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.
Are there 2.2 million people dying in the streets? Of course not.
If Las Vegas was anything other than an entertainment playground it never would have been there. Every major U.S. city has a historical purpose tied to productive industries: Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, etc. were Atlantic ports. Same goes for Houston and New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, and Los Angeles and Seattle on the West Coast. Detroit and Cleveland were manufacturing hubs that existed only because of their access to the Great Lakes for maritime trade. Chicago was a railroad hub that spawned a food production industry due to its access to Midwest and Great Plains agricultural regions. St. Louis was the focal point for Mississippi/Missouri River trade. Etc., etc.
Las Vegas never had anything to offer except useless entertainment spawned by organized crime in a post-WW2 era when the U.S. was in an unsustainable era where our industries had no competition. This country would have been better off without it. The collapse of our entire social order in the decades since then have been evidence that none of this was ever a good thing.
I say let's get those 2.2 million people living and working somewhere else -- and doing something else more productive.
#MAGA.
Maybe NYC where COVID patients were forced into nursing homes by the governor.
But even then for only a short period of time.
One of the great embarrassments of all time should be that an Army Hospital Ship was taken out of refit early at the request of Governor Cuomo and sailed for 2 weeks from Seattle (or was it Portland) through the Panama Canal to NYC.
After it was there it was used by a total of two patients all the while COVID patients were forced into nursing homes. Then there were the specially built overflow hospitals that were not utilized at all.
Count me in as one of those. I see Las Vegas as the capital of Everything That's Wrong With America. It's all flash and no substance. It's all just superficial "glamour," if you can call plastic and neon glamorous. It's all just a fake facade, like Disneyland for adults. But Cinderella's Castle is a strip joint with a gift shoppe before the exit, where you can buy a Mickey Mouse g-string and googley-eye pasties.
The whole town reeks of sleaze and decadence, a monument to carnality and mindless hedonism. Bleccccch.
My wife works for University Hospitals of Cleveland.
She has not seen or heard of any crisis of beds.
She is a respiratory therapist. If COVID was causing a hardship in the hospitals her hours would not have been cut. She would have been put on OT.
Again, You believe people trying to tell you Texans hate Abbott?
Take a deep breath indeed.
Next step after that is put down the revolt, use that as the cover to murder everyone who disagrees with you, and then rule over the rubble.
So why are you opining on Texas? People talk about Texas as if they know. So ready to attack Greg Abbott. They don’t have the facts.
My reply to your post was not intended to be an attack on Texas or its Governor. Lord knows he is doing better than Mike DeWine.
My intent was to lament the economic devastation inflicted on the hospitals and their employees unnecessarily.
Been to Vegas for a couple of conferences. Wouldn't choose to go there voluntarily. No thanks.
The entire Covid hoax is SELF INFLICTED. No difference than suicide.
He's barely republican. A RINO at best. There is a local bar down the street from me that pretty much just said "screw it", and opened before they allowed 50% bars to open. I patronize the place because both he and the waitresses deserve my support.
Because you get to decide what’s productive. How is that better than the government shutting things down on a whim?
“ I don’t really care about that. Shoot the sobs where the stand. Shoot survivors again.”
My reply to your post was not intended to be an attack on Texas or its Governor. Lord knows he is doing better than Mike DeWine.
My intent was to lament the economic devastation inflicted on the hospitals and their employees unnecessarily. “
Address this to the proper responder
I would never say the above.
This is slander and libel
Sorry the first line was mistakenly copied from a previous post.
Those of us who live here are used to this kind of thing, and the water runs off our backs (what water there is down at Mead). There are always going to be entertainment Meccas and many of the people commenting sound as if they haven’t seen much of the city beyond the resort corridor. Human beings are going have places like Las Vegas and if people don’t care for the stuff here they surely don’t need to get anywhere near here. 40 million people a year came here every year before Sisolak shut off that golden goose, there will always be people who want to come to the many world class restaurants, the shows, the gambling and all that even if it is over-priced and can surely be debauched if someone wants that. There’s a market and that market isn’t going anywhere...at least not until we as a people become like the old USSR, bland and gray.
Nevertheless, we have no issue with people not liking the city or it’s industry. It’s a free country still...they can like or not like as they wish, it matters not to us who live here.
I’ve always felt that way, even in my youth.
Three days max.
If you live in the outskirts and aren’t on the strip. It’s probably tolerable.
Sure. Who needs a wild-a$$ed American city like Vegas.
Give me a 'real' city such as Donetsk. /
That may have been Vegas at one time, but it isn’t anymore.
And then the Corporations took it over.
I've only been to Las Vegas once, but obviously they are supplying some service, because people are giving them their money.
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