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Posted on 09/13/2020 4:50:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Oh, boy, do I have a story for you. Who doesn't love Las Vegas? It's America's favorite city. It may be the world's favorite city. It's my adopted hometown for 20 years now.
Until recently, I never thought anything, or anyone, could ever destroy Las Vegas. I was wrong. Everyone needs to hear about what's happening here. Las Vegas and the state of Nevada are in deep trouble. Trust me, you're next -- if you put Joe Biden and Democrats in charge of America.
What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. We are the canary in the coal mine. What happens in Vegas is coming to your city and state. What happens in Vegas is a warning for the entire USA.
Here are a few Vegas stories you won't see in television ads.
First, I have to tell you about Democratic Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak. The D isn't just for Democrat. It stands for DUMB, as in clueless, ignorant, blind, deaf and very dumb.
We've somehow won the dreaded reverse lottery. The odds of having a governor this incompetent, cowardly and insane with Trump Derangement Syndrome all at once is somewhere between 1 in a million and 1 in a billion.
Our clueless or suicidal (take your pick) governor made the decision to shut down the Nevada economy back in March, thereby killing the entertainment capital of the world. Six months later, while casinos are open, bars are still closed, and churches are limited to 50 congregants.
This madman is killing both the saints and the sinners. The bar owners and church leaders should get together and sue. They could title the lawsuit "The Catholics and Convicts Vs. the Governor of Nevada."
But wait, it gets much worse. Because all events are still limited to 50 attendees or less, there are no conventions, conferences or concerts in Vegas. We are the entertainment and convention center of America -- except without the entertainment or conventions.
Although pools are open, our guests have to wear masks while sitting by the pool, in direct sun, with temperatures around 110 degrees most of the summer. How refreshing! We're now the mask-at-the-pool capital of America.
While you have to wear a mask while sitting by the pool, even though you're outdoors and chairs are six feet apart, only steps away, hundreds of guests are in the pool without masks, kissing, dancing, gyrating and drinking in a tangled mass of human anatomy. Obviously, COVID-19 only attacks people lying in a lounge chair, not dancing in the pool inches from one another.
My fiance and I love Vegas' world-class restaurants. We sit only feet from the bar. But no one can sit at the bar. Live music is banned. Obviously, while COVID-19 won't attack you at your table next to the bar, it will kill you instantly if you sit at the bar or listen to live music.
Mail-in voting is encouraged for everyone in Nevada. But we all stand next to hundreds of other Nevadans at Costco, Walmart, supermarkets, banks and CVS. No problem. COVID-19 clearly only kills voters, not shoppers.
Our governor demanded President Trump cancel his political rally for this weekend but never said a word as thousands of often violent Black Lives Matter protestors caused mayhem on the Vegas strip 20 nights in a row. COVID-19 must only be spread by Republicans.
These are just a few of the mandates set forth by the dumbest governor in America. Because of all these absurd, idiotic, confusing rules made up by liberal bureaucrats with at least one chromosome missing, Vegas just lost the National Finals Rodeo to Dallas, Texas, for the first time in over 30 years. Dallas will allow 20,000 spectators. Our Nevada governor would only allow 50 spectators in Las Vegas.
That's thousands of jobs lost, thousands of small businesses damaged, hundreds of millions in revenue lost. And, of course, there's no tax revenue either. How will our socialist governor fund his massive welfare programs and failing public schools?
But the NFR is just one event. We've lost all of them. Every convention is canceled. There is no tax revenue to pay for any government services, let alone our gleaming new NFL stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders. No fans are allowed to attend for the entire season. Where will the tax money to pay the mortgage come from? Oh, boy.
Did I mention that while over 200,000 Nevadans lost their jobs because of this dumb and dumber governor's decisions, many of them still (six months later) can't get unemployment checks? The system is horribly broken. The governor can't find any way to fix it, six months later. But his unemployment department did manage to close for the Labor Day holiday -- while tens of thousands of Nevadans are starving.
I was wrong. It's easy to destroy Las Vegas, formerly the greatest city on Earth. Just put one dumb, clueless, incompetent liberal with Trump Derangement Syndrome in charge.
If you like what has happened to Vegas, put Joe Biden in the White House. Then watch as what's happening in Vegas destroys the entire USA.
Yep if you don't agree with Dr Gas you're causing America, to die - you argue like 5 year old,but less succinctly.
Vegas sucks if you don't agree you are a narcissistic anti liberty who hates his fellow American - I'm practicing you your argument style.
Where did you live? In Henderson or did you actually live in Vegas - heck even the burbs count but those extend forever now. Here is an assumption I know you didn't live in North Las Vegas. Do you realize thats' a separate city? How come Dr? Why does this amazing American city driven by such a fundamental institution (gaming???) just stop and Somalia start north of the 15, but hey lets pretend its not even there, and 1 city is two cities but since half of it is the third world - call it something different. Is North Las Vegas a testament to Americas greatest too Dr?
Vegas is the equivalent of a child who cleans their room by sweeping all the problems under the bed.
Even mass murders that horrify the world - they phony those up too.
You should go stay at the Mandalay Bay or better yet head over to that mafia constructed MGM but make sure there isn't a earthquake. Yeah this is the stuff Americana is based on - give me a break.
Las Vegas creates nothing but misery it takes the rest. Its not an epitome of anything that make America great just the opposite. Its a city based on gaming the odds aren't in you favor- that's not America at all.
Its a fancy casino and whorehouse -- that attracts most of the scumbags of America I suppose in that way its much like Washington D.C but I digress.
I guess I see why you like it.
All of the L.A. trash goes there on Saturday night - if you can arrange your trip to avoid weekends (hotels are also more expensive) it isn’t as bad.
I lived there for three years at the end of the last decade. Wasn’t really able to bond with Las Vegas as a place to live. Weather is terrible - not the heat, but the high winds, dust, and dryness. It can get pretty cold in the winter. Many deliberately unreported violent crimes and suicides. Local media obeys the gaming industry and carefully minimizes or eliminates reporting of negative information. Californians love the lower housing prices but quickly learn that those nice-looking suburbs are surrounded and impinged upon by a lot of late night criminality. Oddly - despite its collection of rough-looking characters - the Strip is well-policed and probably the safest place in town.
Like L.A., Las Vegas is a magnet for problematic people from all over the country. The best thing it had going for it was its libertarian attitudes - but now the Democrat-supporting unions are grinding those out of existence in return for government stipends. Ten more years and Las Vegas will complete its transition into an extended suburb of L.A. - with all the same Leftist lunacy we see from Eric Garcetti today.
Maybe Nevada can cede Las Vegas to California before it is too late, and become Republican again? :)
I haven’t seen any of that in Ohio.
All I have seen is empty hospitals.
I don’t even know of one person that was hospitalized by COVID.
I am sorry that you are only capable of projection. Your statement is yo do not like the town, and therefore you think it should go down the drain. You have no American Spirit of Liberty. Since you are pretty dense, let me make this clear:
I dont care where you live, if you like Vegas or Springfield, MO. It makes little difference to me what you do in life. I support your right to do it — that is called liberty. Instead of bashing me egotistically and querying where I lived to prove your point, as I have said all along...
you and your ilk who think your opinion should be transferred to the rest of society are the problem. You fail to divine the purpose of this article which at its essence is writing as to the tyranny of the government, and your thought is because you dont like it — its fine by you!
Although he didn’t say it, it is widely attributed to Voltaire: Although I loathe what you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it. You seem to think that liberties of others are contingent on your approval. At the point that you actually allow and support the freedom of those to do what you think is somewhat repulsive (like living in a city you dont like) then you can say your are a liberty loving conservative. Otherwise enjoy your petty tyranny that you do not see
I have reread your whole post — please say one thing that I have said that is incorrect. You simply give stats to fit your narrative so I will be as simple as possible:
Do you support the destruction of Las Vegas simply because you dont like the town and therefore you are OK with it being shut down? Very simple question. You are either for liberty or against it — there is no middle ground. I look forward to your answer to this question on point.
Speaking of hip replacements.
A co-worker of mine was scheduled for a hip replacement when the lock down happened. It was to be done at a Cleveland Clinic hospital that does nothing but ‘Elective Surgeries’ like hip replacements.
That entire hospital was shut down and all of the surgery teams laid off because of the lock down. None of those people were put to work treating COVID patients because there were none. At least no more than the regular hospitals could handle with their reduced staff.
What was the utility of that? What did it accomplish?
Hospitals were not overrun — I am sure there is one or two small examples I believe Centro CA where there were all sorts of illegal aliens trying to get in as well as one of the TX border towns. But you are correct, the majority of hospitals have been decimated by the loss of elective and urgent cases — The toll of CoVID must include the numerous deaths related to delay in care caused by the Fearporn of those petty tyrants out there.
Maybe that happened in a few isolated places but it didn’t happen here.
Some bars in Texas are getting around this idiocy by parking a taco truck in their parking lot.
Las Vegas was built by organized crime.
Godfather I, anyone?
To add your name to the frighteningly short Nevada ping list, FReepmail me...
Uh huh, tell that to the 25,000 who attended the TRUMP rally in Minden last night.
IN YOUR FACE Sissy-lacky!
Yes an independent.
Gov.is a Dim.
I understand socialists making people dependent on government, but if they subsequently stop the handouts, the welfare class will get hungry and revolt.
Unexpectedly!
The greatest city on Earth? Really, have you forgotten Rome, Paris, Istanbul and Jerusalem. I lived there in the seventies when it was a cow town with a few casinos. It was great, no taxes, no car insurance, you could by a gun in a gas station, no traffic, no speed limits. Now it’s just like L.A. It’s lost it’s soul. I remember having to put on a sport coat to eat on the strip. You could walk around downtown 24/7 and feel safe because the the Metro Police had their own cemetery in the desert. I have family there, I’m sorry it’s taken the brunt of the Covid economic depression, but the greatest city on Earth? I don’t think so.
“If we really are at the point where a majority of voters believe lockdowns and mask mandates are keeping them safe...”
Thank you for the reply, and yes, I think we are at or approaching that point. Why, it just makes sense folks!
Now that we’re all together on this vital need for wearing masks, I can come up with a whole list of particles. viruses and nastiness that trust us, you’re better off not breathing in.
So really citizen, you’re just better off in general keeping that mask on. Until further notice.
When I see advertisements now showing people without masks, I’m at first surprised, then a little envious of a world where people still smile.
You’ve been through the hospitals? Inside them? Have seen the electronic records indicating diagnoses?
A lot of silliness here
“...covid patients because there were none.“
Perhaps so. And if so a waste. But you do not know this for a fact I would guess.
......take a deep breath and real what I said a little slower!
Maybe several times.
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