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Is it possible that WRAY is SKULL AND BONES? (Original Post) Grasswire2 Sep 2021 OP
Skull &Bones snowybirdie Sep 2021 #1
from WIKIPEDIA Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #2
My bad snowybirdie Sep 2021 #24
Skull and bones? The dumb frat with delusions of grandeur and superiority? ColinC Sep 2021 #3
sure Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #4
I personally don't indulge in conspiracy theories ColinC Sep 2021 #7
done responding to you. I've looked at your posting history. Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #11
Sorry!!! ColinC Sep 2021 #20
The Shock Doctrine. smirkymonkey Sep 2021 #10
Yes. Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #13
He's not an investor in Regeneron. Phoenix61 Sep 2021 #16
John Kerry is Skull and Bones. Tomconroy Sep 2021 #5
yes Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #6
If you were a man and went to Yale, you probably were in skull and bones. ColinC Sep 2021 #8
B.S. Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #9
Despite being made up of the rich and powerful ColinC Sep 2021 #22
He is like Pompeo a smart man who acts dumb RANDYWILDMAN Sep 2021 #12
Pompeo, Dominionist Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #15
Secret society trivia: Both Cole Porter and Dean Acheson Tomconroy Sep 2021 #14
IIRC, Bill Clinton was Scroll and Key. nt Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #18
He is King & Spaulding.... RANDYWILDMAN Sep 2021 #17
yeah, his background is totally richie rich Grasswire2 Sep 2021 #19
Did I stumble into the goofy conspiracy theory forum? What an embarrassing thread. tritsofme Sep 2021 #21
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this ColinC Sep 2021 #23
Possible. Skull & Bones history is no joke. Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 #25
I have stood outside the S&B building at Yale known as "The Tomb" -- Grasswire2 Jul 2022 #26

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
2. from WIKIPEDIA
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:23 PM
Sep 2021

Wray attended the Buckley School,[14] in New York City and the private boarding school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.[6] Wray then attended Yale University from which he graduated cum laude[6] with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1989, and earned his Juris Doctor in 1992 from Yale Law School. While at Yale Law, Wray was the Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Wray spent a year clerking for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.[15]

As Yalie as there could be.

snowybirdie

(5,219 posts)
24. My bad
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 04:22 PM
Sep 2021

But this is what came up when I pulled up Wikipedia
Personal details
Born
Christopher Asher Wray
December 17, 1966 (age 54)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party
Republican[1]
Spouse(s)
Helen Garrison Howell

m. 1989)​
Children
2
Education
University of Chicago (BA, JD) Harvard Law School

Gotta read the fine print.

ColinC

(8,279 posts)
3. Skull and bones? The dumb frat with delusions of grandeur and superiority?
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:41 PM
Sep 2021

I just described all fraternities, didn't I?

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
4. sure
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:43 PM
Sep 2021

Go on and characterize it like that.

The first tenet an initiate to S&B must absorb is this:

"In chaos lies opportunity."

Go read the history of the elite and their designs.

ColinC

(8,279 posts)
7. I personally don't indulge in conspiracy theories
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:47 PM
Sep 2021

The elite are powered by their wealth and positions. The frats they join have little to do with where they are.

ColinC

(8,279 posts)
20. Sorry!!!
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:57 PM
Sep 2021

I don't just like to argue. I genuinely disagree with you on this. Apologies for any disrespect.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. The Shock Doctrine.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:00 PM
Sep 2021

Looking back, it's pretty evident. And it's worked for them. No reason to think it can't continue to work.

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
13. Yes.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:05 PM
Sep 2021

It's also said that DeSantis is S&B. Look at the chaos in Florida that he has created. He profits financially from Covid, as an investor in the special treatment.

Look at the damage the Bushes did to America. Ugh.

Phoenix61

(16,993 posts)
16. He's not an investor in Regeneron.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:20 PM
Sep 2021

One of his largest donors runs a hedge fund that has investments in Regeneron.

ColinC

(8,279 posts)
8. If you were a man and went to Yale, you probably were in skull and bones.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 02:50 PM
Sep 2021

Just because the rich and powerful skew right wing and evil, doesn't make their dumb frat any more significant.

ColinC

(8,279 posts)
22. Despite being made up of the rich and powerful
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 04:13 PM
Sep 2021

And using their influence in those areas where they exist, I'm curious what people think skull and bones -or any frat for that matter (like freemasons),does to wield their power?

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,664 posts)
12. He is like Pompeo a smart man who acts dumb
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:05 PM
Sep 2021

He is covering up a lot crap at the FBI and I wonder why Biden didn't replace him?

 

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
14. Secret society trivia: Both Cole Porter and Dean Acheson
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:07 PM
Sep 2021

Were members of another Yale secret society, Scroll and Key. They then went on to be room mates at Harvard Law School.
Oh, to answer the OP: Yale secret society membership is reserved for members of the undergraduate college.

RANDYWILDMAN

(2,664 posts)
17. He is King & Spaulding....
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:31 PM
Sep 2021

A billion dollar law firm with a revolving list of government officials. Like Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein

I wonder why he took a 10 year internship at the FBI ? How much money could he make this firm being at the FBI ?

Why do we have a FBI director worth 20 million dollars plus, does not seem to be a man in touch with regular people, seems to be a player among the rich and powerful ?

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
19. yeah, his background is totally richie rich
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 03:43 PM
Sep 2021

Best prep school, Yale, Yale law

He followed the same path that Bushes did.

Kid Berwyn

(14,801 posts)
25. Possible. Skull & Bones history is no joke.
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 04:40 PM
Sep 2021
The Order of Skull and Bones and Geronimo

STEVEN NEWCOMB
Indian Country Today, September 12, 2016 (originally June, 8, 2006)

Historian Marc Wortman has infused new energy into the controversy over whether President George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush – along with some college chums from Yale – stole Geronimo’s skull and femur bones in the early 1900s.

Wortman accidentally discovered a letter describing the grave robbery, written in 1918, in the Yale archives, while he was researching for a book about World War I aviators. The letter, written from one student to another, reports that “The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible [is] exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill,” and “is now safe” at their Yale clubhouse.

Snip…

The Order of Skull and Bones, or The Order, is an ultra-secretive organization founded at Yale in 1832. The Order’s co-founders were William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft. The Russell family fortune was gained in large part through illegal 19th-century opium smuggling in Turkey and China. Alfonso Taft, of Ohio, was the father of William Howard Taft, who also was a member of Skull and Bones, and the only man to become both president of the United States and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. William Howard Taft was also a freemason, another secret society otherwise known as the Masons, an organization deeply implicated in the theft of Indian lands through the Society of the Cincinnati.

Skull and Bones families have been among the most powerful and influential banking and corporate interests in the world. Some key Bones family names are Root, Brown, Harriman, Rockefeller, Whitney, Davison, Bush, and Cheney (though Vice President Dick Cheney is not a member). The corporation Halliburton, and its subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, which have received tens of billions of dollars in military contracts in Iraq, are affiliated with Bones families, as is Exxon Oil (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey).

Members of Skull and Bones are known as “Bonesmen.” Legend has it that Prescott Bush and several fellow Bonesmen dug up the grave of Geronimo in Fort Sill, Okla., where they were stationed as military officers during World War I. They are said to have taken Geronimo’s skull and femur bones back to “The Tomb” (the Skull and Bones headquarters) on the Yale campus. The recently located 1918 letter supports the story.

Continues…

https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-order-of-skull-and-bones-and-geronimo

Important history, IMFO. Hope Wray is not a member, but, who knows?

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)
26. I have stood outside the S&B building at Yale known as "The Tomb" --
Tue Jul 19, 2022, 05:23 PM
Jul 2022

It houses Skull & Bones.

It felt very creepy to be there, knowing then much of what you reported above.

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