Wow. I am surprised. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki FINALLY condemned communism. Are pigs flying??
On Thursday, she stated that in part "communism is a failed ideology" after Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked if she had a different perspective on why she believes Cubans are protesting in the streets.
Doocy asked, "Now that you’ve had a few days to think about it, does this White House still think the protests in Cuba are happening because people are upset about a rise in COVID cases there, or is there some thought maybe you’ve given to the possibility that they are protesting because they are sick of communism?"
Psaki replied, "Well, uh, Peter, first I would say communism is a failed ideology, and we certainly believe that. It has failed the people of Cuba. They deserve freedom. They deserve a government that supports them, whether that is, uh, making sure they have health and medical supplies, uh, access to vaccines, or whether they have economic opportunity and prosperity. And instead, this has been a government, an authoritarian, communist regime, that has repressed its people and has failed the people of Cuba, hence we’re seeing them in the streets. But I would note that ideology of the government, which has failed, has led to a lack of access to economic opportunity, to medical supplies, to COVID vaccines, so all of those pieces are true."
That is a change in pace since Wednesday when Doocy asked Psaki about the root cause of the protests and crisis happening in Cuba.
“As the administration tries to figure out the ‘root causes’ of migration to the country, don’t we know that the reason people want to leave Cuba is because they don’t like communism?” he asked. “Do you think people are leaving Cuba because they don’t like communism?”
“I think we’ve been pretty clear that we think people are leaving Cuba, or not — leaving Cuba, or protesting in the streets, as well, because they are opposed to the oppression, to the mismanagement of the government in the country,” Psaki replied. “And we certainly support their right to protest, we support their efforts to speak out against their treatment in Cuba.”
“I will say, separately, an important question is also what happens when people are seeking protection, or what happens when they are attempting to flee,” she added. “In the past, as I noted, we’ve had several humanitarian programs … But certainly, we have said many times, and I will reiterate here, that we support not just the role of the protest, and peaceful protests, we stand with the Cuban people in their call for freedom from both the pandemic and from decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime.”
Notice how she completely avoided the word "communism"?
WATCH:
AMAZING: Despite the fact that Fox's Peter Doocy points out the fact that Cubans are exhausted and protesting in the streets over decade after decade of communist rule, Jen Psaki REFUSES to denounce the evils of communism and say that communism has and continues to be a disaster pic.twitter.com/1aDZi2cXHq
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 14, 2021
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