• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Apparently the button to turn off the orphan crushing machine was on the desk all along.

    Real answer is that he is basically doing his job. the question is how come every other mayor/politicians isn’t doing their job?

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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      Their corporate donors don’t want them to. And they want those donors happy for two reasons, so they can get rich via kickbacks and insider info because Congress is apparently exempt from insider trading, and when they leave office they get a nice cushy lobbying job using the connections they made in office to deal.