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Cruz: "Look my father was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba, I hate communist- it was actually Batista that tortured my dad..."

Fucking incredible lmao.

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

keep in mind that for these people, communism = "anything I don't like", which for many includes anyone brown

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes sense. It's why Biden is a communist lol.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

VP to Obama, the supreme communist leader. Only a communist liberal could do that job. That's how joe Brandon won, the communist elite and the communist corporations were all on his side.

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

We should really get around to redistribute the wealth of those woke commie corporations and billionaires back to the people smh my head

[–] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

I don't believe Ted Cruz is that lost in his own sauce. He's evil and bumbling, but I think he knows what communism is. Cruz may be an unholy assemblage of cockroaches in human form, but he knows who his masters are and what kind of words he has to say to placate the hogs.

He's not dumb, he's slime.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 43 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

him and marco rubio, both. gusanos, man...

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is somehow worse. Gusano implies their parents fled the communists, but these two are disrespecting the comrades that brought justice to their fathers' oppressor (I have no idea what their parents did under Batista and maybe they were still bourgie shits that just got on the wrong side of Batista).

[–] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Rafael (Ted's dad) claims that he was a part of the Cuban revolution, and that was why Batista tortured him. The idea being that he suffered and fought for the revolution, so he is an authority when it comes to criticizing Fidel for betraying the revolutionaries and becoming a new dictator.

There is no evidence he was a revolutionary, though, his account has glaring mistakes about the time and place of major events he was supposedly at, and people who knew him back in Cuba said he just did some anti-Batista graffiti as the extent of his involvement.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

SMH stolen valor

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean what's a little torture among friends? but Castro took my granddad's egg monopoly

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Not the egg monopoly!

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

His dad claims he joined the revolution, but it's possible he's full of shit. I personally don't think it makes that much sense for him to lie, because it's not like being part of Castro's bunch is something that gets you respect in the US.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

It gains you the ability to say "no one knows how bad Castro was as me, I was there" it's the yeonmi park role

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

Cubanos made in Miami

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 24 points 3 weeks ago
[–] btbt@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

I especially like the part where the crabs clamped their claws down on the professor’s testicles

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good. His dad probably deserved it

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

He deserves it too.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it sounds like he lost favor with the Bautista regime and tried running to the revolution for protection

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Reminds me of the Chapelle Rick James bit

"Nah, I was tortured by the communists....but I do remember being tortured by the capitalists"

Also fuck Dave Chappelle

Damn so was it a hell in a cell match or did Batista just kick his ass that badly ?