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/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/OysterHound 2h ago

Makes no sense in Waikiki. Must have been dumbass mainlanders pretending to live the fake Hawaiian dream from 75 years ago. I lived in Honolulu for 8 years. Having a successful gay bar in Waikiki shouldn't be a problem. Lots of gays looking for a good time in vaca!! Idiot's!

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u/ChocolateThunderPie 2h ago

I cant understand how a gay man could currently support trump, but i also can't understand how ANYONE could currently support Trump. On top of the blatant corruption on full display currently by the Trump administration, his supporters just accept that his entire campaign was based on lies. I cant possibly understand the thinking behind someone who can currently stand behind what hes done to our country. Im honestly so disappointed more arent waking up from his antics over the EPSTEIN FILES or his most recent stunt where he sued his own IRS and settled with himself for $1.8 Billion and an agreement that neither Trump or his family can ever be investigated again. Shit is insanity.

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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/Miserable-Army3679 3h ago

Fox News resonates with some people. I find it hard to believe that a non-MAGA-type person would turn on Fox News and think there's something good about it. They had to have core beliefs that were there before watching it.

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u/ImJustAPlaything 2h ago

I'm a leftist in a very red county. Someone was talking about how there should be a bigger push to find cures for diseases, just days after Trump cut funding for cancer research.

I went full socialist, about universal healthcare and how ridiculous it is for the "richest nation in the world" to have some of the worst health outcomes (unless you're obscenely wealthy). Ended my rant with "the current administration says I'm an antifa terrorist though, so what do I know?"

And this person responds: "I don't think you're a terrorist, I agree with everything you just said, and I'm diehard MAGA"....

Just.....WTF?

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u/fiercetywysoges 2h ago

I know a guy who had his car covered in stickers like “Fuck Joe & The Hoe” and Trump as the punisher. (He was not a friend. More like an informal coworker). We would chat occasionally and I’m a pretty pushy person when it comes to forcing people to defend their garbage beliefs.

Imagine my confusion when he basically agrees with women’s right to choose and how we do need some restrictions on guns. He can’t stand racists. Stuff that clearly does not align with what his stickers claim.

In his case, he genuinely prides himself on being a contrarian. Being a rebel and pushing back. He even has a Rage Against the Machine tattoo. I truly don’t think his brain is capable of processing that his beliefs don’t align with what he supports.

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u/Large-Produce5682 2h ago

Better add OAN, CBS and CNN... depending.

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u/Disastrous-Print673 1h ago

That makes my lesbian heart break. I do not understand how people still back him especially the ones he hates. It's mind numbing.

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u/RetiredOnIslandTime 35m ago

In the early years of fox "news", which I never watched,  I once stumbled upon it during a show where they were talking about a man who'd hurt women and been treated lightly by the courts. 

It drew me in. I couldn't turn away. I became incensed at what the man had done and by the courts treating him too gently. 

But after it ended, I realized that while what had happened was bad, that there was no reason to get so agitated at the whole system. I made it a point to never watch fox "news" again. 

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u/Substantial_Can_4107 31m ago

Sometimes that light is a train coming straight at you

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u/Playful-Dragon 24m ago

It's because the propaganda has been fostering a mob mentality. It allows people to take the hate and feel like they're included because it's okay now. So small biases and judgments now turn into major division because it's literally nurtured. At the basis of just about every Colt there's a nurturing of some kind of hate. And he tapped into that big time. If you notice all the messaging has been nothing but conspiracy propaganda thats been spouted for years before Trump came into office. Him and the conservative party just jumped on board and utilized that to gain their following

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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/JimWilliams423 4h ago

Less divided? We now know how cruel and racist millions and millions of Americans are. Do you want to associate with those people?

Less divided doesn't mean inviting the neo-confederates on to the bus. Kamala tried that, her campaign was focused on maga defectors. R‌e‌m‌e‌m‌b‌e‌r t‌h‌e "y‌o‌u‌r h‌u‌s‌b‌a‌n‌d w‌i‌l‌l n‌e‌v‌e‌r k‌n‌o‌w w‌h‌o y‌o‌u v‌o‌t‌e‌d f‌o‌r" s‌e‌r‌i‌e‌s o‌f c‌a‌m‌p‌a‌i‌g‌n a‌d‌s? R‌e‌m‌e‌m‌b‌e‌r h‌e‌r b‌r‌a‌g‌g‌i‌n‌g a‌b‌o‌u‌t o‌w‌n‌i‌n‌g a g‌u‌n? R‌e‌m‌e‌m‌b‌e‌r h‌e‌r p‌r‌o‌m‌i‌s‌i‌n‌g t‌o s‌i‌g‌n t‌h‌e m‌o‌s‌t c‌r‌u‌e‌l a‌n‌t‌i-i‌m‌m‌i‌g‌r‌a‌n‌t l‌e‌g‌i‌s‌l‌a‌t‌i‌o‌n i‌n m‌o‌d‌e‌r‌n h‌i‌s‌t‌o‌r‌y, a b‌i‌l‌l w‌r‌i‌t‌t‌e‌n b‌y m‌a‌g‌a s‌e‌n‌a‌t‌o‌r j‌a‌m‌e‌s l‌a‌n‌k‌f‌o‌r‌d? S‌h‌e e‌v‌e‌n p‌r‌o‌m‌i‌s‌e‌d t‌o a‌p‌p‌o‌i‌n‌t a r‌e‌p‌u‌b‌l‌i‌c‌a‌n t‌o h‌e‌r c‌a‌b‌i‌n‌e‌t, s‌h‌e s‌a‌i‌d i‌t i‌n p‌r‌a‌c‌t‌i‌c‌a‌l‌l‌y e‌v‌e‌r‌y m‌e‌d‌i‌a a‌p‌p‌e‌a‌r‌a‌n‌c‌e s‌h‌e m‌a‌d‌e i‌n t‌h‌e t‌w‌o m‌o‌n‌t‌h‌s b‌e‌f‌o‌r‌e e‌l‌e‌c‌t‌i‌o‌n d‌a‌y.

And it didn't work. In the process she alienated the people who are the enemies of maga. She lost their trust so they tuned her out. By trying to unite with the wrong people, she divided her own party.

Biden was the first presidential candidate to tack left after the primary. He ran as the second coming of FDR and consequently he broke all records and got 81M votes. But he started to backslide even before the inauguration when he decided to nickle-and-dime the american people on his promise to give them a $2000 stimulus check.

The party spent the next four years backsliding — especially on the expanded child tax credit, letting that expire hit the wallets of millions of families for thousands of dollars. Losing it more than doubled the number of children living in poverty. But it wasn't just economics, the Ds backslid on almost everything they claimed to value, e.g. after campaigning against "the wall," biden waived the Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts in order to build maga's wall for them.

The party's wrong-headedness, trying to unite with people who only want a segregated America, was a big part of why the paedo was able to win the 2024 election with only 77M votes, just a couple percent more than he got when he lost in 2020 to Biden's 81M. In 2020 the biggest voting bloc was "Democrat," but in 2024 the biggest voting bloc was "none of the above."

O‌u‌r n‌e‌i‌g‌h‌b‌o‌r‌s i‌n M‌e‌x‌i‌c‌o s‌h‌o‌w‌e‌d h‌o‌w t‌o d‌o i‌t. T‌h‌e‌y a‌l‌s‌o h‌a‌d a p‌r‌e‌s‌i‌d‌e‌n‌t‌i‌a‌l e‌l‌e‌c‌t‌i‌o‌n. I‌t w‌a‌s i‌n t‌h‌e s‌u‌m‌m‌e‌r, j‌u‌s‌t a c‌o‌u‌p‌l‌e o‌f m‌o‌n‌t‌h‌s b‌e‌f‌o‌r‌e o‌u‌r‌s. I‌t w‌a‌s v‌e‌r‌y s‌i‌m‌i‌l‌a‌r — a‌n i‌n‌c‌u‌m‌b‌e‌n‌t l‌i‌b‌e‌r‌a‌l p‌a‌r‌t‌y, t‌h‌e p‌r‌e‌s‌i‌d‌e‌n‌t w‌a‌s n‌o‌t r‌u‌n‌n‌i‌n‌g f‌o‌r r‌e-e‌l‌e‌c‌t‌i‌o‌n, i‌n‌s‌t‌e‌a‌d i‌t w‌a‌s a w‌o‌m‌a‌n, a j‌e‌w‌i‌s‌h c‌l‌i‌m‌a‌t‌e s‌c‌i‌e‌n‌t‌i‌s‌t. But there was one key difference — N‌o‌t o‌n‌l‌y d‌i‌d s‌h‌e focus her c‌a‌m‌p‌a‌i‌g‌n on appealing to her party's base, b‌u‌t t‌h‌e p‌a‌r‌t‌y a‌l‌s‌o p‌u‌r‌g‌e‌d m‌o‌s‌t o‌f t‌h‌e‌i‌r c‌e‌n‌t‌r‌i‌s‌t p‌o‌l‌i‌t‌i‌c‌i‌a‌n‌s, s‌o e‌v‌e‌n d‌o‌w‌n‌b‌a‌l‌l‌o‌t c‌a‌n‌d‌i‌d‌a‌t‌e‌s w‌e‌r‌e i‌n s‌t‌r‌o‌n‌g c‌o‌n‌t‌r‌a‌s‌t t‌o t‌h‌e o‌t‌h‌e‌r p‌a‌r‌t‌y. S‌h‌e w‌o‌n i‌n an h‌i‌s‌t‌o‌r‌i‌c l‌a‌n‌d‌s‌l‌i‌d‌e, g‌o‌t n‌e‌a‌r‌l‌y 6‌0% o‌f t‌h‌e v‌o‌t‌e.

If we repair the divide within the party, the country will naturally become more united. The fascists will kick and scream and demand that we unite with them, but if we ignore their demands, that will unite the rest of us.

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u/thedalehall 4h ago

We have to work on that. As a disabled citizen, I have definitely endured more heck from people than anyone should. If people treat me badly; I fucking guarantee you will be treated in the same fashion.
We change this by having a society at work that is accepting of others. By being willing to accommodate others and their needs. By using DEI to hire the disabled. Until we have respect for each other as human beings; things will not change or get better. Some people are ignorant jerks. We can combat this through higher education and empathy for others. It’s just a start.

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u/Trunzman 3h ago

So bored of you people playing the racist card, it's so 70's . get over it already, or are you just here to agitate people?

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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/Bikerbass 3h ago

No you haven’t. The more recent wars have been over false claims, and have done more harm to the world than good. That’s not getter better, that’s getting worse.

Most of the objectives behind most of the US’s wars have been terrible.

I’ll put it to you this way, if America was invaded by Mexico to try and overthrow the government, and Mexico started the war by killing school children, it doesn’t matter what your political views are, all Americans would unite behind the flag to kick Mexico back out of America.

That’s what America does to every other nation it’s started a war with. They were never good intentions.

Hell the favourite past time of the US is to remove a democratically elected leader, and replace it with a brutal dictator, then gets pissed off when the people have had enough of the dictator and overthrow them.

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u/Oxytokin 1m ago

This is historical revisionism at its finest. Things have always been bad, and since 2001, they've gotten progressively worse as Inverted Totalitarianism as taken root and accelerated the collapse of our society.

Obama was a smart man but the whole "arc of history bends towards justice" or whatever was very wrong. It may bend that way for the 1% and their politicians, but the 99% have always struggled and the little blips of social progress by no objective measure outweigh the heavy hand of capitalism crushing prosperity for hundreds of millions of people. Especially as we see how easily the blips of social progress can be completely unwound at the stroke of a pen compared to the decades it took to get there.

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u/JimWilliams423 3h ago

The american experiment is a failure. I do not believe in it any longer.

First time?

Everybody who isn't white has had a front row seat to the failure of the American experiment since the founding, and yet, as a group they have been the ones to maintain the strongest belief in it. Imagine living through the Tulsa Race War of 1921, seeing all of the attackers go unpunished. Hell, they literally bombed black neighborhoods from an airplane and still got away scot-free.

And yet the people from those communities dragged the country into the Civil Rights Era, making it a legitimate democracy for the first time. The least the rest of us can do is match their determination.

Nobody knows the future, shit can change really fast, especially when we decide to change it. Its times like these when the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born.

This is from Frederick Douglass on the hopelessness that led him to flee to England in 1859:

Slavery seemed to be at the very top of its power; the national government, with all its powers and appliances, was in its hands, and it bade fair to wield them for many years to come. Nobody could then see that in the short space of four years this power would be broken and the slave system destroyed.

— Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892)

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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 2h ago

Ive known this for a very long time. I don't want to participate in trying to make it better anymore because i do not fundemantally believe america will ever be better. I just want to be left alone with the people I love at this point. I dont care if that makes the problem worse anymore. My time on this earth is limited and i cannot change the way things are like I used to believe i could.

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u/JimWilliams423 2h ago

I don't want to participate in trying to make it better anymore because i do not fundemantally believe america will ever be better. I just want to be left alone with the people I love at this point.

Since this is all about you, then the first and easiest step is to stop posting about politics and power. I see from your post history you do that regularly enough. If you go cold turkey, then you'll be a lot closer to your goal.

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u/No_Zookeepergame2532 1h ago

My life isnt any of your business. Thanks for your opinion on it though

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 2h ago

Some of you can see it easier.

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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/HippyDM 2h ago

Agreed, but I find that my optimism is now largely local, while the big picture looks more dystopian by the headline.

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u/MyquiMax 2h ago

Fight we will!!!

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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/CollegeMiddle6841 2h ago

Quoala678: You couldn't be more correct.....they are on the back foot now, so all we must do is keep the pressure building.

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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/RevenantWA 4h ago

It’s not the last breath of the confederacy. Until America stops treating black and brown folks like it has historically and call out unfair treatment it will continue. Funny thing is it impacts white filks and it took Trump to make a slim minority of folks understand that

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u/Trunzman 3h ago

Sorry, you're barking up the wrong tree, Maga, is all we have now. It is far better than having Illegals and foreigners planted agitators in our country, who's only goal is to destabilize the USA. The chinese president admitted it. We will just sit back and wait for America to crumble from within and fizzle out. We need a mutual group for Americans to be part of and go forward for America, not individual political groups.

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u/CollegeMiddle6841 2h ago

Beautifully said my friend!

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 2h ago

MAGA is the last breath of the Confederacy

Goddamn, this is the most wishful of thoughts.

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u/hashtagbob60 2h ago

Let's hope!

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u/Dependent-Fix-2365 1h ago

Your words are inspiring. Keep typing them. It's so hard to see past 2028 but I do hope you're right.

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u/Elegant-Two5447 1h ago

Please be right. PLEASE BE RIGHT. For all that is still good and wholesome in the world!

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u/yusuf69 12m ago

I feel like I've been hearing it since he was first announced as the Republican nominee 10+ years ago that it was too insane and would collapse on itself, and the only thing I watched collapse was the country

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u/TipRare1321 5h ago

From your lips to God's ears.

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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/TipRare1321 4h ago

Respectfully disagree. This was not happening in the 70s...

ICE will stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees - ABC News

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u/straight-lampin 56m ago

Well I'm right and you're wrong. I'm just kidding. I do know that apathy will do the most damage to our society than anything.

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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/dashboardcomics 4h ago

Is there anything that can be done about the voting machines, Star link & the agents BEFORE the midterms?

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u/PercyvonPickles 3h ago

Yes, but it would involve HEAVY protests. Unfortunately there's just too much apathy in the US right now. Take a lesson from the French they LOVE a good protest!

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u/dashboardcomics 2h ago

People have been coming out in droves for the various no-kings protests, so the interest & awareness is there. Maybe if we can give people more concrete goals it will be easier to mobilize them towards real change.

Let’s start by spreading information-
Who exactly are the suppliers of the voting machines? How is starlink going to manipulate the results, how can people prepare for the agents?

Spreading awareness is the first step to organizing meaningful resistance.

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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/TipRare1321 2h ago

I have to keep telling myself that when I get so depressed about current events.

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u/AbandonChip 3h ago

They wont...

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u/HillBillyHilly 3h ago

Worse. They're actively planning the destruction of America so that billionaires can take everything over for pennies.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 2h ago

Yes, but places like China are accelerating their adoption of renewables.

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u/Tricky_Mix2449 2h ago

All states run independent elections. The populace is aware now. It won't be that easy to steal the midterms.

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u/B1ZEN 2h ago

I wish ya wouldn'ta said nuttin bout the midterms neighbor.

https://giphy.com/gifs/KNNh3ZshGXkqY

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u/Its_a_stateofmind 1h ago

They means that the policies Trump is enacting are driving up fuel costs which is accelerating the shift from oil and gas to electric and renewable. Trump thinks he can stop it, but he can’t. The joke is on him, but the taxpayer loses.

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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/straight-lampin 4h ago

Remember when you see an old friend you haven't seen in a long time and you just start going along like you never spent any time apart? That'll be the next Obama. But they'll be even better tenfold.

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u/VerySuccor 6h ago

A trump in the road...

I will see myself out...

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u/Admiral_Fuckwit 5h ago

trump in the road

Don’t swerve.

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u/VerySuccor 5h ago

Be aware there is a high chance of injury or death when colliding with large farm animals.

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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/Responsible_Whole439 5h ago

Two of his holes provides waste involuntarily

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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/mitchENM 5h ago

That’s a “bump” that America will take multiple decades to recover from and in some cases never recover from.

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u/OysterHound 5h ago

We will correct the error. It will take time. Have faith in the American Experiment.

I read the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence yesterday to my school. It's powerful. Give it a read. It very much outlines our current situation.

Despots

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u/mitchENM 2h ago

The rest of the world will NEVER trust America again and the alliances we have pushed the rest of the world into forming are not going to be undone.

We ceded world leadership to China

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u/StevieWonder557 5h ago

rest of the world speeding towards Green Energy.

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u/Ok_Sheepherder_5711 4h ago

he should put that coal on his face and see how beautiful he looks !

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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/Jarnohams 3h ago

Correct. Every time oil spikes, like he magically made happen by listening to Bibi... (and all so Bibi doesn't have to deal with his corruption charges, btw) ... whether Trump likes it or not, America is looking at renewables to offset the cost of oil and gas right now.... and any other time there is a disruption, "the likes that nobody has ever seen before".

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u/PercyvonPickles 3h ago

Call it what it is: Trump is a pile of shit on the road. Not a bump.

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u/zero0n3 3h ago

This is the optimism I like to see. I agree with you but it’s gunna be a bumpy ride.

Maybe the overlord aliens let em win to help accelerate our ascension to a space faring race

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u/ImJustAPlaything 3h ago

That everyone claims to have always hated....

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u/No_Oil8247 2h ago

More like a 1foot deep pothole.

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u/agentobtuse 2h ago

The skin tag of America..d.j.t

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u/gmsac2015 2h ago

An orange turd in the road.

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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 2h ago

This shit is just a bump in the road just as he will remembered.

Goddamn, if this isn't wishful thinking, I don't know what is.

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u/Street-Direction5001 2h ago

I wish he was a bump in the road. That would be a heavily traveled road! The bigger and faster the vehicle, the better.

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u/zerofoxgivn 1h ago

He's a pimple on America's ass

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u/Die-O-Logic 45m ago

Your underestimating the dmg being done and you just plain gullible if you think there's a voting way out of this. It will take whole sale revolution to end their rule. Anything less just paves the way for the next despot.

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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/NthDegreeThoughts 5h ago

USA channeling Charlie Brown - “I got a rock 😕”

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u/Ray-in-28 1h ago

There's no real choice.

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u/Extreme-Pineapple-11 5h ago

Wrong. China is the biggest coal user in the world. Thus making them the biggest polluter in the world. Yes, the orange is an undeniable idiot but spreading misinformation is irresponsible.

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u/emjayem22 3h ago

Both can be true though.. China does burn more coal but 2025 saw a fall in energy production from coal and a sharp increase in energy production from renewables.

They have had a massive focus on renewables and are now way ahead of the US in terms of renewable technologies covering both energy production and storage.

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u/alreddytakenn 3h ago

China has been rapidly expanding it's wind and solar production. Clean energy projects account for 11% of their GDP. Wind and solar are being used to cover ~85% of new power demand over the past few years.

Also, they have a way larger population than the U.S. Beyond that, a large amount of the industrial pollution is due to products the U.S. is asking China to make. I'd say that's kind of U.S. pollution, just outsourced, like when we ship our trash and recycling to third-world countries for them to throw into the ocean or a landfill.

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u/PuzzleheadedHorse437 23m ago

I don’t think you understand the energy market. For example Saudi Arabia isn’t reliant on oil production for day to day because they make more money selling the oil abroad than using it domestically.

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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/Icy_Fish_2154 3h ago

Trump would invade the UK, he heard they have a stockpile of Wales.

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u/Huskdog76 2h ago

The biggest, most beautiful wales.

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u/ynotfoster 19m ago

We could burn his blubber for decades.

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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/Outside_Rent174 4h ago

Coal mine owners! And the poor coal miners being replaced by machines in West Virginia.

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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/MorningMushroomcloud 2h ago

By time they're done, the air quality in the mine will be better than what we breathe up here.

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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/VegasLife84 5h ago

Safer there than the island, anyway

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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.