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RAB910

(3,501 posts)
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:45 AM Feb 2019

Criminal GOP donor Sheldon Adelson bribes Trump & GOP with over $122 million to ban online gambling

Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands, and his wife Miriam spent more than $122 million during the 2018 midterm elections on behalf of Republican candidates. That was more than any other outside spender, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group.

The Adelsons in October also gave $500,000 to a legal defense fund set up to help Trump aides caught up in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether the president’s campaign committee colluded with Russia, Internal Revenue Service filings show.


https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/02/trump-administration-just-threatened-jerseys-350m-online-gambling-industry-the-state-is-fighting-back.html
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Criminal GOP donor Sheldon Adelson bribes Trump & GOP with over $122 million to ban online gambling (Original Post) RAB910 Feb 2019 OP
republicans embraced a draft-dodging casino hustler* just as they embraced... Achilleaze Feb 2019 #1
Does Anyone Think Adelson Should be Criminally Investigated? dlk Feb 2019 #2
He has multiple times RAB910 Feb 2019 #3
Given how destructive gambling can be.... Turbineguy Feb 2019 #4
Banning online gambling is like banning alcohol RAB910 Feb 2019 #6
Just when the wealthy thought they had everything... dubyadiprecession Feb 2019 #5
The GOP- The best political party money can buy RAB910 Feb 2019 #7
Gambling on user written and dynamically adaptable algorythms. . . Seems legit! TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #8
... Scurrilous Feb 2019 #9

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republicans embraced a draft-dodging casino hustler* just as they embraced...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:47 AM
Feb 2019

the "easy money" of Las Vegas, the oil money of Saudi Arabia, and the filthy black-market money of the evil empire** russia.

Proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that republican casino-style family values are degenerate, and suck cesspool scum.

* Comrade Dirty Donny, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
** per the warning to republicans of their former IDOL ronald frigging reagan (r)


republican money-bagman, and auxilliary family-values role model, Sheldon Adelson:

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)
4. Given how destructive gambling can be....
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:52 AM
Feb 2019

It seems to me it's better if someone has to make some effort to got to the casino rather than their nearest internet device. Of course I understand that Adelson was not doing this to make a better society, that part would be more of an unintended consequence.

RAB910

(3,501 posts)
6. Banning online gambling is like banning alcohol
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:59 AM
Feb 2019

People will find a way. Ban regulated state gambling and they just go to overseas sites

dubyadiprecession

(5,716 posts)
5. Just when the wealthy thought they had everything...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:58 AM
Feb 2019

“Bought and paid for” in America, Sheldon Adelson needs to spend more money to keep his “pursuit of happiness” from ending.
I just hope the gop won’t let that poor little billionaire down.

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
8. Gambling on user written and dynamically adaptable algorythms. . . Seems legit!
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:17 AM
Feb 2019

.

It seems like they are getting a rush because they know it's fugazi, almost like performing self-harm.



All of those online gambling, and computer controlled casino games are fugazi. Then, if you win, they can claim an error.

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