‘Warm the dice man, warm the dice’ —Craps player, to the designated player, Rio Casino

Bernie Sanders loomed large on the screen above the ReBar, Las Vegas, looking like he always does, an aggrieved pensioner sending back a meal. Touch of the old man resting bitch face. It’s only when he starts speaking that his form integrates, and he wraps around the words, angry, forthright:

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