So I ran into Apu just now......

[Rev. Rye]

Ok, no I did not, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express....

In all seriousness, I did run into a guy from India at the strip mall for sale while waiting for my Chinese food. I noticed him going from empty unit to empty unit looking in them. Wasn't sure if he was looking to rent, turned out he was looking to buy the entire mall.

So we got to talking, I noticed his accent and asked him where he was from, India as you already know. I took a risk knowing that lots of business owners side with the GOP in mentioning that I FUCKING HATE 45, and this guy AGREED WITH ME. I LOVE THIS GUY......

I basically told him that all but 4 of the units had been empty for the past 8 years including the middle section which used to be a Lowes grocery store. I told him if he chose to buy it, he should have damned good leverage knowing how long it has sat empty, and that I would root for his successful buy if he could end up filling all the units.

It would give me tons of satisfaction to have a sane immigrant business man, buy that place and prove the asshole GOP and 45 how full of shit they really are.

This guy had a great sense of humor, and hated 45 and the GOP. THAT is a business owner I could support.

He's a business owner, but remember, he's also a member of a minority group. And since you mentioned he has an accent, it's safe to assume he's probably an immigrant. And I think it's likely a more recent one, since, in my experience, people who've emigrated a young age, tend to have less pronounced accents after they've been in their new land for a long time (unless they live in a more insular community). Fun fact: I once had a German history class taught by a real German; he was born in West Berlin, and shortly after the wall fell, he started to study at UIC; now he teaches at Columbia College Chicago and speaks with an accent that sounds strangely Kennedy-like to my ears.

Given that he's most likely an immigrant (and perhaps a recent one at that), it would appear more likely that he'd hate the most anti-immigration, most openly racist, and most consistently unpopular President in recent memory. Granted, Trump doesn't seem too interested in fucking over Indian-Americans (the fact that Indian-Americans have the highest average income of any ethnic group in America, including the Jews, might have something to do with it), but I'd suspect they'd probably still be suspicious.