Rohit Chopra

Here he is from a sanctioned Havana hotel, I think.

Through sheer ignorance, Nick Shirley is confronting the absurdity of American sanctions by staying in a hotel he is definitely not allowed to be staying in.

So critical support to comrade Shirley here, who is facing difficult circumstances.

Let's roll this video that Nick Shirley actually produced.

This is not AI or made up or anything.

Let's roll some Nick Shirley.

All right.

So the interesting thing about that video, one of them at least, when I went over there recently, there was this massive hullabaloo about the fact that we stayed in a quote unquote five star hotel.

When you have a giant group of Americans who are traveling to Cuba,

There are only a couple of hotels that you're allowed to stay in.

You can stay in their version of kind of Airbnbs, but spreading 700 people out around those would be rather logistically difficult.

So among the hotels that you're allowed to stay in, there's only a couple.

because they can't have connections to the Cuban government.

He's staying in one that is fully 100% sanctioned.

I don't think he's deliberately violating American sanctions and supporting the communist.

The argument is by staying there, he's supporting the tyrannical communist government.

And so therefore, he shouldn't be staying there.

and it's a crime, what's the statute of limitations?

Would it be funny if like President Plattner rolls in and like lifts sanctions on Cuba but also prosecutes Shirley for violating them while they were still in place?

So good for Shirley for showing the absurdity of these American sanctions.