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sifill.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Here we go.

NEWS: Whirlpool Corp. announces Iowa's largest layoff of 2025 in Amana manufacturing facility. Nearly 1/3 of the company’s workforce in the Iowa facility will be let go due to current market conditions.

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madoverpolitics.bsky.social•2 days ago

Things might get assembled here but all the parts and components come from abroad. This is the tip of an iceberg that is 25% unemployment.

radtek58.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wow, that was quick. Unfortunately it won't be the only one.

jenpluscats.bsky.social•2 days ago

So much winning.

jj-14.bsky.social•2 days ago

These tariffs will make the Great Depression and Hoovervilles look like the Ritz

allen-raymond.bsky.social•2 days ago

Whhheeeeeeee!

sandypiz.bsky.social•2 days ago

milehighlefty.bsky.social•2 days ago

And what percentage of Iowa voters chose gop candidates last November? 🤔

gnomeledy2.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm sure Kim has a plan.

restofusparty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who could have predicted this...

Oh wait, almost anyone that took 5 minutes to do some honest research.

foxford.bsky.social•2 days ago

Stop voting for Republicans, Iowa. They aren’t looking to help you.

szunflower.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wonder how many of those workers voted for him?

cincocento.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh the sad irony

kernighan.bsky.social•2 days ago

The maker of Jeep, etc, announced layoffs too, if you hadn't seen it.

nuttyhutter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well Iowa does love Trump. And there’s gonna be a ton of “good jobs” on farms now since they are expelling all the immigrant farm laborers. I’m sure they’ll be ok.

leslie4653.bsky.social•2 days ago

Grassley give a shit or nah ???

kathdem.bsky.social•2 days ago

But I thought all manufacturing was magically coming back now.

baroness2k.bsky.social•1 day ago

Way to go adding more manufacturing jobs, Trump.

vivacascadia.bsky.social•2 days ago

MAGAts voted. MAGAts received

iamkanyetwitty.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s what Grassley, Ernst and Reynolds get for kissing Shitler’s ass.

pyoter.bsky.social•2 days ago

But, but Senator, I sld've retired 10 years ago Grassley, said IA wld get a carve out...

mkinva.bsky.social•2 days ago

And what reporter will ask about this at the presser tomorrow? Hmm? Anyone?

selmadale.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trumpland, right? They thought he would only hurt democrats

oatsdad.bsky.social•2 days ago

This must be a mistake. Trump promised us that his massive tariffs would spur the greatest economic manufacturing boom in the US ever! 😑

2014sdg.bsky.social•2 days ago

So much winning.

amatteroffact5737.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s the beginning of the Trumpcession

encanto12.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can these Whirlpool employees sharpen up their cow milking skills? Migrants aren’t allowed to anymore.

displaceddaisy.bsky.social•2 days ago

So much for Trump's lie that this would help American companies. His goal is to crash the economy.

debglover.bsky.social•2 days ago

No words 😞

vanillaredfox.bsky.social•2 days ago

Let them suffer. They voted for this shit. If I gotta suffer the loss of my 401K they can suffer in their own ways too.

sharoneaton.bsky.social•2 days ago

Making America Grotesque Again

bonjohnson.bsky.social•2 days ago

So senseless.

tatianar312.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well they voted for these consequences, so… 🤷🏽‍♀️

standupdosomething.bsky.social•2 days ago

How does this make America great?
When will this make America great?

sonthou.bsky.social•2 days ago

Iowa voted for Trump by about 13 points. I hope a few of them regret it.

whisktangfox64.bsky.social•2 days ago

I can tell you this, every single day I write a list of atrocities on our Iowa page and ask if everyone who voted for him is happy for their vote. NO ONE responds. Even though Reddit obviously leans left, we had a very robust MAGA group here who responded to everything. They've disappeared.

dmrflo.bsky.social•2 days ago

As trump promised, all that winning. Stock market crashing and companies laying off workers.

doublechinner.bsky.social•2 days ago

Grassley showed a smidge of spine today on tariffs. Bet he was told this was coming.

feesh76.bsky.social•2 days ago

The smidge of spine is so he can say he is fighting the tariffs when he sends out his form letter to angry constituents.

ai7gu-wkh45.bsky.social•1 day ago

The person said it boggled the mind "the ways that people bought into magical thinking to back an authoritarian-adjacent candidate and found ways to rationalize it because they thought it would benefit their bottom line, all without looking at what he was actually saying or had done in the past."