Fidel Castro: 1926-2016

Drudge:
Exiles pour into Miami streets to celebrate...

News slowly spreads across Havana...
Symbol of an era...
'Ideas of Cuban communists will remain'...
El Comandante...
DEFIED USA FOR 50 YEARS...
'638 assassination attempts'...
Pope grieves, prays for atheist revolutionary...
Journalists Hail Achievements, 'George Washington,' 'Folk Hero'...
Trump says he will do all he can to help Cuban people... 

Cuba's Fidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, has died  "Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90." . . .

President Obama's and Trump's Statements on the Death of Castro Couldn't Be Any More Different  One comment:

Genco Pura @yoxov

@markknoller Not a single word about #Castro crimes and anti-humanitarian totalitarian regime. Typical. Obama is a FAN of Fidel Castro.

Rubio blasts Obama's 'pathetic' Castro statement

"Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) lashed out at President Obama on Saturday for not taking a harsher stance against Fidel Castro in a statement issued after the former Cuban leader’s death.
“ 'President Obama issued a pathetic statement on death of dictator #FidelCastro with no mention of thousands he killed & imprisoned,” Rubio said in a tweet." . . .
"In his statement, Obama took pains to avoid expressing any judgments on Castro’s legacy, acknowledging the “powerful emotions” felt by the Cuban people over the passing of a leader who “altered” the course of many of their lives.

"Meanwhile, Rubio issued his own statement saying that Castro will be remembered as an “evil, murderous dictator who inflicted misery and suffering on his own people.' ”

Trump condemns Castro as 'brutal dictator'

Legal Insurrection: Brutal Dictator Fidel Castro DEAD . . . "In Little Havana in Miami, there was dancing in the street.

"In the real Havana, celebrating his death would likely result in a lengthy prison sentence, so no dancing for them.

"In the left-wing political circles, there was praise for this communist revolutionary.

"In the U.S. media, it was like — let’s remember he instituted free health care!"

Fidel Castro's death cannot bring back his thousands of victims, nor can it bring comfort to their families: https://t.co/hYue5mi69M

Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 26, 2016 

Silvio Canto, Jr.:   A very hot place awaits Fidel

. . . "Third, I will always remember the day we left and the look on my mother's face when the plane took off.

"Most of all, we remember how he destroyed Cuba.  He came to power when Cuba was a very prosperous island with a growing middle class.  It is not that country anymore, as Tim Worstall wrote:" . . .

"What happens now?  This is a great opportunity for President-Elect Trump to demand some real concessions from the island's leadership.

. . . 

"Cuba is screaming for change.  Let's hear it and demand real concessions from Raúl Castro.   

"And please don't insult the memory of so many by sending a big delegation to his funeral.  Stay away and show your respect for the thousands executed by this regime."

‘Kaepernick Weeps For His Idol’: Mike Huckabee Lashes Out at Football Player Over Castro

Gov. Mike Huckabee 
✔@GovMikeHuckabee

Castro dead;C Kaepernick weeps for his idol; wipes tears w/ US flag; stands at attention with hand over heart for Castro. I'll take a knee.

Fidel’s Flatterers: The U.S. Media’s Decades of Cheering Castro’s Communism 
. . . "Yet liberals in the U.S. media — who rightly condemned such abuses when perpetrated by dictators such as Chile’s Augusto Pinochet — inexplicably remain enchanted with Castro and his socialist revolution. For more than five decades, positive profiles of Castro have appeared in U.S. papers." . . .

Statement By President Obama On The Passing of Fidel Castro  ‎ . . . "For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us . . . Emphasis added.

So many posts on Castro; so little time...

Obama goes ‘Full Bernie’: Goldman-Sachs speeches killed millionaire Hillary’s campaign

"In a retrospective mood, staffers said that, as Obama told me, Clinton would have been an “excellent” President, but they also voiced some dismay with her campaign: dismay that she had seemed to stump so listlessly, if at all, in the Rust Belt; dismay that the Clinton family’s undeniable taste for money could not be erased by good works; dismay that she was such a middling retail politician."

Hot Air

"President Barack Obama continues to publicly ponder the after-math of the presidential election that handed the keys to the White House to Donald Trump – a man he claimed was unworthy of the honor of holding the office of president.

"In each revealing interview, the outgoing president drifts a little further away from the politically disciplined and magnanimous reflection he first presented in the intervening days after the historic election.

"In his latest analysis found in the next issue of The New Yorker, Obama appears to have let a bit more of his true feelings about Hillary Clinton and her campaign show than he has up to this point." . . .

But Hillary’s failure in 2016 has the opposite effect for Obama as it did in ’08. This time around, the president campaigned on her behalf and laid his own legacy on the line by stumping with lines like, “All the progress that we’ve made these last eight years,” he said, “goes out the window if we don’t win this election!”

The post-election niceties are starting to disappear in the rear-view mirror and now, since he set the narrative that Trump’s victory would undo his entire presidency, Obama and his surrogates will start sharpening their criticism of Clinton and her failure.

HIDDEN CAMERA: NYC Democratic Election Commissioner, “They Bus People Around to Vote”

Project Veritas

"In a video released by Project Veritas, James O’Keefe exposes what everyone except Democrats have known to be true. There is a lot of voter fraud.

"In the video, NYC Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin is caught on hidden camera at a United Federation of Teachers holiday party admitting that there is widespread voter fraud in New York City.

“ 'Yeah, they should ask for your ID. I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” said Schulkin, who elaborated on the types of voter fraud that are taking place in New York.

"Voter fraud has been labeled as a right-wing myth by the left, but Schulkin, a Democrat, confirmed everyone’s worst fears, going against the grain of his own party.

“ 'You know, I don’t think it’s too much to ask somebody to show some kind of an ID…Like I say, people don’t realize, certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote,” said Schulkin.

"When asked about which type of neighborhoods the busing of voters takes place in, Schulkin confirmed that it was minority neighborhoods, adding, “they get busses and they move people around.”

"Schulkin expressed concern over voter fraud and suggested that Mayor Bill de Blasio was to blame for a lot of the voter fraud taking place in New York City." . . .

Obama Plans to Rule America Outside the White House

"While the leftist rioters in the streets are garnering the most attention, the real threat comes from the network of staffers dubbed Obama Anonymous which are beginning to organize and coordinate. OFA is Obama’s equivalent of the Clinton Foundation."

Daniel Greenfield

"Barack Obama has two faces. After Trump’s victory and Hillary’s defeat, the public Obama has been gracious and diplomatic. His lectures to Trump, directly and indirectly, are couched in praise. He echoed the feeling of millions on both sides when he said, "We are now all rooting for his success”.

"That’s a lie. Or rather a disguise.

"Obama and his aides had, in one insider narrative, decided to don the “mask of decorum”. The contempt for Trump still seeps through the mask. And the mask hides Obama’s next big move.

"President Obama is over. He knows that. There are still some things that he can do before he leaves office, but everything except the most destructive, can be undone by his successor. The next phase of his campaign will not be fought from the White House. It will be fought against the White House .

"The other Obama is emerging in conference calls with his supporters. “One of the challenges that I’ve discovered being president is I’d like to be organizer-in-chief, but it’s hard,” he said in one call.

"Obama can no longer be commander-in-chief. Instead he’s plotting to become organizer-in-chief." . . .

Democratic Loss Hurts Identity Politics Within Party

Charles Krauthammer

"One of the more salutary outcomes of the recent election is that Democrats are finally beginning to question the wisdom of basing their fortunes on identity politics. Having counted on the allegiance of African-Americans, Hispanics, gays, unmarried women and the young — and winning the popular vote all but once since 1992 — they were seduced into believing that they could ride this "coalition of the ascendant" into permanent command of the presidency.

"They're reconsidering now not because identity politics balkanizes society, creates state-chosen favored groups and fosters communal strife. They're reconsidering because it's not working.

"Democrats read the 2008 and 2012 election results as a harbinger of the future. Then came 2016. They now realize that the huge turnout of their constituencies was attributable to Barack Obama, a uniquely gifted campaigner whose aura is not transferable." . . .

Crack Dealer Released Early From Prison By Obama Murders Woman And Her 2 Young Kids…

USA Today

"This is just more blood on Obama‘s hands. In his desperate quest to roll back the sentences of “non-violent” drug felons Obama has created a more dangerous country and a much larger problem.

"Sadly this policy has come back to haunt a mother and her two young children in the most horrific way.

"Obama can’t exit the White House soon enough. The damage he has done to our nation over the last 8 years may never fully be reversed.

"More from Judicial Watch:

A convicted crack dealer who left prison early as part of the Obama administration’s mass release of federal inmates has been indicted by a grand jury for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her two kids in Columbus, Ohio. The gory crime drew national attention because the children, ages 7 and 10, were murdered to eliminate them as witnesses in the brutal massacre of their 32-year-old mother.This week a grand jury in Franklin County returned a 10-count, death-penalty indictment against the ex-con, 35-year-old Wendell Callahan, for the triple murders. Callahan broke into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and stabbed the three victims, according to a statement issued by Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announcing the indictment.

Callahan should have been in jail when the crimes occurred, but he was released four years early because federal sentencing guidelines for crack dealers got reduced. The change is part of President Obama’s effort to reform the nation’s justice system as a way of ending racial discrimination.

Five Reasons Why Mitt Romney Is A Horrible Choice For Secretary Of State

RedState  "There has been a massive level of rumormongering about the possibility that Mitt Romney would be appointed Secretary of State. The Trump transition team seems to be cooling to the idea:" . . .

"Conway is receiving good input, albeit, in may cases for the wrong reasons. Mitt Romney would be a horrible choice for secretary of state. Not because he doesn’t have the talent or experience or character to succeed as America’s top diplomat but because he would be a terrible fit with the Trump administration.

"Romney and Trump are not close. Romney, in fact, is probably not close to anyone on Trump’s team. This is a critical fact. Increasingly, foreign policy is set by the National Security Council. State has input there but the actual decisions are made in the White House. The only influence a secretary of state has over foreign policy is if he has a close personal relationship with the president. The odds are that the chemistry between Trump and Romney would resemble that between Bush and Colin Powell and for a lot of the same reasons.

"Romney and Trump do not share a common worldview. I’m saying this with the realization that Trump’s view of the world is remarkably unformed for a 70-year-old man with extensive business dealings overseas, but Romney, to draw in broad strokes, is internationalist and free trade in orientation, Trump is nationalist and protectionist." . . .

No Hate Crime Charges Against Anti-Trump Attackers in Chicago

Daily Caller  "Four black individuals have now been charged in the brutal beating of a Chicago man, all while clearly shouting “white boy” and “he voted Trump,” yet none of them will be charged with hate crimes.

"In a shocking video of the attack that went viral in the week after Trump’s election, a group of young black males brutally attack David Wilcox, an older white male, screaming “Why would you vote Trump, damn it?” and “You voted Trump?! Damn, he voted Trump.”

"By Wilcox’s own account, after a small car accident, he stepped out of the car to exchange insurance information but was then approached by a black male who said “yeah that’s one of those white boy Trump supporters.”

“ 'The next thing I know, the guy said, ‘Don’t worry about it, we’re going to beat his ass.’ And then punches were thrown and the next thing I know, I have five people on me and I fell to the ground. I was kicked in the head. They were in my car, stealing all my stuff.” Wilcox said.

"He did actually vote for Trump, but the attackers didn’t know that at the time, just assuming he did because he was white, according to Wilcox.

"Four have now been charged with one felony count of vehicular hijacking, according to the Chicago Tribune.

"However, none of them have been charged with hate crimes, despite the victim maintaining the attack was because he was a “white boy Trump supporter.”

"The FBI defines a hate crime as such: 

“ 'A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a ‘criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.’ Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.”

"If the attackers really did target Wilcox for being white, then this attack should fall under the umbrella of a “hate crime,” but apparently not."

Have a blessed Thanksgiving

Rich Terrell

Irony: Ellen DeGeneres Wasn't Allowed Into The White House Because She Forgot I.D.

Katie Pavlich

"Yesterday comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres was in Washington D.C. to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Before making her way into the White House, DeGeneres was held outside because she forgot to bring identification." 

. . . 

"Oopsie.

"President Obama and many of his liberal supporters are opposed to identification requirements for voting, but apparently don't have an issue with identification requirements (even for well-known celebrities) at the White House."

The Pathological Intolerance of the Left

Patricia McCarthy   "A New Mexico CEO, Mathew Blanchfield,  appeared on Tucker Carlson's showWednesday night to defend the letter he posted on his website, 1st in SEO in New Mexico, telling his clients who voted for or support Donald Trump to take their business elsewhere.  In his letter, he calls Trump "racist, sexist, fascist."  He asked his clients to respond and confirm "where you stand politically. If you are a Republican or support Trump, we will no longer serve you."  He wrote that he had a moral obligation then, on the Carlson program, decried Trump's "lack of moral turpitude" for allegedly taking the mainstream press to task over its biased reporting throughout the campaign.  Not only does he not know the meaning of the word "fascist," he does not know the meaning of the word "turpitude."  He thinks he is really, really smart but he is not.  And unfortunately for him, Carlson is smart."

. . ."CNN's Carol Costello, when confronted with a millennial conservative who uttered the words "traditional values" said, "I don't know what that means."  Therein lies the problem.  These people who decide what is news and how it will be reported, and assume their power in deciding who will be elected have no values beyond their political ideology, which is to overturn anything and everything that reeks of traditional values.  Blanchfield, Penzey and Amanpour will of course be celebrated by their peers for their "courageous stand" against Trump and his basket of deplorables.  They don't own bakeries, florist shops or pizza parlors that can be shuttered merely be exercising their freedom of religion." . . . 

Tucker Carlson Confronts CEO Who Refuses to Do Business with Trump Supporters

Colin Kaepernick grilled by Miami Dolphins reporter over Fidel Castro shirt

WaPo

. . . "Kaepernick has been very outspoken this season with his views on American society, even as he has taken over as the 49ers’ starting quarterback and played reasonably well, albeit while his team has plummeted to 1-9. On Wednesday, he fielded another question about reports that his anthem protests, which have been adopted by other players in the NFL — including some Dolphins — as well as athletes in other sports and at other levels of football, are contributing to the NFL’s decline in viewership.

“ 'They’re not watching football because of my stance about fighting systematic oppression and wanting the same equality and freedom for all people,” Kaepernick mused, then added, “I would say they probably need to look in the mirror at what they value. You know, if they’re okay with people being treated unfairly, being abused, being harassed, being terrorized, then the problem is more with what they’re doing in their lives than it is about watching football games.' ” . . .