Not sure why that memory is popping up today…

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I remember joyously watching the press conferences with his transition team. I was excited for him to tackle the financial crisis.

    Years later I learned that he had gotten his whole cabinet pre-approved by Citi Bank. Tackling Wall Street indeed.

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      I mean, you probably don’t pick biden-alert as your fucking VP unless a bunch of good ol’ boys from MBNA, Bank of AmeriKKKa, Citi, Merrick, Wells Fargo, and Capital One got together and hauled you to a smoky backroom where they show you video footage of the JFK assassination taken from an angle that the public has never seen before

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