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Been a hell of trajectory for the Republican Party. From Eisenhower to Trump. (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Apr 29 OP
It hasn't changed that much they are still trying to Klarkashton Apr 29 #1
Actually, not with Eisenhower. You should compare the 1952 and 1956 Republican platforms. OAITW r.2.0 Apr 29 #2
I maintain that it's the same old shit. So Klarkashton Apr 29 #3
Nixon, Dulles, BFEE Kid Berwyn Thursday #4
Yep. OAITW r.2.0 Thursday #5

OAITW r.2.0

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2. Actually, not with Eisenhower. You should compare the 1952 and 1956 Republican platforms.
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:19 PM
Apr 29

It would blow your mind. Because Ike understood the price the American middle-class contributed to winning WW2.

Kid Berwyn

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4. Nixon, Dulles, BFEE
Thu Apr 30, 2026, 09:51 AM
Thursday
Nazis in the attic, part 6

By Randy Davis

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH

...Like Nixon, George Bush was deeply involved with supporting the Nazis in the Republican's closet. In fact, support for the Nazis was a Bush family tradition which goes back more than six decades and, once again, to Allen Dulles.

Loftus and Aarons write: "The real story of George Bush starts well before he launched his own career. It goes back to the 1920s, when the Dulles brothers and the other pirates of Wall Street were making their deals with the Nazis. . . ."

THE BUSH-DULLES-NAZI CONNECTION

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"Sullivan & Cromwell was not the only firm engaged in funding Germany. According to 'The Splendid Blond Beast,' Christopher Simpson's seminal history of the politics of genocide and profit, Brown Brothers, Harriman was another bank that specialized in investments in Germany. The key figure was Averill Harriman, a dominating figure in the American establishment. . . .

"The firm originally was known as W. A. Harriman & Company. The link between Harriman & Company's American investors and Thyssen started in the 1920s, through the Union Banking Corporation, which began trading in 1924. In just one three-year period, the Harriman firm sold more than $50 million of German bonds to American investors. 'Bert' Walker was Union Banking's president, and the firm was located in the offices of Averill Harriman's company at 39 Broadway in New York.

"In 1926 Bert Walker did a favor for his new son-in-law, Prescott Bush. It was the sort of favor families do to help their children make a start in life, but Prescott came to regret it bitterly. Walker made Prescott vice president of W. A. Harriman. The problem was that Walker's specialty was companies that traded with Germany. As Thyssen and the other German industrialists consolidated Hitler's political power in the 1930s, an American financial connection was needed. According to our sources, Union Banking became an out-and-out Nazi money-laundering machine. . . .

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". . . In a November 1935 article in Common Sense, retired marine general Smedley D. Butler blamed Brown Brothers, Harriman for having the U.S. marines act like 'racketeers' and 'gangsters' in order to exploit financially the peasants of Nicaragua. . . .

CONTINUED…

Via IA Way Bac: https://web.archive.org/web/20170211122506/http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm

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ETA: BFEE line runs through to the Epstein Investigation: Former Sullivan & Cromwell (from Averell Harriman, Herbert Walker, Prescott Bush days to present) partner Jay Clayton was selected in November 2025 to lead an investigation into the Epstein files for the Southern District of New York (SDNY
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