Amy Jo Johnson shades 'Power Rangers' costar Austin St. John for selling t-shirts with Hitler quotes

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I’m building a ‘Warrior’ line, where I will go back in history from pre-greek days, as far back as I can,” the actor explained. “I’m gonna have famous quotes from warriors of all ilks, including the terrible ones. Hitler was, you know, a demon on steroids, but he had some pretty good one-liners. So everybody from the great ones to the infamous and terrible ones.”

Ah, creating fake controversy to drum up publicity for your bs, got it.

Hitler wasn’t a warrior. He was a coward.
I mean, far be it from me to defend the guy, but he did fight in the first world war. So technically, I suppose you could say he’s a warrior.

He was wounded by a grenade fragment in 1915 and when the war ended on 11/11/1918, he was in a field hospital, treated for temporary blindness caused by a poison gas attack.

That said, he spent his war as a “Meldegänger”, a messenger. He was not among those in the trenches at the immediate front.

So someone should have shot the messenger.
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