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Kid Berwyn

(24,898 posts)
39. It goes back to first Gilded Age
Sun May 3, 2026, 12:57 PM
Sunday

The Robber Barons don't like to share the loot their cartels, corporations, trusts and offshored accounts make possible. They did all they could to destroy FDR, even plotting an overthrow of the USG in order to avoid paying taxes to finance the "socialist" New Deal. They tried to enlist Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC (Ret.) to lead the coup.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/coup-jan6-fdr-new-deal-business-plot-1276709/

The BFEE line runs through to the present day and the Epstein Investigation. For example: DoJ bigwig Jay Clayton was tapped by Pam Bondi in November 2025 to lead an investigation into the Epstein files for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Before that office, Clayton was a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell, the NYC white shoes law firm that once hired Allen Dulles to serve Averell Harriman and his partners and associates, including Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman (who the same Gen. Butler named as an organization that had captured the US Government in service of looting other countries in "War is a Racket." ). Small world, one where the rich keep getting richer and the rest of us slave away work for their benefit.

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/warracket.html

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