Andrea Mitchell Agrees With Bernie: 'There's a Lot of Great Things to Say' About Cuba

[rangerrebew]

Andrea Mitchell Agrees With Bernie: 'There's a Lot of Great Things to Say' About Cuba
By Alex Christy | February 26, 2020 10:37 AM EST

Toward the end of her Tuesday show on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell decided to echo Bernie Sanders and praise the state of communist Cuba. After that, she questioned Michael Bloomberg's "really snarky tweets jumping on Sanders" for his fondness for Fidel Castro. She was more offended by that than Bernie's actual embrace of the dictator.

Mitchell began by telling Margaret Carlson of The Daily Beast, "I covered Cuba for years, there's a lot of great things to say about their social services, their education, their health system." Great things include Potemkin clinics for foreigners, high abortion rates to help the government fudge statistics, and the sending of doctors to work in slave-like conditions in foreign countries for propaganda purposes. As for education, how "great" can it when the government heavily censors material?

She seemed much more concerned about the political ramifications of being "controversial", asking "has Sanders stepped into something in that it is controversial with voters in Florida, a lot of people."



 
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[rangerrebew]

They are, of course, correct.  If you like cars over 20 years old, it is heaven.  If censorship is your thing, go to Cuba.  If you like crumbling infrastructure, Cuba is for you.

[verga]

They are, of course, correct.  If you like cars over 20 years old, it is heaven.  If censorship is your thing, go to Cuba.  If you like crumbling infrastructure, Cuba is for you.

Don't forget the rationed health care.

[goatprairie]

They are, of course, correct.  If you like cars over 20 years old, it is heaven.  If censorship is your thing, go to Cuba.  If you like crumbling infrastructure, Cuba is for you.

It's a lot warmer in Cuba during January than it is in Wisconsin. Then there's...uh...then we can talk about....uh..................it's a lot warmer in Cuba in February than it is in Wisconsin.

[mortarman]

An' don't ya jus' love how to show their magnanimity they dump their prisons an' mental hospitals on the streets of America.

 

[GtHawk]

An' don't ya jus' love how to show their magnanimity they dump their prisons an' mental hospitals on the streets of America.

 

Uhh, aren't you confusing the Democrats with the Cuban regime?

[XenaLee]

They are, of course, correct.  If you like cars over 20 years old, it is heaven.  If censorship is your thing, go to Cuba.  If you like crumbling infrastructure, Cuba is for you.

And if you like being a doctor... but not being able to afford a new pair of shoes... and have to rely on your sister, who escaped to the USA, to provide them for you.

[Applewood]

People who rave about Cuba never actually lived there.    Oh, they may have visited, but one never knows what a country is really like until and unless more than a week is spent there.  This is true of any country.  Visitors are only shown what government and tour operators want them to see. 

[verga]

People who rave about Cuba never actually lived there.    Oh, they may have visited, but one never knows what a country is really like until and unless more than a week is spent there.  This is true of any country.  Visitors are only shown what government and tour operators want them to see.

I have suggested to my idiot BIL that if he thinks Socialism is so great he might actually consider spending a year or two in Venezuela. He never answers me, I don't understand.

[mortarman]

Uhh, aren't you confusing the Democrats with the Cuban regime?

Ain't they the same thing?

 

[PeteS in CA]

Mao did great things for literacy in China. Hitler created the autobahns (= freeways). Stalin got canals dug.

[goatprairie]

Mao did great things for literacy in China. Hitler created the autobahns (= freeways). Stalin got canals dug.

Pol Pot eased the housing shortage in Cambodia.

[Applewood]

I have suggested to my idiot BIL that if he thinks Socialism is so great he might actually consider spending a year or two in Venezuela. He never answers me, I don't understand.

I've tried to make that point to a number of Bernie supporters and other advocates of "free stuff" socialism.  They don't have much of an answer either.  However, there was one friend whose answer was "well, America is different."  The attitude seems to be that socialism failed in some countries because they didn't do it right.  But America is smarter and socialism will somehow work better here than in Venezuela, Cuba or the other hellholes.

[Free Vulcan]

Can you imagine if this were an island of fundamentalist Christians living in this kind of authoritarian setup and the primitive economic conditions?

Yes kids, Sanders, Mitchell, supporters and their little worker bees are in a cult.

[LMAO]

The attitude seems to be that socialism failed in some countries because they didn't do it right. 

That's being the belief of socialists for over 100 years

[mortarman]

Does anybody know how to make socialism work? I don't think so.

 

[catfish1957]

Andrea Mitchell Agrees With Bernie: 'There's a Lot of Great Things to Say' About Cuba

And just think.  This communist sympathizer was married and sleeping with one of the most powerful men in the world.  (Fed Chairman)

[verga]

I've tried to make that point to a number of Bernie supporters and other advocates of "free stuff" socialism.  They don't have much of an answer either.  However, there was one friend whose answer was "well, America is different."  The attitude seems to be that socialism failed in some countries because they didn't do it right.  But America is smarter and socialism will somehow work better here than in Venezuela, Cuba or the other hellholes.

And THAT right there sums up the entire problem, everyone thinks that as 'MERICAN's we can do it right. Well we are doing ti right, we believe in equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.

[goatprairie]

The glorification of socialism by adults indicates arrested mental development.
It's like the kids  in grade school who are told by their teachers about everybody playing together and sharing things. They're like little kids who still think if nobody has anymore than anybody else, what a wonderful world it would be. John Lennon's "Imagine." Except Lennon never shucked all his worldly goods.
The people i.e. liberals who still profess their love for socialism would never live under the  strictures of socialist Cuban-style authoritarianism. When they spout off about their hatred for the U.S. and actually leave for another country, it's almost always a western country that isn't too different from America.
Hey, but socialism is  great for other people....just not for them.

[sneakypete]

You almost never see fat people in Cuba! Must be the healthy diets,huh?

[sneakypete]

Uhh, aren't you confusing the Democrats with the Cuban regime?

@GtHawk

There's a difference?

[sneakypete]

Pol Pot eased the housing shortage in Cambodia.

@goatprairie

True dat! Also helped gardening with piles of bones.

[sneakypete]

Does anybody know how to make socialism work? I don't think so.

 

@mortarman

Sure thing. Make sure you are in the leadership,and you won't want for anything.

[Smokin Joe]

Don't forget the innovative prisons...
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