poor little snowflakes. they ruined their own business by jumping on the

[mopinko]

trump train, in one of the bluest cities ever.
can we get a big aawwww poor babies?

https://www.gofundme.com/MusicStoreRescue

[Jonny Appleseed]

1. Sent her a message "that's called the free market commie"

[LOL Lib]

32. How did you message her?

Please tell her to get a real job and stop looking for handouts. You know one of those real good jobs that all the deported Mexicans were taking. I'm sure that would be a great way for her and her talented hubby to show their support for Comrade Trump.

[Faux pas]

2. Aw....

[crazycatlady]

3. silly deplorable

Don't they know that Trump's cutting of arts funding hurts their business? Many people who learn a musical instrument do so in school (and that is their only opportunity). If he cuts funding for public schools, music programs are on the chopping block.

[TheBlackAdder]

41. That's the kicker! All of those Elementary and Middle schools won't be cutting purchase orders now!

[Freethinker65]

4. Onion worthy in its ignorance

[world wide wally]

5. They talk about "serving their community" and then they become traitors to that community

and wonder why the community turned against them.
Go figure

[Jake Stern]

6. Can't imagine a purveyor of world instruments and host of drum circles as the type of

person who would vote Trump.

[Lucinda]

57. I know! I had the same reaction...

[ProudLib72]

7. People are donating

About $6K so far! Who the hell?

[mopinko]

16. one of the big figures was their own money.

they noted $1750, i think, from clearance sale items, is now i took it.

[ProudLib72]

17. Ok, I see now

You're right. There were actually a bunch of self "donations" from extra work and a big sales day. The real donations are up to $50, and there are not that many of them.

[Blue_true]

23. 6k won't pay one month's rent, if they have a decent location.

Let them good bankrupt like their idol. Maybe he can give them tips.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. They might

As well give it up. Half of their instruments can't get here because them Mooslims make them!
Good thing we have that ban!

[cemaphonic]

61. I was thinking that too

Looking at their Reverb listings, my guess is that other than the guitars, banjos, and mandolins, the majority of their stock was built in Pakistan.

And yeah, mixing politics and business is always stupid, but going rabidly pro-Trump when your clientele is the folk music community in Chicago is sheer lunacy. As is moving to DC, which if anything will be more hostile, and also home to what is probably one of the best folk/ethnic music stores in the country, House of Musical Traditions (OK, it's in Maryland, but right off the Metro)

[Foamfollower]

9. They deserved everything they got.

If you;re going to do business in a very liberal market, you had damned well not be a fucking deplorable.

Fuck 'em. They got precisely what they deserved. Nobody owes them their business and anybody is free to express to the world how fucked up they are in the head and how nobody should ever do business with them.

[gopiscrap]

33. Totally agree

[LaydeeBug]

10. I love how they say they're not asking for a handout, but thank you for the handout.

these motherfuckers right here

[logosoco]

11. Interesting comment about how they have a "code" that keep their business

and their politics separate. Too bad the person they support does not seem to follow this credo!

And once again, I have read something by a tRump supporter where they don't actually say anything about WHY they are supporting him. The whole thing seemed to be about the bad anti-Trump people making their lives miserable (not really any evidence of that either!).

[pinboy3niner]

14. She did express support for draining the swamp

For someone so prolific in advocating for Trump she's paying astonishingly little attention to what's happening.

[Bettie]

12. OH, such sympathy

wait...nope, none at all. She made her choices, she made them clear and loud, so she gets the consequences of said choices.

[mainer]

13. musicians are by and large Trump haters

She offended her own customer base.

It's like joining the anti-sugar campaign when you're a cake baker.

I'm astonished that someone who sells exotic musical instruments from around the world would support Trump. Seems like a contradiction.

[Motownman78]

15. All she cares about

is her tax rates. That is why she supports the dumpster fire.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. They should reopen in a really, really red area.

I'm sure they would find lots of people eager to buy their exotic, multicultural instruments.

[Adrahil]

35. PARTICULARLY musicians interested in world and heritage music.... NT

[mopinko]

42. this is chicago. we do not play

w people like this.
the whole music scene here is anti-drumph.

[Crunchy Frog]

18. They're recording their own earnings and sales as donations.

They're up to just under $6,000 after 1 month, mostly their own donations to themselves.

[Denzil_DC]

19. Hmm.

I play a few musical instruments and run a small business. I nowadays have to travel 30 miles or so to get to a music shop because so many have gone out of business (they can't compete on price with online outlets - which it sounds like this couple now plan to become) and I know how hard it can be to keep a small business going.

But I'm finding it hard to summon much sympathy, aside from the Trump-supporting nonsense.

She says:

We opened in 2015, after the music shop my husband managed in Chicago for 12 years closed. We raised funds from the local music community to keep a world music shop open in this town and succeeded in creating Worlds of Music.

So this is the second time they've had business troubles and asked others to bail them out. And now, presumably, those lovely Chicagoans who helped them out last time won't have anything to show for the support they offered in the past.

She says:

When my husband and I attended the inauguration this past week, we knew we wanted to do more to help Mr. Trump make America great again.

So, at a time when their business was supposedly seriously struggling, it somehow seemed like a great idea to pay for fares and accommodation to visit DC for a jolly.

Based on the evidence, I'm not impressed with their judgment and sense of priorities. Maybe they should drop Mr. Trump a line and see how generous he is.

[Crunchy Frog]

21. I'm sure that the multicultural music community in Chicago is very supportive

Of Trump, and will want to help as much as possible.

[Denzil_DC]

22. Well, on that GofundMe page, she says they plan to move to DC!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see that being much more hospitable.

You don't have to read between the lines to see that she became utterly obsessed with Trump campaigning and didn't put much, if any, effort into the business:

I published a Trump supporter survival guide, held one woman Trump rallies, organized counter protests at Chicago Trump Tower to stand against anti Trump groups. I recorded a song, but I am most proud of my podcast on Periscope, Trump Talk US, which had over 150 episodes packed with all the real news a Trump supporter could consume. I spoke out about the Project Veritas videos, and spent every spare minute working to tell the facts about the Clintons and to advocate for our President.

... I avoided regular contact with my business to respect that 'code' of keeping business and politics seperate.

They set up the shop in August 2015. She was doing all this pro-Trump stuff from March 2016 onward.

I feel kinda sorry for her husband!

[Nevernose]

27. That was my thought, too!

Poor guy had to run the business by himself AND work side gigs so his wife could obsess over a reality TV star and their mutual scapegoats (liberals are naturally the ACTUAL hate-filled people! Illegal immigrants! ISIS! Fear!).

But being shitty at business and then blaming liberals, plus a shit ton of implicit, unconscious bigotry is essentially the entire Republican platform. Well, those things plus absolute, abject cowardice.

[Coventina]

47. Yeah, apparently the idiots don't realize DC is also deep blue.

There's no cure for stupid.....

[demtenjeep]

59. she let her business suffer because of her derangement

not one bit sorry

[TheBlackAdder]

38. Uday and Qusay will offer to take the business off of their hands for $0.10 on the dollar!

[not fooled]

54. Or maybe

they can get dump's paymaster and Svengali, cray-cray Rob-ert Mercer, to contribute and bail them out.

Yeah, right.

[politicaljunkie41910]

50. I was thinking the same thing that you mentioned; that this was their second music business that

failed and she wants to blame the failure on Trump protesters rather than delving into other possibilities for their failures. For instance she spent a lot of time discussing the various types of musical instruments they carry, which sounds to me like they have a niche market which probably attracts a very small segment of the population. The fact that they were making money in the beginning is probably attributed to the fact that they had picked all the low hanging fruit that they could i.e. family, friends, current musicians, etc. I read nothing in her whine session about how they were reaching out to and grow their business that was unique particularly since they had just launched a new business and seemed to be relying on their past experiences to carry them through which had also been a failed business.

I never understood businessmen and women, small or large, who put their business and livlihood at risk by mixing their business and politics. Particularly when your business is just starting up its your sole source income. Trump in particularly has been especially polarizing which makes her and her husband appear even more foolish in putting their livelihood at risk behind someone who made it a point of driving a deep wedge between half of the nation during the campaign and feeling no need to try and rebuild the divide he had caused once the campaign ended and the task of governing began.

I have no empathy for this woman, but it looks like they are looking for jobs in the Trump administration now. Sorry but like many here, I hope that administration will be very short lived.

[Denzil_DC]

58. Well, you probably saw the summary I posted above of how she

dived into what sounded like full-time Trump campaigning after they'd been in business just six months!

Some of those instruments are lovely, and I'd like to get my hands on them for a play. But they're very specialized. And pricey. Definitely niche market stuff, as you say. No wonder he has to play lots of gigs and take on a lot of repairs. It's more like financing an expensive hobby, by the sound of it.

I agree about mixing business and politics. A couple of years back I found out our bookkeeper had a Twitter account, part of the name was their business name, so it stood out to me. I had an idea we weren't on the same page politically, but she was constantly posting the most atrocious and often somewhat offensive tripe about Scottish independence etc. I've made it a policy to do my best not to let differing views on that issue come between me and folks in our community, but it didn't please me, and other clients (they don't have that many anyway) might not be so charitable.

I just checked out the Gofundme page again. They're now up to $14,756 ( I thinkthey were on $6,000 or so earlier today), so not a great haul considering the Fox & Friends exposure. They've had 9 donors in the last hour. Sure, it mounts up (one of those within the hour was for $100, maybe three for $50), but unless some of the RW websites get behind them and make them a "cause", it looks like this might peter out quite quickly.

I loved this comment:

Belinda Tucker
2 hours ago

Your preference in voting does not automatically deserve a Scarlett letter. I'm sorry you've experienced this hypocritical condemnation. YOU BUILT IT!

Ms Tucker, from the info posted on that very page, a number of very generous people from their community in Chicago did a heckuva lot to HELP them build it - and this is the thanks they get!

[ismnotwasm]

24. They sound like scammers

Plus a touch creepy

[opiate69]

25. I'll just leave this here...

https://www.yelp.com/biz/worlds-of-music-chicago-chicago

[Charles Bukowski]

26. One of the reviewers post a pic of this woman. She has the words "YOU LOST"

written on her bare ass cheeks.

Someone should ask her if she's still feels like a winner.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. If this was another board there are so many comments I could make about that photo.

[TheBlackAdder]

39. Jesus Christ! That ass looks like 200 lbs of cottage cheese! That's where the profits are going!

[Coventina]

48. I'm not gonna say my butt looks any better, but, one critical difference.....

I'm not posting images of it on the internet, proudly or otherwise.....

[lunasun]

56. That message is definitely intended for her husband

[lunasun]

55. Oh jeezus I just ate now I am sick

If they get the money they will leave Chicago ....sounds like some form of blackmail

[LanternWaste]

62. "Damaged." Obviously.

"Damaged." Most obviously...

[DeminPennswoods]

28. Pretty dumb to think personal and biz can be seperate

Did this woman think people weren't going to figure out the connection between her and her business no matter how seperate she tried to keep it? In this day and age of information?

[TheBlackAdder]

37. A family member was politically active and Pubes were calling my company trying to get me fired!

[Croney]

30. I looked at her Facebook page.

It says she's a comedian, among other things. It says she joined FB in August 2016, so she must have set up a new page. She is going to be on Fox and Friends tomorrow to talk about the bullies ruining her store.

She has 5,000 friends, which I think is the maximum allowed.

She's crazy.

[TheBlackAdder]

40. I hope Fox and Friends shows the picture that appears attached to her Yelp! page... (NSFW)

.


https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/worlds-of-music-chicago-chicago?select=gBZzsDv1D3_LOOv2R0LyGQ


.

[demtenjeep]

44. did anyone catch their Fand F

cryathon?

[WhiteTara]

31. Oh, wah. Too bad

[WinkyDink]

34. Any chance she's pranking the Trumpsters in order to take their money?

[TheBlackAdder]

36. I think there is more to this story than she is conveying. A hell of a lot more.

[TheOther95Percent]

43. They Sound Like Scammers

Many businesses fail in the first five years and it's hard for any brick and mortar shop to compete with e-commerce entities. For that reason, Hubs and I order books from places hundreds of miles from our house to support independent booksellers.

I think the business was failing and the owners thought they could monetize their Trump support.

To borrow from Mulvaney, I'll be compassionate and not give my hard-earned money to people who have been ineffective in running a business.

[demtenjeep]

45. looks like their little fox and friends helped them gain some money

several donations in the last few hours

[mopinko]

46. here's a little golden nugget.

woman donated $5 so she could have her say in the comments-

Karen Grobman
30 mins ago

Everyone donating here must realize this woman is a whack job! She harassed and threatened friends of mine then was surprised when people boycotted her store. I hope everyone has seen the lovely picture of her ass that she has posted.

karen, let me buy you a beer.

edited to remove that horrendous pic. didnt show in her comment, but did pop up when i c/p.

[Kimchijeon]

49. Hmm, interesting

Sounds like the owners are getting some deserved blowback.
Too bad that they are now getting $$ by whining and begging though.

[metroins]

51. DELETE THE LINK

Don't give free press.

[lapucelle]

52. Here's a photo that's reported

to be a picture of the owner after the election. I didn't know how to format it to make it smaller, so have the eye bleach handy.

[demtenjeep]

53. bet fox and friends didn't show that picture

in their quest to show these fools as victims


maybe it should be sent to them often

[erpowers]

60. Scam

This sounds like a scam. It is very possible that she and her husband opened this business with the intent to eventually go to social media claiming that Liberals were harassing them and then close down the business once they had received enough money. We have seen this play out before. I am not sure how many of the stores that claimed they needed money to stay open because of liberal harassment eventually closed their doors after taking the money. What ever happened to the Pizza shop that asked for money and then, at least temporarily, closed after receiving a large sum of money?

Already this woman seems to be saying they will not open a new brick and mortar shop, but will have an online store instead. It seems like the real reason behind this go fund me campaign is to get enough money to move to Washington, D.C. now that Trump is the President. Liberal harassment is a much easier way to get money than saying they would now like to live in Washington, D.C. and want others to help them pay for the cost of moving. They also, probably rightly, think they would get more money claiming liberal harassment.

It does not make very much sense for them to want to move to Washington, D.C. unless their true motive is the be involved in the Trump Administration. Washington, D.C. is, at least, just as black and liberal as Chicago. Further down in her post she mentioned that she and her husband wanted to be involved in the Trump Administration in any way they could. That seems to be a more likely reason for their decision to close their shop and leave Chicago. If Liberals were harassing a person, I doubt they would want to trade one liberal city for another Liberal city. This campaign would make more sense if she were moving to a red city. How does she expect to make more money in Washington, D.C. than in Chicago? If this campaign was really about having a viable business I would expect them to try to move to a more Trump friendly city.