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@dalfen@mstdn.socialNow that the law firms gave him “a lot of money” (no doubt a reference to the dollar value of legal fees that law firms he bullied agreed to provide him), he will “use” them how he wants.
(I listened to a streamed broadcast and gathered a full quote. He was standing in front of coal miners today because he was announcing an executive order promoting the coal industry.)
I wonder how that makes lawyers at the law firms feel? Maybe they love it because they love trump despite his actions and abuse, or they just figure it will make them money eventually (though they are giving him services for free), so why not go for the ride.
Or, they might feel like Jim Cramer recently expressed he felt concerning tariffs — ~’I feel like a sucker.’
@dalfen He can write EOs all day, from here to eternity, but coal is not coming back in any significant way. It will never again be a large scale employer.
I noticed the CORE patches on the uniforms. Looked it up. It's a corporation founded 3 months ago by merging two established companies. They specialize in "long wall" mining, a highly automated technique. It is also a disaster for the environment.
#coal
#environment
https://www.citizenscoalcouncil.org/longwall-mining.html
@Barbramon1 Oh very good observation 
I was wondering what those patches were and was going to research it after I finished posting a related post!
Given a situation where cleaner hydrocarbons become scarcer, electric demands skyrocket, and massive nuclear r. construction is pointless, people will tend to underplay the environmental impact to protecting their lifestyles.
Solar/wind have already reached the limit of their hypothetical nonsensical value of "sustainable hell".
#coal may have one short little come back before the entire industrial revolution comes to completion.
By then democratic #communism better be "invented" to save all life forms from extinction and humanity from ultimate cannibalism.
Brecht's prophecy "one day the planet will turn red" is inevitable either way.
@Barbramon1 @dalfen
There has got to be a way to remove that ass.
@RiaResists There are very few problems in life that can't be resolved by a judicious application of high explosives.
@Barbramon1 So he is not just favoring a specific industry, but also a specific industry niche (and related companies).
@dalfen It seems to be connected to the steel industry.
Steel jobs are not coming back either. Back in the day my home town steel mill had 2500 employees. It became antiquated by modern standards and closed permanently in 2023.
Modern steel mills can be run by as few as 14 people.
@Barbramon1 That’s very interesting—and he also talked about steel and the steel industry in his little speech today
Fascinating that steel mills can be run by so few people. Commerce Secretary Lutnick and others have been talking about bringing factories ‘back’ to the US, but running them with robotics, not people (they would only be there, for the most part, to service the robotics).
@dalfen A family member works in a large automated German owned plant that makes car parts in the Midwest. He's a highly trained engineer who troubleshoots the equipment. The other employees are basically computer operators.
@Barbramon1 Oh wow!