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The election victory appeared to have gone a little too smoothly. Celebrate while you can...2025 is set to be a paradigm shift in reality...hopefully for the better.



The presidential elections of 2024 have come and gone, and one might think (as I do) that it was all a little too smooth. Celebrate... but with lots of caution. The last time Trump won, his adversaries publicly called for a "military coup" only ten days after his inauguration. I wonder what they'll do this time.


In June 2020, the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) conducted "wargames" for the upcoming election. It should come as no surprise that the TIP wargamers favored extreme measures.

Only 10 days after Trump's inauguration, TIP co-founder Rosa Brooks suggested overthrowing Trump in a "military coup."


Foreign Policy Magazine

Hopefully, this time around the military generals & admirals have accepted his win. I'm anticipating a significant wave of departures from government: from the civil service to the intelligence community to the military. Retirements, moving to the private sector, etc. That in itself can cause some big problems...or opportunities.


Donald Trump has been the President-Elect for not even two days:

- Steve Madden is halting manufacturing in China by half in a year
- Hamas calls for an end to the war in the Middle East
- The Iran backed Houthis announced a ceasefire.
- Putin said he’s ready to work toward peace


"Plan In Motion": Steve Madden Execs Reveal Major Shift From China Ahead of Trump's Return


November 7, 1867: Marie Curie (Maria Salomea Sklodowska), was born in Warsaw. She was the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize, the 1st person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in 2 science fields, physics & chemistry. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.




November 7, 1908: Robert LeRoy Parker better known as Butch Cassidy, age 42 (right) and The Sundance Kid, Harry Longabaugh (left), aged 40 or 41, were killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. Their crime spree featured in the Hollywood film, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.


There is some Wild West lore and anecdotal evidence, and of course conspiracies that Butch & Sundance were actually intelligence agents for the Secret Service.

I worked (a very short period of time) for a guy who owned a private gold mine somewhere in Southwest Nevada near the supposed grave site of Butch Cassidy, according to the family of which I was sworn to never reveal. My paycheck was 20% for every gram I dug up. It was fun the first few months but brutal, arduous labor that I decided wasn't worth the back breaking effort nor the risk; aside from the rattlesnakes & scorpions...once bitten & twice stung.



November 7, 1921: 2,200 Marines were deployed across the nation to protect the U.S. Mail after gangsters had committed a rash of robberies. The iconic Thompson submachine gun ("Tommy gun") was put into service for the first time when it was issued to the USMC and Postal Inspectors. Going postal with a Tommy gun.


Marines Ordered to Guard Mail

The Marines didn't have to put their special orders and training to the test as the mail robberies came to a screeching halt. From the day the Marines assumed guard duty until March 15, 1922, when they were withdrawn, not a single attempted mail robbery took place.


November 7, 1944: Incumbent Democratic President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was elected for a record 4th term as President by defeating the Republican nominee, Thomas Dewey. Roosevelt won the Electoral College by a landslide of 432 to 99 votes.


Amendment 22 of 1947 (ratified in 1951) to the US Constitution put a cap limit of two terms.


November 7, 1972: President Richard Nixon was re-elected as US President, defeating Democratic US Senator George McGovern. His margin of victory in the Electoral College was 520 to 17, which at the time was the largest margin of victory in the Electoral College for a Republican. Now, that was a helluva landslide (short-lived) victory!


1972 Presidential Election


November 7, 1974: Unsolved Mystery: British peer Lord Lucan, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan was a Banker & professional gambler who mysteriously disappeared after the brutal murder of his children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett and a serious assault on his wife, Veronica. Lucan was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999, but it’s not clear if he had died or time traveled to another dimension.



Declared dead in absentia on 27 October 1999 (age 64), with an official death certificate being issued on 3 February 2016 (age 81).

Rumoured to have been briefly considered by Albert R. Broccoli for the role of James Bond, Lucan was known for his expensive tastes; he raced power boats and drove an Aston Martin. In 1963, Lucan married Veronica Duncan, with whom he had three children.

Former Det Chief Supt Drummond Marvin, also joined a growing chorus of speculation that the louche playboy fled to an African bolthole where a number of people he knew owned gold and diamond mines.

Gold Star Wiki page
 
Wealth, privilege, wickedness and downfall ... why we're obsessed with Lord Lucan
 
Lord Lucan transformed face with cosmetic surgery and fled to Africa

Official (Archived) Website Of The Countess Of Lucan - Setting The Record Straight.



November 7, 1975: Wonder Woman was 1st shown on ABC TV. It starred Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman and Diana Prince. The 1st season was set in the 1940s, The 2nd and 3rd seasons on CBS were set in late 1970s, with title The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.



Did you know that feminist icon Wonder Woman was created by a US Army psychological warfare instructor.

William Moulton Marston, (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) a polymath, scholar, a professor, and a scientist, lawyer, film maker, inventor of the lie detector test (Sooo, about that lasso of truth) created "Wonder Woman". Margaret Sanger (yes, that Sanger) was part of Marston’s family. Margaret Sanger and H. G. Wells were lovers!

Wonder Woman's cuffs were based on Marston's partner Olive Byrne's real bracelets, and she wore them to commemorate her private wedding to Marston and Holloway! Marston had two wives, one to work and one to raise the children. What a guy!

He dedicates an entire chapter to bondage, but titling it "Suffering Sappho". I'm not sure there are enough adjectives in the English language to adequately describe William Moulton Marston.

Lots more in THE SECRET HISTORY OF WONDER WOMAN (2014) by Jill Lepore.


USA #1 on this day in 1965: The Rolling Stones - Get Off Of My Cloud