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They're dumping petty stuff on the defense, eating up all their time and resources, while holding back the main evidence. They'll present the main evidence at the prelim hearing on April 17. That gives the defense a little over two weeks to get through 20,000 files and prepare for the actual ballistics and DNA evidence given during the hearing. It's a weird thing to do if your case is as airtight as this should be.
Oh, hey, look at this:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/30/washington-county-sheriff-nate/
I'm gonna guess someone fucked up, likely because of political pressure from above, and the main evidence is now messed up. They're trying to ratfuck the defense and get away with only using sad tweets to convict.
Lol if he and Luigi walk it's going to be open season on shit birds.
Oh no @Shitbird@hexbear.net run!
As it should be, that's the Free Market at work. If these MAGAs want to keep amping up the violent, racist rhetoric, and abuse and exploit citizens, they can expect that the market will evolve to match them, and if it goes far enough, the solution to the MAGA problem will become violent.
The Health Care CEO received his market correction because he had pushed his Sociopathic policies so far it spawned a customer so angry, they decided to do something drastic about it. As a result, his company backed off of those policies, and people started receiving treatment that had been previously refused. Even better, OTHER companies loosened their policies as well. It's a PERFECT example of the Free Market at work.
Recently, we heard about the CEO of Five Guys giving their employees a small bonus, because a poorly conceived sales promotion made life really difficult for employees, and apparently he got death threats from his own workers. He responded the only way a Sociopathic Oligarch can - by throwing money at it. Eh, it's a start.
Now that MAGA is seeing actual Free Market responses to their behavior, the smart ones are starting to back off.
Keep up the pressure, make them FEAR for their very lives.