A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may soon close its doors after more than four decades in business — and the owners say tariffs are to blame.
The trouble began when President Donald Trump’s tariffs took effect, shaking the foundation of small import businesses across the country.
Oh no, is that my mom’s friend? (no just kidding, but she does have a lot of friends/acquaintances that is pro-trump for some reason)
immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong
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Hello fellow Cantonese speaker; You fucking TRAITOR, traitor to both your own fellow Cantonese people, fellow immigrants, and also, most importantly, a traitor to democracy and the working class.
So, as a Cantonese speaker and fellow Chinese-American immigrant, I wanna say:
I bet they’d support the pro-beijing camp if they were in HK. Bootlicker PoS.
they are disgrace to asians for shilling ofr a rich white old fart that is part of the "white rulling " class that has f’ed over asian for decades, do they realize all those stereotypes will get reinforced more, and they wont be seen as equals. i once followed some asian tubers that started shilling for trump other rich old farts during the pandemic.
Ngl the picture from the article goes hard. It looks like a scene from a cult favourite Asian movie from the 80s/90s
Bros looking like 黑社會
I’d like to know how long they were voting for GOP because as an immigrant family in a red state they thought by always voting for that party they expected stability and security while stiff-arming Dems and progressives as being disruptive. They never expected a gaslighting autarky-loving opportunist to destroy their business altogether.
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He’s probably going to get deported over a parking ticket from 1989 anyhow
Possibly. If it happened before they got citizenship, and if they forgot to tell the immigration officer about it, they could get denaturalized, not even kidding.
Btw: “Legal Weed” is a misnomer, admitting to smoking weed before you obtained citizenship is possibly grounds for denaturalization. Laws are so fucking insane.
News at 8:
Gullible business owner conned by Trump for the 13,123 time.
“I just didn’t think the 100’s of years of data we have on Tariffs and what they do to business was correct when Trump said otherwise. My son is blind from staring into an eclipse because Trump said that couldn’t happen too, and now I’m starting to think he might be wrong about stuff.”
I liked it when cartoons were this dumb instead of reality.
(This is not a quote from the article. I’m combining multiple stories of people getting conned by Trump for comedic effect because it’s the same story everytime.)
Fucking lmao
I’d vote to get the main message correctly centered
nobody deserves any of this
thats bullshit. fuck maga forever. they ruin lives, businisess, friendships, families, and communities with their behaviors and lies. they can go to hell for all i care.
The morons who voted to fuck us all over not only completely deserve it, terrible things literally MUST happen to them to make them change their behavior. These people are too stupid to learn by example, they refuse to think critically and they don’t care about anyone but themselves, so “look at the people you’re hurting” doesn’t work on them. The only thing that will make them change their ways is to get completely fucked over by their ways.
I didn’t enjoy realizing this, but it’s important to do so.
It’s their second trip to the buffet, they deserve what they asked for.
We don’t deserve trump and the shitty republicans that pushed him to the top, no…. But the people that shat on everyone else in a fit of rage by electing trump to be their avatar? Yeah. I think they do deserve it.
while i get the feeling (in general people voting to harm others ought to at very least endure first the harm they wish on others) but i don’t think even nazis deserve concentration camp internment and genocide. if we’ve got a stick big enough to do that, we have a stick big enough to do better.
This is about a business owner losing his business due to the person he voted for. Not someone being genocided. So I have no clue why you are bringing that in
because someone losing their business is on the smaller end of visible repercussions we’ve already seen
He campaigned on doing the whole idiotic tarrif thing that crashed and burned in his first term. It was one of the only actual policy positions he stood by without his vague non answer bullshit.
This guy who voted for him, having seen him campaign, and should have known it would hurt his business. Guy specifically voted for the guy who campaigned on ruining his business. Yeah he deserves this.
You trying to divert the topic to something no one else is talking, does nothing.
small businesses often get away much more shit than a larger one does, because theres no media attention on how unethical some small businesses operate.
Elaborate?
We aren’t even punishing them. Their own choices are quite literally doing this to themselves. I’m just enjoying the show.
Y’know, 15 years ago we tried tolerance. This is what it got us. No, I’m afraid tolerance is no longer a viable option.
there’s a whole lot of other options besides tolerance and genocide. not being an expert in the subject, i couldn’t list all of them
You’re the only one talking about genocide
They do.
Sorry, I’m all out of sympathy for the death cultists.
I never had any but still have to share the road with coal rollers, we need to unfuck this problem ourselves
I’ve started to get the intrusive thought to just crash into them
Explain?
No, we must punish people for being people.
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Incomprehensible
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Probably a dumb take even if it was explained
Yup, this is going in my cringe compilation
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Five bucks says he’s still votes for the Republicans.
they are operating in florida, knowing putting your business in a state so you dont have to pay certain taxes is something.
For sure, stupid people hurt others and themseles for no gain and will still be stupid.
These people really fell hard for the lies.
Zero sympathy for the racist Asian who fucked himself. The Hong Kong Cantonese despise the CCP authoritarian rule, but they vote for a US dictator. WTF!?!?
Well you see, the Chinese communist party is the problem, not that they are a dictatorship. The farther they are from communism, the better.
/s in case it’s necessary
Not defending the guy, he’s a moron for falling for Trump’s schtick and not following a simple chain of cause/effect - but I at least can understand the initial sentiment of wanting to support someone who claimed to stand up against “China”?
They just should’ve done a modicum of research to realise just how full of shit Trump actually is.
The longer I’m alive the more I think we need citizenship tests. You should have to earn citizenship, it shouldn’t be granted automatically, and at least one of the prerequisites for citizenship should be detectable brain waves. If you fail an EEG you don’t get to vote or own property.
Wong, who supported Trump in the last election, said he was swayed by campaign promises to reduce grocery costs. But now, as his business struggles to stay afloat, he admits the reality looks very different. Grocery inflation is at a two-year high, and prices continue to climb with no end in sight.
Guess he didn’t believe him on tariffs though when he runs an import business.
He runs a fucking grocery store why would he want grocery costs to go down
I seriously don’t understand Trump voters at all
People often seem to cling onto a single issue and never thoughtfully evaluate their full exposure.
That’s not even a single issue, that’s not thinking when you are importing food.
I’m not sure how true “often” is, but they’re certainly well-represented among the sort who end up featured in this community.
if you can’t afford to stay in business perhaps it’s your fault, so pull yourself up, dust off, and find yourself a job. quit feeling sorry for yourself and acting like a victim.
…just giving MAGA cultists the same energy back.
They can never comprehend that something is bad until it’s bad for them specifically.
They never ask in these stories - would this Trump supporter be continuing that support even after being kicked in the dick? That’s the only part I’m interested in, because everything else these supporters talk about in these stories are things everyone with a brain saw coming.
They stand in front of the steam roller in Austin Powers and get squashed - would they do it again? My guess is they would, but I have to guess because no one ever asks!
Some of the stories do ask. Every one I have seen or heard, they still support Trump. They are unhappy about the specific issue affecting them, but they still believe the rest of his policies are the best ones on offer.
I do not believe turning voters is viable. But discouraged, less enthused Trump voters are more likely to stay home next election, so I see examples like this as potential hopeful signs for our country’s future.
if i was a business owner (which i never would be), in florida (which i also never would be), i would know to request that the interviewer leave that question out of the article, lest i add boycotts, vandalism, arson, death threats, etc to the money woes
Get that insurance money
Insurance clearly states it doesn’t cover riots, protests, acts of violence, etc.
So the owner did the smart thing not to aggravate the real MAGA terrorists.
I suspect you wouldn’t say “you know, that guy threatening to shoot me in the face with a shotgun seems like the right person to protect my face” either, in fairness.
You might if he has an army of angry shotgun toting weirdos standing behind him.
Everyone with a brain saw.
And everyone else too!
Ooo, a brain saw. I don’t have one of those.
The metal kind cut better, make sure you have one of those as well.
Wrong Guy Imports.
