Posted on 11/21/2017 12:21:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Now the media are just taunting us with their tall tales about Stephen Paddock, the alleged Las Vegas shooter. Reputedly serious news organizations are claiming that he made a living playing video poker. That’s like claiming someone made a living smoking crack.
The media are either doing PR for the gambling industry or they don’t want anyone considering the possibility that Paddock was using gambling to launder money.
NBC News reports, with a straight face: “Las Vegas gunman earned millions as a gambler.” A Los Angeles Times article is headlined, “In the solitary world of video poker, Stephen Paddock knew how to win.” The story says that Paddock’s gambling “was at least a steady income over a period of years.”
I don’t know all the ins and outs of Paddock’s life, but that’s a lie.
Billionaire owners
How do reporters imagine casino owners make a living? Any ideas on how all those glorious lobbies, lights, pools and fountains are paid for? How do they think Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn became billionaires if gambling is a winning proposition for people like Paddock – and therefore, by definition, a losing proposition for the casinos?
The media think about money the way Democrats do. They have absolutely no conception of where it originates. Those casino owners sure are generous! reporters think to themselves.
Economist Thomas Sowell is always ridiculing journalists for not understanding basic economics. It turns out, they don’t understand the spreadsheet of a lemonade stand.
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You don't win at video poker. Casinos don't comp people who are taking money out.
So where did the money he was laundering come from? Is there any evidence to show he was engaged in profitable but illegal activities?
Selling guns to ineligible purchasers can be quite lucrative.
‘Have any other solitary mass shooters ever had girlfriends?’
Charles Whitman had a wife.
Yes, but if you do a large enough business to make substantial sums of money, it has to leave a pretty broad trail. How would potential customers find him unless he was widely known? There is quite a lot of competition, too, so the profit margins can’t be all that high. If that was what he was doing, after an event like this, word would have got out. Some guys who bought guns from him would talk, and the news would spread.
There is no evidence of anything of the sort.
This isn’t a new idea.
Get a $10,000,000 marker. Lose $2,000,000. Deposit $12,000,000, withdraw the chips.
Nothing adds up.
He was on a Mandalay floor owned by Saudis.
Saudi is in the middle of a "corruption" probe, and the owner of the Mandalay floors was one of the princes taken into custody.
The reason they aren't telling us anything is because what they know doesn't support the narrative they want to sell.
anon group said on youtube they had a hacked document from Las Vegas sherrifs claiming that Paddock was running guns for ISIS and that the feds were about to bust him...
Arab fundamentalist assassins stung the stingers, trying to off MbS.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISIS CLAIM ???
The media coverage on this is truly bizarre. Here you have the “Muzzi” ISIS claiming involvement showing up everywhere in the UK press but gets buried here in the US..
Wether or not a connection to Paddock can be made that claim gives us an opportunity to examine their justifications to commit atrocities.
Why wont they ? Perhaps it’s because according to their codex known as Sharia the actions taken by Paddock has been sanctioned by Almighty God.
Because most political perverts don’t believe in such a thing as God they can’t concieve of followers of Islam believing in what they are doing is actually serving God. It must be something else. So the progressive perverts running the show avoid bringing that up and blame guns.
All are more plausible than the BS they are feeding us.
I think Paddock was engaged in human trafficking, mostly for sex slaves. Hence the large wire transfer to his ‘girlfriend’ in the Philippines. If he had been running guns, he would not have had to buy his weapons in a gun store.
My sex trafficking theory would fit in with the authorities stonewalling the investigation, as it probably leads to some powerful names who don't want to be revealed.
Guy I worked with about fifteen years ago quit his job and became a professional poker player. Apparently he’s been able to sustain himself doing that.
Video poker is not the poker your friend is playing. Your friend is playing against a human dealer.
Video poker and poker against human beings are completely different things.
That is the wrench in the spokes of the gun runner theory.
Tucker Carlson covers it every Friday night.
Last Friday he had on a lawyer for some victims - seemed to imply the FBI knew this guy, and had for a while. Don't know what that means, but it's not nothing.
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