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.
Thank you.
I’ll know America is great again when places like Las Vegas don’t even exist anymore because we have a productive citizenry that doesn’t have the time or interest to keep it alive.
I’ll see your governor, and raise you a wHitler...
You believe people trying to tell you Texans hate Abbott? That seems silly.
This reminds me of a similar comment made by Whittaker Chambers regarding socialist/leftist successes vs. conservative/right wing squabbling back in the Robert Taft Jr. days.
—I hope that’s the case but with “ballot harvesting” having been allowed by the recent “special” session of the legislator, I suspect that difficulty can be overcome—
That's pretty much always been the standard Democrat policy in argument for more government. In the past, we have always staved it off with a recognition of what they were up to - and vocal Republican opposition.
This time the GOP meekly went along with it....and is still going along with it.
If we really are at the point where a majority of voters believe lockdowns and mask mandates are keeping them safe, then the Republic is lost.
Should read Robert Taft, not Jr.
When we lived in SoCal, we went to Las Vegas (I refuse to refer to it as just ‘Vegas’) at least once a year. It was a fun getaway and we could see shows and enjoy. Then I noticed (probably around 2001-2002) the people walking on the Strip were more and more heavily tattooed and rough looking. Crime started increasing and it was no longer a fun getaway. We now live within 5 hours of the town and haven’t been in several years. The only thing I have missed is The Beatles Love at the Mirage. We have seen it 4 times and I would love to see it again, but other than that I have no desire to visit Las Vegas anymore.
I don’t know what you mean by ‘physically’ but all the hospitials were financially devastated by the requirement to stop all ‘elective’ treatments.
One of the biggest money makers at our local (small) hospital was the Sleep Lab.
They stopped all of the testing for sleep apnea and other sleep disorders for three months. The lab could do 4 test a night 5 nights a week. At $7K a test that $140K a week lost income. For a 40 bed hospital that is a lot of lost money.
All of management across the entire Corporation took a 6% pay cut all overtime was cut unless it was to cover a sickness. My wife who worked in the sleep lab was cut to 20 hours a week and had to use vacation time to make up for lost hours and maintain her insurance.
It wasn’t COVID that devastated hospitals it was the government restrictions. The hospitals in the US could have handled COVID just fine it the government had sat on their hands.
Bump
Thanks for the reply. I’ve talked to locals, tour guides etc. who say the same thing you do, they never go to The Strip unless they have out of town guests visiting. There are a lot of great outdoor things to do within a couple hours of Las Vegas (I don’t like to call it Vegas either), kayaking on the Colorado River, Hoover Dam, Valley of FIre State Park, which my wife and I have enjoyed.
The illegals who work in the hospitality’ industry in Vegas elected this ass. THOUSANDS OF THEM
NOT the residents of the other counties.
Well, I guess the destruction of a city of 2.2M to fit your perception of what is right should allow us allow to feel good that you are not the president. Your inner tyrant is showing.
“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.”
I’ll take that bet, Mr. Root, at even more modest odds, and I’ll take it as a trifecta: Cuomo, Whitmer, Pritzker.
Physically? You don’t know what that means? Yes you do
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘physically’ but all the hospitials were financially devastated by the requirement to stop all ‘elective’ treatments.“
They’ll recover much of that.
One patient in the ICU for weeks on ventilator then off to specialtry hospital hyperbaric then long term hospital then rehab. 30 year old working person. Two months of it. Multiply that. What that does to insurance is questionably recoverable in the meantime the hospital pays.
Ten hip replace ya does not cover one of these many cases
Kid caught it at a bar.
—”legislature” not “legislator”—
—”legislature” not “legislator”—
I thought it was Michael Corleone.
“ It wasn’t COVID that devastated hospitals it was the government restrictions. The hospitals in the US could have handled COVID just fine it the government had sat on their ...”
Covid pt’s overwhelmed. Taking up physical space. Beds.
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