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    Per US system, he’s 10% there. If he gets to a billion, guilty or innocent, the law no longer applies and he walks. If he gets to 750 million, he’ll get out with time served and an ankle bracelet.

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    What do you think about him now being a millionaire?

    Not much. I’m a millionaire and so is everyone on my street, and on all the adjacent streets. A million dollars doesn’t go as far as it did 60 years ago.

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    Best case he walks and copycats cite his case and also walk. Worst case he actually did it and they throw the book at him and no one every tries to copy him again

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    I fear he will be found guilty by a jury of mouth breathers. But probably be next year before we get a verdict. And probably get life in prison, and we can force the next Dem president (if we every get one again) to commute his sentence.

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      Every jury I’ve been on has been full of really disappointing people. But I’ve only been on two, so it’s a small sample size.

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      I highly doubt a dem president would commute his sentence if he’s found guilty, for one thing, anyone with the resources to mount a successful presidential campaign, dem or otherwise, is almost certainly going to be wealthy enough to personally sympathize more with CEOs than with people that cant get healthcare. Consider how panicked some of the CEOs and their ilk supposedly got right after the shooting, and consider that thats exactly the kind of person that a dem president, or at the very least their friends and associates, would likely be.

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        Yeah also I feel like everyone is forgetting how ask the Dem politicians came out and unequivocally condemned him. Why would any Dem administration be on the right side of this issue? The only difference is that they might support life in prison over the death penalty.

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        We’re not doing much now, even with:

        1. regime endorsed street executions,
        2. rollbacks on elections for midterms via postal service shenanigans,
        3. a pedophile and generalized rapist for President,
        4. religious threat, action, and rollback on the civil liberties of half the population,
        5. Healthcare,
        6. RFK and admin dismantling the cheapest most effective piece of healthcare we have: vaccines
        7. A war which will make transportation in this giant nation more onerous, and render more people homeless,
        8. impending collapse of the dollar,
        9. billionaires on their way to being trillionaires under the new tax code,
        10. Veterans disrespected and harassed and randomly ejected from their jobs weekly,
        11. A presidential police force stalking the streets, paid with our tax dollars,
        12. A partridge in a pear tree

        And you think the 1% whacking Luigi will incite action.