WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.720 you can get away with this being as stupid as you want to be as long as you 2 00:00:07.720 --> 00:00:08.260 successfully 3 00:00:08.260 --> 00:00:13.680 distract the broad majorities of the American population with your idiocy and 4 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:15.680 you'll even 5 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:19.580 get a Wall Street Journal article written about you like that's what's so crazy 6 00:00:19.580 --> 00:00:20.600 about this. 7 00:00:20.600 --> 00:00:24.270 Like why is the Wall Street Journal doing an article on this guy? Like they're 8 00:00:24.270 --> 00:00:24.680 hailing 9 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:30.110 him as a as a successful champion, a hero, an activist like that makes no sense 10 00:00:30.110 --> 00:00:30.600 . 11 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:35.400 He says his family fled Cuba in 1965 after their ranch was confiscated by the 12 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:36.720 Castro regime. 13 00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:40.190 My family they lost everything to communism. You know when I see this ideology 14 00:00:40.190 --> 00:00:40.560 as sort 15 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:44.460 of a modern form of communism. I don't think there's a polite way to say it. I 16 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:44.580 raised 17 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:57.920 hell over it. There it is. Of course, dude. God damn. It's even funnier if he's 18 00:00:57.920 --> 00:00:58.300 lying 19 00:00:58.300 --> 00:01:05.500 about this because so many people like like Menendez. You want to know what's 20 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:05.510 really 21 00:01:05.510 --> 00:01:14.600 funny. There are a lot of American Cubans in positions of power like Bob Men 22 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:15.840 endez for 23 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:21.870 example, that literally lie about having their families positions confiscated 24 00:01:21.870 --> 00:01:22.540 by the Fido 25 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:27.330 Castro regime. When you look at their entry point into the country and they 26 00:01:27.330 --> 00:01:28.300 actually fled 27 00:01:28.300 --> 00:01:35.930 the Batista regime. Okay. They literally lie like Bob Menendez lies. If you 28 00:01:35.930 --> 00:01:36.820 recall, when 29 00:01:36.820 --> 00:01:44.000 he was under a if you recall when he was under investigation for getting gold 30 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.060 bars delivered 31 00:01:45.060 --> 00:01:49.020 to him to, you know, make this one singular company that he works with in Egypt 32 00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:49.780 , the singular 33 00:01:49.780 --> 00:01:54.830 halal meat distributor in America. He turned around and he said, Oh, but it's 34 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:56.100 in my culture 35 00:01:56.100 --> 00:02:02.250 as a Cuban to like hide wealth this way. This is how we escape the Fido Castro 36 00:02:02.250 --> 00:02:03.060 rain with 37 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:07.820 my family. We hid our wealth in gold bars and we trafficked it into United 38 00:02:07.820 --> 00:02:08.420 States of 39 00:02:08.420 --> 00:02:14.340 America. And then people looked it up and they were like, but dude, you fled 40 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:15.500 the Batista 41 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:22.910 regime. You're you're coming into the United States of America predates the 42 00:02:22.910 --> 00:02:23.900 Cuban revolution. 43 00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:38.950 So many people that have like fled under Batista will just legitimately lie and 44 00:02:38.950 --> 00:02:39.380 say it was 45 00:02:39.380 --> 00:02:44.700 actually the, the communism and in the Cuban revolution that caused them to 46 00:02:44.700 --> 00:02:46.060 flee. 47 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:49.990 Right. You know, and I was really the first parent to speak up and me being 48 00:02:49.990 --> 00:02:50.380 able to do 49 00:02:50.380 --> 00:02:53.720 it from a lens of being a minority myself, made it a little more awkward for, 50 00:02:53.720 --> 00:02:54.300 you know, 51 00:02:54.300 --> 00:02:58.650 the faculty there who were mostly, you know, from a certain subset of the, you 52 00:02:58.650 --> 00:02:59.340 misspoke. 53 00:02:59.340 --> 00:03:05.810 You said he fled Batista. No, I didn't misspeak. They lie and say they fled F 54 00:03:05.810 --> 00:03:06.900 ido Castro and 55 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:14.760 communism when they actually fled Batista. But hold on, what is this? Made it a 56 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:14.940 little 57 00:03:14.940 --> 00:03:18.330 more often. I was a modern form of communism. I don't think there's a polite 58 00:03:18.330 --> 00:03:18.660 way to say 59 00:03:18.660 --> 00:03:21.690 it. I raised hell over it. You know, and I was really the first parent to speak 60 00:03:21.690 --> 00:03:22.060 up and 61 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:25.110 me being able to do it from a lens of being a minority myself made it a little 62 00:03:25.110 --> 00:03:25.740 more awkward 63 00:03:25.740 --> 00:03:31.420 for, you know, the faculty there who were mostly, you know, from a certain. 64 00:03:31.420 --> 00:03:37.570 Absolutely zero people think you're a minority dog. Like, what do you mean? It 65 00:03:37.570 --> 00:03:38.460 made it made 66 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:44.720 the woke's awkward because I'm so Cuban. Is that what your argument is? There 67 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:45.460 are Italian 68 00:03:45.460 --> 00:03:52.670 people that are infinitely more not white than you, my man, and they're white 69 00:03:52.670 --> 00:03:54.300 too still. 70 00:03:54.300 --> 00:04:00.060 And so am I. My parents and family Cuban are hooked on this crazy radical Cuban 71 00:04:00.060 --> 00:04:00.300 YouTuber 72 00:04:00.300 --> 00:04:03.960 who does news. When I tell you all Cubans who live in America, watch this guy, 73 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:04.180 it is 74 00:04:04.180 --> 00:04:11.390 crazy. What's the name? What's the name of the YouTuber? If you say Destiny, I 75 00:04:11.390 --> 00:04:11.820 'm banning 76 00:04:11.820 --> 00:04:28.740 you. Okay. No time for memes right now. Find me the. Find me the guy. Yeah, 77 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:32.020 this guy. 78 00:04:32.020 --> 00:04:36.020 This guy's like, this is this guy's the whitest Cuban man on the planet and 79 00:04:36.020 --> 00:04:37.900 subset of the left 80 00:04:37.900 --> 00:04:41.420 where they didn't have that same ability. But they thought that they had the 81 00:04:41.420 --> 00:04:41.740 wisdom 82 00:04:41.740 --> 00:04:44.630 to speak for all minorities, right? All right, y'all, you're going to want to 83 00:04:44.630 --> 00:04:45.500 see this. Last 84 00:04:45.500 --> 00:04:49.650 summer, Starbucks began his first corporate campaign targeting the agricultural 85 00:04:49.650 --> 00:04:50.260 equipment 86 00:04:50.260 --> 00:04:54.160 chain, tractor supply company. We're going to expose it all all the craziness 87 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:54.420 that they 88 00:04:54.420 --> 00:04:57.540 have done that their customers have no clue about, you know, every day we were 89 00:04:57.540 --> 00:04:58.020 dropping 90 00:04:58.020 --> 00:05:01.430 a new piece of information about how they hit. You said every day you get 91 00:05:01.430 --> 00:05:01.820 closer to 92 00:05:01.820 --> 00:05:04.930 understanding land reform in China. No, every day. I'll take it once that 93 00:05:04.930 --> 00:05:06.140 further. I understand 94 00:05:06.140 --> 00:05:12.170 he's Stalinist purges. Okay. Do you understand me? Like fuck land reform. When 95 00:05:12.170 --> 00:05:13.220 I see reactionaries 96 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:20.940 like this, I'm like, Oh, I get why I get why people can become incredibly 97 00:05:20.940 --> 00:05:22.140 paranoid and 98 00:05:22.140 --> 00:05:29.350 and so angry and so resentful, especially if you have like a little bit of that 99 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:29.380 authoritarian 100 00:05:29.380 --> 00:05:40.910 dog in you, dude. Oh my God. Holy moly. Like I just like imagine, imagine 101 00:05:40.910 --> 00:05:41.940 coming out of 102 00:05:41.940 --> 00:05:47.970 World War two, trying to consistently concede to the demands being made by the 103 00:05:47.970 --> 00:05:48.900 West while 104 00:05:48.900 --> 00:05:53.880 being very skeptical of their intentions, being very worried about it, trying 105 00:05:53.880 --> 00:05:54.700 to maintain 106 00:05:54.700 --> 00:06:00.560 a reconstruction period for your country that was eviscerated 20 million dead. 107 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:01.620 Okay. Mostly 108 00:06:01.620 --> 00:06:07.380 predominantly young men too. And then you got a Robbie starbuck type being like 109 00:06:07.380 --> 00:06:08.180 , Hey, 110 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:15.200 Stalin. I don't like the, I don't like any of the implementation of, of, of, I 111 00:06:15.200 --> 00:06:15.340 don't 112 00:06:15.340 --> 00:06:19.020 like, I don't know, I don't like the way that you're redistributing and reall 113 00:06:19.020 --> 00:06:19.780 ocating grain 114 00:06:19.780 --> 00:06:23.680 supplies. I would be like, all right, you're dead. Like I'm literally killing 115 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:24.180 you now. 116 00:06:24.180 --> 00:06:29.470 That's what, like, and it's not the right thing to do. I understand that, but 117 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:31.900 also simultaneously, 118 00:06:31.900 --> 00:06:39.260 I understand how someone could be pushed to that moment of, of weakness. Okay. 119 00:06:39.260 --> 00:06:43.260 Like it's 120 00:06:43.260 --> 00:06:48.590 not appropriate. Make no mistake. I don't think it's the right thing to do. But 121 00:06:48.590 --> 00:06:48.860 given 122 00:06:48.860 --> 00:06:54.890 the human condition, given the human condition, given the nature, given the 123 00:06:54.890 --> 00:06:56.820 material circumstances 124 00:06:56.820 --> 00:07:04.780 of post World War II, post World War II, USSR and the efforts to rebuild it. 125 00:07:04.780 --> 00:07:06.260 Well, constantly 126 00:07:06.260 --> 00:07:12.670 being on a strong, tightrope against American empire and American initiatives 127 00:07:12.670 --> 00:07:13.860 that are actively 128 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:18.500 and desperately trying to fight against the, you know, the, the spread of 129 00:07:18.500 --> 00:07:19.380 Soviet style 130 00:07:19.380 --> 00:07:23.780 communism around the world. This is the guy where he's live right now. 131 00:07:23.780 --> 00:07:41.600 What is this guy? I don't, I can't speak Spanish, better video for an 132 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:42.180 introduction. 133 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:48.580 Now, from CBS News, Miami, this is facing south bro. I don't know if this guy's 134 00:07:48.580 --> 00:07:48.700 got 135 00:07:48.700 --> 00:07:55.380 motion like that. He's got 12 K people watching him. 136 00:07:55.380 --> 00:08:01.540 Communist agenda on our people. And Alex told is here with us today. And I will 137 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:02.100 just point 138 00:08:02.100 --> 00:08:06.060 out, even though you did fairly well speaking English, you did well speaking 139 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:06.820 English. I 140 00:08:06.820 --> 00:08:09.930 know that you're more comfortable. You understand English pretty well, but you 141 00:08:09.930 --> 00:08:10.500 're come more 142 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:18.020 come. Oh my God. This shit is raises this hell, bro. What is happening? Bro, 143 00:08:18.020 --> 00:08:19.940 bro. What 144 00:08:19.940 --> 00:08:25.360 is the, what is the local news guy saying? Well, you said speaking in Spanish. 145 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:26.100 So your 146 00:08:26.100 --> 00:08:30.030 translator is here. And so we'll be using him as well to translate the 147 00:08:30.030 --> 00:08:31.060 interview. But 148 00:08:31.060 --> 00:08:34.660 if you're comfortable speaking in English, do so. Otherwise, we'll, we'll make 149 00:08:34.660 --> 00:08:34.980 it work 150 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:40.910 with the translator. But then there's a lot of the campaign intends to do this 151 00:08:40.910 --> 00:08:41.820 differently. 152 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:50.350 And that's why I rather speak Spanish. Okay. So let's, let's sort of start. I 153 00:08:50.350 --> 00:08:50.660 always 154 00:08:50.660 --> 00:08:55.680 like to ask a candidate running. Why are you running? What is it that? Why do 155 00:08:55.680 --> 00:08:56.020 you want 156 00:08:56.020 --> 00:09:01.190 to be mayor of Miami-Dade County? Joe, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know 157 00:09:01.190 --> 00:09:04.740 . I don't 158 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:11.360 know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I 159 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.820 don't know. 160 00:09:16.820 --> 00:09:24.030 I started in politics as a demand from the people. People would like to have 161 00:09:24.030 --> 00:09:24.860 some changes 162 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:30.720 in Miami-Dade. They are tired about the establishment and about the politician 163 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:31.740 that lie in order 164 00:09:31.740 --> 00:09:42.100 to gate votes. Okay. So I want to, I want to just sort of pick up. 165 00:09:42.100 --> 00:09:46.000 It's kind of like Baba and now speaking English on principle. Yeah, I do 166 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:46.700 respect it. Except 167 00:09:46.700 --> 00:09:55.100 he's incredibly reactionary. Tired of Stalinist communism in Miami-Dade. Yeah. 168 00:09:55.100 --> 00:09:59.830 It's sort of straight from the values of their consumers. And at the time, a 169 00:09:59.830 --> 00:10:00.260 lot of 170 00:10:00.260 --> 00:10:03.150 people were still of the mindset. There's no way you're going to get this 171 00:10:03.150 --> 00:10:03.300 company to 172 00:10:03.300 --> 00:10:07.260 change things. They're worth billions and billions of dollars. You're one guy. 173 00:10:07.260 --> 00:10:11.500 Three weeks later, tractor supply caved. The company said in a statement that 174 00:10:11.500 --> 00:10:11.780 it would 175 00:10:11.780 --> 00:10:16.420 retire its DEI goals, stop sponsoring pride festivals, and no longer submit 176 00:10:16.420 --> 00:10:17.060 data to the 177 00:10:17.060 --> 00:10:21.030 human rights campaign. The nonprofit that grades companies on their policies 178 00:10:21.030 --> 00:10:21.420 when it 179 00:10:21.420 --> 00:10:22.020 comes to LG.