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BumRushDaShow

(163,449 posts)
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 03:33 PM Oct 26

'No state has struggled more': Residents of 'Trump stronghold' blame him for epic downturn

Source: Raw Story

October 26, 2025 9:45AM ET


There is one state that has struggled more than any other with Donald Trump's policies, and its residents are worried, even calling the situation "death by a thousand paper cuts," according to a new report.

The New York Times on Sunday published an article called "In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard," in which the outlet argues that the "state has become a stronghold for President Trump."

"Now, his efforts on trade, energy and immigration are squeezing farmers, disrupting labor and threatening industries," the report states. According to the Times, a lot of the problems Iowans are having stem from the Argentinian bailout to import more foreign meat.

"When President Trump announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina this month, Larry Ory, 86, a farmer in Earlham, Iowa, could hardly believe it, especially after boatloads of Argentine soybeans began shipping to China, a once-critical customer for Mr. Ory's family," according to the new report. "For Iowans, losing China’s soybean market in the president’s trade war was only one of many economic shocks that have hit the state since the start of Mr. Trump’s second term.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iowa-2674233941/?utm_source=superhead

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'No state has struggled more': Residents of 'Trump stronghold' blame him for epic downturn (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 26 OP
That's good news. raccoon Oct 26 #1
If you voted for Trump, you are getting what you voted for... so Fuck Off! RockRaven Oct 26 #2
Maybe they should double down. Rump 2028! Captain Zero Oct 26 #3
Not to worry. If Trump can't run or is dead, Eric "Fredo" Trump just announced he is the candidate they were waiting for 3Hotdogs Oct 26 #39
Did he really? Gums wants to be POTUS? ms liberty Oct 27 #66
Said so, on Saturday. 3Hotdogs Oct 27 #85
His dad, MarcoZandrini Oct 27 #71
They 3auld6phart Oct 27 #75
they will quakerboy Oct 27 #89
'Ya know - that can't be said strong enough! MyOwnPeace Oct 26 #13
He screwed the farmer over in his first term popsdenver Oct 26 #47
Never give a sucker an even break. BattleRow Oct 26 #56
It's not like there weren't any warnings. pandr32 Oct 26 #4
Trump tanked China's soybean buying in 2018 with his "easy to win" "trade wars" RockRaven Oct 26 #10
Agree! MyOwnPeace Oct 26 #15
They may not vote Dem BaronChocula Oct 26 #24
We tried HARD to warn EVERYBODY! Again and again and again! calimary Oct 26 #17
The problwm is that soldierant Oct 26 #37
Well done! calimary Oct 26 #50
Thanks. soldierant Oct 27 #62
Not just basements - don't we have a child sex slave colony... 3catwoman3 Oct 26 #55
LOL! Could be - but I thought they qwew the one plannng to go to Mars. soldierant Oct 27 #63
It's ALWAYS the racism....followed closely by democratsruletheday Oct 27 #80
Yes, and I hope that means JayDee Hillbilly won't get votes from these people. llmart Oct 26 #18
One of the nation's top producers of pork, soybeans, and bad karma. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 26 #5
Welp ... Scrivener7 Oct 26 #6
Womp womp... regnaD kciN Oct 26 #7
"Nom, nom, nom," went the leopard sakabatou Oct 26 #8
Yep one more week. Theyre still in the tall grass, but i can hear them getting closer... Volaris Oct 27 #83
We warned them. mwb970 Oct 26 #9
As my state struggles too n/t hibbing Oct 26 #11
Will it make a difference? Doubt it. Auggie Oct 26 #12
You Iowa farmers got what you wanted.... Trump in the White House. Norrrm Oct 26 #14
That is a high price to pay rambler_american Oct 26 #16
And without "the libruls" their farms would have been gone long ago. hadEnuf Oct 26 #20
It's shocking that some people in Iowa are really this stupid FakeNoose Oct 26 #23
It's not just Iowa progressoid Oct 27 #84
Don't expect any rescue, MAGA Lady Suzanne. calimary Oct 26 #33
Well, Suzanne, that's hilarious! travelingthrulife Oct 26 #42
"i'm in tears and need urgent help" -- sounds like magat lady is grifting orleans Oct 26 #52
yep, i bet she has a go fund me scam. rampartd Oct 27 #86
Well, MAGA Lady, the good news is that it is Type 2 Diabetes. colorado_ufo Oct 27 #61
FAFO Skittles Oct 26 #19
Iowans just living and learning the hard way. republianmushroom Oct 26 #21
And they'll still find a way to blame it on Biden or even Obama, certainly not on Dear Leader. MIButterfly Oct 26 #22
They blame him according to the headline BaronChocula Oct 26 #25
They may blame it on him now, but they'll blame it on Biden or Obama as soon as Dear Leader tells them to. MIButterfly Oct 26 #28
They should bring their tracktors and arms to the White House. Bread and Circuses Oct 26 #26
MAGA: Baited by bigotry headlong into idiocy and disgrace. LuvLoogie Oct 26 #27
Having some trouble finding mine at the moment. calimary Oct 26 #30
I don't know what to tell you, Iowa. Aristus Oct 26 #29
I Think Four Letters Sum This Up ..... ColoringFool Oct 26 #31
Nobody could POSSIBLY have foreseen ANY of this truthisfreedom Oct 26 #32
it hurts... myohmy2 Oct 26 #34
I didn't... myohmy2 Oct 27 #93
My mother told me NoNameGranny Oct 26 #35
I no longer have the patience or concern to deal with MAGA idiots any more. They wanted this. Let them enjoy it. LonePirate Oct 26 #36
butter emails or laughter or something Stacey Grove Oct 26 #38
Get Rid of Phony Joni Baloney, Iowans. Cha Oct 26 #40
And as for Grassley...surely there is a pasture to send him to. travelingthrulife Oct 26 #43
We hope! Doodles Oct 27 #79
Best of Good Luck to you, Doodles! Cha Oct 27 #94
Thank you! Doodles Oct 30 #96
Yeah, the Traitor to the USA is a REal Cha Oct 26 #41
Trying to warn people but they wouldn't listen. alfredo Oct 26 #44
To paraphrase this iconic clip from airplane... nycbos Oct 26 #45
Fuck T💩p and fuck you for voting for him. Fidiot! OMGWTF Oct 26 #46
Elections have consequences. Initech Oct 26 #48
Don't go broke folks. Invest in Trump's crypto oasis Oct 26 #49
Oh yeah. That'll work. calimary Oct 26 #51
Step right up, folks! RussBLib Oct 26 #54
Pool your funds with friends and neighbors. oasis Oct 27 #60
They'll wear their MAGA hats to their foreclosures, they're that stupid. dem4decades Oct 26 #53
Obama won Iowa twice, there was a time when it was blue IronLionZion Oct 26 #57
Unfortunately there are going to be millions and millions of these stories in the near future as people NoMoreRepugs Oct 26 #58
They will still . . . AverageOldGuy Oct 26 #59
Iowa is #8 nationally BidenRocks Oct 27 #64
Iowa is not a victim xuplate Oct 27 #65
the leopards feast. nt Javaman Oct 27 #67
I have never understood how a right wing state like Iowa is empowered... NNadir Oct 27 #68
And what will they do in 2026? Lonestarblue Oct 27 #69
All I have too say to these people is Ray Bruns Oct 27 #70
I am eating a lot of tofu these days. I am trying to help you guys. Honest I am. dedl67 Oct 27 #72
Eat shit and die, trump voters. (nt) Paladin Oct 27 #73
Oh dear 3auld6phart Oct 27 #74
I guess Senator Joni Ernst must be set for life because she doesn't care Walleye Oct 27 #76
An an Iowa captive in blue dot Iowa City -- I have little sympathy for them as this has been more than 20 years coming JT45242 Oct 27 #77
Another college town Iowan who nails it. Doodles Oct 27 #81
I always wondered why all the tests in the 60s BidenRocks Oct 27 #95
Awwww. Martin68 Oct 27 #78
The Iowan Red Flakes dlilafae Oct 27 #82
They can demonstrate this by letting their R reps know & by voting against the GOP next year & beyond. Otherwise... Jbraybarten Oct 27 #87
Good, fuck 'em. Queso Delicioso Oct 27 #88
You voted for it, Iowa. COL Mustard Oct 27 #90
With a little luck, maybe not completely DFW Oct 27 #91
See, voting has consequences PJMcK Oct 27 #92

3Hotdogs

(14,817 posts)
39. Not to worry. If Trump can't run or is dead, Eric "Fredo" Trump just announced he is the candidate they were waiting for
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 07:15 PM
Oct 26

to take Donald'a place.

I can't wait.

quakerboy

(14,665 posts)
89. they will
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:25 PM
Oct 27

If we are even allowed elections going forward. Even if they eventually turn on trump.. they will still be all in for the next shrub or whatever the rw throws at the top of their ticket.

MyOwnPeace

(17,419 posts)
13. 'Ya know - that can't be said strong enough!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 05:18 PM
Oct 26

These guys have been ramming SO much bullshit down our throats for the past 10 years - and the 'heart of America' has been swallowing it - and they keep getting f-ed over by it.
You know what?

"F" them!

They wanted him - you got him.

And 'thanks' for F-ing over all of us with him too!

popsdenver

(1,048 posts)
47. He screwed the farmer over in his first term
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 09:52 PM
Oct 26

but paid them off to cover his ass........He ain't gonna do it this time folks.......plan on your multi-generational family farm going bankrupt so some big commercial farming corporation can buy it off for pennies on the dollar.....

Same kind of thing that happened back in the Farm Aid debacle........

You reap what you sow, ho ho ho

You grew it, you chew it...........

And you were stupid enough to think that WE LIBERALS would be the only ones getting screwed. And you know what? YOUR nightmare is just beginning.....Katie Bar The Door, but it won't do you any good........

pandr32

(13,641 posts)
4. It's not like there weren't any warnings.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 04:08 PM
Oct 26

Sadly, too many fail to heed warnings until it directly threatens them.
Hopefully, now they will vote non-MAGA.

RockRaven

(18,430 posts)
10. Trump tanked China's soybean buying in 2018 with his "easy to win" "trade wars"
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 04:58 PM
Oct 26

so it isn't even a case of warnings. Trump literally did exactly this thing exactly this way the first time around. And then soybean farmers voted for him twice more (and counting).

What I am trying to say is: Don't get your hopes up about them voting non-MAGA.

MyOwnPeace

(17,419 posts)
15. Agree!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 05:25 PM
Oct 26

"Hello - are you listening?"
How 'could' they consider electing:
* A WOMAN!?
* SOMEONE OF COLOR!?
*SOMEONE WITH A BRAIN!?


BaronChocula

(3,785 posts)
24. They may not vote Dem
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:11 PM
Oct 26

But they may not vote at all due to low enthusiasm. I'm crossing my fingers at least for that.

calimary

(88,534 posts)
17. We tried HARD to warn EVERYBODY! Again and again and again!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 05:35 PM
Oct 26

Verbally AND in writing. We tried! We told the truth about him again and again, as often as possible! And they wouldn’t listen. Hell, they gave us grief galore for daring to speak ill of - well - call him what he is: The DEVIL.

soldierant

(9,137 posts)
37. The problwm is that
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 07:11 PM
Oct 26

they were all brainwashed to believe that we are all running pedophile rings out of basements. Why would they listen to us?

And yeah, I was yelling too - I made four different versions of this:

soldierant

(9,137 posts)
62. Thanks.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 12:55 AM
Oct 27

I'm gradually turning them into "We tried to warn you." I've done this one - did it first because it was my personal favorite:


I love the flames.

democratsruletheday

(1,785 posts)
80. It's ALWAYS the racism....followed closely by
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:55 AM
Oct 27

the misogyny. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK them cuz they won't change and brought this upon themselves. Ignorant Aholes one and all.

Volaris

(11,278 posts)
83. Yep one more week. Theyre still in the tall grass, but i can hear them getting closer...
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:43 AM
Oct 27

MAGA is still listening to Alex Jones tell them 'that's just the wind, pay it no mind.'

rambler_american

(924 posts)
16. That is a high price to pay
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 05:34 PM
Oct 26

just to piss off the liberals. But take heart. We are all gonna suffer along with you so there's that.

hadEnuf

(3,462 posts)
20. And without "the libruls" their farms would have been gone long ago.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:01 PM
Oct 26

Ignorant, Fox News brainwashed fools. Now you are really getting it with more to come. You are gonna see what right-wing Republicans have always thought of American farmers.

Should have read a history book instead listening to talk radio millionaires.

progressoid

(52,348 posts)
84. It's not just Iowa
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 11:25 AM
Oct 27

Read comments on any news story or video. Listen to callers on right wing radio. Read comments on X or Freerepublic or (fill in the blank). It's frightening and a little disheartening.

These people have been fed lies for decades by the media, their church, social media etc. From Pennsylvania to Montana, red rural America has been manipulated and used.

calimary

(88,534 posts)
33. Don't expect any rescue, MAGA Lady Suzanne.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:36 PM
Oct 26

Certainly none from your idol. He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about you, now that he’s got your money. He may even try to con you out of more. But that’s what a liar and a cheater can be expected to do.

We tried to warn you. Hell, we tried to warn EVERYBODY.

orleans

(36,549 posts)
52. "i'm in tears and need urgent help" -- sounds like magat lady is grifting
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:21 PM
Oct 26

boo fucking hoo

she should just keep remembering how much she laughed ( "it was hilarious" ) and how wonderful she felt pissing off the liberals while she goes blind.

maybe she can convince herself it was worth it.

colorado_ufo

(6,180 posts)
61. Well, MAGA Lady, the good news is that it is Type 2 Diabetes.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 12:41 AM
Oct 27

If you watch your diet with extreme care, get some exercise, and live as healthy a lifestyle as you can (you are likely on food stamps, too, so good luck with that), you may be able to control your disease a bit without your medication. Maybe you can buy yourself enough time until Democrats can take back the House and maybe save your butt.

Not that you would ever say, "Thank you."

Skittles

(168,672 posts)
19. FAFO
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 05:43 PM
Oct 26

I really, really struggle to sympathize with the fucking ASSHOLES who inflicted that fascist fuck on us.

MIButterfly

(1,681 posts)
22. And they'll still find a way to blame it on Biden or even Obama, certainly not on Dear Leader.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:06 PM
Oct 26

Never on Dear Leader.

BaronChocula

(3,785 posts)
25. They blame him according to the headline
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:15 PM
Oct 26

But that doesn't mean forgiveness is too far away. Those people are weird.

MIButterfly

(1,681 posts)
28. They may blame it on him now, but they'll blame it on Biden or Obama as soon as Dear Leader tells them to.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:22 PM
Oct 26

I can just hear them now: "oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that."

Bread and Circuses

(1,406 posts)
26. They should bring their tracktors and arms to the White House.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:17 PM
Oct 26

I want to see what ICE does to them …

LuvLoogie

(8,408 posts)
27. MAGA: Baited by bigotry headlong into idiocy and disgrace.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:19 PM
Oct 26

Now where the hell are my fucks?

Anybody seen my fucks?

Aristus

(71,314 posts)
29. I don't know what to tell you, Iowa.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:24 PM
Oct 26

If you genuinely thought a cataclysmically incompetent businessman, sleazy reality TV show host, and pestilential morass of defective human protoplasm would somehow make a good President, then you deserve everything you get.

I would have empathy for you, but your old pal Charlie Kirk said not to.

truthisfreedom

(23,494 posts)
32. Nobody could POSSIBLY have foreseen ANY of this
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:30 PM
Oct 26

*yawn*

I live on the Iowan border in blue Minnesota, and farm country is full of people who blame “the Covid shutdown” for everything wrong with America now. The ignorance… it burns.

myohmy2

(3,703 posts)
93. I didn't...
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 03:48 PM
Oct 27

...mean to sound flippant above...we're all Americans...

...we're all in this together...

&list=RDJvBFlQNcwtI&start_radio=1

...

NoNameGranny

(14 posts)
35. My mother told me
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 06:40 PM
Oct 26

There's no cure for stupid!

All anyone had to do was listen, really listen, to what he was saying during the campaign. So now, those who voted for Trump are crying because they didn't think it would really happen - or they didn't think it would happen to them.
OR, they just didn't think! 🤔

LonePirate

(14,310 posts)
36. I no longer have the patience or concern to deal with MAGA idiots any more. They wanted this. Let them enjoy it.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 07:10 PM
Oct 26

travelingthrulife

(3,833 posts)
43. And as for Grassley...surely there is a pasture to send him to.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 08:01 PM
Oct 26

I figure Grassley has so many crimes to cover up he can never, ever retire.

Doodles

(118 posts)
79. We hope!
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:53 AM
Oct 27

And Reynolds and Grassley. It’s down right embarrassing to be from Iowa. At least in this college town, we are a blue dot on the map. There were lots of No Kings rallies all over Iowa. It was fun and being with like-minded folks. Gives one some hope. But not much.

alfredo

(60,243 posts)
44. Trying to warn people but they wouldn't listen.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 08:12 PM
Oct 26

They believe the “apprentice” fiction of trump being an all wise businessman.

nycbos

(6,655 posts)
45. To paraphrase this iconic clip from airplane...
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 08:16 PM
Oct 26

… they voted for this they knew what they were getting into. I say, let them crash.

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oasis

(53,199 posts)
49. Don't go broke folks. Invest in Trump's crypto
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:08 PM
Oct 26

scheme with what’s left of your family savings.

NoMoreRepugs

(11,723 posts)
58. Unfortunately there are going to be millions and millions of these stories in the near future as people
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 10:53 PM
Oct 26

go hungry and have no health insurance. If only they were all Republicans.

NNadir

(36,948 posts)
68. I have never understood how a right wing state like Iowa is empowered...
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 06:58 AM
Oct 27

...to play such a large role in "weeding out," Democratic Presidential candidates with those idiotic "caucuses."

Oh well. FAFO.

Lonestarblue

(13,127 posts)
69. And what will they do in 2026?
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 07:14 AM
Oct 27

Vote for the very Republicans who refuse to follow their oath of office and serve as a check on executive power. The Constitution gave the power to levy tariffs to Congress, not the president, but Republicans in Congress do nothing. They don’t even show up for work most days.

3auld6phart

(1,665 posts)
74. Oh dear
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 08:59 AM
Oct 27
bet you are Kung Ho …I thevote him back i2028. I the diaper is still wasting O2 a nd space…

JT45242

(3,744 posts)
77. An an Iowa captive in blue dot Iowa City -- I have little sympathy for them as this has been more than 20 years coming
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 09:48 AM
Oct 27

Iowa was once home to one of the best public school systems in the USA. The schools were well funded and for decades were scored among the highest on NAEP, ACT/SAT, the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, etc.

TBH, the one good thing about moving here was better schools than any school district I could afford to live in when I was in Ohio.

but in the dozen or so years that I have lived here, the republican supermajority has moved Iowa from the pinnacle of education to funding students at rates lower than the deep south. They have sought to privatize and use vouchers to allow rich white folks to pull $$ from public schools. They rushed back to in-person schooling as a loyalty message to Mango Mussolini and Iowa had one of the highest death per capita rates during covid as kids brought it home and killed their grandparents.

They refuse to regulate how much pig feces goes into the watershed, because farmers (meaning large corporate collectives who have ruined the environment). The largest non-farming industry in the state is green energy and they keep electing people who are trying to kill it.

Zero sympathy for these idiots. I know it is going to make my life worse as well. But they voted for this.

Doodles

(118 posts)
81. Another college town Iowan who nails it.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:03 AM
Oct 27

All of that is absolutely correct. As a teacher for 35 years I can attest to the education falling off a cliff. Very very sad. Also, hog farms destroyed small rural towns and small farms like my parents in western Iowa. They were surrounded by those horrible noxious behemoths. It’s always about money.

BidenRocks

(2,528 posts)
95. I always wondered why all the tests in the 60s
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:56 PM
Oct 27

were the Iowa tests.
One of those never forget memories.

dlilafae

(359 posts)
82. The Iowan Red Flakes
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:06 AM
Oct 27

got what they voted for. Precisely! There is no thanks to millions of like minded people (such as those), who tasked us with bearing the consequences of their foolish decision-making.

Jbraybarten

(141 posts)
87. They can demonstrate this by letting their R reps know & by voting against the GOP next year & beyond. Otherwise...
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 01:02 PM
Oct 27

..they are full of shit.

DFW

(59,386 posts)
91. With a little luck, maybe not completely
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:40 PM
Oct 27

If Rob Sand can capture the Governor's mansion, he will offer Trump a polite Midwestern finger to suck on the moment he takes the oath of office. If anyone can pull it off, he can. He may not be as in-your-face to Trump as Janet Mills is, but he is smart enough to leave any encounter with Trump with Trump wondering what the hell just hit him.

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