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Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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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.
You simply can't criticize your own team.
And that attitude has metastacized into something even worse in the last decade or so.
Cognitive dissonance and cultism.
Its just really frustrating at how easy it is. Like really fucking disheartening.
3-4 decades of crippling public education can do that