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You and I both know that the WSJ editorial board and all of conservative media would find a way to criticize Biden if he came out tomorrow and said, "Yes, Hunter and I sold out the USA to China and as penance I'm resigning and I'll spend all of my remaining days after my jail sentence is over volunteering at an orphanage that caters to kids with special needs." But that doesn't mean they don't have a point here in the one specific instance. If their goal was preventing panic, the best thing they could have done was trot out the president to say, "We're doing nothing beyond the basic FDIC mandate, because there's no systemic risk here since SVB and Signature were gambling houses and the dice came up snake eyes. The average American's money is safe and sound." He's not preventing panic, and he's making it look more and more like the conservative talking points that Dems are a bunch of rich lawyers who care only about rich lawyers is basically true. I think they fucked up big time.