AT: We have learned that Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona visited Cuba. According to news reports, he was there with a businessman:
The meeting was the first with an American government guest since taking office for Díaz-Canel, who remains subordinate to the country’s leader, dictator Raúl Castro.
Joining Flake in Havana was the chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, who encouraged Communist Party leaders to allow internet companies to seek greater profits on the island. more here
He’s over there trying to buy one of those evil sound machines to use on Conservatives.
Isn’t going to a foreign country to meet with a foreign businessman a crime? That’s what the snooze media has been implying for over a year now.
Retirement home?
Perhaps he was going for the new controversial nose-straightening surgery that only the superior Cuban health care system can perform.
Looks more like he’s greasing wheels for Google. Which might explain some things.
little known fact:
Feb 11, 2002 – HAVANA, Cuba – Carole King serenaded Fidel Castro with “You’ve Got a Friend” at a weekend dinner.
Obviously, Flakey met up with Carole K. and James T. for an encore.
For the companionship of “his people”.
They can have him.
We need to resurrect the many biblical Proverbs that kept our society/American culture humming along, like:
Proverbs 13:20 Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
IOW: You are the company you keep, or You are known by the company you keep.
So simple, so true. Look at anyone on the Left for proof of that simple sentiment.
He was there to meet his Russian FSB handlers.
He was on a recruitment drive for more border crosser’s.
That or the idiot got lost on the way back to AZ.
He’s been going to Cuba for years. Probably been there twenty times. Remember how they were telling us what a staunch conservative he was when he was just a lowly Representative? He was on the shuttle to Cuba the whole time. Staunch conservative. Bullshit.
I wonder what Bob Corker’s pet Shithole is. Maybe Gowdy’s got a pet Shithole, too. Let’s all quit our jobs and go lobby for Shithole countries.
To paraphrase the bumper sticker, “End this Endless Lobbying”
“allow internet companies to seek greater profits on the island”
Last time I checked (which was a while, though not a long while ago), the “inter” part of Cuba’s Internet™ infrastructure consisted of a rusty soup can in Cuba, a string, and a shiny soup can in Haiti, with people yelling “Juan” and “Oh” – because Haiti had better global connectivity. So who’s funding – actually paying, not merely signing someone else’s name to the blank check – the install of all the shiny new kit Cuba needs to have a “commercially viable” Internet™?
@AbigailAdams June 9, 2018 at 12:28 pm
> Look at anyone on the Left for proof of that simple sentiment.
MY EYES!!eleventy!
Why is he in Cuba?
Same reason anyone else does I suppose. Free healthcare. 100% literacy rate. Beautiful 1950s cars. Quaint peoples unmolested by US cultural hegemony.
You know. That old chestnut.
Following the example of The Clintonistas.
He likes Cuban girls served on a platter.
Picking up some pointers from the DGI on methods of making enemies disappear.
izlamo delenda est …
“God, it was right there in front of my face.. if it had been Jeff Flake, it would have bitten me.”
I use that all the time now