Can they at least get the hotdogs?
Welcome to Costco, I love you if you don’t come from Iran
Idiocracy is the best
You know it’s not Costco banning them right?
What I would love Costco to do is to fill up several of their trucks filled with a portion of their inventory and drive it within walking distance to the UN so that Iranian diplomats can shop in the truck.
But I fear that a large truck driving up to the UN might cause the wrong reaction.
The UN has to move all of its activities outside of America and somewhere with a written guarantee of not interfering in its mission.
We can’t let them learn the secrets of our $4.99 rotisserie chickens!
The movements of Iranian diplomats are severely limited in New York, but one proposal being floated would bar them from shopping at big, members-only wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club without first receiving the express permission of the State Department.
So, still insane but a lot less than the article title implies.
still insane but a lot less than the article title implies.
I mean . . .
They want to stop people from coming into our country and buying products we sell here… Of course that’s insane. That’s exactly what any country should want if they believe in capitalism/global markets. Money coming into your economy is like the entire point of these tarrifs MAGA believes in. The only way they make sense is if you ignore logic and just say we want our money spent here and limit how much of our wealth gets spread to other countries. Within a global market for one country to be rich, others must be poor really. Higher > Imports = country getting richer. This limits exports, “because we don’t like them.”. It really shows they don’t give a fuck about the companies making money either, hate Trump’s all.
Granted it’s just a tiny impact because there are so few of them.
None of this is about logic or even common sense. It’s all petty vindictiveness.
It’s extremely normal for host countries to impose restrictions on the activity of diplomats - hostile or no. US diplomats basically require an escort just to leave the embassy in Russia, for example, and all countries restrict potentially contentious visits (like some diplomats visiting war memorials, as has happened recently in Korea/Japanese politics). But this is an absurd escalation of that privilege for no other reason than trump’s ego.
