Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.
“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.
The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.
“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’
Great yet ?
I’m American, have never been to Vegas and was planning a trip. Then all my bills went up. My insurance alone tripled. I now fear traveling state to state as I don’t trust the police in red states so no driving through them. I no longer trust the TSA to not arrest me for what I post online so no more flying. I think I will stay right here for the foreseeable future as travel just isn’t important to me right now. Would I love to travel? Yes. I need to feel safe and secure in it and to not be financially ruined by it. Right now I just need to focus on making sure my housing and food is secured. I don’t have time or security to focus on anything else.
Same here. I’m much darker than my own mother and have spent a lot of time during my childhood in the 70s and 80s being asked if my parents had an “interracial marriage”, oh AND I have tattoos ( god forbid, but dark people with tattoos are seen as gang members by the current administration.) I haven’t traveled outside this country since pre-COVID and I believe the next time I’m able to afford it, I’m going somewhere that will allow me to stay permanently. The current administration terrifies and angers me, and the other side not doing anything about it has me wondering why I’m still here.
I can promise you TSA doesn’t give a flying fuck about anything besides the water bottle in your backpack. Other agencies, sure, but the TSA itself is only concerned if you’re trying to bring a prohibited item through security. Unless the FBI has tagged you as a terrorist or something they could care less.
Wrong, almost missed my flight out of Kansas recently because the guy checking IDs pulled the person I was with aside for a full search, because they looked Latina (he said he thought her ID was fake). She had to stand there for 45 minutes waiting to be searched, no one could help her or search her. Finally I pitched a white woman tantrum at another older white woman working and she got her out ASAP. Her ID and everything was fine. He was just racist and wanted to harass her because he could. What a fucker
TSA just loves to power trip. Last trip my pre check got messed up so my wife and daughter went through and got on the plane, and I got sent to the 45 minute other line. They let a handicapped person go right ahead of me and skip the line when I finally got to the front (normally okay, but now I had 10 minutes left to run to the plane for final boarding). They flagged my bag for extra checking because there were baby wipes in there, and when I asked if they could check mine first before the guy who got placed in front of me, he yelled at me that I should have been at the airport 2 hours ago and it wasn’t his problem if I missed my flight and my wife and daughter flew without me.
*couldn’t care less.
This means they are at the bottom of the care barrel and that thing is dry.
Compare “couldn’t have any less money” with “could have less money”.
Maybe today but do you think Orange Man won’t weaponize the TSA given a reason or opportunity?
They’re already so desperate to have the power of real cops, that’s a terrifying thought
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