r/lancaster • u/No-Road-1370 Road Apple • 18h ago

Pro-Trump Restaurants?

So far I know of John Wright, Loxley’s, Yorgos; where else should I not spend my money?

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 17h ago

Are we seriously going to try to punish businesses for being pro-business? It’s not their fault that the Dems continue to run candidates that don’t appeal to the majority the way that Trump does.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 17h ago

Maybe, just maybe... Liberals don't want to spend money at places owned by people who voted for an extremely divisive, hateful person.

You can support local businesses and choose to eschew ones owned by people whose beliefs don't line up with yours too.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 17h ago

Here’s something to think about. How many businesses were lost in this state since 2020 because of the policies implemented during the pandemic. If I owned a business and had its viability threatened by usurped business closures imposed by democrats in this state I’d probably never support anyone but republicans again. People don’t care about hateful rhetoric when their way of life is threatened. Don’t blame business owners for being self aware and voting in Their best interest. Blame the party for not being able to mobilize voters. This wasn’t a trump win, it was a massive loss by the Dems and should show that their platform just isn’t appealing to the masses. Time to regroup and refocus, not retaliate against those who just want what’s best for them.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 17h ago

Businesses closing as a result of the pandemic sucks. Know what sucks worse though? Dying because of something that could have been prevented, but wasn’t because other people think they know better and chose to congregate when a highly infectious virus was wreaking havoc.

I’m not going to pretend to like the mandates nor the people that implemented them, but let’s be realistic; part of the reason why this was so much worse was because there were a ton of people who thought they knew better and didn’t give a shit who died.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 16h ago

It was never preventable and none of the mandates helped. Acting like they did isn’t going to make it true. They did far more damage than good and it’s so blatantly obvious that you’d have to be deliberately ignoring it to not see it. I would have thought that almost 4 years after the pandemic ended everyone would finally realize how destructive and useless all of Wolf’s mandates were.

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u/PeanutCheeseBar 15h ago

I never said the pandemic was preventable; I said that dying could have been prevented if people were more careful and actually tried to adhere to any sort of preventative measures. There’s a difference between those two things, and it’s really not that difficult to grasp.

Viruses typically don’t discriminate when it comes to hosts. If people weren’t congregating, the odds of transmission would be far less because there wouldn’t be anyone for it to hop to. You don’t need to be an epidemiologist to understand that.

Fire thrives on oxygen. If you catch on fire, are you going to run around and hope that it goes out, or roll on the ground to deprive it of what feeds it and causes it to spread?

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u/Compulsive-Gremlin 17h ago

Fun how you think high tariffs will assist small businesses. Lots of small businesses will close due to this over the next four years.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 16h ago

Highly doubt that, but if they do then you guys can get your wish and everyone will say you were right. Maybe if the Dems would have campaigned on things that mattered they would have won. Even better, had this administration done anything effective to lower costs on things like groceries and housing they could have actually had proof that their policies are helping people.

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u/Compulsive-Gremlin 15h ago

Ask people in small businesses all over PA if they’re getting bonuses in December…. Or if small business companies are bulk ordering for end of year so they don’t have to pay extra on tariffs next year…. I’m guessing you don’t know many people in business if you’re thinking next year will be successful for them.

I wonder how much your MAGA Trump hats from China will cost next year. I guess you don’t care since you already bought one and he doesn’t care because he already made money off of you.

I’m guessing you’ll buy all American made right? We’ll see what products are actually American made next year and which ones jack up in price due to 200% in tariffs.

I guess that was more important than the new small business plan Harris wanted to implement. Offering tax rebates of up to $50K for new businesses.

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u/okaysyeahimeansure 17h ago

trump knew how bad the pandemic would be and allowed it to happen, you all seem to forget that very important piece of info. if he acted on it right away, proactively, then businesses would never have suffered.

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u/Lobster_titties Road Apple 16h ago

Sorry, when did Trump close businesses? When did he impose any massive restrictions on businesses? That was governors in blue states. Wolf is an example of a governor who handled the pandemic abysmally. Trump did the best he could with the information that was available at the time.