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New York CANCELS New Year's Eve: World famous Times Square bash is canned for first time in 114 years amid COVID-19 fears - with celebrations replaced by 'virtual event' on app
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 24, 2020 | Matthew Wright

Posted on 09/24/2020 10:30:04 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

I keep saying that the dems want to remove everything from us that unites us as a country and that holds special tradition for us, that gives us identity.

They started with Easter, then Memorial Day. They tried to scrap Fourth of July but we outdid anything that would nhave normally gone on.

Labor Day - out.

they are trying to cancel voting in person. I’m sure Thanksgiving and Christmas are on the docket as well although I don’t recall hearing anything about them.

So this is our new normal. A country they are redesigning to remove everything that gave us cultural identity.

Nope. We’re celebrating anyways and keep those traditions and what they represent alive.


21 posted on 09/24/2020 10:44:57 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: 2banana

[But mostly peaceful protests are allowed and encouraged.]


That’s the entire point - it’s being canceled to make room for arsonists and looters.


22 posted on 09/24/2020 10:45:49 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: C19fan

One of the most inane events in recent decades.

No legit NYer would be caught dead there—yet always a massive crowd, with people wearing adult diapers because they knew they wouldn’t have access to facilities once they got past security into the penned in areas.


23 posted on 09/24/2020 10:46:24 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: C19fan
You have to wear a diaper.

Perfect for Nadler and Biden.

24 posted on 09/24/2020 10:46:28 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: C19fan

I’m shocked at the left’s ability to drag this thing on beyond the couple of weeks it deserved.

It’s kind of dividing the nation between the mask Karens and the rest of us that ignore it all.


25 posted on 09/24/2020 10:48:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: C19fan

This is what happens when you forget the scare tactics were only meant for certain people. They are now believing their own lies.


26 posted on 09/24/2020 10:48:26 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: CatOwner

NYC seems intent on going broke. Imagine all the money spent in that city during late December up to Jan 1.

Poof! gone.


27 posted on 09/24/2020 10:49:11 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: C19fan

Who cares about New York’s Ball dropping


28 posted on 09/24/2020 10:52:05 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

The marxist in charge is very happy to cancel anything that New Yorkers do for fun. They want to make as many people as miserable as they can.

Next: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But not ramadamn or juneteenth, or White Guilt month.


29 posted on 09/24/2020 10:54:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (VOTE, even in basket-case democrat states. We ALL vote, we can win. Debate next week.)
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To: metmom

“I keep saying that the dems want to remove everything from us that unites us as a country and that holds special tradition for us, that gives us identity.”

Yes.

Most who go along don’t even understand this.


30 posted on 09/24/2020 10:54:59 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: C19fan

This may be because of the virus. But the reality is that the city can’t afford anything. Just after the election you will be told how bad these cities are in debt.


31 posted on 09/24/2020 10:55:23 AM PDT by poinq
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To: C19fan

I had to look to make sure this wasn’t the Babylon Bee.


32 posted on 09/24/2020 10:56:34 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: hal ogen

I wouldn’t be in the 5 boroughs let alone in Manhattan on any 12/31!


33 posted on 09/24/2020 11:02:06 AM PDT by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...)
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To: metmom

Exactly ! screw the stupid Democrats


34 posted on 09/24/2020 11:25:27 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: C19fan

But protesting can still go on.........................!!
Here is to hoping NYC becomes a ‘virtual’ ghost city.....


35 posted on 09/24/2020 11:46:43 AM PDT by cranked
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They cancelled the lights on 9/11 .... outdoors ... takes only about 40 people to setup and run....

Fuck you, de Blasio.

NO. APOLOGY.

36 posted on 09/24/2020 12:13:35 PM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: C19fan

Just cancel New York period.


37 posted on 09/24/2020 2:23:44 PM PDT by cp124 (Mask protection=Dust through a chain link fence.)
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

“They cancelled the lights on 9/11...”

The “tribute in lights” was done this year - but I believe a group stepped in to fund it. This is about a bankrupt city, not public health. It is hard to conceive just how badly this whole thing has damaged the finances of NYC, and the work-arounds by employers have exacerbated it - businesses are doomed, and the city and state are losing a ton of revenues.


38 posted on 09/25/2020 3:14:37 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: metmom

More and more places are returning to some semblance of normal; it just isn’t happening in cities where 1) they can’t pay the police overtime to provide for public safety, and 2) they can’t keep people safe anyway.

Ridership is down on the NYC subway but crime is up; think about that.


39 posted on 09/25/2020 3:16:53 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
This is about a bankrupt city, not public health.

Spot on. Also run by authoritarian thugs drunk on power.

40 posted on 09/25/2020 3:18:38 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. - President Donald Trump)
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