Inside Trumpland | Wild Wonderful West Virginia | Autentic Documentary
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- In the year of US elections, it's crucial to zoom in on the remote corners of America, especially the ones struggling with poverty. These are the places where Trump's support runs deep. But why? What's driving so many folks there to rally behind him? And what's life really like in one of America's poorest states?
In the middle of the Appalachian Mountains lies the black heart of America: Wild, Wonderful West Virginia. Beneath the mountain idyll lies a black hell: a labyrinth of low tunnels where miners have to crawl on their hands and knees in the dark all day long.
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He's a company suck ass...scab
You can't fix Stupid
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
This ole world would be a much better place if we all treated each other like the good people in west Virginia always used to thats for sure i know speaking from experience i was treated better up there then ever in my life down here in my own hometown and that aint the way it should be so i will always speak highly of the good people in west Virginia they will always hold a special place in this ole girls ❤️
U see it
They should be proud to be called Hillbillies, but not proud that trillions of dollars worth of coal has been taken from beneath their state and they let ‘em take all the profits and leave the state broke and with the cost of cleanup.
BTW, it’s way more dangerous being a miner than it is being a cop. Not even close.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
Geesh! Where do you live?😏
My grandpa was a coal miner. He had several accidents in the mine. I remember when I was about 10 a boulder fell on him. He was in the hospital for close to week. He is still going at 83 years old.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
How is his lungs?
Coal miners ❤ I appreciate you ALL!!! I know what hard work is. Not only is it hard work, it’s very dangerous and very confined. God will bless you. ❤
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What is coal used for these days?
I lived up there in Logan County for several years even though I'm not from there I'm originally from north Carolina but my daughters daddy was from there and worked in the mines from the time he was a teenager I was with him almost 19 years precious memories up there for me and some of the best people you'll ever meet I sure miss it sometimes much love to each and every one of you miners and your families may God bless yall love from down here in north Carolina ❤️ 💙
Well why did you leave?
Just visited there last week it’s a beautiful place! The people were very nice every place we visited
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This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
You know its mind blowing that those young men weren't wearing a respirator in the beginning. Seeing these old timers suffering from black and white lung should be enough for the new generation to demand a better breathing air.
Hell, not even safety glasses.
People don't seem to learn.
And smoking cigs helps too I’m sure.
I guess if you ask and demand, you dont work. And if you wear a mask etc. you probably be alienated.
I was wondering the same thing, why aren't they required to wear respirators?
those guys are tough as nails no way could I ever do that.
I guess I am just an entitled A-hole surfer from California. I whine when it's cloudy and these guys work all day in the dark. However, they have something so many others don't have; loving families, their religion, and pride in a job well done. I wish them well and thank them for their service!
Well said.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
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Letting companies come in and bust up the union in WV was one of the dumbest things the miners ever let happen. They went from a we're in this together mentality, to an I'm in this just for me, my family, and that quick dollar. My dad was crushed in the mines in WV when he was 20 years old, had it not been for the UMWA my family would have starved to death and dad would have never survived. You heard these miners in this video talking about retiring from the mines right? The only way you retire from the coal mines now is if your become an artist and learn how to draw a disability check every month. Then there's Trump. He promised that he would loosen the regulations on coal mining and that all the coal miners will have their jobs back. All the while his coal baron buddies are making money hand over fist and taking every dime straight out of West Virginia. Wanna know why West Virginia is one of the poorest states in the US or why West Virginia has some of the lowest high school test scores in the US, or why West Virginia has been suffering a "Brain Drain" since the early 2000s? Coal, that's why. The state government has allowed outside companies to come in, deplete WV of her natural resources, then allowed them to take all the money they made and leave without a single dime going back into WV. West Virginia's population on average is older than every other state in the US. This is because you have mainly have two choices for careers in WV, The coal mines, or healthcare, so if you want to do something else after high school or college you have to leave the state.
Very well said. That Mom in the video going on about "I'd love to serve Trump some of this cornbread". Lady, him and his friends don't wanna go near you with a ten foot pole. The guy lives in a gold penthouse and a palatial estate in south florida. But people like you have deluded yourselves into thinking that sucking up to billionaires is the way. They said that young guy in the doc makes 60k? Outlandish. Should be at least 3 times that for the work he does.
Basically not thinking of there future by saying whatever to the union. I have been a union member since 2010. A factory job and now a guards union. I can attest the union in both jobs made the difference!
@@Thunderrolls87 oh it's a tremendous difference. for sure
@@danman1789 Absolutely it is. I have had some very crappy jobs. The 4 non union factory jobs i had were awful and the job i had for 9 years before getting some college credits and becoming a guard had its flaws but because we had a union the pay ya it wasnt high but it was livable and we had decent health ins also they could not fire you for not being there buddy and seniority meant something. The job i have now is a big upgrade but those 9 years making bumpers made it possible to buy a home. Put a little money away and give my kids not only what they needed but be able to buy a camper and do some fun stuff to and even 2 brand new vehicles along with my wifes income. The company i worked for also had non union plants they paid on average 5 to 6$ less a hour and had paltry health ins. I was a union rep for 3 years. I saved a mans job because his wife got sick. He was there 22 years and they tried to fire him and i helped get us a better ventilation system after 2 people came down with cancer. Unions are inportant fkr working people.
Very dishonest post. Democrats have been shutting down coal mines since 2008. The governor's office and the state legislature have been democrat-controlled since the 1930s until just recently. You're blaming a guy who was president for 4 years and tried to help steelworkers and coal miners. Pull your head out.
The coal companies only got away with this horrible treatment of their employees because of corrupt politicians.
You can buy a politician for a lot less money than a unionized work force with health benefits and a pension.
Damn those poor folks are the salt of the earth though.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
They had one guy was still scamming those people well into his 90s. I forgot his name but he was known to be a racist and he didn't hide it but they kept electing him. I would have been telling my family and friends to get the hell out of here.
Not too many people are brave enough to work in a mine. I know I couldn't handle it.
People that work hard, are more appreciative on life.
Romantic, but I doubt it.
Respect to these super hard grafters but the struggle mut weigh heavily, despair, drug addiction from injury or to simply cope.
Id love to imagine they see light, Im sure plenty do, but I know many folk who appreciate life deeply and much of every day for many more days of their longer healthier lives- check the codeine overdose/fatality rates for the area for starters.
All this hardship in the 'richest' country in the world... Work hard n achieve the Murrcan dream anyone?
And no, Im not one of "dey hayd us furr arrr fureeedumbs" and Im definitely not one "tekkin rrr jaaabs".
@@SchmozzleGTO ok ✌️
@@SchmozzleGTO
Bingo!
I live in Northeast Tennessee. Every time I hear the narrator pronounce “Appalachia” it’s like nails on a chalkboard.
My good friend took me to his mom's house in Beckly, West Virginia..so wonderful, that man got saved, ended up in heaven before all of us ❤ and there he is buried.
That's where I live
My grandfather was 6’3” and he worked in the coal mines, lived in Minden, West Virginia. He walked the railroad tracks home and he was completely black. Died of black lung, my dad joined the army and went to Korea, he did not want to work the coal mines..Dad only went to 6th grade but worked as a medic in the war. I spent my summers there in the 60’s-70’s. There house was on stilts.
over 70 million people voted for trump. There isn't even 2 million in that entire state. you were trying to make a dig at people that voted for trump because you know the education level is low. what you didn't calculate was the type of people they were though. good, honest, hard working people. The kind of people that built, and continue to build and sustain this entire country.
"because you know the education level is low.". They look down on us like we are ants, while they live like Kings with tax payer's money. Speaking of Education, just look and some democrat leaders?, would anyone say those people are educated/smart?.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
I check EVERY box in the Democrat identity category - I'm Asian, educated, live in a VERY blue state etc and guess what? Voted for Trump 2x and will a third time!
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Very well-done film. I live in the southeastern part of West Virginia bordering Virginia. I live five miles from the state border and work in Virginia. My brother, dad, uncle, and many friends worked in the coal mines. Mr. Trump is hugely popular in our state. I am not getting into my opinion of him or politics at all. Just that this film showed decent, hard-working people. Our state is beautiful. Our people are mostly giving and caring folks. Poverty, addiction, environmental impacts, and adverse effects on the health of these hard-working men are some negative realities here, but there is so much more.
Greetings from rural West Texas
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
Maria G you rock girl! More power to you luv 😮. StandStrong MuchLove
I respect and feel bad for coal miners and those in WV. One said no union because he’s ok with it as long as he can work. Makes me feel bad that they do t have the confidence to do anything else that they would allow those safety restrictions to fall away and potentially harm them for their entire lives. I cannot help but to feel these ppl are stuck here because they don’t think they can do anything else and just take what’s given to them. God bless these guys. Much respect to them but there’s a world that is so much bigger. The young gal that’s a nurse could earn a great salary elsewhere to off their family a different living. I enjoy the area when I visit to ride ATVs but it’s almost sad to me to see how some ppl have to live out there.
The ignorance around the politics of this region is heartbreaking.
What's that politicians name that was still in Congress at the age of 90?
@@WarrenHollyyou talking about Byrd ? In the Senate great man he helped our state a lot.
@@danbailey96 how is that? W. Virginia historically has been ranked as the poorest state in the union. When he was in office. The workers are still making crumbs. Well if you like it I love it 🤗
@@WarrenHolly they were making crumbs because Republicans oppose any decent minimum wage or unions to make better working conditions....big business stripped West Virginia of resources made billions of dollars then left the state to rot. When we have presidents like Regan, Nixon, Bush one and 2 and of course Trump they all fought against the working people so big business got bigger and expected trickle down economy to expand......
This inflation is blamed on Biden but is the fault of big business that are making record profits from gouging prices during COVID when supposedly there was shortages.....I absolutely love our state if you don't who really cares.
I worked underground 10 yrs in western Kentucky was a shooter man and ran a roofbolter I miss working with the men but I don't miss the mine much I do miss that big money.
I worked at elk creek coal mine in Hopkins county from 2011-2013.
@@olbuddyanem3935 I worked at that andalex mine in Madisonville it was full of water bad top.
@olbuddyanem3935 I worked near there in that Andalex mine it was really wet.
Thanks for the post.
I lived in Mingo County for 2 years. I can attest it is a different world.
I take my son camping all the time in West Virginia. They are good people, but I never discuss politics.
Why would you not talk politics with West Virginians?? They're good people, sane people.
Keep up the good work.
God bless and keep these families that the providers have had to poison their selves to provide for their families
I love the Don Rigsby version of muddy water!
As Scotsman this was an interesting watch ❤
Watching this from my home in Beckley, WV right now. Moving back to North Carolina after 8 years here.
I’m not from West Virginia but I travel there a couple of times a year and it has a special place in my heart , if I had traveled there when I was a younger man there’s no doubt that’s where I would have ended up, nothing like the country and the people there
Their embrace of their own exploitation is truly mind boggling. Not even willing to stand as a group and demand safer working conditions as a bare minimum.
There’s no such thing as ‘safer working conditions’ in the coal mines. It’s all bad down there.
They don't have much choice in that matter honestly. It's either work or don't.
They have in the past. They workers have struck alot. Businesses bring in their own people to stop the strike. Including shooting people. I can't remember where. Maybe it was Mingo. Or.. they just bring in scabs when the workers strike.
It's cuz they don't have their own thoughts, trump makes up their thoughts only .
@@jacobgates1986 you sound jabbed
Fantastic Job👍
That was a good doc
I thank the coal miners. The coal companies should be fixing the land after they're done though.
Trying to bring back coal jobs is like saying we need to bring back horse & buggy drivers jobs....the jobs are gone. The biggest problem in WV is people wont leave thier hollers to find a job or get a education for a career. You could leave school at 16 and get a $25 a hour job at a mine twenty years ago. Those days arent coming back. West Virginia is beautiful and a great place to be from but it is dying. There is not a single "city" in the whole state with more than 50k people, including the capital.
Not many people you say that like it's a bad thing we don't need people we need jobs
@@djt8518 it isnt a bad thing...but it isnt a good sign if you are a business looking to build a new factory, office ect. At this point the jobs in WV are Health Care, Service Industry. Retail and little else. Coal will never be what it used to be no matter who is in Washington DC. Sad but true...jobs may be a thing you have to move to find. Good Luck. I am from those mountains and left 35 years ago.
@@melanieingram2901I did too but I came back I'm a former miner
@@melanieingram2901also I think we need jobs first if you build it they will come you are right here it's coal mines moonshine or move on down the line
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
My Great Grandfather worked West Virginia Coal Mines he passed away in a Coal Mine accident my grandfather has a picture of my Great grandfather and his crew in front of the coal mine I have a great aunt uncle and a few cousins still in west Virginia I have family all over Tennessee and Kentucky I grew up work Asphalt With my dad my dad ran one of the biggest Asphalt plant in Tennessee
Y’all should tunnel for gold and gems! It’s a lot in those mountains. I live in NC and dredge for gold. I find some every day. It’s just me, but with a big company, you’re gonna find it!
As a native of the Mountain State I can attest to several things: 1) The title of this film is very mis-leading because poverty in the coal fields go back for decades. Second: the coal fields are a completely different part of the state. Third: WV has been called the Ireland of American (when it comes to coal mining) and its correct.
Beautiful place
In what year was this film made? I wonder how the past three years have affected these people. I wonder if someone will film the current situation.
Coal kept me fed here in south eastern KY
Could you imagine Trump spending ten seconds in a coal mine?
Could you imagine Obama?
Or Biden?
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
Trump would show up there a million times before any Democrat would
@@curragh4635Fuggin' A right brother
All these guys have balls of steel working in the mines they're deserve double what they get payed
I don't know what these boys make an hour but, it damn sure isn't enough. Thank you gentlemen for your hard and very dangerous work, but to mention the health risks. Thank you
I was born in 1951 in West Virginia. I have never have seen any people like this show shows to be West Virginians. I have seen them in Southern West Virginia. None of my family has ever worked in coal mines. I've never seen a coal mine where I live. I have seen them in Logan, WV. Where I live in WV. You work in the trades. Also factory jobs. I had to leave WV to find work. My sons are electricians and elevator service repair an installation. I work 38 years as a biomedical clinical engineer. Started in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Moved there in 1977. I moved back to WV in 1983. With an associate degree in electronics and 7 years experience in hospital medical equipment, repair an calibration. I could get a good job in WV. There just isnt opportunities in WV for people that only have labor to offer. I get tired of them showing WV as nothing but coal miners and hillbillies. I learned that if there isnt opportunities. Leave find where there are opportunities.
There is no way I could do what these guys do, (even when I was a young man). I have worked in tight places but nothing like that. We know what Black lung is, and what causes it, but these guys are putting their lives on the line just to earn a living. We all should look at these guys as Heroes.
Coal Miners: Respect. I couldn't do it. Not even a day. Get used to wearing a mask.
Mask is useless black lung will get you coal is ridiculous
These are real men. Sacrificing their lives to provide for their families that they rarely get to see.
Thank you boys for keeping the lights on praying for y’all from Indiana 🇺🇸
They have go for the extreme this film maker. ITS A DOC.
As much as I love my home state and as much as I wish those people could change it’s never going to happen. The whole state gives in to peer pressure and votes against its best interest and they say living there brings comfort but how can you say that when half of them are strung out? If the state would educate themselves a little that would change a lot. For now they keep saying how they have changed but hate on everybody who is not like them and they worship a convicted felon womanizer meanwhile appalachians will tell you don’t ever do anything to a woman you wouldn’t want done to your mom or sister. None of it makes any sense.
And the other side worships identity-based totalitarianism, the kind of policy that drove South Africa into the gutter. Your comment reeks of "I got out why can't they?" arrogance.
YOU ARE A FOOL
It's 2024 and these miners are still breathing coal dust.
Damn shame. The mine should be fined. I was forced to wear a gas mask in the army. I hated it but I got used to it.
This is new NEW AMERICA. Those coal bums can stay in their cellar! America is about Gay Pride and LGBTQIA+ now and forever! Thanks Joe Biden! Dem4Lyfe!!!
I worked on a paving crew in northern Virginia and I had a few co workers who viewed coal mining as a promotion. It probably would be. Everything is relative.
It seems rough to outsiders, but as someone who lives in this area, everyone who worked in the mines wants to go back so bad. They are now working jobs they hate for way less money. It's weird when the media paints them as victims. Coal mining jobs could pop in any area in the USA and young men would be excited about the work and pay. It's just reality.
Yep I been there done that
Have great respect for these hard working people but believe they are entitled to better government policies to help carve out a better future , not just coal , from those beautiful mountains.
My dad was a coalminer and my nephew is a coalminer
Real people.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pastor: I will swing, toss, and stand on the timber rattler 😮
D.J. Chump doesn't give one $hit about these hardworking West Virginians!
@2:14 The tunnels are barely a metre high, 11 seconds later shows a man standing
Ok, so you really don't know anything about a mine.
What is a tunnel? 😂😂
I come from a line of coal miners. Its a rough job. No one who works there hardly ever live past 60. Towns are dying, and drugs have taken over. No big companies will come to WV because there isn't enough flat ground for a big complex. Also, there is no work force. 1 in 2 West virginians work. It's hard to find people to work. I pay 17hr. For housekeeping and can't find anyone. Sucks. These miners sometimes have to crawl in shit. Because of course, where else are you going to go when you're under the mountain. They head for the air out take.
Any of these people could come up to Maine or nh and have a way better life . Plenty of similar type people
Thankyou for the cokeing coal. That ain't soft coal. Tough job mining metallurgical coal
Coal is what keeps the lights on. How about them WV coal miners❤️❤️❤️
They make music and dance in one of the most beautiful areas in the world.Good people.Different but good. Had some good old Navy buddies from that area, best drinking buddies ever.🇺🇸
I’d like to say that I have the utmost respect for you people that live there and work in the minds but don’t let go of your union and there is a big world out there that you can do other stuff because you’re probably all very mechanically inclined to say the least… get a class action suit together. I know it’s easily said then done, but don’t let them take your land away.
Amazing ppl!!
But where do they poop down there?
Those poor men that have to go in those mines. Generation after generation. Its an American tragedy. You see this in diamond minds, Africa, Salt minds etc. This seems worse. At least there you couldn't be crushed at any second, black lung, explosions, drowning not to mention your joints. Life expectancy is 10 years less than other Americans.
I’ve watched this exact documentary before… who’d you steal it from?
I've seen this video/documentary before as well.
Almost Heaven
You would never see me handle a snake 🐍 venomous or not I'd be out the door and on my bike faster than Ghost Rider can ride
No documentaries on Bidenland Scranton Pa.?
I hope that mine get fined for not making those men wear safety masks. I don’t care if it’s uncomfortable. I hated wearing gas masks in the army but you get used to it after a while. It will keep you with your family that love for a longer time. It’s a shame that these people are so worried about their job that they don’t care about Unions. Unions are not the bad guys. These poor people. I live in a different reality a few hours away.
I was with it until the snakes and the lady w the fire. Each his own.
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Remember the battle of Blair mountain:$
ohhhh its oblama,,
Are we not going to talk about that beautiful Gretsch.
With the coal miners. GREAT PEOPLE.
i got soo much respect for all the coal miners.
What the starting Hourly pay Rates for New hires & a person with Experience ??
This makes me sad. With this guys work ethic he could make the same money here in upstate NY working a job that’s half as dangerous. Say what you want about the North East, the jobs are plenty. Cost of living is a pain, but you can make it happen.
I’m sure it’s the same for Texas, Florida, even parts of the west coast. But if you have never been to these states, you don’t know.
I wish this guy would travel. I understand why he doesn’t want to. It could open his eyes just to get a glimpse of other parts of America.
I wouldn't do it for all the money in the world an I hav nothing ..
Coal miners job is very dangerous and back in the day they would be paid peanuts for taking big risks with their health and life. Many men never went home.
Trump could give 2 shits about these people. So sad and lady he would never step foot in your house and would rather eat taco bell than have a real meal. He just panders to the poor for thier votes its sad
What are you talking about?? President TRUMP loves his country just as we do!!!
You are absolutely right he could care less about you folks. He is not a good human and he is just manipulating you people. I know for a fact that behind-the-scenes he makes fun of people like you. For God, sake man he called dead soldiers, suckers, and losers. You think he’s got your best interest in mind?
And the alternative cares?? Biden only cares about the "new comers".
@@leighchambers5052 I'd like to teach you, but it would take years.
They are right you know you are in a cult
Me too ! I’m a total wus waiting for my latte and then whining about everything 😢
Did you mean Authentic Documentary?
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When Obama ran for president I saw the best bumper sticker in Princeton WVA it said "Vote for Coal its Black"
Victorian working conditions in 2024 and mine owners abusing the workforce. It is a total disgrace, but people accepting it because there is no alternative. Why does the mine roof have to be so low, so humans crawl about like rabbits in a warren?
The roof is so low because they're only cutting out the coal seam from the mountain. Cutting rock wears the teeth of the mining machine down much faster than coal does. The teeth on those machines are made of a super hard metal, probably tungsten carbide, and are expensive and time consuming to replace. Plus, if that machine is down, they're not running coal, and if they're not running coal they're losing money. So they try to only cut the coal because it is so much softer than rock. There's some places where a coal seam is 6+ feet tall and a man could stand up and walk around, but other places, like in the video, the seam is less than 4 feet tall.
@@joeblankenship2360 In other words people are cheaper than machines. Profit before lives pure and simple.
@@gcgopro6912 While I wish it wasn't the way that it is, yes. Since the companies turned the miners on each other by busting up the unions, owners can push for more profit. While there are regulations in place, most mine owners only care about three things above all others. The first thing is money, the second is removing as many tons of coal from the mountain in as little time as possible, and the third is how much money they can get per ton of coal. All while keeping overhead costs as low as possible. This means that tons of mined coal are worth a lot more than tons of mined rock, so comfort be damned mine the coal.
Joe. I have worked in 7 ft coal also worked in 32in coal with one foot of that being mud
Reagan started the union busting in 1981 McDowell county had 30% unemployment
I need to move and do something else... Take a chance. Nobody should go into a coal mine anymore it's too dangerous
You can't intentionally risk your life, cuz it's a mortal sin.
Feeling Claustrophobic just watchin 😮😂
10 hour days, six days a week no wonder they get hurt.
I kind of wonder if Black lung isn’t a badge of honour they strive for. I mean it’s something that is so easily avoidable with a paper dust mask.
Its amazing how rich people convince poor and working class people to vote for them.
They don't have the time or the means to educate themselves. They're just trying to survive. When they have time to themselves they don't want to think about anything, so it's beer, football, church. They feel good about participating in the popularity contests put on by the rich and powerful.
Do these voters know most of the coal is owned by the government? They believe a man with a golden toilet and three baby mamas is just like them. They're in a trance just trying to live and survive.
I love the uneducated. Trump
This place survives on "People too dumb for college", but were treated like underlings
some of the most accomplished people in the country came from WV ... they choose to stay connected to family and mining pay is decent.
The question isn’t did he wear a respirator. The question is did he smoke?
These poor people are so deluded.
Good hard working people, but horribly naive.
Not Trump Land! People who would vote for Trump!❤
Stupid people then.
Who would nt
Me