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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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“We should fuck shit up in memoriam for the boss. You guys remember anything the boss hated?”
“He was complaining about the lines at Costco the other week.”
This is truly awful, but feels silly, right?
Fire roasted rotisserie chickens on sale, the jokes in bad taste, the chicken tastes amazing though
Sadly looks like people are using AI to create fake videos and spread misinformation about the cartel's power: (Spanish) https://www.sinembargo.mx/4768982/la-muerte-de-el-mencho-moviliza-al-cjng-y-a-los-sicarios-de-las-redes-datos/
The cartels themselves are probably using bot accounts to try to seem more powerful than they really are.
Looks like this Costco was really set on fire though: (Spanish) https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/nacional/2026/2/22/reportan-incendio-en-tienda-costco-de-puerto-vallarta-tras-muerte-de-el-mencho-esto-se-sabe-video-772280.html
Although, not sure if it was "guns-blazing bust-in and set it on fire" vs just some fucking cowards setting shit on fire and then running away.
vs just some fucking cowards setting shit on fire and then running away
Would it have been less cowardly to do it the guns blazing way?
There is definitely a noticable difference between criminals that have confidence and those that try to run and hide.
The brazen ones are usually easier to catch.
Why? Membership prices go up?
Hot dog and rotisserie chicken prices
Probably tried to change the price of the hotdogs.
I didn't really know where they would attack, but hopefully it did more damage to a large insured company than to peoples lives. Sucks all around..
Lots of people's lives will be very negatively affected by this.
As someone who shops at Costco, the difference in cost vs a grocery store can be staggering. Lots of food is 40% or greater less.
My membership is paid for by the savings in one trip.
That must be regional. I'm sure the bulk packaging of things might be cheaper if you go through all the stuff, but if I look at milk/eggs/flour/sugar/water, it's cheaper at Walmart/Aldi than the Cosco that's a few towns over (closest to me).
In Mexico?
In Puerto Vallarta right now:
Malecón is on fire , gas stations are ablaze, both costco and its gas station are burning and the airport is at least partially on fire. Plus no ability to put them out because cartels are blocking all major roads and freeways.
Guadalajara, Chihuahua, Durango and Acapulco Norte are also under seige where they are both under statewide lockdown orders and some were warned by Cartels to stay at home the next couple days... Schools closed too.
How much do Mexican security services have to suck that they let Cartels blockade highways for days. Fucking US cops would go apeshit, bring in tanks and shit. Helicopters with machine guns, it would be the highlight of their rotten lives.
US cops are only bold when they outnumber AND outgun their adversary.
2 cops vs 20 protestors, those cops will run. 200 cops vs 20k protestors, again, the cops will run or lose everything.
The strategy used by the cartel is to create an asymmetric warfare environment by creating so many individual crises that the cops can't respond to them all en-force, and by disrupting and degrading movement, communications, logistics, and intelligence.
The fires are very visible yes, but it wouldn't surprise me if the cartels were also targeting telecom infrastructure, attempting to jam radio, targeting police infra, electrical infra, and airspace.
When you're outgunned by the adversary, your best bet is to disperse them thin, so you can pick and choose where you concentrate your force.
Most US cops, in the face of real opposition, would be about as brave as Uvalde police during a school shooting. I mean, sure, if the cartels were made up of a couple of grannies, or some protesting students, they'd be all over it like Trump on a 13 year old. But they're not.
Which US cops exactly? The ones that hid outside of a school with one single shooter inside? I know they have a giant boner for their hard guy cosplay hobby, but let's keep it real.
Well, try living someplace labelled '3rd world' where poverty is so bad that said Police are often paid off by companies and cartels who offer a living wage.
Those not paid off are often threatened or worse: disappear and are found months later in a shallow pit.
So no, it's not that Mexico's Federales nor National Guard nor Police 'suck' so much as poverty sucks. Poverty proliferates corruption which ultimately brings out the worst in all humanity.
Cartels taking this shit out on the people sucks. Corruption sucks. Ignorance here is also 'sucks'.
I do remember reading the police aren't paid enough to get by without money under the table. They buy their own bullets, have to buy their own air conditioners in cars, and whatever else. Same up and down the line, judges, what have you. Everyone is on the take, it's presumed everyone is, and it costs society a lot more than paying them a living wage and keeping them in line.
But this is an ongoing problem that's gotten worse, their public hates the cartels for the violence, but they've been unable to at least get the local police in charge of their own states? Something is off with their leadership from the top down. Either than, or maybe they just need a hug!.
It's gotta be rough when the local gangs have better financing than the local pd
Local gangs are partially funded by cartels with international drug empires funneling cash from places like the United States.
Making drugs illegal doesn't prevent people from using them, the demand is still there and someone will fill it. It just inflates the prices because of the layers and dangers involved with importing the drugs, there is no tax revenue, and the money eventually leaves the country instead of being recirculated like a normal economy.
And that doesn't even get into the societal impacts. Or the underlying mental/psychological reasons people turn to the drugs in the first place that aren't being addressed by society. But it does mean a nice constant stream of "criminals" into the penal system that can legally be used as slave labor.
Making drugs illegal doesn’t prevent people from using them, the demand is still there and someone will fill it. It just inflates the prices because of the layers and dangers involved with importing the drugs, there is no tax revenue, and the money eventually leaves the country instead of being recirculated like a normal economy.
The best thing the US could do to fight the cartels would be to legalize and regulate the drug trade. Take away their massive funding source.
It helps when you're better armed than the Ukrainian army.
Cars the in the parking lot burned but I saw a report that the store itself and the employees were unharmed (hopefully).
Not drumming up my sympathy because they attacked Costco, they're attacking a lot of things right now, why tf is Costco getting a call out?
I don't mean to sound snarky but I think it's because this is a Costco community lol
Gottem
Ah, yeah, that's legit......
I read they are attacking supermarkets in general in areas. I read in Yucatan which is no where near guadalajara this morning and the guardian was just mentioning some other districts so for whatever reason they are torching those.
What i saw was just cars in the Costco lot burning not the building itself. Or did that catch too?
But where will the people get their reasonably priced hot dogs?