Trump's biggest donor.

Imagine your legacy being the biggest donor to the guy that tried to overthrow the US government and sacked the capital.  That is not how I would want to be remembered. 

You can see what type of person Adelson was every day, just by reading the editorial section of his rag, the Las Vegas Review-Journal. There are two recurrent columnists; one, Wayne Allen Root, is an unabashedly enthusiastic Trump lackey, and another, Victor Joecks, is a self-avowed white supremacist. If you want to get today's loony bird perspective, you need look no further. Also, letters to the editor that get published are about 4-1 Trumpy and the wording of headlines often suggests a, um, lack of objectivity.

I never gamble at the Venetian because I know that every dollar I lose may wind up in Trump's pocket. (I doubt that the lavish donations to the Orange One will end just because Adelson's dead.)

I am sitting on the toilet with the Las Vegas Review-Journal in front of me.

Soon it will be behind me.

At least recognize the guy who came up with that quip: 

“I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.”― Max Reger

Absolutely!

Also: The Las Vegas Review-Journal is not a newspaper that can be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force.

Now DonDiego has a new research project!

They used to have matchplay coupons in the LVRJ for Boyd casinos.    That was probably over 10 years ago.

Adelson used tobe a Democrat donor.  He felt the Dems were not pro-Israel enough so he switched parties.      His record has policy positions I both support and oppose.    True of most people.    I would prefer to see billionaires of any disposition keep their money out of our political system.

It wasn't all that long ago--sometime in 2019---that the LVRJ published a monthly insert from Boyd with all sorts of really good restaurant coupons. I didn't see matchplays then, but maybe there were some. In any case, all that's gone, gone, gone now---for good. Stations and Boyd have colluded to form the stance, "Screw you, nobody gets anything." Vegas locals are getting it in the shorts, just like the tourists have for years.

Adelson definitely made a hard right turn at some point in his life. He not only bought the LVRJ and turned it into a right-wing propaganda rag, he bought the Las Vegas Sun--a much more centrist newspaper--and assimilated it. It now exists literally only inside the LVRJ, eight pages long and espousing opinions often the complete opposite of the LVRJ. It's kind of bizarre.

Funny, I used to be pro-Israel, and I thought they had pretty much earned the right to be assholes to everyone else if they so chose, because everyone still wants to wipe them off the map. But I don't like how they've treated the Palestinians, and that's with the full realization that the Palestinians don't deserve any consideration from the Israelis. Really, the whole region should just go up in one giant fireball and the hell with it.

Britannica.com has published an interesting brief biography of Mr. Adelson.

" Adelson was born into modest circumstances in Dorchester, a neighbourhood of Boston. His father was a Lithuanian immigrant who drove a taxicab. The younger Adelson started out in business at age 12, selling newspapers. 

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And  Forbes estimates his net-worth was around  $29.8 Billion.

And yet, he contributed gobs and gobs of money to the largest, most anti-immigrant organization in the world: the Republican Party.

I wonder if he realizes that if the Republicans of today had been in power when his father emigrated to America, he not only would have been denied entry, the boat he was on would have been sunk by the Navy. There would have been a fiery speech about how all those Lithuanians are criminals and rapists, flooding into our country.