Red Scare - Haiters Gonna Hait *TEASER*

Episode Date: September 21, 2024

The ladies discuss the Harris/Trump debate, the situation in Springfield, and Bourdain's Haiti episode.

Really quickly before we dive into our analysis of the Anthony Bourdain Haiti episode, I just like to give a quick timeline of the Clinton crime families. So for some reason, the Clintons are obsessed with Haiti. I guess they, I don't know, I really don't know why. But they've always. Much like their spirit animal, Sean Penn. I have a theory as to why, which I'll get into later. So we're gonna, we'll circle this all,

this is all connected. So yeah, in the 90s, they do all this like humanitarian intervention in Bill Clinton. In Haiti, that basically like destroys their agricultural sector. In 94, he overthrows their junta. After the earthquake, they construct a industrial park called Caracal that costs $300 million.

Okay. They pour something like almost like $3 billion over the course of 10 years into these like humanitarian efforts in Haiti. Yeah. That then they kind of like quietly abandoned, don't really work out, are not helping Haiti. Yeah.

Are bad for Haiti. Well, okay, yeah. There's more. They like, Bill Clinton's on the board of some Haiti Recovery Commission. There's no Haitians even there. It's like, it just seems like that's always been, in addition to its like spooky doomed history,

has been a specific like hot point for the Clintons, especially, but the Democrats, largely, including Sean Penn, who was also involved in the construction of this industrial park and like port, they were trying to like, yeah, like stim, allegedly like aid Haiti and it's like economic recovery basically by giving billions of dollars, not really to Haiti, but to like American and like Korean corporations to Yeah, various shadowy firms and contractors. Yeah. So you like answered your own question because they basically, you know, Haiti went from being like a French colony to being a American client. Some stuff happened in between then. Yeah. But that's essentially like. But yeah.

But yeah, this episode is amazing because it's like one of the few times that Bourdain cops to like the ineffectuality and perversion of well-meaning Western aid efforts to like impoverish third world populations. And like, you know, you could call it well-meaning charitably or not so charitably, you can call it cynical. And off the bat, he's like, well, this is one of the few places that we've been to where the locals are really not friendly, and they really don't want

to be on camera, and it feels really dangerous and doomed. And he's staying in this noble ruin of an upscale hotel. From the Graham Greene. Yeah, it's like from money to expats who belong to the intelligence community. And he's like napping in the mosquito net and like rummaging and reading. Drinking rum punches, yeah.

And it's like straight out of a Graham Greene novel, the comedians, which I have not read, but I'm going to next. There's a movie of it with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Oh shit, we should watch that. But they're in Port-au-Prince, there was just an earthquake,

they're in the middle of a cholera epidemic, there's open sewage and human remains in the street, the plumbing and electricity aren't always working. It's like really bad. There's a typhoon on the horizon, the infrastructure is like closed and non-existent. I feel like there's probably also like a non-zero chance that Bourdain personally ingested human flesh.