There is always bombardier hahahah

So if you were a rational, utility maximizing, growth oriented sort of person, why wouldn‘t you invest in wind and solar and phase out coal? Makes no sense.

I found this article interesting.

Because Trump watches Fox News all the time, he has completely false expectations for the effects of his policies.

And then he gets angry when things don't go as the Fox fairy stories had told him they would. Of course, he would never think to either blame himself or Fox...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...licies-do.html

That's only logical. A modest person such as himself would never think he alone can make a significant difference.

From your link
Trump did say several times this would force Democrats to negotiate over Obamacare repeal. I never did understand the logic behind his belief.
Likely the Democrats will stay well out of it and blame Trump and the GOP for all and any problems resulting from his actions.

If one were to assume that keeping the ACA takes precedence over letting Trump dig his own hole, and thinking only one step ahead, his claim may make sense.

But merely thinking the next step ahead, which is that Trump and the republicans will keep attacking ACA, shows that the best course of action not just politically but actually for the ACA is to let Trump rot in the hole he dug for himself.

Coming from a person who claims to be a top notch dealmaker this kind of shortsightedness is simply ridiculous. Thanks for the laugh, Donald.

Coal is not just used for power. It gets used for other things, such as steelmaking. In fact the coal that is used for steel is of a higher grade (and thus higher value) than that used for power.

Maybe one day the steel industry will survive without coal, but we're not there yet.

It would be very damaging to force a premature closure of the coal industry.

True but less than 2% of US coal production is metallurgical coal used for US domestic steel making and could easily be imported from China or India or any of the other major producers.

I visitied a steel plant in the Netherlands several years ago and we were told about how they plan to reduce emissions from fossil fuels in the future.

http://www.tata.com/pdf/tata_review_...t_hydrogen.pdf

Yes. Metallurgical grade coal to create coke. Although, it seems there is some movement to replace coke with natural gas....an older article, but still.....

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/4...-replace-coke/


At any rate, this grade of coal still has its uses. But coal for power generation, perhaps not so much.

Larry Flint puts a price of US$ 10 million on Donald Trump's head,

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ties-ever-work

Trump accepts

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...is-impeachment

Puerto Rico effect

Post-Maria, Trump's approval rating on hurricanes down 20 points, now the majority disapprove!

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Fewer Puerto Ricans have power restored than a week ago

Last Monday, 15% of customers were receiving power compared with typical peak load. Today, that number was down to 13.7%, according to Department of Energy and Puerto Rican government status reports.

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Trump: Military 'shouldn't have to be' distributing food in Puerto Rico 16Oct.

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Edit - Contrary to Trump's claims the Puerto Ricans are helping themselves
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Alec Baldwin in Saturday Night Live

Best quote about gay marriage; the Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman and another woman and....

Also a sketch with Kellyanne where she says "Actually Hurricane Maria blew some houses back together in Puerto Rico".

Rep. Tom Marino was President Trump's pick to be drug czar.
His decision to withdraw from consideration on Tuesday is a direct result of a groundbreaking investigation by The Washington Post and CBS' "60 Minutes."

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First example of "not fake news"

The rich are getting richer. But not Donald Trump.

The Forbes list of 400 richest Americans shows that the billionaire-in-chief's fortune fell by $600 million to $3.1 billion. As a result he dropped to #248 on the list, after coming in at #156 last year.

The magazine attributed his decline in wealth to "a tough New York real estate market, particularly for retail locations; a costly lawsuit and an expensive presidential campaign." Trump reached a $25 million settlement in a suit that claims that his Trump University real estate seminars defrauded students.

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Just needs a tax cut or two to fix that

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A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump's latest revised travel ban one day before it was set to take effect.

Breaking story; more details later

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Trump tells grieving widow "he knew what he signed up for".

Yes, I'm sure he did, but his widow doesn't really need reminding of it right now.

Classy

Only people not being classy here are CNN for reporting on a story without comment from the family concerned.

Straight after he falsely accused Obama of not contacting berieved service personells families. Not just not classy but totally moronic! The man is a travesty.