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Speaker 1: Prop host of Hood Politics. I love dictators And as
Speaker 1: we start this episode, our friend Papa Doc friends Fall
Speaker 1: Duvalier has made himself into addict hater. You know, um,
Speaker 1: you know, the the election that made him present was questionable,
Speaker 1: but not more questionable than the average election in Haiti.
Speaker 1: But the whole forming your own secret military police force
Speaker 1: thing in order to murder your enemies, that's some dictatorship,
Speaker 1: you know, it's you've you've gone full tator. So d
Speaker 1: Vallier knew that the only force that the military, was
Speaker 1: the only force in Haiti capable of overthrowing his regime.
Speaker 1: So as much as he dedicated the Taunton to the
Speaker 1: Taunton mccoot uh to purging his political rivals and journalists,
Speaker 1: he also said it towards investigating the top command of
Speaker 1: the army. He was careful with this information. Rather than
Speaker 1: use it to carry out public purchase, he instead engaged
Speaker 1: in frequent shakeups of the high command, prematurely retiring officers
Speaker 1: he thought might people link to coue him. At the
Speaker 1: same time, he gradually cut the military budget, trimming its
Speaker 1: numbers to make it something his into something his Taunton
Speaker 1: mccoot could deal with. He also ordered all his of
Speaker 1: the military's armament stored on the grounds of the presidential Palace,
Speaker 1: where he could keep an eye on it, which is
Speaker 1: not a dumb move, like, yeah, we're gonna keep all
Speaker 1: the big guns in my house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean I would feel better. I mean if all
Speaker 1: of our military's big weapons were kept in my basement,
Speaker 1: because at least I know where they are. I know
Speaker 1: where they are you know, I'm not going to use
Speaker 1: them for evil often but all the time, all the time, constantly,
Speaker 1: you're I'm gonna take vacation days and ships. Um. In
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, before the Tom Tom mccoop were formally organized.
Speaker 1: But obviously you've got Clement Barbow, he's starting to like
Speaker 1: gear stuff up. They haven't just haven't earned their name yet. Um.
Speaker 1: The new president used his its predecessors to crack down
Speaker 1: and what he saw is the first threat to his reign,
Speaker 1: which was the labor union movement in Haiti. He canceled
Speaker 1: that year's May Day rally, he had the leader of
Speaker 1: the local union arrested, and he started sending out his
Speaker 1: men to beat into which your labeler organizers. When the
Speaker 1: Tanton mccoot came into being, Duvalier set them after this
Speaker 1: task with Gusto, and by nineteen sixty the Haitian labor
Speaker 1: union movement was completely dead. Now. The men who were
Speaker 1: selected to join the Tanton mccoot were people with no
Speaker 1: real other options for success in Haitian society. As one
Speaker 1: right up by Charles River, editors noted quote. Ex soldiers
Speaker 1: were recruited alongside criminal street thugs and sundry opportunists of
Speaker 1: every stripe, and the entire contingent was then armed and
Speaker 1: occasionally paid and given license to extort. Now that last
Speaker 1: bit is crucial. They usually weren't paid, and when they were,
Speaker 1: they were not paid. Well, that was not a downside.
Speaker 1: That actually increased their loyalty because they in addition to
Speaker 1: not paying them, they said, you're basically like you can
Speaker 1: do anything like as like, we're not going to pay you,
Speaker 1: but you you you have the authority of the president.
Speaker 1: You can break whatever fucking laws you want to break. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's interesting that the tie between that's interesting,
Speaker 1: the tie between being like, well, if we paid you,
Speaker 1: then that would mean that we're kind of responsible for
Speaker 1: your choices, and we don't pay you. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't pay them. They do what they want.
Speaker 1: It also makes them more dependent on the regime because
Speaker 1: if you're if the tontime MACUTER like a normal police agency, right,
Speaker 1: and you have a salary, then they could support someone
Speaker 1: else taking power, right, Like someone else could take power
Speaker 1: and then they're just like, oh, well, they were just
Speaker 1: cops doing their jobs and they can keep being cops
Speaker 1: doing their jobs under the new regime. If they make
Speaker 1: their money by extorting people and taking bribes and like
Speaker 1: committing crimes and they're only allowed to do that because
Speaker 1: the regime is friendly to them, then they have no
Speaker 1: legitimate place in society outside of the regime. And they're
Speaker 1: also they're committing all these crimes, so they know that
Speaker 1: if the regime loses power, people are going to commit
Speaker 1: me because they're pissed, you know. Um. Yeah, So their
Speaker 1: comfort is entirely tied to the fact that the regime
Speaker 1: allows them to operate as a mafia. These guys are
Speaker 1: basically a mafia right there, am FIA slash FBI um,
Speaker 1: which is different from the regular FBI because their badges
Speaker 1: aren't as nice. Now. The Taunton uniforms, such as it was,
Speaker 1: consisted of dark sunglasses, straw hats, blue denim shirts, and
Speaker 1: in many cases machetes. They were allowed to disregard what
Speaker 1: passed for Haitian civil rights protections, but they were not
Speaker 1: accountable to any branch of law enforcement or anyone at
Speaker 1: all but Papa Dock. By nineteen sixty there were thousands
Speaker 1: of Taunton mccoot. Now I think they topped at like
Speaker 1: nine thousands there's a lot of these guys. It takes
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, it takes a lot. Now, the problem
Speaker 1: with creating a secret police slash militia force like this
Speaker 1: is that you're going to need someone to run them.
Speaker 1: And if the first pick is obviously Clement Barbo, the
Speaker 1: President trusts him. He'd done a good job, and he
Speaker 1: did a good job of setting up this regime of terror.
Speaker 1: From the New York Times quote and his crackdown on
Speaker 1: potential troublemakers, notably those who had opposed his electioners stood
Speaker 1: as a threat to any possible coup. Many were granted
Speaker 1: asylum in foreign embassies. His rivals in the election fled
Speaker 1: the country, but Taunton executioners few serious That one of
Speaker 1: the losing candidates, Clement Jummel, had escaped, tracked down two
Speaker 1: of his brothers and gunned them down as they surrendered
Speaker 1: hands up. Opposition newspapers were bombed by Tanton hooligans. During
Speaker 1: the first year of Duvalier's revolution, Editors and publishers of
Speaker 1: seven leading periodicals were jailed, and most of them were tortured.
Speaker 1: Mrs Yvonne Rampel, director of the anti Duvalier Fortnitely Lescal
Speaker 1: was beaten unconscious before her children and taken by a
Speaker 1: dozen tauntons to the outskirts of Port of Prints, where
Speaker 1: they tortured and raped her and left her dying. So
Speaker 1: pretty bad, dudes, Yeah, man, yeah, got dog man Now,
Speaker 1: I just I just hate this so much. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's real bad. It's real bad. Now, if you've never
Speaker 1: orchestrated repressive regime that murders huge numbers of people, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you might be surprised to learn that this pisses people off. Um.
Speaker 1: People don't like it when you do that. Actually, it's
Speaker 1: historically unpopular call um. And a lot of these exiled
Speaker 1: politicians who like escape but their families get killed, And
Speaker 1: a lot of citizens who like leave because they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't gonna go anywhere. Well, they don't want to
Speaker 1: just like leave Haiti and be like, well, I guess
Speaker 1: an assholes in charge now, right. They try to overthrow
Speaker 1: the regime. Um, and so they start raising these kind
Speaker 1: of exile militias that will periodically enter the country to
Speaker 1: try to take over. And these guys aren't generally trying
Speaker 1: to do like they're not like whole armies. They're small
Speaker 1: groups that are trying to come in and like raise
Speaker 1: the people up. And because it's not there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of soldiers in the Haitian army. You don't need
Speaker 1: to like make a whole war thing, you know, you
Speaker 1: just have to take out the right people. It's a
Speaker 1: flo side note as an American, how often governments get overthrown? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I like tempted to be overthrown like thirty guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it happens all the time and has all
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah. Um, we're not in support of this coup,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't have to succeed. The first of these
Speaker 1: exile militias attacks Haiti in nineteen fifty nine. It's a
Speaker 1: group of thirty men. They land on the Haitian north
Speaker 1: coast after sitting sales Cuba. And obviously these guys are
Speaker 1: backed by the Cuban government. Right. We do the same
Speaker 1: thing all throughout Latin America. In this case, the Cuban
Speaker 1: government gives some some guys heavy weapons, um, and they
Speaker 1: see some initial success. They take over an army post,
Speaker 1: they start to recruit and hand out guns to nearby villagers,
Speaker 1: and in pretty short order, two hundred people have joined them. Now,
Speaker 1: while this happens like as these exiles are starting to
Speaker 1: form their military, Haitian exiles and Venezuela start broadcasting appeals
Speaker 1: to their countrymen, like sending out radio broadcasts that reach
Speaker 1: Haiti to aid the insurgents. Now, two hundred men not
Speaker 1: a huge force, but after two years of Devolierism, the
Speaker 1: army is extremely weak, and the dictator was hesitant to
Speaker 1: give them the weapons they would need to turn back
Speaker 1: this invasion because then they might use the weapons on him.
Speaker 1: So he's in a bad position, right, Two guys properly
Speaker 1: organized and equipped could actually funk up his reach put off.
Speaker 1: He's very worried about this, and it actually, by some accounts,
Speaker 1: comes pretty close to to taking him out. But thankfully,
Speaker 1: prop thankfully, oh, Papa Doc has a friend, and that
Speaker 1: friend is the United States government, particularly the United States Army.
Speaker 1: We have a military mission in Haiti, and we had
Speaker 1: a good relationship with Duvalier because he was anti communist,
Speaker 1: and he was an anti communist because he cared about
Speaker 1: anything particularly he was anti communist, because that gets you
Speaker 1: us support, right um. Now, Duvolier uh basically is like, hey, America,
Speaker 1: some some mean guys are here. And because like don't worry, buddy.
Speaker 1: We've got the Marine Corps and planes and they kill
Speaker 1: all these rebels pretty quick. Um, well, some of them flat,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they kill a bunch of dudes. Now. The
Speaker 1: commander of the US mission in Haiti was a colonel
Speaker 1: named Robert heinel Um, and he was well aware of
Speaker 1: how terrible the regime he was propping up was. At
Speaker 1: one point, his twelve year old son was arrested by
Speaker 1: the Tonton mccoot because he expressed sympathy for a group
Speaker 1: of starving peasants. So the guy who's massacring these revolutionaries
Speaker 1: knows that he's helping the bad guys, but it's his job. Um.
Speaker 1: Finel's orders from the State Department were very clear. He
Speaker 1: later recalled what he was told by a State Department
Speaker 1: official when he took the gig. Quote, Colonel, the most
Speaker 1: important way you can support our objectives in Haiti is
Speaker 1: to help keep da Vallier in power so he can
Speaker 1: serve out his full term in office and maybe a
Speaker 1: little longer than that if everything works out. Okay, got it,
Speaker 1: got it? You get the feeling. Heinel feels bad about this. Later,
Speaker 1: he didn't stop him from being the you know, didn't
Speaker 1: stop Smedley, you know, at the same time, although maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit longer, maybe a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: his term where the State Department, we don't give a
Speaker 1: ship as far as Papa Doc went, his regime weathers
Speaker 1: the rebellion, right, it's it's a rough point for for
Speaker 1: a while, but they get through with the help of
Speaker 1: the US. But he has a lot of stress because
Speaker 1: people are trying to overthrow him, and all of this
Speaker 1: stress causes him to have a heart attack, which he
Speaker 1: near he dies from. Thankfully, his good buddy of the
Speaker 1: United States of America was there to help. Again. We
Speaker 1: flew in teams medical teams from Guantanamo Bay and Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. To operate on the dictator's heart and save
Speaker 1: his life. Why are so bad, like maybe consistently inconsistent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're going to a dictator. Yeah, we overthrow
Speaker 1: dictatorships asterix go to the bottom. This dictators we don't like,
Speaker 1: that's you know what I'm saying. But there's some dictators
Speaker 1: that like yo tator and kind of like why are
Speaker 1: we so extra for somebody, Like why effort somewhere that's needed?
Speaker 1: Family like America? Ye, good times. They would argue, we
Speaker 1: are working for America, is their argument. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean they are. I guess, I don't know. Whatever. So
Speaker 1: Devolier survives his fucking heart attack, and during his recovery
Speaker 1: he's able to properly unable to. But like so he's
Speaker 1: like fucked up for a while, and he can't be
Speaker 1: a dictator when you're when you're sick, well no, because
Speaker 1: power falls to his number two man, Clement Barbou, the
Speaker 1: guy who murdered like Clement Barnbow, gets the nickname the
Speaker 1: Muffler because of how good he is at silencing people.
Speaker 1: Good God, So he's not a nice guy, The Muffler.
Speaker 1: That nickname is so hard, but like horrible, it's very hard, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. It is like i'd want to be I'd
Speaker 1: want to be called them. Yeah, you don't get that
Speaker 1: nickname unless you're like a scary son of and this
Speaker 1: guy will be talking about him more, is terrifying. So
Speaker 1: by all accounts, Barbau does a good job of holding
Speaker 1: onto powerful Duvaliere. But the problem is that if your
Speaker 1: boss is a paranoid psychopath, they're not great at trust.
Speaker 1: So Papa Doc recovers and he takes back power, but
Speaker 1: he decides the chances are better than zero that his
Speaker 1: trusted aid had spent the time while he was fucked
Speaker 1: up plotting against him. Because again Davalier grows up through
Speaker 1: like a dozen goods. Yeah, he doesn't even wait to
Speaker 1: see if that's the case. He just immediately throws Barboa
Speaker 1: in prison for sixteen months, like like, come on, bro,
Speaker 1: are you serious? Okay, of course I was plotting your murder,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but say now back in the saddle. Davolier
Speaker 1: decided that his next job was to get rid of
Speaker 1: the pesky term limits that the Haitian constitution, which he
Speaker 1: had written called for his first term, was set to
Speaker 1: end in nineteen sixty three. So he got together with
Speaker 1: his attorney general and had him put together a surprise
Speaker 1: early election. Francois du Volier was the only person allowed
Speaker 1: to run for president. His party was the only party
Speaker 1: allowed to field candidates, so Haitian voters basically got a
Speaker 1: slip of paper with Duvolier's name on it, and whatever
Speaker 1: they might want to do, he was going to get reelected,
Speaker 1: which he was by a margin of thirteen million votes. Again,
Speaker 1: he didn't get all those votes, but there also, weren't
Speaker 1: other options. Yeah, yeah, they've got a multiple choice, is
Speaker 1: the answer? A. That's it. That's the If you write
Speaker 1: anything but A, we are shooting you. Yeah. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: when he was told that he had won by such
Speaker 1: a totally legitimate margin, he is said to have declared
Speaker 1: as a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the
Speaker 1: voice of the people. Well, if they want me that
Speaker 1: bad man, I'm just saying that's what they said, Ain't
Speaker 1: that right? That's what I said. That's what they said.
Speaker 1: They voted for me. What you want me to say?
Speaker 1: Who am? I? I love it? Now. This frustrated the
Speaker 1: United States, who preferred the strongman that they backed to
Speaker 1: put in a little bit more effort into hiding their
Speaker 1: naked authoritarianism. Earlier that year, we've given Duvalier fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars in economic and military to help prop the regime
Speaker 1: up because grampant corruption had hollowed out the government's ability
Speaker 1: to do any of them most basic tasks of governing.
Speaker 1: Um and the US was frustrated that Duvalier had taken
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars and then made such a naked power grab. Again,
Speaker 1: we had no problem with this guy, staying in past
Speaker 1: his term limits. But we didn't like how blatant it
Speaker 1: was right to make it obvious, maam. We were also frustrated.
Speaker 1: That same year he took some of that fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars and used to make a utopian named after himself.
Speaker 1: He called it Duvolierville because dictators are not subtle people,
Speaker 1: and it was a town built as a monument to himself. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: not that creative either. He selected an existing village named
Speaker 1: Cabaret as the location for his new project. Construction started
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty one and continued for several years. To
Speaker 1: finances model city, he instituted heavy taxes on sugar, rice
Speaker 1: and cooking oil. He docked the salaries of government workers,
Speaker 1: and he forced them to buy bonds and lottery tickets.
Speaker 1: Foreign businessmen were shaped down for contributions. Construction included a
Speaker 1: water treatment plant which ever successfully treated any water, and
Speaker 1: had a giant Greek style theater. From what I've been
Speaker 1: able to find, was mostly used to store chickens. I
Speaker 1: found a right up about the village in nineteen eighties six,
Speaker 1: which shows where the project was twenty four years after
Speaker 1: the start of construction. From the Chicago Tribune quote. We
Speaker 1: don't have water, we don't have schools, we don't that
Speaker 1: we don't have to pay for, and we don't have
Speaker 1: a hospital, said Petite for Wilbert. What we have our
Speaker 1: buildings with the name of the president's family. As one
Speaker 1: enters du Volierville, a town of ten thousand people, there
Speaker 1: is a large and now de face neon sign with
Speaker 1: a light spelling out the name Francois du Volier. Just
Speaker 1: beyond the sign lie a few square blocks of one
Speaker 1: story cinder block houses. Chickens, goats, and the semi clothe
Speaker 1: children wander amid the crumbling sidewalks that are the only
Speaker 1: paved streets in this town. We have seven Sundays in Duvalierville,
Speaker 1: the thirty five year old Wilbert said, ruling the lack
Speaker 1: of jobs. The main complaint from the desperately poor people
Speaker 1: here is about the lack of fresh water. The nearest
Speaker 1: sources seven miles away, and the residents have to pay
Speaker 1: people to bring it to them. A giant hugs the
Speaker 1: project is there. It was going to treat the water
Speaker 1: from the river, said Father Vital Middy, the parish priest,
Speaker 1: talking about a plant. The elder Duvolier started to build
Speaker 1: and never finished, but it has never worked. Father Middy
Speaker 1: explained that work was begun in nineteen sixty two and
Speaker 1: that once the late president inaugurated his pet project, nothing
Speaker 1: more was done. Dude, First of all, at the phrase
Speaker 1: seven sundays. Yeah, yeah, because we got no fucking jobs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got seven Sundays. Also, can you imagine somebody asking you, hey, so,
Speaker 1: how's that city named after you? Completely? Yea, it is fucked.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you to go there. It's terrible, like yeah,
Speaker 1: but but but I built a city, now you did
Speaker 1: You didn't build, Yeah, I just named it and then
Speaker 1: fucked it up. Yeah. So that same year nineteen sixty two,
Speaker 1: when constructions kicking off for Duvalier, Ville, Clement barbo who
Speaker 1: gets out of prison, you know it is now at
Speaker 1: a prison after sixteen months, begins plotting to remove Duvolier
Speaker 1: from office. And if it wasn't yeah, Now, Barbeau was
Speaker 1: a frightening man, and he immediately launched a campaign of
Speaker 1: very effective terrorism against the regime. In April of nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty three, four of Duvolier's bodyguards were shot dead while
Speaker 1: escorting his children to school. The kids were unharmed, but
Speaker 1: Barboa sent Papa Doc a letter that made the meaning
Speaker 1: of this attack very clear. Just target practice, basically, I
Speaker 1: was I was just preparing to fucking kill you people.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to check out if my guns were working.
Speaker 1: So I killed your kids bodyguards and hey, I didn't
Speaker 1: miss I didn't miss. Yeah. Weeks later, Barbo's men attacked
Speaker 1: the schoolhouse filled with Duvolier supporters who were waiting for
Speaker 1: their chance to come out and cheer the dictator on.
Speaker 1: They've been packed into the schoolhouse as part of like
Speaker 1: he was having a march through town. Right um, They've
Speaker 1: been forced in there, and Barboux decides to ruin this
Speaker 1: photo op and just machine guns the school kill seven people. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the knowledge that Duvalier supporters could be although again,
Speaker 1: these people didn't have the choice to support Duvolier right
Speaker 1: like yeah, um, the knowledge that his supporters could be
Speaker 1: massacred at a government rally shook the regime. From Time
Speaker 1: magazine quote, Duvolier sent militia patrols to comb Porta Princes
Speaker 1: festering slums, but Barbeau laid clever ambushes. In one final loan,
Speaker 1: thirty loyal duvalieris were reported killed. While Duvalier's men were
Speaker 1: out chasing him. Barbeau rated their lightly guarded barracks for arms.
Speaker 1: He even telephoned the palace one day wanting du Volier
Speaker 1: not to drink his coffee. It was poisoned, said Barbeaux Sky. Yeah, god,
Speaker 1: he doing like you shouldn't drinking coffee, Like what because
Speaker 1: I fucking poisoned it poison Like, oh, you're just gonna
Speaker 1: tell me about it? I mean, yeah, go ahead and
Speaker 1: sip it in. Like what this guy he gets one
Speaker 1: are the only his thing, y'all. Only saving grace in
Speaker 1: being under a dick hatership like that is knowing that
Speaker 1: if you just support the dictator, you can't get touched.
Speaker 1: And what this dude is just ruined that security that like,
Speaker 1: oh no, you can still get touched. He is fucking
Speaker 1: shipped up. And there's this amazing moment where he gets
Speaker 1: cornered in a building and they just machine gun the
Speaker 1: building he's in, blow it up and ship and a
Speaker 1: black dog runs out of the building like he had
Speaker 1: escaped somehow, but there was a dog and there the
Speaker 1: dog runs out and it starts this myth that Barbo
Speaker 1: can't be killed because he has the power to change himself.
Speaker 1: He has the voodoo power to change into a black
Speaker 1: dog and scape at will. So to follow he, being
Speaker 1: the kind of dude he is, orders every black dog
Speaker 1: and Haiti shot on site. Word. Oh he's a black dog. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: gang bang. Now you know who won't order dogs assassinated?
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Speaker 1: ad break we just had. So as the whole ordering
Speaker 1: all of the dogs that looked wrong shot thing might
Speaker 1: have keep you in on Papa Ducks kind of paranoid
Speaker 1: in this period. He's always been a paranoid guy, and
Speaker 1: his paranoia was ratcheted up because of the c i A. So, well,
Speaker 1: this is all happening. Kennedy takes power in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: well not whatever. Kennedy's elected in nineteen sixty one, and
Speaker 1: that changes US policy towards Haiti because Kennedy does not
Speaker 1: like Haiti um and it becomes US policy. US had
Speaker 1: supported Papa Doc prior to this. Uh, it becomes Kennedy's
Speaker 1: policy to force Papa Dock out of power. So he
Speaker 1: sets the CIA to this task. The CIA, because they're
Speaker 1: never quite as smart as as people like to think
Speaker 1: they are. Um, let's see, IA decides that because he's superstitious. Um,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do is they buy the rights to
Speaker 1: rewrite the horoscope predictions for his astrological sign in a
Speaker 1: French monthly magazine called Horoscope. That TV red that's the
Speaker 1: CIA plan. That's fun, this funking. I mean they also
Speaker 1: try to arm dissidents and stuff like like they were
Speaker 1: his horoscope, tuck him up. Yeah, this is the time
Speaker 1: of the exploding cigar, you know, Like, okay, so mad.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine being on the pitch team during this time? Like, yo, fun?
Speaker 1: What about horoscopes? Yeah? Okay, guys, hear me out here,
Speaker 1: me out the man reads a horoscope every day. What
Speaker 1: if we just what if we just yeah, yeah, what's
Speaker 1: a sign? I got an idea? Yeah, yeah, I have
Speaker 1: not come across the tales and what they wrote for
Speaker 1: his horoscopes. But this was not the only time the
Speaker 1: CIA dabbled in astrology. In the nineteen fifties, they created
Speaker 1: and distributed an astrological almanac and Vietnam in order to
Speaker 1: play on fears and superstitions that were common in northern Vietnam.
Speaker 1: They also repeatedly threw in predictions about prosperity in southern
Speaker 1: Vietnam to try and make life there look more attractive. Um,
Speaker 1: you may notice that didn't work, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it works here. I don't have no way of knowing
Speaker 1: if this makes him more paranoid, if like, maybe it does.
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell. With Papa doc Um. I just
Speaker 1: thought that was funny. Fired. He's like, right before the
Speaker 1: person wants to stay at office, what do we do horoscopes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good day's Yeah, at least nobody dies, leasna
Speaker 1: have to go there. You know, we are so busy
Speaker 1: killing people in Guatemala. Let's just try the horoscope thing. Yeah. So, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll see. Uh. My guesses they were
Speaker 1: probably trying to make him like feel like death was
Speaker 1: coming for him and he should probably be an exile.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work anyway. Back to Barbell. In July of
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, Barbo's luck runs out. He had decided
Speaker 1: to gather all of his supporters and launch an attack
Speaker 1: on the dictator, but someone tipped the attack off to Duvalier,
Speaker 1: and he sent a swarm of Tonton mccoot to Barbo's
Speaker 1: hiding place in a sugarcane field, and they just light
Speaker 1: the whole field on fire. When Barbone has men try
Speaker 1: to escape, their machine gun to death, and famously Papa
Speaker 1: Doc has his head cut off, put on ice and
Speaker 1: delivered to the palace um because he's that kind of dude. Now,
Speaker 1: the regime kills at least fifty other people during the
Speaker 1: panic over Barbo. Dozens more picked up on suspicion of
Speaker 1: being antidivaliarist, and I never heard from again. By the
Speaker 1: time the whole sordid business is over, however, the regime
Speaker 1: found itself in a relatively solid position. The greatest threat
Speaker 1: to Papa Doc's reign was gone. There were several more
Speaker 1: invasions by groups of exiles, most of which were launched
Speaker 1: from inside the Dominican Republic, Haiti's neighbor. Again, they don't
Speaker 1: get along, uh and and and fucking and Papa Doctor
Speaker 1: as much of fucked up ship towards Haiti. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of like yeah, like I'm not putting it on
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republican again overthrowing Papa Dox, broadly speaking, a
Speaker 1: good thing to do because he sucks um. So in
Speaker 1: order to deal with all of these like cross border
Speaker 1: attacks from the Dominican Republic, and to stop his own citizens.
Speaker 1: More than that, to stop his own citizens from fleeing
Speaker 1: to the Dominican Republic, Davolier burns a three square mile
Speaker 1: swath of forest around the border between the two countries,
Speaker 1: creating a no man's land so his soldiers can gun
Speaker 1: down anyone trying to flee into or out of the country.
Speaker 1: One threat to his regime came from a former army
Speaker 1: officer who was also a voodoo guy and who bragged
Speaker 1: that he was immune to death. Davolier had his men
Speaker 1: proved the officer wrong by cutting his head off, putting
Speaker 1: it in a bucket of ice, and sending it to
Speaker 1: the presidential palace. He did this a few times. In
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, Davolier ditched all pretense and made himself
Speaker 1: president for life. He had a group of army officers
Speaker 1: circulated petition demanding that he'd do this. Then he had
Speaker 1: his legislature replaced the constitution that he'd written years before
Speaker 1: with one that legalized lifelong presidency. Then he had another
Speaker 1: referendum where he was again the sole candidate. He was
Speaker 1: inaugurated president for life on June twenty two, nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1: From that point on, a lot of professionals in Haiti,
Speaker 1: people with marketable skills like running a country, started to
Speaker 1: flee for literally anywhere else. They're like us. Doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like it's head in a good direct. This guy's already
Speaker 1: lasted longer than any of the other previously. This is
Speaker 1: not going to gonna end anywhere. While we should get
Speaker 1: the funk out um, the fact that everyone who knows
Speaker 1: how to do anything leaves means that the health care
Speaker 1: and educational systems collapse entirely. School just stops being a
Speaker 1: thing from because there's not fucking teachers. Duvolier confiscated peasant
Speaker 1: land holdings and increased taxes on the poor, siphoning off
Speaker 1: about five million dollars in taxes and foreign aid to
Speaker 1: his personal fortune. Malnutrition and famine became endemic. His Taunton
Speaker 1: mccoot grew larger and killed more people every year, beating
Speaker 1: and torturing not just dissidents, but any person individual. Tauntons
Speaker 1: took a dislike to as the regime wore on, so
Speaker 1: did the repression. From the New York Times quote, After
Speaker 1: six teenagers painted a down with Duvalier sign on the
Speaker 1: Port up prints wall and were executed without trial, President
Speaker 1: Duvalier ordered that all youth organizations, even the Boy Scouts,
Speaker 1: be disbanded. He deported clergyman who criticized his rule, earning
Speaker 1: his own excommunity cacation from the Roman Catholic Church. He
Speaker 1: ignored Rome, however, and continued to attend mass carrying a
Speaker 1: rifle inflanked by six to ten bodyguards. Tell me, how
Speaker 1: are you gonna tell me what God? I sir, I'm
Speaker 1: going to church today? These brothers with these weapons, tell
Speaker 1: to do it with the sticks back here? I can't. Community. Yes,
Speaker 1: send those Swiss motherfucker's with the birds and see how
Speaker 1: they do. Send him down. Come round hood, hey, no
Speaker 1: no no, no, no no no no no, hey, you shut
Speaker 1: the funk up. All right past the past, the go ahead. Continue.
Speaker 1: Even duvalier strong willed favorite daughter Marie Denise, fell victim
Speaker 1: to his wrath when she insisted on marrying a Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Colonel Max Dominique, a handsome black, Despite his public stance
Speaker 1: that Haiti belonged to the blacks. Papa Doc had married
Speaker 1: a mulatto and made it no secret that he wanted
Speaker 1: his children to follow his example. Of course, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: After their marriage in nineteen sixty seven, President Duvalier got
Speaker 1: the manifest Site by appointing Colonel Dominique ambassador to Spain.
Speaker 1: Hours after the Dominiques had left, Papa Doc rounded up
Speaker 1: nineteen of their army officer friends and, after accusing them
Speaker 1: of plotting against him, personally led the firing squad that
Speaker 1: executed them. Yeah, and that's why White Clef John left
Speaker 1: and started the fujis in I'm just yeah, I think so,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened. That's how the fuji started was him.
Speaker 1: He was there in Haiti during this and his mama
Speaker 1: was like, yo, we gotta go. Yes, this is not
Speaker 1: going to end well yeah yeah, that's where he met
Speaker 1: Lauren Hill and that's why we have the So something
Speaker 1: good came out of the roy we got we got
Speaker 1: we got the Shakira song yeh with White Clep there. Yes,
Speaker 1: we didn't get any good hip hop acts out of Hitler.
Speaker 1: Wait a second that was excellent? Was that was that
Speaker 1: spot on you know the trick for secura is you
Speaker 1: have to kind she's kind of kermit. It's kind of kermit,
Speaker 1: but you have to do it on key. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to give that some shine because okay, appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't know if I could do it
Speaker 1: again because it was so off the head. Yeah anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, so uh. Davolier spent much of the middle
Speaker 1: late sixties engaging in an escalating war with the Catholic
Speaker 1: Church clergy. He could not briber, threatened would be arrested.
Speaker 1: He exiled several bishops of papal nuncio and numerous priests.
Speaker 1: He confiscated church property, and in nineteen sixty six he
Speaker 1: succeeded in bringing the Vatican to the negotiating table. The
Speaker 1: end result was an accord that allowed him to nationalize
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church of Haiti, effectively making him the head
Speaker 1: of Haitian Catholicism. He was given the power to name
Speaker 1: bishops and archbishops, albeit with the approval of the Holy See.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you something. When you start traveling
Speaker 1: hoods and you like no like like Haitian, like Haitian
Speaker 1: thugs like Haitian gangsters, and justice like these people are
Speaker 1: afraid of nothing. And and now like understanding the sort
Speaker 1: of the cultural mew meal you where like even the
Speaker 1: dictator was like, okay, first of all, we overthrew our oppressors.
Speaker 1: Then we overthrew every politic or every uh colonial force.
Speaker 1: And now we've ben't told the Catholic Church what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do. You understand what I'm saying. You think you're
Speaker 1: gonna serve from cocaine on my block? Like that that
Speaker 1: this is making all that makes sense that like some
Speaker 1: of the hoods in Miami would like these like way
Speaker 1: like the Hatians do out there. Are you just like stated,
Speaker 1: there's some people that you like, stay to hell out
Speaker 1: their way, you know, and it is known you stay
Speaker 1: out the Haitians. Just stay out their way, let them
Speaker 1: do what they're doing. And I'm seeing now even at
Speaker 1: the government level, you should just stay to hell out
Speaker 1: their way. Yeah. And it's you know, it is a
Speaker 1: mark of the level of skill and how frightening this
Speaker 1: guy is that he's able to get He gets the
Speaker 1: Catholic Church to like the seeds some of their sovereignty,
Speaker 1: and the Catholic Church is like, yeah, you know, there
Speaker 1: there is there as hard as it gets pretty much
Speaker 1: with this millennial long yeah regime here, they've kept the
Speaker 1: ship going a while, and they're like right, like we
Speaker 1: we we've got to we've got to bow to you
Speaker 1: some Okay, we all want no parts. It is go ahead,
Speaker 1: do what you want to do. So uh yeah. Now unfortunately,
Speaker 1: uh well, fortunately, I guess people die. Uh. And by
Speaker 1: the late nineteen sixties he's old, he's in bad health. Um.
Speaker 1: He tries to kind of burnish his image at the
Speaker 1: end by putting out a bunch of propaganda about like
Speaker 1: how cool the Duvolarist revolution, and he tries to actually
Speaker 1: tie himself to like Mao and other great revolutionaries, even
Speaker 1: though he'd spent his life as an anti communist. It's weird. Um.
Speaker 1: One of the things he does is he adapts the
Speaker 1: Lord's prayer so that Haitians can pray to him. Um.
Speaker 1: And the adaptation goes, our doc who aren't in the
Speaker 1: National Palace for life, how lo would be thy name
Speaker 1: by present in future generations that will be done at Porta,
Speaker 1: Prince and in the provinces, give us this day, our
Speaker 1: new Haiti, and never forgive the trespasses of the antipatriots.
Speaker 1: Who spent every day on our country. Let them succumb
Speaker 1: to temptation and under the weight of their venom, deliver
Speaker 1: them not from evil. He took the most wholesome part,
Speaker 1: the most wholesome part, the most redeeming part of the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Was like, oh man, you know what, how
Speaker 1: you know your kind of give us this day our
Speaker 1: daily bread. You know, forgive our debts as we forgive
Speaker 1: our debtors. Like the one part you could say is
Speaker 1: like this is pretty good, you know, just this idea
Speaker 1: of radical forgiveness. He's like, and don't you ever in
Speaker 1: your life forgive these people? Dog hard So Davoliers propagandists
Speaker 1: put out a book, you know. Anyway, they do a
Speaker 1: bunch of trying to tie him, like make him into
Speaker 1: the great revolutionary leader. That's kind of his last big flex.
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy, he suffers a horrible heart attack. Um,
Speaker 1: and like most men who suffer their second big heart attack,
Speaker 1: after thirteen years of suppressing rebellions, Papa Doc starts thinking
Speaker 1: about his mortality. UM. He decides he wants to be
Speaker 1: succeeded by his only son, Jean Claude, a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old giant who up until that point has mostly been
Speaker 1: a party kid. Papa Doc had his legislature changed the
Speaker 1: constitution again, which sort of begs the question of why
Speaker 1: he bothered having a constitution in the first place. The
Speaker 1: second constitution that he'd written in sixty four had stipulated
Speaker 1: that the president for life had to be forty years old.
Speaker 1: He changed this. He holds another referendum and asked people
Speaker 1: to vote yea or nay on this question. Citizen Doctor
Speaker 1: Francois du Volier has chosen citizen John Claude Duvalier to
Speaker 1: succeed him to the presidency for life of the Republic.
Speaker 1: Does this choice answer your aspirations and your desisures? Um? Obviously? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Papa Doc gets his way, um. And two months later,
Speaker 1: in February nineteen seventy one, Papa Doc Duvalier dies. An
Speaker 1: estimated forty Haitians had died under his rule from a
Speaker 1: mix of starvation, malnutrition, and murder. And we're going to
Speaker 1: give the story much shorter story of Jean Claude Duvalier.
Speaker 1: But first, you know who didn't kill forty people? The
Speaker 1: products and services? That's that's right, that's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: all right, We're back. So, Jean Claude Duvalier did not
Speaker 1: really want to be president for life. Um. Prior to
Speaker 1: taking power, he'd spent most of his time living in
Speaker 1: the palace. He never really left the capital. He was
Speaker 1: not very smart. He seems to have known this. He
Speaker 1: was not very power hungry. Um. He suggested his sister
Speaker 1: Marie Denise take the job, but his father said no. Um.
Speaker 1: On the day he was sworn into office, Jean Claude
Speaker 1: missed his own coronation because he was too high on valium,
Speaker 1: because he was Yeah, I love it. He's like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just rich. I just want to rich. I'm just rich.
Speaker 1: Don't work, Hey, you do it? Yeah. Look, my sister
Speaker 1: she loves audit. I'm not great at history, but I
Speaker 1: know enough to know that it's hard to be the
Speaker 1: president of what you going through? Are you stressed out
Speaker 1: all the time? Killing everybody that seemed miserable? He missed,
Speaker 1: won't this? Uh? So. The one sign that he might
Speaker 1: have some steel in him had come in nineteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: when John Claude was fifteen. His fa father had flown
Speaker 1: into a rage at his mother and started hitting her,
Speaker 1: and John Claude had shoved Papa Doc into a room
Speaker 1: and locked him there for three hours. UM. That said,
Speaker 1: the story was not widely known, and most foreign pundits
Speaker 1: assumed he was going to lose power pretty quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: But of course that's not how it went. He surprised
Speaker 1: the people who thought that he was going to be
Speaker 1: out quickly. He put on a friendlier mask to the
Speaker 1: international community. Um. While his family, namely his sister and
Speaker 1: his mom were the power behind the throne. Um. Meanwhile, like, well,
Speaker 1: they were continuing to do pretty brutal ship. He opens
Speaker 1: the palace to journalists. He starts paying off the country's debts. Uh.
Speaker 1: He modernizes. He supports a quickie divorce law that makes
Speaker 1: Haiti a tourist mecca. You can get divorced in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, so people start going there to divorce. Um.
Speaker 1: And he gets good at cleaning up prisons, like right
Speaker 1: before international observers visit. So he starts to like make
Speaker 1: a play for now. I'm gonna modernize. I'm gonna fix
Speaker 1: a lot of this ship that's wrong. We're gonna fix
Speaker 1: this stuff. We're gonna clean up Haiti. Um. Davalier also
Speaker 1: opened the country to foreign business and economic liberalization. He
Speaker 1: called Jean claudeis um. This mostly meant giving US businesses
Speaker 1: a lot of tax breaks and ship and letting take
Speaker 1: advantage of cheap labor uh and letting them use the
Speaker 1: Taunton mccoots to crack it down on any unions that
Speaker 1: tried to form and damn Sean Claude. So all of
Speaker 1: this makes the US government really happy. Oh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: crack out on unions again. You gotta let businesses in.
Speaker 1: For the first couple of years of his rule, for
Speaker 1: and aid increased to Haiti by more than eight percent UM. Now, obviously,
Speaker 1: as I said, his his mom and his sister are
Speaker 1: the real power, and they're kind of a odds with
Speaker 1: each other. His mom is a traditionalist. She wants to
Speaker 1: do things the way that Dad had done things. UM.
Speaker 1: His sister is more actually does want to seem to
Speaker 1: want to modernize at least some things. The to fight
Speaker 1: all the time, Baby Doc mostly spends his time playing
Speaker 1: with fast cars and partying. In nineteen and other horrible
Speaker 1: famine hits the country, Baby Doc begs the US for aid.
Speaker 1: The United States obliges, and all those cash and food
Speaker 1: shipments go directly into the hands of his powerful supporters.
Speaker 1: This was discovered immediately. Congressman started yelling about Haitian corruption
Speaker 1: until Baby Doc arrested a handful of people. But this
Speaker 1: did not stop the famine or make Hatie less corrupt,
Speaker 1: and in seventy six, Haitian refugees start flooding into the
Speaker 1: United States. A lot of these guys die. It's a
Speaker 1: really horrible trip. There's a lot of gruesome pictures of it,
Speaker 1: and people get outraged. In nineteen seventy six, Jimmy Carter
Speaker 1: takes office and he's like, we're going to change things.
Speaker 1: You know, We're we're gonna tie aid to you, actually
Speaker 1: improving human rights conditions. Um. This creates a problem for
Speaker 1: Baby Docs, so he has to push through a bunch
Speaker 1: of cosmetic reforms to try to trick Jimmy Carter. Not
Speaker 1: the hardest things anyone's ever done. He arrests if Utahnton
Speaker 1: mccoot um. Very few international absorbs are truly fooled, but
Speaker 1: more AID is allowed to enter the country. I think
Speaker 1: Carter's hope was that, Okay, they did a couple of things,
Speaker 1: will send in more aid, maybe they'll change more. But
Speaker 1: before anything could really change, Ronald Reagan gets elected, and
Speaker 1: he did not give a fuck about whether or not
Speaker 1: Haiti got more democratic Um. Baby, Doc is smart enough
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, Ronald Reagan's and I'm gonna start talking
Speaker 1: about how bad communism is. He actually holds a champagne
Speaker 1: party when Reagan gets elected because he knows it's gonna
Speaker 1: make it easier. Reagan's like anti communist. Here's a funkload
Speaker 1: of money. Um. Yeah, and this is actually uh now
Speaker 1: now seriously speaking, this is actually the the meal you
Speaker 1: that made the Fuji's and why they're called the Fuji's.
Speaker 1: It's short for refugees and it's because of this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and by nineteen eighty, Haiti is completely dependent on
Speaker 1: foreign aid, and the greatest recipient of foreign aid is
Speaker 1: the Duvalier family. More than two thirds of the Tree's
Speaker 1: development budget, which was about eighty one million dollars, came
Speaker 1: from foreign governments, namely the US, Canada, West Germany, and
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom. Um. And obviously this is incredibly, incredibly corrupt.
Speaker 1: He's channeling a much of I m F money into
Speaker 1: his his his accounts to there's constant like issues and
Speaker 1: constant international anger over the fact that he's just stealing
Speaker 1: all of this aid money that he gets, but nothing
Speaker 1: is actually done about it. The term cleftocracy is actually
Speaker 1: first coined by a Canadian government report on graft in
Speaker 1: the Duvalier regime. That's where we get the word. The
Speaker 1: whole government, including numerous state owned companies, existed as an
Speaker 1: extension of the Duvalier family bank account now. One of
Speaker 1: the chief movers of the Haitian economy was a guy
Speaker 1: named Luckner Cambrone, who was the lover of baby Docs
Speaker 1: mother Simone. He made a fortune exporting the literal blood
Speaker 1: of Haitian citizens, often gathered by force by the Tonton mccoot.
Speaker 1: The nation exported five tons of blood plasma per month
Speaker 1: under Luckner. He bought it for five dollars a pint
Speaker 1: and sold it for thirty five dollar to U S
Speaker 1: firms like dal Chemical uh So, a bunch of US
Speaker 1: companies profited off of the literal stolen blood of the
Speaker 1: Haitian people. Sometimes they were paid, often people were just
Speaker 1: paid to make sure there was access to blood. He
Speaker 1: also sold cadaverous for medical research, literally selling the corpses
Speaker 1: of his people because they've been robbed so thoroughly. Um
Speaker 1: As his time in office, wore on Papa or baby Doc,
Speaker 1: grew bolder. Uh he became more brutal. He eventually kicks
Speaker 1: his mom out of power because he marries a woman
Speaker 1: named Michelle, and she doesn't like his mom. There's a
Speaker 1: whole thing, damn it. Michelle the First, the new first Lady,
Speaker 1: hates that her husband's fat. She puts him on a
Speaker 1: crash diet and threatened staff who feed him that by
Speaker 1: saying that they'll wish they'd never been born. Killed your
Speaker 1: mother in law and now your body shaming. Well, he
Speaker 1: doesn't kill her, He just forces herd say yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: um yeah and uh so. By the start of Reagan's
Speaker 1: second term, Haiti was and had been for some time,
Speaker 1: the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The average life
Speaker 1: expectancy was forty eight years old. For every teacher on
Speaker 1: the government pay roll, there were a hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: nine soldiers for every secondary school. There were thirty five prisons.
Speaker 1: A majority of the population was food and secure, many
Speaker 1: were starving. Clearing away the bodies of starved dead was
Speaker 1: a regular task for city employees in the capital. Civil
Speaker 1: rests began to burble up in nineteen eighty five, quickly
Speaker 1: growing into a significant movement. The Catholic Church gets some
Speaker 1: credit for this because the Pope actually gives a brief
Speaker 1: speech where he critiques the government. Um liberation theology is
Speaker 1: a part of this right. We see this in a
Speaker 1: lot of the rest of Latin America. So it's a
Speaker 1: number of things. And a student revolt breaks out and
Speaker 1: students are initially shot dead by the Tanton mccoot, but
Speaker 1: this leads to international condemnation and the US cuts off aid,
Speaker 1: which is what kind of spell helps spell the end
Speaker 1: of the regime because they're totally dependent on AID. On
Speaker 1: the night of February five, nineteen eighty six, Baby Doc
Speaker 1: flees the country. Before he leaves the palace, he orders
Speaker 1: one of his voodoo sorcerers to lay a spell on
Speaker 1: the presidential beds that the next occupant would die there.
Speaker 1: A perhaps legendary story goes that the sorcerer called for
Speaker 1: two unbapped as newborns to be sacrificed for the ritual.
Speaker 1: The hospital charged four hundred dollars for the babies. Um Again,
Speaker 1: whether or not this is true, it's definitely true. What's
Speaker 1: definitely true is that two days after Baby Doc fled
Speaker 1: they hitched a ride along with all of their cash, jewelry,
Speaker 1: antiques and artwork from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, courtesy of a
Speaker 1: US Transport aircraft. We helped them flee to France where
Speaker 1: they rent a villain near Cans from the Saudi arms
Speaker 1: dealer at Non Kasho UM. So that's great. Uh. Now
Speaker 1: the bad news is the really sad part of the
Speaker 1: story is that Michelle and John Claude's marriage doesn't last UM.
Speaker 1: A couple divorce in nine nine. He starts to run
Speaker 1: out of money by two thousand three, and he was
Speaker 1: said to be living with a mistress in a one
Speaker 1: bedroom apartment in Paris by two thousand and three. UM.
Speaker 1: In two thousand eleven, he returns to Haiti, claiming he
Speaker 1: wants to help rebuild after an earthquake UM, but probably
Speaker 1: just trying to get around Swiss banking regulations designed to
Speaker 1: stop dictators from using money they'd stolen. He gets arrested,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, he's kept in a hotel in
Speaker 1: the mountains above Port of Prince rather than actually going
Speaker 1: to prison, where he dies of a heart attack in
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen at the age of sixty three. So
Speaker 1: Pap a dock and baby doc. That's the tail, not
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, that is harsh. Yeah, well I have
Speaker 1: that that I feel that feeling of doling death that
Speaker 1: you always feel at the end of these pods. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's our goal. That's the goal, the doling death. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can find me a proper pop dot com support
Speaker 1: to the politics pod. Yes, also get get props. Book
Speaker 1: is delightful and esthetically thank you. Yeah, get um and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, get a get get get. Uh, don't
Speaker 1: get a Haiti. Enough people have taken Haiti. Let them
Speaker 1: just try to do something more. Yeah, I mean give
Speaker 1: them I don't know, chance here aid and ship but
Speaker 1: yeah whatever, I don't know. That didn't work out great either,
Speaker 1: So whatever, I don't know what to do. Uh, don't
Speaker 1: have fucked with Haiti for centuries. Yeah, lead them alone? Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: well that's the end of the episode. I have a
Speaker 1: book you can find at a t r book dot
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's the end of the episode. Go home. Um,
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