# @occupydemocrats on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSIyxPCk1MQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37830189-occupydemocrats-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-11T20:57:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Occupy Democrats (@occupydemocrats) — https://gondola.cc/occupydemocrats

## Caption

🚨BREAKING: “This is a F*CKING DISASTER.” 💥

A 150-year-old Republican family business in rural North Carolina has been completely destroyed — not by liberal policy, not by regulation — but by Donald Trump’s reckless trade war.

Mackeys Ferry Sawmill, a hardwood mill run by the Jones family for 95 years, is now silent. Dead. 50 workers laid off. One $500,000 shipment was literally mid-ocean when Trump’s tariffs hit, making the lumber WORTHLESS. 💔

Why? Because Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs triggered retaliation from China, slapping up to 125% duties on American hardwood — the lifeblood of this small-town mill.

Wilson Jones, a lifelong Republican who voted for Trump three times, now calls it “disgusting.” He says:

“We weren’t liberated. It damn near liberated me from my business.”

This is real pain in red America. A president who promised a manufacturing boom instead cost us 42,000 manufacturing jobs and wiped out families like the Joneses.

Rural America is waking up: Trump’s “America First” was always just political theater. And for too many families? It’s already too late.

📉 Like and share if you believe we deserve better than bankrupting our own people for photo-ops.

#TrumpTariffs #TradeWar #MackeysFerry #NorthCarolina #ManufacturingCollapse

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northcarolina, trumptariffs, manufacturingcollapse, tradewar, mackeysferry

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