The Irgun bombed the British Embassy at Porta Pia in Rome.
The Indonesian rupiah was introduced.
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Saturday, October 31, 2026
Saturday, October 31, 1936. "I welcome their hatred".
Franklin Roosevelt made his final speech of his 1936 campaign at Madison Square Garden. The speech is one of his most famous, particularly for the line "I welcome their hatred".
Senator Wagner, Governor Lehman, ladies and gentlemen:
On the eve of a national election, it is well for us to stop for a moment and analyze calmly and without prejudice the effect on our Nation of a victory by either of the major political parties.
The problem of the electorate is far deeper, far more vital than the continuance in the Presidency of any individual. For the greater issue goes beyond units of humanity—it goes to humanity itself.
In 1932 the issue was the restoration of American democracy; and the American people were in a mood to win. They did win. In 1936 the issue is the preservation of their victory. Again they are in a mood to win. Again they will win.
More than four years ago in accepting the Democratic nomination in Chicago, I said: “Give me your help not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”
The banners of that crusade still fly in the van of a Nation that is on the march.
It is needless to repeat the details of the program which this Administration has been hammering out on the anvils of experience. No amount of misrepresentation or statistical contortion can conceal or blur or smear that record. Neither the attacks of unscrupulous enemies nor the exaggerations of over-zealous friends will serve to mislead the American people.
What was our hope in 1932? Above all other things the American people wanted peace. They wanted peace of mind instead of gnawing fear.
First, they sought escape from the personal terror which had stalked them for three years. They wanted the peace that comes from security in their homes: safety for their savings, permanence in their jobs, a fair profit from their enterprise.
Next, they wanted peace in the community, the peace that springs from the ability to meet the needs of community life: schools, playgrounds, parks, sanitation, highways—those things which are expected of solvent local government. They sought escape from disintegration and bankruptcy in local and state affairs.
They also sought peace within the Nation: protection of their currency, fairer wages, the ending of long hours of toil, the abolition of child labor, the elimination of wild-cat speculation, the safety of their children from kidnappers.
And, finally, they sought peace with other Nations—peace in a world of unrest. The Nation knows that I hate war, and I know that the Nation hates war.
I submit to you a record of peace; and on that record a well-founded expectation for future peace—peace for the individual, peace for the community, peace for the Nation, and peace with the world.
Tonight I call the roll—the roll of honor of those who stood with us in 1932 and still stand with us today.
Written on it are the names of millions who never had a chance—men at starvation wages, women in sweatshops, children at looms.
Written on it are the names of those who despaired, young men and young women for whom opportunity had become a will-o’-the-wisp.
Written on it are the names of farmers whose acres yielded only bitterness, business men whose books were portents of disaster, home owners who were faced with eviction, frugal citizens whose savings were insecure.
Written there in large letters are the names of countless other Americans of all parties and all faiths, Americans who had eyes to see and hearts to understand, whose consciences were burdened because too many of their fellows were burdened, who looked on these things four years ago and said, “This can be changed. We will change it.”
We still lead that army in 1936. They stood with us then because in 1932 they believed. They stand with us today because in 1936 they know. And with them stand millions of new recruits who have come to know.
Their hopes have become our record.
We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government. The Nation looked to Government but the Government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years of the scourge! Nine crazy years at the ticker and three long years in the breadlines! Nine mad years of mirage and three long years of despair! Powerful influences strive today to restore that kind of government with its doctrine that that Government is best which is most indifferent.
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.
The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House—by the front door. Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will remain in my pocket.
Those who used to have pass-keys are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America’s working people. Only reckless men, heedless of consequences, would risk the disruption of the hope for a new peace between worker and employer by returning to the tactics of the labor spy.
Here is an amazing paradox! The very employers and politicians and publishers who talk most loudly of class antagonism and the destruction of the American system now undermine that system by this attempt to coerce the votes of the wage earners of this country. It is the 1936 version of the old threat to close down the factory or the office if a particular candidate does not win. It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.
Every message in a pay envelope, even if it is the truth, is a command to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propaganda is worse—it is deceit.
They tell the worker his wage will be reduced by a contribution to some vague form of old-age insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar of premium he pays for that insurance, the employer pays another dollar. That omission is deceit.
They carefully conceal from him the fact that under the federal law, he receives another insurance policy to help him if he loses his job, and that the premium of that policy is paid 100 percent by the employer and not one cent by the worker. They do not tell him that the insurance policy that is bought for him is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omission is deceit.
They imply to him that he pays all the cost of both forms of insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar put up by him his employer puts up three dollars three for one. And that omission is deceit.
But they are guilty of more than deceit. When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these policies will be stolen by some future Congress, diverted to some wholly foreign purpose, they attack the integrity and honor of American Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which they have more confidence.
The fraudulent nature of this attempt is well shown by the record of votes on the passage of the Social Security Act. In addition to an overwhelming majority of Democrats in both Houses, seventy-seven Republican Representatives voted for it and only eighteen against it and fifteen Republican Senators voted for it and only five against it. Where does this last-minute drive of the Republican leadership leave these Republican Representatives and Senators who helped enact this law?
I am sure the vast majority of law-abiding businessmen who are not parties to this propaganda fully appreciate the extent of the threat to honest business contained in this coercion.
I have expressed indignation at this form of campaigning and I am confident that the overwhelming majority of employers, workers and the general public share that indignation and will show it at the polls on Tuesday next.
Aside from this phase of it, I prefer to remember this campaign not as bitter but only as hard-fought. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
It is because I have sought to think in terms of the whole Nation that I am confident that today, just as four years ago, the people want more than promises.
Our vision for the future contains more than promises.
This is our answer to those who, silent about their own plans, ask us to state our objectives.
Of course we will continue to seek to improve working conditions for the workers of America—to reduce hours over-long, to increase wages that spell starvation, to end the labor of children, to wipe out sweatshops. Of course we will continue every effort to end monopoly in business, to support collective bargaining, to stop unfair competition, to abolish dishonorable trade practices. For all these we have only just begun to fight.
Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America, for better and cheaper transportation, for low interest rates, for sounder home financing, for better banking, for the regulation of security issues, for reciprocal trade among nations, for the wiping out of slums. For all these we have only just begun to fight.
Of course we will continue our efforts in behalf of the farmers of America. With their continued cooperation we will do all in our power to end the piling up of huge surpluses which spelled ruinous prices for their crops. We will persist in successful action for better land use, for reforestation, for the conservation of water all the way from its source to the sea, for drought and flood control, for better marketing facilities for farm commodities, for a definite reduction of farm tenancy, for encouragement of farmer cooperatives, for crop insurance and a stable food supply. For all these we have only just begun to fight.
Of course we will provide useful work for the needy unemployed; we prefer useful work to the pauperism of a dole.
Here and now I want to make myself clear about those who disparage their fellow citizens on the relief rolls. They say that those on relief are not merely jobless—that they are worthless. Their solution for the relief problem is to end relief—to purge the rolls by starvation. To use the language of the stock broker, our needy unemployed would be cared for when, as, and if some fairy godmother should happen on the scene.
You and I will continue to refuse to accept that estimate of our unemployed fellow Americans. Your Government is still on the same side of the street with the Good Samaritan and not with those who pass by on the other side.
Again—what of our objectives?
Of course we will continue our efforts for young men and women so that they may obtain an education and an opportunity to put it to use. Of course we will continue our help for the crippled, for the blind, for the mothers, our insurance for the unemployed, our security for the aged. Of course we will continue to protect the consumer against unnecessary price spreads, against the costs that are added by monopoly and speculation. We will continue our successful efforts to increase his purchasing power and to keep it constant.
For these things, too, and for a multitude of others like them, we have only just begun to fight.
All this—all these objectives—spell peace at home. All our actions, all our ideals, spell also peace with other nations.
Today there is war and rumor of war. We want none of it. But while we guard our shores against threats of war, we will continue to remove the causes of unrest and antagonism at home which might make our people easier victims to those for whom foreign war is profitable. You know well that those who stand to profit by war are not on our side in this campaign.
“Peace on earth, good will toward men”—democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and of moral purpose. Above our political forums, above our market places stand the altars of our faith—altars on which burn the fires of devotion that maintain all that is best in us and all that is best in our Nation.
We have need of that devotion today. It is that which makes it possible for government to persuade those who are mentally prepared to fight each other to go on instead, to work for and to sacrifice for each other. That is why we need to say with the Prophet: “What doth the Lord require of thee—but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.” That is why the recovery we seek, the recovery we are winning, is more than economic. In it are included justice and love and humility, not for ourselves as individuals alone, but for our Nation.
That is the road to peace.
Hunger marchers from Jarrow arrived in London.
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed, which is surprisingly late for the Boy Scout organizations.
Actor Michael Landon Sr. (Eugene Maurice Orowitz) was born in New York City.
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Thursday, October 29, 1936. Battle of Seseña.
Sunday, October 31, 1926. First Feast of Christ the King, Last Sunday before Election, Death of Harry Houdini, Assassination attempt on Mussolini.
It was the last Sunday before the 1926 election, and local newspaper advertisements showed that.
It was also Halloween.
Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) died from peritonitis caused by appendicitis and injuries. One of his acts was to encourage people to punch him in the stomach, but when he was ready for it. He'd recently been punched off guard in Montreal by somebody who was engaging uninvited in the challenge.
Houdini had been born in Budapest, where his father was a rabbi, and immigrated to the US as a child.
A fourth attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini was attempted, and failed. The would be assassin was 15 year old anarchist Anteo Zamboni. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.
All opposition newspapers in Italy were closed as a result and the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism, the Fascist Italian secret police, was formed.
Whether Zamboni actually tried to kill Mussolini has been debated, and some suspect that it was a staged event.
Mussolini survived six assassination attempts, assuming that this one was a genuine attempt. There were forty-two such attempts on Hitler. There were four on Stalin's life. I note all that as those who assume that Donald Trump must be ordained in his role by God because he's survived two attempts should take these events into consideration.
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Thursday, October 28, 1926. Buffalo Bill Museum formed.
Tuesday, October 31, 1911. Road to be built down Casper Mountain. Glanders in Casper, Plague in Liverpool.
The Asbestos mine on Casper Mountain was looking to build a road down the face of the mountain.
The mine in fact did put in the first road, which was unimproved and horrifically dangerous.
And the State Veterinarian was putting down nine horses infected with glandes in Casper.
Officials in Liverpool announced that bubonic plague was in the city's ports.
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Monday, October 30, 1911. Mistakes were made.
Tuesday, October 31, 1876. Johnny Ringo arrested. Bengal Cyclone kills 200,000.
The Llano County, Texas Sheriff A. J. Strickland and a party of Texas Rangers captured Johnny Ringo and George Gladdin of Tombstone fame. He'd been participating in the Mason County War.
The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 struck Bangladesh killing approximately 200,000 people.
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Monday, October 30, 1876. Grant revoked the Chiricahua Reserve.
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 13. “Walmart Recession Signal” grows louder.
October 21, 2026
According to the economist who came up with it, the “Walmart Recession Signal” indicating an oncoming recession is getting louder.
Tonight, I'm also pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new harvest fuel relief program, providing our farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season
Donald Trump.
So the fuel relief is to relieve high fuel prices caused by the war against Iran which is illegal, and will be paid for by money we don't have.
Sure, that makes sense somehow.
Oil is coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, under US protection, at roughly the same amount it was before the war now.
In other news.
Oklahoma Tribe Buys One Of The Biggest Horse Betting Operations In Wyoming
Sublette Rejects Appeal For Girls Treatment Center, Owners May Take Fight To Court
October 22, 2026
Natrona County eyes two school closures. One is 40 miles away, the other is right around the corner
One of the schools is in Midwest.
In a real irony, former House District 58 representative Patrick Sweeney went to the Midwest town hall on the subject. Long serving Sweeney was ousted by current representative Bill Allemand after the district was redrawn. Alleman was a complete asshole to Sweeney in a debate and ran, that time, as firebrand Freedom Caucuser.
He survived a challenge from Bar Nunn Mayor Peter Boyer whom he became crosswise with over a proposal to place the Radiant nuclear generator plant north of Bar Nunn, something Bar Nunn could not have stopped. Bar Nunn's city council meetings became the bizarre focus of the topic however with outraged populists even accusing some city council members of taking bribes, an absolute absurdity. Radiant eventually grew tired of the matter and decamped to Tennessee. Allemand, for his part, was arrested not all that long after for drunk driving. He's one of the few surviving members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, barely hanging on to his seat.
Allemand is apparently backing fanciful thoughts of declaring the school to be a charter school or forming a new school district, neither of which will occur It was really admirable of Sweeney to go out and speak to a group of people about their plight, which is concerning, which their votes for Allemand helped bring about. It's the classic Leopard's won't eat my face situation.
Campbell County Moves $500 Million Nuclear Fuel Facility Closer To Reality
Gillette Targeted For Massive $575 Million Uranium Processing Plant
October 24, 2026
Some headlines:
Midwest escapes. . . for now.
School funding crisis, brought to you by the Freakishly Dumb Caucus.
Kemmerer coal mine set to close in 2029, spurring Wyoming’s soda ash industry to seek new fuel source
Could Data Centers Save Wyoming Coal? Peabody Eyes 'Holy Grail' Strategy
October 26, 2026
Wyoming will receive $206,000,000 from the Federal Government for healthcare as part of a Federal rural healthcare initiative.
Now, I demand everyone in Wyoming on the far right who has decried socialized medicine to demand the state not accept the money. To not do so would be hypocritical.
October 28, 2026
Prometheus pulls plug on Natrona County data center
A proposed project promising up to $115 million in annual property taxes is off the table, leaving questions about what comes next for Natrona …
October 31, 2026
Falls Ranch, owned by 75 year old billionaire carpetbagger Russell Gordy, is still trying to recruit a data center.
Billionaire property owner to take over data center project in Natrona County
This is a good example of why: 1) nobody should be allowed to amass this degree of wealth, 2) people who don't make their livelihood in agriculture should not be allowed to own ag land.
This is a really good reason to bring in a wealth tax in Wyoming, and an idle rich landowner tax.
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Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 12, the Deflect and Deny edition.
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Friday, October 30, 2026
25th Amendment Watch, 29th Edition. The Dangerous Days. Reading the Nibelungenlied to Salazar.
António de Oliveira Salazar and the Goebbels family (latter By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1978-086-03 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5419081)
You heard it here first.
Except this is worse than I feared.
Trump Rages as Leaks Reveal How Aides Soothe Him with Midterm Hopium
As readers here know, I had long felt that Trump would get an 18 month run and then be deposed via the 25th Amendment, placing J.D. Vance at the helm and positioning him for a Presidential run in 2028. My prediction proved to be wrong, although I still feel it likely that the 25th will be applied post election at some point.
What I didn't take into account was the complete dependency of some in the cabinet on Trump, such as the NatCons and Evangelical Right, and the dog like loyalty that some of his inner circle have. Loyalty which is beyond normal loyalty, and in which in some cases crosses over into weird.
And hence we get, as this article, quoting from the New York Times, relates:
Numerous administration insiders confide that he’s raging at naysayers and negative press. They’re also leaking that he’s “increasingly cloistered with a small group of acolytes” like Natalie Harp, as the Times puts it. The result:
As the elections approach, Mr. Trump is feasting on a media diet of fawning press coverage, disparaging clips about his perceived enemies, and helpings of flattering photos and “A.I. slop,” as one official put it.
Just as his supporters, with the cooperation of his enemies, caused, or allowed for, Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar to be fed encouraging news about how well everything was going, after he had in fact been deposed, Trump's narrow circle is doing the same. The Salazar Effect is in full force.1 . This explains how he cites the stupidest material as fact. That's what his acolytes are telling him. He really believes the polls are good, and that everyone loves him. The big difference is that Salazar had already been deposed.2.
Trump remains in power.
And hence this is incredibly dangerous. Salazar for all of his many failings, did love Portugal and he was a man of actual faith. Trump appears to only love Trump and is and was a dedicated sexual libertine. Salazar, who was not a populist, did have an actual political philosophy. Trump doesn't.
Which takes us to Joseph and Magda Goebbels.
Herr and Frau Goebbels famously went to death in the bunker with Adolf Hitler, and in the same way, suicide. Worse yet, they murdered all of their children who were in the bunker with them. The Goebbels adults couldn't imagine a Germany without Adolf Hitler and stayed with him in the end, taking the same trip out of life that he did3
Trump appears to not only be subject to the Salazar Effect, but the Goebbels effect as well. That is, his loyal circle is willing to go down in the bunker with him, fighting to the point of hopelessness, and believing that some miracle will deliver them from their fate.
In May 1945, of course, two major elements of the Red Army were contesting to be the ones to put an end to Hitler, and in the west German armies were racing to surrender to the British, Canadians and Americans (less so to the French, whom they rightly feared would be less forgiving). There was no saving the Third Reich and lots of Germans were mostly interested in saving themselves. Even in the east, where the Wehrmacht still fought hard up until the last few days, that was mostly to attempt to allow people to get out of the way of the Red Army. We're seeing that now with some Republicans, who are distancing themselves from Trump.5 Even Chuck Gray wants to talk about the economy, which the Republicans ruined, rather than how he was endorsed by Der Fibber. J.D. Vance has been sent afield on a comedy tour, but seems to have little enthusiasm, or talent, for it.6 Rubio, for his part, seems to be trying to go into hiding.
And so we are now in a really dangerous phase. The best evidence is that Trump is raging at events, just as Hitler did. He's collapsing into his safe secure bunker. At recent campaign events he hasn't been that welcome. The crowds are small, and they've started to heckle him. Some candidates don't want him showing up at all. He cancelled events this week, most likely as he couldn't endure it anymore. In the bunker his aids tell him what he wants to hear.
On November 3 he won't be hearing what he wants to hear.
How will he react then?7
Footnotes:
1. We've used the term before, but we have not defined it. The Salazar Effect is the telling to a demented person lies about how well things are going, in order to keep that person calm and satiated.
2. The Trump's have a family history of this. This is exactly what was done with Fred Trump when he became demented with Alzheimer's.
3. While its almost impolitic to note it, at least in West Germany most Germans adapted to life without the Nazis very quickly, and had even started to prior to the German surrender. Only about 10% of the German population actually became Nazi Party members and the most the Nazis ever secured in a national election was 38% of the vote. The great mass crime of the Germans, therefore, was in putting up with and accommodating themselves to the Nazis even when the horrors of Nazi rule were evident and even as it lead Germany into destruction.
It's interesting to note in context that about 30% of the American population registers as Republican. Trump secured about 49% of the popular vote in 2024. Support for Trump is at a record low. The great mass crime of the Republicans, anyhow, is quite similar to that of the Germans in Nazi Germany. However, that also suggest that they'll get over Donald Trump very quickly.
5. In keeping with the theme, we'll start calling this the Speer Effect, after Albert Speer. We're going to start seeing GOP Republicans who claimed they were never with Trump all along. This also brings up the Michael Jackson Effect. As soon as its safe to do so, we're going to see a lot of MAGA's whip around on the other MAGAs.
6. One thing I didn't account for in my 18 month prediction is that one of the cabinet members, Marco Rubio, would have no interest at all in seeing Vance become President. The only reason that Rubio is in the cabinet at all is that he thought that would propel him to the White House in 2028. He doesn't want Vance, probably, to be running for reelection in 2028 and he sure doesn't want his political career to end as being Vance's Vice President.
7. I've used the analogy of the Battle of Berlin here a lot. To carry through with that, however, November 3 is just the equivalent of the Red Army reaching the suburbs of Berlin. It's not winning the whole battle, but it makes it obvious who will win. The problem is whether or not rational heads will prevail at that point and Donald Trump either ushered out or fully put in his room with his jammies on and the tele turned to News Max, or whether his inner circle tries to defend to the last man and use ever means possible to steal the election.
I'm guessing it'll be the latter.
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