 Let's talk about Cuba quickly. Good news coming out of Cuba, not really good news, but good news in the sense that for the first time in memory, in a long time, Cubans are railing against the government, they're demonstrating against the government, they're being courageous and brave, and they're advocating for change, and they're going into the streets. The Cuban regime has learned that the way to deal with this, it's had a number of different lessons. It saw how Eastern Europe folded, and how Eastern Europe completely replaced its regimes and completely folded, and yet, and they've also seen how Venezuela has handled this, and the Venezuela example is the one that they've chosen. The Venezuela example is, don't give in, the demonstrations that they beat them up. Now come back, keep beating them up. People are poor and starving, let them get poor and starving. Keep at it, don't give them, and whatever money you have, spend it on thugs that can beat up the demonstrators. Keep beating the demonstrators up. Don't use the army, pay thugs to do it. Use a mercenary force of the kind of thugs that that guy wanted to use against me, and just pound the demonstrators down and make them lose confidence that they can win, and since nobody will help them, nobody will support them, just keep at them until their world power is broken, as in a sense the world power of the opposition of Venezuela has been broken, and what you're going to see is an attempt by the Cuban regime just to hold on, to keep pounding. They don't care about lives, they don't care about the levels of poverty, they don't care, the only thing they care about, the only thing they care about is power, is maintaining power, is the communist regime in Cuba maintaining power, and it's not this power, it's not just that it's associated with a life of privilege, privilege in the proper sense, a life of some level of wealth, it's not about the money, it's about their power. These bastards are power hungry, they have at their disposals goons who will do their bidding, the regime in Cuba is evil and a monstrosity, and they will hold on to power no matter what, at anybody's expense, no matter how many people have to be killed or beaten or maimed, they will hold on to power, and they will not give it up no matter how many people go out into the streets. The only way a revolution in Cuba or in Venezuela can succeed is if force, you know, force is used, if violence is used against the regime, against the people holding on to power, that is the only way they will give up power. And unfortunately, both in Cuba and in Venezuela, the military has sided with the status quo, the military has not joined the people who were poor revolution partially because they're afraid of what will happen to them afterwards. So the military holds a balance of power, and so far the military has sided with the authoritarian brutes. And the authoritarian brutes know this, so they basically grant most of their wealth benefit of being authoritarian goes to the military, so the military generals make a fortune, nobody else does. So it's truly depressing to read what's going on in Cuba. You know, the Biden administration has been not bad on this, it could be better, but it's been not bad, it's condemned communism, it's condemned authoritarianism, it's condemned the regime, it's supported the demonstrators, it's condemned violence against the demonstrators, it has taken the right stand, again weak and not as authoritative as they should be. But you know, I think some of you thought that maybe Biden would come out in favor of communism and support the communist regime in Cuba, he hasn't done that. I never expected him to, but he hasn't done that. I think some of you would have expected him. And he is as a consequence, you know, the Cuba is not going to get help from the United States, but neither the Venezuela and yet they still survive somehow. They still survive. I think right now, both Venezuela and Cuba are probably benefiting from, they probably benefit some from Iran, Iran probably sends them something, but given how poor Venezuela it is, and the fact that they don't have any oil, given how poor Cuba is, it's really going to be a challenge to see how these, how these regimes survive, just from an existential sense, just in terms of feeding themselves given the, oops, what happened? No, I got it. You know, that they survive given that they have no sources of income, zero. It's going to be, it could get really tragic where people are literally dying of starvation. It could be the case already in Venezuela. We don't know that much about what's going on everywhere in Venezuela. And it certainly could ultimately evolve into what happens in Cuba unless the United States intervenes in some way or another. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist man. All right. Before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figured at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who like it, you know, I want to see, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. 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