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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

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Latest Episodes:

Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult Mar 11, 2025

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Earlier this year a Border Patrol officer was killed in a shoot-out with people who have been described as members of a trans vegan AI death cult. But who are the Zizians, really? Robert sits down with David Gborie to trace their development, from part of the Bay Area Rationalist subculture to killers.

(4 Part series)

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 172 Mar 08, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

The Future of Peacekeeping In Africa
The Last Trial of the Fight Against Mountain Valley Pipeline
The USA's Impending Telemedicine Cliff
King Trump Yells at Congress
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

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Sources/Links:

King Trump Yells at Congress

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5318104/trump-joint-address-congress-takeaways
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5318102/trump-joint-session-al-green-protest
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/05/january-littlejohn-donald-trump/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/trump-social-security-fraud-claims/81508815007/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #6

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4086787/pentagon-deploys-stryker-brigade-aviation-battalion-to-southern-border/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4086539/dod-statement-on-deployment-of-stryker-brigade-combat-team-to-help-secure-our-s/

https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4086531/additional-troops-to-enhance-border-security-operations/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-trump-zelenskyy/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-643086a6dc7ff716d876b3c83e3255b0

https://apnews.com/article/trudeau-trump-canada-tariffs-us-5d5ef8bd41c4567926d543a9526b2e84

https://www.mining.com/web/copper-prices-surge-as-trump-signals-25-tariff-on-imports/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-live-updates-china-says-its-ready-to-fight-any-type-of-war-us-wants-till-the-end.html

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-lutnick-2b269614084027a4894aa14f3dc16227

https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/wipp-in-carlsbad-under-doge-cuts/

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Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles Mar 06, 2025

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Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics.

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Part One: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles Mar 04, 2025

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In honor of the American oligarchs trying to form their own aristocracy, Robert and Ed Zitron look back at the court of Versailles, how it was formed as a sort of frat house pentagon that broke the brains of every subsequent generation of French nobles.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 171 Mar 01, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal
How Trump is Changing Trans Healthcare
Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips
Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

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Sources/Links:

The President of Argentina's Meme Coin Scandal

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-77/

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-index-falls-after-milei-crypto-scandal-2025-02-17/

https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/17/six-months-in-a-neoliberal-dystopia-social-cannibalism-versus-mutual-aid-and-resistance-in-argentina

Textbooks and Holy Books feat. Steven Moncelli & Dr. Michael Phillips

Dana Goldstein, “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories,” New York Times, January 12, 2020.

Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (New York: Basic Books, 2015.)

James W. Loewen, Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.)

Alan Nadel, Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)

Michael Phillips, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2011 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.)

Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic-insiders-are-sharing-a

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #5

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/

https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-signs-order-declaring-only-president-and-ag-can-interpret-us-law-for-executive-branch/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/

https://pages.devex.com/rs/685-KBL-765/images/109160-memo.pdf?version=0

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336/gov.uscourts.dcd.277336.21.0_7.pdf

https://www.one.org/us/what-we-do/the-issues/foreign-assistance-pause-faq/

https://mutualaidsudan.org/

https://www.state.gov/emergency-humanitarian-waiver-to-foreign-assistance-pause/

https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/USAID%20OIG%20-%20Oversight%20of%20USAID-Funded%20Humanitarian%20Assistance%20Programming%20021025.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-the-eb-5-visa-classification

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5306990/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/new-fbi-director-kash-patel-plans-relocate-1500-119064886

https://www.dailyuw.com/news/washington-state-congressional-candidate-set-to-lead-counterterrorism-center/article_251db152-f32f-11ef-b56b-d7ae1ea3885f.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fbi-kash-patel-antifa-blm-terror-groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/neo-nazi-trump-fbi-chief

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Part Two: Bruno Bettelheim and The Quest To Make a "Good" Concentration Camp Feb 27, 2025

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Bruno Bettelheim has now made it to the United States, where he executes his elaborate plan to fix "emotionally disturbed" children by making a nice concentration camp.

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Part One: Bruno Bettelheim: The Worst Psycho-therapist Feb 25, 2025

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Robert tells Allison Raskin about Bruno Bettelheim, a concentration camp survivor who revolutionized child mental health care by trying to create a GOOD concentration camp for small children.

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 170 Feb 22, 2025

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's
Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew
Mutuality feat. Andrew
Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

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Sources/Links:

Coffee Unions Spread to Peet's

https://linktr.ee/peetslaborunion

https://peetslaborunion.org

@peetslaborunion

https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLR6ZV4VZRBPT/checkout/2KLSQDHYHY7D3GNP7YUX62CD

Defining Anarchism feat. Andrew

https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/david-graeber-on-acting-like-an-anarchist/
https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

Mutuality feat. Andrew

Debt by David Graeber: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/glossary/a-new-glossary/

Antinomies of Democracy by Shawn Wilbur: https://humaniterations.net/2016/12/28/the-distinct-radicalism-of-anarchism/

Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #4

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/americas/trump-migrant-deportation-panama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-healthy-again-commission/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/kennedy-lays-out-hhs-plan-00204675

https://newrepublic.com/post/191630/donald-trump-tom-homan-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-immigration

https://popular.info/p/in-botched-dei-purge-osha-trashes?r=4v4dm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://www.businessinsider.com/doge-list-officials-resigned-fired-musk-trump-federal-government-2025-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/17/doge-social-security-musk/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fired-officials-bird-flu-rehire-rcna192716

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

https://apnews.com/article/rubio-plane-mechanical-issue-munich-conference-031928b920ff8e8d495d1590d508e1e5

https://x.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1892086856990237059

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-auto-tariff-rate-will-be-around-25-2025-02-18/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302481/trump-independent-agencies

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Part Two: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher Feb 20, 2025

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Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.

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Part One: Tony Alamo: The Worst Preacher Feb 18, 2025

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Robert sits down with Samantha McVey to talk about Tony Alamo, the evangelical cult leader who enslaved children to make denim vests for the stars.

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