Great.
I wouldn't go even if I was offered a free trip all expenses paid.
It's gaudy, fake, ugly, unsustainable and stupid.
Even without all the fascism, it's still the worst.

No shit, Sherlock.

A state election going Democrat doesn't make me want to visit the GOP controlled USA which threatens Canada, so this is irrelevant. Also CAD is 66 cents currently.

Our household is still doing a full American boycott, or at least as much as we realistically can. No buying US groceries, no Amazon, we cancelled all our streaming things and certainly no US travel.

And every time I hear complaints from the US about how their liquor industry is suffering or whatever... good! Their president keeps talking shit about us, deliberately tries to fuck our economy up and continually threatens to invade us. Until they get rid of that asshole and do many other things to fix their shit, I don't care if they all go broke and I hope everyone else keeps it up as well.

It was a shit hole at the best of times.

Maybe because it's insanely expensive to go to Vegas now?

I have personally passed up a trip to Vegas over US nonsense this last year.

Las Vegas can't die fast enough in my book...

Even up in New England there are almost zero Canadian license plates on cars. I’ve seen maybe 2-3 in the past couple weeks.

Vegas had cool shows and entertainment. I miss Penn and Teller, and the short flight was nice. Vegas had some nice desert hikes.

But here I am in Japan downing a bowl of ichiran ramen and planning a walk through the torii gates tomorrow. The yen is pretty cheap right now too.

(Well not NOW now, it's 4am)

The USA ain't worth the effort or the risk, and they don't respect us.

Shit, I would never go to Vegas except for conferences

Why would y'all want to come down here to go to Vegas?

Canadians refusing to be insulted by nothing more than a pedophile plus the smartphone gambling apps were bound to take it's toll. I read a while back that LV is only catering to the whales now and are doing better than ever. I guess that news story was wrong.

Went once, that was enough.

With ICE's arrest quotas, the saying "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" has a whole new meaning.

Thanks Canada! I'm sure it will help.

the election issue of course being

do we want these asshole oligarchs as our leaders or not?