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By building a second casino down the street so they would compete with each other and both end in bankruptcy.

What are you talking about? Trump is isolating us from the rest of the world day by day.

We're rapidly approaching the level of Russia, as considered on the world stage. Nothing about what is happening is a good thing. Nothing.

I hope not, but yeah, I suspect this will be the case.

The world is fucked, and this is a perfect microcosm of why.

McGregor assumes raping a woman is the only qualifier for president. So this makes sense.

It's my understanding that this will make it far more difficult for them to get a conviction/verdict. Going for the death penalty has certain bars to hit during a trial by jury. It's often why prosecutors go after lesser sentences on things people absolutely did the worse versions of. This gives them a much more likely guilty verdict from a jury.

By doing this, they're basically torpedoing the case, as I understand it.

Purely to try and scare people/send a message.

When he's rendered a verdict of not-guilty for the crimes that would lead to the death penalty, but is guilty of something relatively trivial, like "owning an unregistered firearm", this could come back to bite them in the ass.

But who knows. I've been hoping for the judicial system to bite the ass of fascists for almost a decade now, without much luck.

0 here as well. Really feels like a Gen X/Millennial thing.

That just sounds like capitalism

Yes, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Illusions, Michael. Tricks are things hookers do for money. ... Or candy!

So do we all.

Nothing good you mean