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* FinalSolution: The episodes "Ancient Genocide and the War on Cathage" and "The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads" discuss on the topic of genocide and people who carried it out. They also consider the Irish Potato Famine in the episode "That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland" as this.
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* Catchphrase: Robert almost always segues into ad breaks with "you know who doesn't [insert horrible act he was just discussing]? The products and services that sponsor this podcast".
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** The episode on Roy Cohn also puts an emphasis on his very well-off but dysfunctional background, being the son of a loveless marriage of convenience, dealing with an overbearing mother and seeing his beloved uncle Bernie scapegoated for the Great Depression and all but disavowed by the family. This all played a major role in him becoming callous and keeping his homosexuality a secret, refusing to be seen as "just another queer", and willing to work with people he knew were intensely homophobic and anti-Semitic because he craved their acceptance and desired to be above other gays and Jews.
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** During the episodes on the Finder's Cult, Robert implying that guest Jamie Loftus was involving in a series of murders in Michigan (which Loftus points out occurred when she was in high school in Massachusetts).
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** During the episodes on the Finder's Cult, Robert implying that guest Jamie Loftus was involving in a series of murders in Grand Rapids Michigan (which Loftus points out occurred when she was in high school in Massachusetts).Massachusetts). It got to the point Wikipedia had to lock Jamie's page because people kept editing it.
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** During the episodes on the Finder's Cult, Robert implying that guest Jamie Loftus was involving in a series of murders in Michigan (which Loftus points out occurred when she was in high school in Massachusetts).
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* NoTrueScotsman: This comes up in the episode about the [[UsefulNotes/Israel Netanyahu family]]. A big part of the Zionist ideology is that taking their ancestral homelands is what's best for all of Judaism, and therefore any Jew who doesn't believe in Zionism is a self-hating BoomerangBigot who is not a true Jew. This is of course in spite of how Zionist only makes up a small part of Jews worldwide, and in fact the ideology has large support in non-Jew communities.
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* NoTrueScotsman: This comes up in the episode about the [[UsefulNotes/Israel [[{{UsefulNotes/Israel}} Netanyahu family]]. A big part of the Zionist ideology is that taking their ancestral homelands is what's best for all of Judaism, and therefore any Jew who doesn't believe in Zionism is a self-hating BoomerangBigot who is not a true Jew. This is of course in spite of how Zionist only makes up a small part of Jews worldwide, and in fact the ideology has large support in non-Jew communities.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: In part two of the episode on the Finders cult Robert points out that the lie told by The Men Who found in a van with several children told the police, mainly that they were taking said children to Mexico to start (in Robert's words) "baby Harvard" did nothing to convince the police that the children were not actually being sex trafficked.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: In part two of the episode on the Finders cult Robert points out that the lie told by The Men Who the men who were found in a van with several children told the police, mainly that they were taking said children to Mexico to start (in Robert's words) "baby Harvard" did nothing to convince the police that the children were not actually being sex trafficked.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: In part two of the episode on the Finders cult Robert points out that the lie told by The Men Who found in a van with several children told the police, mainly that they were taking said children to Mexico to start (in Robert's words) "baby Harvard" did nothing to convince the police that the children were not actually being sex trafficked.
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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Robert and Matt discuss this idea during the Oskar Dirlwanger episodes. Robert points out that Dirlwanger was more "honest" about what his acts were doing, whereas his fellow Nazis that were horrified with his actions were just fooling themselves. Both groups ultimately did things that led to horrific human misery, but at least Dirlwanger wasn't trying to fool others about his goals or trying to dress it up.
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* AnAesop: Robert ends the episode on the Business Plot with a rare hopeful message. The plot very nearly succeeded in turning America into a fascist corporocracy, were it not for Smedley Butler, who blew the whole thing apart for no other reason than his dedication to democracy. Sometimes it just takes a single person making a stand.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Robert points out several times that a lot of the people who fought Nazis were themselves horrible people, and some even just as bad as the nazis. However, since they fought ''Nazis'', they are still on the right side of history.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Sometimes a guest will start a joke about whatever is going on in the episode only for Robert to remark that the circumstances the guest just made up as a joke is actually what happened. An example would be the guests from The Dollop joking that Henry Kissinger’s wiretaps with the FBI on the various members of the Nixon Administration included himself (“I don’t trust me as far as I can throw myself”) only for Robert to chime in to note that actually, yes, Henry Kissinger requested that he himself be included in those in the White House that were wiretapped by the FBI to the astonishment of the guests.
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** Robert believes Henry Kissinger’s many war crimes were just to maintain power for the sake of it and that Kissinger has no ideological beliefs beyond the idea that Henry Kissinger should have as much power as possible.
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** Robert believes Henry Kissinger’s Kissinger's many war crimes were just to maintain power for the sake of it and that Kissinger has had no ideological beliefs beyond the idea that Henry Kissinger should have as much power as possible.
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** Robert is also very quick to point out whenever Richard Nixon has a presence in an episode that Nixon was constantly drunk during his time as President at a level unseen by normal people to the point that it was a standing order to not listen to him if he ordered a nuclear strike because he was probably drunk (which did happen at least once).
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** One of the early founders of American fascism turned out to be a light-skinned black man who could pass off as white that nonetheless preached white supremacy. Robert believes the man thought it was inevitable that the US would descend into white fascism and just wanted to stay one step ahead.
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** The diplomat who protested against American complicity in genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War was named Archer Blood. While everyone notes he has an incredibly evil sounding name, Robert clarifies that he’s the good guy in the story. Guest Gareth Reynolds jokes that Henry Kissinger was probably jealous of the name: “He’s kissy, I’m bloody!”
** Sophie often shuts down Robert’s shenanigans in an incredibly dry delivery.
** The orphan system in Communist Romania fed the kids in their care so little food that they had to give kids blood transfusions to replenish nutrients in their systems. The blood had next to no testing to confirm whether it was heathy or not which, in the 80s, led to a shocking amount of Romanian orphans with AIDS infections.
** Henry Kissinger reportedly was very adamant that his experience of living as a Jewish child in Nazi Germany had zero effect psychologically on his preference of order above everything else (to include justice), something Robert and his guests (Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds) find very hard to take seriously. Multiple times throughout the six-parter Robert will point out something especially pathological from Kissinger to Dave’s disgust only for Garett to sarcastically chime in with “Imagine how worse it would have been if his childhood had effected him.”
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** To partially explain Gabriele D'Annunzio’s success sexually with ladies, Robert produces a photo of him clad in a thong and notes the bulge is pretty big.
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** Robert notes that Richard Nixon being hung for sabotaging the Vietnam Peace Talks behind LBJ’s back during the 1968 Presidential election is one of the few times where a President could have just had his political opponent killed and it be wholly justified, lamenting how much better the US would be off had Nixon been hanged for treason.
** The Business Plot conspirators faced effectively zero consequences for effectively plotting a fascist coup against the US government to the point that most of the conspirators can’t even be identified to this day with 100% certainty.
** The Business Plot conspirators faced effectively zero consequences for effectively plotting a fascist coup against the US government to the point that most of the conspirators can’t even be identified to this day with 100% certainty.
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* KavorkaMan: Both Henry Kissinger and Gabriele D'Annunzio are noted to be inexplicably very popular with the ladies despite neither being especially attractive. Robert theorizes that Kissinger being inordinately respectful to women’s intelligence for a man in the 1970s is actually why (plus it appears his interests in women were more for conversation than sexual activity). D’Annunzio’s appeal was likely in his genuinely savant-level capability as a romantic poet and possibly a GagPenis.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Sometimes a guest will start a joke about whatever is going on in the episode only for Robert to remark that the circumstances the guest just made up as a joke is actually what happened. An example would be the guests from The Dollop joking that Henry Kissinger’s wiretaps with the FBI on the various members of the Nixon Administration included himself (“I don’t trust me as far as I can throw myself”) only for Robert to chime in to note that actually, yes, Henry Kissinger requested that he himself be included in those in the White House that were wiretapped by the FBI to the astonishment of the guests.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Invoked while discussing the roots of the anti-vaccine movement in the 1880's with Robert acknowledging that both governments enforcing regulations and those protesting them had positive and negative aspects, the governments trying to stop the spread of some truly horrifying and deadly diseases but using brutal and merciless methods including forced vaccinations by law enforcement, forcing those infected into horrible isolation units and destroying the property and homes of those at risk and protestors being wrong about vaccines but having genuine concerns about government power, especially since this was shortly after slavery had been abolished, and many being very progressive minded and on the right side of history on other issues such as supporting women's rights, opposing imperialism, advocating for animal rights and supporting civil rights with many older protestors having also been abolitionists years prior. Robert even acknowledges that researching the subject surprised him as he didn't expect to gain a more nuanced and sympathetic view of the movement.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Invoked while discussing the roots of the anti-vaccine movement in the 1880's with Robert acknowledging that both governments enforcing regulations and those protesting them had positive and negative aspects, aspects and valid points and concerns, the governments trying to stop the spread of some truly horrifying and deadly diseases but using brutal and merciless methods including forced vaccinations by law enforcement, forcing those infected into horrible isolation units and destroying the property and homes of those at risk and protestors being wrong about vaccines but having genuine concerns about government power, especially since this was shortly after slavery had been abolished, and many being very progressive minded and on the right side of history on other issues such as supporting women's rights, opposing imperialism, advocating for animal rights and supporting civil rights with many older protestors having also been abolitionists years prior. Robert even acknowledges that researching the subject surprised him as he didn't expect to gain a more nuanced and sympathetic view of the movement.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Robert believes he has the solution to any modern bastard, but can't say it out loud for legal reasons. It rhymes with "shmargeted shmassassination."
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* SurprisinglyNormalBackground: Discussed. One more than one occasion Robert notices that while quite a few of the bastards the podcast examines have had hard, grueling upbringings in abusive households, it is not all together that unusual for them to come from childhoods that by all accounts have been seemingly stable with no signs of their parents having been anything but perfectly normal and even loving towards them.
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* SurprisinglyNormalBackground: Discussed. One more than one occasion Robert notices that while quite a few of the bastards the podcast examines have had hard, grueling upbringings in abusive households, it is not all together that unusual for them to come from childhoods that by all accounts have been seemingly stable with no signs of their parents having been anything but perfectly normal and even loving towards them.
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* NoTrueScotsman: This comes up in the episode about the [[UsefulNotes/Israel Netanyahu family]]. A big part of the Zionist ideology is that taking their ancestral homelands is what's best for all of Judaism, and therefore any Jew who doesn't believe in Zionism is a self-hating BoomerangBigot who is not a true Jew. This is of course in spite of how Zionist only makes up a small part of Jews worldwide, and in fact the ideology has large support in non-Jew communities.
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* OneSteveLimit: Heavily averted in the Napoleon III series, much to the ongoing annoyance/seething anger of all involved. Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother who was the King of Holland, sired Napoleon Charles, Napoleon Louis, and Louis Napoleon (aka Napoleon III,) all also Bonapartes. There's also one of Napoleon III's generals, his cousin Jerome Bonaparte, who got the job because his cousin, also called Jerome Bonaparte, fought with Napoleon I, at which point everyone completely loses it, with Robert yelling "Pick new names you assholes!" and them collectively suggesting "Mitch Napoleon Bonaparte" and "Derek Napoleon Bonaparte" to mix things up. Also features a guest appearance from Russian Tsar Alexander I, who's the older brother of Nicholas I, who's the father of Alexander II, who's the father of Behind the Bastards aulmni Nicholas II. It's so bad that on two separate occasions the episode is interrupted by Future Robert to correct mistakes he made regarding who's who; even then he apparently didn't notice that he kills off Napoleon Louis twice, mixing him up with his brother Napoleon Charles who died from illness aged 5, before correctly placing him as the brother who dies of illness as an adult while with the future emperor in Italy.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: During the episodes on L. Ron Hubbard, Evans points out it's difficult to parse how much Hubbard believed his own lies and how much he knew it was a scam, since he genuinely seemed to think some of his ([[InsaneTrollLogic utterly loony]]) conspiracy theories and false claims about his life were true.
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* CloudcuckooLandersMinder: Sophie often comes off as this by either interrupting Robert when he's about to say something that could land them in legal trouble or reminding him it's time for an ad break.
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** The episodes going over [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Chris-Chan]], while pointing out that she holds despicable beliefs as well as doing some deplorable actions, is overwhelmingly sympathetic to her. Chris-Chan was a target of bullying as a child as well as constant and horrific online abuse as an adult and was born into a very dysfunctional environment where she never learned the skills necessary to control her anger and make friends or gain romantic partners in a traditional way and her low-functioning autism and other mental issues left her disadvantaged from the start.[[note]]Of course, this was before Chris-Chan was arrested for [[ParentalIncest raping her dementia sufferer mother]].[[/note]]
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** The episodes going over [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Chris-Chan]], while pointing out that she holds despicable beliefs as well as doing some deplorable actions, is overwhelmingly sympathetic to her. Chris-Chan was a target of bullying and neglect as a child as well as constant and horrific online abuse as an adult and was born into a very dysfunctional environment with two older parents who were neglectful alcoholics and compulsive hoarders where she never learned the skills necessary to control her anger and anger, make friends friends, socialize in a healthy way or gain romantic partners in a traditional way and her low-functioning autism and other mental issues left her disadvantaged from the start.[[note]]Of course, this was before Chris-Chan was arrested for [[ParentalIncest raping her dementia sufferer mother]].[[/note]]
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** G. Gordon Liddy never identified as a Nazi, but he was downright obsessed with the Third Reich, continuously compared random things to the SS as a compliment, and even showed some Nixon aides ''Triumph of the Will'' to motivate them.
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** G. Gordon Liddy never identified as a Nazi, but he was downright obsessed with the Third Reich, continuously compared random things to the SS as a compliment, and even showed some Nixon aides ''Triumph of the Will'' to motivate them.
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** Robert also openly admits that Scott Adams is not a villain or evil but dislikes him on a personal level due to his absurdly inflated ego.
