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Fighting the enemy within
Dorothy Thompson was a journalist married to Sinclair Lewis who was expelled from Germany after Hitler’s movement had become a cult that persecuted the opposition. This from Heather Cox Richardson this morning: “Suggesting her expulsion was because of her old article disparaging Hitler, in her own article about her expulsion she noted: ‘My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. That is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany, which says Mr. Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people…. To question this mystic mission is so heinous that, if you are a German, you can be sent to jail. I, fortunately, am an American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things can happen….’ ” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21-2024
Milley calls felonious philanderer fascist
The former chair of the joint chiefs of staff General Mark Milley now sees clearly the disgraced ex-President is a threat to democracy. https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/mark-milley-trump-fascist-bob-woodward-book
Bettors predicting Harris loss
There is a 58% chance Kamala Harris’s campaign will fail according to a major betting site as cited by Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-election-betting-odds-expert-explains-why-trump-current-favorite
Death by Quarter Pounder
First, the felonious ex-President closes down a store for a staged campaign event where he hands French fries to vetted supporters pretending to be customers. Now an e.coli breakout is connected to Quarter Pounders. Coincidence? I think not.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/22/mcdonalds-shares-fall-after-cdc-says-e-…
