Black Lungs Matter
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Wait until he brings back company scrip and company towns.
Make Coal Great Again !
Just wait until they stop enforcing safety measures and mines start collapsing.
Think Trump’s going to send feds to dig you out??
Obviously, it's the states' right to clean up after the federal government.
West Virginia boasts the highest coal production per capita in the United States. Living as a descendant of Italian immigrants that moved to the US midwest to mine coal, I'm pissed but this is what a majority of modern miners voted for. We may as well go back to the days of coal miners being the exploited labor of millionaires(billionaires).
Country road ...
Take me home
I don't know if you can claim that map represents miners. I wouldn't be surprised, but also there are essentially no mining jobs in WV anymore. They're sold propaganda of coal jobs helping people, because a lot of people used to make a living from it (however horrible it was). I have a lot of family in WV and I know zero coal miners. Now it's just machines working Joe Manchin's mines, so 100% of them could have voted D and it wouldn't make a dent in that data.
Don't they know, trump did CLEAN COAL , all the coal is clean because of CLEAN COAL and you can't get black lung from CLEAN COAL
Beautiful clean coal*
(Kill me)
He also shut down the department of education and is pushing for the return of child labor.
Good times for sure
Live action reboot of the industrial revolution.
People voting for disease got what they voted for.
We voted for PLAGUE, y'all, not disease..
I'm sure they voted for the Ni...Black plague.
They voted to have donvict hurt the niCLANGers, oops, I mean the DEI-ers.
"it's pronouned ni-JEAR, mister president."
Follow-on EO to rename somebody else’s country.
I voted for Darth Plagueis. I hope that wasn’t misrepresented.
wise move
You got both + the added bonus of rape. Enjoy.
if you were TRULY horrible, you'd have posted this on truth social and the last part would have been "ENJOY!"
Why help sick miners when we can give tax breaks to billionaires and free money playing stock market games?
According to donnie dumbass, these people would rather be mining (and have black lung) than have a penthouse on Fifth Avenue.
I have a great-grandfather that died from black lung. Fuck donvict. I wonder how many of the coal miners that were used as stage props for the asshat Felon-in-Chief had any choice in the matter.
Leopard ate my lungs
friend of coal
Excuse me I think you meant to say FREEDOM LUNG.
Stupid motherfuckers got what they deserved
When you get infected by the broke mind virus, the rest of your body goes down the sewer along with it, too, unsurprisingly.
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