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peppertree

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2. Fun fact: the RW candidate, Jose Kast, is the son of a Wehrmacht Nazi

Reply to SharonAnn (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 05:14 PM

19 hrs ago

Something Kast denied for years - until the Nazi Party paperwork surfaced (und zis little photo):

And his brother Miguel, was Chile's Central Bank president during Pinochet's calamitous 1982-83 collapse - which Reagan then decided to bail him out of (à la Trump/Argentina)...

Them apples didn't fall far from the tree.

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"Hard right" in Chile means Pinochet style government and crony capitalism. SharonAnn 23 hrs ago #1

Fun fact: the RW candidate, Jose Kast, is the son of a Wehrmacht Nazi peppertree 19 hrs ago #2

Thank you for the information infusion concerning some extraordinarily negative people still intending to grab power Judi Lynn 4 hrs ago #3