Bernie defends Castro, likely gives Florida to Trump

Everyone on the left likes comrade Bernie Sanders, the Independent Senator from Vermont via Brooklyn, NY. The reason for their love affair for the Democratic presidential frontrunner many say is because he is genuine. Yes, he is, but he's a genuine communist and he makes no bones about it.

On CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, the old, useless commie defended the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro by saying that "it's unfair to simply say everything is bad," in terms of what he did to his people in terms of social welfare programs he introduced to those Cubans he didn't have killed.

In fact, comrade Sanders has never met a communist regime he didn't like.

"We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?" Sanders told Anderson Cooper.

But even this was a lie. There was already a 70 to 80 percent literacy rate in Cuba before Castro came in and forced communism on its people.

In a resurfaced speech given at the University of Vermont in 1986, Sanders praised the socialist policies implemented in Cuba by the Castro regime and criticized bipartisan efforts in the U.S. to tamp down on Castro's spread of communism.

While Sanders said in the new interview he "condemns" any human rights violations Castro committed, he also took aim at President Trump for his unlikely friendships with some dictators or strongman leaders, including North Korea's Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin. 

Except that Trump wasn't praising these idiots for their politics, he was praising them for his ability to "get along" with them, and the fact that he believes they like him personally. Of course, Sanders was trying to use Trump as a distraction from his own political beliefs he held his entire adulthood.

"I do not think that Kim Jong Un is a good friend," Sanders said. "I don't trade love letters with a murdering dictator. Vladimir Putin, not a great friend of mine."

But he does believe in his heart that Putin  "doesn't call . . . he doesn't write."

Sanders went on to define his brand of democratic socialism, which has tapped into a more progressive ideology that has been gaining traction with young voters across the country because they actually believe that stuff is free and Bernie is Santa.

"When Donald Trump was a private businessman in New York, he got $800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury housing. That's called corporate socialism. What democratic socialism is about is saying, 'Let's use the federal government to protect the interests of working families,'" he said, obviously not understanding tax law as he never employed anyone or held a real job outside of government.

Trump has used Sanders' policy initiatives, including "Medicare-for-all" and free college tuition and elimination of student loan debt, to take aim at the senator, even going so far as to properly label him a communist.

Based on the Cuban population in Florida who fled communism, and the retired Jewish population who love Israel, which Sanders has shown he doesn't, he has about as much chance doing well in the state as Cassem Soleimani had in walking away from that drone strike in one piece.

As it turns out, Bernie's pro-Castro remarks have come back to bite him on his old butt with Cuban Americans as he faced widespread backlash late Sunday after the CBS broadcast.

“You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did?” Sanders said. “He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”

"Came into office?" No Bernie, he was not elected--he shot his way into office and lots of Cubans died or escaped his brutal dictatorship.

The literacy program, by the way, was not so much to teach people how to read; it was to teach people to read Communist propaganda. Most already knew how to read, as stated above. In fact, the claim itself was propaganda.

Even the execrable Ana Navarro slammed the 78-year-old commie, tweeting:

Castro regime’s been in power in Cuba for +60 yrs w/o free elections. They’ve killed, jailed, tortured thousands. They confiscated assets, expelled priests & nuns… And let’s be clear, Cubans weren’t exactly communicating by grunts. Most knew how to read. pic.twitter.com/kKGM66a8ci
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro)

Navarro added:

I was in 2nd Grade when Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua. They adopted Cuban education model. The books/curriculum taught ideological indoctrination. Children had to recite communist, revolutionary, anti-American slogans. That’s how communist teach people to read and write.
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) February 24, 2020

Left-wing MSNBC frequent guest Fernand Amandi tweeted out a series of videos showing Sanders’ repeated praise for communist leaders:

Here’s avowed socialist @BernieSanders talking about how President Kennedy made him “want to puke” because JFK stood up to and condemned Fidel Castro’s tyrannical totalitarian regime in Cuba👇🏼pic.twitter.com/qHXTea08Zp
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) February 24, 2020

Here is @BernieSanders TONIGHT defending Fidel Castro’s murderous totalitarian Communist regime in Cuba
Democrats, nominating this man will absolutely re-elect @realDonaldTrump and end our Constitutional republic. pic.twitter.com/vAJX2ffbSQ
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) February 24, 2020

Amandi added:

Here’s a compilation clip of avowed socialist @BernieSanders talking about “how impressed he is,” with Fidel Castro’s murderous, communist totalitarian regime in Cuba👇🏼pic.twitter.com/5xXsXqpeEW— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) February 24, 2020

Christopher Hale, a former Obama staffer, wrote:

Fidel Castro was a dictator and a tyrant. He spent his regime murdering dissidents, imprisoning gay people, separating families from each other, banning the free and open practice of religion, and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.
He’s not worthy of praise.
— Christopher J. Hale (@chrisjollyhale) February 24, 2020

Miami Herald reporter David Smiley wrote:

That’s the sound of Bernie’s Latino voter wave crashing on the shores of Miami https://t.co/FwN64IOlY7
— David Smiley (@NewsbySmiley) February 24, 2020

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted:

Likely Dem nominee praised the supposed “achievements” Castro regime
And he’s wrong about why people didn’t overthrow Castro. It’s not because “he educated their kids,gave them health care” it‘s because his opponents were jailed,murdered or exiled https://t.co/6i41w7zcDe
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2020

But on the bright side, Sanders received an endorsement from Marianne Williamson, a former candidate for the Democratic nomination who dropped out soon after the race began.

Statistician Josh Jordan responded to Sanders as well: 

“On the same day that Bernie Sanders welcomed an endorsement from anti-Vaxxer Marianne Williamson, he’s got a 60 Minutes interview where he praises Castro’s indoctrination… I mean ‘literacy program.’ I can’t wait to see how this plays with swing voters come November.

Democrat Rep. Donna Shalala (FL) tweeted:

I'm hoping that in the future, Senator Sanders will take time to speak to some of my constituents before he decides to sing the praises of a murderous tyrant like Fidel Castro. https://t.co/Iwvmay9LOH pic.twitter.com/KT9sQ0pfkh
— Donna E. Shalala (@DonnaShalala) February 24, 2020 

But my favorite response came from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) whose father is from Cuba, Cruz tweeted:

It really makes a difference when those you murder at the firing squad can read & write. https://t.co/4DKbSKpI6t— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 24, 2020

Hopefully Floridians will finally see through the Sanders facade and the lie that he only wants Scandinavian-style socialism. The guy is a full-blown communist who was kicked off a commune as a young man because he refused to do the required work. 

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Bernie blows it in Florida over Venezuela

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It's amazing that voters think that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a decent person because he's honest when he speaks about being a socialist, and acts as if socialism is a moral political philosophy. [Hint: it isn't--socialism and Communism are directly responsible for over 100 million deaths in the world.]

And socialism is being played out in Venezuela under dictator Nicolas Maduro, a former bus driver. In fact, his soldiers killed two and wounded others in a standoff today and he refuses to allow food supplies to enter the country to feed the people. They eat dogs with a side of grass in the meantime and who knows what they're using for toilet paper.

Sanders is running for president in the 2020 primary, but it isn't looking good for the old geezer in Florida. 

Miami Democratic Congresswoman Donna Shalala said Thursday that Sanders "is not going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party." She is echoing what others in her state are saying after Sanders refused to denounce Maduro as a dictator or affirm Juan Guaidó as the legitimate interim leader of Venezuela. 

On Tuesday, Univision's Jorge Ramos asked Sanders if he thinks Maduro is a dictator and if he should "go." Sanders hemmed and hawed and then said, "I think clearly he has been very, very abusive. That is a decision of the Venezuelan people. So I think, Jorge, there's got to be a free a fair election."

Then the old fart crap-weasel did what he loves to do--he bashed the United States of America. "But what must not happen is that the United States must not use military force and intervene again as it has done in the past in Latin America, as you recall, whether it was Chile or Brazil or the Dominican Republic or Guatemala. The United States has a very bad record of intervening in Latin American countries. This must not happen again. The future of Venezuela must be left to the Venezuelan people."

Sanders was then asked if he would recognize Guaidó as the interim leader of the country. He answered, "No." 

He then pussy-footed over the "serious questions" about the legitimacy of the election that resulted in dictator Maduro maintaining power. "There are many people who feel it was a fraudulent election," said the Brooklyn-born senator, refusing to say if he is among those "many people." [Having an opinion as a Democrat is very dangerous, except when it comes to deciding who the racists are in the country. Guess.]

For many Democrats in Miami, Sanders just bought the farm--of course, being Sanders, he bought it with taxpayer money. The Hispanic community in Florida will not vote for a weasel whisperer who refuses to call out Latin American dictators--they've had their fill with the Castro brothers. 

Rep. Shalala has recently filed legislation to assist Venezuelans fleeing Maduro's socialist regime and economic crisis that his socialist policies have made even worse since coming into power.

Speaking to Politico, Shalala said of Sanders: "He is not going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. He has demonstrated again that he does not understand this situation. I absolutely disagree with his imprecision in not saying Maduro must go."

"Helena Poleo, a former journalist and Democrat from Venezuela is also a Spanish-language commentator. She called Sanders comments 'disgusting. The Florida Democratic Party needs to denounce this now,'" Politico reports.

Democratic State Sen. Annette Taddeo (Miami) said she was "dumbfounded" by Sanders' response, Politico reports. "He’s obviously clueless," she said, questioning if he's been fully briefed on the situation. [The problem isn't that Sanders wasn't briefed, the problem is that he is a socialist and has the moral equivalency of the scavenger pilot fish feeding off a shark.]

The Democratic Party of Florida issued an "unequivocal" statement. Although it doesn't name Sanders, it directly counters his comments: "Florida Democrats have been unequivocal: We recognize Juan Guaidó as the President of Venezuela, denounce the legitimacy of the Maduro regime and his efforts to remain illegally in power," the party said in a statement. (Read Politico's full report here.)

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