"If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate millions in profits and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits, they do not have much incentive to follow the law."—Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Ha ha yup.
This stuff is so muhfucking evident it's truly remarkable that she's the only one saying it.
And by "truly remarkable," obviously I mean "truly indicative of how deeply beholden to financial institutions virtually every one of our elected officials is in this farce of a representative democracy."
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