I’ll fight for “clean, beautiful coal”
If you believed that Trump promise, I have a few more about the coronavirus
In 2016, Trump promised to put coal miners back to work but it did not happen as coal employment dropped during his administration. As Quartz summarized yesterday:
The number of people employed by the coal mining industry has fallen 15% since Trump took office in January 2017.
This happened despite the . . .
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Inaugural Day odds and ends
Music, Fox News, and a presidential library
More Trump music
I wrote about this last year. (See here.) As his term finally ends, popular culture scholars have probably begun the process of assessing Trump and the music at his events. Here is some of the music that did and did not accompany Trump today:
YMCA
Some analysis from the far-righters at Newsmax:
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WV AG Morrisey update
Thank-you. I’ll sleep better tonight knowing that you are protecting our state from Joe Biden
We live in unprecedented times. Much insecurity about our future.
Here’s what I’m focusing on:
WVAG is preparing to save our state & the republic from destructive and illegal regulations that may emerge from the Biden Administration. . . .
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Imagine a long editorial about how our country “needs to unite, not fight” without once mentioning President Trump
With only a week to go, it appears that the Wheeling papers will make it through Trump’s entire term without a single editorial that criticized him or his policies
Today’s afternoon editorial*, “Country Needs to Unite, Not Fight,” may be one of the worst-written in years. After a couple of readings, I was still not sure of what the editorial* was calling for beyond “uniting not fighting.” Here are the last two paragraphs:
We are better than this. We are better than a man waving a . . .
Doing its job: the Intelligencer keeps alive the long-discredited Trump assertion of election fraud
On today’s Wheeling Intelligencer editorial page, syndicated columnist Jeff Crouere wants us to:
Wake Up, America – Purge is Here
Crouere’s column rounds up the usual liberal suspects from Town Hall’s list of enemies: Hillary Clinton, the Deep State, Peter Strzok, and Anderson Cooper, among others. The column . . .
What has West Virginia's Attorney General been doing lately?
Yes, Mr. AG, we need to oppose the lunatics who encourage violence
From Wednesday:
We should penalize those who breached the Capitol and broke our laws today to the fullest extent possible.
We are a Republic and must oppose the lunatics who resort to violence to achieve their ends.
Focus, people. What happened today is not okay . . .
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Earlier today: Congressman David McKinley admitted that “Trump was responsible for what happened on Wednesday” but then added “so were others”
McKinley also believes that Trump “didn’t intend for someone to break into the Capitol building”
Ready with his false equivalencies, David McKinley (WV-1) was on Hoppy Kercheval’s talk show earlier today. Kercheval asked McKinley if Trump was responsible for the attack on the Capitol. McKinley answered “yes, absolutely” but then he quickly suggested that others were to blame:
”But so was the media, talk shows, social . . .
