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[–] 111 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This guy has one hell of a trophy obsession.

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  • [–] 104 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They're all participation trophies, as he can't win anything of real value.

    FIFA peace price of "at least you tried". Renewable energy price of "didn't understand the task, but cried when he didn't get a medal".

    He's such a weird snowflake

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  • [–] 87 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Its just so fucking stupid on its face. How anyone thought calling it “clean coal” was anything besides dumb as fuck is beyond me.

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Then you should visit Colstrip, Montana or similar coal towns. The propaganda works very well when it's taught from before birth and everyone goes along even if they don't agree!

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    See, I understand that. What I dont understand is why every other non-coal town trump supporter didn’t immediately understand that this was a stupid as fuck grift immediately after hearing it.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Cognitive dissonance and cultism.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Its just really frustrating at how easy it is. Like really fucking disheartening.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    3-4 decades of crippling public education can do that

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but I live in Alberta, and I don’t feel like a lot of the things I see have much to do with what I learned in public education. Maybe I’m wrong.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The propaganda works well when it the smog goes into the air and comes down as a natural occurrence beyond our control, especially when it disproportionately affects those eastward in the Jetstream. You know, the north/mid Atlantic coastal elites (just don't mention Appalachian Pennsylvania)

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  • [–] 51 points 9 months ago

    This was such a comical read! It's like reading a joke made into a serious article:

    President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented

    "I'm thrilled to welcome to the White House the men and women who light our cities, and you know, you do things that people don't even understand, so much, you do so much. You heat our homes, fuel our factories and turn natural resources into American riches and dreams. Our amazing coal miners.”

    “I ended the war on coal,”

    It is not the first time Trump has been the “inaugural recipient” of an award presented by those looking to curry his favor.

    a bronze statue of a coal miner on the top and was engraved with “Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal.”

    Infantino also handed Trump “a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go,”

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago

    So he won a made-up award about a made-up technology. Sounds about right.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    At this point I'm convinced they're inventing shiny stuff to keep the drooling senior happy until it's time to replace him.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Meanwhile China is positioning itself as a leader in the energy sectors of the future.

    It's depressing to watch these displays, but even more depressing in the knowledge that our nation's power is (as usual) being squandered to make a demented old man feel like a big boy and for keeping a handful of billionaires marginally richer with money they'll never actually live to spend anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Unfortunately one of the advantages of dictatures is that it move fast in one direction. The main problem being if the leader is intelligent enough to chose the right direction, which they rarely do.

    On the other hand, democracies moves slowly, but the damages done by bad leaders are often counterbalanced by the good made by better leaders.

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  • [–] 64 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He sure does like his minors

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    At this rate, he's a shoe-in for the Never Poopies in His Pants During Meetings Award of 5-Star Excellence.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago

    Fascism is a parody of itself.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    What a fucking child.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So ‘Undisputed Champion of Utter Fraud’ then.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    He can put it on the mantle next to Melania's FIFA Oscar for Best performance by a whore in a documentary.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    Someone should offer to present him with "America's most talented child molester" award. At this point he'll probably be dumb enough to accept it, and brag about it

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He'll also soon get an award from the foundation that promotes measles and meningitis.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Clean Coal is an oxymoron, like compassionate republican or good cop

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    This reminds me of how I just flew through India, saw pro-coal ads crediting Modi in the airport, and then walked out into all-winter smog that smells like burning hydrocarbons.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It should be "of beautiful black coal"

    Makes for a better acronym

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Watched Inglorious Basterds for the first time the other night

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    Donald "Mercury Poisoning" Trump.

    Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    What a pathetic fucking circlejerk.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Clean coal makes as much sense as healthy disease

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Participation trophy ass snowflakes

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    He should get a medal saying "cleverest and bestest person of the entire universe". Hold that thought. Wondering what the stupidest thing is, which people could bring him pride in accepting

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    I could pay for naming a star in the past. I wonder if that grift still exists. Imagine what an oil company could get away with if they gave him a certificate showing that a star is named after him.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    This is like giving him a participation medal, which is something he and his moronic followers are vehemently against.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    another participation prize for the draft dodging shitbag

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Not enough propaganda. They should call it 'Beautiful, Clean, Greenest of the Green, Climate Protecting, Bird Saving, Woke Antifa Tears Inducing, All-American, Beef Loving, Lungs Restoring Coal'.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I wonder what the bribees gets in exchange for this made up trophy that means nothing.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    The gas lobbyist will turn it up a notch to destroy their energy competitor, coal. Did Krasnov do anything for the black lung victims? I thought not.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I read that as 'beautiful clean coat' and wondered why would he accept a trophy for a dog.

    Then I remembered that he's a little bitch. TACO.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    How I wish they would have called it Beautiful Bleached Coal!

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    Next week, the Tampax® Prize For Bigly Human Rights.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    "Clean Coal"

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    Should have called it Big Blue Coal. Because BBC is something Trump deserves.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Made up awards for a "strong man"....

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Trophy's are for losers who don't understand the game.

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