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Mz Pip

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3. My grandfather was a coal miner

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 11:24 PM

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He was 41 when he died. Came to America to build aa better life. Died 6 years later.

Wasn’t a lot of the opioid crisis generated by doctors prescribing opioids to people suffering from lung disease from beautiful clean coal?

Those mine owners must be funneling millions to Trump to keep this industry alive.

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