I don't know how to read this other than him dabbing on the left, like oh you wanted this since day 1, enjoy it for a week.
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It's even more baby-brained than that, because doing it this late in his term means he thinks it would have cost Kamala votes in the general.
Idk how to explain to Democrats that it's not the year 2000 anymore and that Florida is not a swing state. The gusanos will both never vote for you nor would they even be capable of flipping Florida as a bloc.
I think it's a gimme to Trump so that he has something to loudly and publicly reverse
Is it easy as saying so for Trump to put it back on?
well, he has to sign a paper
Which is what pisses me off even more. I remember ~4 years ago a reporter asked Psaki about this and she said Biden had other, bigger priorities on his plate. Like it takes 4 seconds to sign this (well maybe more like 40 for Biden), he was not “too busy”.
His brain was very busy collapsing in on itself
He doesn't even need to do that as far as I know.
Yes lol
As a rule of thumb, its always way easier to put sanctions and such in place than it is to remove them.
I know the Biden admin are doing this cynically but god i hope this stays. The sanctions are evil and they make it so hard for people in Cuba to survive
Same! Cuban communists were celebrating this in my Facebook feed which is how I found out about it. I really hope it sticks but Trump is pretty much guaranteed to just undo it right away.
Unfortunately, the broader sanctions will remain in place but getting off this list will alleviate a bit of pressure.
I hope so too, but we all know Trump is a petty bitch so he's definitely going to reverse this day one
Obama also blocked the Dakota pipeline in December just before leaving office. Its just an easy way to look like an ally knowing that its going to be overturned within a year at most.
Trump implemented these sanctions in his last week in office in 2021. And Biden kept them in place this entire time.
exactly, it's ammo for libs to say "see if you voot'd , you would've gotten something, instead the damn Cheato has returned!" Trump's team will reverse it withing a month I bet.
its crazy how the starvation of millions is used as a cynical chesspiece to spite the other party
I've literally seen Giuliani excitedly telling people how much Iranians were starving (including gleefully mentioning Iranians selling their organs); America's literally just Israel but bigger
Hahhahahahahahhaha 
, do you just do this just to piss me off, Biden
That you could've done this, but instead you proved yourself as the Clintonite you are
Could've done this day fucking one
They play with people's lives just to do little political gotchas
The sick thing is that this was clearly never an actual objective, otherwise he would've done it years ago. If the Democrats had won, he wouldn't bother.
This is just posturing so he can argue he proved the left wrong.
what a dickhead, hope cubans contract so many solar panels while trump fucks around
Obviously it won't happen but it would be crazy if Trump normalised relations with Cuba to spite the Dems.
"O-bam-a he tried to do it, but he couldn't. Sleepy Joe. Kah-mala they don't want you to go to Hav-ana. But I dooo. Castro was a bad man, he had the look, you know? Hat. Beard. Cigar. This new guy. Diaz-Canal. Nice guy. Very handsome. No cigar!"
Removing the blockade would literally be the best single thing any US president has done in decades.
You know it's funny but if Trump said this his voters would absolutely agree wholeheartedly; they went from zero on Greenland to 'We're taking it and I'd like to see you stop us'
I rate this Trump emulation "close but no cigar".
mashallah, hopefully trump is too caught up in whatever sick epstein island shit we all know his worthless subhuman pig ass is up to all the time and forgets to overturn this. and fuck brandon for waiting this long.
The cynicism of Democrats knows no bounds.
The fuck? why's he doing a good thing what's the catch
The catch is it's going to last exactly 6 days
oh right lmao
What were they on the list for to begin with? Sponsoring the ANC?
Sponsoring the ANC?
Yes, and also because Cuba helped a lot of leftists (from social-democrats to communists) in latin america, asia and africa.
Cuba was designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1982 because of its long history of providing advice, safe haven, communications, training, and financial support to guerrilla groups and individual terrorists. This designation was rescinded in 2015. Cuba maintains close and collaborative ties with designated state sponsors of terror such as Iran and North Korea.
The Cuban regime continues to host ELN leaders associated with now-defunct peace talks to reside in Cuba, despite Colombia’s repeated requests for their extradition. Cuba also continues to harbor multiple fugitives who committed or supported acts of terrorism in the United States. The U.S. Department of State certified Cuba as “not cooperating fully” with U.S. counterterrorism efforts for 2019, the first such certification of Cuba since 2015.
Citing peace negotiation protocols, Cuba refused Colombia’s request to extradite 10 ELN leaders living in Havana after that group claimed responsibility for the January 2019 bombing of a Bogota police academy that killed 22 people and injured 87 others. In addition to ELN terrorists, there was credible reporting that FARC dissidents who abandoned the peace process in Colombia traveled to Havana to seek the regime’s support.
On July 28 during the closing remarks of the Sao Paolo Forum in Caracas, Nicolas Maduro stated that Iván Márquez and Jesús Santrich – former FARC leaders who fled Colombia after abandoning the peace process and announced a return to terrorist activities – were both welcome in Venezuela. Cuba is a key supporter of Maduro’s narco-regime and is an active participant in maintaining Maduro’s authority.
2019 bombing of a Bogota police academy
huh, sounds like a victimless crime tbh 
Maduro’s narco-regime
They’re on the list for being far too based
