Even if they would pay me $250, I wouldn’t want to go there.
Getting handled like a piece of shit at customs, having to pay an outrageous amount of money for the privilege, and can be “taken care of” by the US GeStaPo. Being a foreign tourist in the US is now more like masochism instead of a relaxing holiday.
I believe Netanyahu has nominated Trump for the “Tourism person of the year” award
And it means a lot coming from him.
ha ha
There it is. No one is exempt from getting grifted by the orange felon.
Well that ought to kill any tourist travel to the US. Way to go drumpf! /s
…do you continue to visit the uncle who has willingly covered himself in shit and lit his house on fire?..really?..
For every traveler who does pay the $250 fee, this is enough to scare away a dozen more who would’ve spent hundreds or thousands. Good job!
Goddamn the fee gets a fucking inflation adjustment and we’re still on 2009 federal minimum wage? This fucking country.
Apparently it’s supposed to be refundable when you leave, but also the government is not expecting to issue many refunds?
I’m surprised that such a tourism-crushing policy was not in the news (or at least not in the news that I saw) before the bill passed.
What?
Surely the actual number of people who dont leave is insufficient to make this a significant revenue source.
See - everyone who’s new to the exciting play-by-play of a trump administration - this is how it goes. They do something like this - so boneheaded, so outrageous, so confoundingly incompetent you think, “That’s the stupidest thing there ever could be” and then tomorrow - NOPE! New stupidest thing!
We did this already. It was four years of fucking insane hell. Many, many people died.
We’re doing it again. I guess we’re the stupidest motherfuckers to ever be.
How many countries are going to add reciprocal fees? I hope all of them 😕
Why would we? If someone wants to visit from the US and spend their money here instead of at home, I’ll let them.
I’m sure this will do wonders for the already declining US tourism industry.
Is this also from the Nazi playbook?
Let’s see, we got gestapo kidnappings, unlawful detainment, concentration camps, sycophant loyalists…
😂😂😂 they ticket mastered tourism.
It just keeps getting dumber.
Boy am I looking forward to the World Cup next year. If things keep trending this way it will be one of the most enjoyable cluster fucks I’ll have ever witnessed.
It’ll be held elsewhere probably.
Here’s a reminder that the Olympics was held in Nazi-controlled Berlin, and a team of 18 black athletes from the US thoroughly trounced Hitler’s “master race” talking points by sweeping the medals.
The black athletes then had to return to the US, where segregation was still the norm; many of them struggled to support themselves afterwards, because racism kept them from being hired into any decent jobs.
Anecdotally, they were treated better in Nazi Germany than 30’s America.
Really tells it all.
Thanks to wwii and the experience of black soldiers, Paris became a hot-spot for jazz because so many us musicians would come play there to escape the racism at home.
And the French back then were fucking racist, just nowhere near as bad as the Americans.
The Nazis got their methods from American segregation laws
Anecdotally, they were treated better in Nazi Germany than 30’s America.
Because they were US citizens. While the US has some pretty… ugly history. If you think Nazi Germany would have treated a random black citizen better than what they got in the US you are absolutely delusional. The only reason they weren’t sent to camps with the Jews was because the population was deemed too insignificant to be worth the effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_black_people_in_Nazi_Germany
It’s still irony. Like rain on your wedding day
No, you’re thinking of rai’iain.
Nice track record at FIFA
Russia 2018
Qatar 2022
USA 2026
Morocco 2030
KSA 2034
2038?
Pyongyang
Yemen 2038
Gaza 2042
What is KSA?
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
It should be interesting to see the attendance numbers for similar events in the U.S. vs other North American countries
