Question of the Day - 30 July 2023

I wonder if Adelson's disdain for the Vegas market made him turn the V and P into the horribly overpriced shitshow it is today. Perhaps he was thinking, I'm only going to operate this joint if I can make an insane profit off of it. I'll bet the continued mad influx of lemmings surprised him. God knows, I never thought that people would be so indifferent to money that they'd pay $500 a night to stay and play $50 6/5 blackjack.
But don't be sad, folks. Adelson donated over $150 million of your losses to the Republican Party.

At least some of his money was spent wisely.  :)

Happy 58th Birthday to MEDICARE.  Harry Truman was the first person to be enrolled followed by 19 million the first year of existence...rip LBJ...

You mean the facist party formerly know as the Rep. party

I was at the Venetian for the first time in years to see a show.  Show was great even though a tequila sunrise cost me $20.  I played pai gow poker which didn't seem any worse than any other casino and left up $100.

Didn't Adelson get the ball rolling with attracting the Raiders to the City of Lights?

"You mean the facist party formerly know as the Rep. party" Two problems with this comment. #1 It's spelled "fascist". #2 The progressive whack Dem party are the fascists because of denying free speech, desire of total control over citizen's lives (i.e. COVID shot, electric vehicles etc.) and cancel culture. You people would have loved Adolf H. for awhile anyway.

Like a broken record, the woke social justice warrior lewis is back to his 'get off my lawn!' whiny rants about las vegas being hell on earth these days vs the days when he became rich from gambling, cough cough, in the glory days of las vegas. And of course he will respond back to others to take their meds and watch faux news or something non related, lol. 

And of course nothing would be complete without his woke liberal warped view of the world with a little political rant. Though have to say with his demented eggplant 10% 10 million regime and all the corrupt rumblings coming out about it, he's been a bit tame in his political rants lately. He has his own orange man hell in the form of a demented eggplant he enabled. Oh, the irony! Projection anyone? Though he's probably shielded from it all with his fake news sources and this is all news to him.

I think you're right on Steve Ludwig. Isn't it ironbic that once upon a time, reading how the dems liberals were back in the 60's and 70's when lewis was around sounds like, they believed in free speech, even if one disagreed. Agree to disagree. Were vehemently against war. Now fast forward today. The party that tried recently to create 'the ministry of truth' with a straight face. I mean, really? Because they know 'truth'? And like you say muzzling other views, throwing hissy fits on campuses and other venues with violence because they don't agree. And funding a war walking us so close to WWIII. Isn't this the same crew who whined about funding overseas wars not so long ago and blamed the other party of the same thing? It's truly an insane upside world and lewis types seem blind they have become the neo-cons, war mongers funding wars, 'ministry of truth' 1984 is here reality.  

I watched a monkey shit fight.  It was far more interesting and engaging than the political shit fights this comment section too often devolves into.
Almost makes one wish LVA would just shut off comments. Love the site, love the QoD, but it's becoming a drag to read the same bitching and moaning from the same handful of look-at-me posters.
Don't they have friends in the real world they can bore?

Take it to the Kitchen Sink, the cesspool where it belongs. If I see another political statement here, I'll bomb all.

...Sheldon Adelson was wrong to try to ban online poker nationwide. It will definitely remain a negative part of his legacy.

Any discussion of Adelson's casino empire must necessarily include his devotion to the Republican party. He dumped a LOT of money in their direction, in ways official and, um, unofficial. He bought the larger and assimilated the smaller of Vegas's two daily newspapers just so he could turn the final product into the Republican Party Newsletter.

His politics also heavily influenced his labor relations and his investment decisions. So the above stuff I mention has relevance that these Doc-rants don't.

Hi Anthony,

First off, I respect this is your business and site and I will abide by your request as you're right, this site and comments should NOT be about politics, despite the previous comment from Lewis that for some reason this QOD has to do with any political party as it doesn't. I read it very carefully.

With all due respect Anthony, may I make an observation and comment: Back in early June of this year, you had a QOD highlighting who Lewis is. Wonderful. But a good chunk of the QOD, you highlighted Lewis's political views. And how he 'often sprinkles political comments into his comments and he's unapologetic about them'. QOD direct quote. Then you went further into his climate views, inequality, left and trump views, in the QOD. So with all due respect once again, can you understand perhaps how some of us commenters, including myself, see a double standard here, a bit of enabling on the political topic?

Thanks for your time to hear my view, best to LVA. 

Sorry Anthony, I commented the recent QOD incorrectly in the section when you were highlighting Lewis's political views, should have quoted:

'Kevin often sprinkles politics into his comments and he's unapologetic about them'

 Anyone else noticed that more and more the dialogue here in the Advisor is about the postings and expressed content and conduct of one individual? I have been under the impression that the Advisor was a place to obtain information concerning Las Vegas. It would be nice to see the Advisor return to being the great source it once was.

Yes, it's a paraphrase of Mercutio's dying epithet in "Romeo & Juliet" (for those who ain't got no culture), and it expresses my view of both American major parties and those who engage in endless back-and-forth-and-no-one-changes-their-views commentary.  I'll keep voting, keep having to choose the best of evils rather than the good because the good won't run or don't espouse the right amount of demagoguery, and will keep to my principles.

Yes, Adelson donated heavily to Republican causes.  Believe it or not, that was his right.

As for the actual subject, the Venetian/Palazzo, it's a wonderful property, with great suites and restaurants, hardly a "shitshow".  I don't play there much when I'm in town, because I can play elsewhere just as easily with the same rules and for lower minimums.  The casino floors there seem crowded, which is odd considering the rest of the property.