Another day, another atrocity beyond comprehension in Haiti. 

So far, according to the ever-reliable United Nations, around 5000 people have been murdered in political violence in Haiti this year, with 184 dying over the weekend because a gang lord decided to go on a killing spree after a VooDoo priest told him that elderly people had cursed his son, causing him to die. 

The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the death toll from Haiti's spiraling security crisis to at least 5,000.

"Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, in the Cite Soleil area," Volker Turk told reporters in Geneva. "These latest killings bring the death toll just this year in Haiti to a staggering 5,000 people."

Volker appeared to be referring to a reported massacre carried out by a gang leader in the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood who targeted elderly people he suspected of sickening his own child by witchcraft.

The Reuters news agency quoted the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) as saying on Sunday that Monel "Mikano" Felix, leader of the Wharf Jeremie gang, had ordered the murders in Cite Soleil, and that all the victims of the attack were over 60 years old.

RNDDH said Felix had sought advice from a voodoo priest who told him elderly people in the area had harmed his child, who died on Saturday, leading to members of his gang killing at least 100 people Friday and Saturday with machetes and knives.

Haiti has long been in the running for Worst Place on Earth™, although temporary spikes of awfulness in other regions of the world keep it off the top of the list at any one time or another. A war here and an earthquake there may keep Haiti from being the worst place at any one moment, but it is always near the top of the list while others come and go. 

It is, in other words, what Trump called it: a "s**thole" country. 

I bring up Haiti's problems not to dunk on the poor people of Haiti, the vast majority of whom have committed no crime other than being losers in the lottery of birth location. They didn't ask to be born in Haiti, and I sympathize with their plight. I am damn sure glad I don't live there!

No, the people I want to dunk on are the Trump-obsessed who during Trump's term chose to portray Haiti as the apotheosis of civilization because Trump insulted the country. 

Trump vindicated again on Haiti and has been for a while https://t.co/QYKv9xELkZ pic.twitter.com/eUnjt3wtX3

— Nuance Bro (@NuanceBro) December 11, 2024

Trump's knock on Haiti and other third-world countries was unforgivable to all the "right" people, for whom the greatest sin is to say something that, while true, is politically incorrect. 

So they started a campaign: Haiti is Great Already," as a slam to Trump's MAGA. 

The fact that Haiti is anything BUT great was totally irrelevant, because reality is defined for these people by their likes and dislikes, nothing so prosaic as "reality." Trump's speaking the truth was unforgivable.

Ironically, Conan O'Brien and the celebrities who latched onto this issue were using Haiti in precisely the way they accused Trump of doing. All these wealthy white Americans used Haitians as a political prop. As Haitians suffer under terrible conditions, Conan O'Brien sipped rum out of a coconut to "own" Trump. 

Had an amazing dinner at Brasserie Quartier Latin and danced so hard to the @BoukmanEKS featuring @mikaben & @paulbeaubrun that my pants fell down. I love this country. #ConanHaiti pic.twitter.com/qsDqE8rh6j

— Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) January 20, 2018

This has been the history of Haiti, in a way: liberal "do-gooders" show up, use Haiti as a prop, and personally benefit as they accuse others of insensitivity. The Clintons made bank on relief funds meant for Haiti, and the United Nations ran a sex trafficking ring in the country. 

Bringing back Conan’s point on Trump’s comments about Haiti in 2018. Dismissing the recent comments about Puerto Rico as ‘just jokes’ misses the larger issue of disregarding entire communities as unimportant and speaks to the deeper attitudes held by Trump and his supporters pic.twitter.com/JFLl08jDkX

— AlzateFilms (@AlzateFilms) October 29, 2024

But there is virtue to signal, and Trump is a bad dude, so the lefties gaslight Americans, declare Haiti "great," and get kudos from other lefties. 

Trump, at least, was honest. Haiti IS a s**thole, and so far our efforts to help it out have been disasters. Importing Haitians into America seems to be yet another disaster, only this time for Americans. 

Listen to someone who has done 15 years of mission work with Haiti tell you canabalism and eating wild animals is very common. pic.twitter.com/GmbpEwXFur

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 14, 2024

There obviously is nothing wrong with the impulse to help Haitians--they are human beings and we should feel empathy for them--but the job of the President of the United States is to look out for Americans, not Haitians. Americans, should they choose to, can do their good deeds for the Haitian people, and God bless them for doing so. 

But Conan O'Brien and his merry band of lefties aren't helping anyone. They were exploiting Haitians back then to make a political point, which is actually far worse than Trump blurting the truth out loud. 

Blunt truths may offend, but they generally give better results. Trump wanted to defend Americans. The lefties? They wanted to massage their own egos, no matter the cost. 

Four years of Biden's "compassion" haven't helped Haitians, but they have hurt Americans. 

Lose-lose. Except fpr the lefties who feel warm and fuzzy about themselves.