Why Your Vegas Trip Sucks
First, you're late. You get to your hotel at about 4 pm, just in time to wait with all the other yokels dragging their luggage in one giant line of the damned. You're stuck anywhere from 1-3 hours, covered in travel dust, waiting to start any of the super fun, cool things you know you're going to do. You check in with your online reservation for the cheapest room. You don't tip the front desk clerk.
When you get to your room, instead of feeling like a Fun Vegas Tourist, for some reason you feel like a kid too easily impressed by the cheap marble in the bathroom. You have a big, shitty view of the roof of an adjacent administrative building and half a parking lot. Also, as soon as you step foot in your room, you realize you're starving but surrounded by capsules of tiny, cheap snacks you can't afford. After relaxing, which includes turning on the TV for some reason, you hurry back downstairs to "beat the crowds."
You go to the casino. You sit at the first $15 minimum blackjack table you see, a 6:5 continuous shuffle machine covered in sidebets you don't understand. You tip the cocktail girl a red $5 chip and ask for $3 change. On your biggest hand, you split two 9s against a 7 and get mad when you lose.
You go back to your room and get dressed in wrinkled clothes then go down and wait in line for dinner at the most popular restaurant where you're staying. Maybe you did some Reddit research on "best steakhouse in Vegas." It doesn't matter. You wait 45 minutes to be seated in the Den of Hell, surrounded by drunk bachelor parties shouting at the top of their lungs and grey, skeleton men clinking glasses of wine with their daughters. You order the steak with the Chef's Star next to it, specifying rare so they know you know.
You see a group of girls who don't look twice at you. Whatever. It's late enough that you go to a strip club, using a Vegas Insider tip that you can get limo service for free. You tell yourself you won't get scammed. In the strip club, you immediately go to a private room for with the first girl who talks to you. You spend $1,200 for an hour without getting so much as a high five in return. You lie to your boys in the group text. In the Uber back to your hotel, you text your ex.
Maybe you hate yourself and spread this out over a 4-day weekend. On your flight home, you write something pithy about how Vegas sucks. The whole city is overrated.
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JD Vance disappeared from here amid the Iran war because he couldn't defend his flip flopping. Then he briefly reemerged to attack Pope Leo and promote his new book about his fake Catholicism, which resulted in widespread condemnation from both the Church and the public, religious and secular. Then he went back into hiding and returned to his strategy of planting stories in the media about how he is secretly against the war in Iran, which he has continued to publicly defend. Generational loser and weasel. Peter Thiel had that guy's spine surgically removed in exchange for the millions he gave to Vance's Senate bid.
Blanche says evidence recovery is "not an exact science" and that when weapons are fired [inside a hotel], "sometimes you find the bullet, and sometimes it just disappears."
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The White House quickly embraced a new records-preservation policy after the Justice Department deemed a presidential records law unconstitutional, dismissing decades-old requirements in favor of discretionary guidelines. https://t.co/rjb98h3wfv
I feel like I’m losing my mind. This can’t be real. Is this real? Is it a movie? A dream?
They’re all just obsessed… with straight faces.. about… a fucking ballroom?
If i'm following the congressional GOP position, the ballroom, which was to be paid for with private dollars, will now be paid for with taxpayer dollars in order to, in part, accommodate an event that won't even be held there.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked… during World War ELEVEN.”
She must have gotten her education in the Quality Learing Center.
Friends tell friends the truth.
The truth: Israel votes with Russia at the UN, takes Putin's calls, and lets him launder stolen Ukrainian wheat through Haifa — while he arms the people trying to kill Israelis.
The truth is ugly, and Israel needs to account for this.
Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?
Yes, during the 1948 war, Haganah forces (which became the IDF) ran the secret Operation Cast Thy Bread. They contaminated water wells in Arab villages and towns like Acre with typhoid bacteria to prevent refugee returns and disrupt enemy armies. It triggered a typhoid epidemic in Acre. This is confirmed by declassified IDF docs, Ben-Gurion's notes, Red Cross reports, and research by Israeli historians Benny Morris and BZ Kedar. Israel denied it at the time.