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.
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.)
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!
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.
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”
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.
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.”
The more people burned by MAGA and the right means more people willing to hurt the right out of revenge. That’s fine. The right has it coming.
None of this was of course foreseeable at all.
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To the MAGA, get fucked
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To the protesters yesterday, do you see that the protests had exactly zero impact? So I hope to fucking god you got some phone numbers and made some plans, cause we’re about to cross the rubicon.
lemmy.ca is a troll instance and needs to be defederated if they don’t start cleaning their shit up.
Lol what?
half of all interactions I have seen from lemmy.ca users have been attempting to incite violence from Americans against Americans.
you should read some of the shit that your fellow users are saying to Americans. Not very “Canadian”, sounds more like MAGA.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I wonder how much of that is “you guys need to do something more than protest” being interpreted as “go out and kill people”.
There is more that can be done that doesn’t involve violence. But every time it comes up, there is some excuse for why it can’t be done.
Lots of Canadians, like me, are frustrated and tired of watching America sleepwalk into full blown fascism. And while I respect people for protesting, I’m at the same time appalled that this was not the largest protest in US history.
So good on everyone who tried but shame on you as a nation if that is the best you can do.
Every single protester is a hell of a lot braver than your sorry ass dooming on Lemmy
Actually, let’s do this.
You’re a fucking imbecile if you think “dooming” is a thing anymore. The president RAPED AND PHYSICALLY ABUSED LITTLE GIRLS. He is wiping his ass with the constitution. He is an obvious liar and chatlatan.
You, specifically, can get fucked because anyone who thinks near enough has been done about this yet are abject cowards.
I don’t fucking care about your opinion, but you and more people need to be told this.
Good luck.
It sounds like you really do fucking care about their opinion. It also sounds like you’re projecting your own cowardice onto them.
The people out in the real world, attending these protests, especially in red states, are much more brave than you, and their actions are much more effective than anything you could possibly do or say here.
In your own words, “get fucked”.
👍 have the country you deserve!
and here you are sitting on your ass complaining about protestors instead of doing anything about the issue.
Not my country pal, and if it was I’d sure as shit be doing a lot more than attending a protest every few months. You can call me a liar or coward or whatever you want, I know what the truth is
the truth is your a loser crying online while other people are actually making their voices heard about injustice through protesting
Sure why not
Dude, did you expect a military coup? Read some history.
That’s rich
To the protesters yesterday, do you see that the protests had exactly zero impact?
The protests right now are a glorified meet and greet. Most of these folks have never protested before.
But all the pamphlets and people I met proved that we are organizing and spreading ideas. This is how it starts.
The ‘protest’ part of the protest is just marketing. The actual work is when you meet the local unions and shake hands with the local powers. And no better time to meet them than a ‘protest’
Everyone who actually went to the protest knows what I’m talking about. The speakers and such are whatever and just preaching to the choir, but important to draw crowds. The actual work gets done at the tables and booths on the side.
Go to the next protest. Organize. We have 3 years before the next Presidential election, we have 1 year before the next congressional election. The time is ticking and we need to get the grassroots process started. It takes a long time.
There is no glory in a meet-and-greet.
It is the work that leads to glory.
I think I love you
The rest of them will understand our love eventually
Exactly. Wow at least one American that gets it. Mostly. The part where elections happen is for some reason a big mental block that almost everyone seems to have. You keep hope I guess but no way is that happening on this trajectory.
That’s why I said “you better get phone numbers”, ir the protest itself is toothless, so hopefully everyone was making the most of it.
I fucking love seeing all the downvotes when reality bites. Just so you know, downvoting on social media is not going to save your country, and your eternal optimism (read: blatant naivety) will be…nay, IS… your downfall.
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Guess they voted for the wong side.
L. Mao
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.
I’m not sure how true “often” is, but they’re certainly well-represented among the sort who end up featured in this community.
That’s not even a single issue, that’s not thinking when you are importing food.
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.
I bet he’s expecting the government to come in and save his business now too.
Hopefully he gets a box of extra bootstraps. If he isn’t able to pull himself up with the straps he can at least live in the box before being arrested for being homeless and sent to a forced labor camp.
They’re going to have to be domestically produced bootstraps and I just don’t think we have the capacity for as many as we’re going to need any longer.
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.
If it makes him feel any better, had he voted Democratic, people still wouldn’t be able to shop at his store.
So there’s that I guess.
You remember when, before he even took office, dementia Donald admitted he wouldn’t be able to do fuck all about the food prices…and has since put many domestic farmers out of business while putting tariffs on pretty much all imports making food and everything else EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE than it was when you morons believed his obviously flawed plans would help you
Yes, I’m well aware this is a both sides problem.
Why would you pretend to agree with me and then state someone I never even remotely insinuated?
Republicans fucked shit up, blamed Democrats for it, blocked any attempts to fix it, continued to blame Democrats, them morons voted them back into power for them to further fuck shit up. What both sides?
It’s honestly a little shocking to me that you all are still arguing for Dems powerlessness after watching Donald Trump change the whole fabric of the country in nine months with exactly the same amount of power.
They didn’t care if you ate or not either. If they did, they would have gone nuclear and made real change, just like the fascists are doing now.
Nothing could go wong.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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
It’s their second trip to the buffet, they deserve what they asked for.
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.
I’d vote to get the main message correctly centered
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.
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.
