Discussion: 'Jobs Alliance,' Funded By Trump Backer, Tries to Block Gas Plants That Would Bring Jobs to West Virginia

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Well of course. The only thing the Cons who support Trump are GOOD at is coming up with NAMES for their corporations used to hoodwink the voters (and steal from them). Period. They are never about ā€˜doing goodā€™ or providing a service.

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I think we ought to block ā€œtraffickingā€ in automobiles to enhance job prospects for the horse breeding and blacksmithing industries.

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On balance, humans are just not the smartest species on the block.

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Iā€™ve always argued that the Republicanā€™t Party is not a job creator, but rather a job crematorā€¦

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Leopard Face-Eating Party Voters: ā€œWell, yeah, but they would never eat MY faceā€¦ā€

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we have not provided financial support to the organization, other than assisting them with certain legal fees.

I didnā€™t help the assassin, other than providing him with a rifle, ammunition and certain fees associated with logistics to and from the crime scene.

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Organization that apparently does only litigation: Well, yeah, the coal company pays our legal bills, but they donā€™t give us any funding.

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Squirrel-istā€¦

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Coal-fired?

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ā€œWe love clean, beautiful West Virginia coal,ā€ the president told a crowd sprinkled with minersā€¦

He really said that? Really?

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Iā€™m guessing Dotard would favor a crowd sprinkled with minors, particularly Slovenian onesā€¦

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ā€œOne of the issues thatā€™s been raised is concern about greenhouse gases that would come out of the stack of the Moundsville Power project. Do you have a concern about greenhouse gases?ā€ power plant lawyer Dave Yaussy asked.

Thomas responded, ā€œYes.ā€

Yaussy followed up, ā€œAre you concerned about global warming?ā€

Thomas responded, ā€œNo.ā€

Mr Thomas, if you are unconcerned about global climate change, why are you concerned about greenhouse gas emissions?

Editorial Comment: Teh stupid really burns sometimes.

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If only we could get the American people to automatically see once and for all that the names the GOP and their donors choose for bills in Congress, proposals at the state level, PACs and SuperPACs they form, are attributable in direct contradiction to the very thing they claim to beā€¦ Then and only then, we might be able to break through the miasma, piles of bullshit and false advertising these pukes try to champion almost every single day.

GOPers are really good at propagandizingā€¦having taken their lessons from Joseph Goebbels in many ways. ProPublica has become indispensable at shining a light on the dark arts of billionaire donors that manipulate the electorate with their lies for some ulterior motive.

If Democrats are to be successful, they have to be even better at not only exposing the lies, but showing that this method of obfuscation is part and parcel of how voters are being fooled to go against their own interests. Influence peddling is nothing especially new in politics. Not knowing whoā€™s doing the influencing however is a problem, that only seems to grow more out of control with each election cycle.

Well done again, ProPublica.

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See: LUNTZ, Frank; Clean Air Act, Healthy Forests Initiative, Death Tax, etc.

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But you and I follow politics. A lot of folks donā€™t and take that stuff at face value. I wish there was a way to get to those folks a lot easier, but Iā€™m afraid the GOP has a head start on getting to them, appealing to their anger, insecurities and their fears, and brainwashing those folks to believe they are on their side, when in reality, of course theyā€™re not and never have been.

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DFG, I heard stories from my mother about the coal furnace and the soot that covered everything. This is why Spring cleaning was invented, so that the everything that could be moved outside was, for cleaning. Which then made it easier to wash the walls, ceilings and floors.

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Maybe he thinks itā€™s the emission of gases from greenhouses? I mean, I really canā€™t speak to his thought process, but Christ, anything is possible.

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A Bloomberg News profile of Murray summed up his position as being that of ā€œAmericaā€™s pro-coal provocateur-in-chief.ā€

Maybe that should read provocoalteur?

There is something touching, or maybe tetched, about this persistent faith that the bosses care about the workers as anything more than an input to production.

Itā€™s not possible. They truly suffer from mental illness, no two ways about it.

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