Thunderbird has a default setting to hide remote images for emails that are not ‘trusted’ Since my email does all my filtering all emails I will download are trusted. You can go into the configuration editor and change the setting for: mailnews.message_display.disable_remote_image to FALSE and that will turn this feature off. To get to the configuration editor, go to Options -> Advanced -> Config Editor (its a button)
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Thanks for the tip!