- You wanna get nuts?!
Let's get nuts!
So, generally speaking,
Leaders, specifically politicians pretty much suck.
They're known for being liars,
and some even get caught in doing immoral things
that are not representative of
how they're supposed to be acting in their position.
And when we see these things happen
we get disappointed.
And sometimes we even think our elected officials
might be a little crazy for
some of the decisions they've made.
But the truth is, they aren't crazy.
Well, not in the same way
that some of the leaders of the past have been.
In fact, as history has shown us
there have been multiple leaders
who have been legitimately insane,
doing things with their power
that are a little hard to believe.
So today, I gathered those rulers from the past
that make even the worst
leaders from today look level-headed.
So here they are,
the 10 Most Insane Rulers in History
Number one is Emperor Justin the Second
Justin the Second was
an Eastern Roman Byzantine Emperor
from 565 to 578.
His rule was filled with strife,
including a war with Persia,
and a loss of huge parts of Italy.
After the Persians overran Syria
and captured the strategically most important
fortress of his Empire in Dara,
The Emperor, well,
cracked.
It began with the temporary fit of insanity
which caused him to be succeeded
by Tiberius Constatine the Second.
However, losing his power caused him
to lose what was left of his sanity
causing him to slip into an unbridled madness.
During his final days,
as he was pulled through the palace on a wheeled throne,
he would bite attendants who got close to him
and even ate a few of them.
Yeah, he ate people.
The only thing that would calm him
is organ music that had to be
played constantly throughout the palace.
Yeah, that's kind of disturbing.
Imagine walking into a palace
where there's creepy organ music playing,
and then you're greeted by Emperor Ogre
who just finished gnawing on some fresh bones.
Yeah, I would slowly back out the door at that point.
Number two is Sultan Ibrahim I.
Ibrahim I was the Turkish sultan
of the Ottoman Empire
between 1640 and 1648.
Upon succeeding his brother in becoming Sultan,
he immediately began running the empire into the ground.
Within a very short period of time,
he almost caused a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire
due to his weak leadership and odd tendencies.
He had an odd obsession with obese women,
having his agents find the fattest women
possible for him, to be his concubines.
For the largest ones,
he would give them government positions
including high-up positions like Governor General
for which they were in no way qualified.
His madness became more and more apparent
as time went on, through his actions,
like drowning 280 members of his harem on a whim,
feeding coins to the fish in the palace's pool,
and other really bizarre acts.
Now that might all sound like a mess,
but at least he wasn't humping the fish
and feeding coins to fat chicks.
I mean, think about that.
Yeah, it could have been weirder.
Number three is Tsar Ivan IV.
Ivan Vasilyevich IV was Tsar of Russia
between 1547 and 1548.
And if his name isn't familiar,
that's because you might know him better
as Ivan the Terrible.
As a child, not only did he lose both of his parents,
but he also was horribly abused and mistreated
by members of the Russian government.
However, eventually that abuse
gave way to mental illness
as Ivan began venting his frustrations
by torturing small animals.
In 1544, when he was only 14 years old,
he seized control of Russia by feeding
the head of the government to a pack of dogs.
From there, he began massacring his own people
and even killed his oldest son himself.
His insanity shined through his actions
of flip-flopping between apologizing publicly
for his cruel actions,
and then immediately turning around
and doing something even worse.
Now some argue that he wasn't insane,
just really, really cruel,
but I'm sorry, it takes a special kind of nut job
to do what he did.
I mean, seriously, who feeds a severed head
of your political opponent to a dog?
What?!
Number four is Prince Sado.
Prince Sado lived in Korea
between 1735 and 1762.
He was the son of the Korean King,
and helped govern the country with his father.
At the age of 17, he became ill with the measles,
and although he recovered,
it triggered something within the Prince.
He began having vivid nightmares and delusions,
and started acting, erratically.
He began acting violently to everyone around him,
physically abusing his servants,
and even raping any women who denied him.
But it got worse as his insanity graduated
to murdering on a whim,
killing anyone that he saw fit to die.
Finally, at the height of his mental illness,
he even begin stalking his own sister
which was the point that
the King basically had enough.
To prevent the Prince from spreading any more terror,
the King had him locked in a rice chest
where he spent eight days, until he eventually died.
Dayum!
Couldn't he have talked it out first?
I mean, that is his son.
I get it, I get it, he was bat (bleep) crazy,
but hey, who doesn't have a few nuts in the family tree?
Know what I'm sayin'?
Number five is Queen Maria I.
Maria I was Queen of Portugal
between 1777 and 1815.
Her madness was first
officially noticed in 1786
when she had to be carried away
from an event in a state of delerium.
From there, multiple events occurred
that caused her condition to worsen.
Her husband died, and her son also died a bit later,
at the age of only 27, from smallpox.
This sent Maria into a fit of insanity
that caused her to lose what was left of her sanity.
She forbade any court entertainments
and State festivities began resembling
bizarre religious ceremonies.
From that point on, night after night,
she would scream uncontrollably
which would echo throughout the palace.
At that point, her son, Prince John
was forced to take over ruling the country
because of Maria's too-far-gone state.
However, interestingly, despite all that happened
during her reign, Maria is still to this day
greatly admired in Portugal
due to the tremendous changes and
events during her reign.
Well, it's good to know that one day
even I could lose it
and you guys might still like me.
Whoop whoop!
Yeah man!
What's happenin'?!
Where my eggies?!
(clears throat)
Uh, you still like me?
Okay, good, let's continue.
Number six is King Charles VI.
Charles VI was King of France
from 1380 to his death in 1422.
Known as Charles the Mad,
There's a good chance the circumstances
of his reign are what contributed to his madness.
First, he assumed the throne
when he was only 11 years old.
Second, he inherited the throne
during the 100 Years War with England.
Again, pressure.
As he grew up, that pressure began to get to him,
and in one of his fits of insanity in 1392,
he attacked his own knights
killing one of them while taking a trip through the forest.
He would even go through episodes of
forgetting peoples' names, including his own
and the fact that he was even King.
At his very worst, he would run through the castle,
pretending to be a wolf, howling at people
and would freak out when people touched him,
because he thought he was made of glass.
This, among other factors, ultimately caused France
to break into a civil war.
Well hey I guess that's going to happen
when your leader thinks he's the Glass Wolfman!
I don't know what that was,
but it, it's weird.
Number seven is King Christian VII.
Christian VII was King of Denmark
between 1766 and 1808,
and was known to be crazy for reasons that are,
unconventional.
He was known for doing strange things to begin with
such as throwing his dinner at guests,
and making poor and odd government decisions
which, for the most part, were tolerable.
That is, until the masturbation started.
At some point, he developed a
fascination with his penis
and began masturbating so much
that it interfered with his duties.
He would even sometimes do it
in front of visiting dignitaries
and sometimes would slap them
in the face for no reason.
Not, with it,
just with, with his hand.
You get the idea.
Eventually his mind so far gone
that his personal physician arranged a
shift of control of his executive decisions
to his successor, Frederick VI.
Now normally, from what we've seen in the past,
that would enrage a King so much
that he'd probably start lopping heads
But...
Because Christian was so fascinated
playing with his meat scepter,
that I don't even think he noticed.
Number eight is Emperor Zhengde.
Emperor Zhengde was the ruler of
the Ming Dynasty in China
between 1505 and 1521,
taking the throne at the age of only 14.
However, based on the way he acted,
he pretty much remained 14
for the next decade and a half of his rule.
"But Matt, why do you say that?"
Well because he liked to play games
of make-believe a little too often.
Like the time that he built a whole fake city block
on Imperial grounds where he pretended
to be a shopkeeper,
and then forced his subjects to go along with it.
Sometimes, he would even adopt an alter ego,
pretending to be a General
and then go on what he called "raiding parties"
where he would dress in all silk
and raid other societies and battle them.
And then it all ended when
he got drunk one day while boating on a lake
and fell into the water and contracted a strange illness.
Bye bye, playtime!
Ehhh!
Number nine is King Farouk.
Farouk I was the King of Egypt
between 1936 and 1952,
and was actually the reason that Egypt
decided to end the idea of having a monarchy.
Known early in his reign for having
excessive partying and gambling habits,
he was once described as a stomach with a head
because of his excessive eating that caused him
to grow to over 300 pounds.
But his true craziness showed itself
in other bizarre behaviors.
For example, he would engage
in random acts of thievery.
And in fact, even once stole a watch
from Winston Churchill.
On another occasion,
he had a nightmare of being eaten by lions,
so he went to the zoo and did what
any sane person would do,
and shot all the lions.
Yeah, as you could imagine,
he wasn't exactly popular with people,
and upon being finally overthrown,
it was discovered that he had a huge
collections of coins, magic tricks, stamps, and,
the worlds largest collection of porn.
Yeah, well, hey, I guess
even the crazy have to relax sometimes.
And number 10 is Emperor Caligula.
Caligula was the popular nickname
of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Roman Emperor between
37 and 41 A.D.
Some consider him one of, if not, the most
insane ruler of all-time.
The list of his antics is, long,
so let me just list a few of them for you.
He attempted to instate his favorite horse
as a priest and consul.
Once at the Circus Maximus,
the games ran out of criminals
so he ordered the guards to drag
the first five rows of spectators into the arena,
and hundreds of people were devoured for his amusement.
A citizen once insulted him to his face,
so Caligula responded by having him
tied down and beaten with heavy chains
which continued for a total of three months
until he was finally beheaded.
He regularly sawed people in half
as a form of torture
then he would eat their testicles
while they were still attached.
He would publicly have sex,
one time with his three sisters at a banquet,
sometimes on the table amid the food, and...
(sighs)
You know what?
I'll just stop there.
All you really need to know is that
he was nuttier than squirrel (bleep)!
And that's all for this time guys.
See, no matter who you elect,
it could always be worse.
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