John Brown
Abolitionist
To me, a real basterd in political history would be John Brown, the abolitionist who basically started the Civil War and took the law in his owns hands to arm the slaves and create a revolt.
And it didn’t work, but it got everything going. Y’know, after his attack on Harpers Ferry, puny as it was, that was the beginning of the end of slavery. Took a while for it to be over, but that was the beginning of the end.

White people were ready to die for black people. And then other white people realized, “Oh shit, not only do they want me to die, they’re willing to kill.” And all of a sudden, it stopped it from being an intellectual argument between intellectuals-in-the-North, y’know, and the cornpones down south.

Brown ended up being a giant martyr for the cause, but part of it was the fact that he got an armed army. They were freed slaves, and they killed slave owners and killed slave traders in particular.



Theodore Roosevelt
US President
He falls down as a great basterd. Grand plans, and as far as how he got stuff done.

Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
He definitely was a basterd. At the end of the day, the Australians will never forgive him for Gallipoli. He kinda proved to Hitler that he was just as crazy as Hitler was.

And, y’know, [in order to continue fighting the Nazis] he allowed London to get bombed. “We’re not gonna fight London being bombed, we’re gonna go and our RAF’s gonna take out the sky.”