Discussion: Ex-Coal Exec Who Clashed With Regulators To Lead Mine Safety Agency

Pruitt, Perry, De Vos, Mnuchin, Sessions, this guy, the NASA guy…I hope Mueller acts soon. There won’t be anything left

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except …FREEDOM …!!!1!!! —

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How wonderful for coal miner’s, getting your job back only to die from a preventable mine accident…

Karma’s a carbon hard bitch…

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Gee, what a surprise. I thought death of DACA would be the big drop this weekend, but this will be buried on page 12 of most newspapers, and forgotten.

Rhino has been cited 108 times since 2010 for $1.6M in fines, almost all of them under Zatezalo’s tenure.

Happy Labor Day!
“We saw a lot of happiness,” Trump said after touring the mine entrance where a wall fell on a WV miner, resulting in death.
“They’re really happy with what’s going on,” the president said.
“You’re going to be famous now,” he told a miner in a red “Trump is my president” T-shirt and invited him to come forward for a photo.

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How fitting: a coal company named for an animal that’s also going extinct.

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I was half expecting Don Blankenship.

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Only half? It’s actually shocking that Pharma Boy hasn’t been nominated to a Cabinet post.

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I call this poetic justice.

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“Widow of coal miner, whose husband was killed in a mine re-opened under new safety regulations, still strongly supports Trump. ‘Hillary was so bad! Why don’t the papers cover her email scandal anymore? Trump cuts through the fake news! He told me to have a nice day when my husband died. So nice!’”

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Screw 'em. They all voted for Trump. You get what you vote for. See you boys when you’re digging out of the next mine explosion.

Wasn’t the chairman of Massey available? On a related note, the electric utility of Washington state, I read this week, is closing its coal-fired generators, like, now. Oh nos!

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…but her emails.

The heartless Democrats wanted miners to die after suffering decades of debilitating black-lung disease. That won’t happen under a Trumpp administration.

They should waterboard him in Houston’s toxic chemicals just to get his fucking attention.

Dear fox, welcome to the hen house, come on in!