It’s like “whatever”, for Hillary. “Tell me what will make you happy and I’ll say it.” Yep: Say it. Then walk back. period. 100% politician like her hubby. Empty suits, both of them, no better than dum dum dubya and dick the prick, in my humble opinion.
Her policies aren’t going to put coal mines out of business. They are already going out of business, due to the markets shifting to renewables and gas. Mining communities need to pull their heads out, look at reality, and start preparing for the low carbon economy, because there is no politician that is going to be able to save them if they don’t.
Coal mining has destroyed the pristine mountain environment and the health of the miners, and it hasn’t exactly done wonders for pulling the people out of poverty either, over the generations — yet the people there cling to it as a proud tradition? Maybe it’s time to try something new — like ostrich farming, maybe?
Yes, that’s true about coal mines. I had read that her remark was taken out of context, and this Vox article explains it very well.
Not a gaffe, btw, at all.
This is what she said. Pay attention to the WHOLE statement:
I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right, Tim?
And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.
Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.
Sounds pretty darn good to me.
Glad the presumptive sore losers are already finding condolence with each other. Bill will also ease their pain?
“Supporters of Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Donald Trump gathered outside the school…”
It’s increasingly difficult to tell them apart any more.
That’s nice. Tell us, which politician doesn’t fall into your description?
West Virginia: “We’d vote for a serial killer if he’ll suck off Big Coal in public!!”
Why exactly are disruptive hecklers a news item? And why is their presence supposedly reflective of the person being heckled?
This smacks of narrative pushing. Specifically trying to push the idea that President Clinton is unpopular, because his run in with those disruptive protesters a few weeks ago.
The People’s Front of Judea thanks you for your support.
didn’t you know, he’s a big Putin fan boy.
This is a vestige of the 2008 campaign, when Obama supporters (and the media) circulated the idea that the Clintons were racists, deeply unpopular, etc., etc. Malheuresement, EmoProgs like running with the idea that Bill Clinton was the worst president in history and his tenure was so terrible, that “we don’t want another Clinton in the White House.” Their parents have also succumbed to it as well, when they should know better.
I have been getting a massive push that somehow the Clintons are tied to the KKK on Facebook, and even some of the known trolls here. Of course it doesn’t even pass the laugh test, but there it is. Desperate Fright-Wing™ freaks and the useful idiots hoped up on unicorn farts.
The lead poisoning appears to be having fuller effect across the board.
I’m fine if we just continue to ignore West Virginia entirely as it slides into permanent poverty and despair. You really can’t help those people, they seem to demand their misery.
FB people can really be a blight at times. I don’t see much of this since I rarely read the main FB feed. Think I will continue to not read that feed for the sake of my sanity and blood pressure.
Change is hard for humans so I have some sympathy for them. I think once they see that their lives don’t depend on Big Coal, that there are other ways of making a living, they will gradually come around. It will mostly be through the young.
Yep: How about mountaintop wind energy? How about tourism?
Appalachia coal communities suffer from their own special brand of White Southern Working Class Political Idiocy. They hate the leaders who proposed policies that would help (and have helped) them, their children and their communities. They instead follow leaders who have created the unsustainable mess that they live in.
I hear ya, but that’s not real fair, especially to the minority of voters who don’t support the kind of politics and policies that facilitate that poverty and despair, not to mention all the kids who haven’t even had a chance to vote yet.
But in any event I think economic conditions are going to get even tougher out in coal country before they (maybe) start to get better some day. And I think most people in that region sense that, sense their powerlessness, sense that they and their landscape have been used and discarded, and many of them are simply in primal scream mode.
Coal industry is dying as it should. The workers need our help in transitioning to new job skills.
Yesterday, Warren Buffett said Midamerica Energy, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, would be off coal by end of 2017. Give me the candidate that deals with reality and creates programs to help those in need. We all benefit.