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.
It’s starting to reach the point where I don’t really find this funny anymore and I just find it sad. Kinda like when you see an older person get scammed out of thousands of dollars by one of those IRS or tech support scams. Fear makes people do stupid things. I get it, this is what they voted for. And yes, a lot of MAGA are legitimately Nazis and deserve all the hate they get and more. But some of these people just got scammed plain and simple. When I see someone get scammed out of their life savings I don’t just laugh at them and say “I told you not to fall for those IRS scams. Jesus Christ you are so fucking dumb.” No, I get pissed at the scammer that took advantage of them. Fuck all those people that are actual Nazis, though.
The fact that we see so many people having regret is a good thing. I’d rather have people that realized they fucked up then people that are doubling down and defending everything Trump is doing.
I get why you don’t find it funny, with how dramatic things quickly got since the start of this second term shitshow, I never felt like laughing once. But I don’t feel any amount of sadness or compassion for these morons. You make a comparison with people getting scammed out of their life savings but it’s not the same thing at all.
First it doesn’t just affect them, people in the entire world get to suffer for their selfish stupid decision: Canadians and Greenlanders get to be threatened with annexation, fishermen off the Venezuelan coast get to be double tap murdered by drones, Ukrainians get to live under the constant threat of withdrawal of support from the US unless they sell their country for parts, us Europeans get to be spat on by a so-called “ally”, Palestinian get to contend with an even more unhinged USA support of Israel and so on and so forth with the global economy, the environment, global disease prevention…So fuck them, the suffering they get is only a fraction of the suffering they unleashed in their country and the rest of the world.
And second, unlike an actual scam they didn’t get confused within a few minutes time span without time to properly think. They had AT LEAST MONTHS, to think about this and research information for themselves, and when they didn’t do it, other people TRIED DESPERATELY to warn them and they didn’t listen, because in the end they were convinced to be smarter and didn’t want to look for answers or listen to the pleas of others.
I remember a segment on national TV of my country where right before the election two women, one Democrat, one Trump voter were being interviewed. At the end they were asked what they would do if Trump won, and the Democrat woman, with some amount of anguish, said she would have to fight against feelings of despair because the consequences would be catastrophic. And the Trump voter with her fucking clipboard and condescending tone said that as a business owner she would go to work no matter what be an adult and not be “hysterical” and that voting for Trump was the rational thing to do for the economy and she hoped other people got to understand that as well instead of being “emotional”. I don’t really give a fuck to what happened to that woman or her business, but her and tens of millions like her forced all of us to live in a world made by their selfish stupidity and I say they don’t deserve any forgiveness for that.
Also all the people who suffered and died without USAID
Well said!!
And that’s why it’s not funny, but the suffering has to continue. The person in this article and many who support Trump will not see reality for what it is until it hits home and affects them dramatically.
It sucks, but there’s a lack of empathy in this cohort that means they’ll never understand the consequences of what they’ve done unless they’re directly impacted by it, and only for a prolonged enough duration for it to sink in and become a long term pattern instead of a “one-off” experience.
If you want to help, donate to your local food bank. Nobody can save these people from themselves, but you can at least ensure that they don’t starve long enough to maybe turn things around.
Yes, they got scammed, but I did my best to warn those around me, and they laughed and ridiculed me, calling me a “libtard” and “cucked”. Now, I have to suffer along with these morons while American democracy circles the drain. ALL OF THIS WAS COMPLETELY FORESEEABLE AND ACTUALLY FORESEEN BY ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN. Does it suck for them and is sad? Sure, 100%, but they’ve made it suck for me and millions of others. What of the families torn apart by ICE thugs? Are they lamenting that? No, because they only give a shit about themselves and how they inadvertently hurt themselves when they thought that Trump was only going to “hurt the right people”, meaning the people they hate. Accordingly, IMHO, a bit of schadenfreude is a normal reaction for everyone who easily saw all this coming.
It’s amazing to me that you all still think you’re so smart after the Obama and Biden presidencies. So much of what Donald is doing right now would be impossible if Obama and Biden hadn’t enthusiastically participated in fascist politics themselves. (Including the acceptability of having very public brain damage as president.)
You speak as though we support, or like, them
It’s nice to hear that someone doesn’t.
I voted Biden with full understanding that, at least economically, nothing meaningful would change. It felt important for there to be a cultural victory against Trumpism; However, as we saw this last four years, Biden was a fascist too, and to make matters worse, was very publicly in cognitive decline and no one with the power to meaningful change gave a damn about it.
This is the take I hear from every single person I have met, in person, about this. They don’t vote for the Democrats, they vote against the one thing worse than them. The only thing we can do in this country, right now, is slow damage. We need a revolutionary change, but looking at all the people who organize within communist, socialist, etc. groups, their plans are wishy washy, and while they come off as pretty spelled out, they are shallow, and they do not want to address the questions of what happens when people simply always resist real change. They are more scared of setting off and active revolution, than they are living this way.
Though I do what I can with those who are in my area, the leftist orgs have nothing to show in terms of what they have brought to the benefit of the people. They simply have rhetoric against what is here, and empty promises is not going to pull people away from the establishment they grew up within. We got some, local, changes passed here that demonstrably increased the QOL, however it was never branded with a clear leftist group, so people assumed it was the local Democrats.
On the other hand, you have a bunch of keyboard warriors online that preach violence, and some who even condemn those who haven’t taken up arms, as cowards. Meanwhile they have nothing to show. They aren’t out there carrying out “action”. The only appreciable counter actions, to the MAGA cult of personality, that is playing out in real life, has come the “more like early last century England, not on the level of Nazi Germany” liberals. However, their actions are simply to stop MAGA, as they want to preserve the empire.
This is the only power most of us have at this point, and I make it a point to be active locally myself.
Yeah sure, they’re the same - ffs - are you that stupid?
Always love a good thought-terminating cliche. Thank you.
You think Biden was a fascist because he didn’t use the justice system to go after his political enemies when it was 100% warranted.
Then you agree they did this with a full brain and therefore deserve all the consequences coming to them.
It would be possible no matter who was president because the “immigration crisis” is fully fabricated by the media.
True, but when Dubya started kidnapping (I mean “renditioning” people) and torturing them, and then Obama did those things AND put kids in cages and concocted a kill list, while knowingly drone bombing an American citizen, and then Donald did all those things and tried to ban Muslims, which were then followed up by Biden doing all those things AND making sure a child genocide and a manufactured famine got full US support…
…it’s easy to see how both sides have made all this possible.
It’s a little laughable watching all the hand wringing about Hegseth’s war crimes. (though a little satisfying)
Hate to break it to you, but that was Trump.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44518942.amp
While Obama’s legacy on immigration was mixed and not exactly great, his administration did make a point to keep families together and not isolate children from their relatives.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/president-obamas-legacy-immigration/
You and I must have lived through a very different Obama era.
And Obama. Obama also did
state kidnappings“family separations”. The only difference was that Donald didn’t try to intellectualize around it and was very blatant about what he was doing, whereas Obama tried to put lipstick on the pig in the mold of a “compassionate conservative” like Dubya.Always appreciate how euphemistically people speak about Obama, as if his policies didn’t provide a normalization for greater fascist abuses under Donald and Biden.
Are you actually repeating Trump talking points while also being angry about it?
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711446917/fact-check-trump-wrongly-states-obama-administration-had-child-separation-policy
There was nothing euphemistic about my previous comment. I linked details on Obama’s record on immigration policy. He didn’t all keep his promises on immigration and his track record on it was mediocre and with a high number of deportations. That’s not the same thing as having kids in cages (again, that was Trump term 1), or anything like the atrocities we’re seeing today from ICE’s thugs.
Please, source your statements if you’re going to be this wrongly argumentative about it. Otherwise this isn’t a discussion worth continuing.
Again, with the euphemistic language.
Let’s call him what he was: a lying, corrupt son of a bitch.
Donny 2 Inches already had a looong track record and a previous fail presidency, when Mr Wong decided that “THIS time it will be different…!”. I think it’s probably ok to mock this particular one, because it doesn’t appear that he’s capable of learning.
And to this I’d say: they’ve undoubtedly been bombarded with thousands of truths about trump for a decade. They disregarded every fucking one of those truths. I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who rejected truth and never did 15 seconds of googling to learn more. These are deeply, pathologically hateful and uncurious people. I would know because I have a bunch of them in my family.
My own parents, who like to say I’m smart, have never once given a flying fuck when I tried to tell them the truth about trump. They actively don’t want to know. I cannot forgive people for not caring what’s true. They all knew there were consequences for people, themselves included, if they were wrong. THEY DID NOT CARE.
lol the vast majority of those who regret voting for Trump will still vote Republican in every election until they die
Stop mistaking for incompetence what is so clearly malice
Yep. They will never vote for baby-killing Demoncrats. They will always vote for the party of Goodness! The party mentioned by name in the bible, the party endorsed by white Jesus. The party of Capitalism, the way God intended. Sigh.
They weren’t scammed.
Stop giving deplorable people the benefit of the doubt.
You are the one being scammed by the feigned confusion.
100%
These people were lied to on tariffs, the economy, and affordability. They were more willing to believe those lies because they’ve seen their cost of living skyrocket for the last four years under Biden’s presidency.
It is sad. Also sad to watch people who consider themselves conscientious people cheerlead for fascism now that they think it’s targeting the right people, and ignoring that they’re getting targeted too.
Again, correct. We’ll see if the candidates coming up for 2026 realize how badly they need these disaffected Republicans’ votes.
Personally I find it weird we pretend it’s even remotely acceptable or fun at any point.
Yeah yeah leopards eating faces is a good source of schadenfreude, but I don’t think anyone actually found it humourous and entertaining when these were announced.
It’s just the coping mechanism we use over things we don’t have control of.
But at least in the countries claiming to be democratic, we really do have an option, it just requires a lot of cooperation. And since we’re just doomscrolling I don’t think anyone will ever get there.
It’s like we’re scared of being mocked if we treat anything that’s going on in the world as a serious and urgent problem.