Caveat emptor: Barbecue and bloodbaths
They lie to your face and don't understand why you don't believe them
I was probably ten years old when I saw a similar ad to the above on the box of some breakfast cereal—I’m thinking Fruit Loops or Frosted Flakes. They look pretty cool, right? Especially to a ten year-old.
I had to mail five cereal box tops along with $1.98 (which was kind of expensive for a ten year-old in the early 70s) to the P.O. Box in the ad and patiently await my cool Revolutionary War soldiers. I dreamt of creating a battlefield in a sand box and having the Yanks sweep over the British defensive lines, a bloodbath in the making.
It took weeks for the package to arrive but when it finally did, I felt like the biggest sucker of all time. They were cheap, flat plastic soldiers with no detail to them.
Toucan Sam and Tony the Tiger are boldfaced liars. Bastards both.
Caveat emptor.
Buyer beware.
And the media talking heads don’t understand why they’re called the enemy of the people.
This past weekend showcased in perfect glory why no one watches or listens to them anymore. Boldfaced liars. Bastards every last one of them.
If you weren’t paying attention—and you should be commended if you weren’t—Trump wants a bloodbath if he doesn’t win. Commentators from MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and all of the usual online propagandists took turns sounding the alarm that the Second Civil War is coming and Trump is threatening a bloodbath!
The horror!
Trump gave a speech in Ohio about economic conditions. He warned that if he’s not elected, the auto industry faces a bloodbath from Chinese automakers setting up shop in Mexico to export tariff-free cars into the U.S., something that is apparently a negative for autoworkers in Ohio.
Led by Democratic politicians and pundits, especially that foul swamp creature who used to be the Speaker, Trump was alluded to as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini all rolled into the same satanic ball.
If you were Satan planning to subjugate the world’s population into slavery, would you be announcing it in front of the world?
Also over the weekend, the Devil used a guy named “Barbecue” (who roasts his adversaries over an open spit, munching down on a human bicep like smoked beef brisket) to do his bidding in Haiti.
For the longest time I have thought that somewhere, in Haiti’s distant past, someone made a bargain with the Devil and the Devil is here to claim his due. That half of Hispaniola has endured such chaos from hell—civil unrest followed by massive earthquakes followed by more civil unrest—seems to confirm my hypothesis.
From the smoldering ruins arrises Barbecue, the angle of Satan. Barbecue is the leader of Haiti’s angry gangs that subjugate and terrorize the citizens, slaughtering hundreds who stand in their way. At least that’s what’s been said.
This time, all of the media outlets got it wrong—including Fox. The legend grew online and was spread mostly by right leaning social media.
The past weekend, Tucker Carlson had an interview with Laurent Lamothe, the former Prime Minister of Haiti from 2012-2014. Under Lamothe, Haiti actually began to recover from the 2010 earthquake. Even Wikipedia (another propaganda arm) views him warmly. The interview cut through much of the hazy proclamations from irresponsible media.
Lamothe explained Haiti’s turbulent times over the past several decades and in each regime change, the culprits of chaos have mostly been foreign interventionists, whether militarily, politically or by NGOs interference, and/or corporate interests. Billions of dollars have flowed into the island nation during this time period and most is sucked out by these foreign interlopers. Chief among them, of course, is the Clinton Foundation.
Because of interventions by Canada and the U.S., Haiti lacks the military to maintain order in the cities and that vacuum leads to massive gang violence.
According to Lamothe, do-gooder international hucksters pushed to literally defund the police and military. Why? Because Haiti’s corrupted leftist leaders—installed by outside interests such as Justin Trudeau and the American Left (the Clintons, Obama, and now Biden)—feared Haitian military coups.
But the point of this piece is to expose the lies concerning the devil-incarnate leading this chaos.
Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier is called Barbecue because he roasts people alive. Videos actually show his followers roasting people and eating them!
But that’s a lie. His nickname comes from his mother, who owned a barbecue joint on the island. He’s known as “Barbecue” because he chomped down on pork ribs, not a human femur.
Chérizier is also not a gang leader. He was a former longtime cop who was probably forced out when the Haitian leftists shut down the police.
A snippet of Barbecue giving a speech was played during the interview and he sounded more populist than barbarous. He wants to turn out the foreign devils, retake the wealth from the hucksters, and lead a revolution to give Haiti back to the Haitians—maybe on the Bernie Sanders side of populism.
He admits he has led some of the violence but against whom is not clear. He decries the gangs and urges them to work toward that revolution. Dan Cohen, a journalist who shot a documentary in Haiti titled Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising, doesn’t understand why the propaganda machine is being turned on against Barbecue.
“Why are we seeing a sudden disinformation campaign portraying Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier as a cannibal?” Cohen tweeted on March 11. “Cherizier is trying to turn Haiti into a productive and prosperous country that benefits the whole population…. The man they’re smearing as a savage is leading a revolution.”
And the cannibalism? Several viral videos were sent around the world depicting cannibalism in Haiti, but they were either Halloween hoaxes from several years ago or reports examining why some people like eating their own flesh. None were filmed in Haiti.
Haiti, like Ukraine, has been a money laundering vehicle for Western con artists. The U.N., the Clinton Foundation, Carlos Slim, even the Bushes have all profited mightily on the misery in Haiti.
Is Barbecue the savior for Haiti? Who knows and, frankly, that’s their business. We have interfered into the internal politics of too many countries for too long, and that needs to stop.
The concern should be in turning back the flood of Haitian refugees that certainly will materialize.
But as punditry goes, as these people continue to spread false rumors and lies, on both political sides, don’t buy cheap crap off the back of cereal boxes.
Caveat emptor.