{"id":2582921,"date":"2026-03-23T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-in-cuba-blackout-is-comedy-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:31:00","slug":"activists-in-cuba-blackout-is-comedy-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-in-cuba-blackout-is-comedy-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists in Cuba blackout is comedy: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Factivists-in-cuba-blackout-is-comedy-joe-concha%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=2582921&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--><p>An article by Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha criticizes Democratic activists and online influencers who visited Cuba during the island\u2019s ongoing blackouts. It highlights Hasan Piker and Isra Hirsi staying at five-star hotels and flying in on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instead-of-showing-up-to-work-texas-democrats-grab-some-miller-lites-and-go-on-maskless-flight-to-save-democracy-from-big-bad-republicans\/\" title=\"Instead Of Showing Up To Work, Texas Democrats Grab Some Miller Lites And Go On Maskless Flight To Save Democracy From Big Bad Republicans\">chartered jet<\/a>, portraying the trip as a tone-deaf display of privilege and mocking the idea that \u201climousine liberals\u201d are now endorsing what thay see as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-when-the-hateful-think-they-are-the-virtuous\/\" title=\"SHAPIRO: When the Hateful Think They Are the Virtuous\">moral superiority<\/a> by visiting an \u201coppressed\u201d country.Concha discusses the visits on Fox Business\u2019s Varney &#038; Co., calling the spectacle \u201cthe best unintentional comedy,\u201d and argues the trip underscores hypocrisy in the broader debate over U.S.-Cuba policy. The piece also references Cuban officials warning of potential U.S. invasion and Cuban president diaz-canel\u2019s comments about talks with the Trump administration,alongside Trump\u2019s own statements about taking Cuba in some form. it frames the trips as a cynical, privileged show rather than a meaningful or relatable gesture for Cubans enduring power outages.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Activists staying in luxury hotels amid Cuba blackouts is &lsquo;best&rsquo; comedy: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2536613\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner <\/em>columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> laughed off the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-move-to-dismantle-usaid-sets-off-showdown-with-democrats-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"White House move to dismantle USAID sets off showdown with Democrats - Washington Examiner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vice-president-pence-senate-majority-leader-mcconnell-and-house-minority-leader-mccarthy-wont-attend-president-trumps-goodbye-ceremony\/\" title=\"Republicans: Vice President Pence, Senate Majority Leader McConnell and House Minority Leader McCarthy, Won\u2019t Attend President ...\u2019s Goodbye Ceremony\">tone deaf<\/a>&#038;rdquo<\/a>; visits that various Democratic activists are taking to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cuba\/\">Cuba<\/a> as the nation is experiencing blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>Various online influencers, including Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and Rep. Ilhan Omar&rsquo;s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, traveled to the island as it recently endured <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/22\/nx-s1-5756288\/cubas-power-grid-collapses\">its third blackout<\/a> this month, where, according to the <em>New York Post,<\/em> they stayed at five-star hotels. Concha noted they also flew in a chartered jet and joked &ldquo;limousine liberals&rdquo; are now replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >people flying chartered jets<\/a> to &ldquo;oppressed&rdquo; countries and telling their residents &ldquo;how great they actually have it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/4500278\/trump-kills-two-offshore-wind-farms-buying-projects-1-billion\/\">Trump kills two offshore wind farms by buying projects for nearly $1 billion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4499578\/iaea-no-radiation-leak-natanz-iran-strike\/\">IAEA says no radiation leaked from Natanz after Iran claims facility was struck<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/4499468\/bessent-eases-iran-oil-sanctions-allows-us-sale\/\">Bessent eases oil sanctions on Iran and allows sale in US<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;This is about the best unintentional comedy out there,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox Business&rsquo; <em>Varney &amp; Co<\/em>. &ldquo;Talk about tone deaf! This is just incredible when the lights aren&rsquo;t even on in much of Cuba, and these people are going down there to make a big show of how great they are as human beings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3440592&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=a3b517b5a284aa735ea4e2fec843b05e\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Free Cuba. I&rsquo;m sure many Cubans in Florida would agree with that, and not this laughable display of those who have a lot of money and have a lot of time on their hands apparently to make themselves look like they&rsquo;re on some sort of higher moral pedestal all in the name of bashing Trump and, I guess, propping up what&rsquo;s remaining of the Cuban regime. It really is incredible!&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Coss&iacute;o said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4499936\/cuba-military-preparing-us-attack\/\">his country is preparing for the possibility of an invasion<\/a> by the United States on Sunday. He also said that leaders &ldquo;truly hope that it doesn&rsquo;t occur,&rdquo; as &ldquo;we find no justification whatsoever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed on March 13 that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4491199\/cuba-dictator-talk-us-trump-friendly-takeover\/\">the Cuban government has been in talks with the Trump administration<\/a>. President Donald Trump later said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493536\/trump-honor-of-taking-cuba\/\">he expects to have the &ldquo;honor&rdquo; of &ldquo;taking Cuba in some form&rdquo;<\/a> on March 16.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4494637\/how-trump-can-increase-pressure-on-cuban-regime\/\"><strong>HOW TRUMP CAN INCREASE PRESSURE ON THE CUBAN REGIME<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A day after Trump&rsquo;s comment, Diaz-Canel warned that any attempt to force political change on the island would be <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4495766\/cuba-president-miguel-diaz-canel-resistance-leadership-change\/\">met with &ldquo;impregnable resistance.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In January, the U.S. made global news when <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4490725\/trump-warns-opposition-leader-machado-unsafe-to-return-to-venezuela\/\">it captured former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife<\/a>. Both were extracted from the country and sent to New York City where they faced federal charges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha mocks Dems&#8217; luxury Cuba trips during outages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2582922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26081107968406-e1774278787750.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[4091,16183,7958,13954,73764],"class_list":["post-2582921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-activists","tag-blackout","tag-comedy","tag-cuba","tag-joe-concha-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26081107968406-e1774278787750.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582921","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582925,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582921\/revisions\/2582925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2582922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}