tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post285196133351182084..comments2024-03-18T22:28:16.751-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Fidel Castro, RIHDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-62864271158910547652016-11-28T15:07:58.068-05:002016-11-28T15:07:58.068-05:00I wrote about that here: http://www.thediplomad.co...I wrote about that here: http://www.thediplomad.com/2011/05/on-cuba-and-latin-america-at-least.htmlDiploMadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-48172287364840519102016-11-28T09:34:29.247-05:002016-11-28T09:34:29.247-05:00Ironic that this arch enemy of free enterprise cro...Ironic that this arch enemy of free enterprise croaked on Black Friday, isn't it?<br /><br />Fifty four years ago, on Black Friday, 1962, the Butcher of Biran nearly beat the jihado-marxist rats to 911 in Manhattan.<br /><br /><br />As revenge for being denied the thrill of launching the missiles at America, don fido plotted to detonate five hundred pounds of high explosive in Macy's and Gimbel's on Black Friday, 'to kill as many Americans as possible and shove a dagger thru the heart of America.'<br /><br /><br />Mr. Hoover's FBI was early on to the plot and thwarted it.<br /><br /><br /><br />Perhaps the marxstream media, who today mourns the passing of its 'folk hero' fidel, might care to comment on that?<br /><br />The fact the medianiks consider this lingering and now dead cancer called castro a 'folk hero' is all the reason one needs to shut off the marxstream media forever.paul_vincent_zecchinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-10817702127600609052016-11-28T08:52:27.975-05:002016-11-28T08:52:27.975-05:00This morning I went through some twitter posts and...This morning I went through some twitter posts and then the Drudge page, and so far, in the wake of Castro's death, no mention of the havoc Cuba wreaked on Latin America with the export of its miserable left revolutionary ideas. I'm hoping the Diplomad will write about that for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-12432845102524485572016-11-28T00:12:08.557-05:002016-11-28T00:12:08.557-05:00OK...not wanting to commit Threadnomancy, but I...OK...not wanting to commit Threadnomancy, but I'm hoping the above average IQs on this blog can look at this scenario and shoot it down:<br />Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsy initiate a hand recount...something all 3 States have admitted will be impossible to accomplish with a few weeks. The Electoral College meets on the 19th and since those 3 States do not have certified elections they have no voting Electors. This brings Trump below 270, sending the contest to the Congress. Massive Media pressure is put on RINOs and establishment Republicans to side with "the majority" and renounce Trump; perhaps setting up a Clinton/Pence Administration (Pence spending 4 years banished to the VP Residence). Of course if the Republican Congress does choose Trump, then we have The Left and their Media sycophants creating a delegitimizing campaign against Trump as a "Selected, not Elected" POTUS. KellyJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01342332734935313737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-48286763556606747652016-11-27T19:36:37.261-05:002016-11-27T19:36:37.261-05:00Castro's stooge has been in our white house fo...Castro's stooge has been in our white house for nearly a decade!<br />Yeah, I'm just astonished at the brazen stupidity of all this in the media. Next up: paeans to the 'Great Jong Un'.<br /><br />Here's hoping 'the recount' doesn't trigger a civil war here. After nearly a month to settle in with the results, recount-shenanigans aren't going to be accepted by those who voted for the winning side.<br />It's a good time to be stocking up on guns and ammunition, imo.<br /><br />- reader #1482Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-54246803377529412882016-11-27T17:15:48.649-05:002016-11-27T17:15:48.649-05:00I once knew a Cuban-American guy who was both a go...I once knew a Cuban-American guy who was both a good Roman Catholic and a liberal democrat. However, had the devil appeared with a stench of sulphur and promised him a ringside seat where the demons are working over Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he would have signed on the dotted line, I suspect.<br /><br />Their may be official mourning in Havana, but I note there's rejoicing in Miami.<br />Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-13276740707399798322016-11-27T01:36:13.980-05:002016-11-27T01:36:13.980-05:00For any football fans, or even non-fans, check out...For any football fans, or even non-fans, check out this column from the Miami Herald about Colin Kaepernick's unsurprising praise for Castro's Cuba:<br /><br />http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/armando-salguero/article117033883.htmlHarryBrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12314760612207282403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-18892605163885019752016-11-27T00:59:40.517-05:002016-11-27T00:59:40.517-05:00No doubt they will be establishing safe spaces at ...No doubt they will be establishing safe spaces at the State Department for when all the Castro acolytes return from the 4-day holiday.<br /><br />We should not forget Kendall Meyers and his wife. <br />And over at DoD, Ana MontesJK Brownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-16079475973780816732016-11-26T23:25:53.991-05:002016-11-26T23:25:53.991-05:00This will probably resonate well with people from ...This will probably resonate well with people from Florida:<br /><br />Fidel Castro dies and goes to Heaven.<br /><br />“No way,” says St. Peter. “You’re not getting in, not after all that you did.”<br /><br />At this Castro shrugs. “Hay no problema,” he replies and goes down, down, down, all the way to Hell. There he’s greeted by The Devil like an old friend and, before long, the two of them are having a great time together.<br /><br />Suddenly, Castro cries out: “Oh,no! I left my bags at the Gates of Heaven.”<br /><br />“Don’t worry,” says The Devil. “I’ll send a couple of demons to fetch them for you.”<br /><br />Arriving at the Gates of Heaven, the two demons cannot see any sign of either St. Peter, who’s on his lunch break, or the bags. So they decide to climb the gates, in the hope of finding the bags but, while doing so, are seen by a couple of angels.<br /><br />“Oh no,” says one of the angels. “Castro’s not yet been in Hell for two hours, and already we’re getting refugees.”<br /><br />Phil BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-40311566164867688082016-11-26T23:11:16.856-05:002016-11-26T23:11:16.856-05:00Additional steps:
(3a) Liquidate or jail counter-r...Additional steps:<br />(3a) Liquidate or jail counter-revolutionists, dissidents and slackers<br />(3b) Seize control of productive businesses and utilities, 'for the people'<br />(3c) Centralize more control to key revolutionaries<br />(3d) Ensure the key revolutionaries have enough resources to adequately govern the people, including assistants, land, money, and military power<br />(3e) Evaluate progress: if Utopia is achieved, go to step (4), otherwise go to back to step (2). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-49906450185690944282016-11-26T22:55:53.537-05:002016-11-26T22:55:53.537-05:00Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General on Castro's ...Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General on Castro's death: "He was a strong voice for social justice...". Fidel Castro, archetype and hero of the Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) according to the top man in the UN. Just confirms what we already think about SJWs and the UN and their relationship to freedom and support of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-37269392873068635232016-11-26T21:33:54.334-05:002016-11-26T21:33:54.334-05:00I think I'm with Andrew on this one.I think I'm with Andrew on this one.<br />Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-58479353087140191552016-11-26T20:48:50.400-05:002016-11-26T20:48:50.400-05:00Let's not forget that during the Cuban Missile...Let's not forget that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro urged Khrushchev to <i>launch the missiles</i>.Herp McDerpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-10397355571027301662016-11-26T17:55:18.640-05:002016-11-26T17:55:18.640-05:00Greetings from Downunder.
My wife and I visited C...Greetings from Downunder.<br /><br />My wife and I visited Cuba about 10 years ago. We wanted to see it before Cuba and the US eventually made up and the Americans put the place back together again.<br /><br />However, we doubted even you guys would be able to resurrect the place. It was reminiscent of post war Berlin.<br /><br />Poverty, shortages, hard scrabble and dilapidation were our lasting memories. Much much worse than anything we saw in former Eastern Bloc countries or Russia.<br /> <br />Any Western leader who wrings his hands over Castro's death must be a Communist symphasiser and/or a bloody fool.Albatrossnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-6358955145974922012016-11-26T17:24:16.745-05:002016-11-26T17:24:16.745-05:00Headline you will never see: Cuba's wealthiest...Headline you will never see: Cuba's wealthiest Communist dies.fnordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18162961450383608442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-55591324336651271222016-11-26T17:22:58.619-05:002016-11-26T17:22:58.619-05:00Like Ted Kennedy, Fidel is now a good communist.Like Ted Kennedy, Fidel is now a good communist.fnordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18162961450383608442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-75930788432503064072016-11-26T15:44:43.099-05:002016-11-26T15:44:43.099-05:00Diplomad: I hope, please God, that our inept Presi...Diplomad: I hope, please God, that our inept President Obama will restrain himself and not go to the funeral or send the Veep, the SecState or anybody else.<br /><br />I disagree. Barack, Hillary, Bernie, and every socialist in our government should make the pilgrimage to Cuba to mourn that successful Communist (Socialist) dictator. Put them on record. Let us see their tears over the loss of one of their own.<br /><br />Then, explain the misery, violence, and oppression which they mourn.<br /><br />Explain the Communist/Socialist plan:<br />(1) Take control<br />(2) Make people do the correct things, large, small, and micro.<br />(3) Explain all failures as due to not enough: agreement, communication, taxes, detail, enforcement, prisons, executions.<br />(4) Achieve Utopia, however may decades it takes.<br /><br />OOur communists love Castro for implementing the plan, except for (4). (4) was unfortunately limited by Castro's human lifespan. But, give them 10 or 20 lifespans and surely Utopia will arrive. Like Castro, our communists will work tirelessly for the cause, while supported by a grateful state, in the style which rightly belongs to the wise and rightous.<br />Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-65396648393079070132016-11-26T14:34:27.060-05:002016-11-26T14:34:27.060-05:00Not dead enough.
I met some Cubans in Miami that w...Not dead enough.<br />I met some Cubans in Miami that were imprisoned after being captured in Angola by the South Africans. I grew up there and have the accent and they recognized it immediately - they said they were better treated in an apartheid South African military prison than in Cuba....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-67753536511896577822016-11-26T14:07:08.178-05:002016-11-26T14:07:08.178-05:00Actual, here's the real cause of death. Fidel...Actual, here's the real cause of death. Fidel got into a tiff with his brother Raul and tried to flee. He fell off his raft, and such a large cloud of dead fish and crabs arose around him that he was suffocated.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-86946975241108546092016-11-26T14:05:12.155-05:002016-11-26T14:05:12.155-05:00In my short and inglorious diplomatic career, I ra...In my short and inglorious diplomatic career, I ran into people who wore their little Mao buttons while in college and studied the little red book, but a tour in China made them bigger anti-Communists than our esteemed host and myself put together. The uncle for whom I was named helped defeat Hitler in Europe; an uncle-in-law hit conscription age just in time to be put into the Nationalist Chinese army and stop the Communists at Jinmen (Quemoy). I honor their memories for the services they rendered unto civilization both East and West.<br /><br />It is disgusting that the American Left has idolized Fidel Castro so long. I understand a lot of Miamians are saying it's too bad his decease didn't happen a lot earlier. Let's hope his system, which looted one of Latin America's better economies after 1959 and received the equivalent of five Marshall Plans from the Soviets yet remained poor follows its architect shortly.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-27068788553867930032016-11-26T13:55:15.869-05:002016-11-26T13:55:15.869-05:00Contrary to our desires, I'm quite sure Obama ...Contrary to our desires, I'm quite sure Obama will go to Cuba to pay his respects to one of the few that he admired; being a monster was just icing on the cake, that I'm sure gave Obama a thrill.<br /><br />Now if only we could think of a way to keep him there forevermore! (Or at least until it's his turn to go to Hell.)Eskymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947922645001422523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-24113317915126312592016-11-26T13:41:02.787-05:002016-11-26T13:41:02.787-05:00Snap, he should have been stopped early but the pa...Snap, he should have been stopped early but the pass was dropped.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-55561117292421180002016-11-26T12:55:07.062-05:002016-11-26T12:55:07.062-05:00Most people seem to have no idea of the damage don...Most people seem to have no idea of the damage done to the Cuban people by that evil man. Brighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11299215170393879517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-38696702563261180292016-11-26T07:23:58.862-05:002016-11-26T07:23:58.862-05:00The only good Red is a dead one. At long last, Cas...The only good Red is a dead one. At long last, Castro has become a good Red. Cuba Libre!whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-92070153430152329602016-11-26T06:50:28.292-05:002016-11-26T06:50:28.292-05:00Quite liberal friends of mine just visited Cuba. T...Quite liberal friends of mine just visited Cuba. They were, I think, taken aback by the oppressive atmosphere and poverty. They said that they would never go back. Perhaps we should send Bernie and his acolytes there to educate them on the inevitable results of this dangerous ideology?George W. Pottshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15559745926094694653noreply@blogger.com