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Swede

(38,083 posts)
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 11:57 PM Sunday

Trump pulled the plug on Biden's funds for Appalachia. FAFO

We are in the midst of the longest, saddest, most excruciating and unsatisfying “I TOLD YOU SO” in the history of the world.

For a brief moment, community organizers in Appalachia thought they were witnessing a once-in-a-generation lifeline. Billions of dollars from the Biden administration had been earmarked in 2022 to help former coal towns rebuild their economies, create new jobs and prepare for flooding, blackouts and other mounting environmental risks. But on his first day back in office, Donald Trump eliminated nearly all of those clean-energy and environmental programs, dismissing them as “woke” liberal scams — a decision now hitting hardest in the same deep-red counties that delivered him some of his biggest margins.

https://wtfdetective.blog/trump-pulled-the-plug-on-bidens-funds-for-appalachia-and-the-same-maga-towns-he-gutted-are-freaking-out/

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Trump pulled the plug on Biden's funds for Appalachia. FAFO (Original Post) Swede Sunday OP
Boo fking boo tazcat Yesterday #1
"yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump." BlueWaveNeverEnd Yesterday #2
So they're still brainwashed Stupid. Cha Yesterday #6
"to protect their jobs and revive the mining industry" - Promises made. Promises kept? Norrrm Yesterday #10
I wonder progressoid Yesterday #3
FAFO sheshe2 Yesterday #4
Yes, It is a Very Sad innumerable Cha Yesterday #5
Boy, do I love these stories Pototan Yesterday #7
Have the day you voted for!!! Coventina Yesterday #8
Crickets from J.D. no_hypocrisy Yesterday #9
They'd still vote for him again tomorrow if they could. Orrex Yesterday #11
I have been saying "I told you so" jfz9580m Yesterday #12
This morning while out and about I saw the rare (for Vermont) Trump/Vance bumper sticker. All I could think was Vinca Yesterday #13
Well, you have to ask why... ananda Yesterday #14
Will they ever stop voting against their own interests? Martin Eden Yesterday #15

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,415 posts)
2. "yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump."
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:59 AM
Yesterday

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



“I don’t think the president knew. I’m one of his biggest supporters, but we’re dealing with the ills of industry here, and we’ve got to be able to clean this up so our people in these hollers can have a quality of life.”


Trump won 83% of the vote in Russell county in 2024 while Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican candidate for governor, secured 81% last month.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said: “President Trump cares about our miners more than any other president in modern history – which is why he has implemented his energy dominance agenda to protect their jobs and revive the mining industry … we can maintain the safety of miners while simultaneously rolling back Joe Biden’s Green New Scam regulations that were killing their jobs.”

Cha

(316,179 posts)
6. So they're still brainwashed Stupid.
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:05 AM
Yesterday

That's going to change Exactly Nothing for them.

They'd rather remain Stupid then Learn.

Norrrm

(3,729 posts)
10. "to protect their jobs and revive the mining industry" - Promises made. Promises kept?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:02 AM
Yesterday

How many coal jobs did Trump bring back?

progressoid

(52,434 posts)
3. I wonder
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:31 AM
Yesterday

I wonder if the "found out" part of FAFO will sink in.

Do they truly understand how this happened to them? I mean, they voted for Trump so...

Cha

(316,179 posts)
5. Yes, It is a Very Sad innumerable
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:03 AM
Yesterday

"We Told You SOs"... Now do you believe Us and know Traitor is a GD Psychotic LIAR?

Pototan

(2,939 posts)
7. Boy, do I love these stories
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:25 AM
Yesterday

I can just hear them now, "I thought only the Liberals would suffer."

jfz9580m

(16,360 posts)
12. I have been saying "I told you so"
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 11:57 AM
Yesterday

To people who told me Musk and those other overrated and parasitic technofascists were liberals.

In case you somehow missed it, this from Trump’s inauguration (God that was such a shitty day. That was the last time I went jogging outside this year, until I restarted today):



Or that neoliberalism was an awesome idea!

Vinca

(53,129 posts)
13. This morning while out and about I saw the rare (for Vermont) Trump/Vance bumper sticker. All I could think was
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Yesterday

you fucking moron.

ananda

(34,190 posts)
14. Well, you have to ask why...
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 12:01 PM
Yesterday

when you get something good from a Democrat,
and never got anything good from a Republican,
you'd still vote against your own best interests...

and then, when the Republicans do what they've
always done -- take from the poor and give to
the rich...

why you'd complain abut what you voted for.

I know we already know the answer, but it
still bothers me.

Martin Eden

(15,256 posts)
15. Will they ever stop voting against their own interests?
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:39 PM
Yesterday

I feel bad for the children of West Virginia, and those who did NOT vote for Trump.

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