Source in WV told me a few weeks ago that the coal jobs are already starting to reappear (!!!). Of course, he's also an aspartame truther that thinks Hillary is a lizard fwiw.

are they CLEAN COAL jobs?

The proles think coal has been effectively shut down by environmentalists for no reason while China has used coal to fuel their growth and take US jobs and we pay more for muslim oil that funds terrorism which was Obama's real plan.

doubt it. trump has the analytic mind of a dung beetle. he's all instinct. after years of lying his mind has rewired itself to become a superliar. he lies like a dung beetle flies.


is there mechanism to get obviously corrupt Nunes to step down from the committee that is investigating trump/russia corruption besides a lot of people saying "HEY YOU SHOULD STEP DOWN" ?

Osis, it's about optics. A bunch of poor coal workers don't have jobs. If the mines are open for MOAR BUSINESS, then those people will have MOAR JOBS. Then news stories will say Trump is bringing employment back to coal workers, and therefore he's CREATING JOBS. Video of dirty dudes mining coal like orcs in Mordor will air on Fox and that will be great for Trump.

Restoring one of the dirtiest and most dangerous businesses ever is also a natural desire for anyone who wants to dismantle the administrative / regulatory state for the benefit of the oligarchic wealthy of the United States.

The purported theory is that environmental regulation has caused the reduction of jobs in that industry. That is partially, to a small degree, sort of true. That's as positively as one can fairly describe the veracity of the contention.

The conclusion these idiots draw from that contention, though, is that if they simply rescind those environmental regulations, the coal industry will be booming and jobs will be available. That is, according to virtually all experts, including one notable coal CEO who told Trump to "temper his expectations," not true. The jobs aren't coming back, for the following two reasons.

To a large degree, what has killed that industry is the fact that coal lost the cost battle to natural gas, and that problem was exacerbated by fracking. Now coal is relatively expensive and dirty and inefficient compared to natural gas, which is cheap, efficient, and relatively easy to produce, so demand for coal is lower. No one really wants it as much as other resources - the coal era is simply over as a matter of economics and technology.

And to a similar degree, the other thing that has killed that industry from a JOBS perspective is automation of most of the mining. That's got nothing to do with environmental regulation and everything to do with the fact that dudes working mines is inefficient and exceptionally dangerous, before you factor in respiratory illness and deaths that are basically the birthright of every coal worker ever. Bigass machines dig holes and hack at coal and carry heavy-ass loads of coal better than puny humans do. And they cost way, way less. And you don't need to insure their health. And they don't unionize. This is not hard.

So anyway, Trump's coal fascination is about the optics of putting these guys back to work. It is in no way rationally tethered to the creation of jobs or to energy independence in America. Those are just talking points. It will create very few jobs, have middling impact on energy independence (like, virtually no impact other than tiny, tiny decimals on a spreadsheet deep in some pivot table quantifying energy demand), and, of course, be terrible for the environment for no gain other than stock footage of PEOPLE AT WORK.

And there you have your easy-to-read explanation of Trump's hard-on for coal.

Strip mining. They dig those big holes from the surface rather than digging shafts deep underground that have historically turned into death traps either due to entrapment or occupational disease.

I grew up in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. My father and grandfathers worked in the industry. All had black lung. That industry began its death spiral in the 70s and died a somewhat slow death thereafter.

They have relatively recently developed a process where they are now able to burn the scrap rock that had been a bi product of anthracite mining. There were huge mountains of this black scrap all over a six county area in Pennsylvania that had built up over decades. A huge eye sore. It was once useless. They have built huge plants where they burn the scrap rock and turn it into energy. Problem is the ash that is produced in the process is toxic as ****. What are they doing with it you ask? Backfilling the huge holes created by the strip mining they are doing and polluting ground water systems all over the area in the process. Good times!

Still fervently searching for even 1 person who thinks it's a good idea for ISPs to be able to sell their personal browsing data. I'll get that unicorn one day. And then I'll **** the **** out of it.

I'm really sick of the argument that it's not fair to ISPs since google and FB can do the same thing. That is not the same as seeing my full browsing history. Although full search history is pretty close. But google lets you opt out of that somewhat.

What's to stop Cambridge Analytica from buying that and letting Bannon use as a weapon against his political enemies?

Ryan can remove him.

I think you're underestimating how much facebook knows. Even if you aren't clicking on facebook.com you're visiting sites that are infested with their trackers.

I'll give you one--Donald trump.

This, I think, will have quite brutal implications not far down the road.
The Safe Harbor initiative was effectively shut down over fears that EU citizens' data was being spied on by the US.

In its place we now have the Privacy Shield. And big data companies need this sort of regulatory structure in order to seamlessly deal with personal data irrespective of data subject origin.
But with this new repeal I am fairly certain that the Privacy Shield framework is doomed which will handicap pretty much any internet company relying on personal data in their business model (and this is not just Google, but also on a much smaller scale).

But to put it short, Comcast pays hundreds of millions in lobbying dollars every single year and they are now getting a return on that investment to the detriment of pretty much everyone else.

This is not incorrect, but even with pixel cookies and other random tracking methods there is a world of difference between that and access to your entire browsing history. Especially given what options ISPs have to inject data or put redirections in place, etc.

Yeah I'm aware by the ads FB is now targeting at me - like Hasselblad cameras at roughly 3x what I paid for my camera. It obviously must know. Also whenever I almost buy something on Amazon but back out - it immediately appears on FB the next day and runs for weeks.

Sorry I meant real people not republicans should have been clearer

But I don't even know any repubs who like this beyond those paid off by Comcast or whoever

We might have Trump but at least we aren't Brexiting. LOL ENGLAND

Oh man, the idiots that filmed and edited those BS Planned Parenthood undercover videos are being charged with 15 felonies. Excellent.

happy freedom to all our UK friends who post here

enjoy getting your sovereignty back!

Jesus christ. . .

March 2, 2016:

Consider: The Offender of the Free World

Consider:  Under Trump, the United States May Now Be Killing More Civilians Than Russia

Consider: Trump on generals in Yemen raid: They 'lost' Navy SEAL (in which Trump approves a Navy Seal raid in Yemen - why? - over dinner)

Consider: it's literally 100% of them. "‘This was the worst call by far’: Trump badgered, bragged and abruptly ended phone call with Australian leader". And "Donald Trump 'printed out fake £300bn Nato invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel'".

Consider: lol.

Literally all of the above already happened and was predictable. This is not a victory lap. This is ****ing depression, apathy, hopelessness. Our lives have been altered by this. We're harmed by this. The rest of the world is harmed by this. This is supreme irresponsibility on the global scale, on purpose, by stupid people.

Some young liberal frat douche is about to win ultra conservative house seat in georgia bro. Trump winning will end up being a GOOD thing.

Yeah we talked that in poli forum. He had a ton of financial backing.

Jesus Hoya you aren't special for predicting that he would be a disaster.

All of that is irrelevant. All that matters is that my coal job is coming back any day now.

trading a congressional seat for Trump being president is a good thing? Belicheck is on the phone, he wants to offer you a 6th and a 7th for your 2nd rounder and a 3rd next year

In literally the first seat available there's a massive and unprecedented shift to the left. There will be more.

if there's more, that's great; I don't share your optimism