Thanks for sharing this. I was anticipating some stories about Cuban cigars, Cuban rum, possibly stories about coke and rum and hookers. What's possible there now? I heard that cubans are now allowed to travel and buy property.

Yeah, the Hoff. He honesty thinks he brought down the iron curtain single handedly with that video/song.

This is what freedom looks like in America now apparently. Shop owners get robbed, its getting really bad:



Or in L.A attacks by mentally ill homeless are getting common.

The report is a bit disgusting but it's all happening.

At least Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has the good sense to not even live in the district that she represents.

full disclosure: Her beautiful home used to be in her district, but re-districting placed it in a different district. I think she has a couple of other homes, but either they are not in the district she represents or they are in a part of her district not sufficiently luxurious for her and her husband.

I'm sure Rep. Pelosi, et. al. are enjoying their posh living while regular folk are suffering.

I thought that is what all politicians do. Pelosi I honestly don't know wtf she is doing. She seems too old for politics in fact any job as she is 80? seems to come from a family of politicians. She is Italian American, so I am assuming her family was connected? I don't know anything else about her other than she's one of your big kahunas.

Since you were pointing fingers at Cuba for violations of human rights, what about Saudi Arabia?

Not knowledgeable enough? I know as much as anyone about Cuba, maybe slightly more since it is of interest to me and I don't think i have ever heard about violations of human rights in Cuba. Logic dictates that, but we dont hear about it too often in the news. Could the reason for that be that the cubans are generally happy? Yeah we know the people have it bad, but bad as in bad as Saudia Arabia? What about the women that get abused every day? Or what about the people that they bomb?

On the other hand, we hear constantly about human right violations in Saudi Arabia. And these must be 100x worse than what the Cubans do. Which you seem to ignore or not even mention. Im calling bs here.

Back to babbling nonsense again, I see.

Huh???

I agree with you that Ms.Pelosi is one of our "big kahunas." I mean, her being Speaker of the House, and all.

She is 81 years old. That's retirement age from where I come from. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

She is old money, her family was big in politics for generations. If you know something about history you should know that the mob had some kind of power over politicians esp in NY and Chicago, right? She is from an Italian family... you babbling nonsense thats all just a hunch but I did some research just so you can't say im babbeling nonsense now and found this.

Fbi files on pelosis
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbth...opics/15834480

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/na...-crime-family/

https://247sports.com/college/west-v...631847/?page=1

Well anyways I'm on my internet break now. Too many people babbling too much nonsense...

Have a good one!

You claimed that she was too old for any job. And what does "retirement age" mean, anyway? Some people retire at 55, and some people never retire.

I'll check out your links. And I consider the stereotyping of nationalities as a case of babbling. But, maybe that's just me.

Have a good day, sir!

I had no idea she was that old. LOL octogenarians.

And yet she doesn't look a day over 79-and-a-half.

Perhaps we can discuss human rights violations in Saudi Arabia in the Mass Protests Break Out in Saudi Arabia thread.

They really need an upper age limit for Congress and the SC.

Pelosi's cognitive decline is far greater than Biden and even Trump's but few talk about it out of fear of being criticized for being mean to women.

Bill Mahar calls my type of comment 'the last allowed bigotry... old-ageism' but that is wrong as they get to keep their jobs, they just don't get to escape rightful critique. It is young people who the system is prejudiced against. Why can you run for POTUS at age 80+ but not age 34? Sure some 34 year old's are not mature enough just as some 80+ are not competent. Let the voter sort them out, if you are going to allow no limits at the top end.

One of Old peoples greatest fears, as they age is losing their purpose, their social group, and their reason to get up every morning. That is why you see these octogenarians cling on to these jobs long beyond they should.

^This

When my grandmother was 80 I could not imagine her being in the shark cage of politics.

+1 on SC. Voters can vote an oldster out, so no upper age limit for Congress.

I could be wrong, but I doubt that that is the reason for the lack of criticism.

My belief is that if someone is old enough to be a soldier, then that person is old enough to run for President.

This!!!

Official retirement age in Europe is 63 or 64 fwiw.

Im not stereotypical when I say the mafia had some kind of power, probably still has. And I love the Italians, I just found out that half of my family came from Italy. But to say the italians were not involved in some crrazy stuff is wrong too. The Vatican and the mafia did some crazy ****, look at vegas history.

Anyways I don't trust Pelosi when she says her 100M + fortune came from her husband investing heavily into Facebook and Apple etc. She definetly is lying there imo.

And her brother was involved in a rape: reddit is going nuts over this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/...ments_view_all

'Organized crime cannot exist without public corruption"

'Jfk ordered the fbi to investigate her father'

https://amp.reddit.com/r/Mafia/comme...re_mafia_ties/

But it is stereotypical to imply that an Italian-American in politics "probably" has ties to the Mafia.

I don't trust Ms. Pelosi either. But then, I don't trust hardly any politician in either party.

Well, if "reddit is going nuts" over something, I'm all over it! (Yes, I'm being sarcastic again.)

Well said!

Will check out that link, too. Thanks for sharing it.

Sure, check out this link too: https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/15865845/

'President Kennedy Asked the FBI to Look Into Speaker Pelosi’s Father for Connections to the Mob – Documents Quietly Released Last Week Confirm This'

To be fair, trump was also tied to the mafia.

is Pelosi that bad? I had not noticed. you may be thinking of Feinstein whose staffers have been talking **** about her saying she forgets things after approx 30s.

In terms of decline, which would be defined as a 'clear identifiable downward slope from their younger self to their current self' I think Pelosi shows the worst, Trump the next, and Biden the least.

When you pull up broad spectrum of videos of their younger selves speaking and compare that to what you see now, it is hard not to see Pelosi as the worst of those 3.

Pelosi in 2007 when first elected to Speaker



I don't even need to pull up a current one as I don't think anyone could cherry pick any interview or speech with her now that does not show the decline. Any random YouTube video would do.

How Trump like!

Your knowledge of Cuba is very poor if you are unfamiliar with their human rights violations and the authoritarian nature of their single party government.

This isn't a Saudi Arabia thread and the claim I made about Saudi was much weaker than the one you made on Cuba, done to illustrate a purpose that went over your head. I said I would rather go to or live in Saudi Arabia than some of the nations in it's region like Yemen. The government in Saudi is awful and perpetuates many human rights violations but it's relatively safe. That's an analogue of Cuba which you were laughably claiming anybody would choose over any other country in central or south america.

A. If you lived in jemen you would get bombed and probably killed by the sauds. (On accident)

B. Saudi Arabia is only a safe county because they have all the power and the weapons. They abuse that power greatly.

C. My anology went over your head. I wouldn't really pick Cuba over any other country in Latin America. I probably wouldn't consider any country there. But if i had to it would be one of the safest options. I only made that argument to show you how relatively good of a country it is, despite all that.

This thread is about Cuba, and you're right the gov sucks and has major problems. I never liked the Castro's fwiw. Of course I knew the flaws of that system.

The crazy thing is, they are probably better off than people in Haiti or some other place.

Maybe get your story straight first.

Dream on! That ain't gonna happen. Washoe kinda all over the map in virtually every thread he posts in.