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#TheBenShapiroShow #News #Politics #DailyWiremassive pro-freedom demonstrations break out in cuba the united states continues its ill-advised withdrawal from afghanistan and kamala harris thinks rural people don't have photocopiers i'm ben shapiro this is the ben shapiro show the ben shapiro show is sponsored by expressvpn you have a right to privacy defend your rights at expressvpn.com ben we'll get to all the news in just one moment first here is your reminder look at that cell phone bill you're spending way too much money on it if you're with verizon or att or t-mobile you're paying too much pure talk and save your family over 800 a year you get the same great coverage because pure talk is on the exact same network as one of the big three but at a fraction of the price and switching is as easy as switching out your sim card you can keep your phone keep your number or get huge discounts on the latest iphones and androids plus right now you can get unlimited talk text and six gigs of 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puretalk usa alrighty so at long last there is a an actual on the ground revolution going on in cuba it's being described as unprecedented by nearly everybody who's been watching cuban politics for the last several decades we were talking massive protests in the streets of this totalitarian dictatorship i had the opportunity just a couple of weeks ago to go down to miami and speak with many of the leaders in the cuban dissident movement to our expatriates here in the united states and speak to some of the dissidents on the island itself actually during one of the phone calls that i was holding with a dissident in cuba this this dissident he and i were speaking about what exactly this is all about spoiler alert it was not just about vaccines charges which as we'll see is the media spin on this thing it is about the brutal communist dictatorship that has repressed nearly all personal freedom on the island it is a cross-political movement in cuba it is not just a bunch of sort of reaganite right-wingers it is it is it is everybody who wants to see personal liberty win the people who are leading this movement have deliberately kept it apolitical many of these people are artists who have a left word bent on politics but they understand the difference between being left with regard to some economic matters and also recognizing that you have to have human freedom in any case i was speaking with this dissident on the phone and the cuban security services cut off the call with a pre-recorded message explaining that the call had been cut off because it violated security protocols in cuba that is what kind of a country cuba is that's what that regime is and that's why it was so evil frankly for the united states under barack obama to try to make nice with raul castro those pictures of barack obama holding hands with raul castro going to baseball games with raul castro standing in front of giant buildings with emblems of che guevara one of the great mass murderers of the 20th century behind him it was a disgrace to the united states and unbecoming of any president of the united states to participate in so far the biden administration has been completely silent on all of this i've yet to see a statement at least as of monday morning from the biden administration on protest that had been rocking the island of cuba since saturday according to the new york times shouting freedom and anti and other anti-government slogans which by the way should tell you all you need to know about cuba if freedom is an anti-government slogan in cuba that says something about the nature of the government shouting freedom and anti and other anti-government slogans thousands of cubans took to the streets and cities around the country on sunday to protest food and medicine shortages in a remarkable eruption of discontent not seen in nearly 30 years again this is a deliberate misconstruction by the new york times it is not just about food and medicine shortages cuba has had food and medicine shortages for quite a while and by the way i was reliably informed by all of the international communities most trusted sources that cuba has one of the best medical systems on the planet why should they have medicine shortages i was told that their nationalized health care system by michael moore no less no less a source than michael moore he made an entire movie talking about the wonders of the cuban healthcare system there shouldn't be i mean it's a communist paradise there shouldn't be any food or medicine shortages over there that's not really what it's about it's the fact that they have been imprisoning dissidents they've been imprisoning young artists they've been imprisoning college students over there thousands of people marched through san antonio de las pagnos southwest of havana with videos streaming live on facebook for nearly an hour before they suddenly disappeared why why why would they disappear this is a this is a beautiful left-wing communist dictatorship what is the problem as the afternoon wore on other videos appeared from demonstrations elsewhere including palma soriano in the country's southeast hundreds of people also gathered in havana itself where a heavy police presence proceeded their arrival people are dying of hunger one woman shouted during a protest filmed in the province of artemisa in the islands west our children are dying of hunger one clip circulating on twitter showed protesters overturning a police car in cardenas 90 miles east of havana another video showed people looting from one of the much detested government-run stores which still wildly overpriced items and currencies most cubans do not possess because as it turns out communism just sucks it's just terrible and i know that bernie sanders had this sort of warm feeling about breadlines and i know that the democratic socialists of america the folks like alexander ocasio-cortez who have never spent an instant living under communist repression have a very soft spot for communist dictatorship i get it but let's be real living under communist dictatorship absolutely sucks there's a reason that since the rise of the castro regime in the late 50s tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people have fled the island of cuba there's a reason why people will take the risk of putting their children on floating cars and attempting to float to 90 miles from cuba to the to the south tip of florida there's a reason for that as the new york times reports in a country known for repressive crackdowns on dissent the rallies were widely viewed as astonishing activists and analysts called it the first time so many people had openly protested against the communist government since the so-called malaconazole uprising which exploded in the summer of 1994 into a huge wave of cubans leaving the country by sea and there is another sort of wave coming is sort of the widely expected response by the government because the government either is going to imprison everyone or beat up everyone or expel everyone and so the united states should be ready to take in cuban patriots who are attempting to overthrow the repressive regime that has condemned their country to living in the 1950s under zero freedom for literally three generations at this point carolina bararo a cuban activist went even further she said it is the most massive popular demonstration to protest the government we've experienced in cuba since 1959. she called the public outpouring on sunday spontaneous frontal and forceful she said what has happened is enormous so what exactly is the new york times take on this is it absolutely predictable it's not because of the cuban government you see it's because of the west it's because the west has been so mean to cuba yes we've had an embargo on cuba for 60 years but it really is just because we're embargoing them now under it's donald trump's fault that all this is happening otherwise everybody would be super happy with the cuban regime so terrible that people have been living in abject poverty for three generations and are still driving around 1955 chevys the protests were set off by a dire economic crisis in cuba where the coronavirus pandemic has cut off crucial tourism dollars people now spend hours in line each day to buy basic food items many have been unable to work because restaurants and other businesses have remained on lockdown for months now what's so weird about that you may have noticed is that all we heard from the american press is how horrible america's response to the coronavirus was because we're a capitalist country oh our capitalist institutions are failing oh we need more state intervention cuba is a completely state-run system and it's a giant fail when it comes to kovid the desperate conditions have triggered an uptick in migration by both land and sea since the start of the fiscal year last october the us coast guard has intercepted more than 512 cubans at sea compared with 49 for the entire previous year on saturday the coast guard suspended the search for nine cuban migrants whose vessel overturned at sea off key west florida again the enormous risk that people take simply attempting to they literally take like buoys and then just try to float themselves 90 miles you know how horrific your living conditions have to be in order for you to try that would you try that with your kids would you try that that's how bad things are in cuba and we've allowed that communist dictatorship to stand for nion 60 years more than 60 years at this point which is a disgrace to the united states and disgrace to the western world period that that regime is a disgrace to the western world and the fact the united states has allowed a tin pot dictatorship to flourish off its coast threatening america by the way in the middle of the cold war for for 60 years it just demonstrates how little willing the united states actually is to project power get some more of this in just one second 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the american flag so this just struck me forcibly last night one of the videos that was coming out of cuba was protesters and you'll notice that one of the flags that they are carrying around is the american flag you can see it in this photo there they are carrying around the american flag and this this is not a shock okay this is it they're shouting libertad cuba they're they're talking about freedom and they're carrying around american flags because everywhere on earth that you go where you find people who want freedom they are not carrying the flag of the russians or the chinese or the swedes or the brits or the french or the germans they are carrying the american flag and it is not true merely in cuba it is true in places like hong kong there's footage from hong kong you'll remember just before the chinese crushed the hong kong dissident movement you'll recall that there were members of the hong kong district movement and they were carrying the american flag that is not a shock again the the rule is that if you are a dissident who seeks freedom america is your beacon the american flag is your symbol again here is the footage from just about a year ago when hong kong dissidents were marching in the streets carrying the american flag [Music] there is a reason they are pushing the american flag there's a reason they're flying the american flag again no other country has its flag flown as a symbol of freedom around the planet none zero zip zilch again from cuba to hong kong wherever communist tyranny reigns those who stand up to it carry the american flag not just communist tyranny by the way in iran when you have dissidents who are standing up to islamic dictatorship you will see that protesters dissidents refuse to step on the american flag this is an amazing video from just a couple of years ago where dissidents were protesting against the iranian regime and they were they were stepping around the american flag the iranian regime had painted the american flag on the pavement and the dissidents instead of disrespecting and walking on the american flag decided to walk around the american flag to demonstrate that they were not anti-america they were actually pro-america i mean that's amazing stuff right there okay the contrast between that and the number of americans who hate and spit on the american flag is truly astonishing and so i have a proposal one for one trade every single dissident who wants to fly the american flag and believes in american freedom for all of the americans who spit on the american flag and see it as a symbol of repression and evil how about that will we make that trade right now now in reality american citizens can't be expelled simply because they don't like the flag because we do have freedom of speech but in principle the folks who are marching in cuba for liberty right now and flying the american flag are better americans than the americans who stand around spitting on the american flag and pretending that it is a symbol of repression and evil you know who those people are people who have never lived under true repression and evil seriously if you live under the threat of true oppression and evil the american flag is the symbol of liberty if you live in america a place of liberty we have this ungrateful rather despicable distaste for our own freedom we we've gotten so used to being fat and lazy and rich and free and we seem to forget that there are people all over the planet who live like that and that for most of human history none of that was the rule and when you see the contrast between people in cuba who are risking life and limb i mean the security services are shooting people right now there's video that was emerging from cuba yesterday of the police in cuba gunning down like firing live ammunition according to these videos at dissidents at protesters you can see some of the videos and it's a wonderful stuff happening over there when you see that sort of activity by by actual repressive regimes and then you have the united states the left of the united states mainstream going completely silent on it while spitting on the american flag it does tell you something because they have been completely silent on it the left simply has nothing to say about the liberty of people in cuba and by the way the people who are protesting in cuba would not i mean i met with many of them many of them would not identify as right-wing american republicans they would not many of them would identify i'm sure as democrats they believe in large social services they're not people who nationally who oppose naturally for example nationalized healthcare they might like nationalized health care but what they understand on a route level is that a government that represses its people and abolishes private property and cuts against profit motive and decides that human beings ought not have rights that pre-exist government will inevitably slip into tyranny that they understand at a gut level and meanwhile you have again the sickening specter of americans kneeling for the american flag while living in the richest and freest country in the history of the world i promise you colin kaepernick would not trade places with any one of these cuban dissidents i promise you ilhana omar would not be trading places with any one of the people living in hong kong right now none of these people ever willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to ripping the united states and talk about how evil it is none of these folks actually believe that the united states like i really doubt the sincerity of many of these folks or if i don't doubt their sincerity i doubt their knowledge level there's tremendous level of ignorance if if you never look outside the borders of the united states it's very easy to identify the problems of the united states if you ever look for five seconds outside the border of the united states or beyond the time period of today what you will see is that the vast majority of history and today in the vast majority of countries the kind of liberties that we expect that we demand from our government are not available to the vast majority of people which is why those people marched with our flag while we in here in the united states are giving millions of dollars to athletes who just stain the american flag and yes flags stand for something you know who knows that the people who are marching with our flag in cuba right now at risk to their own life and limb meanwhile the way that the biden administration is downplaying this so far is truly an amazing thing it's truly an astonishing thing we'll get to that in just one second first let's talk about improving your business podium makes doing business as easy as sending a text because when texts get opened business gets done all your employees can text from a single inbox offering a smoother experience for your customers if you're answering questions you should send a text if you're collecting 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do not have the right to get together and protest the government why because it's a communist dictatorship second if you are trying to reduce this down to covet policy that is just incorrect it is wrong i talked to many of the leaders of the cuban dissident movement personally not one of them mentioned coveted policy as the chief rationale for what is going on in cuba right now this is like three weeks ago the the notion that all of this is happening because of lack of vaccinations in cuba is nuts but trying to boil it down by this is a way for the united states not to have to take a position on the evil of the cuban government because the truth is that the biden administration really has no idea what to do with the cuban government i mean as of march 80 u.s house representative democrats were urging biden to repeal trump's quote unquote cruel sanctions on cuba and renew engagement right the idea being that if we if we establish trade ties and capitalism that this will somehow moderate cuba weird because we've tried that with with china and all it's done is strengthened the regime and created a world historical opponent for the united states let's do the same thing with cuba makes perfect sense let's uphold their regime by ending the sanctions that have made them economically weak and vulnerable to protests like this the fact that the united states has remained largely silent or that will melt a few platitudes about the right to free assembly without any sort of comprehensive consequences is pretty astonishing again this is a tin pock dictatorship it did the the fact that it's like north korea on our border and without a nuclear weapon and and we do nothing it really is quite wrong it is it is quite despicable in pretty much every way but it doesn't matter because in the united states we are too busy beating up on ourselves we're too busy talking about how terrible the united states is again you can talk about the flaws in the united states and uphold freedom for other places and acknowledge that the united states is a beacon for freedom at the same time but that is not what the american left does the american left does not give a damn about the freedom of people anywhere else on earth in their perspective the noam chomsky foreign policy perspective the united states is a colonialist imperialist power and if we project freedom in other places on earth this makes us the villain we are bad right we should we should just withdraw and there's part and parcel of foreign policy isolationism that is present on the left not out of a drive to preserve american security and not out of a drive to preserve american resources but out of a drive to undermine the basic fundamental notion that the united states has been a force for good in the world which it undoubtedly has it undoubtedly has in the united states failure to help batista sufficiently defeat the cuban regime led to a 60-year dictatorship and we're seeing the consequences of it right now again it's it is remarkable to me that the biden administration can't joe biden can't be woken up from his sunday nap to make a statement about what is going on in cuba but you'll have the same biden administration talking about how we must teach children in school classrooms critical race theory the notion that the united states is not built on freedom the way that cuban dissidents think it is or that hong kong dissonance think it is or that iranians think it is no actually america is built on racism and bigotry and homophobia and cisgender patriarchy and all the rest of this nonsense it wasn't five minutes ago i mean literally the end of the week last week jen saki was saying to the white house press corps that critical race theory teaching in classrooms was an active good there is a connection between these two things it is not a coincidence that the same people who promote teaching critical race theory have nothing to say in defense of cuban dissonance that is not a coincidence at all it is not a coincidence that the same people who disdain the iranian dissidents and the hong kong dissidents that those people are the same people who spend all their time talking about how evil and terrible the united states is these are not folks who simply want a better america these are folks who see america as an act of evil and anywhere we put our dirty grubby little fingers the world gets worse in their perspective here is jen saki's take on critical race theory being taught in america i'm glad that we've put our focus here as opposed to you know projecting the most powerful economic and military force the world has ever seen to to even a little bit like a drop just to help assure the liberty of of freedom-seeking people the president believes that in our history uh there are many dark moments and there is not just slavery and racism in our history there are systemic racism that is still impacting society today and he believes as i believe as a parent of children that kids should learn about our history uh so as a the spouse of an educator and as somebody who is continues to believe that children should learn uh not just the good but also the challenging in our history and that's part of what we're talking about here even as it's become politically charged okay that is not what we are talking about here that is a deliberate misreading of the entire controversy of our critical race theory which really is about what america fundamentally is people in the united states who believe the american flag is fundamentally bad because america is fundamentally bad and it is not a coincidence that those people are completely silent today as cuban descendants get clubbed in the streets we'll get some more of this in just one second first let us talk about a simple fact if you're a responsible person you need things like home and auto insurance do you not well policy genius makes it easy to compare home and auto insurance in one place they can help you find home and auto 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