"The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."
Reuters reported that another official noted the tanker was operating under sanctions and that it had not been boarded thus far. The official also said interceptions could be taken by flying or sailing near vessels of concern.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the officials did not provide the name of the vessel or where it was operating while being pursued.
The pursuit comes days after Trump announced a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.
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A second tanker was seized by U.S. forces on Saturday, again, off the coast of Venezuela.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the Department of War, apprehended the oil tanker during the early morning hours. The ship had last been docked in Venezuela.

This may result in Maduro's downfall.

It might also result in the downfall of the Castroist regime in Cuba. Venezuela has been sending its communist ally Cuba shipments of very subsidized oil for decades, and now those shipments are less than one-third of what they had been.

Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights. A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.
And it's about to get worse.
The U.S. is ratcheting up pressure on Havana's key benefactor, Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro's regime, which has kept the Communist-ruled nation afloat with cheap oil. Now Venezuelan oil exports are at risk thanks to a partial blockade targeting sanctioned tankers--the kind that carry about 70% of the country's crude.
One tanker that the U.S. has already seized was en route with almost two million barrels of Venezuelan oil.
The blockade adds to a U.S. pressure campaign on Maduro that also includes a major military buildup in the Caribbean, airstrikes on boats allegedly connected to Venezuelan drug trafficking and threats of bombing the country itself.
Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating.
"It would be the collapse of the Cuban economy, no question about it," said Jorge Piñón, a Cuban exile who tracks the island's energy ties to Venezuela at the University of Texas at Austin.
Venezuela has been vital for Cuba's economy since 1999, when then-President Hugo Chávez described the two countries as bound together "in a sea of happiness." Cuba deployed sports trainers, doctors and counterintelligence agents to Venezuela, the latter to root out traitors who might overthrow Chávez.
Venezuela responded with 100,000 barrels of oil shipped to Cuba daily.
The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power.
Cuba's deep reliance on Venezuela means Cuba's Communist government is doing all it can to prevent Maduro--who trained in Cuba as a young man--from being forced from office in his greatest challenge after nearly 13 years in office. That means ensuring he is always surrounded by security and loyal aides, with no one carrying cellphones or other electronic devices.
"They are taking very good care of Nicolás Maduro and his immediate successors," said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat who engaged frequently with the Venezuelan regime. "The Cubans are not going to go quietly into the dark night."

Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

Posted by: Ace at 03:32 PM

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1 So many problems can be solved if we only had the will to solve them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)

2 Oh, hey. First

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:33 PM (cuae1)

3 This also makes it very clear that the "STRONG CONSERVATIVE" Republican presidents never really wanted to solve the Cuba problem.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)

4 expect the world court to demand trump be arrested for crimes against humidity

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

5 Guess I should nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (cuae1)

6 About 80 years too late but I'll take the W.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (XV/Pl)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

8 "Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating."

How is Cuba paying for the oil?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

9 Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)

10 But, Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

11 >>>communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet

drug-toting communists, especially

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (RuTUS)

12 oh I'm loving this news!

maybe someday Mexico can stop being corruptocrat-commie too

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (emBoF)

13 9 Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.

very very true

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (emBoF)

14 So many problems can be solved if we only had the will to solve them.

But then we'd have lots of unemployed academics who could no longer tell us why all the problems are our fault and insoluble, and we should just give up and accept our fate.

Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

15 correction

Posted by: Archimedes = Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

16 We need a modern day Homestead Act - opening up places like Cuba, Greenland, and Venezuala.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (sX1BW)

17 real calvinism has never been tried (hobbes)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (CWTWj)

18 Tucker "Tim Walz" Carlson.

Yep, I would like to see both the Venezuelan and Cuban governments to change to something more friendly to their people.

Posted by: BillB at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (TQxb9)

19 Cuba is awesome and everyone should go there and smoke cigars!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

20 Posted by: Stacy's Mom at December 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

Listen to her- she's got it goin' on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (7yt4l)

21 "Seems like Cuba has been on the verge of downfall for my entire lifetime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (7yt4l)
___________

Walls are closing in!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

22 A lot of countries seem on the verge of collapse--Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Ukraine--yet they seem to be taking their sweet time to finally topple...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (ESVrU)

23 They process sugar cane with ancient machineery.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (kT/XV)

24 If they run low on oil, thay can just use all the lard from the Bay of Pigs.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (oraVG)

25 *dons Che Guevara shirt*

Viva la Cuba!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

26 I voted for this. More than this, actually. This will do until the lamentations of their women can be heard from my front door...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (nbLIj)

27 Cuba has been on the verge of collapse for over 50 years.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pJizs)

28 ¡Ay, caramba!

Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (rkTTp)

29 In before the Guy Who Always Says Nothing Will Happen?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (2uFUy)

30 The good news for Cuba is if it does collapse nobody will know the difference.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (viF8m)

31 Like I said yesterday, Cuba has already collapsed, at least by western standards. For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

32 Every member of the Congressional Black Caucus would prefer Castro or Madura to Reagan.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (rJ48h)

33 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

34 Cuber

Posted by: JFK at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)

35 >>For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.

So Haiti it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (viF8m)

36 >> How is Cuba paying for the oil?

They don't pay for it. It's a barter system. In exchange for the oil, Cuber renders services to Maduro, like secret police goons and such.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

37 It's amazing to me that we went from overthrowing Arbenz in Guatemala because United Fruit didn't like their tax bill to mounting an incompetent [im]plausible deniability invasion of Cuba in just seven years. I think Kennedy's inability to police our hemisphere (even after Khrushchev policed his bloc in Hungary in 1956) might be the first example of "this is not who we are" self-defeating behavior in our government, at least since Wilson was at Versailles.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (UdiE9)

38 Lets not forget the Cubans that collaborated with the North Vietnamese and tortured our soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)

39 we can only allow cuba to collapse if it means a flood of refugees who hate us.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (CWTWj)

40 33 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

Occasionally you will see them on the Florida Strait.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (rQwsY)

41 My boss is from Cuba. His parents migrated LEGALLY in the 60's. He's grateful to them and is proud to be an American.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

42 This also makes it very clear that the "STRONG CONSERVATIVE" Republican presidents never really wanted to solve the Cuba problem.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM

What have you heard?!

Posted by: George HW Bush at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (jc0TO)

43 BOGO regime change. That's good business.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (CwhoI)

44 Cuba loans out Doctors.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (kT/XV)

45 Cuba is in the most fragile state they’ve been in for the last 50 years. The entire country is slowly collapsing and they rely on the financial support of nations like Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other enemies of our country. It’s the only thing that keeps them afloat, and the sanctions plus offensive action are sinking it. At some point it will be over for the Castro line.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (SWd7w)

46 AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers most upset.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (rQwsY)

47 Democrats -*Don't hurt the cartels! Not until we get our cut!

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (2fdLC)

48 Oh, and just because it came across the playlist........almost seems fitting.

https://youtu.be/GHeWnGGScP0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

49 > Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights.
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It's late December. How sweltering can Cuba possibly be in late December?

I've been in southern Florida, 90 miles away from Cuba, in March and it was fucking cold, man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (NwnyJ)

50 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

51 Between Cuba and Venezuela, which is dominant and which is the simp? The linked article makes it seem like Cuba has power over Vene. But I thought it was Vene that was by far the more powerful of the two, owning mainly to its powerful allies overseas (Iran, China, etc).

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

52 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc88)

53 Oh dear, does reduced oil shipments mean it will be harder for Cuba to maintain their Canadian tourist industry? Figures that even for tourism on a tropical island the commies can't function without someone propping them up.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (hhkIi)

54 "The heavily subsidized oil shipments have fallen to 30,000 barrels a day. Agents from Cuba's vaunted intelligence service remain in Venezuela, where they have worked to purge disloyal military officers and government officials, helping ensure Maduro remains ensconced in power."
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So, how much do those "vaunted" guys ... cost? Would they accept bananas? Coconuts? AMEX pre-paid cards? If they are overseas, I suppose the Cuban government probably keeps a close eye on the immediate family members, but, sheesh, we could buy the minders, too.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)

55 27: try 35, since the end of the Cold War. Go read your history.

Posted by: Cow Demon at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (rQwsY)

56 4 expect the world court to demand trump be arrested for crimes against humidity
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 22, 2025 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

Oh, he's absolutely going to get the Rodrigo Duterte treatment come 2029.

There's no way they don't try.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (UnA8+)

57 I understand American journalists are on standby to flock to Havana to report how bad it would be if 'quaint' Cuba was corrupted by capitalist America.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (CwhoI)

58 Cuban cigars kinda suck after decades of communism. All the decent tobacco farmers and cigar makers went to the Dominican Republic when they could.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (fgmuN)

59 As long as the very small % of armed guards protecting the elite are taken care of in these latin american communist dictatorships, nothing will happen. It probably is a great advantage if a bunch of your people starve and die. You have less people you have to shove around, and you can graft on the inflow of bleeding heart charity. win-win really

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (3uBP9)

60 How bad must this piss Owebama off........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

61 It’s the only thing that keeps them afloat, and the sanctions plus offensive action are sinking it. At some point it will be over for the Castro line.

You don't want that. Trust me on this.

Posted by: Zombie Ceaucescu at December 22, 2025 03:44 PM (Riz8t)

62 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 03:39 PM (pJizs)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

63 ¡Cuba Libre!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (YlWIZ)

64 I'd say Cuba is the E-girl and Venezuela is the whale going into debt to send money so he gets some feet pics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (7yt4l)

65 Lets not forget the Cubans that collaborated with the North Vietnamese and tortured our soldiers in the Hanoi Hilton.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 22, 2025 03:41 PM (+mUZM)
_______

"Cocksuckers also helped Russia invade the USA, twice!"

-- Chuck Norris
-- Patrick Swayze

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

66 Are those 1950s cars in Cuba?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (kT/XV)

Well, what's left of them. They are mostly made of russian tractor engines and Bondo these days.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (npFr7)

67 52 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (6Bc8

WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

68
Venezuela has been a hub of anti-American subversion for years. DataRepublican had series of X posts on that a while back. Even our domestic subversives like Antifa the commies are tied into that.

Some of their defectors have spilled a lot of the beans on this, including that flooding us with drugs is a deliberate destabilization plot to mess us up domestically. Chicoms are big on this, as well as Iran/Islamofacists and the Rooskies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (w6EFb)

69 Like I said yesterday, Cuba has already collapsed, at least by western standards. For it to get worse we would have to be looking at cannibal island.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)
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Hi!

*waves at Cuba*

Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (ESVrU)

70 Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

71 Are they building a new wing in CECOT?

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (YlWIZ)

72 I miss TJM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Between Cuba and Venezuela, which is dominant and which is the simp? The linked article makes it seem like Cuba has power over Vene. But I thought it was Vene that was by far the more powerful of the two, owning mainly to its powerful allies overseas (Iran, China, etc).

They're like the combination of Sears and K-Mart; two failing companies which when combined, by some miracle of capitalism will suddenly become profitable.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Riz8t)

74 Great, Cuba falls... where are those furry adjacent transgender weirdos going to get their "training" now that the Cuban spec ops can't be counted on?

See - Armed Queers Salt Lake City

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (NwnyJ)

75 As long as I don't hear any happy talk about Cubans and Venezuelans Who Are Our Frontline Migrant Heros getting to emigrate here, I'm good.

But, of course that's what will happen.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (BI5O2)

76 I certainly am a lot more isolationist than I was 25 fucking years ago and glad to be so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (7yt4l)

77 Tucker gonna walk into his kitchen one day and find his bunny boiling as Ace slips out the back

Posted by: TITP at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (OUE/9)

78 That Tucker sure is smart! Sarcasm heavily heavy sarcasm. Heavy

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pyeGn)

79 Well, what's left of them. They are mostly made of russian tractor engines and Bondo these days.

I guess they ran out of welding rods.

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (YlWIZ)

80 Walz are closing in. Again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (pkeXY)

81 10 But, Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
..................................................
#2 Weeks

#Soon

Etc .

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:47 PM (sAmhv)

82 This must be the walls are closing in situation. Cuba has been about ready to fail for 50 years. If they do fail, can we vacate south Florida back and let them rebuild?

Posted by: NCKate at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (uQzkA)

83 When I was living in PR there quite a few Cuban refugees on the island. Most Puerto Ricans weren't to fond of them but they were some of the most ant-communist people I've ever met.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)

84
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.

Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

85 Oops. Copy and paste fail. I'll go stand in the corner.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (sAmhv)

86 Commie Cuba has been a boil on our ass for far too long. Trump can fix that without shooting a single bullet. Make it so.
Posted by: tcn in AK

WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers

Sucks to be Ukraine.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (dAOkg)

87 There's a good Hard Case Crime paperback by Mickey Spillane called, The Consummata. It centers around cuba and the cold war.

A little bit of horniness but mostly a lot of commie killin'

I highly recommend it.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:49 PM (3uBP9)

88 If we can get two of the worst regimes in the western hemisphere to fall with the only American casualties being cases of sunburn on the blockading ships...

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (CwhoI)

89 The youknowwhos must steal to make ends meet.

This how they meet girls. Sad World.

Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)

90 They can just reach out to Michael Moore and get a bailout, right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

91 Isn't this all just attributable to America's relationship with Israel?

Posted by: DBH at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (eMT6A)

92 The youknowwhos must steal to make ends meet.

This how they meet girls. Sad World.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 22, 2025 03:50 PM (EyfuW)

Jews?
-you never know around here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (7yt4l)

93 Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

Having spoken to Canadians who went there, you don't want them. Those cars are 20-footers, at best. They maintain them for the tourist trade. There are probably some real fine cars in Fidel's personal collection, whoever has custody of that.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (npFr7)

94 If they run low on oil, thay can just use all the lard from the Bay of Pigs.
Posted by: zombie

If they run low on oil, they can burn doctors, sports trainers and counter intelligence agents.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 03:51 PM (cxFcK)

95 Wait, what are *we* supposed to think about the eventual demise of Cuba's communist government?

Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

96 When I was living in PR there quite a few Cuban refugees on the island. Most Puerto Ricans weren't to fond of them but they were some of the most ant-communist people I've ever met.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (viF8m)
____

PR had a MAGA-ish conservative governor, Ricardo Rossello, who was doing good things on the Island. So of course he had to be destroyed. And he was, in 2019, in the "Rickyleaks" scandal. He was ousted for inflammatory (private texts) where he and his friends shat on their political enemies. Nothing they said wasn't 100% true, but it was enough to get rid of him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

97 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

Posted by: zombie at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (oraVG)

98 A quarter of the population has fled during the island's most prolonged economic crisis.

Fled to where? I thought Cuba was a prison island and that only a raft made up of flotsam bound together or the Grim Reaper was the only way out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (9s47C)

99 Kill two Commies with one stone
Now thats shooting

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)

100 >>> Cuban: sell nice 55 Chevy to American, and retire. Maybe.

Cuba could have been a contender instead of a bum, which is what it is.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (cS1cw)

I think those are all mostly 55 Chevy of Theseus by now. Maybe not much value.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 03:53 PM (3uBP9)

101 >>Fled to where? I thought Cuba was a prison island and that only a raft made up of flotsam bound together or the Grim Reaper was the only way out.

You can find quite a few in Florida.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (viF8m)

102 How long till they attack Gitmo for oil?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

103 Im going to die laughing if Trump solves the Cuba problem. All these bright strategists who got nowhere and then comes Trump.

A lot of things are ending with that. ... THEN CAME TRUMP

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 03:54 PM (WI7ox)

104 WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

You sending your kids first, right? Right?

Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (dK+Kv)

105 I have no moral or political problems with overthrowing both the Cuban and Venezuelan regimes.

They're close (in our hemisphere) and therefore pertinent to our security.
They're hostile, show no signs of being open to negotiation. Indeed, they're looking for ways to cause us more trouble.

I just want the coups to succeed and not leave us saddled with basket cases that we have to occupy and keep on life support.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (fd80v)

106 Now can I get my casinos back?

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)

107 "Communist Cuba "On Edge of Collapse" Due to Trump's Oil Embargo of Cuba's Key Ally Venezuela "

I said this the other day but it bears repeating...I was stationed at GITMO from 93-95 and even back then cuba was "weeks" away from collapse. I grant this time might actually be different but cuba has been on the verge of collapse dozens of times in the decades since I was stationed there and it hasn't happened yet.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (0N4FZ)

108 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (nbLIj)

109 Can we give Cuba to Muslim Commie Mondami to run ... into the ground?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (9JDJW)

110 How long till the Cuban government starts murdering their own people in a strong arm attempt to force Trump to release the Venezuelan oil tankers?

"TRUMP HATES BROWN PEOPLE!!!!"

"HE'S LETTING THEM DIE!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Wait, what are *we* supposed to think about the eventual demise of Cuba's communist government?

Posted by: All Those Young People Its Go Time Donald Claims Look to Nick Fuentes for Leadership at December 22, 2025 03:52 PM (TN0g+)

lol

Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (dK+Kv)

112 >>> 84
Those defectors have also said that a lot of CIA and State Dept officials are on Venezuela's payroll. They've supposedly named names.

Trump has said enough of this shit. This is the Donroe Doctrine. No more big foreign powers messing around in our hemisphere to subvert us.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

Donny Two Scoops won't put up with any trash in his neighborhood.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 03:56 PM (ULPxl)

113 is doing all it can to prevent Mayor Bass--who trained in Cuba as a young woman--from being forced from office

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

114
Cuba has suffered from the US embargo. Because we can't tolerate a successful socialist country. That's what I've been told at least.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)

115 is doing all it can to prevent Mayor Bass--who trained in Cuba as a young woman--from being forced from office
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (Kt19C)

So, you're saying Cuba just needs to be lit on fire?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

116 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

If it does eventually collapse, it will turn in to a state-run Epstein enterprise.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Riz8t)

117 Cuba has suffered from the US embargo. Because we can't tolerate a successful socialist country. That's what I've been told at least.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:57 PM (tgvbd)

I'm curious as to their definition of 'success.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Please send Spam

Posted by: Cooba at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

119
Johnny Ola knows Cuba like the back of his hand.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (tgvbd)

120 Two words, Casinos!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (g47mK)

121 Now can I get my casinos back?
Posted by: Ray Patriarca at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM (wBaIH)
==========

Put AI to work. Transform every Cuban beach into a casino-resort-remote workplace paradise using AI for the transformation. Put that sh*t on the internet. I know the average Cuban's means of communication is a taut string between two coconut shells, but the people who count will see it.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 03:59 PM (rj6Yv)

122 How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Watered-down Mojitos.

Posted by: Limey Larry at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)

123 You know what would solve this problem?
Cuban windfarms, Cuban solar panels and Cuban High Speed Rail.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

Thread winner...I'm putting that on my Linked In profile, in fact...
Posted by: Joe Kidd

CHSI

Cubano High Speed Internet.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (dAOkg)

124 Cuba is a shithole filled with shitheads.

Do me a favor and keep their smelly asses locked down under socialismo.

Posted by: Babalu at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (m8zKa)

125 Cubans are going hungry, suffering from spreading disease and sleeping outdoors with no electricity to power fans through the sweltering nights.

So it's an average Monday, then.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (MZ+PY)

126 72
' I miss TJM.'

Where did he go?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)

127 Fair Play for Cuba!

Posted by: zombie lee harvey oswald at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (rJ48h)

128 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there — especially the new Weight Loss Cruises, renamed during their Havana stopovers as Pilates of the Caribbean.

Carnival Section 8 Cruises 🚢

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (dAOkg)

129 Maybe he got a job?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:01 PM (kT/XV)

130 Trump has been tap dancing around the legalities of America First. The man has been a regular Fred Astaire in this first year and has not really been taken to task. I understand the need for immediate gratification, but let this play out.

Posted by: kactus at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (twS2i)

131 ...Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

Been there, done that, Trump needs to cut off the Narco-funded LIBs, and their minion NEPOlibs left of launch before NY/MANDMANI espouses the inevitable: "FREE GAZA" chorus.

Every time you hear "FREE GAZA" know what it really means.

"They are coming. Atom by atom, they will coil around us and take all that we are. There is one way to confront this threat.... remain Klingon! That is why we light our beacon this day. To assemble our people. To lock arms against those whose fatal greeting is... WE COME IN PEACE"

Cry Havoc, and LET LOOSE the waves of LIBnepo's on NY. MADMANI even looks like a 1960's Klingon.

Meanwhile in the real world, Bill Clinton DEMANDS more of his guy-time on Jeffmass Island be revealed. Isn't that what the world needs now? more pictures of him in the blue dress pointing his finger at us?

No, not Remain Klingon -- FREE CUBA without firing a shot. Make Cuba the 51st state and there will be weath beyond dreams of avarice which will sweep across the Gulf of America and propel Rubio to be Prez...

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (vUKOt)

132 Maybe along with Greenland we can buy Cuba? I do like the old cars in photos.

Cucker seems to be really going batsh*t and speeding his insanity up daily. I would find it entertaining if I bothered to watch him, which I don't.

Thanks, Ace, for watching for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (WONhk)

133
Where did he go?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 04:00 PM (fd80v)

I don't know, but he's not here to take are of ASS and his inane comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

134 The Average overnight temps in Cuber for December is 68-70 degrees. Perfect sleeping weather according to the SCIENCE!
Good job WSJ.

Posted by: DBCooper at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (+daAW)

135 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)

136 Prolly humid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (kT/XV)

137 I like that James Bond (Die Another Day) with North Korean villains going to Cuba to get their DNA mangled, to turn themselves into white German guys! Maggie Smith's son played the white version of the main villain. I liked it !

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

138 I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

---------------

Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

139 *hope that was not a spoiler for those who haven't seen it yet

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

140 Cool, I guess I'm an AoS Isolationatist, then.

I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.

I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.

I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.

Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.

If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)

141 During the Obama reign of terror USAID tried to set up a social media platform like Twitter in Cooba. The plan was to get young people hooked on it and then start feeding anti-communist stuff to influence the youngins.

Didn't work nearly as well there as it did when Obama controlled social media in the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (viF8m)

142 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

Then, Tucker can get property closer to the US!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

143 I just want the coups to succeed and not leave us saddled with basket cases that we have to occupy and keep on life support.

Nah, we will use the same old formula the US has been using for generations:

• Go invade and tear apart and destabilize some country most people couldn't find on a map.
• Give them endless stream of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to "rebuild"
• watch as Our Betters mysteriously fall into new found generational wealth

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:04 PM (c3sdc)

144 Cool, I guess I'm an AoS Isolationatist, then.

I don't care about the foreigners, or their shitty wars. And I don't want my predatory government using them as an excuse for endless graft, especially when my kids could well be swept up in it - it's not as if they'll benefit from the scam under any circumstances, and they could certainly suffer for it.

I don't care about the foreigners and their gay ass, fucked up economies. I don't want us absorbing these foreigners simply *because* they have no motivation and want to take something instead of make something.

I don't care about these foreigners and their petty tribal loyalties, or their religious commitments, or their insistence on their own questionable values.

Their food isn't good enough to justify all that stupid bullshit, and 2am Thai food isn't a real big motivator for me or my family.

If you care about these foreigners and their foreign bullshit so much, then go live in one of their foreign countries, & improve their foreign lives, and stop bothering me about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (BI5O2)

X2

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)

145 WE DON’T WANNA BE THE WORLD’S POLICEMAN!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 22, 2025 03:45 PM (rQwsY)

You sending your kids first, right? Right?
Posted by: Goose at December 22, 2025 03:55 PM

Somewhat related, a mom from Turkey was at the window next to mine. Her 18 yr-old son was getting his learners permit. DMV employee informed him that he'd have to sign up for Selective Service. Once they explained to mom what that was, she freaked right out. After a while I intervened with a brief history of the draft, with a particular focus on which President ended it, and which one brought back the registration requirement. She wasn't entirely convinced, but I think the kid was able to get his permit...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nbLIj)

146 Poor Tucker Carlson. Where will he go in the Emirates when he gets the urge to do a little trout fishing in the Rockies?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:05 PM (nljXp)

147 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (PWcY+)

148 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

I'm going to need more detail...

Posted by: Archimedes at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

149 The SS Morro Castle plied the waters NY-Havana in the early 30s. Caught fire and beached in NJ. Loss of 137 lives. Many people made the trip to see the hulk until it was hauled off for scrap.

Posted by: Vacation Getaway at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (oftw2)

150
Rubio has a lot to do with this stragerizing. Little Marco grew up to be one hell of a wartime consigliere.

What you're seeing here with Trump 2.0, Trump unleashed, is using American power, military and economic to actually further American power and interests. As opposed to pissing away our blood and treasure on neocon type nation building shit and "for the good of all the world" shit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM (w6EFb)

151 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

152 128 When Cuba collapses, we can finally run cruise ships there...

Think of all the new Amazon/Prime and Netflix subscribers exports of the cigars alone would produce the first round of infrastructure repair and build out, and then the serious growth would being -- once they overcome that laziness that has tolerated such diminishing returns and dismal state: A WORLD SAFE FOR SOCIALISM!

forWAR'd:MADMANI Futile entreaty: Remain Klingon!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (HDvbH)

153 Which district is the Carribbean in?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (kT/XV)

154 This is all Israel's fault.

Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)

155 Socialism/Marxism came in close second.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

156 I care when they hurtle three hijacked airliners into office towers and a government building packed with people who did them no harm.

Posted by: mrp at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (rj6Yv)

157 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:02 PM (2fdLC)

Are you saying that we CAN'T "hang them all?"

*stomps off in protest*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

158 Every subject is not a platform for your pet argument

I'm going to need more detail...
Posted by: Archimedes

Moar bewbs

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dAOkg)

159 > Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?
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It's only Monday. Holiday week too. They'll come around to it soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (NwnyJ)

160 From Google AI:

"Curing Cuba's energy problem requires a multi-pronged approach: immediate stabilization through plant repairs and securing fuel (oil from allies like Mexico/Russia), accelerated renewable deployment (solar, wind, hydro) with international backing, and long-term economic reform, as deep systemic issues hinder investment and fuel self-sufficiency, ultimately transitioning from aging thermal plants to a diversified, green energy mix with foreign help."

There. I note, no mention of political reform.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)

161 The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

162 What does post collapse collapse look like?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (kT/XV)

163 This term, we settle all family business.

Posted by: Il Donaldo at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (eRBFZ)

164 Maybe Tucker can broker a deal for Qatar to buy Venezuela.

/Who doesn't need and couldn't use "natural" American "allies" like an Islamunist Caliphate in South America?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (TZcsC)

Latest survey came out (Blake Neff of TPUSA posted it) - and according to Americans the greatest threat facing American is ...Radical Islam. Cucker is in danger of being unfriended by Qatar's royal family!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (g47mK)

Good news is that once his Islamic brothers chop his head off, he won't go blabbing to the police about it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)

165 Anyone else with yahoo mail getting the "could not load mail, try again later" alert?

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (Y1sOo)

166 The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

Flies gotta eat, same as Cubans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (dK+Kv)

167 Arrest that orange man!

Posted by: President James Boasberg at December 22, 2025 04:10 PM (eRBFZ)

168 Another upsetting piece of news to Cucker, only 13% do not view Israel as an ally, the rest *does math - 87% view Israel as either top or one of.

(Blake is posting TPUSA poll attendees)

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (g47mK)

169 With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)

170 2 for the price of one! I've been watching this one for a while, the key to Cuba's survival - and they haven't gotten any.

Cuba should have collapsed when the Soviet Union collapsed, but they've always found someone to prop them up. First it was the Euro's, who knows why, then Chavez and Maduro took over being their sugar daddies.

Fatal weakness - their entire energy grid depends on the oil shipped in from Venezuela, because they've got ancient, decaying oil powered electricity generators and nothing else. If they go down (and they crashed 4 times just this last year) then the grid for the entire island goes down, and stays down.
And when that happens food production and distribution goes to zero, and they people won't have anything left to eat except each other. And that's really much of an exagerration.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (uWKK8)

171 >>> 154 This is all Israel's fault.
Posted by: Qatucker Carlson at December 22, 2025 04:07 PM (eRBFZ)

Right! It was the Jooz! All of it!!!

Posted by: see eye ay at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (ULPxl)

172 Which district is the Carribbean in?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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I can answer that.

Posted by: James Monroe at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (XeU6L)

173 >>Anyone else with yahoo mail getting the "could not load mail, try again later" alert?

Yahoo email? Ok boomer.

Yea, mine's down too.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (viF8m)

174 What's nuts is we've now got a contiguous alliance of anticommie governments crossing the southern part of the Americas: Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay.
Peru is a wild card, last I looked the presnitrice of that dunghole was elected as a Leftist, and since then has just ruled as a crook in cahoots with a nonLeft parliament. So her opposition might end up being Shining Path tiers of angry.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (sDWtc)

175 What does post collapse collapse look like?
Posted by: Boss Moss

As bad as Cuber is now or will be after the final collapse, it's still better than Somalia. And Detroit.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (cxFcK)

176 How do you figure they wrap up Pluribus in one more episode?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (kT/XV)

177 >>The cruise ships will only stop at Cuba to dump their waste tanks.

That would ruin Haiti's Economy.

Cruise Ship Waste Tanks are their biggest Import.

Posted by: garrett at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (W23D2)

178 With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:11 PM (PWcY+)

REAL communism to the rescue!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

180 Moar bewbs

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 04:08 PM (dAOkg)

This guy gets it.

Posted by: ... at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (2fdLC)

181 Back to Cuba, better piece of real estate than fkng Gaza.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (g47mK)

182 How about we invite the Soros family to move to Cuba and take over from the Castro-ites, and they can let everyone out of jail there, instead of here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (eRBFZ)

183 What does post collapse collapse look like?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Haiti, since the French pulled out.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:13 PM (XeU6L)

184 There. I note, no mention of political reform.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:09 PM (XeU6L)

One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)

185 Thanks, Jack.

Posted by: one hour sober boomer at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (Y1sOo)

186 >>> 179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

Wanna bet?

Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (ULPxl)

187 Now do the UK.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

188 "With this embargo going on, soon the Venezuelans are going to start running out of food and all of their zoos are already out of meat from the last time communism failed to provide for the people.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks "

The last ones to go are always the penguins.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)

189 8 "Were Venezuela's oil shipments to stop, or sharply decline, the Cubans know it would be devastating."

How is Cuba paying for the oil?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 22, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)

By sending secret police and thugs to Venezuela to help Maduro keep the local population beaten into submission. Not kidding - Cuba is absolutely broke, they have no foreign exchange at all. Their sugar production is now the lowest its been in 100 years, since they can't afford fertilizer or diesel to run any tractors.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (uWKK8)

190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)

191 It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)

192 I rather secure Cuba's security than Ukraine.

Drop a nice nuclear power plant next to Gitmo.

Posted by: connected and litigious at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (cS1cw)

193 One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (npFr7)

Russia doesn't have nearly as much money to throw around as they used to. Certainly not the kind it would take to build a couple of free nukes to give to Cuba.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (uWKK8)

194
One or two nuclear plants could meet Cuba's modest needs. Google conveniently ignored that. And I doubt Russia is much of an "ally" to Cuba anymore.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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AI is the land of green tea-sipping lotus eaters.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (XeU6L)

195 My anti-communism boner is a-throbbin'.

Posted by: Suck it, Guevarans and Castroites at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (TbWk/)

196 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:16 PM (MoRvC)

197 The phrase "Comiendo al pinguino" (eating the penguin) is a Latin-American expression for the ultimate outcome of Socialism.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (vFG9F)

198 Russia's only interest in Cuba is/was the proximity to the U.S.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (XeU6L)

199 I am not carrying water for Maduro or Venezuela. Bad things happen to bad people and I am okay with that.

But James Comey did more damage to our precious democracy than Venezuela. And he's living it up and laughing at us.

He will be back to piss in our Cheerios again.

Posted by: blaster at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (NlEaG)

200 191 It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 22, 2025 04:15 PM (mlg/3)

Exactly! Which is why THIS is the time to sink both Venezuelan and Cuban governments now; with the political changes going on in the rest of SA, that could kick the Chinese out of the entire western hemisphere for a generation or more.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (uWKK8)

201 >>> 187 Now do the UK.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

Not our hemisphere.

... otoh, maybe whoever follows OrangeManBad can invade them and make them a colony of ours.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (ULPxl)

202 Tucker was en fuego during Amfest when he responded to Binny Shatpicodick, so i couldnt understand why everyone was on his ass

Then he went off on a tangent in some crazy spiel about how poor muslims are treated

...oh

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

203 >>It's worse than just that. The CCP is building ports through out the Caribbean. Which is leading to possible CCP naval intrusion with dual-purpose vessels. The Monroe Doctrine needs to be enforced to a T.

China is by far Venezuela's biggest customer for oil. The secondary affects of taking down Maduro are huge.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (viF8m)

204 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do you mean Trudeau?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

205 Make Cuba Great Again

CUBA LIBRE !!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (YubK1)

206 Another upsetting piece of news to Cucker, only 13% do not view Israel as an ally, the rest *does math - 87% view Israel as either top or one of.

Interestingly, that is about the same ratio of people (87%) who rely on discovering their desires from someone else.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)

207 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)

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Putin is bold, but not stupid.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)

208 An end to Scandi Agression in our time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (kT/XV)

209 >>> 204 I read somewhere recently that the nephew of Raul and Fidel Castro is about to become Cuba's leader. I hope he's in charge when the government collapses. Eff that family in particular
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

Can we offer Justin $3k USD to move to Havana?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (ULPxl)

210

Where was Marco Rubio when Cuba collapsed??

Posted by: Tomorrow's Headlines Today at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)

211 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?

Lmfao good luck hoss.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (5aZAZ)

212 Yes, China is the biggest one using Venezuela to subvert us, and get strongholds in our hemisphere. Trump is not going to allow that to happen. This is asserting our control of our hemisphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (w6EFb)

213
1. Trump ruins Cuba
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.

Posted by: bill cuck kristol at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (CWez5)

214 Little Marco for Shogun of Cuba.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (jc0TO)

215 Yea right.......

Cuba has been on the brink since 1959....

Posted by: Jackson at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (J9q9v)

216 nterestingly, that is about the same ratio of people (87%) who rely on discovering their desires from someone else.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (xE0sV)

HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:20 PM (g47mK)

217
You remember early on that business with the Panama Canal. And Marco went down with an offer they couldn't refuse? That was all about stopping Chicom control of the Panama Canal, which they were gaining.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (w6EFb)

218
How'd I do?

Did I capture the spirit of Cuck Kristol idiotic pipe-dream fantasy list-of-events?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (CWez5)

219 Poopdeck Bill.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (kT/XV)

220 China has become one of Cuba’s largest trading partners and benefactors. They have been using Cuba as a military surveillance point.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (cn09p)

221 Do you mean Trudeau?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (cxFcK)

He's only a nephew to Raul.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:21 PM (npFr7)

222 Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:17 PM (HYKHz)

The analogy that he would assist his murdering brother escape capture and smuggle him out of the country didn't bother you too?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (KDPiq)

223 Is this good or bad? I'll reserve judgement until Tucker Carlson explains to me how communists are really just Friends We Haven't Met Yet.

I confess I'm beginning to like the cut of this Carlson fellows jib. And his choice in neckwear is on point.

Posted by: George Will at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (kgG3s)

224 Maybe the Cubans will pull a Che and shoot their leaders in the back. One can dream.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (P7vXf)

225 207 190 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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Putin is bold, but not stupid.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:18 PM (PWcY+)

Not to mention that the Ukrainians have managed to sink most of his boats.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:22 PM (uWKK8)

226 Ice axe?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (kT/XV)

227 In December, it is 80 degrees in Havana.

Hardly sweltering.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at December 22, 2025 04:23 PM (vTTFR)

228 Boy, am I glad that Janet Reno got me back here!

Posted by: Eli�n Gonz�lez at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (XeU6L)

229 >>In December, it is 80 degrees in Havana.

In August the entire area is hotter than Satan's ball sack.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)

230 Hegseth and Trump are scheduled to make some kind of an announcement. Cuba LIbre ??

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (g47mK)

231 A Coca Cola goes a long way in Cuba.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:24 PM (kT/XV)

232 HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?

Mimetic Theory posits that the vast majority of people obtain their desires from external sources (eg. propaganda, influencers, culture, etc.)

Come to your conclusions.

BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)

233 Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:19 PM (5aZAZ

We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)

234 >>>China is by far Venezuela's biggest customer for oil. The secondary affects of taking down Maduro are huge.
Posted by: JackStraw
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All west coast South American countries, excepting Colombia have voted socialists out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (YubK1)

235 The analogy that he would assist his murdering brother escape capture and smuggle him out of the country didn't bother you too?

*************

Missed that one, he says so much crazy stuff its hard to keep up

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Patiently Awaiting My Pre-Ordered AI Powered Fembot at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (HYKHz)

236 Well, I guess this answers the question as to why Rubio all of a sudden became so diligent and "dependable" after being a little bit of a git for a number of years.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (dIske)

237
Fake News found out the name of a Venezuelan tanker currently being harrassed by Trump -- the "Bella I"

It's very, very, very important you know the name of the tanker. Fake News thinks it will "humanize" the brown-skinned tanker, I suppose.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (CWez5)

238 Travis Kelce is pregnant!

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 04:26 PM (vFG9F)

239 156 I care when they hurtle three hijacked airliners into office towers and a government building packed with people who did them no harm.

Had Bill Clinton done back in '92 in Mogadishu (viz BlackhawkDown) what Somalia accomplished in a week nearly a decade later -- there factually would have been no OBL, NO 911, NO FOREVER WAR.

Why? because on that day the coms were receiving Arabic, not not local dialect, nor the local warlord -- CLINTON KNEW.

Same with the Rwandan Genocide, so many bodies were dumped into the bodies satellite photos showed the course of rivers change -- CLINTON NEW.

What the world needs now, according to Clinton, more Epstein disclosure -- what did him in that Blue Dress pointing a finger at us really mean? doesn't it deserve the same attention as Mona Lisa's smile? -- CLINTON KNOWS.

Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time -- Bill Clinton'06

it would be wrong to cut off contact with the terror group just because they may have killed people "in a way that we hate." -- Bill Clinton'06

" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" -- ctHILLARY, 2025

Deplorable Who?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (Vs2Bx)

240 Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (U4c/V)

so you are in the 13%; ok, just say so, no need to pretend you have some kind of special knowledge

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (g47mK)

241 The Herd of Independent Thinkers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:27 PM (jc0TO)

242 >>>BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Last night the kids were talking about how wonderful the 80s were. They didn't build that Boomers did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (YubK1)

243 Id be good with Trudeau going to Cuba as long as he takes Katy Perry with him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (MoRvC)

244 so you are in the 13%; ok, just say so, no need to pretend you have some kind of special knowledge

Posted by: runner

Hitting the bottle rather early today, eh?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)

245 186 >>> 179 Why hasn't an activist judge blocked these actions against Venezuelan oil tankers?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:06 PM

I have been waiting for that as well. The only thing I can come up with is there isn't a single person in the US that has even remote standing to sue. Granted that hasn't stopped people from suing Trump in the past but to sue him for actually enforcing international law is a reach for even an activist judge.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 22, 2025 04:12 PM (0N4FZ)

Wanna bet?
Posted by: JUDGE Boasburg
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Can't. Collateral estoppel. If you read carefully, each of the tankers seized have judicial seizure warrants issued for prior violations of international law. So you can't judge shop to prevent it as it has already been adjudicated.

From above, "The United States Coast Guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel that is part of Venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion," a U.S. official said in a statement to Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson. "It is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order."

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (WDjG6)

246
We aren't blockading Cuba. A navy is not required to ship a tanker of oil to Cuba from any country other than Venezuela.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:25 PM (KDPiq)
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How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

247 The original article mentioned that Cuba has lost a quarter of its population over the last several years, some to the US, most to SA and the Caribbean nations.

What they don't say is the demographics of this movement - it's not children or old people or the sick or the unfit who are leaving - they don't have the ability. Those leaving have been the majority of working age adults who would be expected to keep the country running on a day to day basis. Even the ambitious criminal class has left, because there's nothing to steal there anymore.
Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (uWKK8)

248 Hitting the bottle rather early today, eh?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (U4c/V)

not everyone live your life, boomer

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

249 And no, Russia is not going to start floating oil tankers to Cuba. It's not economical and it's also comically retarded.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (5aZAZ)

250 >>All west coast South American countries, excepting Colombia have voted socialists out.

I'm a big fan of South America. Beautiful area and if they can get some good government it could be boomtown. Place is packed with minerals and other goodies.

Chile is a very cool country. I could hang there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (viF8m)

251 Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

Are you saying we are blockading Cuba?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)

252 Id be good with Trudeau going to Cuba as long as he takes Katy Perry with him

The Brit fella who used to be married to her said she farted. A lot.

Nasty bitch.

Posted by: Fat Titties Though at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (m8zKa)

253 We've set Cuba free 2xs. This time we keep it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)

254 Vegetarian?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (kT/XV)

255 That is a solution! Trudeau-Castro runs for president of Cuba!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (g47mK)

256 Are you saying we are blockading Cuba?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:29 PM (KDPiq)
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No, I'm not.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (5aZAZ)

257 Maggie Smith's son played the white version of the main villain. I liked it !

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

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We really liked the TV series Black Sails and Toby Stephenson was good in that; of course, they had to eventually make his character be gay.

The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.

Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)

258
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:

https://is.gd/MBxDvX

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (w6EFb)

259 We keep Cuba but we keep Democrat politicians out.
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (YubK1)

260 Watching the left lose their marbles on steroids because Cuba's communist government collapsed would be a chefs kiss for the first year of Trump's second term. Trump going to Cuba and yelling " Cuba Libre" would be epic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (MoRvC)

261 246 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

submarines.

*touches side of nose*

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (v3pYe)

262 168 "the rest *does math"

TWEEEEET!
On the defense, #168 Math, Encroachment.
15 yard penalty. Automatic 1st down

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (WI7ox)

263 I saw Cucker Tarlson repeatedly tormented by the Jews of Barsoom in John Carter of Mars in '81.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (nljXp)

264 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.
Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:28 PM (5aZAZ)

I'm sure the only real obstacle to Russia's sending assistance to Cuba is Putin's complete lack of interest in getting involved there. Why piss off the American Eagle, and spur it to attack the Bear in the Ukraine?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)

265 Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

So it's like New York City.

Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)

266 246 How is Vlad Putin going to "come to the rescue" of Cuba with essentially no ocean-going navy? Please show your work.

submarines.

*touches side of nose*
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM

Milchkuh

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (jc0TO)

267 Mimetic Theory posits that the vast majority of people obtain their desires from external sources (eg. propaganda, influencers, culture, etc.)

Come to your conclusions.

BTW, "boomer" is also a propaganda tool used by politicians to blame anyone but the actual cause of problems: Politicians.

Sad to see that you are part of the 87% who don't know why they desire what they desire. Try to be more independent.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Yes and no. Initial preferences can be set as such but real world personal experiences trump whatever blather is out there over time. Same reason that massive control over society and propaganda couldn't save the Soviet Union--too many people knew of all the regime failures.

The idea of image and news control is alluring to shitheads on powertrips but it doesn't produce lasting effects on most of the population over time. Experiences do. Former pollster, a guy named Yanklelovich, calls this coming to public judgment and it is true for all societies in the long run.

Leaders can't outspin reality for long periods of time, it always ends up destroying their credibility and right to rule when rectification occurs.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (WDjG6)

268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK8)

269 We really liked the TV series Black Sails and Toby Stephenson was good in that; of course, they had to eventually make his character be gay.

The great Ray Stevenson -- who played Titus Pullo in Rome -- was in that as well. IIRC, he played Blackbeard.

Another great actor killed prematurely by the clot shot like the great -- and extremely fit -- Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)

agree, it started well, then everyone became ghey. Lance Reddick dies of heart problems, heart disease.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (g47mK)

270 250 Chile is a very cool country. I could hang there.

lots of carrots in chile. better than those in richese.

Posted by: third stage guild navigator at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (v3pYe)

271 We've set Cuba free 2xs. This time we keep it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:30 PM (YubK1)

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Make it a Floridian Island.

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (FH6GK)

272 Good news on Peru: they impeached their turd of a president and on 10 October they got a new one. Jose Jeri, who is center-right.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:34 PM (sDWtc)

273 Wouldn't Russia come to Cuba's rescue to poke a finger in our eye for giving Ukraine billions.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:14 PM (KDPiq)
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With what Navy?

Really? Yet another Cuban Missile Crisis? To what end?

Its much easier and effective to continue to fund the internal destruction of the US and Europe through purchased politicians, cyber attacks against infrastructure, and a myriad of other asymmetric warfare that has been going on.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (U4c/V)

274 258
Things getting sport in LA. A mother chases down and rams the vehicle of a gang of thieves that tried to break in her house while her children were playing inside:

https://is.gd/MBxDvX
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Reason 999 to drive a beefy vehicle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (YubK1)

275 232 HUH?? that was TPUSA poll, what are you raging about, boomer ?
...
Mimetic Theory... Come to your conclusions.

It has become a full operational Hyperstition, a strategic political science (and in this case, the very cause of LIB Strategic Insanity) -- an engineered self fulfilling fiction -- why the LIBs ceaseless quest for the unearned remains forever Ceaseless: because the value illicitly retains no value.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
There will be no peace as long as Kirk (charlie) lives -- or even if he dies, or even remember,ed or forever whatever....

forWAR'd !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (KDKen)

276
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

277 OT: Washington St. Cougars are beating up the Aggies of Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. I had to post this very important information. You're Welcome! There are some WSU fans around here, though they post later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

278 265 Cuba today is a dying island populated mainly by the elderly, the chronically sick, and the mentally infirm. The ones who couldn't leave.

So it's like New York City.
Posted by: 53rd and 3rd at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (m8zKa)

_________________________

I'm sorry, but you guys are woefully misinformed. Paul Krugman and the NYT's assures me that Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet.

Posted by: Orson at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (dIske)

279 I forgot about Ray Stevenson ! His last role was in Ahsoka, played Baylan Skoll. Did a good job with it. They had to look for a replacement.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (g47mK)

280 238 Travis Kelce is pregnant!
Posted by: for

DAMN IT! How the hell are we supposed to rig the Super Bowl now!?!??! They're already eliminated from the playoffs! Guess we'll just have to "eliminate" another team to slide them in...

Posted by: Roger Goodell at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (8yrSp)

281 Rescue Plan for Cuba: Government collapses, don't have the American government spend a penny on it. Instead, give the entire island to Donald Trump and his family as their personal property, to do with as they wish.

Within 10 years that place will be the Glory of the Caribbean!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (uWKK8)

282
The mother is smart. She says she didn't intend to ram the vehicle, she was just running on adrenaline. They may or may not be true, but it's smart thing to say, especially in CA.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (w6EFb)

283 I'm sure the only real obstacle to Russia's sending assistance to Cuba is Putin's complete lack of interest in getting involved there. Why piss off the American Eagle, and spur it to attack the Bear in the Ukraine?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)
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That and the fact that Cuba is 90 miles from a US Naval base and if anyone really wanted to test it we'd smoke check anyone that F'd around in about five minute, but mostly also that.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (5aZAZ)

284 276
Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius

Issue there is that Southern Hemisphere covers only their half of the sky. Northern Hemisphere has stars too. Hawaiian grifters don't want us looking at them.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 22, 2025 04:37 PM (sDWtc)

285 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

286 There are some WSU fans around here, though they post later.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 22, 2025 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

That's because they are slow and went to a cow college.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

287 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:33 PM (uWKK

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"The Anti Industrial Left: Return of The Primitive."

Is there nothing collectivism can't destroy? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (FH6GK)

288 Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:35 PM (w6EFb)

Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (npFr7)

289 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:32 PM (w6EFb)

Brave mom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (Nx5jP)

290 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (cxFcK)

291 213 1. Trump ruins Cuba
2. Cuba becomes a US Territory
3. Democrats take Congress
4. Democrats make Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Washington DC 4 new States.
5. 8 More Democrat Senators and at least 4 more Democrats in the House.
6. Trump Impeached.
7. Vance Impeached.
8. Johnson switches parties to Democrat, and Resigns.
9. Hakeem Jeffries Sworn in as President of the United States.
10. Jeffries DOJ indicts, prosecutes, and convicts Donald Trump.
11. Trump dies in Prison.

you forgot the step where hillary becomes president

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (v3pYe)

292 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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As Maggie Thatcher said about socialism, "Sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend."

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (WDjG6)

293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (RuTUS)

294 I'm sorry, but you guys are woefully misinformed. Paul Krugman and the NYT's assures me that Cuba has the best healthcare system on the planet.
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Well, he was right about the internet being just a fad.

Posted by: Parker at December 22, 2025 04:39 PM (qUkBO)

295 >>Andes mountains are also near ideal spots for observatories. Our current biggest and best telescopes are down there.

I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

296 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Second look at the French?

Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

297 277 OT: Washington St. Cougars are beating up the Aggies of Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

well, it wouldn't be aggie football if they didn't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Posted by: anachronda, usu class of '86 at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (v3pYe)

298 290 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)

299 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m

Probably at a festive Yuletide Prometheus convention.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

300 300

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)

301 Yes and no. Initial preferences can be set as such but real world personal experiences trump whatever blather is out there over time. Same reason that massive control over society and propaganda couldn't save the Soviet Union--too many people knew of all the regime failures.

I'm not addressing those things that fall under Mass Formation Psychosis.

For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?

From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.

in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel.

From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (U4c/V)

302 >>> That's because they are slow and went to a cow college.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

There are cows in the Pacific North West? Ok, I see they do @ 1.29% US.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

303 suffering from spreading disease
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Yeah, but its a good thing they have better medical care than the US.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (krQz2)

304 I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

Did they hand out little airline bottles of hot sauce, in case you crash-landed and had to resort to cannibalism?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (npFr7)

305 293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)

306 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)

307 296 268 The saddest thing is that by any objective measure, Cuba today is in worse shape than it was before Columbus discovered it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Second look at the French?
Posted by: Haiti at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (sAmhv)

"No French."

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (RuTUS)

308 The Paolo, he knows, how you say, about tunnels and shafts.

Posted by: Paolo at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (CDDVV)

309 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:38 PM (77rzZ)

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Zombie Sammy Davis, Jr. hardest hit ...

"I don't care what da white man say ...
Santa Claus was a Black Jew slave trader."

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (FH6GK)

310 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.
Posted by: runner

Candy O?

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

311 >>That and the fact that Cuba is 90 miles from a US Naval base

Cuba is also 0 miles from a US Naval base

Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

312 There are cows in the Pacific North West? Ok, I see they do @ 1.29% US.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

Quite a few, the more east you go, where WSU is located.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (dK+Kv)

313 That is right.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (kT/XV)

314 Candy O?
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

not yet....

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (g47mK)

315 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba. Is our navy Russian freighters out of the Caribbean?

There was also an agreement with Russia in 2023 to provide oil annually . Shipments were made but have now been sporadic for a number of reasons.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (KDPiq)

316 And I don't much care about intellectual theories about how societies work, or how people think, or any of that high-flown nonsense.

What is going to increase the quality of life in America? How are America's interests served by this trade deal or military alliance?

That's it. That's the only question that matters, and it's not meant for Aztecs, or Qataris, or anyone else.

It's about us, and nobody else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (BI5O2)

317
For example, where did this quest for bling come from? How does one form of music seem to connect to some cultures different than others?

From a theological perspective, Mimetic Theory provides the vocabulary to understand the interaction of spiritual influence beyond the Western materialistic way of justifying Free Will and temptation and Following God's Will.

Does mimetic theory explain those people who Just Got Dat Boogie Rythm?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (uWKK8)

318 The Kansas City Chiefs are MOVING! Across the river to KC, Kansas. That should put a smile on their faggy billionaire owner.
Posted by: Blutarski
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All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.
Posted by: whig

Yup. And I, for one, am glad to have their hands out of my pocket.

Posted by: MkY at December 22, 2025 04:43 PM (q6tQZ)

319
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)

320 Newest staunch defender of Maduro ? Take a guess. Go ahead.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (g47mK)

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Tucker?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)

321 nood something

Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)

322
Mt. McKinley ought to be a good spot for an observatory. Drive a tunnel into the mountain at the base, then make a vertical shaft all the way to the peak. Who knows, you might hit some valuable minerals on the way there, too.

Which would be cheaper and more effective?

Giving Elon Musk the contract to dig your Mt McKinley observatory or to launch one into space?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (PVBkQ)

323 >>>All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig

>The Chicago Bears have entered the chat.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (nljXp)

324 Cuba is also 0 miles from a US Naval base
Posted by: one hour sober at December 22, 2025 04:42 PM (Y1sOo)

"I can't gitmo naval action."

Posted by: Fidel Jagger at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (npFr7)

325 Would Cubans want to be a US territory?

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (RuTUS)

326 We keep Cuba but we keep Democrat politicians out.
They are the one's that 'help' Puerto Rico.
Cubans don't need that help.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others
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Make it part of Florida.

Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)

327 >>Did they hand out little airline bottles of hot sauce, in case you crash-landed and had to resort to cannibalism?

No, but I did make a point of checking out my fellow passengers to see which ones might make a tasty snack.

Proper Planning and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (viF8m)

328 in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel.

From one who has studied propaganda and Mimetic Theory, the spike in ham fisted propaganda and emotional blackmail is so obvious to me but has blinded the sychophants to either a strong pro or strong anti Israel.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Eh, I think Muzzie past actions and their behavior over here have as much impact over time thinking Israel is a friend. Terrorist assholes tend to get a bad rep over time along with a religion that encourages such across the globe. In comparison, Jews haven't done such in Western societies and been far more likelty to be victims than abuser.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (WDjG6)

329 Tucker?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (FH6GK)

no, another female

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (g47mK)

330 >> Hawaiian grifters don't want us looking at them.

What is that controversy about some sacred ground or some shit?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

331 305 293 72 I miss TJM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

Where is he?
Posted by: m
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Busy guy right now with his own YT channel, highly recommended if you like movies, job search, and kiddies around Christmas family events.
Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:41 PM (WDjG6)

Maybe he'll stop by to say hello.

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

332 319
Hey! I are a proud gradU8 of Clempson Cow Collidge. Don't be dissin' cow collidges.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (w6EFb)
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Is this serious? Cool if so. I also have an elite degree from Cow Collidge in upstate SC.

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (5aZAZ)

333 321 nood something
Posted by: anachronda at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v3pYe)

Posted by: m at December 22, 2025 04:45 PM (RuTUS)

334 I took a flight from Rio to Santiago. They made us sign a release in the event of an unscheduled landing on the Andes.

It was not a confidence inspiring moment but what a view.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (viF8m)

A promise not to eat fellow passengers?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (KDPiq)

335 Lance Reddick (known for The Wire and Fringe).

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 04:31 PM (FH6GK)
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And Bosch.

Posted by: Axeman at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (krQz2)

336 Make it part of Florida.
Posted by: wth at December 22, 2025 04:44 PM (v0R5T)
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Key South

Posted by: ballistic at December 22, 2025 04:46 PM (5aZAZ)

337 All sportsball franchises can be summarized as the Search for Mo Money. Preferably sweet taxpayer subsidies and loans.

Posted by: whig at December 22, 2025 04:40 PM (WDjG6)

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This is especially true for college sports.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 22, 2025 04:47 PM (PWcY+)

338 Odysseus at the beach, addressing his crew:
"And now men, I call on you to join me as we begin our great odyssey. "
Sailor raises hand: "Excuse me, what's an Odyssey?"
Odysseus: "It is a long and difficult journey, so full of dangers that only the leader will survive."
Sailor: "Oh Okay thanks. Wait what???"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 04:53 PM (uWKK8)

339 My son went to Cuba, among the 40 nations that he visited. Said Cuba was the creepiest. And he's been to Syria.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 22, 2025 04:54 PM (wBaIH)

340 285 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.
Posted by: Bulg
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To be fair. If there were no Atlantic there would have been no Atlantic slave trade. Think of the poor sharks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (YubK1)

341 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba.

It's not working out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

342 We seem to have lost the value of "stability" in foreign policy. IOW, Cuba may be a communist shithole, but I don't want to make it our, post-communist shithole to rebuild, police, feed, etc etc

We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.

Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)

343 341 I would assume most know that Russia is still a big trading partner with Cuba.

It's not working out.
Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 04:57 PM (jc0TO)

what's killed that is that Cuba has nothing left to trade. They destroyed the sugar plantations, even the slave trade is down to the toothless ones with rickets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)

344 So now Candace Owens is blaming Jews for the Atlantic slave trade.
Posted by: Bulg

There is an African slave farm in there somewhere too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 22, 2025 05:01 PM (/lPRQ)

345 We should support the locals diplomatically, morally, etc. but I don't want to start "color revolutions" (or worse) in a way that Uncle Suger is going to be pressured to pick up the pieces. Enough with the post WWII Pax Americana Empire crap already.
Posted by: Zek at December 22, 2025 04:58 PM (5FPX4)

There's a worse fate than revolution or civil war - and that is when a country lets itself grind so far down that it just collapses, and it's not worth it to anyone to come in and try to take it over because it's nothing but a money pit. This is how cities, once vibrant, just sink back into the jungles that were there before.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

346 what's killed that is that Cuba has nothing left to trade. They destroyed the sugar plantations, even the slave trade is down to the toothless ones with rickets.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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What's killed Cuba is communism.
Cuba has natural resources and the Holiday
tourist potential surpasses Hawaii.

Viva Cuba

CUBA LIBRE!!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 22, 2025 05:06 PM (YubK1)

347 "in terms of the infatuation with Israel, Mimetic Theory play a strong role in manipulating Evangelicals into an irrational practical worship of the state of Israel."

Take your jew hating shit somewhere else

Posted by: Fen at December 22, 2025 05:09 PM (WI7ox)

348 CUBA LIBRE!!!
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What's rhe best rum for a rum and coke?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (Dv3i1)

349
Per Candace Owens...

I bet there were a few Jews you could find working as financial backers for the Atlantic flesh trade. It's a profitable business, it'll attract capital, and some will be Jews. But most of the peddlers in the Americas were Brits and Spaniards.

And of course, all the supply was provided by blacks and Arabs, many of whom grew fabulously rich from the trade.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

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