Monday, November 11, 2024

mon., 11 nov., 2024: cuban expat revisionisms (& yeah we’re lookin’ atcha, teddy cruz), i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

          

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & entire & total point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

SPANISH:  Ojalatero!  (s.)  /  Ojalateros!   (pl.)   

        

)  Wishful thinker!”  / “Wishful thinkers!”  =  i.e.,  You wish,  you lying revisionist sack of shite!”

[NOTE: Used by Cubans to describe armchair freedom fighters wh0 fantasised & later lied abt joining Castro’s revolution against Bautista,  but who at most wrote a bit of graffiti or attended one demonstration,  from a safe unteargassable distance.  Ted Cruz,  Canadian-born Cuban exile,  & 2016 Republicoño US Presidential Candidate,  always talks abt his father throwing bombs & running guns & enduring horrible torture & interogation.  Ted Cruz’s father repeats these stories for the Teabag lecture circuit,  only his story changes from time to time to time.  & there is no corroboration whatsofucking ever in Cuba for the Cruz family’s assertions & claims...]

                

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