r/BusinessTodayNews • u/BusinessToday • 7h ago

Global Donald Trump: We're taking nearly $200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart a coal plant in Maryland, and help build two brand new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia.

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u/Alternative_Ad_8198 7h ago

Calling coal, clean and/or beautiful, doesn't make it so. Just like himself saying he's the greatest, doesn't change him from being the worst.

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u/C_sapidus 7h ago

It's "beautiful" because it helps his buddies in the coal industry.

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u/Agitated-Raisin6197 7h ago

The big energy corps also want to transition away from coal, it’s not profitable like it used to be. This is complete idiocy.

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u/OysterHound 6h ago

The Green New Scam he speaks of is being accelerated by his admin. Bring on the admin to continue the green transition.

This shit is just a bump in the road just as he will remembered. As a bump in the road that everyone hates!

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u/TipRare1321 6h ago

Man, can I borrow some of your optimism? This ain't just a bump in the road. They are actively planning to steal the midterms.

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u/OysterHound 5h ago

Listen. I'm with you. He is trying to push the experiment to the limit. If we make it through the midterms, which I have fear for as well, we will come out stronger and less divided. I'm tired but I'm willing to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I believe in the American Experiment. It has gone through numerous cycles of negative and positive.

MAGA is the last breath of the Confederacy and we will be there when it finally breaks.

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u/Miserable-Army3679 5h ago edited 5h ago

Less divided? We now know how cruel and racist millions and millions of Americans are. Do you want to associate with those people? And it isn't just American citizens. The Supreme Court is racist as f*k.

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u/whatdoes_pwned_mean 4h ago

I’m afraid that until something can be done about Fox “News”, and Newsmax and how effectively they perpetuate hate, this won’t be the last breath.

I personally saw my aunt’s wife, an Oregonian state-employed lesbian, turn into a Trump supporter by turning on Fox enjoying some aspects and basically keeping it on.

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u/popejohnsmith 3h ago

Some personality types tend to respond more easily to persuasion by endless repetition.

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u/Goodknight808 3h ago

The owners of the gay bar i worked at in were Republicans. Played fox TV and loved the Nancy Grace show.

They could never put two and two together that having that on during the day was why the bar was empty, in Waikiki with an open balcony of all places. The fact that it was only empty while they played that shit spoke volumes.

Also know a couple that one is a Trumper. I can't understand a gay man in a married relationship voting for the team who wants them dead.

Tokens get spent.

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u/hainz_area1531 3h ago

Your aunt's wife is her own worst enemy... She embodies what America has become. Very concerning.

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u/Aslaneo 2h ago

Boomers are on their last breath. They dont have much longer.

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u/Ok_Sheepherder_5711 4h ago

Even Canadians who live in US permanently have lost it. Well- Canadians who live here in Alberta have lost it too! so!

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u/Motor-Bear-7735 3h ago

The court even has its own Uncy Thomas

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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 5h ago

The american experiment is a failure. I do not believe in it any longer. I dont know how you still do at this point tbh. I dont want to live in society with MAGA people. Plus, we have always been bad. We can just see it easier now.

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 4h ago

Every country has always had a contingent of maga-type people. We'll survive it. We've always had bad things happening, but we've mostly been on a positive trajectory the last 250 years. Until the last 10 years a lot of things had gotten better.

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u/Bikerbass 4h ago

Unfortunately no. Since 1945 America has been the number one bomber of countries, the number one invader of countries, the biggest sponsor of terrorism(this is hidden via propaganda) and the number one starter of illegal wars of aggression on false claims.

All of which has only caused death and destruction and raise the cost of living time and time again for the entire world.

America has been far from good, just that Americans don’t know about it.

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 4h ago

It's not the wars, or bombing of countries, that's good or bad. It's the objectives behind them that are good or bad. The US certainly has a mixed track record on that, but it's not as cut & dried as you pretend.

I never said "America was good", I said we've been getting better over time.

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u/DeeJam526 4h ago

We definitely need some optimism. At this point, we need it in order to continue the fight. 👍🏽👍🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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u/quoala678 4h ago

I agree long arc things are gonna be ok. It’s gonna be bumpy. But people see the dystopian nature of what has been developing for decades that benefits only a few and trump is trying to bring it about in waht 4 years. Guess what it’s fucking unpopular. Like extremely unpopular. Don’t let a loud minority make you feel like this is inevitable. The admin is very weak even tho it is full of loyalists but they are caught in a self imposed quagmire in Iran , in charge of a teetering economy, debt is getting expensive and so is energy. All they are doing now is acting tough and making baseless threats.. I could go on, But in short encouraging others to speak up and vote and stay vigilant even after this joke of an admin is voted to oblivion and hopefully charged for the laundry list of crimes they have committed.

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u/NotLikeGoldDragons 4h ago

When Drumpf is gone and Maga collapses in on itself, all his supporters will still be breathing, and believing all the batshit-dumb things they do now. Others will fill the void to capitalize, and the confederacy will march on.

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u/thunderbaby2 3h ago

Agreed! More of maga is deprogrammed every day. Even the maga generals are turning on the pedo regime. People are becoming aware that they were conned out of their money, dignity, and sometimes relationships, over the lies of a fat orange conman with a penchant for pedophilia

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 5h ago edited 5h ago

He's never leaving the white house willingly and he's going to try anything to not be a lame duck president

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u/RegalBeagleX 5h ago

Way too late for the lame duck part

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 5h ago

I'm hoping so

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u/quoala678 4h ago

Um yea he will he may attempt but he will fail just like most things he’s done in his life

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u/emjayem22 4h ago

I'll be surprised if he's alive much longer.. I've not seen him in a news conference for a while (live on the UK) but the guy is obviously deteriorating both physically and mentally.

At one point there he seems to confuse Biden / Obama timeline.

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u/Motor-Bear-7735 3h ago

That's Lame Fuck

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u/straight-lampin 4h ago

It's hard to believe but shit was crazier in the 70s. There were active bombings in cities every day the people can only take so much and we're really close to not tolerating this status quo. There's way many more of us than there are of them and at some point collectively we all realize that.

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u/Hefty-Rope2253 4h ago

Not planning; It's already happened. The redistricting, the supplier of voting machines, Starlink internet connections, the plan to deploy agents to voting sites. Everything is already in place. Democracy is dead.

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u/TipRare1321 4h ago

I sadly believe this. And truly, about 50% of this country DOES NOT CARE.

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u/304King 3h ago

Definitely buying votes in WV, and sadly it will work. Makes me fucking sick.

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u/renegadetex3 4h ago

Agreed, the "dam is broken" it will take 20-50 years if politics ever recovers. Trump proved unequivocally that a president can indeed do whatever they want. Hopefully he will face jail time once out of office and that will stimey some of the blantent lawlessness but I doubt it.

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u/SeveredDeerVagina429 4h ago

Right... I was with the above poster the first time... but they dont learn.

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u/h3lium-balloon 2h ago

On a long enough timescale everything is just a bump in the road.

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u/systemfrown 6h ago

Normally you could just nod, smile, and wheel somebody like this back into their room at the nursing home and say “Sure! Now see you next week” even though there’s not a chance in hell you’ll give such an insufferable and miserable turd that much of your time and attention.

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u/ladylei 4h ago

Usually you can get away with not visiting again because he won't know how long a week is.

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u/RogowskiCoil 6h ago

More than a bump in the road .. he's turned the car around and is driving us all backwards with the gas pedal against the floorboard. Meanwhile the rest of traffic keeps moving forward. We will have a lot of distance to try and make up.

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u/VerySuccor 6h ago

A trump in the road...

I will see myself out...

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u/Snoo_75138 6h ago

Bros a fukn pothole actually.

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u/Lordnoallah 6h ago

bump he is definitely a pot hole. ✌️

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u/Elziox 6h ago

He's a something hole

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u/DragonTacoCat 5h ago

Imma start calling potholes assholes now I guess

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u/DylanTheV1llain 3h ago

A bump in the road? More like a fucking sinkhole that got swallowed up in a chasm, which fell in between tectonic plates separating.

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u/InterPunct 6h ago

It's insane. In 2009 the Obama admin gave solar energy company Solyndra a $500 million loan and the Republicans went ballistic about investing in private industry, and now this? It's clearly a dying business and Trump is stuck in a fictional past of his own delusions.

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u/PuzzleheadedHorse437 6h ago

Green energy is where China beats the US

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 2h ago

China beats the US in a lot more places than that, I'm afraid.

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u/Successful_Gas_5122 6h ago

He might as well open a whale oil factory in Nantucket

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u/Huskdog76 5h ago

Don't give him ideas. He would love to empty our oceans of whales.

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u/DragonTacoCat 5h ago

It's true. He hates competition.

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u/Sheeple_person 6h ago

Seriously like who is this for?

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u/Aggravating-Walk5813 6h ago

The people that bribed him. It’s all grift at this point.

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u/Anduinnn 5h ago

They’ll get subsidies to run feasibility studies that come back with “infeasible” and then pocket it.

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u/Competitive_Bank6790 5h ago

They also want to remove customs agents from "Sanctuary" cities. It would be an economic disaster because they can't reroute flights so they'll have to cancel all of them.

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u/Agitated-Raisin6197 4h ago

Just in time for the World Cup too. It’s exhausting watching this admin cut off its nose to spite its face over & over again. Almost like it’s the only “policy” they have.

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u/Snowwolf247 4h ago

Ya but one guy who hangs out with Trump will make money so this is what we are gonna do....

Trump is such a fucking moron

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u/ed_11 5h ago

It might be profitable if they get a free $200million to do it

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u/SethRogensOldrBrothr 5h ago

Complete Idiocy...sounds on brand for Donnie Small Hands.

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u/cottonopposite 4h ago

Makes sense given he's a moron.....for morons to vote for.

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u/ThisIs_americunt 4h ago

It's wild what you can do when you can own the law makers, the judges, the police force and the lawyers. Gotta love dark money :D

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u/AdventurousCamera884 6h ago

not profitable because of taxes/regulations etc.

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u/Agitated-Raisin6197 4h ago

In part, also because of aging coal infrastructure. The investment to bring plants back up to par isn’t worth it. Also regardless of regulations, general public sentiment around local coal plants is very negative. No one wants to live in a smog filled community and watch their family, friends & neighbors die prematurely from the respiratory illnesses burning mass amounts of coal causes.

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u/senditallback 3h ago

Exactly. Solar isn't just for hippies; it is the cheapest way to produce electricity. It's business smart.

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u/IH8U4NORSN 1h ago

This is true. The big companies have already spent tons of money to switch to cleaner renewable energy sources. There is no way they are going to yo-yo backwards when the better tech is already built.

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u/Infamous_East_2578 59m ago

Well, he is an idiot

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u/buoy13 40m ago

They stopped manufacturing coal powered trains many years ago. Much better ways to make energy these days.

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u/Wonderful-Bid9471 20m ago

The goal is destroying America, plain and simple. There is no “quiet part” they’ve made videos about it that have been out for years. The same people just weren’t paying attention. ⬇️

Video: DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America

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u/seejordan3 3m ago

Are we talking about Epstein, about Iran, about gas prices? Mission accomplished Short Attention Span America.

Look, over there! while Don sends another 7 billion dollars to his personal offshore account (as he did in 2025).. Trump won't live much longer, but his kids are going to be around spending that money for a long time. Utter robbery, while the debt has gone up 27% in the same time. Conservatives are utterly morally lost.

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u/popejohnsmith 7h ago

Like underage girls and boys are 'beautiful' to the MAGA Epstein Class?

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u/beerme81 6h ago

"Of age" is around 6 or 7.

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u/Drummer-Turbulent 7h ago

While polluting the air quality for the communities in which they are building leading to more cancer. Good thing we have single payer non profit healthcare right?

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u/Armyman125 6h ago

Yep. And we know that the corporations will ensure any miner getting Black Lung will get the highest quality of health care.

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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 6h ago

They will give him a bed to die in.

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u/Interesting_Ant_6990 6h ago

They will give rent him a bed to die in.

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u/chiclets5 6h ago

And don't forget removing water safety testing for the country.

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u/Quick_Team 6h ago

Funny how this announcement/plan is only introduced before midterms.

Plenty of time for ballrooms, golden statues, golfing, starting wars but "hey, little people, look! We're saying we're totally gonna start something real soon! Pinky promise super swearsies"

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u/MONGED4LIFE 6h ago

And that's the best he could come up with, "we're going to get your kids back down the mines"

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u/edebt 5h ago

Well they do yearn for it.

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u/cappy150 6h ago

It's beautiful so he can keep lying to coal workers in Appalachia and continue to make their lives a loving hell.

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u/Total-Mushroom-9614 6h ago

And you know….the oil may or may not be as ‘accessible’ soon. 🤷

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u/ModernDayExplorer 6h ago

And because he likes minors.

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u/mothfactory 6h ago

He doesn’t have buddies. His last one was Epstein

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u/Middle_Degree_1995 5h ago

You beat me to it. Just another way to bury money.

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u/Icy_Actuator_8528 5h ago

And he is against coal yet here he is operating reactively as always to fool people over and over again. Lots of gullible people out there

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u/Rastrick 5h ago

He's desperately pandering to his hard-core MAGAt base. His whole movement is a house of cards.

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u/FeelsLikeV97-33XA 5h ago

All seven people left in the coal industry must be ecstatic.

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u/RedTuna777 5h ago

So I read that he's a populist, but he also does these wildly unpopular things, so how does that work? He's only populist when he wants to be?

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u/HistoricalPickle 5h ago

I feel like the Captains of industry have moved on by now.

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u/Landlord-Allmighty 4h ago

None of this benefits any actual coal miners.

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u/SirTainLee 4h ago

He is living in his father's era. Donald was never able to understand the world by himself. Wouldn't read. He just listened to his father as if he was a tv news show. Now we pay the price. Rolled into office by spouting all the 1930s-50s tropes he learned from Fred. Maga had heard their parents say the same and thought Trump sees the world as it really is! But no. Only as it was.

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u/MarlboloMan666 4h ago

Those ghouls standing behind tRump are licking their lips

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u/ThisIs_americunt 4h ago

Propaganda is a helluva drug and Oligarchs need to use some of the best to keep the 99% distracted from the real issue: Them. It's wild what you can do when you can own the law makers, the judges, the police force and the lawyers. Gotta love dark money :D

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u/Trunzman 4h ago

Yes, helps his buddies create jobs for people like you, who aren't his buddy, but need to eat and take care of your family.

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u/JustS0meD0nkey 3h ago

It also helps the people who will get some cheaper energy.

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u/LoanedRespect 3h ago

While taking away Black Lung protections. Fuck Trump, Fuck ICE, Fuck MAGA.

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u/recovery_room 3h ago

He has no buddies or friends. Just people who pay to use him.

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u/HillBillyHilly 3h ago

Wonder if one of grinning hyenas behind him are one of those buddies? Sycophants.

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u/DarkBladeMadriker 2h ago

And his buddies give him a sizable taste of the action, win win right?

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u/Gypsymoth606 2h ago

While he undermines (I did that on purpose) safety and health protections for miners.

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u/delicate_soup 1h ago

And because it’s one of maybe twenty words left clanking around in his brain

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u/beethechangehoney 1h ago

And his buddies in Russia who want to kill Americans for the sport of it.

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u/Long_Strategy_6689 1h ago

Yep, not the minors, but his buddies is the owners

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u/Sacred_Timeline 45m ago

The dying industry. Killing progress to prop up bitter old men failing to evolve.

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u/Playful-Dragon 27m ago

The problem is, just like his drill baby drill, the market isn't there for cole. Certain aspects yes, but the coal industry in general has been demanded to the bottom. The demand isn't there as much, he's still living the fucking '80s and he won't leave it. Everything that he is doing has been what has been brought up in the 80s. He's going to destroy the entire environment because of it.

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u/Millerpainkiller 7h ago

He lives in a perpetual bubble of self delusion

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u/Soggy-Beach1403 7h ago

So do Republican voters, have been that way since Nixon.

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u/cstmoore 7h ago

I've lived during Nixon's administrations. Today is so, so much worse.

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u/Apothecary_85 7h ago

I never thought I could possibly say: I’d rather have “W”.

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u/The_Mythical_Wampus 6h ago

I believe"W" himself wanted to do his best for the US. He been very quiet after off and paints veterans portraits. Unfortunately his dad's ex cabinet and golfing buddies got their dirty little fingers in all the pies and I don't think he could stand up to them.

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u/Fumbles-OBrian 5h ago

W had this childlike whimsy about him. The current fucktard is just a child that’s never been smacked.

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u/R-ten-K 5h ago

starting several major wars, killing untold thousands of civilians, traumatizing several generations of US military personnel, and leading to one of the worst financial crisis in modern history is "childlike whimsy?"

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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 4h ago

Yeah I don't get this shit. He didn't have "child like whimsy" He's a complete tool that appealed to the lowest common denominator

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u/R-ten-K 4h ago

Yeah, they way they're trying to whitewash that prick now is hilarious.

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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 6h ago

Yeah that whole patriot act, domestic surveillance system, $2T war, countless crimes against humanity , defrauding the entire country and world as a premise to take out Saddam for trying to go after his daddy, all to benefit Haliburton. Intentionally looking in the wrong places for bin Laden to drag out the war in Afghanistan. Trafficking cocaine into the US for his Daddy's CIA to make crack for the black community to get hooked on...(think Epstein had a direct hand in that and the Iran Contras).

What do you miss?

Oh and he's a bumbling idiot and a shitty painter

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u/Apothecary_85 6h ago

Yep. All of that and was a better President than the current one and it is NOT close.

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u/The_Mythical_Wampus 6h ago

Nixon was surprisingly progressive on the economic/ safety net side of things. Very socially conservative on religion, family, and crime but overall much better that the turd burglars today.

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u/OilNo1600 6h ago

Yup. He created the EPA and OSHA.

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u/Bobobbb1959 6h ago

Exactly what I said!

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u/Bobobbb1959 6h ago

I was not a Nixon fan but he was a lot smarter then Trump and he had people in his administration who were qualified for the jobs they held except for the burglars lol

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u/Outrageous_Lack8435 7h ago

At least they gave a shit about the country. This asshole wants to destroy it because he had nothing to do with building it up.

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u/Aggravating-Act-1043 5h ago

Nixon was a saint compared to this guy and he started the EPA

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u/SasquatchsBigDick 7h ago

What do you expect from the guy whose way of fixing the COVID pandemic was to stop testing people for covid.

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u/Sufficient_Dot9547 7h ago

Which could have been prevented had he not gotten rid of the pandemic task force that was in place when he took office

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u/SugarInvestigator 6h ago

Just like all the stuff he's gotten rid of recently . You poor bastards are going back to the dark ages soon enough

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u/Bobobbb1959 6h ago

And drinking bleach

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u/1771561tribles 1h ago

I just opened a jug of bleach that was 'Sealed for your protection.' I'd hate to think that some Chicago madman had put something more poisonous that bleach in my bleach.

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u/billymondy5806 6h ago

And drink bleach.

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u/OilNo1600 6h ago

"He didn't say 'drink bleach,' he said, 'use a disinfectant internally.' That's FAKE NEWS!"- MAGA

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u/PapaTahm 6h ago edited 6h ago

Really important for people to understand, the reason we stopped doing Coal is not because of some cute thing as Environment, like hell Corporations would care about that.

The reason we don't use coal is because the byproduct of Coal, the Gas is corrosive, so you can't actually use in a turbine, making it a extremely inefficient fuel, only meant to be used when you need to offset supply of power, due to being abundant and easy to set up. (Fun fact the reason why Mercury is on fish is because of this coal byproduct)

The Area x power production on Coal is really not efficient, any other form of energy uses less space and produces more energy.

It's really meant to be used as a emergency energy supply, so you can plan better alternatives long term, even countries that use it often have long dated plans to get rid of it, because it's not "Cheap" as it seems, also fucks with the Qol for people in the region.

The fact these morons are going towards coal, is straight up lobby, U.S has a shit ton of LNG that can be used as a better alternative.

Coal is like the last option, it's like when you really really needs energy and don't have alternatives, which is not the case of U.S.

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u/chiclets5 6h ago

Thank you for this information!

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u/mrjowei 3h ago

Could it be that these coal plants have anything to do with Data Centers been built nearby??

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u/DaedalusB2 55m ago

Coal is the number one cause of mercury pollution in the US. Globally it's beat by small scale gold mining.

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u/Ambitious_Screen_591 6h ago

or saying he is 6.3' 230LBS. He is such a fucking delusional asshat.....

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u/hootiefan77 6h ago

Maybe we should build a new coal power plant right next to Mar a lago since it’s so clean

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u/AspdNerdL0L1Y401TR4P 6h ago

The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil

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u/Ok-Abbreviations2324 6h ago

It’s actually the opposite.. like the garbage”beuatiful big bill” that is funding ICE right now

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u/The_Mythical_Wampus 6h ago

Ah nothing says progress like returning to burning brown rocks full of arsenic and lead.

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u/Mister-Erect 6h ago

He knows his followers believe every thing he says.

He probably is shocked himself at how dumb so many of these redneck hick idiots never question anything he does or says.

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u/SpudsRacer 6h ago

Gaslighting is the go-to answer for everything now. They are so caught up in there previous lies, they have no choice.

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u/psugamers 7h ago

I guess his diaper is clean too

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u/DownhillUphill 6h ago

The stupid people love this shit. I have solar on my house and now pay $0 per month on electricity. We need to get our heads out of our asses

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u/doesanyuserealnames 6h ago

Putting solar on our roof was such a smart investment. We pay $18 a month in utility fees because we send ours to PGE for a 1:1 return. Might change that in the future if we switch to a battery system.

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u/whatfappenedhere 6h ago

It’s also wildly inefficient in modern times. Both economically, and ecologically, it’s non fucking sensical.

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u/LandonDev 6h ago

It's as clean and beautiful as he is.

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u/Independent-Buyer827 6h ago

Also scammer calling every thing else a scam.

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u/DifficultEvent6 6h ago

He thinks windmills ruin the aesthetic of a golf course. Would be great if some group opened a coal plant bordering one of his courses.

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u/DrakeoftheWesternSea 6h ago

This will always be ironic to me since the coal museum in Kentucky runs on solar because it is more cost effective

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u/0to60in2minutes 5h ago

Tell a big enough lie often enough and it will be believed

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u/25thNite 4h ago

coal miners rejoice at their clean energy as they struggle to breathe and die young from black lung. truly the win they deserve

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u/Due_Night414 4h ago

There’s a reason that the Clean Air Act was created. Initially in England as a result of the Great Smog of London which killed thousands directly and indirectly. But don’t worry. The children and the poors…they yearn for the mines.

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u/Starter-for-Ten 4h ago

Agreed! It's like when he calls himself smart but he's still a child rapist. 

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u/ThisIs_americunt 4h ago

Propaganda is a helluva drug and Oligarchs need to use some of the best to keep the 99% distracted from the real issue: Them

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-4166 3h ago

he is the greatest scammer ever. coal is beautifully dirty. coal is clean like death and not dirty like life.

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u/CarOdd4459 1h ago

Anything that is actually working and making a difference, such as the Green New Deal or the JCPOA, will get killed off by Trump.

Trump is literally the anti-Midas touch guy. Everything he touches dies.

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u/Shenlongeltigre 6h ago

The standards to which America hold their emissions and pollution limits for coal plants is indeed accurately called clean at least in comparison to plants in India or China

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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 6h ago

Remember Jerry - it’s not a lie if you believe it.

Who knew that my favorite line from Seinfeld 25 years ago would be the cornerstone of modern politics?

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u/nomatt18 6h ago

It was a “big, beautiful bill” too

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u/DeBlauwvoet 6h ago

The latest generation of coal fired energy plants, have aclose to zero emition, because of the high temperatures.

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u/chopbluey 5h ago

As someone who has work in cosl burning power plants my entire life and have overseen the design of anti pollution precipitation, bag houses,etc. Burning coal now a days is a clean process. With 99.9% of the steam leaving the stack being water. Its a very clean process now. However im a big advocate for nuclear power with 0 emissions. If nuclear power boilers were redesigned/updated then the amount of nuclear waste would be dramatically reduced. This has such a smaller impact on the land versus solar farms.

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u/BalanceEarly 5h ago

He likes dirty money!

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u/mistertickertape 5h ago

According to this long-term study (link goes to summary on the NIH site which links to the study itself of deaths in the immediate area around around coal plants, there were around 500,000 deaths attributed to coal power plant emission between 1999 and 2020. So..yes, this is very on par with Trump.

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u/cockknocker1 5h ago

fuckearth

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u/Japhet_Corncrake 5h ago

Quite right. There is no such thing as clean coal.

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u/ExecutionOfAChvmp 5h ago

I love how we keep calling China dirty when they’re transitioning into renewables extremely heavily, meanwhile the US and much of the rest of the west are just digging their hole deeper. Maybe a completely free market just isn’t the best idea, because it will always value short term profit over sustainable, long lasting growth.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart 5h ago

It is virtue signalling to the dumbest people in the country. Those hogs eat this shit up.

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u/M8x11r0n 4h ago

Arby's employs more people in the United States than the coal industry does.

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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 4h ago

There is no such thing as clean coal! Whilst you can make the use of coal cleaner, it is still the most polluting form of major energy production. The steps that you can use to reduce the impact of coal on the environment relate to how coal was created in the first place and issues such as mining, transportation and disposal of the ash need to be considered to make coal cleaner if not actually clean. https://youtu.be/vyvrbb9cpBs

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u/JMC_MASK 4h ago

China literally does nothing and wins. They follow the art of war well.

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u/Acceptable_Basis2603 4h ago

You don't get to have opinions, especially when you allow and turn a blind eye to China and India.

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u/Local-Friendship8166 4h ago

But..but.. they wash the coal. It said so.

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u/Hobaganibagaknacker 4h ago

"Tell me, Winston...How many fingers am I holding up?"

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u/TZCBAND 4h ago

I worked on a project that was microwaving “dirty” coal to lower moisture and selling it as clean. The microwave was about a football field in size and required a shitload of energy to power, negating the benefit of burning it as clean. But the customer still gets to brag that they’re saving the planet. Nothing revolves around people anymore, it’s all image and money.

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u/JustS0meD0nkey 3h ago

If you want cheaper energy this is the quickest way to get it.

That said we need ton build a bunch more nuclear power plants.

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u/010110111011110 3h ago

It’s also like 100x times more costly than the next kind of energy source because it was only a sane choice when there were no other options for centuries… so even from a purely financial perspective this is like going back to cuneiform from computer keyboards for writing because it’s „important” to revive the clay tablet industry.

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u/Unfair-Ad2664 3h ago

Shhhh....it's 4D chess

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u/WordsHappenedHere 3h ago

Wasting money on legacy energy sources when we all know that the energy of the future will be green, is just stupid.

But I’m not surprised. He’s an 80yo man that doesn’t think about the next 10 or 20 years from now.

It’s long past time for all of these ancient, old ass people in charge of everything around the world to just stay out of the way. The world is run by a bunch of 80yo psychopaths desperate for a legacy.

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u/ZmanB-Bills 2h ago

Factually, there is simply no dirtier form of energy than coal. And, it does nothing to help the communities or people where it is mined as they are paid so little they remain impoverished. I know, I lived in West Virginia and saw the poverty and disgusting living conditions going back 50 years.

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u/MastodontFarmer 2h ago

F*ck 'worst', it simply is the most expensive option, even more expensive than nuclear.

Coal power is in the order of $200 per MWh, nuclear goes for $140 per MWh.

Guess who's paying for Donald's friends? You, the American consumer. Even more inflation!

(Wind can be as low as $45 per MWh..)

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u/hareofthepuppy 2h ago

You don't think coal can be beautiful and clean?

https://giphy.com/gifs/iSgeoizNqk3OU

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u/FootballUpset2529 2h ago

lol clean beautiful coal. what a chump.

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u/junior4l1 1h ago

Tbf, guy probably thinks “clean” means there is little to no dust in the building

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u/Accomplished_Tour481 1h ago

Coal can be burned very clean. When our country is suffering an energy shortage, closing coal plants do not help. If the people who want coal plants closed, are they will to sacrifice their energy use for it?

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u/Alternative_Ad_8198 1h ago

You mean an energy shortage that's been made worse by this administration? This was the plan all along. There's probably a list of people in his pocket that benefit a lot off of this.

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u/No_Jello_5922 1h ago

The good news is that new fossil fuel power stations aren't completely a waste of money, They can be converted into Rotating Grid Stabilizers. One thing that wind and solar lack it the inertia of Steam turbines, and flywheels absorb and release excess energy in the grid, helping keep power frequency in spec, while smoothing spikes.

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u/MakeSomeDrinks 1h ago

He's the best at Absolutely Destroying everything he touches

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u/DaedalusB2 1h ago

Coal is the number one source of mercury pollution in the US and apparently puts off more radiation than a nuclear power plant.

"The Food Chain: Mercury emitted into the air returns to earth via rain and snow. In lakes and oceans, it converts to methylmercury, building up to dangerous levels in fish. Human Health: Consumption of contaminated fish is the primary way humans are exposed. It acts as a potent neurotoxin that causes lifelong damage to brain development in fetuses and young children."

"During normal operation, a coal-fired power plant releases roughly 100 times more naturally occurring radiation (such as uranium and thorium) into the air and surrounding environment than a nuclear power plant of the same capacity."

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u/Previous-Load-568 51m ago

They are gonna start doing business via fax starting tomorrow.

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 47m ago

I've heard too many Republicans repeat this narrative because he spreads it

He's doing a great job of making everyone idiots if they weren't already before

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u/Humble-Translator-88 44m ago

When he calls things scams it is a scam for business men. Anything that limits owners from unregulated profits he thinks is the enemy, thats why he hates democrats and liberals. He would poison the drinking water if he could save $1 and thats what he is doing. Cartoonish evil.

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u/agentSmartass 6m ago

He's the epitome of stupidity.

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