Shocking! NYT blames Republicans for halting progress and increasing repression in Castro Kingdom

Best possible of all worlds for Cubans

Holy smokes!  Thanks be to God for the New York Times and its editorials.

They really know how to shed light on those agents of evil who oppose the Castro regime. So, thank God for today’s editorial, which sets the record straight.

Those damn Republicans, they’re so evil!  Their opposition to the lifting of the “embargo” has cast a dark cloud over an otherwise very rosy environment of  miniscule change in Cuba — which is the only kind of change that Cubans can handle and also the only kind they deserve.

While the White House promotes engagement as the most promising approach to enable positive change, a stubborn coalition of lawmakers insists that the United States remains morally obligated to keep sanctions in place until —in the words of the Republican Party platform — the island’s “corrupt rulers are forced from power and brought to account for their crimes against humanity.” The result is a conflicted, indeed incoherent, policy that prevents the two countries from making the most of their shared agenda.

Did you know that the Normalization Circus is curing the “the most poisonous relationship in the hemisphere”?

Yeah… and you know who poisoned it, right?  It was all the fault of the U.S., really.

Aaaah… but the Normalization Circus is draining away the poison, so beautifully.

Did you know that the Castro regime is now allowing more dissent, more internet access, and more private enterprise?

Did you know that the only way to stop the Castro regime from being repressive is to lift the “embargo”?   Wow!

Economic changes are moving very slowly, but this could change if the embargo were lifted. Popular pressure for more sweeping reforms would grow, and the government would find it harder to justify its crackdowns on dissidents by claiming they are agents of a foreign conspiracy.

And did you know that the U.S. and the Castro regime have struck deals on colossally significant issues?  Take a look at this list, it’s simply amazing:

“Washington and Havana have agreed to cooperate on health care challenges, maritime issues, agriculture, climate change and environmental initiatives.”

Good golly Miss Molly!

Ooooooh… those Republican cretins and their Batista-loving Cuban exile friends… they deserve to be shipped back to Cuba and jailed…. how dare they spoil all the fun of the Normalization Circus!

Just look at these mind-blowing changes!

“Cubans have grown bolder in pressing for reforms to Cuba’s centrally planned economy, as well as for broader access to the internet.”

The government has taken modest steps on both fronts,establishing dozens of Wi-Fi areas where ordinary Cubans can connect online and signaling its willingness to create a regulatory framework for small and midsize private enterprises.”

Dissident groups, meanwhile, report that their ranks have grown steadily, as more Cubans are sold on their vision of representative democracy with strong safeguards for civil liberties. Opposition groups are preparing to field candidates next year for the lowest rung of Cuba’s election system — the only one the Communist Party does not fully control — hoping to transform the system gradually from the bottom up.

Yeah, this bottom-up change is really going to work.  Thank God for President Obama and his infinite wisdom.

And may the devil claim those Republican and Cuban exile souls that are already his and drag them all to hell, where they belong.

As for those troublesome “dissidents” who get beaten up and arrested by the thousands, may the devil drag them all to hell too.

Who do they think they are?  Don’t they realize that Cubans are inferior savages who cannot handle democracy?  Don’t they realize that the Normalization Circus is the best thing that has ever happened to them?

Don’t they realize that getting rid of the Castro regime will actually make things much WORSE for them?  Idiots, those “dissidents,” as evil as they are stupid.

Why do they clamor for changes that would make them poorer and more miserable than they have ever been?

Some congressional proponents of continuing the embargo might see Cuba’s difficulties as an opportunity to squeeze the octogenarian Castro brothers during their last years in power. That would be a mistake. Cuba’s shoddy infrastructure would continue to deteriorate, foreign investors would recoil, already marginal communities would become even poorer and the exodus of desperate Cubans to the United States would accelerate. It seems highly unlikely that this scenario would usher in an era of greater freedoms. But it certainly would sow misery.

Paradise for Cubans

7 thoughts on “Shocking! NYT blames Republicans for halting progress and increasing repression in Castro Kingdom”

  1. Carlos, I don’t see how you stand it, but I suppose somebody has to read the NYT‘s Cuba propaganda, I mean coverage, and report on it. I can’t even stand to read the excerpts you post, though of course one doesn’t have to, since the content is entirely predictable and has always been consistent. The hubris involved, needless to say, is intrinsic and incorrigible; it will never stop of its own accord. However, one must admit the presumptuousness on display is quite spectacular, but perhaps it’s not so much that as perversity that’s shameless to the point of brazenness. In any case, thanks for doing such a disgusting job.

  2. You know, that Oliphant cartoon only gets better (meaning worse) with age. It’s an absolutely classic example of the hypocrisy and glaring double-standard we’ve had to contend with from the beginning. If anything comparable had been aimed at any other minority group, including Muslims, there would have been hell to pay–and of course Oliphant knew better than to shoot at a protected and/or dangerous target, just as all the usual suspects know it. My contempt runneth over, but I repeat myself.

  3. Caption for the last photo:

    This is what the revolution did for Cuba, but it’s OK. Fidel got what he wanted, which is all that mattered.

  4. I can’t stand reading the NYT either, but I have to see whatever it says about Cuba because in my line of employment absolutely EVERYONE reads it and any time anyone runs into me, the first thing they will say is “did you see that article in the Times?”…blah, blah, blah…. So, even if I wanted to escape from it altogether, I wouldn’t be able to do so. The most irritating and pathetic aspect of this worship of the NYT by America’s self-anointed “intellectuals” is that here, in my place of employment, there is not one single social conversation that doesn’t somehow come around to something someone said in the NYT. Usually, it’s a long string of references to NYT articles that is brought up, not just one…. And all of this is the main reason I have no social life here. Oh, and by the way, the NYT is distributed for free on campus, in many, many locations. Yes, kostenlos, gratis, gratuit…. gotta keep those conversations flowing and properly grounded in Sacred Scripture.

  5. So familiar. Yes, “conversations” – ha.
    If I don’t get, “I don’t want to talk about it” because allowing any idea contrary to their own is impossible for liberals, I get, ” Where did you hear that; I never heard that.” which is because all they read is the NYTimes and its allies.
    There is no conversation possible. “You are one of the good ones” is another I get. Egad.

    I am a hermit these days. I don’t want to talk to any of my friends because they are all liberals. and they don’t understand me. Why am I so stubborn or obsessed.? They don’t see that they are obsessed as well, about global warming, about how much Obama loves Israel, about how good this Cuba deal is. At last we are doing something good about Cuba. And no facts or logic are able to persuade them otherwise. Because feelings are more important than facts to liberals.
    It is painful to me, the ignorance around me.

  6. Yes Carlos, I see your predicament, which sounds like purgatory, and the scenario you describe is mighty sad. If your colleagues will not go or cannot rise beyond what they read in some newspaper, any newspaper, then they’re evidently quite overrated intellectually and/or glorified slaves to the prevailing fashion, which is indeed pathetic. All fashion victimhood is weakness; it’s the attempt to be validated not by what one is but by what one follows, and that applies to the most pretentious politically correct “intellectual” as much as it does to the most abject celebrity groupie.

    The bit about putting out free copies of the NYT all over the place like candy, or like cheese to catch mice, is actually pretty disturbing, because it’s clearly a form of thought control or “evangelism,” and I’m sure they’re not doing the same thing with any conservative news source. And to think how much many parents are paying to give their kids such “education.” Lord have mercy.

  7. Honey, it’s not ignorance; it’s character pathology. Ultimately, it’s a form of dependence and insecurity–it’s the need to be “in” with what is perceived as the “correct” or “proper” crowd, which is also opportunism. And yes, it’s pitiful, as well as perniciously dysfunctional, and not just for them, but for society as a whole.

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