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But on his first day in office, Donald Trump scrapped Biden’s clean energy and environmental programs, which he lambasted as woke, anti-American liberal hoaxes.

The 2022 cash injection came through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s landmark climate and infrastructure legislation, and was designed to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities over the long haul.

It was the largest investment in Appalachia since the 1960s’ “war on poverty” under Lyndon Johnson.

but like many blue-collar regions is now part of the loyal Maga base who believed Trump when he pledged to resuscitate coal country and put American first.

Trump has won big in West Virginia in the past three general elections, securing every county in 2024 with an average of 70% of the vote – the highest percentage any party has won in the state’s history. His vote share was even larger in rural counties including Clay and Wayne, which Huntington straddles.

So you'd expect anger at Trump but you'd be wrong !

yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump.

Normally I'd offer two in the thoughts and one in the prayers, but in this case, I hope that they marinate in the consequences that they voted for.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Becuase thats what they have been trained to say. They are not even smarter than a dog, they do their trick for trump, but never actually get their treat.

Maga are litterally dumber than dogs.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Deep MAGA country will kill themselves with dirty air, no jobs (and drug addiction that comes from that), and corporate overreach polluting their food and water, all to "oWn ThE lIbS"

They must be so tired of winning huh. Fuck these idiots, they deserve every piece of suffering they get from this. That's the only way these people ever learn, when it personally impacts them, and even still that might not teach them.

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I live in the south. All the Republican voters I meet are either people who think they're wealthy enough to benefit from Republican tax policies, or (much more commonly) have been taken up by the propaganda machine and genuinely believe that Trump is a good Christian man who cares about the working class and is tirelessly working to Make America Great Again after immigrants and Obama made it not great.

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

So... the self absorbed and the stupid ?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

What's sad is I'm doing moderately okay I would say on the coast - and I know I am far out of reach of getting any of those tax cuts. They have no idea how much they're getting duped to think that they're even remotely close to getting anything.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Newsmax, Fox, and OANN need to be dealt with somehow

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

mostly fox, newsmax and oann captures the younger crowd.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's not really true though. Newsmax and OANN are the really crazy ones, but they're all ages. Fox is bad but not as bad as the others.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah what I'm hearing is that it's pointless for democrats to give good jobs to west Virginia.

I heard good jobs are too woke

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago

coal has been largely been replaced by natural gas/and oil, not even green energy yet. the gop has a stranglehold because they keep making empty promises.

[–] CapnClenchJaw@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I heard that the clean coal movement was a massive scam, and there's no scientific merit to it.

[–] human@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 days ago

In 2022, the Biden administration earmarked billions of dollars to help revitalize and strengthen former coal communities. The objective was to lay down building blocks for the region to transition from extractive industries like coal and timber to a hub for solar and other advanced energy technologies, with a view to long-term economic, climate and social resilience.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This has nothing whatsoever to do with clean coal.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Nothing has anything to do with clean coal because it doesn't exist. Clean coal was a Republican talking point, but was turned into cleaning up coal dependant places. It means two different things to people on different sides.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just one of hundreds of green washing marketing methods (aka lying).

Just like the term "natural gas", which the industry has pushed so people don't think it's that bad because it's natural. It's methane gas from fossil fuel, which is actually like 80x more potent than carbon dioxide.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When it leaks. When it burns, it produces less pollution than things like coal or petrol.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes. But when you have highly pressurized gas, it leaks at every step of the pipeline from extraction, transmission, to end uses. Methane leaks are a huge problem.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

Fair enough. I never saw much point to piping gas to residential neighborhoods but then I grew up in a place that electrified early because of abundant hydropower.