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.

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      For sure, stupid people hurt others and themseles for no gain and will still be stupid.

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      they are operating in florida, knowing putting your business in a state so you dont have to pay certain taxes is something.

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    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:

    仆街食屎屙飯死蠢抵死冚家鏟 。ROFL

    I bet they’d support the pro-beijing camp if they were in HK. Bootlicker PoS.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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

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                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.

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                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.

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              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.

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              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

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        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.

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        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.

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    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.)

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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!?!?

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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        I fully understand why the CCP support MAGA, because they know how to out maneuver Krasnov and his dumb minions.

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    Ngl the picture from the article goes hard. It looks like a scene from a cult favourite Asian movie from the 80s/90s

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    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 voted for the guy who said repeatedly that he was going to implement huge tariffs and then got destroyed by those tariffs. He couldn’t be any of us, because we didn’t vote for the obviously corrupt thieving lying rapist that tried to overthrow the government and said very clearly that he was going to do exactly this. Voting for Trump AGAIN wasn’t an honest mistake, it was a colossal fuck-up. Votes matter, paying attention matters, voting based on facts matters. I hope this fool learned his lesson. A lot of people are going to actually die because he voted for Trump, he’s lucky he just lost his business.

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      Man votes for leopard who eats faces and is surprised when his face shows bite marks…would you be willing to share your motivations for this obvious trolling?

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      Trump 1 should’ve been the warning sign for everyone. They’re not kicking him for voting, they’re kicking him for voting for a twice impeached rapist who already fucked the economy once.

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      you dont accidentally vote for a president, you have to be fully knowing which candidate to vote for stop with your this is not a “trump supporter”

    • If he acknowledged that he wasn’t informed and recused himself from voting, then I can at least respect that, and maybe have a bit of sympathy. But dudes be voting against their own interests, like bruh, the policies are not secrets, its literally on their websites, they’ve been saying it.