And everyone else fears being arrested and visits other countries.
And the chips are one hundred percent on board with it. Wait until Vegas cops learn who really pays their bloated ass salaries and lawsuits.
How much of the 40 fucking billion ICE dollars is going to end up civil lawsuits?
I’d like it to be plenty, but we all know it’s mostly going to private equity firms that own prisons, food, and nazi guard corporations.
I used to visit Vegas pretty frequently and if you played your cards right (pun intended) you could make a fairly inexpensive vacation out of it. Nothing super exciting. I finished reading a lot of books lounging by pools at various hotels, eating and drinking a bit more than I normally would. Avoiding the tourist traps and just relaxing.
Nowadays the casinos don't want to comp anything and the prices they charge are outrageous. Last time my wife and I went, which was a few years ago, I went to the pool bar and ordered two drinks. Nothing fancy. When the cashier told me the bill was $60, I was blown away. $30 a piece. A complete rip off. It's gotten to where a lot of places pull that kind of shit anymore.
There are way better and cheaper places to visit than that glittering desert shithole.
Was at a resort a few years back and they pulled the same shit. Paid for the one round, but what would have been multiple days of day drinking and spending there turned into us finding a pool, but then going to the local bar instead. People there were great, exchanged stories, and spent probably a quarter of what we would have at the pool.
If they had even just charged half of what they were we probably would have stayed and they would have made a few hundred off of us on drinks alone, but they got so greedy they lost out on everything else.
I've never understoodbthe appeal of a resort. Growing up we would visit my mom's family in northern England, touring museums and ruins around Yorkshire and Northumbria, far flung from the tourist hotspots other Americans would visit. I suppose that comes from my old sailor grandpa. He was always adamant about eating where the locals ate, so we did that everywhere we went
I used to go there for business trips and I remember being floored that the hotel Starbucks was charging $11 for a small latte
Thats interesting, most chain restaurants in Germany have the same prices in all locations. Not 100% sure if an airport burger kind would have the same prices as everywhere else, but it wouldn't be much more.
Why don't you want to come and eat at our $80 buffets and pay $60 to park?
What, you dont want to ride the vegas loop (wait 10+ min out in the heat to pay for a tesla to show up to move you 2 miles underground at 30 mph)?
No thanks I'll walk.
This is America, sir. What is this "walk"? You might die!
It's always the same answer.
Why aren't people having kids any more?
Why aren't people going to bars anymore?
Why don't people want to work anymore?
Because 8 lazy lucky fuckers own 50% of everything that we've built.
You ain't seen nothing yet. The policies of the ignorant, incompetent and fascists haven't fully kicked in. It will get worse, much worse.
If I bankrupt a casino, I might as well bankrupt every casino!
Yep the guy who bankrupted multiple casinos is running the country now. The economy is gonna crash hard. You'll be wishing for the 2008 financial crisis.
Americans can't afford Vegas, and foreigners who could won't go until Trump and his GeStaPo is history.
I enjoy Vegas to some extent, but it isn't worth the cost now. I can go on an international trip or to a classier city that isn't in an ever heating desert.
Gambling and shows are fun for a few days, but if I'm dropping thousands, I want to have real experiences, not some amusement park nonsense.
Surely the feeling of being shamelessly ripped off is a "real experience"!???
You can have a real experience without dropping thousands by playing Russian roulette.
Don't, though!
Was in Vegas in June to see weird Al concert. Believe the stories about $20 bottled water. Apparently Vegas decided it wanted to be like Monte Carlo and cater to the ultra rich. There is no reason for anyone who doesn’t have oodles of fuck you money to go to Vegas anymore. It’s just not affordable which makes it not fun for normies.
He wasn’t satisfied with just bankrupting his own casino. He’s a mission to bankrupt every other casino, too.
He’s going to bankrupt Wall Street the biggest casino in the world
Yea, no one asks "Why doesn't anyone visit Vegas anymore".
Suckers will always go to Vegas
We don't care who does/doesn't go to Vegas
If Vegas disappeared tomorrow, we'd cheer
Oh some people are.
When you throw on the "They Live" glasses, what you discover is that its just ads by the Las Vegas promotional department.
But also, "Why doesn't anyone want to go to the desert in the middle of a massive summer heat wave?" should maybe be self-explanatory. That, plus telling all the overseas millionaires "Fuck you, try Dubai instead".
Canadians have left Vegas in droves. Cancelled flights and hotels all over the place.
No support for fascist dictators and their corporate overlords.
Never understood why you'd go to the desert and throw away your money in tacky motels, but to each their own I guess 🤷🏼♀️.
Hey me either but even some of the rednecks I know cancelled trips. That's very cool man.
Gambling is also widespread enough now if that's why you were going to Vegas, you don't have to anymore. Even in NC we have a pretty sizable casino in Cherokee. And the shows in Vegas seem to really just be the same shit you could see in other big cities, or at least something equivalent.
DraftKings killed Vegas by taking the main money-maker of Vegas and putting it on people's phones.
Yeah, the Vegas shows are generally residencies where a performer goes after they aren't popular anymore. I think one of the 'big headline' shows is still Carrot Top... for whatever reason..
Just popping in to not talk about Vegas, but to remark that the meme format is adorable!
I am hijacking my own comment here. Apparently the occupancy of Las Vegas hasn't really shifted at all since the 90s. What the guy in the video is saying is true enough but I think the video is still a little sensationalised.
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/historical-visitation-statistics-1970-2024/
https://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1740683821/clients/lasvegas/Las_Vegas_Historical_1970_to_2024_143e51ff-0c5d-4878-a682-9a85c2925c59.pdf (check out the occupancy percentage)
Okay final draft: The truth is more complicated than that. Apparently the visitation rates are still the same. It's the gaming revenue that's down. Which you can see down here here. Which makes sense I suppose. So apparently people are still visiting Vegas they're just not gambling as much any more (or people have just gotten more and more lucky over the years 🙃).
https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/lvcva-executive-summary-of-southern-nevada-tourism-indicators/ (check out these excel reports over the years looking at the gaming revenue on the bottom right)
The executive summary for June 2025 says that visitation rates are down 11% YoY.
Why don’t they go to the doctor
It's a cesspool in the desert, why would I go there even if I had money?
The Strip has always been the worst part of this city as long as I've been here. The weirdest trip is when I worked retail on it, and there was no freaking way you could ever responsibly afford the stuff you sold (even with employee discounts).
I imagine a majority of that area is like that. The rank and file are meant to serve the wealthy invisibly, and get out. The enjoyment is for the oil sheiks and tech bros and other wealthy foreigners who couldn't tell you what they do for that wealth in under a hundred words.
I've been fortunate to see some shows and things here before, but the rest of the city, much as I want to escape, has much more to offer than that nasty den of scum, villainy, and abject misery that is The Strip.
Unfortunately, if the Strip tanks, it'll likely take a lot of the city with it.
Warning: masked men stealing people kidneys to put on ICE for Vegas weekend money
Wonder how many Las Vegas big wigs voted for the Trumpcession.
This shouldn't be hard for business owners of any size. You look at the stats. You see that our economy always fares better under Democrats, then you vote Democrat because a better economy means people are spending more money at your business.
Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.
Canadians: How aboot no!
give it 6 months more.... it's about to get biblical
Old people seem to visit often.
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