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DanTex

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3. And the Red Scare returns...

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Fri Feb 28, 2020, 10:00 AM

Feb 2020

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Miami to hold 'anti-Communist' concert after Sanders defends Castro regime [View all] Jose Garcia Feb 2020 OP

Didn't see that coming Rorey Feb 2020 #1

We've so lost Fla. if Sanders gets our nomination. brush Feb 2020 #47

Geez. what the fu8** is wrong with people. riversedge Feb 2020 #2

What people? Cha Feb 2020 #50

And the Red Scare returns... DanTex Feb 2020 #3

It's not a "red scare", how can you say that about these people. Some of them LIVED in Cuba.... George II Feb 2020 #7

i still remember the young cuban girl who immigrated to our town..my age.. samnsara Feb 2020 #12

I knew several Cuban refugees back in the 1970s that I became close friends with..... George II Feb 2020 #13

Thank you George Just_Vote_Dem Feb 2020 #28

Of course you tell yourself that. it can often be difficult to think beyond a juicy t-shirt slogan LanternWaste Feb 2020 #32

They will beat that drum all the way to Election Day and mix in some bucolic_frolic Feb 2020 #4

All those filthy rich who ran out of Cuba when Castro Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #5

Must have been a lot of filthy rich people in Cuba before Castro Jose Garcia Feb 2020 #6

Sometimes the things people say about things they know little about make me shake my head. George II Feb 2020 #9

+++ This is the very reason why Sanders will lose Floida in the primary and General Election if he still_one Feb 2020 #51

I never wrote ONLY the filthy rich. Cuba was a brutal dictatorship filled with corruption and abuse. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #15

Here are some of those "filthy rich" that you speak of.... George II Feb 2020 #8

And Batista was better? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #18

Yes, Batista was better. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #19

I can't believe you wrote that. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #25

Castro was worse: George II Feb 2020 #30

What Rummel counted in Democide were ALL deaths even those due to poverty, bad healthcare or in jail Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #34

I thought Sanders was raving about their healthcare system. George II Feb 2020 #45

You got to remember, when people starve to death under a non-socialist regime... ck4829 Feb 2020 #59

I can't believe he said that either. brutus smith Feb 2020 #31

OMG! - people suffered badly under Batista - he turned Cuba into a police state womanofthehills Feb 2020 #35

And Fidel and his cronies did not do just that IluvPitties Feb 2020 #48

Better? How? If Batista was truly "better", maybe he wouldn't have been ousted in the first place ck4829 Feb 2020 #58

Cubans under Batista were not leaving in droves. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #60

He must have been pretty bad to have been toppled by a sham ck4829 Feb 2020 #61

The cure was worse than the illness itself. IluvPitties Feb 2020 #63

It wasn't just the so-called filthy rich who left Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #14

Batista and a ruined Nation is why people fled. AND I never said ONLY the filthy rich Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #20

Tell that to all Cubans who have perished trying to be free from IluvPitties Feb 2020 #49

Hello - maybe they left Cuba because our embargos left them without basic necessities womanofthehills Feb 2020 #37

Isn't it pretty to think so? n/t Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #54

What about those who are still leaving Cuba? HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #16

Well, the wealth fled. The US has had sanction against the country for decades. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #21

Uh huh HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #22

Answer to what exactly? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #26

People are still leaving Cuba because of our stupid embargos womanofthehills Feb 2020 #38

Righhht HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #44

OK com**** awesomerwb1 Feb 2020 #53

WTF? showblue22 Feb 2020 #24

Do you really think Batista was better? Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #27

I like how a lot of those filthy rich converted cars to boats and lost weight to look hungry. n/t zackymilly Feb 2020 #39

The Castro stigma will be difficult to shake. Dems need to nominate oasis Feb 2020 #10

So saying that Castro was great for education and health care - is a horrible thing to say womanofthehills Feb 2020 #40

Education/indoctrination. Who would know better than those who fled oasis Feb 2020 #42

oh great!! samnsara Feb 2020 #11

Bahahaha HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #17

Thanks, Bernie. AGeddy Feb 2020 #23

I wish they would hold it before our primary. William769 Feb 2020 #29

iirc they tried this when Bill Clinton returned Elian Gozaiel to his father tirebiter Feb 2020 #46

Really nice to see DUers cheering on McCarthyism ibegurpard Feb 2020 #33

Batista was bad enough for the CIA to hire Fidel to overthrow him tirebiter Feb 2020 #36

I've been reading these threads on and off for a few days now... Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #43

Wake me up when there's a communist running for office. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #41

it dosent matter if Sanders is a communist or socialist evertonfc Feb 2020 #52

And some of the remarks here show Vogon_Glory Feb 2020 #57

Reminds me of "Rock Against Communism." David__77 Feb 2020 #55

GusanoFest 2020! samir.g Feb 2020 #56

Saurez is a repugh. Of course he would put on such a concert. Blue_true Feb 2020 #62

For this thread Gothmog Mar 2020 #64