By Right-Wing Trump Supporter!!
A bully and thuggish right-wing Trump supporter named Benny Johnson is using his Twitter account to mock Cuban families trying to survive the Trump administration's activation of Title 3 of the infamous Helms-Burton Act. Even the George W. Bush presidency refused to activate Title 3 because it is far too genocidal against families in a small nation, but Trump did so as a trade-off for Florida's 29 Electoral Votes in his 2020 re-election bid. At 10:22 P. M., Sept. 19, 2019, Benny Johnson posted the following Tweet complete with photos such as the one above:
"I just returned from Cuba. What would your 'supermarket' look like on socialism?
This is the fascist 'supermarket' in Havana. Notice anything odd?
Ailes ae filled with goods having NO VARIETY AT ALL.
No competition.
No choice.
No hope.
SHARE so @Bernie Sanders & @AOC see this."
Thugs like Benny Johnson seem to relish tormenting families in this island nation by hiding behind the skirts of the world's Superpower, and also find macabre joy in the digital age by flourishing their thuggery. In America's two-party political system, the Republican Party, dating back to the 1950's, has been tightly aligned with the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba and, since 1959, also with two generations who fled the victorious Cuban Revolution to quickly and long-lastingly re-establish their new capital, little Havana, in nearby Miami. With a ruthless reputation and far more Mafia money than was needed, the Batistianos easily overwhelmed Miami economically and politically, including criminal activities such as the enormously lucrative drug trade. Strongly supported by the U. S. government, the Batistianos expected to recapture Cuba within a matter of Months. But after the humiliating failure of the April-1961 military attack known as the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban exiles and the U. S. devised policies, according to declassified documents, to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their government themselves. But that didn't happen because the last thing the Cuban people wanted then or now was/is a return of the Batistianos and the Mafiosi. In 1962 the U. S. imposed an economic embargo/blockade that exists to this day, easily establishing it as history's all-time longest and cruelest economic embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. With America's incomparable worldwide economic might and influence, surely much larger nations than Cuba could NOT have survived six decades of a fiercely enforced U. S. economic embargo. But somehow Revolutionary Cuba has. Yet, heartless right-wing thugs like Benny Johnson get their kicks from flying to Cuba and then using their Twitter accounts to mock Cuba for not having supermarkets as well-stocked as America's.
Truth be known, Benny Johnson's making fun of Cuban families trying to survive Title 3/Helms-Burton has gotten a strong negative reaction, even by many Trump supporters, some of whom actually oppose genocide against totally innocent Cuban families.
The Cuban working 24-hours-a-day to help families on the island survive the genocidal intentions of Title 3/Helms-Burton is a determined lady named Betsy Diaz. Her important title is Minister of Interior Commerce. She regularly appears on state media to inform the people what she is doing on their behalf. At one point, when she got to explaining where she had to outline restrictions on certain products vital to Cuban families, tears unashamedly flushed down her face. But before she finished the update, Betsy Diaz bravely and determinedly ended her update with these words: "Three generations of Cuban families have faced genocidal attempts by unsavory people protected by the world superpower. My news tonight does not belittle that fact. But we have no alternative to what we have always done since, in 1959, the Batista and Mafia people resettled in Miami, reshaping that democracy far more than it has reshaped Revolutionary Cuba. Will we survive Trump and Title 3? Yes, we will survive because there is no alternative." Betsy was referencing a return of the Batistianos.
With the Batistianos-Mafiosi having a firm grip on both the Republican Party and the Cuban narrative in the USA, Americans are told that Cubans like the child-loving Betsy Diaz are the "bad guys" while rich Cuban thugs who perpetuate things like Title 3/Helms-Burton are the "good guys" and American thugs like Benny Johnson who mock and target Cuban children are the "good guys." Decent, democracy-loving Americans believe that such gross distortions say a lot more about the USA than about Cuba. Yet, it appears that decent, democracy-loving Americans are powerless in wiping such things as Title 3/Helms-Burton from the cancer-riven bowels of the U. S. government.
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