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 ?
“Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!”
Fascism is unpopular.
Shocking I’m sure.
Here is my most Canadian reaction.
Bwahahahahahaaaaa… No.
Et pour l’autre langue officielle:
Honhonhonghonhooon… Non.
Je t’ai upvoté dans les deux langues
Merci pour respecter l’autre langue!
Yup bout sums it up….
Lol.
Did they think owning the libs was going to be free?
Must be nice winning so much they went full ouroboros. Fucking simpletons.
Canadian here. Nice try, ICE.
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.
Edit: yeah there are still bad actors and racists out there, but I’m trying to say that the TSA agent isn’t gonna stop and go “wait a second you posted cringe on twitter” unless another agency tells them to. “But my agent was a jerk and profiled me” yeah there are jerks, it’s surprisingly low effort to be an asshole. I’m just saying TSA (and just the TSA) has their head too far up their ass and is too lazy to try and monitor every single person who wants to take a flight themselves.
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?
Agreed. And we should do everything we can to prevent him from doing so. But he hasn’t done that yet.
They’re already so desperate to have the power of real cops, that’s a terrifying thought
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Lol get fucked. Sent with love from Canada.
Ohhh, oh no! We need your tourism toonies in Las Vegas! We had no idea just how much Canadians spent on American stuff like bourbon and vacations! Ohh no, we’re so sorry for those silly things we said, like threatening your sovereignty and being all condescending and dismissive.
Echoing your sentiment from the middle of America. Get fucked! Begging for visitors like that before doing anything to make amends, ugh.
And you just know Trump didn’t learn any lesson. He 100% would do it again. I don’t blame Canadians in the slightest bit. Honestly I’m happy they’re voting with their wallets
That’s a given. He’s a demented narcissist.
We’ve proven most of us Americans don’t have spines but I’m glad our northern neighbors can still stand up for themselves.
While I get it, she is a Democrat who is likely a fan of what’s going on as much as you are.
Oh, I did not realize democrats where no longer american. If when a democrat was in power maga people where considered so, then in the current situation I will hold all americans to the actions of their nation.
Don’t like it? Tough. Its the same way americans have treated everyone in the world, so enjoy some of your own medicine.
Oh you want to say that the dems are “fine” and “nothing can be done”? Look at Nepal, and grow a spine. But don’t expect the world to separate one group of americans from the rest without actions done to prove such.
Big words coming from a country almost as fucked up as the US.
Rare for an american even admit that another nation exists. Look at you go!
That was a lot of inferring.
Yeah almost as much as assuming that a mayor with a D beside their name means something to the rest of the world.
Not really. I, unlike you, read up on the person mentioned in the article. From an immigrant family, and critical of what’s happening right now.
You also assume my family and friends are all US-based, for which you would also be wrong.
It’s not my fault you want to rag on the US without reading. I’m guessing by the responses you are American despite playing the world view, but if I’m wrong, I’m sure your country has left and right parties, too, so don’t claim to be ignorant to D vs R.
The fact remains that there is a lot to complain about in the US that isn’t someone wishing things were better.
I looked up this mayor too. I can’t find much criticism of the federal admins policies. What I do find is that she is an active supporter of Israel, she voted to invade Iraq, and she has been named as one of the US’ most corrupt representatives.
So, maybe you can reflect a bit on why people aren’t very ecstatic that a politician is a Democrat. As far as I’m concerned, she has aligned herself with the leopard-eating party by begging Canadians to be complicit instead of pushing back against the federal admin.
Not american.
In the context of leopardsatemyface the mayor’s political leanings are quite relevant. It could even be said this whole post isn’t relevant to the community.
But yeah, keep on with your singular attitude.
I don’t have a singular altitude, I’m not sure why you think I would. I merely stating that a rep who has been public about her opinions on the current state of affairs is probably not the best candidate to attack.Edit: Appologies, I thought this was a response to me.
Oh, did the mayor take a stance counter to the current administration? No? Did she just ask the world to keep coming anyway and support her city? Yes?
Seems to me that like most americans she is towing the national party line while wondering why the rest of the world stops supporting the us, just hoping the D beside her name will give her allies. How is this not comeuppance?
Yes, she has. She has publicly talked about her position as coming from an immigrant family.
That’s a fair point, and I found a source for it. It sounds like she is specifically complaining about the National Guard deployment, because of her immigrant background. That’s great. I would like her to push for things which are virtuous even if she isn’t personally connected. For example, stand up for Canada’s sovereignty and decry the threats that the federal government has made, instead of just begging Canadians to come and give her city money.
How is coming from an immigrant family relevant? Most people in north America come from immigrant families (unless you implying that the real fascists are natives).
I can’t believe that threatening Canadians didn’t make them want to come to the US and spend all their money.
Imagine treating your friends like garbage and then being surprised when they don’t wanna hang out anymore. My country literally threatened to invade both of our closest neighbors and friends and are now shocked that they hate us. Americans are the neighbor that constantly blasts music with their windows open and steals everyone’s shit and then bitches when they don’t get invited to neighborhood parties. The man-child of the Americas.
Shut up and fuck off, TommySoda!
I was right to yell at TommySoda; they don’t visit me anymore ever since I told them to fuck off. The dirty non-visiting bastard…
Please come back TommySoda and teach me how to do manufacturing so that my threats and tariffs can hurt both of us instead of just me. I probably won’t arrest you a second time.
(TommySoda was promptly shipped off to a gulag after foolishly venturing into the US)
Trump and his supporters are so delusional, they thought threatening to annex other countries was a compliment
Well it made them feel like their pee pees were big for a little while, so they liked that.
Because we’re led by incompetent morons whose daddies didn’t love them.
Sorry, but your federal government snatches people off the streets and sends them to concentration camps. We know of at least one Canadian citizen that was kidnapped by ICE, who then died in their custody.
This is in addition to your president threatening to annex us, and starting a trade war for no discernible reason.
No, I will not be visiting. A regime change won’t help either.
It will never go back to the way things were, and that’s on you collectively.
But wait! There’s more! You can also receive a free deportation to a partner country of our choosing regardless of your country of origin!
And they’ll jail/deport/unalive you if you’re gay, trans, Brown, Black, Indigenous, a woman, not MAGA.
partner country of our choosing
There is genuine freedom to choose the partner country… though
Fine print on the choices: Uganda, Swaziland, or El Salvador.
That’s going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.
That’s going to be generational trauma. Trust will have to be built with the youth, as adults have already said no.
Ending this regime is meaningless if the machinery that enabled it remains intact. The ICE agents that are lustily performing their duties will still live there, and will absolutely vote for more of the same.
There’s a segment of the population that still won’t get off their asses to vote as though their way of life depended on it.
Passage of time alone, is woefully inadequate to repair what was vandalized.
My kids don’t believe me that Canada and the United States used to be friends. Maybe their kids will consider it.
Maybe it would help if our President wasn’t threatening Canadian sovereignty, and the cult wasn’t cheering it on.
Donald Trump’s incessant goading of Canada—threatening steep tariffs, and urging it to become the 51st state was only earlier this year.
What’s your point? These declining tourism numbers aren’t from last year or something, but from this year.
Yea that’s what he’s saying.
I wish I was Canadian just so I could use this.
Just channel Letterkenny.
Pitter patter, lets get at her!
I’ll grant you the title of a honorary Canadian, so you can use it. You can anoint yourself with maple syrup at your earliest convenience.
Honk
The mayor of Las Vegas is a democrat, not a member of the face-eating leopards party. I’m too busy to look it up right now but I’m going to bet that the Las Vegas City and surrounding county is probably one of the most consistently Democratic parts of Nevada. Of course Canadians should still stay away. Any non-american should just not come, but this is not lamf
Now I’m curious, why would Las Vegas be inclined to vote Dem?
A lot of union jobs work at the casinos. You also have a higher than average performance sector.
A huge proportion of the actual residents of Vegas and the surrounding areas are service workers, since it’s a tourist hub. Because of this, service worker unions in the area have a pretty sizable influence, and they tend to endorse Democratic candidates. In the most recent election I suspect that this influence was partially offset by (1) COVID tourism revenue loss being blamed on Biden and (2) Trump’s illusory promise of no tax on tips.
Idk why anyone would, except most days the only other choice is Republicans. But it’s a long observed trend for cities to lean Demo.
Las Vegas is effectively the only part of Nevada with people in it.
Reno is the other but the area is a lot of billionaire bungalows and I dunno if I’d call them “people” so it’s mostly just a big trailer park
Good. Its working then.
I’m sure this is not a rare thing on Lemmy, but even as an American sitting in the US I see these headlines and think “lol get fucked.”
Probably 100 Million people in this country need to be shocked into global reality. I worry just how bad things will have to get before that happens, though. It would be great to have an economy that would let me retire some day, sure, but the loss of institutions and technological advancement is sad for both us and for people that don’t even exist yet.
And I’m not trying to be anti entertainment / gambling / prostitution, but Vegas is pretty low on the priority list of the american institutions trump is disintegrating. It has high international visibility though.
Oh things are going to have to get a whole lot worse before a significant amount of people finally PRIVATELY admit they were wrong and start quietly doing things differently.
Realistically we’re going to see a decline in the quality of our lives probably for the rest of our lives before this ship MAYBE corrects course.
America is very, very dumb. That’s something that, even under good circumstances, would probably take a generation or two to fix. But our circumstances aren’t good and aren’t getting better.
I hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come. It’s going to take a looooong time to rebuild what we’re losing right now.
hate to say it, but there are a number of better places to spend your life than the U.S. as it is now and will probably be for years and years to come
If only most americans knew this, it might actually self-correct!
But in a world with incredible, downright magical access to global communication and human knowledge, millions continue to choose folk wisdom and confirmation bias.
Oh I know. The only reason I’m still here is that I can’t afford to leave.
I heard mars is nice this time of year…
I think that if we don’t have civil war, the political sea change will come from Boomers dying of old age, allowing younger generations to slot into their evacuated political and fiscal offices.
Don’t underestimate how stupid gen z is.
And Gen Z is heavily right-leaning due to the piss-poor quality of education and all the manosphere propaganda over the last several years. It’s going to continue to get worse for a very long time before it gets better.
Probably 100 Million people in this country need to be shocked into global reality.
We’re not even close to that though. Things would have to get far worse in the US for that to even begin to happen . The full third of eligible voters who didn’t vote in November for the most part still wouldn’t if an election were held today.
Yeah that’s the unfortunate truth. We can argue all day long about what the best way forward is, but most people do not care unless they are actively being hurt right this moment. And that’s ignoring the fact that there is an absurd amount of enthusiastic support for Trump among our neighbors.
I think we have a situation where what used to be “middle class” paths through life, like a high school educated father working a manufacturing job to support a wife and 2.3 kids, are now the “you can probably keep yourself alive if you keep on your employers good side” working poor that feel like indentured slaves.
Filling the actual middle class slot are the highly educated and specialized workers. Like in my case, I am a single income earner for my family and we own our single family home. But, I have three degrees (two STEM) with 20 years of experience and live in a blue collar neighborhood in a house that’s older than me. And we bought the place over 15 years ago.
Then I guess the upper middle class is reserved for your medical specialists, successful business owners, and corporate drones who stumbled their way up to the c-suite.
And somehow, the government and corporations have convinced them all to punch down.
