Pro-Trump owner shocked as grocery store that thrived for 43 years goes bankrupt under his tariffs and policies 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.
Wong told NPR that virtually all of his products have increased in price since early this year. For instance, a box of mabo tofu sauce — a popular Sichuan dish — has gone from $2.75 last year to $3.95 at the beginning of this year. “We just had this shipment come in yesterday — it’s $5. We cannot catch up. Every shipment coming in, we have to put a new price on it,” Wong said.
Wait, why doesn’t he just make China pay the tariff, Trump told me thats how this works, he didn’t lie to me, did he?
Have the day you voted for, jackass…
Both my sister’s import business and my bro in law supplier business folded in the past 6 months after their inventory ran out. This has a trickle effect because the business they supplied now have 1 less supplier.
My own business is struggling. I had to call my customers to ask them if they would pay sooner because I’m having cash flow issues.
It’s a real struggle out here.
Would the dems be able to win people like this if they removed Trump’s tarriffs instead of increasing them? Would the dems even be willing to do so?
No. We have seen it before with Democrats “moving to the center” never works, just ends up annoying the voters they actually need to get to vote for them.
Moving to the center is maintaining and expanding Trump’s china tarriffs, which is what Biden did. I am asking what if the dems did the opposite of what Trump continues to do, and made things cheaper for Americans?
Ahhh gotcha. I got very confused there. That would be awesome if they did.
Concepts of thoughts and prayers.
Define “thrived” in the context of American Capitalism.
The business owner makes money and the business survives, that’s it
They all try to say they voted for him because of affordability. That means they would of had to live under a rock for the last decade to believe that. They did it for the fascism, racism and control over others. They’re getting what they deserve.
Yep we told them Trump was a con man and a liar 10 years ago and he’s only always proven that true
In all fairness we also knew that in the 1990s
Hell, we knew that family was fucked up from 1927, his daddy Fred Trump was a member of the KKK.
“With the economy like that, it’s very hard for not just me. It’s for a lot of people.”
Every time, a fucking revelation.
WOW, it’s not just one person doing it wrong and having trouble. Truth is, the vast majority DGAF until it affects them, and they they broacast, it could happen to you too! Before it happened to them, they didn’t care one iota what happened to everyone else. Now it’s happening to them, and let me tell you the rest of the base that’s not getting directly hammered by this (that can still afford groceries) DGAF that he is in a bad situation.
He’s in the cult of selfishness where people only care about themselves, getting what he’s given.
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I don’t want small businesses to fail. I also want people who forced Trump on us to get their comeuppance. I don’t know how to parse this, even after a year. Yes, fuck you for doing this to all of us, but also, DAMMIT. IDK… can we like, choose a date and after that be like, yeah you fucked up bro but also I don’t want you to starve anymore? what a shit show.
Look, we tried. We tried understanding, tolerance, olive branches, whatever. The problem is they took the rest of us down with them. At some point you just gotta let them suffer the consequences. You can be sympathetic, that shows you’ve retained your humanity, but we can’t fight for people that punch us in the nose when we reach out to pull them up.
Exactly. It’s like how in lifeguard training, they teach you that you can’t save strugglers who would quickly take you down with them. Same concept.
Can’t save everyone. (Ironically, their own policy for decades when they turned their backs on the poor and disenfranchised repeatedly. No empathy here dog.)
To me it reminds me of the quote on how a society handle their prisoners. They can never have power again and must feel the consequences, but we have to show some baseline level of respect for human life, and show what makes us better than them. It’s not status or money, it’s ideals and empathy
Some FYGM immigrant families are consistently GOP for years, voting primarily for “values” and promises for security plus stability.
It’s just that with this fucking regime they didn’t saw disaster coming.
I’m gonna guess that they have WeChat, pro-conservative and anti-democrat articles run rampant in WeChat, I know because my parents constantly spew bullshit and I have to remind them about the Chinese Exclusion Act and that republicans are trying to deport us.
Have you tried reporting the accounts?
Everything he’s doing, he said he was going to do. They weren’t tricked. If they didn’t see it coming, it was because they willed themselves to not see it.
Racism does funny things to the brain.
This was a big thing. More than Latino vote. The SF Asian Democratic club dropped the Democrat from their name. Most of my Asian friends are center right out here.
Lol. This dummy learned the hard way that liars say things, then don’t follow through. A lesson that those of us with functional brains learned in grade school.
It’s ok though. Trump only had one other failed presidency for this moron to learn from.
And he’s not a farmer so his stupid ass isn’t going to get bailed out by our tax dollars like idiot farmers are about to be.
Eat shit, loser.
Bail em out, christians, rally the troops! It’s the golden age of crowd funding
