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Mark Mansour's avatar

This list is bad enough without waiting for the FEC.

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Mike Brown's avatar

Hitler wouldn’t have “succeeded” without the help of German Industrial leaders. They were chasing contracts and favor. Just like today. It stinks.

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

Interesting point, Mike. I’m going to look into those parallels.

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Harper Thorpe's avatar

Imagine if just a couple of those CEOs intended to be a positive influence on Trump and had the skills to convince him to abandon his autocratic ambitions. But alas, they’re all mercenaries for personal gain and a coveted position on the team of middle class suppressing oligarchs.

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Semolina Pilchard's avatar

The return of Trump!

Making grift great again! Democracy, not so much great again.

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michael thompson's avatar

I hope it has to be in his will.

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michael thompson's avatar

$195,000,000 for rump.

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Dgbics's avatar

What is this inauguration fund? Didn’t Melania get in trouble for it last time? Money laundering?

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Joanna F.'s avatar

Sir, if you aren’t working on a book now, gentle suggestion that you start one soon. 🤜🤛

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Joanna F.'s avatar

I hope you have/will consider it. Your substack is excellent and we need strong writers who understand the historical context of these events to memorialize them in real time. Our kids/grandkids, etc. deserve access to unfiltered history to understand parallels between the economic desperation in America today and similar events in an economically desperate Germany, Czarist Russia, pre-Maoist China, and for that matter, pre-revolutionary France and the Robber Baron era in the U.S. I expect to see a series of surface-level throwaway books containing themes no deeper than what can be captured in a 5 minute “news” program. You can give us much better. Thanks for what you are doing here. j.f.

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

I feel emboldened. Thank you.

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Joanna F.'s avatar

👍🏼

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

Thank you for the kind comment, Joanna. :)

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The Cracked Piston's avatar

Commence the looting of our Treasury by the modern day Robber Barons....All thanks to Citizens United and the grossly corrupt Supreme Court

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Suzanne's avatar

Dr. Salk is waiting,along with President Carter, to kick these people into hell.

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TJ's avatar

Just nauseating 🤮

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Nightmaher's avatar

Thanks for all this information. It’s very enlightening.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Sickening. Absolutely sickening.

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Kay-El's avatar

My only consolation is that I don’t purchase or use products from many on this list. I even checked the two meds I take and neither are from the two mentioned.

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Kay-El's avatar

PS Love the cartoon

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