I have a love hate relationship with airlines.  I love having a means to get off this fricken island but absolutely hate flying and the industry that provides it.

Is Trump trying to protect friends and allies in high places from being exposed?

There will never be a perfect POTUS however Trump has the agendas that I also believe in.

That's why I voted for him and supported him.  Not because I like him or think he's the best thing since apple pie.

However, certain things are beginning to concern me recently, but the biggest one is the Epstein file issue.

He campaigned on making the Epstein files transparent.  Now I'm like WTF?!!

This is how they prep us for UBI and digital communism.

It's just like baiting pigs with a feeder to get them comfortable hanging out in the kill zone

Some of those EBT pigs look too comfortable hanging around that feeder.

The government should require them some gym time.

My daughter is a teacher and keeps in touch with her former students.  2 of her former students are in Vegas right now.

Stuck at the airport.   Their flights have been canceled and the airlines are working to get them home.

Plus they said most of the places they went to eat at was junk.  Overpriced and one buffet they went to seemed to have food that was either from the day before or sitting under the heat lamp too long.

Moral of the story:  Don't eat at buffets since visitor count is down, the food will not be refreshed as often.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/11/10/we-are-not-done-with-this-fight-hawaii-senators-reject-deal-reopen-government/

The U.S. Senate voted Sunday to move forward on passing legislation that would reopen the federal government.

But it did so without the support of Hawaii’s two senators.

Both Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz said the compromise, which does not include a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, fails to address rising health care costs for millions of Americans.

“We are not done with this fight,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “We are going to keep fighting to try to salvage this situation for the tens of millions of Americans who are going to see their health care costs double.”

The bozo and the sh*t head.

Why are most of us not surprised.  Not even their colleagues on Capitol Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rcrQHqCT3VE

Maybe on the Strip I might be considered riff-raff.

Downtown, at the Cal I might be a mini-whale. Or at best a very fat goldfish.

Maybe.

All over the internet, so much content about:

DEM.  AGAINST US.  (Us meaning Republicans.)

I often wonder if there will be bi-partisan politics ever again.

I'm beginning to wonder if this government shut down will ever........

No.  I won't go there.  yet.

To address the 90,000 rooms being empty in Vegas:

The CEO's admit that they are catering to the higher end Vegas visitor (the whales).

And they don't want the "savvy" gambler/visitors.  These are the experienced visitors that know the best odds on games, know the player programs and how to take advantage of them, know the games that has the lowest house edge, etc. etc.

But I think they were still banking on the "newbie" Vegas visitors.  These are the clueless, come of age people that don't know any better and just want to have a great time.  They don't know anything about which games to play or which slots have better pay-outs.  And they don't know or care that that bottle of beer they bought for $11 cost only $3 a couple of years ago.

I believe these are the people the CEO's were hoping to fill those empty rooms left by the more savvy players.  These people will be willing to pay the resort fees, parking fees, and $50 burgers and $26 waters that are now defining the Strip.

Problem is, we live in the social media age.  Where information is shared and available in a microsecond.  People are sharing and in that sharing is valuable information and experiences being absorbed by the newbies prior to them visiting Vegas.

Maybe the CEO's overlooked this aspect and now the "newbies" are also informed about the rip-offs waiting for them in Vegas. 

And they too, are not coming.

I just can't see how the CEO's and their cohorts can just bank on the whales alone.

Whales don't occupy regular rooms, don't eat at McD's and the like, and won't be seen dead at the Food Halls, what few buffets are left, and the ABC's and Walgreens that dot the landscape of the Strip.

The whales will look around, see all the empty places and say "F*ck this, this is boring, I'm going somewhere else......"