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Look at ongoing spring break in Miami Beach.
Compare it to last year’s spring break in Miami Beach.
As you know, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result,” and at some point gun-mad, cheap hotel and booze-mad, no-government-interference-mad states like Texas and Florida are going to have to get sane, which UD thinks in this case means accepting the fact that when you proudly broadcast your gunny rummy scummy ways to the world, the world will respond. If you build tacky, they will come. And as the violence gets worse year after year, you’re going to need police-state-quality surveillance, which UD is sure your permanent residents are going to love. They bought their five million dollar condo for sunny, carefree Florida, after all.
Now, Florida – all shot up and beaten and exhausted – is grandly claiming that it never wanted spring breakers. “We don’t ask for spring break, we don’t promote it, we don’t encourage it, we just endure it, and frankly it’s something we don’t want to endure.” Fine words, Mr Churchill, and, now that it’s not just a source of revenue but a human and public relations disaster, you will fight it on the beaches etc. But of course you have promoted it; yours is not just a party city, but a mega-club party city, and a warm, longtime home for drug and gun dealers.
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Note what an even more sleaze-friendly city – New Orleans – did before last year’s Mardi Gras:
[The governor put] a statewide mask mandate in place as well as occupancy limits on bars, restaurants and other businesses.
New Orleans Democratic Mayor LaToya Cantrell, also a Democrat, went even further by closing bars completely in the city, even those allowed to operate as restaurants. City officials also closed iconic Bourbon Street to cars and limited pedestrian access for the final weekend of the season.
Next thing you know they’ll be confiscating weapons!
March 22nd, 2022 at 4:32PM
And yet, South Beach is a *lovely* beach when the crowds are away, one of the nicest I’ve ever seen. I used to take my kids there to watch the sunrise and then have breakfast at one of the many family-friendly cafes. Completely different culturally and politically from the rest of Miami or Florida, in a good way. Of course, I’d never go near there during spring break season.
March 22nd, 2022 at 10:09PM
Anon: Yes – like so much of Florida – a magical state, I think – South Beach is basically lovely, except for when it gets fucked up. I feel for residents of South Beach – and Myrtle Beach and Panama Beach, etc. – who have to flee their homes on a regular basis, when things get chaotic and dangerous.