I'm curious if he's named after a Dragonlance character, and whether the underline is part of how he spells it.

Everybody wanted me to try them so I really did. I really did. And the answer is more no than before.

Society!

He thinks that's bullshit and he won't back down. He'll stand his ground.

Headline should be "William Peniston witnessed…" It makes more sense anyway plus you get the fun factor.

It's about goddamned time for a ripoff of Other Space.

My brother shares your theory. I'm optimistic for a lady this time.

That's not entirely true; the move away from coal is very much a policy choice. And I'm not sure we're fully counting the environmental costs of fracking in that equation.

The difficulty in explaining those solutions is that they aren't solutions. "Direct cash assistance" hasn't gotten much play but is probably the only realistic answer, and I don't mean just for coal miners. At some point we have to deal with the fact that this new economy of ours doesn't really need workers, not to…

Bush was similarly stupid and enjoyed the same sort of defense. Heck, I defended Hillary a lot more than was warranted during the campaign. Your acquaintance sounds like a solid Trump voter and I'm not really concerned with trying to turn people like that. Won't happen. More worried about the people on the fence,…

The whole party had been solidly against all such agreements prior to Bill Clinton and it fought him on NAFTA. Ross Perot became popular because for the first time, we had two candidates who agreed on free trade.

Do you really think that helps?

Well, no. Most of the states that have a lot of coal jobs also have major cities with lots of the people you're talking about. But our current message isn't as resonant with college grads as we'd like it to be. Exhibit A: last year.

Voting was limited to landowning males… it's lovely that the small farmers counted, but they were the upper class and nobody else counted at all, apart from the ones who counted as an extra 3/5 vote for their respective owners. That's right, people who owned slaves in addition to land received bonus votes. So more…

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Actually, Hillary ran on not increasing the minimum wage too much. She even fought with poverty advocates over this! And the parties' positions on trade were 100% flipped from where they used to be. Night and day. Reversed polarity.

It's not just about the miners themselves, it's about all the people and towns who depend on those miners having those jobs. Each one supports several others as the dollars bounce around through local economies.

#1- Don't promise to shut down all the mines. Bad.

You're missing the point. Even if he's lying about all of it, at least he's aware of what the right answer sounds like. Meanwhile, Clinton was openly against her own voters on those issues. Good luck with that.

But those workers ARE THE FUCKING BASE