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Conjure Cards & the courtroom

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Today is Friday and we're on day four of the Rittenhouse trial. The above spread is not intended to ask if there would be a guilty verdict - it's a foregone conclusion that there won't be. The judge is biased and the jury probably is, too. There may be a few who comprehend that going out of your way to strut around with an AR at a protest is just looking for an excuse to shoot people, and that he murdered those two men in cold blood in front of multiple witnesses, but this is America. Common sense will be shouted down. And meanwhile Leonard Peltier has been in prison for almost half a century for a crime that the government knows he did not commit. Rather, I asked if there would be a verdict today at all . The first card is the Jack of Hearts, the Bass Fish. This card does not carry a reversed meaning. One of the meanings given is "a young person who is selfish and only thinks of themselves." Yeah, that's Rittenhouse. The next card is the 2 of Spades, the Bro