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Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’
(www.independent.co.uk)
Participation trophy ass snowflakes
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Trophy's are for losers who don't understand the game.
"Clean Coal"
oxy-MORON
When is he starting to wear those nice, shiny medals like the North Korean generals are wearing?
Nobody managed to fill up both pants legs? Pathetic!
6 of those are for basket weaving
The pants ones are probably from DLC, that's why most don't have them.
Can't wait for the Food That Is Not Rice update
Oh he's going to manage to fill up both pant legs…
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another participation prize for the draft dodging shitbag
This guy has one hell of a trophy obsession.
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
He's the one kid at your birthday party who's upset they're not getting attention too.
And then starts to destroy your stuff because he never learned to cope with frustration.
Apparently the participation trophies are fine when they're the ones getting them.
Fascism is a parody of itself.
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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Its just so fucking stupid on its face. How anyone thought calling it “clean coal” was anything besides dumb as fuck is beyond me.
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!
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.
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Watched Inglorious Basterds for the first time the other night
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,”
He sure does like his minors
Eyooooo!
What a pathetic fucking circlejerk.
I'm just here so I don't get fired energy
At this rate, he's a shoe-in for the Never Poopies in His Pants During Meetings Award of 5-Star Excellence.
At this point I'm convinced they're inventing shiny stuff to keep the drooling senior happy until it's time to replace him.
Agree! It basically says so in the first sentence of the article!
President Donald Trump has added another shiny award to his cabinet of trophies that have just been invented
Should have called it Big Blue Coal. Because BBC is something Trump deserves.
So he won a made-up award about a made-up technology. Sounds about right.
What a fucking child.
Donald "Mercury Poisoning" Trump.
Most the mercury in fish comes from fossil fuel burning and mining. Coal is both.
He can put it on the mantle next to Melania's FIFA Oscar for Best performance by a whore in a documentary.
Clean coal makes as much sense as healthy disease
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.
He'll also soon get an award from the foundation that promotes measles and meningitis.
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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.
Clean Coal is an oxymoron, like compassionate republican or good cop
This is like giving him a participation medal, which is something he and his moronic followers are vehemently against.
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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