{"id":123285,"date":"2021-02-10T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123285"},"modified":"2021-02-10T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T18:13:18","slug":"pitbull-warns-of-loss-of-freedom-amid-crisis-smells-like-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pitbull-warns-of-loss-of-freedom-amid-crisis-smells-like-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitbull Warns Of Loss Of Freedom Amid Crisis: \u2018Smells Like Communism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpitbull-warns-of-loss-of-freedom-amid-crisis-smells-like-communism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1145568607.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rapper and songwriter Pitbull (real name Armando Christian P\u00e9rez) warned during an appearance on RevoltTV how quickly freedom can be taken away, especially amid a crisis like the one sparked by the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Pitbull is a first-generation Cuban-American whose family escaped Communism under the rule of Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I can have this conversation is because my family comes from Communism, they fled Communism, they had everything taken away from them, everybody got murdered, everybody got killed,\u201d Pitbull said during the appearance, which took place in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the reason me, being a first-generation Cuban-American \u2026 I look at freedom and I appreciate that s***,\u201d he emphasized. \u201cI appreciate opportunity. I appreciate anything that you give me. \u2026&nbsp;And, that comes from the fact that when Castro took over everything, and I\u2019m looking at what\u2019s going on right now \u2014 the only person here that\u2019s hot \u2026 it\u2019s Castro. He\u2019s going, \u2018Y\u2019all did it with a virus? S***. Y\u2019all took over the world with a virus? Y\u2019all gotta be kidding me.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Castro] had missiles pointed to the United States during the missile crisis\u201d to gain power, Pitbull said.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper started in on the topic of freedom as he was discussing how his music was being platformed online. Your success, or seemingly the free use of these platforms, can be taken from you at any time, and quickly, the rapper noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this day and age, I\u2019m hoping that people see: as quick as you get it \u2026 come quick, leave quick,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen it comes to this technology, that\u2019s exactly what it is. You got instant gratification and think you can touch many people, as quick as they [are] gonna pull it from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the appearance, Pitbull&nbsp;floated unsubstantiated claims about the pandemic and the government and Big Tech\u2019s response to the crisis.&nbsp;Speaking of online censorship, Pitbull said that, to him,&nbsp;that \u201csmells like\u201d \u201cCommunism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/rapper-pitbull-communism-lockdowns-cuba\">noted<\/a> by The Blaze, the performer\u2019s \u201cgrandmother initially fought in the Cuban revolutionary war on the side of Castro, but once he took power, she realized that she had made a grave mistake. In the early 1960s, there were rumors swirling in Cuba that Castro was going to round-up children and place them in communist indoctrination centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPitbull\u2019s grandmother sent her two daughters to the United States during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cubacenter.org\/archives\/2021\/1\/6\/cubabrief-operation-pedro-pan-cubas-first-lady-and-the-high-price-paid-to-save-thousands-of-children-from-communism-p24z3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation Peter Pan<\/a>, a covert program that brought 14,000 Cuban children to the U.S. between 1960 to 1962 at the height of the Cold War,\u201d The Blaze report detailed. \u201cPitbull\u2019s mother and aunt were taken to Florida, where the rapper\u2019s father would also land after fleeing from Fidel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandmother fought in the [Cuban] revolutionary war actually with Castro, because everybody thought that Batista was corrupt,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/10\/24\/pitbull.rapper\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a> in 2009. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that he wasn\u2019t, but it\u2019s almost like the lesser of two evils. [When she became disillusioned with the Castro government], my mother and my aunt got sent off in an operation called Peter Pan without their parents. She didn\u2019t see her mother for seven years. As far as my father \u2013 he came over also. He didn\u2019t come in the Peter Pan, but they fled the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the performer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2011\/aug\/25\/pitbull-planet-pit-rap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;he refuses to perform in Cuba until \u201cthere\u2019s a free Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper and songwriter Pitbull (real name Armando Christian P\u00e9rez) warned during an appearance on RevoltTV how quickly freedom can be taken away, especially amid a crisis like the one sparked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893095,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4404,6170,4439,6169,6168,3633],"class_list":["post-123285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amid","tag-crisis","tag-freedom","tag-loss","tag-pitbull","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}