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.
Man, I could read stories about the misery Temu Hitler has dropped on his voters all day every day.
I take no pleasure in it. I really hope enough of them are capable of learning from their own suffering in 2026 and 2028 to turn this around.
The majority of them are not capable of learning. These people live fact-less lives. Their worldview is shaped by feeling and what others tell them. There is no use of critical thinking, reflection, scientific method, facts, or figures.
Unfortunately, they will only learn with a massive amount of pain.
Don’t worry, I can handle feeling pleasure on your behalf.
The silver-lining is that now he won’t have to sell his business when ICE deports him.
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
🤣
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.
That’s some spicy Cantonese!
The curse to character ratio is off the charts!
Yeah, you’d think that as a fellow hong konger this guy would have been a bit smarter than to vote for a open fascist.
Just a bit to much of thinking he’s white adjacent enough I suppose.
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 to whites, or even black, or latinos. i once followed some asian tubers that started shilling for trump other rich old farts during the pandemic and more or less loss a significant amount of thier viewership, what was left was incel asians, muslims who though the same things they did, plus parasocial female fans. additionally mysogynistic attack against a former female employee which extended to all former female employees that “divorced” from the channel which kickstarted the downfall. whats funny they also were using a token african american constantly bullying him.
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.
Forget weed. They will look for anything. Ever drank too much at any point or gotten drunk? Even if it was in the privacy of your own home while watching a bad movie? They will label you an alcoholic and too much of a burden.
Ngl the picture from the article goes hard. It looks like a scene from a cult favourite Asian movie from the 80s/90s
Banishing Son
Bros looking like 黑社會
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!
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.
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 only Hitler / Stalin knew”
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.
Five bucks says he’s still votes for the Republicans.
For sure, stupid people hurt others and themseles for no gain and will still be stupid.
they are operating in florida, knowing putting your business in a state so you dont have to pay certain taxes is something.
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.)
I’d vote to get the main message correctly centered
nobody deserves any of this
A LOT of people deserve this, and much, much worse.
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?
Elaborate?
Oft doth the lesser tradesman escape with manifold misdeeds, forasmuch as no watchful eye of the public nor herald of the press attendeth his dealings, and the unseemly courses of such humble shops go unmarked.
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.
Tolerance requires the recipient to be grateful for the tolerance. These people see tolerance as a weakness to be ruthlessly exploited.
We tried tolerance, it didn’t work. We can’t make that mistake again. We need to pivot to a strategy the MAGAs will understand and respect, which is crushing them mercilessly. They are evil, treasonous, corrupt pedophiles, and will require a strong boot on their throats for a generation or two, until they learn their lesson once and for all.
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
We aren’t even punishing them. Their own choices are quite literally doing this to themselves. I’m just enjoying the show.
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.
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
You can just admit you dont understand, and dont want to.
Ok, explain
"- Incomprehensible
- Probably a dumb take even if it was explained"
Thats makes it sound like you dont understand.
Edit: do I need to explain further for you?
I meant “elaborate on what your point was so that I can better understand it”
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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.
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.
He runs a fucking grocery store why would he want grocery costs to go down
I seriously don’t understand Trump voters at all
Volume will make you more money than margins, Walmart proved that pretty handily. Cheaper groceries means more volume. They were pretty on point with that logic, grocery stores generally want cheaper stock so people buy more.
Interesting. But if this were a good solution to increase their profits, could they have not just intentionally lowered their own prices?
A good solution to this debacle would have been to not vote in the felonious conman who famously, and regularly, bankrupts businesses known to be the most consistent moneymakers man has come up with.
These people are not good at solutions.
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.
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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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!?!?
Wait till you find out some people support CCP and US MAGA
How? Idk don’t ask me. Something doublethink.
I fully understand why the CCP support MAGA, because they know how to out maneuver Krasnov and his dumb minions.
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.
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
I’m sure Trump cares as much about these folks as he does about George Santos. I expect he’ll be sending them a big check any day now.
No, see - Trump loves these people because they’re even more full of foolish pride than him since they’ll keep supporting him no matter how much he shits all over them.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wenn_das_der_Führer_wüsste
“If only Trump knew what was going ion, he’d stop it.”
Well I mean, he did let George out of prison. Still a felon, but he’s not locked up anymore.
