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Botany

(70,510 posts)
5. Even Trump knows that coal is a dying industry but it is a very good "wedge issue" ...
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

.... that fires up a large chunk of people in coal country. One large electric company in
OH told a coal company that they would be stopping their use of coal despite that action
would cause the coal company to lay off miners. The Trump administration DID NOT
intervene on behalf the coal miners/coal company.

Fox news, hate talk radio, right wing pastors, the NRA, coal bosses, and generations of
just being a "dumb ass" has warped the minds of millions of people Appalachia and talk
about bringing coal back sounds good to them.

Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
3. Has he mentioned the California fires yet?
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:05 AM
Oct 2017

Does the asshole understand he is also president of California?

forgotmylogin

(7,529 posts)
4. Pence is allowed near pumpkins?
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:06 AM
Oct 2017

With their unsubtle orange curves? The naked saucy lean as they press together in the pumpkin patch? The yielding crevices between the swells of ripe flesh? The gooey insides of a jack-o-lantern eyehole just tempting him, saying "Mother isn't all you need..."

forgotmylogin

(7,529 posts)
12. "Mother, may I...
Tue Oct 17, 2017, 10:21 AM
Oct 2017

...please caress the smooth, firm, orange flesh of this seasonal gourd?"

"NO MICHAEL!"

JI7

(89,250 posts)
7. I thought trump was supposed to bring back coal jobs
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:24 AM
Oct 2017

Where is the trump plan to congress to bring them back ?

Botany

(70,510 posts)
8. Natural gas is cheaper, cleaner, and easier to use then coal for electrical production.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 09:44 AM
Oct 2017

The power companies have spent billions switching over from coal to gas and they
are not going back. However I was just in W.V. and the "we need to use coal and
fuck those liberal environmentalists" memes are very very strong. "Coal Keeps the Lights ON"
and "Clean Coal Works" signs and bumper stickers were all over the place. A man in
the little hotel bar restaurant where were staying (Fayetteville, WV*) had on a black t shirt
that had an American flag, a confederate battle flag, an eagle, a pistol, and something
like "I dig coal." No matter if it is Trump or Pence or Fox News pro coal talk scratches the
itch that man has. Facts don't matter to those people.




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The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
9. All this about coal. What about other industries that are hurting?
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 10:22 AM
Oct 2017

Like the feather quill pen? What about the Conestoga Wagon? Companies that make throttle knobs for car dashboards? Where's the love for them, huh?

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