Last week, when I was in Iowa, do you know what the big controversy was? Windmills. Who’s talking about windmills right now? It’s a huge issue in Iowa along with their poor water quality. Listen to voters.
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Windmills, or wind turbines? There's a huge difference. What's the controversy?
sep 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 5 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
In the Midwest, the only other relevant windmills are the water pumps on the farms, but those are mostly just for looks now. The real water pumps are electric, powered by wind…er… turbines.
sep 2, 2025, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
live around windfarms. I see them from my kitchen window. The colloquial term is a windmill.
sep 2, 2025, 4:29 pm • 5 0 • view
It's hard to have a meaningful discourse about a topic when you can't even use correct terminology.
sep 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Look. People are always telling me their flight got delayed for hours on the runway. No, it didn’t. Almost never, unless It was on a ramp, or possibly on a taxiway spur, but that’s immaterial to the conversation - I actually comprehend what they’re trying to say. Same thing here.
sep 2, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a term for a man explaining something to a woman when that woman has experience with that something…
sep 2, 2025, 4:42 pm • 9 0 • view
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be that guy, but I also have experience with that something, and words do matter! I have the utmost respect for you, but I do believe in order to sound authoritative about something, you do need to use proper terminology.
sep 2, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Windmills kill whales. Even if the windmills are in Iowa. They emit whale-killing rays. The President told me so.
sep 2, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
What are Iowans saying about windmills? I’m curious.
sep 2, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Like I said, this post will piss a lot of people off. I’m reporting from the ground. The reporter from the Atlantic said she was shocked to find out that there weren’t more people asking about Epstein. I’m not.
sep 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 157 20 • view
It doesn't piss me off. I think it's important for candidates to be able to read the room. What's important to voters will invariably differ by what is effecting their lives, farming communities will be different than urban areas. Candidates should understand the voters enough to gauge priorities.
sep 2, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
We *already know* the president rapes teenagers, but he has a 100% success rate on changing the subject. He won again.
sep 2, 2025, 4:43 pm • 14 0 • view
I don't think he'll ever be held accountable, but we sure as shit should *try* to stop all the predators that got away with it and continue to abuse.
sep 2, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
No, he won't. There's just so much more important right now. Like sustaining our democracy. FOCUS, people.
sep 2, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
So a child rape industry is no big deal to the voters you’re talking to? Instead it’s windmills? Shoot this country into the sun.
sep 2, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Nothing? No response at all? You just think the rest of the country should give a shit about a group with such awful priorities?
sep 3, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t care about the Epstein files because based off his character and personality I believe the victims! So he should be thrown in jail indefinitely along with every other sex abuser! And I think if we did that, then we would be able to fix a lot of the other problems more efficiently.
sep 2, 2025, 4:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Those files don't really affect their lives. No matter who's names are in it. They don't care that trump will never be held accountable anyway...
sep 2, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I work/travel in Georgia-Florida & in mid-low, income areas & the concerns are data center land grabs, high energy costs, solar project funding cuts, FOOD costs & loss of farm/construction workers. The Epstein talk, if any, is zero seriousness & like 'did u see the netflix doc'
sep 2, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I think Epstein is important but all the stuff you mentioned is too. I think for the survivors, who’ve been ignored, the Dems are on the right side of this.
sep 2, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not shocked. Ordinary people, whether rural or urban, care about what affects them directly. Sure, some might be shocked to know the real truth surrounding Epstein, et al. But until and unless that comes out, we care about prices, safety, jobs, and, for many, what's happening to our country.
sep 2, 2025, 6:40 pm • 5 0 • view
Journalist need to multitask here. I realize the zone is flooded with shit but in every state and town there are more important issues that can be addressed. In Wisconsin, the fastest growing cheese market is going to deport most of their experienced workers. Someone needs to cover that.
sep 2, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Absolutely. Not one soul I know of cares about Epstein (nor do I for the record). But when I spent $400 at the grocery store yesterday, there was a crowd outside complaining about the costs.
sep 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Nothing? No response?
sep 3, 2025, 1:03 am • 0 0 • view
Do you have any idea how evil that sounds? “Hey, it’s not my daughters being raped, let’s talk about my grocery bill!!!”
sep 2, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
That fact that not one soul cares tells that America doesn’t get it. At all…. JFC Watching this is painful. Until you address the corruption nothing will change. Slapping lipstick on a pig again. It will take decades to get respect again. But ok….. 😣
sep 2, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
People care. But not in the sense that they can do anything about it. We all know trump is guilty and we all know nothing will ever happen to him. But maybe talking about windmills and food costs and inflation and everything else might move the needle somewhere
sep 2, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, the rubes will have questions about whatever they see on Faux News. Rather than just playing defense, we need to put the rubes themselves on defense. I want to hear more about how following trump is not about white supremacy, from the rubes. Make them say it out loud and hear it ring hollow.
sep 2, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
People care about those girls. They care about the files. I have no doubt about that. But as you said, people worry about themselves and their families and that’s what they vote on. Right now those worries are financial.
sep 2, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Journalists are shocked whenever people don't care about sensationalism. That's where the money is for them, so it's hard for them to understand what people are paying attention to.
sep 2, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly. The unhinged right-wingers who are obsessed with it are always over-represented in the media.
sep 2, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Not the tarriffs ruining the markets for farmer’s? Wow. I thought that would be a huge issue for them..hmm…
sep 2, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
It is— comes across in grocery prices.
sep 2, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
So I have a question, did tRump come up with the crazy windmill talk from Iowans or did they get it from Faux and tRump??
sep 2, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
#HeyIowa - Finally someone is talking about Iowa issues. Thanks @piperformissouri.bsky.social for visiting Iowa!
sep 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I think we can have multiple messages at once. We don’t just have to have tunnel vision & focus solely on “kitchen table issues.”
sep 2, 2025, 4:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Which is why I’m confused when we are laser focused on Epstein.
sep 2, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Sorry but in what universe is Dem leadership “laser focused” on Epstein? They are solely focusing on “kitchen table issues.”
sep 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Because IT WORKS. His minions are losing their minds over it, which means they need to be reminded before they wander off on the latest shiny thing shown them on Fox and X. But yes-- cutting funding for hospitals, especially rural, is a big deal. The disaster over at HHS. Tariff impacts!!!
sep 2, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Was the windmill talk for or against windmills?
sep 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Having lived in Iowa there are tons of wind mills there. Are they against or for them. ?
sep 2, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
People aren't aware the majority of Iowa's energy is produced by wind energy. I no longer live in the midwest. We knew who trump was before he was put in office the first time. Sadly people still voted for him anyway. I want justice for the survivors and whatever that is to them.
sep 2, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 0 • view
what is the windmills issue about?
sep 2, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
They have wind farms. There are a lot of people who don’t like them because they’ve heard a lot of misinformation or they just don’t like them. I was smack dab in that controversy. One man walked out in my talk because he was so angry about windmills funding schools in Northwest Missouri.
sep 2, 2025, 4:27 pm • 9 0 • view
I can't understand this at all, they are stately sentinels, Big Friendly Giants. In 2024, about 30% of UK electricity came from wind farms. If only CO2 was visible as a disgusting smelly brown gas.
sep 2, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't mind them during the day, but you look out at night, the incessant red blinking is...unnerving, I guess? It would be worse if it weren't in tandem, but it's a lot. I live in a depression, so most of them are over the horizon, but my neighbors hate it.
sep 2, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This needs a technology tweak.
sep 2, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you, Jess. You are doing the hardest work.
sep 2, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Generally farmers like wind farms because they make good money leasing part of their land for turbines. Doesn't this issue set up intra-GOP friction, between those people profiting off wind and those who get the side-effects without getting a check?
sep 2, 2025, 4:55 pm • 12 0 • view
Lived in a town where a farmer was a arrested for shooting at a blade headed to a wind farm. Most like the income though.
sep 2, 2025, 5:20 pm • 7 0 • view