The coal miners have served their purpose.....why would Trump care?
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2025
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It blows my mind that there are people that think they wouldn’t also be victims of his greed.
Coal is a dead industry being propped up by the kickbacks used to buy senators. People who work in that industry should have already been planning a move over to the clean energy sector.
Instead you vote for an orange cancer that cuts your job, cuts your insurance, and makes sure you can't move over to the clean industries by taking away their funding...
Were previous presidents shutting down mines? I mean they were talking about how somehow magically coal miners would become solar miners or something, but did they actually address any material conditions that allowed coal miners to exist in the first place?
Apply any wealth redistribution to the companies and individual that own coal mines?
Any non-neoliberal policy that talked about anything except "re-training" as if that is the fundamental issue with these coal-miners?
Anything that suggests the coal miners weren't "cast aside to die" under previous presidents?
and how many of them voted for trump?