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│ Not for long, liberal meanies forced him to take it down. Apparently the time to discuss tariffs is after the election when what these morons think no longer matters. Yet another instance of the fukk your feelings crowd being hurt by online commentary.
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│ His business is only 2 years old. Maybe it's time to grovel for his old job back, which was also in manufacturing, so they are likely not interested.
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Vote for the guy who had the brilliant idea to build 3 casinos within walking distance of each other. He thought it would increase foot traffic in his casinos, but as he was warned, it cannibalized the foot traffic and destroyed the business.
fukk him. It's not "please stop sending people to concentration camps" or "please stop musk from dismantling the government" or "please stop fukking over our vets" no, it's just "please stop fukking over me in particular"
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│ Commented on Thu Apr 17 12:26:24 2025 UTC
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│ It’s a hallmark of Republicans to not give a shyt until something affects them personally.
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│ │ Commented on Thu Apr 17 12:44:47 2025 UTC
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│ │ And yet it DID affect him personally in Trump's first term--when Trump's tariffs caused Brazil to replace the US as the largest supplier of soybeans to China. He still voted for Trump twice after that.
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│ │ │ Commented on Thu Apr 17 12:53:26 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ Their brains literally do a hard reset back to default Trumper status after a little time passes. During covid I watched someone get serious about it after their grandfather died. A few months later it's back to spouting talking points about it like a robot
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│ │ │ │ Commented on Thu Apr 17 13:08:00 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ │ I have fun making up shyt and posting it on Far Right blogs for the MAGA folks to chew on... like this:
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2/24
@BiggestFlamer
Can’t really complain when you refuse to vote… ngl.
3/24
@SakurasCardShop
I have every right to complain. Pick better candidates than the clowns we have and maybe I’d vote. Our system is rigged to a 2 party system and neither party are for the people. IMO
4/24
@SweetP_CCG
Just trying to figure out the whole picture. Are these Chinese goods or Japanese goods? You should be a bit more clear in your original post since the tariffs on these 2 countries are quite different.
5/24
@SakurasCardShop
I didn’t claim a country, just tariffs thanks
6/24
@PokeLootCards
I thought he paused all tariffs no? Idk i’m not into that politics stuff
7/24
@SakurasCardShop
Paused reciprocal. Not the base 10%
8/24
@taconative
Quit complaining
9/24
@SakurasCardShop
Eat my.. shorts
10/24
@peaksfn
Gotta love taking advantage of a rough situation just to have an excuse to raise prices. Admit it or not, you know it's true, and so do many others.
11/24
@SakurasCardShop
WEEKS AGO!!
12/24
@Geo36915018
But those tariffs have been always there, correct?
13/24
@SakurasCardShop
No
14/24
@onepieceveteran
U know that u don't have to post everything on social media
15/24
@SakurasCardShop
To inform people that tariffs are real?..
16/24
@DallasHobgood
You should have ordered under 800 usd.
17/24
@SakurasCardShop
Businesses can’t do that. Also they only allow 1 package per day with de minimus. If I order my usual 100k in product that’s 125 shipments. Would take 125 days to get them all at minimum
18/24
@smug_diva
The tariffs got paused a week later. You just ordered at the wrong time unfortunately. There's a lot of other shops that held onto their stock instead of importing more once the news hit.
19/24
@SakurasCardShop
Not paused. There’s still a flat tariff from everywhere. Only thing paused is the reciprocal
20/24
@demetriosgeorge
Just want to say I appreciate you and the business you do. I’m a year long membership holder and still products sell quickly while I’m working but if/when I can your shop is a “go to” for my daughter and I. Much love
21/24
@SakurasCardShop
Thank you so much! I hope you and your daughter have a great Easter
22/24
@JoeCronick
Buy American
23/24
@SakurasCardShop
Yes because Japanese language cards made in Japan meant for sale in Japan are made in America…
24/24
@washingtonpost
Here’s what could get more expensive with Trump’s new tariffs.
2/32
@BiggestFlamer
Can’t really complain when you refuse to vote… ngl.
3/32
@SakurasCardShop
I have every right to complain. Pick better candidates than the clowns we have and maybe I’d vote. Our system is rigged to a 2 party system and neither party are for the people. IMO
4/32
@Joe694208008
You can’t really complain when you know good and well the other side wouldn’t be doing this right now. Sure neither of them care about the average person but to act like they are the same is a cop out.
5/32
@SakurasCardShop
But they are…. You think they give a damn about you, me, or anyone else? Nah. Why Nancy pelosi on a 200k salary but worth like 80 mil? All they care about is money.
6/32
@MistyFavor
One party, for all their faults, wasn't planning to start a trade war, so while I agree it sucks, you helped make this happen, thanks.
7/32
@SakurasCardShop
I didn’t help make anything happen. Don’t force a vote onto me because I wouldn’t have voted for either as they both suck ass
8/32
@JustTwhite
Fkn amen - 2 party system serves the old masters we need new options
9/32
@SakurasCardShop
Pin this
10/32
@Darthsigma11
That’s why I never vote unless it’s the rock or John cena running
11/32
@SakurasCardShop
I’d vote for John cena
12/32
@Slags28
George Carlin has a great bit on this how by not voting you have more of a right to complain as you didn’t choose the person that put us in this position. General education has failed us since the vast majority of people have zero clue what a tariff is or who pays for it.
13/32
@SakurasCardShop
Pin this
14/32
@K43402308
Well, I for one am not fooled by your fake complaints. You voted for tariffs and you got them! I'm so happy for you!
15/32
@SakurasCardShop
I didn’t vote though…. And what’s fake? That’s literally an invoice from FedEx you moron
16/32
@B_Benasi
Stick to your cards. Leave the politics to the people with brains. I don’t think the cost of your cards means very much too absolute clown.
17/32
@SakurasCardShop
Except I didn’t bring politics into this.
18/32
@headglitch
Clearly have no idea what you’re talking about if you think we shouldnt have these tariffs in place. We’re only charging other countries HALF what we’ve paid them for the past 70 years, which we started doing for our allies after WW2 and it never stopped. Also, you didnt vote lul
19/32
@SakurasCardShop
You’ve missed multiple mentions where I 100% agree with tariffs. But disagree with how they were implemented…. Thanks for skipping over that….
20/32
@itzzCogie
Bernie 4 lyfe 🫡
21/32
@Fish7718
22/32
@babygorol
I would suggest voting 3rd party next election if you don’t resonate with either candidate. If 5% of the vote goes to 3rd party they are able to get better funding and over time will also be able to go neck and neck with the dems and republicans. I totally get feeling (1/2)
23/32
@KokuKojuto
lol yeah only one party is making you lose money and customers. Think about it next time
24/32
@Keebiosis
25/32
@Bumblingbear1
Democrats and their famous tariff policies.
26/32
@SErick25015
Welp looks like selling Japanese cards is gunna be rough for a while. Because if they are more than English. . .
27/32
@BobbyBoucherIII
Ive been saying this to people. If i trash trump, im a dumb liberal. If i trash biden/kamala, im a bigot. Theres no winning
28/32
@SakurasCardShop
We will never win, we have to choose a side
29/32
@pokemane567
Yucky I’m not gonna order from you anymore with all these bad takes
30/32
@SakurasCardShop
Oh nooooo
31/32
@QuietSilihoutte
You say that like we have anymore power than you to make that happen. Democrats didn't even hold a primary this time around...
32/32
@washingtonpost
The 12 Democrats who make the most sense for 2028.
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
www.nbcnews.com
America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
A worker removes bottles of American-made wine from a shelf at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Queen's Quay store in Toronto on March 4.Christopher Katsarov Luna / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
Canada’s break from American-made wine and the Trump administration’s global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States’ already-stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it “to come back from,” an American wine organization leader told NBC News.
“Canada is the single most important export market for U.S. wines with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually,” Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute’s president and CEO, said in a statement.
The boycott started in Ontario, and every other province responded in kind. When Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced his territory would ban American wine and alcohol, he mocked Trump’s signing an executive order in a social media video.
“This order, it’s a wonderful order, it’s a beautiful order,” Kinew said sarcastically. “This order is pulling American booze off the liquor market shelves.” His staff, lined up behind him, applauded as he held up the order for all to see.
It has become a point of national pride not to buy American. “Their people are now motivated” because of the tariffs, said Mike Kaiser, the executive vice president and director of government affairs for Wine America, a group that advocates for wine industry policies in Washington, D.C.
The results have the potential to be catastrophic for the wine world in the United States.
“We understand the reasoning behind some of these tariffs,” Kaiser said.
His industry has been “caught in the crossfire” of a trade war, and even if the tariffs were reversed tomorrow, he said, “I think the psychological damage with the consumer might be really hard to come back from, even if these disputes are ironed out.”
He added that some exporting winemakers “may be able to absorb this tariff.” But losing $1 billion a year to “unsold wine that was already in Canada, it really disrupts the domestic wine market here from top to bottom.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the tariffs’ effects on the wine industry. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, which controls the sale and distribution of alcohol in Canada’s second-largest province, also did not respond.
Before Trump issued tariffs on other countries, America’s wine business had already been facing headwinds. “We are struggling,” said Christi Coors Ficeli, CEO of Goosecross Cellars in the Napa Valley of California.
After the Covid-19 pandemic, wine consumption went down in the United States, sales dipped and visits to wineries became inconsistent.
Alcohol-based drinks like White Claw and High Noon have become popular alternatives to wine, Ficeli said.
In addition, in January, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested wine could be harmful, even in small quantities, which Ficeli believes turned away drinkers. Last, the cost of wine — to buy it and to visit wineries — increased because of inflation and, in some cases, wineries’ trying to make up for the slowdown.
“It has gotten fairly expensive for tourists to come here,” Ficeli said.
Wanda Newman Johnson, a frequent Napa Valley visitor, said the tariffs have put her in a “wait-and-see mode” about whether she will continue to have wine shipped to her home in Atlanta.
“I feel really bad, because many of these wineries are small businesses, which are the heart of the country,” said Newman Johnson, who has memberships at Brown Estate and Turnbull Wine Cellars in Napa. “They’re getting impacted and hurt, and I don’t know how some of them are going to be able to survive the tariffs.”
Ficeli also said Napa has become less affordable to visit in recent years. “A lot of us had to raise prices, because after Covid, pricing was insane, for especially getting glass,” she said.
Most wineries import bottles from China, she said, because U.S.-made bottles are substandard. The price of shipping them out of China also increased by “double or triple” the amount pre-Covid. “So most of us made price increases just to cover our cost increases,” she said.
But with Trump’s 145% tariffs on China having initiated a 125% tariff on products made in China coming into the United States, getting bottles from Asia has become cost-prohibitive. Throw in the 10% tariffs on European imports — under which American wineries buy French oak barrels to cultivate wine and bottle corks from Spain — and a financial quagmire has emerged.
“Some of the barrel suppliers are telling us that they’ll eat the tariffs and they’ll just give us similar pricing to last year, with a slight increase,” Ficeli said. “And some are telling us that it could be a 15, 20% increase in barrel prices, which for a small winery like us is a lot to handle, especially when you’re spending $1,200 a barrel.”
Ficeli said she is concerned about the prospect of having to pass along the increases to her customers, whom “we don’t want to rip off.”
But the tariffs will affect the cost of bottles, barrels and even corks. “It’s going to be a struggle,” she said.
And the struggle is not just in California, the largest wine-growing area in the country. In New York’s idyllic Finger Lake region, for example, where there are more than 100 wineries near Canada, the impact of the tariffs is punishing.
Scott Osborn, owner of Fox Run Vineyards in Penn Yan, on Seneca Lake, said Canada accounts for 10% of his sales. But his winery experienced a 20% drop in Canadian business in March.
“The tariffs will have a huge negative impact on wine in New York,” Osborn said. “The Canadians come here and drink the wine at our café and buy bottles to have with dinner. They don’t take wine across back to Canada, but when they’re here, they enjoy it until it’s time to go back. Not having that business is a big deal.”
The tariffs have angered Europeans who “are canceling their trips here,” Osborn said. “It’s going to have a huge impact this summer when they don’t come here. And we’re concerned. The damage is already done. It’s going to be at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
Osborn said a friend in Antwerp, Belgium, who owns a wine bar that specializes in American wine is in a dire position because of the Trump-generated trade war.
“The Europeans will not buy American wine,” he said. “She has a pallet of Finger Lakes wines that she cannot sell. That’s going to ruin her business.”
Kaiser said that Wine America is not in favor of tariffs and that it has pleaded its case to Congress. “But the way things stand right now, Congress doesn’t really have much ability to curb the administration from doing these things,” he said.
“We would like — if there are going to be tariffs — for them to be targeted at certain things,” Kaiser said. “We’d like the administration to work with other countries to make sure we’re not targeted, not caught in the middle. That’s the biggest thing. Leave us out of it, if you will.”
Kaiser said he and his organization are seeking face-to-face meetings with the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office “and others in the administration just to let them know how this really does impact us. It’s really bad right now, but we hope cooler heads will prevail, although the damage done will be hard to overcome.”
America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by global tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
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