02-15-2021, 05:51 AM
(02-15-2021, 01:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I certainly distrusted the "Trump-Trump Macoutes" (was there a real name for them? The secret police had similar vehicles and typically a large US flag and a Trump banner...)
I used Google on Macoutes and came up with the TonTon Macoute, French for 'Uncle Gunnysack', a paramilitary organization under Papa Doc and Baby Doc in Haiti. Apparently Uncle Gunnysack was originally like the boogyman, used to scare misbehaving children. He would kidnap kids, put them in a gunnysack, and eat them for breakfast. The TonTon Macoute may not have been racist, but they were otherwise a typical dictator's tool of oppression. They in time earned the nickname.
I had never heard of the Trump-Trump Macoutes before, but I could see someone adapting the original name for Trump's secret police.
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