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February 17th, 2017 at 5:38:40 PM permalink | |
stinkingliberal Member since: Nov 9, 2016 Threads: 17 Posts: 731 |
Aside from the fact that you have no source for this "fact," "jobs related to coal" isn't the same thing as "coal miners." Coal has to be transported, burned, and the resultant energy transmitted or the byproducts distributed. All of those jobs could easily be converted to similar non-coal functions. As for the miners, I doubt that they're so stupid that they couldn't be employed digging holes in the ground for some other reason. |
February 17th, 2017 at 5:44:02 PM permalink | |
stinkingliberal Member since: Nov 9, 2016 Threads: 17 Posts: 731 |
Coal is an obsolescent power source. I know you don't give a crap about air pollution and think global warming is a hoax, but even putting those considerations aside, sustainable and renewable power sources are rapidly becoming cheaper than burning fossil fuels. And here's another think for you, Bob--how many miners die in coal mines annually? How many of them do you think would have died if they had been working in solar plants? |
February 17th, 2017 at 6:10:22 PM permalink | |
Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | There are something like 3 million fast food jobs in America. Far less dangerous. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
February 17th, 2017 at 8:56:45 PM permalink | |
stinkingliberal Member since: Nov 9, 2016 Threads: 17 Posts: 731 |
I also wonder why those hundreds of billions (or whatever number EB made up) of unemployed coal miners couldn't be put to work on those nationwide infrastructure projects Trump keeps talking about. Digging, blasting, heavy construction--wouldn't those skills transfer? That's one area where I actually agree with the Orange Asshole. The strange thing is that Republicans are adamantly opposed to spending any money on fixing the country's infrastructure. I guess when you flit around the country in a private jet, you don't see the need to fix crumbling roadways and bridges. Republicans aren't in touch with the real world. |
February 18th, 2017 at 6:51:12 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4157 |
Clearly not the Democrats. How did that work out? |
February 18th, 2017 at 6:54:32 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12422 |
Yes - the Dems lost because they neglected the coal miners. What a moronic argument. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
February 18th, 2017 at 7:04:58 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4157 |
It is not my fault you cannot understand it. The coal miners are just one group that the Democrats left behind. Auto workers seeing jobs leave are another example. I can go on, but why bother. Enough small unimportant groups neglected adds up to an electoral college loss. You can't understand that? I guess neither could Democrat leadership. |
February 18th, 2017 at 7:18:51 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11786 | Trump tweeted "The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!" I just chuckle at these tweets too funny First off, he forgot the Wash Post lol These giant media companies are huge due to the American People. The American people are reading and watching therefore these are big companies They succeed or fail is in direct proportion how much the American reads or watches the product Obviously the media is not the enemy of the American people because the media is directly supported by the American people with there eyeballs Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
February 18th, 2017 at 8:15:02 AM permalink | |
stinkingliberal Member since: Nov 9, 2016 Threads: 17 Posts: 731 |
Technology and progress "left them behind." The Orange Asshole made promises that he can't deliver on. That that tactic worked well just proves how stupid the American electorate is. Trump never said HOW he would "bring those jobs back," except for vague threats of blackmail. Clinton didn't travel to the redneck flyover states and lie to Joe Sixpack about how she would somehow reverse the flow of time and progress and give everybody new pickup trucks. If she had done that, though, she would have won. But she lost the battle of bullshit badly, because bullshit is not her style but comes to the Orange Asshole as naturally as breathing. |
February 18th, 2017 at 8:30:38 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4157 |
You are likely correct. But when trying to win an election you either can choose a winning strategy or a losing one. If both sides have the same 'intel' on how stupid the electorate is, are you 'smart' by ignoring that? I agree with you that it is the technological elimination of jobs that is a much bigger threat than foreign countries to 'Joe Sixpack' as you call him. But because you and I know this, so what? We are the minority. The voters spoke. President Trump is the result. |