USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2025/03/30/coal-mine-safety-doge-trump-spending-cuts-federal/stories/202503280062
https://www.post-gazette.com/business/powersource/2025/03/30/coal-mine-safety-doge-trump-spending-cuts-federal/stories/202503280062
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Because 200M didn't give a fuk about them.
—Trump, June 2024
Guess they also fell for his bullshit about that statement being a joke.
He said the quiet parts out loud over and over again and they all just shrugged and laughed it off….”iTs jUsT TrUmP BeInG TrUmP”
Food and drug protections
Financial protections
Environmental protections
Mining and work protections.
...
Don’t care to understand,
& Never wanted or want to learn..
They Never have Empathy, and don’t know what that means, & don’t care to know
"USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you."
Did I vote for this? Hell no. I voted blue, like many of us. But b/c of where we live we all deserve this? You know how that sounds, right?
...right?
Under this government there will be nothing to prevent the mine owner's abuse.
But…but I’m not like them! I swear!
Whatever American, why don’t you just leave then? Or better yet, just die.
TRUMP TOLD THEM WHAT HE WOULD DO. Project 2025 WAS PUBLIC INFO.
People with half a brain have been calling him a Nazi since term one…. Only to be gaslit.
They just didn’t expect it would HURT THEM. Only Poc. Only immigrants. Only LGBTQ. Only women.
FAFO
Imagine thinking he cares about you? Insane.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for stupid assholes who voted for a fascist? Sorry, not sorry.
What Mark Cuban is trying to point out is they didn’t realize they were voting against their own interest, but indeed they did. Now we need to reach them.
I CHOSE not to be a fucking dunce. I CHOSE not to be white trash.
But: being intelligent, empathetic, open minded and educated is WORK.
Hate is LAZY.
Hate is EASY.
No RACIST
No HOMO/TRANSPHOBE
No MISOGYNIST
No ABLEIST
No SCIENCE DENIER
No CHILD PREDATOR
No CHILD KILLER
No CLIMATE DENIER
No ICE GESTAPO
NO ONE who would vote for a felon, rapist, criminal scumbag… TWICE!
…. No. They are not “human.”
No Nazi is “human”
But the things that make MAGA, MAGA… those things don’t go away. They are a part of their personality. They have regrets because THEY are hurt. Not because they suddenly become good people.
I will NEVER befriend or care for my oppressors, let alone those that did this to my country.
Also, Pikeville represent. 🤣
They are mad because they are getting hurt. Not just women, POC and LGBTQ, LIKE THEY VOTED FOR.
NO NAZI IS MY “FELLOW”
PERIOD.
Now name the times he's golfed or held a rally?
Trump doesn't give a damn.
a hand up.
And in the MEANTIME we should be keeping them safe and protecting their benefits.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
Appalachia at this point has brought all of it's problems on itself. I have NO fucking sympathy.
Also, not for nothin', FoxNews should be illegal.
And not uncommon enough.
Then comes the but..but.. I didn't know.
Or Hillary.
Or Kamala.
Who did you vote for folks? Pretty sure it wasn't the black woman.
So yes, you did vote for this.
I must say the Gaza protest vote worked out well. Arab Americans for trump has changed their name it worked so well.
Changed my wording before I published because the original implied everyone.
We need to better recruit those who didn't and bring them here.
Coal fired power plants have "all" switched to natural gas. Cheaper and cleaner.
A small ghost with gold-capped teeth will be spinning in his grave…
#BeMoreSid
Serious question.
Could be forever, hahahaha
I'm sure there are miner's that didn't vote for him being hurt also.
Probably, no choice but to continue doing the job without safety being in check.
I assumed everybody reading this possessed a modicum of intellectual prowess to discern our implied collective sympathies. I assumed wrong. Because you fucking feel the need to tell people to fucking calm down. Fuck you. Condescending piece of shit. You intellectually evolve.
Switch to decaf
Pick your battles
So Charlie instead of telling me to fucking calm down like a condescending piece of shit. How about if you intellectually evolve instead. I didn't think I needed to express my fucking sympathies for the individuals this region of the world that didn't vote FOR A FOOOOOKING NAZI.
So I can talk about the fucking idiots that would vote for a Nazi and I that is what I am doing. Don't tell me to fucking calm down. These mother fuckers helped put a mother fucking Nazi in power and the rest of us are suffering because these dumbfucks exist in the world and vote.
I’m sympathetic and saddened reading this, but it’s like the whole “chickens voting for Colonel Sanders” deal. What did they expect was gonna happen?
With two exceptions... accessible education and health care. After a generation or two these might help.
Other than those, these people are (on the whole) lost.
Can I steal that?
"Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done." - Post Gazette
It is sad that we got to this point.
It is difficult to care about these people in WV.
I am from Pittsburgh - left a long time ago because there was always THIS...
He spent a lot of money to get them to vote for him. In the late stages of the campaign, Musk was literally handing out payments to some voters DIRECTLY!
Misinformed, or whatever - these people are still human beings and they deserve better.
Let them unionize and strike for their rights. Until then... 🤷🏼♂️
If you're suggesting they are simpletons.. you should lay that out plainly
If you mean the voters, quite the opposite. If you've ever met a coal miner, you know they're not simpletons. Fake promises can lure anyone if the promises sound convincing enough. Add those cash payments in an economically depressed area - voila!
I grew up in a coal mining area & without question can say that, absent knowledgable, independent mine inspectors, significant numbers of miners will die.
Most of the deaths will be classified as accidents & thought of as the cost of doing business. All of them will be avoidable.
We're all addicts or dealers.😵💫
No longer members of the WHO.
Food recalls no longer public.
This madman *wants us dead*
let’s not forget the heritage foundation is behind us
Or done anything worthwhile or good they are pathetic weak selfish narcissistic assholes
FDJT.
“He said he was never interviewed by investigators, nor was he aware of any disciplinary action against the company”. “It was like nothing happened,” said Mr. Hopkins, now 69
They're getting a taste of their own medicine 🤷
Fight for the 99% w/
@indivisible.org
@democracyforward.org
@aclu.org
@crawfordforwi.bsky.social
Don’t wait
Government is, more often than not, the reason conservatives HAVE good paying jobs.
If you can help redistribute any amount of wealth to contribute to my survival crowdfund, i desperately could use some support from my privileged friends
❤️🩹⬇️
…thoughts and prayers.
Would those Illinois counties just secede and become a part of Indiana, as West Virginia seceded from Virginia?
I thought of a quote from one of the Harry Turtledove Worldwar sci-fi novels in which Cairo, IL is described as really being a Southern town.
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/illinois/?r=0
But hey, Trump cares about the "average American."
FAFO.
This is what happens when you vote for a billionaire who only cares about his own wealth, and just pretends to care about the working class to get their votes and sell hats.
Probably the same people who refused to wear mask during Covid because they don’t care about anyone else but themselves. But when they contracted covid on deathbed, poor me. I’ve known a handful, one actually died from it.
He seemed genuinely shocked that she would do this.
I laughed when he said that she said "You can come over on Black Friday", and he said "No Mom, I will be at Best Buy then".
this. And also just like, rocks. Sand and gravel operations are a huge part of metal/non-metal.
Which is precisely what the right wing oligarchs want- a return to Dystopian Industrial factories.
in every mine and mill,
Where workers strike and organize
it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill,
it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill!
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”
“I never died” says he,
“I never died” says he.
One of my favorite songs…I would suggest it is poetic license
Black Lung. Peabody Coal Company didn’t give a shit.
But this is nothing new in coal. Coal companies have been taking advantage of their employees since the Industrial Revolution
Republicans don’t care about anybody
Or one really fat one.
They don't give a shit about their health. They've constantly been as pro deregulation as possible and have destroyed the habitats in their communities.
They care about corporations.
Especially since mitt romney told us they were people too.
Petard meet hoist.
UN-FUCKING-BELEIVABLE, WOW.
Everyone commenting and Mark himself are now pro-coal?
You don't like Trump? OK. That's abundantly clear. But don't pretend to care about something, all of the sudden, because it now aligns with your hatred.
Get the fuck out of here.
Coal needs to go away. It needs to be replaced by Nuclear energy.
It's time for it to fade out of existence and be replaced by nuclear. My favorite example these days is Phoenix, AZ. Land locked Phoenix. If they can power that city with a nuclear power plant that all cities can be. It will just take some work to get it done.
Mark's post and all the comments are bullshit. Using people like that is bullshit. Pretending its about humanity, when its not, is bullshit. Its fake outrage for a political purpose.
At a certain point I have no sympathy for people who keep doing self destructive stuff. They were warned, repeatedly.
Spoiler: He hates you, too.
B.) My pfp isn't even Witcher, dipshit.
Eat your shit sandwich you stupid shit eaters
As AI deploys into medicine, accounting, law?
Good luck, chuck.
https://open.substack.com/pub/demodirge/p/when-we-all-become-an-unnecessary?r=9gmmo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
We call this natural selection!
It wouldn’t take many of them (now that they can see how this affects them) to turn the tables.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_West_Virginia
In case you missed it
Suckers.
caring because Barack Obama put a lot of provisions for coal miners and their spouses into the affordable care act and they still never voted for him. West Virginia a cesspool of people who ignorantly vote against their own interests. Let them learn.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f
As satisfying as the FAFO is, right now the regime would rather us fight amongst ourselves than against them
It has everything to do with not getting distracted from fighting the fascist regime coming for US.
Women proving madien and married name change.
& far between.
Now they cut Medicaid.
No more funding for housing for people that need help. If you’re poor down here get ready to be worse off than you were before.
Do they think billionaires EARNED their wealth? LOL. The only way you accumulate that kind of wealth is to steal it from the people who do the real work.