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What did Trump say on seeing Kerry in Havana this morning? (Original Post) malaise Aug 2015 OP
When can I open a casino? LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #1
Exactly. The irony, of course, is that casinos WILL return. WinkyDink Aug 2015 #2
It kind of makes you sick, doesn't it? LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #5
And your experience IN Cuba is?? Mika Aug 2015 #14
Many don't understand Cuba malaise Aug 2015 #15
Nice to see that you think so little of Cuban's ability to run their own nation. Mika Aug 2015 #13
That's too obvious malaise Aug 2015 #3
''Cuban women love me.'' Octafish Aug 2015 #16
Ha malaise Aug 2015 #17
I ripped off Lunatica. Octafish Aug 2015 #19
Everytime I see his mouth, I'm reminded of the giant squid in "20,000 Leagues..." Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #25
This one? Octafish Aug 2015 #27
That 's the one. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #28
BINGO! Octafish Aug 2015 #4
I wonder who will handle all the auctioning LuvNewcastle Aug 2015 #10
The long game. Octafish Aug 2015 #12
Yep. Esp. ones with donkey shows. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #24
''Do Cuban doctors do hairplugs?'' Octafish Aug 2015 #6
HA! whathehell Aug 2015 #7
The answer - Well you came closest malaise Aug 2015 #21
The guy is amazingly shameless. Octafish Aug 2015 #22
Bwaaaaaaah malaise Aug 2015 #23
"I'm yuger than cuba" nt gwheezie Aug 2015 #8
Not allowed at his golf club. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #9
The Cubans Love Me! I do many things for the Cubans! lunatica Aug 2015 #11
I think I have an idea on what he w o u l d say. ananda Aug 2015 #18
Way more humorous malaise Aug 2015 #20
I'll try to be Trump for a minute: nilesobek Aug 2015 #26

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
5. It kind of makes you sick, doesn't it?
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:29 AM
Aug 2015

The revolution did accomplish some good things, but money is going to flood into the country and it will be worse than it was under Battista. Greed and vice will take over again.

 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
14. And your experience IN Cuba is??
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:17 PM
Aug 2015

Are you a right wing Cuba studies "expert" too? How the hell do you come up with this bigoted shit?
Cubans run Cuba. Cubans are well versed in American hegemony - much more so than Americans. So, rest easy. It'll be OK.


malaise

(269,063 posts)
15. Many don't understand Cuba
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:31 PM
Aug 2015

too much brainwashing.

Anyway - come on folks - use your imagination and deliver my answer.

I wll give the answer at 4.00pm ET.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
19. I ripped off Lunatica.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:57 PM
Aug 2015

You know the Number One Rule of Journalism: Don't avert your eyes, plagiarize.



"Me pasting is Sue's pasta."

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. BINGO!
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:25 AM
Aug 2015

Meyer Lansky opened his own bank there to handle the money they moved across to safety in Switzerland.

If Donald needs help, Phil Gramm and his chums at UBS have updated the process for the 21st century.

LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)
10. I wonder who will handle all the auctioning
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:49 AM
Aug 2015

of property there. That's an ugly thing to watch. After Katrina, all these assholes came here to Biloxi to snatch up property and flip it, because they knew that the laws would change and land-based gaming would be legal (up until then we'd only had downside gambling). People had lost everything, but all those vultures could think about was turning a profit from the disaster. I really feel terrible for Cuba. In a lot of ways, they have been sheltered for the past 50 years. They never had control, and now they never will, most likely.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
12. The long game.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 11:04 AM
Aug 2015

It is my fervent hope that we get a more illuminated leadership over the coming decades. The Cubans have a great many things to teach the USA. It is my belief, however, that your analysis is correct, LuvNewcastle. The money has corrupted just about everyone with power.

During the Crash of '08 here in Detroit, property values dropped 50% for us in ''working neighborhood'' suburb. Lots of people also lost their jobs around then, meaning they lost everything. People literally walked away from their mortgages and now have nothing. Banksters and the house flipping set have had a field day. Now they're gentrifying the downtown and working out...urban farmers, right. I mean, "Right arm!"

Take UBS, please. The bank which received many tens or hundreds of billions in bailout funds (Oh, trust us, we paid it back!) hired former Sen. Phil Gramm as vice chairman, who later brought onboard former President Bill Clinton, who signed the repeal of Glass-Steagall Gramm had spearheaded through Congress, and former pretzeldent and stooge for War Inc George W Bush to serve in "Wealth Management."

http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

Poor Cuba. It's likely that withing two decades, the people will have to pay for the privilege of living in their former homes. UBS and Goldman Sachs, through their, ah, representatives will see to that.

malaise

(269,063 posts)
21. The answer - Well you came closest
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:11 PM
Aug 2015

So what did Trump say about Kerry?
Trump mocked Kerry for falling off his cycle at 73...this is the follow up (my imagination)

"I'm the billionaire - everyone loves me so how come the 'most incompetent negotiator' has better hair than the great Donald".

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
22. The guy is amazingly shameless.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:19 PM
Aug 2015


Tribble Head's hooked into the American Kardashian mindset as if he'd done a Vulcan mind meld on Roger Ailes.

ananda

(28,867 posts)
18. I think I have an idea on what he w o u l d say.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 12:48 PM
Aug 2015

Maybe something like: Kerry and the Obama administration
are weak in the knees on Communism.

My administration would beat Cuba and the Castros into the
ground. If I was at the same podium with Castro, I would
knock him out!

nilesobek

(1,423 posts)
26. I'll try to be Trump for a minute:
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:42 PM
Aug 2015

"Kerry is a big loser, he lost the election in 2004. I seriously doubt he could get a job in the private sector, that's why he's worked for government most of his life."

"Kerry's wife Teresa loves me and all I do for women, you see, I'm all about women, I have a beautiful daughter who tells me what women want and I give it to them. She will be in my cabinet."

"What is Kerry doing negotiating with Commie Castro? He's and idiot, a blunderer, an empty vessel and what has Kerry done about illegal Cuban immigration? Nothing!" And so on...

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