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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

History's Nine Most Insane Rulers w Scott Rank of "History Unplugged" Podcast

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We talk Idi Amin, Kim Jong-il and other despots with Scott Rank of History Unplugged Podcast joins us to talk about his book History's Nine Most Insane Rulers. We get into Amin's awful suppression of opposition, deportation of Indian and Pakistani Ugandans, and extra judicial killings. Other insane rulers were more amusing, and we talk about that too.  Lee Rosevere provides music on this program - check out his music on bandcamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an airwave media podcast.

0:04.0

If there's a criticism against celebrities that they're out of touch,

0:08.0

they, it could be a phenomena that for years you've had handlers who never really tell you no or they massage it in the nicest

0:15.1

way possible before you get that news and you become aloof, you become out of touch, let them

0:20.4

eat cake, that sort of thing. Well what if you were a celebrity who had the ability to kill people,

0:25.1

to kill your enemies?

0:26.5

You had a goon squad with weapons. Oh, Spy is a criminal.

0:50.0

A spy is the criminal.

0:53.0

To be and spy is very bad.

0:56.0

This is the cabinet beating that Idi Amin is having...

1:01.0

You could imagine what your staff meeting is like at work and then

1:06.6

times 1,000 right? Everybody must be checked his politics for about three or five years and if he's found to be

1:19.1

spy in his case is a firing squad. He's firing squad.

1:23.0

He's telling his ministers that they have lost the confidence of the people.

1:28.0

They must do better to communicate, you know, things that sound very well and good, and they're all

1:36.5

paying much attention, scribbling down notes.

1:40.3

Idi Amin was one of two British officers in Uganda who were Uganda and were African when the nation became independent.

1:50.0

He was large, a former heavyweight boxing champ six foot four two hundred and forty pounds

1:55.1

One reporter said of him he's joking all the time especially if he feels he had an audience

2:01.1

A Populous demagogue Xenophope, who insultingly

2:05.7

personalized his relations with other countries. Henry Kissinger was afraid of

2:10.9

him. British Prime Minister Edward Heath should be grateful for the food aid

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