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lapfog_1

(29,228 posts)
1. There is no America without buggy whips.
Wed May 29, 2019, 09:18 AM
May 2019

oh wait.

BTW idiot coal miners... AOC isn't killing your industry, natural gas is killing your industry.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,481 posts)
4. Yep, 60,000 + coal miners in the entire industry
Wed May 29, 2019, 09:25 AM
May 2019

hold the future of the entire country and its 320,000,000 inhabitants in their hands...... oh wait, they DON'T.

Again, perception attempting to negate REALITY.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
5. Idiots. Heads in the ground
Wed May 29, 2019, 09:41 AM
May 2019

Sorry guys, when AOC flips that light switch it's most likely Natural Gas that's behind the power now.

Archae

(46,359 posts)
6. This is from "TPUSA," Turning Point USA.
Wed May 29, 2019, 09:57 AM
May 2019

A right-wing propaganda group, they gave us Candace Owens.

I call them "Toilet Paper USA," since all they are good for is shit.

RVN VET71

(2,698 posts)
9. It's troubling.
Wed May 29, 2019, 11:22 AM
May 2019

These are hard working men who cannot grasp reality. But, hey, they live in W.Va. and have good paying jobs -- where in hell else are they going to make a decent wage in that State?

The most troubling thing is that their "good paying jobs" are going away, inevitably, and will not be replicated in the W.Va. economy. No new mines will open, fellas. What will you do then?

Just as troubling: TPUSA doesn't give a rat's ass about these men or their families. The Right Wing liars are just using these poor saps for their own political purposes. TPUSA will still be around long after these men -- and their families -- are on the dollar-depleted welfare rolls, dependent on medicaid, and wondering what the hell happened. In fact, at that point they will have become the enemy to the economy and TPUSA and the whole damned right wing will be propagandizing about the enormous waste of Federal money being used to support these lazy, loafing, takers.

pansypoo53219

(21,004 posts)
16. what they really want is their better than ave west Va paychecks.
Thu May 30, 2019, 07:03 AM
May 2019

what did whales say when coal came? oil.

W T F

(1,148 posts)
12. Current market price of coal:$55.00 a ton. Market price of Sun light $0. Explaining how wonderful..
Wed May 29, 2019, 04:06 PM
May 2019

Our free market capitalism system is to corporate republican pawns........PRICELESS

not fooled

(5,803 posts)
14. The point, apparently,
Wed May 29, 2019, 09:51 PM
May 2019

for these guys is not to inform themselves so that they have a realistic understanding of the forces impacting their preferred vocation.

Instead, the object is to conjure up bogeymen to serve as scapegoats so that they can feel aggrieved and blame their perilous situation on something besides reality and the actual factors responsible for the impending demise of coal.

Also, IIRC HRC had a proposal to direct money to their state for retraining and career assistance. Oh, no, can't do that--they'd rather be deceived by a BSing con man.



OldBaldy1701E

(5,175 posts)
17. Yes, it sure did...
Thu May 30, 2019, 10:47 AM
May 2019

Genocide, mass murder, and slavery also built this country. Should we stick with those as well? (One really has to feel sorry for those guys. As stated before, their industry is dying and they refuse to adjust. This is a typical position where 'manly' guys are the norm. They just cannot handle the thought of change. We won't go into their lack of compassion for all the changes their political/social position has forced on other people [usually of a darker complexion], but their lust for the path to destruction in the name of 'pride' is really sad.)

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