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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Please, explain how to satisfy the left on this topic.
If he saves coal, you'd bitch he's causing polution.
If he doesn't save coal, you'd bitch he didn't keep a promise (as if obama or any other president kept all their promises) and coal miners are losing thier jobs.
You can't have both...
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Actually, yes we can. Republicans seem do to this all the time. They make promises they cannot keep and when they do this, no matter what happens they look bad.
Mr. tRump promised to save coal. If he failed, he failed to keep a campaign promise. If he did it, tRump would still look bad because he is protecting an industry that is not needed and is bad for the environment.
This is the not the first time tRump has done this; In fact, it's happened often. Another example is healthcare. During the campaign tRump promised to fix healthcare. Although Republicans have been bitching about this for five or six years now they have yet to come up with any kind of a viable plan. The Republican party has zero interest in fixing healthcare, which is why they have no plan. In the end tRump was unable to "fix healthcare" and instead just removed the requirement to have it, which resulted in less Americans having healthcare. No matter what tRump did here it was bad. Either tRump would have failed to keep his promise, or kept his promise and spent years deliving some bullshit that was worse, or... As he did in this case, tRump just fucked it up and said "Problem fixed".
No one wants to save the coal industry except for tRump and his hardcore suporters. In the past, coal mining used to be a vast, huge, profitable, and important industry. However, it's been phased out - we use natrual gas, wind, and solar. Coal is bad all around - it's difficult and dangerous to pull out of the ground, it's killing coal miners eventually, and it's bad for the environment when it's burned. We need to stop this.
At least with steel it's something we can all get behind. They recently built a new section of the Bay Bridge here in San Francisco, and the steet used for the project came from China. I think that's horrible.
But not coal. No one really suports coal.