That's where the New Jersey chapter of ACEP (ER Docs) held their annual conference, and I was obliged (also happy) to attend - not because it was Trump or Atlantic City, but because setting up my little booth to showcase my wares in the exhibit hall was part of what I did to earn my filthy lucre.
It was not a happy place though. Whenever the point of the exercise is pretty much exclusively to separate people from their money, the enterprise always attracts some not very wholesome characters. Not that everybody who worked there was a money-grubbing asshole, but I'm hard pressed to remember anyone who didn't have that kind of glassy predatory look about them. It's just something that happens to people in that kind of environment.
It's little wonder a guy like Trump believed he could thrive there. And in spite of his apparent failures (how the fuck do you go broke in the casino business?), he did just fine for himself - prob'ly (IMO) because his end was just to put up a front for the money laundering operations run by his Russian mob "partners".
Anyway, the Metaphors Department has been working overtime lately, and - well - this:
Paraphrasing David Corn: Monuments to racist assholes are being torn down all over the place.
Trump's legacy will be in keeping with that of every Conqueror-Wanna-Be - ego-centric, delusional, narcissistic, abusive and ultimately self-destructive.
The demolition has begun.
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