More Swamp Creatures
We do not have the fox guarding the henhouse. We have damn Col. Sanders guarding the henhouse.
A former coal executive, who had been cited for dangerous practices “numerous times”, is Trump’s pick for heading up mine safety.
The White House announced Saturday that Trump would be nominating David Zatezalo to run the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Zatezalo was previously the CEO of Rhino Resources, a Kentucky-based coal company.
Zatezalo got at least one man killed during is tenure at Rhino where safety violations were more the norm than an oddity.
Hell, even Joe Manchin opposes him.
Thanks to Henry for the heads up.
I live in VA which has a supply of coal mines in the southernmost part of the state. I have also been to WV and seen strip mining close up. Gotta say that coal mine owners and freaking damn corrupt. They work a man to death, usually from dust consumption, fire him as a health hazard just prior to gaining full retirement and let him die. Very very few Americans know that a lot of the old coal mines are now owned by off shore people such as Russians. And frankly even trump knows that King Coal is log dead. Not surprised by his pick for head of mine safety. Birds of a feather!!!
1My only experience with coal is the lignite sites in Hopkins County, which to the best of my knowledge are not “mines” but more like de-nuding the land to remove the lignite then moving on. I assume the personnel injuries are comparable, except those which are cave-in caused in WV.
The point is that I still hate Hair Drumpf and can’t wait until he is impeached.
2You gotta admit, these appointments do reflect a sense of humor, however warped and twisted.
It’s the damned Bizarro Administration!!
https://www.google.com/search?q=bizarro&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=48UG1_CF-w7vmM:
3Hopefully he will change the name of the agency he oversees to better reflect his actual experience: The Mine Danger & Illness Administration.
Watch for Trump Administration officials to push parents into including a lump of coal with Christmas gifts this year, for their misbehaving children. It’s the only way they’ll be able to increase demand in the near term.
4Coal has been dead for years. Anyone literate human is aware of that. But as traitor trump is neither literate nor human he seems unaware of real life. Even the coal industry knows its dead. Only moron traitor trump thinks he can lie coal back to life. There’s no market for coal. So what does the moron in chief plan to do with what is dug up? The fastest growing job market is in clean energy, but of course moron traitor trump can’t understand that fact. Traitor trump is determined to destroy the economy of the United States. He must be impeached, NOW!
5Apparently no one tweeted about Don Blankenship being released from prison, or Donnie Douchebag would certainly have nominated him instead.
6P.P. — That was my first thought on reading this post: “What’s the matter, Don Blankenship not available?”
7So why the surprise? It’s obvious that Trump’s way of filling any government position is to ask, “Who is the worst possible person for this position– the one who would do the most to destroy this department and everything it stands for, and destroy American lives and happiness and the environment?” Thus for head of the EPA you get an Oklahoma jackwagon who has sued the EPA obsessively for trying to do its job. For head of the Dept of Education, you get someone who doesn’t believe in public schools. For head of mine safety, you get someone who doesn’t believe in mine safety. And so on. It’s so predictable that it would be funny if it weren’t tragic.
8Climate science deniers for EPA, a libertarian who hates public lands for Interior, a conspiracy theorist and climate science denier for Agriculture, a neurosurgeon for HUD, a libertarian private school chain owner for Education, a racist for the Justice Department . . . . If you were Russia and wanted to destroy the US government from within, you got your money’s worth spreading propaganda on Facebook and Twitter, and backing Wikileaks dumping Democratic Party E-mails right before the election.
The Soviet Union could have saved a bunch of money on its military and nuclear weapons playing on the gullibility of conservative voters in the USA instead.
9He’ll be flying to Mazatlan in a C-130 within days.
10Rhea, right on! He picked congress varmint Tom Marino from Pennsylvania for drug czar. This is only one of the meanest specimens on the hill!!! He was formerly mayor of Hazleton — pardon me, the former racist as hell mayor of Hazleton – and still cannot be trusted because of that mile wide mean streak. Marino’s racist law against renting or even selling living space to anyone deemed – let alone proved – to be an illegal immigrant got shot down in court.Hazleton got a reputation of being the meanest town around. Not what local businesses wanted. Did he learn? Nah! He just hates the courts all the more. Fortunately for us – at least temporarily until another mean as second skimmings is picked – we have some breathing space to regroup and continue the resistance.
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