Good. Indiana residents have had their heads in the sand, especially in rural areas. People need to hear the truth about what's happening in the economy as a direct result of their president's actions.

Sadly, most in IN won’t listen. They refer to Indy Star as a “liberal rag.” Their political diet comes from churches and extremist right wing media sources. It’s a deeply entrenched cultural, generational belief system that won’t be disrupted even through societal collapse

And all of the dimbulbs who whined about the newspaper ended up buying subscriptions to the Indianapolis Business Journal to complain even more.

W H at state is @Tink from? You will get yours too if your anywhere in the world. 100% or 1000% of any state is not for trump.

We're on the same side. Obviously, you didn't read my bio. Thanks for the veiled threat, though.

Most bankrupts end up that way not because they were unlucky but because their management strategy was flawed. It’s a systemic issue. @cnbc.com parades very experienced wall st folks, including Joe Kernen, who just let Trump go off the rails because they like him. Which is stupid.

'price fears'❓ Look at #GroceryPrices Those have been high up already❗

It's the copper tariff that's interesting. Just Presidential chaos? Or, market manipulation on both the up and down side.

7/31/25: OMG. “Ex-CIA whistleblower confirms that a 2024 audit was done, and it confirmed. She won. Buy a lot.” fb.watch/Be558W1aVs/?... www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6DKTY89/

I gotta laugh at these kinds of headlines and articles. The First Felon has been talking about doing this for 10 friggin' years! He DOESN'T CARE! This is all about him and his revenge against all enemies foreign and domestic.Billionaires don't care if food prices, cars, houses go up 20%, they DON'T!

Plus he is giving them their ICE raids so they don’t really care if he destroys the rest of the country

Just got back from Home Depot. Prices are skyrocketing. Lumber is insane! We might have to go back to mud huts.

PVC too. Double or more what it was a year ago.

Anybody building a house today is screwed.

Small business owners, too. The tariffs are suffocating and so many were already really struggling. I mean, I guess they’ve successfully owned the libs, and everyone else in the process. 😐

Anyone trying to sell a house today is screwed. Why, yes. Yes I am.

These magic tariffs he keeps announcing will do that You are paying them

What kinds of prices were you seeing? We have to restore a deck right now.

Lumber prices are rising weakly. Up around 30% from last year and expected to rise another 14% the next month.

Should have bought some futures on that huh… Wow. That’s crazy! Thanks for the update on it. Appreciate it!

#Trumpcession. It's everywhere.

Indiana is so red. They can deal with their choices.

The INGOP is as red as can be & has been gerrymandered for over 20 years but we elected Obama and Indianapolis & Hamilton County lean blue. Our leaders will do anything for Trump though he picks them for nothing. Our reps voted for a budget that will cut $22B in funding for our state. #hoosiersky

gee thanks so much from the %40 of us who vote blue. the rural counties are the problem. our cities vote blue but a super majority in the gerrymandered house and senate...

Feel your pain. I’m a BLUE in Josh Hawley’s Missouri. And Josh doesn’t even live here.

Never forgiving Hawley’s wife for judge-shopping up to the Supreme Court to take away our bodily rights. Same issue here, Jim Banks lives in Virginia, never comes here. We only see him being nasty to people whose livelihoods are being ripped away before the elevator door shuts. We need better reps

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Like kissing your sister!

Such passion.

This is what they wanted, enjoy the ride you twats.

People will stop buying things. Corporate earnings will fall. The stock market will decline. People will get laid off (but the Jobs Reports won't reflect it). Businesses will close. House foreclosures will increase. Cars will be repossessed. Medical treatment will be too expensive. People will die.

I wonder how bad things must get before the Republicans decide it is time to get him out of office? Will they choose impeachment, the 25th amendment, or something else?

Bought groceries today for a meal that I cook regularly. I went back and looked at the receipt from.the last time I made it in January. It was 50% more this time around. Like every single item on the list was 30-60% higher, which of course also made the sales tax higher. 😡

You're right. Meat prices have spiked up, in particular.

Is this not what the people of Indiana voted for?

The state was gerrymandered to bits after the Obama win.

What voters? Our turnout is trash thanks to years of LOLGOPWINS.

Up and down the entire ballot, they often run unopposed

I am an Indiana resident, and I vote blue. I know several other Dems who used to live here but moved because this is a backwards red state. We are trying hard and voting. But I always know that my votes only count locally, if that.

And every time the Democrats find a new leader they pick another damn conservative who preaches bipartisanship. And they wonder why no one donates and they don't win.

Us too. But where the hell do we go?? "Red virus" has infected the whole country. We're now looking overseas.

I have children in blue states. It's a whole different feel, there. My favorite place is Seattle. Plus, it's close to Canada -- a good escape route, if needed.

Is this what anyone voted for? We have the same discrepancies as other Midwest states.

It’s exactly what all Trump voters voted for. They still don’t understand his policies are killing our country bc they are thrilled with his ICE raids. It’s a trade off they’re willing to pay.

He said all during the campaign that he was gonna do tariffs and he's doing tariffs.

Due to voter suppression efforts, only 50% of our state eligible voters actually vote. The majority of Hoosiers did not vote for this. Only 25% of eligible voters actually voted for this.

If someone is eligible but didn’t vote it is hard for me to excuse them from being part of the blame as to how Trump got re elected. Project25 was widely reported on. Trump is implementing it now. He is doing what he said he would do. It’s non voters fault for being apathetic & staying home.

I agree the group of non-voters had the largest impact in Trump winning. I also think if we want to change things and get them to partition in elections, we’ve got to find out why they didn’t vote. Voter suppression tactics in supermajority red states have been occurring for over 200 years.

Agree

It’s very difficult for blue states or swing states to understand just what is happening. For instance, if I did not spend a significant amount of time looking for information, I would be ignorant, too. A large number of people in Indiana did not hear about project 2025.

Journalism is non- existent. Education is manipulated. Law enforcement and local politics are controlled by corrupt legacy families. People work two and three jobs and have no time to their own research but they also never see the headlines because a ton don’t use social media at all.

I’m in Ohio and have experienced a similar decline in journalism. I don’t disagree with much of what you stated. It’s still hard for me to understand non voters in presidential election years. How come turn out was higher in 2020? The stakes were higher in 2024.

The tRump flags flying in yards, fields, from cars and boats say otherwise. Every time I vote, I feel sure my vote gets thrown out.

That was my experience in 2016. They’ve been extinct since 2021. I’m in an area where you could walk outside without seeing Trump merch and it is not only gone, but I’ve been see Gen X women wearing resist t-shirt in the grocery store and pharmacy.

I noticed a decrease across SW Oh in the trump merch but more “average” ppl are ok with the deportations & corporate theft than I imagined

Seeing the same apathy for deportations here too. It’s painful and frightening. When speaking to them, the apathy seems to be coming from a place of confusion. They have been brainwashed to believe something and now they either aren’t sure what to think or they still haven’t seen factual coverage.

IMO they don’t believe the reporting until it happens to someone they actually know.

Thank you for sharing what you’re seeing in the ground. It sounds like the Midwest is experiencing a lot of the same things even though we are in different states.

It's exactly what the majority of Indiana voters voted for. He said he was going to do this.

fyi IN has one of the lowest voter turnouts of any non southern state. we are literally the middle finger of the south.

The Mississippi of the Midwest

Idaho Is claiming brand infringement.

Idaho can have the Mississippi of the Mountain West.

We have some of the shortest early voting, shortest poll hours, strict voter ID, and poor voting locations in a lot of counties. Along with the worst education outside of the deep south. All by design.

Not to mention the gerrymandering.

You too? I didn’t realize even Indiana was dealing with it. Probably because my IN-based relatives are either MAGA or “Libertarians.” In quotes because they’re actually anti anything that makes them uncomfortable.

Indiana redraws districts whenever they want to.

This is fascinating!

Future blueprint for Texas Then the rest of the country

The last time I was in Indiana, the McD across the street from my hotel was in another time zone.

In Ct we had early voting for the first time this past election. We always have to show id when we vote. But our community values in blue states is to get out there and vote for each other, our communities and the citizens that can’t speak for themselves. It can’t be every man for himself.

#StopPaintingRedStates with one brush stroke. Dems/Independents in #RedStates are not responsible for the MAGA vote based on #racism #grievance #conspiracytheoriies #Lies the GOP Right-wing media feed them In 2008, Obama #Won Indiana’s 11 EVs primarily because he #campaigned in Indiana

Kamala made one campaign stop in Indianapolis that coincided with the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s Grand Boulé (planned before President Biden’s announcement that he would not seek re-election).

When Red States are ignored by Dem candidates, why wouldn’t conservative voters cast a vote for Republicans? The fixation on #SwingStates is leaving 23 states #behind

Well! I remember in 1968 its front page had two "related" headlines: "RFK Visits" & "Bank Robbed"

I’m from the Indy area. I’m a teacher and try to stay up on the news. This newspaper has almost no relevance even in our area. Nobody reads it, that I can tell. 😢

Is this not relevant? What do you think Trump’s average 18% tariffs will do to inflation?

Perhaps I mis-worded my post. This article is ABSOLUTELY relevant and important. Unfortunately, not many people from the area read the Indy Star. They tend to believe that it has a liberal bias (I disagree) and that they can only trust Fox News.

Even Fox covered the bad economic news briefly between stories about HRC and Obama.

Good. I hope they hear it often and from their news sources too. Having Trumpy relatives and acquaintances, I know they are often willing to find any and all evidence to support his chosen narrative.

It’s sad that so many are so gullible. Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily bc of his lies. The attack on the Capitol were incited by his lies. And now Epstein.

Well written headline.

My wallet has been crying for months but worse this summer

Prices have already been rising....RIGHT KROGER!!???

His lies will not withstand everyone's experience of their reality.

Get em👍

He is either too stupid or just doesn't care. These tariffs hurt Americans. If he doesn't carethen he is unfit. If he is too stupid he is unfit. Either way he is UNFIT

What if he were both stupid and criminally negligent. That will no doubt be his defense lawyers argument.

Nothing gets past the Indianapolis Star. However long it takes.

Inflation is already way up. But go ahead maga, blame Biden.

The one week delay in enforcement is yet another extension. TACO

No ----.

Sub: “Dumbest Americans Finally Learn Math”

Yet the majority of that shit stained state voted for tariffs and a pedo.

And on Philadelphia Inquirer’s front page above the fold.

To be fair, Indy is a very blue city in a very red state. …..those of you saying Indianapolis voted for that

"Rake in hundreds of billions of dollars" for Trump's and his buddies pockets while the working class will be forced to pay higher prices passed on by the importer - smart economics there fuckwad.

Love it when a Red state gets nervous about the Felon.

So. Is it time for that poll those Republicans love to roll out? Were you better off a year ago than you are now?

He cares only about stock market and crypto, not an iota about jobs or prices, bread and circus

Its a massive market manipulation. He announces stuff that his mates already know about- they buy and sell accordingly. Then he backs off and his mates also know this will happen. They get rich but your economy gets screwed.

Also, spending OUR money on that gaudy gold in OUR White House, $1B plane, and $200M ballroom and Millions more on golf...

Nintendo is raising prices on just about everything — including the original Switch www.polygon.com/nintendo-swi...

Fears? The shit is here and it ain’t going to get better. But where are he media pundits and maga crying about prices now?

Everything is more expensive now & if prices raise more lots of people in Indiana won't survive it. But sure let's let Trump build his $200 million "golden ballroom" at the WH.

He acts like Louis XIII

wow! now people are afraid 😱 #Trumpflation will turn into hyperinflation

Gentlemen, start your bobblehead factories!

MAGA...🤦‍♂️🙄

A Gannett property as well.

And this in the state ranked #1 in manufacturing as a % of its GDP.

Hey every working body. Time to ask for a big raise.

I'm not surprised.

The Indy Star is about to 'go thru some things'. They will be told to never have a head line like that again or they will face being shut down. Watch.

What do you expect from that hotbed of liberal extremism, Indianapolis?!

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Liberation Day 2.0 - The Sequel: How Trump learned nothing from Liberation Day 1.0. #grandopeninggrandclosing

Wakey wakey!

Gee, ya think?

If only traditional media would take up the fight

The world’s best negotiator did it again!

There is not a single "deal" (they used to be called trade agreements). There are some MOUs that could eventually lead to trade agreements, or if you prefer, there are "concepts of a deal".

And each of those deals brings the situation to something worse than before the tariffs.

I don’t think we’ve see the text for a single “deal” yet

…as if….

Trump is killing America by a thousand cuts

A newspaper with a spine?!? I don’t know that our country had any of them left!

The ignorance of these people. They don’t get that they voted against their own interests because they wanted the “damn illegals and blacks” to suffer.

Tariff King stinks!

A die hard Trump state that have us that Bible thumping waste, Pence. What? Did they have their morning coffee? Just wake up?

@indystar.bsky.social @jamesebriggs.bsky.social This story can’t be found online. Why?

Random observations: this story doesn’t seem to be on The Star’ or USA Today’s sites. The Star was a shit paper before Gannett bought it. They’ve done nothing to improve it. Trying to buy the paper at retail is difficult. Outlets receive papers seemingly randomly.

I'm reporting similar issues with the said grocer 😕

If there isn't any bad news, we'll anticipate some and try to scare people to death with it. If it comes true, and it really hurts the US and reflects badly on Trump, we will rejoice. Cause we hate Trump and destroying him is NO1, no matter how it affects the country.

Massively hiked tariffs and an ending free trade IS bad news. It's a tax on American consumers. It's not something that foreign countries are paying. This has been done before. We know how this works. Read some history

There is no doubt that the lefties have been running around screaming the sky is falling. We have seen what they have to offer and rejected it. It happens. I know they want to be in power forever but they haven't done the US any good and we don't want them there anymore.

Who is this "we"? You speak for no one. You are simply parroting Taco's poor understanding of economics and you're just mad you can't fire us the way he does people who give him bad news about his Gilded Age policies.

We the people that elected him. You do realize he was voted in, right? Or did you miss that?

A mouthy 1/3 of eligible voters voted him in. You speak for no one else but your loud minority of declining demographics rooted in white replacement conspiracies and economic ignorance.

And you speak for no one but a bunch of whiney ass lefties who don't know the difference between male and female.

Your bizarre fixation on genitals that you people bring up every time you get the chance only serves to show that #PedoconTheory is correct. Also, I never claimed to speak for anyone, let alone using "we" the way you do. The White Christofascist Nationalists would never win another ...

Your complete ignorance of what genitals signify just shows you are complete idiots.

Cool how you are still fixated on genitals. You REALLY want to talk about genitals, dontcha Pedoparty Guy. Seriously, you people just keep showing that white conservative men are far and away the most profilific pedophiles, just like your president.

...election if it wasn't for the slaveowner-appeasing Electoral College.

You want to change the Constitution? There's a method for that. Get busy.

Read some history. Don't know why it has to be the same again. Question. Do you think the US should have it's own manufacturing base internally like we did during WW2 again? Why, or why not? If so, how would you go about establishing it?

Shall we start with the Gilded Age? Want to start with that history? Do you want the US government to massively nationalized and fund manufacturing in the US or merely start enouh wars that we are forced to do that since imports would be cut off?

I do not want it nationalized and don't see why it has to be or is being. Maybe things will change in the future as countrys get desperate but Trump didn't start any wars in his first term and it doesn't look like he's trying to start any now.

Trump literally bombed Iran and is now making reactive moves to Russia tweets with nuclear subs. But you mentioned WWII...were you unaware of how the massive government spending and nationalization effort both ended the Depression and stimulated the economy to the degree it did?

Yeah, he tried to end a nuke weapon program that we have been enabling, as well as sponsoring their terror. You said it, reactive moves. You all bitch cause he doesn't support Ukraine enough and that he is owned by Russia, now you bitch at reactive moves. We don't have the capacity we had in WW2

No, he didn't. He did the bidding of Israel and actually accomplished nothing. So now you're walking back your war claims? The government now is far more powerful and rich than it was in WWII. We could easily nationalize manufacturing and inject massive amounts of capital into the economy.

Well, I've been bidding us to do it since before Obama gave them pallets of cash, so I am fine with it. And that didn't start a war so I am not walking back anything. The industries that the gov used to build arms for WW2 were already existing, they don't now.

Obama gave Iran their own money back, before a court ordered us to. Why should massive weapons factories exist in the US?

During GenCon, a board game convention in Indianapolis, which has been ravaged by the BS tariff whims of an incompetent set of morons in charge of government who change the definition of economic terms because they’re bad at economics and governance.

Water’s wet!

Fire the editor! Send the DOJ to investigate! Send ICE to remove workers with brown skin!

And they’re just now figuring that out?

The headlines will become screams of terror soon then vanish.

I wonder if Trump will call the ownership group and ask to fire the editor?

“Ask”? Or “DEMAND”?

That’d be Gannett

Gannett=nazi news

Which is why it’s interesting that an explicitly anti-Trump article from its own syndication headlined the top paper, which it owns, in the top manufacturing state.

Well i wouldnt give much credit to Gannett. Its owners were probably being monetarily negatively affected in some way. It isnt about any concern for us serfs.

Yep. That’s the interesting part.

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Trump needs distraction. Trump makes distraction.

...and Indy is a GOP stronghold.

Indianapolis hasn't been a GOP city in quite a while. And even then, it was the mayor who is basically an extinct brand of politician in today's version of the party. Dems have a super-majority in the city-county council and the mayoral race is the Dem primary.

I'm glad to hear that. (I lived in Indy in the early '/80s and knew some government officials; they weren't lefties, that's for sure.)

And Indiana is such a red state!

….really? 🙄

Keeping in mind 90% of what Americans buy is useless junk and can be done without. Heaven help Big Business when the country shifts from spending like drunken sailors to impress the various Joneses next door to being thrifty b/c they don't give a shit any more

Trump is too emotional to have such power.

Don’t worry. He will sue this paper

Speaking truth to power.

The Indianapolis Star? This headline needs to be #1 on YouTube and tick tok for a week straight to have any relevance. Otherwise, this is meaningless.

You’d be surprised at the reach of the Indy Star. I don’t live in Indiana, have zero ties there and yet I subscribe to the Indy Star. It’s a solid paper.

You are hilarious.

The quality of the paper isn’t the issue. The reach to the general population is. A headline seen by a few thousand people is meaningless. A headline like this needs to be seen by 300,000,000 to have any impact. That’s my point.

And I’m telling you I have zero connection to Indiana, don’t live in Indiana or even remotely close to Indiana but yet I subscribe to the Indy Star. That tells you something about reach. They have a lot more power than you think.

You are funny

Obviously the huge platforms of Youtube, TikTok, BS etc have unmatched and tremendous power in terms of how many people see something. But all those messages start someplace and often times they don’t begin on social media. That’s where local media has a place too.

The Indy Star writes an article that resonates with enough people, said article will find its way onto the huge sm platforms and spread like wildfire. But it didn’t start there, TikTok isn’t going to write the article. YouTube isn’t doing that either. It starts locally and goes viral from there.

ICE needs to shut that paper down !

Major companies with CEO’s who are getting massive tax cuts announced they will be raising prices of their products because of tariffs! The trump tax cuts just won’t cover the cost of the tariffs! In other words, trump is screwing you and so are we!

And now he’s threatened to expose the Epstein client list! Soon no one will listen to this nutjob! He shows support for trump, then he doesn’t, then he does again! He’s a mental mess! Probably the result of his drug addiction!

Wow, a MAGA state just made the readers spit out their coffee.

Ha! You imagine The Star still has circulation.

I know it’s anecdotal, but 🙀 Price increase Last price: $25.50 New price: $48.44

The only price that’s spiked is the hundreds of billions of dollars coming in Trump said.

On top of previous price fear reality

Red state morons

Enjoy your vote

The most dumbfuck state north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Trump prescription for dealing with inflation: fire anyone who reports it.

But Mike Braun got his helipad and that bigoted little religious zealot got his fancy SUV so the people of Indiana can go suck it.

Meanwhile Heir braun wa ts to make public roads toll roads. Making America "grate"

Prices on items where I work are beginning to go up 8-10 per item.

Prices have ALREADY increased everywhere. It will only get WORSE.

Unfortunately the Fox News crowd never gets even remotely unbiased reporting on tariffs, revenge firings, presidential felonies, fact checking….

It's already here..it will just get worse. And the friendly 1% will use this to further their profits.. just watch the financial reports.

And ICE is about to receive well over $100 billion in new funds. The looting of America with no end in sight.

That’s surprising. That’s my city and we are usually the last to post anything anti-Trump. Mike Braun is so far up Trump’s ass he might as well be a hemorrhoid.

Braun is a Hemorrhoid 🤣

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Did everyone just wake up?🤷🏼‍♂️

6 months in? They've finally caught on?

I'm in deep southern Indiana and love from Orange cultists is still strong.

DUH!

Bush's Ownership Society kicked off the Great Recession. Trump's #SellershipSociety is starting off worse. What do Republicans stand for besides #TaxCutsForTheRich?

Repubs are better at lying & propaganda

Mush better. It's in the job description

Pollution Hate Bigotry Ignorance

Duh!

It will be more than a spark. His imaginary gilded age will be the Great Depression.

👏👏👏👏

What’s done in the dark eventually comes to the light. Slowly EVERYTHING fake and embellished is chipping away at his legacy and mental state. You can’t live with pigs and not get dirty, hence his stink cologne.