Month: April 2024

SEAN HANNITY: RFK, Jr.'s a 'devout, radical environmentalist'

Fox News host Sean Hannity lays out “radical” positions he says independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. holds in his opening monologue on “Hannity.”

SEAN HANNITY: On the issue of Kennedy, well, he is what he is. He is a devout, radical environmentalist who frequently was heaping praise on Bernie Sanders and his radical Green New Deal. In the past, he’s called for a complete ban on fracking. He’s applauded Obama’s limits on oil exploration, tweeting, “#KeepItInTheGround.” No, I say bring it out of the ground. 

RFK, JR. SAYS BIDEN ‘MUCH WORSE’ THREAT TO DEMOCRACY THAN TRUMP

Anyway, on his campaign website, RFK, Jr. promises to “protect wild lands from further development by curbing mining, logging, oil drilling, and suburban sprawl,” as he calls it. This will undoubtedly drive up the cost of everything, especially housing — and that’s not all. The Kennedy campaign also has a plan to dismantle the police. “Kennedy will reorient police to serve, not occupy, Black communities; to keep neighborhoods safe rather than harassing their residents.” There’s also a section on Kennedy’s website about student loan forgiveness. 

He plans to make “student debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and cut interest rates on student loans to zero.” Who wants to lend people money and not get interest? Anyway, naturally, small business loans will continue to accrue interest. Here’s another proposal that, well, bleeding-heart liberals will find very tempting: Kennedy wants to slash the U.S. military budget and use the money for socialized healthcare. RFK, Jr.’s running mate? Very wealthy attorney, compelling life story from Silicon Valley. Her name is Nicole Shanahan — a devout, far-left Democrat. Notably, by the way, Shanahan has spoken out against in-vitro fertilization. 

But thanks to Shanahan, while the Kennedy campaign now has extremely deep pockets, it will pose a serious challenge to Biden’s re-election. If you are a left-wing voter, Kennedy frankly gives you all the nutty, Biden-Bernie Sanders, Green New Deal, climate alarmist, religious cult policies, maybe without the corruption and sleaze and the chaos, and he definitely knows what day of the week it is. Got to give him credit for that. 

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Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Senior SW Engineer C/C++ in Berlin

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Famed Tropicana Las Vegas resort closing to make room for new baseball stadium

One of Las Vegas’ longest-standing and most historic hotels is shuttering its doors after nearly 67 years to make room for a new Major League Baseball stadium.

Tropicana Las Vegas closed on Tuesday, just shy of its 67th. anniversary.

Demolition is slated for October to make room for a $1.5 billion Major League Baseball stadium.

The hotel, which opened on the iconic Las Vegas strip on April 4, 1957, was nicknamed the “Tiffany of the Strip” for its opulence. 

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When it was built in the late -1950s, the Tropicana cost $15 million to build. It was three stories with 300 rooms split into two wings, creating a footprint shaped like the letter “Y.”

Later, the Tropicana underwent two major hotel expansions: The Tiffany Tower opened in 1979 with 600 rooms. 

It was renamed the Paradise Tower. In 1986, the Island Tower opened with 800 rooms.

Behind the scenes at the opulent Tropicana opening, the hotel had close ties with famed mobster Frank Costello. 

Weeks after Tropicana debuted, Costello was shot in the head in New York. He survived, but police found in his coat pocket a piece of paper with the Tropicana’s exact earnings figure. 

The note also mentioned “money to be skimmed” for Costello’s associates, according to a post on The Mob Museum’s website looking back on the Tropicana’s storied past.

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By the 1970s, federal authorities investigating mobsters in Kansas City would charge more than a dozen mob operatives with conspiring to skim nearly $2 million in gambling revenue from Las Vegas casinos, including the Tropicana. Charges connected to the Tropicana alone resulted in five convictions.

In 1959, the Tropicana debuted a risqué show which featured topless feathered showgirls.

The cabaret was featured in the 1964 Elvis Presley film “Viva Las Vegas.” Magicians Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn got their start in the show, as did Lance Burton.

A portion of “The Godfather” was filmed at the Tropicana and in the 1971 film “Diamonds Are Forever,” James Bond stays there.

“I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Bond said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.