re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I did not know anything about Trump until he started rising in GOP polling. All I knew about him was he was a rich guy who owned hotels. I didn’t know he’d bankrupted a casino or any of the racist crap he was hit for under Nixon’s DOJ.

Most people I know don’t put as much time into learning about candidates as I do. They don’t want to hear it if you’ve learned something either.

Celebrity politics is going to kill us.

That’s really interesting on how people outside of of NY/NJ, (or in my case, Atlantic City), knew next to nothing about him.

I wasn’t following every second of the coverage, but there was enough in the Philly area (which AC usually falls under) for me to think “How the hell can anyone go bankrupt running a casino? It’s supposed to be a license to print money” and AC was pretty much the only real gambling destination on the East Coast at the time.

Add that to the news coming out of NYC that it seemed he always going bankrupt. I’m still shocked at how regional this was, given his nationwide celebrity.