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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So, all the people who said they couldn't protest b/c 'muh job' & 'muh healthcare' even on wkends now have all the time in the world to do something. Exactly as we warned them. 2.5 months wasted by obeying in advance. It was inevitable.
Once again I state - GQP MSGA Whackadoos would rather suffer and die, broke and homeless, under their deity, savior and Fuhrer CONald Trump than live and even thrive under a black woman. FACT
Yep, there will be a few more mfgs that will soon pop as well. A couple of them closer to me. (Kiddy corner across the state from whirlpool. . . ) very steel oriented.
Silly me, with the magic tariffs I thought a new plant would be halfway done by now! This age is only gonna be golden because of how bad we’re gonna get pissed on!
That would be great, except they're taking us all along for the devastation that goes along with that. Now, if we put them on their own little island....
You are responsible for the choice you made, and the resulting employment of your neighbors. Your food pantries will go unfilled, and people will go hungry. 🛑
Don't forget loss of health insurance because stupid people believed the lies spread by insurance company paid Republicans and rightwing media. We could've had quality publicly funded Healthcare like other civilized countries.
So the manufacturing base is supposed to benefit from the tariffs and they are laying off a lot of their staff. Management will
immediately look at other locations to manufacture. Advice to other countries: Provide a tax break and they will come in a second. This is trump winning.
It’s great to focus on the Administration, but don’t forget to focus on Iowa’s Representatives and Senators who go-along to get-along. They’re looting our economy by their sins of omission as much as by their sins of commission.
You would think people in the Midwest would've leaned not to vote for Republicans after Reagan caused the ending of manufacturing jobs and loss of farms.
I left Iowa 3 years ago after living there for 32 years...Grassley is about as useful as his opinions on anything that is going on in Iowa or the country. Ernst is a 'yes woman' and just one of Trump's minions.
Call them today, they all have a script, - this economic policy is for the working people and we just need to get through the uncertainty in the markets now. Tell that to my 401 k
Seems like Iowa is now in the Finding Out phase. Sorry for those of you in Iowa who didnt vote for this but your neighbors screwed you. They screwed us all
Also glad you are here and I'm sorry you and we are going to struggle for others stupidity. Let's do our best to fight this shit and rally around each other.
No one can possibly be surprised by these layoffs.
We will see businesses bankrupt and shuttered before long.
What surprises me is how any business could ever support an 🍊💩 with a history of multiple bankruptcies.
Farmers got bailed out on our billions in 2016 when IQ47 was IQ45. Will likely happen again to keep the maggot base.
New Orc Times (saved from 31-Mar-2025): https://archive.ph/mtzcr
The musk/trump criminal organization is quickly demolishing what was an economy that many countries envied. Now, workers are being laid off by the thousands, while thousands of federal workers are being fired daily by musk. This regime will tamper with the unemployment numbers to trick the MAGAts.
Fuck me 🤦♀️ I’m in Iowa City and the cuts to the VA and the grant cuts at the University of Iowa are going to decimate this city and the surrounding areas! Grassley and Marianne Miller-Meeks need to be voted out 2026! The rest of state is suffering from the USDA and USAID cuts to farmers!
I lived in Iowa City during grade school while my mom worked on her doctorate. Great city! Wonderful university and people. Universities need these research funds!
If you have a chance, try posting local news about it. It's helpful for the rest of the country to see what's going on. I isn't covered by MSM so Americans who get their news from MSM will never hear about it.
Actions should be taken now. All the people who no longer have jobs should now make it their jobs to call and write these senators and reps everyday and show up at their offices to make their voices heard.
Miller-Meeks is up for re-election next year but unfortunately old Chuckie is not....
However, Joni Ernst and Kim Reynolds are up for re-election!
It is past time for Iowa to clean up our state!!!
I love this journey for MAGA voters who lose their job. Hope they lose their house and kids suffer. That’s why he’s done to me. He’s made this mad I wish that for other people
Couple notes: The two urban areas (Iowa City/ Coralville and CR) closest to that facility are quite blue; there's a pretty good chance they didn't vote for that.
And Iowa has been experiencing an economic downturn that caused shut-downs/ layoffs from major employers under Biden too.
I am sorry for those folks who did not vote for this, especially if they've lost their jobs. This downturn may have started during the Biden, #TrumpTariffs accelerated things at Whirlpool.
No one buys a new home or a new appliance when the market is tanking and there's risk of losing your job.
A layoff this size has likely been coming for a while.
As to buying appliances... Rich people still do. And a lot of them voted for Trump too, because they knew it'd boost their portfolios & lower their taxes, and they absolutely do not care about people who are harmed,
There's no arguing that Iowa has a fuckton of racists; the IA GOP has been playing to that so hard, even the Des Moines Register called out Kim Reynolds on it.
And sadly, it works.
But there are also some blue cities. And a whole lot of immigrants who couldn't vote. They'll suffer most.
You'll never convince me, that this isn't the desired effect, that both trump & lil elon have been gunning for, since they started pouring the coal to the United States, 4 the last 70 days or so !
If left to their will, our country will become crippled, disabled, broken, dysfunctional & penniless !
You are counting non-voters? Am I supposed to be sad for people who couldn’t be bothered when other people’s existences were on the line? Naw.
Anyway, Iowa will be fine, cause Trump will send them some huge welfare package to keep them afloat until they can vote against government aid next time.
No. He's absolutely right. More than a third of eligible voters couldn't be bothered to do their minimal civic duty. I find it pathetic that you're defending this chronic laziness. Perhaps you're one of them?
You mean an American company with American made goods is firing people? Huh so much winning. And Iowa is deep red. I guess it's just Democrats they're firing eh?
What is very sad is the fact that 70+ million Americans actually would hear this and soooo much more, witnessed his criminality and still vote for it again! I want to run but why should they get to stay with the one I love?
LOL...Mango Messiah and the MAGAT KKKult will be putting this one on spin cycle and claiming that the efforts to regulate water usage are why this happened..
So true. Fox is so good at training MAGA to fall in line with every act of dipshittery. Already hearing this “short-term pain” is good argument from the MAGA relatives.
So, let me get this straight. We’re told by a raging moron that tariffs force us to buy domestic manufactured goods and one of our premier US manufacturers is downsizing? Doesn’t sound like the math is mathing.
The administration’s economic guru Lutnick assured everyone this morning that we’d see a massive hiring boom starting today. Seems he got the positive/negative signs wrong on his calculations.
These layoffs carry profound and far-reaching consequences. The global sell-off impacts not only us but also economies across the world. The billionaire views this as a prime buying opportunity, but I am neither a trader nor a billionaire. I am a retiree watching my 401(k) steadily decline.
☠️☠️ #47.
Trump and Musk will be just fine. So, sure, take our social security and retirement savings. Food, housing, and healthcare are are over rated anyway. We love to work for the wealthy until we fall over dead.
I'm sure trump will end up losing money it is his only skill. Musk is the same as trump his business is based on promises and lies. It was found Tesla has accounting discrepancies with missing funds. The next ENRON.
Oh damn Iowa…. Who did you vote for….. hmmmm don’t want to hear any bullshit the electoral went to Trump. You are in charge of your own State. Fix it or suffer the consequences. I’m tired of Red Trump states whining about what they chose.
MASKS
kidnapping people off of OUR streets.
GESTAPO 1933 Style
WE WANT
AMERICA BACK
SCHOOLS
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
NATIONAL PARKS
ALL OF HER
Call your newly
self-castrated
REPS AND SENATE
202-224-3121
We are headed for a full blown depression!
Whose idea was it to put a guy who bankrupted 4 casinos with 6 bankruptcy in charge of the world's largest economy
What a fucking disaster!!!
Unemployment going up, stock markets coming WAY down, US is now a pariah to most of the free world, and all this can be laid at the feet of Trump and Project 2025. The authors of this "playbook" have been trying to find the right person to enact their policies since Reagan, now they found him.
My fridge was 15 years old but the writing was on the wall. I replaced it as soon as I realized we were going to do this again because at best I expected massive price increases but probably also delats. I'm so glad I'll have a brand new functioning fridge for all the food I can no longer afford.
Meh… Trump killed hundreds of thousands of people last time and people elected him again… idiot Iowans have been electing treasonous Grassley since 1970s let Ernst kiss trumps ass some more they’ll be fine
There’s a blue dot here and there- like me. But all my Neighbors still support the Dick Tater cuz he has a plan and they have faith. Oh yeah. (Sarcasm)
Also happening in Iowa: a small Christian private college told their staff that most of the foreign & out-of-state students said that they aren’t planning on coming back next semester. Our niece expects to lose her tenured mathematics professorship at the end of term. Or she can work for free.
I like the times when the rising tide lifts all boats. Not those when some may or may not deserve to suffer, due to their political choices, but drag the rest of us down with them.
I grew up in Iowa. I escaped the racism & have had the opportunity to reset. I have lived in IA, IL, NC, TX, CO & OR but many Iowans have lived in Iowa their whole life! When you don't leave, the racism stays with you. I have three sisters living in IA & two more in the midwest, all MAGA! - Sigh...
For the maga idiots in Iowa just Roll the red carpet next time the orange Jesus shows us, to show how much you appreciate the disaster ( i meant trump policies)
I get your sentiment... but there are many dems here too. It's hard to believe we were once purple. Luckily I'm in a blue area. But the "stupid" does surround us. These people can't be reasoned with. I've tried. Sigh.
The whole trump administration needs to be removed. They all lied. The senators, congress, that are not working for the people who hired them. All an act of seditious conspiracy and treason. Running a back channel government the last 4 years? Why else were they in Florida partying every weekend.
Shameful. Whirlpool makes some of the best large appliances, like washers, dryers and more. Trump’s tariffs are hurting US businesses and consumers. Is this winning?
And I'm just selfishly upset because I was going to buy a new dishwasher and I only want a Whirlpool dishwasher and I'm just gonna fix mine for the same price of a new one instead because #ElbowsUp
Please don’t generalize Middle America. Just a little north of there is Minnesota. We gave the world Tim Walz and started the political unrest in 2020 after George Floyd. Our neighboring states are giving us a bad name.
It seems they are incapable of getting it until it affects them personally. Only then do they actually comprehend the consequences of their actions. Sad.
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Trump - 6,607 - 65.1%
Harris - 3,400 - 33.5%
Source:
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/iowa/
Yours truly from across the oceans but pissed off coz your stupidity affects us all. Betcha those arsehole voters loving their power.
in this country
Let’s call it what it is:
The Trump Tax
You are responsible for the choice you made, and the resulting employment of your neighbors. Your food pantries will go unfilled, and people will go hungry. 🛑
#FAFO
Does your self-important generalizing help anyone feel better or anything
Fucking idiots.
immediately look at other locations to manufacture. Advice to other countries: Provide a tax break and they will come in a second. This is trump winning.
#Republicans #economy #sin
We will see businesses bankrupt and shuttered before long.
What surprises me is how any business could ever support an 🍊💩 with a history of multiple bankruptcies.
https://electionresults.iowa.gov/IA/Iowa/122370/web.345435/#/summary
New Orc Times (saved from 31-Mar-2025): https://archive.ph/mtzcr
And when AcreTrader shows up and buys their land, it will be a bad day.
However, Joni Ernst and Kim Reynolds are up for re-election!
It is past time for Iowa to clean up our state!!!
Next stop. 1929!
Where did your state fall?
And Iowa has been experiencing an economic downturn that caused shut-downs/ layoffs from major employers under Biden too.
No one buys a new home or a new appliance when the market is tanking and there's risk of losing your job.
As to buying appliances... Rich people still do. And a lot of them voted for Trump too, because they knew it'd boost their portfolios & lower their taxes, and they absolutely do not care about people who are harmed,
It's big business donors, christofascists, and out of state money... that influence has been going heavily since Varnum '09.
Meanwhile, the DNC hasn't invested much. I thought Walz might be deployed to rouse up the Midwest, but he really wasn't.
And sadly, it works.
But there are also some blue cities. And a whole lot of immigrants who couldn't vote. They'll suffer most.
Politics are complex, and fluid. And at any time, there's a significant part of the state that voted against the majority.
If left to their will, our country will become crippled, disabled, broken, dysfunctional & penniless !
Anyway, Iowa will be fine, cause Trump will send them some huge welfare package to keep them afloat until they can vote against government aid next time.
Whether you feel sorry for them is not relevant. The failings of both candidates are.
Of you could just call people names, I guess. See how that goes.
Everything's going to plan.
(Sorry for the individuals though.)
And laughed all night.
In the immortal words of Elon Musk:
“Oopsie!”
☠️☠️ #47.
think we should
have
ICE
in
MASKS
kidnapping people off of OUR streets.
GESTAPO 1933 Style
WE WANT
AMERICA BACK
SCHOOLS
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
NATIONAL PARKS
ALL OF HER
Call your newly
self-castrated
REPS AND SENATE
202-224-3121
Whose idea was it to put a guy who bankrupted 4 casinos with 6 bankruptcy in charge of the world's largest economy
What a fucking disaster!!!
Trump will eventually come up with exceptions or carve outs for his horrendous tariffs.
Trump will back down without admitting defeat.
I hope other countries keep theirs in place.
#FAFO
how’d that work out?
388 people live in the town
16k in the county
a huge local impact
Fuck around and find out maga
I am all for manufacturing in the US but this is not the way to do it.
But Iowa voted for this.
They wanted this.
They voted Trump by over 13 points.
They just thought it would only hurt brown people.
They got exactly what they voted for.
Funny that...
iowa, you can do much better.
vote for your interests, not these politicians', they dgaf
Red
But hey! Ya’ll sure “owned the libs”!!