It’s often disheartening to hear some of the despicable things the audience of ABC’s The View will applaud for.

Whoopi Goldberg and her compatriots talked about Cuban relations on Monday and parroted loony moral equivocations between human rights in America and Cuba made by Cuban officials. The audience, eager to shower their undying loyalty, erupted in applause as Whoopi repeated the Communist regime's talking points:

“Well on Friday the White House also announced that they are reversing the Obama administration's steps to normalize relations with Cuba because of their (laughing) human rights violations. Forget about the fact he has shaken the hands of some of the biggest despots out there. We won't point that out because that would be wrong of me. And because of their ties to hostile nations like North Korea. But Cuban officials said ‘really?’ Because the U.S. is in no condition to lecture us about human rights given the racial discrimination happening in America now.” (applause)

Such a moral thoroughfare is flatly absurd. Cuba has been under the thumb of Communist despots for decades, and their ongoing legacy of abusing human rights is rife with mass incarceration of dissidents, execution of political opponents, and internment of homosexuals. Whatever your perception of the domestic controversy over law enforcement abuses, such a statement is an obfuscation of Noam Chomsky degree.

There was also a detectable level of contempt for Trump voters by the progressive panelists, most evidently Joy Behar’s bit of nihilism: “Well, the other thing is that he didn't really do that much and he didn't undo what Obama did 100%, but did just enough to say to his base, you see, I undid what Obama did.”

That’s all Trump voters want, after all- to decimate the Obama legacy, just to be mean. They aren’t up to Joy Behar’s intellectual snuff, so they could never have legitimate policy disagreements on Cuban-American relations.

Sunny Hostin was next, prefacing her blatant comparison of Cuba and the United States by saying “'I’m not going to compare the United States to Cuba”:

“We know that Cuba has had a lot of problems but the point they made about the problems that we are having here with racial discrimination, they talked about police brutality, remember, just on Friday the officer that murdered Philando Castile was found not guilty. He shot that man in front of his fiance and her 4-year-old daughter and he had a license to carry and told the officer he was going to reach for his license to carry. That he was armed and he shot him anyway. And so Cuba has somewhat of a point when they talk about a lot of if problems that we have here in the United States.”

No. They have no point. The tragic and inexcusable Castile case, or any perception of systematic racial discrimination in American law enforcement (whose undergirding complaints are contested), gives the Cuban people no leverage to have a moral spar with America.

Whoopi then began interjecting strange comments that, with no nuance, literally accused Trump of the behavior of third world tyrants.

BILA: That’s fine. We have police brutality here. This show, let's try to take this show -- you see the block we just did on Donald Trump. Let's try to take this show over to Cuba and let’s criticize Raul Castro. That wouldn't happen.

BEHAR: You cannot.

HOSTIN: I said, I’m not trying to compare our country to Cuba--

WHOOPI: You can barely do it here.

What in the world is she talking about?

BILA: We do it every day.

WHOOPI: Let's talk about that. [ Applause ]

BILA:We do it every day.

WHOOPI: You know, we're not there yet. But the bottom line is -- go ahead, dear.

BILA: I'm just saying, he makes a lot of mistakes but on this issue he is setting conditions. He's saying release your political prisoners. Have free and fair elections, enable these private citizens.

WHOOPI: You first, Mr. T.

To be clear, Whoopi suggested that, in order for her to get on board with these charges, President Trump first ought to release political prisoners (that he isn’t holding), hold free and fair elections (which is outside of his purview), and enable private citizens to break the chains of oppressive communism (which don't exist). This is lunacy.

The whole segment was an inextricable insult to Cuban families who have made their way to America and know firsthand that any attempt to loop the U.S. in with the thuggish Cuban regime can only come from the mouth of someone who has never seen real tyranny.

Read the full June 19th transcript below: