Yes, I did, this time because it’s HILARIOUS to watch you cry about the fake Dr. claiming Trump has X disease while pedaling this YouTube garbage.
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Bears repeating: it’s like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good you are at chess the pigeon is just going to knock over the pieces, crap on the board and strut around like it’s victorious.
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Spicer’s going to regret his performance at those first two pressers for the rest of his life. The mold was set.
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^ yup spicy is on fire
But Jimmys Trump last night was hilarious
Your reminder Trump cares about working class people and undoes Obama’s coal mining rule
Putting coal miners back to work
[quote] Rand Paul:
"We were excited about it. This was an overzealous federal government regulation that would have cost 77,000 more jobs in the coal industry. We’ve already lost — you know, we‘ve lost over 10,000, maybe close to 20,000 coal jobs just in Kentucky. This would have decimated us. So this was a huge reprieve. In fact, I told my colleagues, this might have been the best thing we’ve done since I’ve to Washington, is repealing this terrible regulation.”
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Regulations do not create jobs. They do the opposite
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-17/the-epa-doesn-t-kill-coal-jobs-better-mining-does
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Oh, this is such a trip down nostalgia lane, I still remember some of this stuff from my childhood.
The USSR had an occasionally wildly surreal list of the “enemies of the Soviet People” which included, among other, the electric guitar, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. But this…
Here’s a primer from Wikipedia - you’ll know the shit hit the fan when he starts mentioning The Workers:
The Soviet Union made extensive use of the term (Russian language: враг народа, “vrag naroda”), as it fit well with the idea that the people were in control. The term was used by Vladimir Lenin after coming to power, as early as in the decree of 28 November 1917:
> all leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, a party filled with enemies of the people, are hereby to be considered outlaws, and are to be arrested immediately and brought before the revolutionary court.
Other similar terms were in use as well:
enemy of the labourers (враг трудящихся, vrag trudyashchikhsya) enemy of the proletariat (враг пролетариата, vrag proletariata) class enemy (классовый враг, klassovyi vrag), etc.
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It’s a dying industry sure, but why would you want to hinder it even further with regulations?
To prevent the pointless destruction of streams and rivers?
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Just reading through the thread and it took a weird turn. My first question to anyone who wants to answer is this: Have many of the Presidents elected over the past 60 years been, shall we use the term normal?
John Kennedy was a sex maniac
Richard Nixon was paranoid
GW Bush had a real public speaking problem…it is the number one fear but he was just awful
Bill Clinton was an accused rapist and sexual predator.
Barack Obama an egomaniac
Trump might be a megalomaniac
I don’t think many of the Presidents have been all that normal.
Which ones?
“According to federal government estimates, mountaintop removal coal mining has damaged or destroyed more than 2,000 miles of streams in four central Appalachian states, including Virginia and Tennessee. Amazingly, these mining practices by-and-large have been allowed under current laws.”
Mountaintop Mining Consequences (a review article from Science, the publication of the AAAS)
Nah I’d rather maximize employment.
BTW this is the same reasoning not to build a wall
Are you familiar with the expression penny wise, pound foolish?
That gives numbers with nothing to compare to. There are statements of mineral concentrations, but no demonstration of the difference between pre-mining, post mining, and any significant time period for recovery of the ecosystem (15 years?).
And people wonder where the concerns of fascism come from…
Welll…
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