No and no. We proudly carry our Sierra Club backpacks and renew our support each year. End Citizens United is an ongoing effort and will need support from all sane people. Trump's famous "slush fund" for criminals would be better used to set up a fund for families of coal miners whose health is ruined by their work. We are already falling behind the rest of the world in many ways; this is just one more step backward. Rick Wilson, former republican strategist and now passionate never-trumper, wrote a book titled "Everything Trump Touches Dies". Yes, literally.
I have switched from supporting Sierra Club, which uses far too much of its money on administrative expense, to the Nature Conservancy, which uses virtually all of its donations to buy and save land.
We are actually thinking of doing the same. Our support of them goes way back, and we liked their approach then. Lately, we have been hearing more and more about how they have changed over time. We have always admired the founder (John Muir). However, they now really function like a club. The Nature Conservancy and the National Wildlife Federation seem like better choices. Thanks for the reminder!
The WVState Government has dumped all of the environmental protections so that it's open season for polluters in the South Western part of the State, and they dropped safety regulations and health care for miners who live in the acid mine run off and uncapped gas wells. Most of it is sold overseas and who benefited from all of this Industry? Benefitting our local communities doesn't seem to be in the MAGA Plan 2025 paperwork purgatory.
Maybe the malignant narcissist wants to be sure there is adequate coal to put in his stocking. He deserves to live near a coal mine with orange water emanating from it, or next to a coal fired energy generator and downstream from a coal ash disposal pond.
I would like to give this stupid man a lump on his head! It isn't even ignorance, just pure stupidity and grift. I know we will come back from this, but the road will be long and was one we had already successfully trudged.
Trump is not the first president to extoll the virtues of so call "clean coal". He's the only one to order reopening the filth that is a coal mine. That said, the only energy crisis he should worry about is his own. Sleeping on the job while decrying an energy crisis is too funny.
In the name of justice, don't forget the intense violence of owners on miners; labor history of places like Mingo Co. WV. Like the rest of the majority working class, abandoned when the D party went neolib decades ago. Then the 2016 D prez candidate calls for ending coal, promising to retrain workers. Not believed since in the 16 years of B. Clinton and Obama admins not one thing done to relieve Rust Belt suffering, deaths of despair. Area was 90% for FDR. In 1992 69.7% for D prez, declining to 13.9% 2020. The D party elite never asks why.
Of course coal is bad and alt. energy has proven itself. But the good should not rest on the backs of destroyed lives. To quote Jim on a TX watermelon farmers' issue (from the Tue. interviewee's book /When Democrats Won the Heartland/) "If we had been liberals, we'd have retrained them to do something else. As populists, we changed the market structure that was f*cking then over. That's the difference."
Since it would takes years to retool, not likely this would happen any time soon. Merely an R political ploy instead of a D one. Why not in the meantime find out how to put together a populist alliance with the workers and their rural relatives?
Yes, recommended for subject and for John Sayles. The exact area I was referring to.
Maybe if the nice well-educated liberals who comment on this site about how the last election is the fault of "stupid" voters would watch this, they'd have an epiphany--we workers can read, write, and think! The U.S. has a long history of terrible repression of labor. Lifted during the Golden Age of the New Deal 1933-1979. Then the D party pulled that out from under us to make nation and world safe for corporate economics. Yet D loyalists can't fathom why we're so angry.
In the meantime, Europe, China, and others move to solar and wind power. Once again Trump sets the US back to star on energy with negative health consequences.
“Being an agitator is what America is all about, an agitator, he adds, “is the center post in the washing machine that gets the dirt out.” ~ Jim Hightower
We have to stop the plunder Now! Protect and Preserve our National Parks and Federal Lands! Not for Sale or Lease! Supporting 'More Than Just Parks' Jim and Will Pattiz
What can you say about this and every article that is posted about Trump. He and his hand picked sycophants in this administration have proven themselves to be as corrupt and crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Ive read and supported Mr. Hightower's writings for a long time. Always on point, but at same time I caution anyone about the activities of the Sierra Club. Their actions have been on the wrong side of much needed housing for decades.
Perhaps Mr. Trump should spend a couple of hours in the depths of a coal mine and see what it's like.
Maybe he should stay there permanently, the old creep.
No and no. We proudly carry our Sierra Club backpacks and renew our support each year. End Citizens United is an ongoing effort and will need support from all sane people. Trump's famous "slush fund" for criminals would be better used to set up a fund for families of coal miners whose health is ruined by their work. We are already falling behind the rest of the world in many ways; this is just one more step backward. Rick Wilson, former republican strategist and now passionate never-trumper, wrote a book titled "Everything Trump Touches Dies". Yes, literally.
I have switched from supporting Sierra Club, which uses far too much of its money on administrative expense, to the Nature Conservancy, which uses virtually all of its donations to buy and save land.
We are actually thinking of doing the same. Our support of them goes way back, and we liked their approach then. Lately, we have been hearing more and more about how they have changed over time. We have always admired the founder (John Muir). However, they now really function like a club. The Nature Conservancy and the National Wildlife Federation seem like better choices. Thanks for the reminder!
I especially like the National Wildlife Federation z
I have been supporting " More Than Just Parks' the Pattiz brothers
The WVState Government has dumped all of the environmental protections so that it's open season for polluters in the South Western part of the State, and they dropped safety regulations and health care for miners who live in the acid mine run off and uncapped gas wells. Most of it is sold overseas and who benefited from all of this Industry? Benefitting our local communities doesn't seem to be in the MAGA Plan 2025 paperwork purgatory.
Maybe the malignant narcissist wants to be sure there is adequate coal to put in his stocking. He deserves to live near a coal mine with orange water emanating from it, or next to a coal fired energy generator and downstream from a coal ash disposal pond.
I would like to give this stupid man a lump on his head! It isn't even ignorance, just pure stupidity and grift. I know we will come back from this, but the road will be long and was one we had already successfully trudged.
We should move exclusively to wind power--Trump's speech alone could power acres of it.
The term, windbag, comes to mind.
Passing wind?
Trusting Tyrant Trumpolini the Liar means that you are either gullible or a fool.
Or a billionaire waiting for yet more profits over people.
Trump is not the first president to extoll the virtues of so call "clean coal". He's the only one to order reopening the filth that is a coal mine. That said, the only energy crisis he should worry about is his own. Sleeping on the job while decrying an energy crisis is too funny.
In the name of justice, don't forget the intense violence of owners on miners; labor history of places like Mingo Co. WV. Like the rest of the majority working class, abandoned when the D party went neolib decades ago. Then the 2016 D prez candidate calls for ending coal, promising to retrain workers. Not believed since in the 16 years of B. Clinton and Obama admins not one thing done to relieve Rust Belt suffering, deaths of despair. Area was 90% for FDR. In 1992 69.7% for D prez, declining to 13.9% 2020. The D party elite never asks why.
Of course coal is bad and alt. energy has proven itself. But the good should not rest on the backs of destroyed lives. To quote Jim on a TX watermelon farmers' issue (from the Tue. interviewee's book /When Democrats Won the Heartland/) "If we had been liberals, we'd have retrained them to do something else. As populists, we changed the market structure that was f*cking then over. That's the difference."
Since it would takes years to retool, not likely this would happen any time soon. Merely an R political ploy instead of a D one. Why not in the meantime find out how to put together a populist alliance with the workers and their rural relatives?
Watching"Matewan" a John Sales movie
Yes, recommended for subject and for John Sayles. The exact area I was referring to.
Maybe if the nice well-educated liberals who comment on this site about how the last election is the fault of "stupid" voters would watch this, they'd have an epiphany--we workers can read, write, and think! The U.S. has a long history of terrible repression of labor. Lifted during the Golden Age of the New Deal 1933-1979. Then the D party pulled that out from under us to make nation and world safe for corporate economics. Yet D loyalists can't fathom why we're so angry.
In the meantime, Europe, China, and others move to solar and wind power. Once again Trump sets the US back to star on energy with negative health consequences.
if by lump of coal you mean a lump of something smelly, the answer is yes
“Being an agitator is what America is all about, an agitator, he adds, “is the center post in the washing machine that gets the dirt out.” ~ Jim Hightower
Thanks again Jim
Ah,Yes!
Can we ever undo any of this?
We have to stop the plunder Now! Protect and Preserve our National Parks and Federal Lands! Not for Sale or Lease! Supporting 'More Than Just Parks' Jim and Will Pattiz
What can you say about this and every article that is posted about Trump. He and his hand picked sycophants in this administration have proven themselves to be as corrupt and crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Ive read and supported Mr. Hightower's writings for a long time. Always on point, but at same time I caution anyone about the activities of the Sierra Club. Their actions have been on the wrong side of much needed housing for decades.
I have been supporting "More Than Just Parks' the Pattiz brothers.
Future historians will be accused of making this up! The public won't believe anyone could be so evil and greedy and stupid!
Trump and his Cabinet need to be face down at the bottom of the nearest Septic Tank, good riddance!!!