Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
reality check:

micon is about to go full lenny bruce, only without the bankroll or support.

he has a wife who swallowed his koolaid and a daughter whose probably going to spend some birthdays staring at her dad in a plexiglass cage. then again, probably not, because martha is going to have to move back in with her parents.

whatever fantasies he had about being a crusader for libertarian reform lasted exactly as long as it took for the sound of his door splintering off the hinges to wake him up.

movies? spotlight? attention?

hes literally an international fugitive with a wife and child. he got to that point by running an illegal poker site and strutting around like a peacock on bath salts; hes a champion of nothing, and no one is printing up any FREE MICON bumperstickers in this life or any other.

hes either going to move to a jungle backwater shithole where there is no extradition treaty with the US (best International House Hunter episode ever?) or he can face the music and try to end run jail time, which will bleed him to death financially long before the IRS forensic accountants start to sink their fangs into his corpse.

and the second he pops his beak up from the sand to start riffing on youtube about how uncle sam's jackboots are coming, his lawyer is going to tell him that if he ever does it again, hes splitting and keeping the fucking retainer.

so yeah unless he uses the last of his bitcoins to buy a fucking pirate ship and starts hijacking schooners with a ragtag crew of mandingo thugs, there will not be much of a story to tell here.
The go-bag packed with a bathing suit rather points to his expecting this scenario.

In fact, nothing so far has come as a surprise. He knew the law. He hasn't been hiding. This chain of events was easier to predict than your opening chess gambit.

I still contend his desire for attention supersedes his instinct for self-preservation.

The ultimate punishment is always a gamble with American legal system and every poker player feels he can bink on the river.

Regardless, there will be much conversation.