re: #221 Blind Frog Belly White

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Two thoughts…

1) “This time, for sure!

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2) We’ll need all that asbestos for all the coal-fired power plants we’ll be building.

Charlie Pierce:

So here we have the president*, who is a longtime asbestos-denialist, or at least as far back as when he first needed to touch up Russians to stay afloat, loosening restrictions on a preposterously dangerous carcinogen, at which point a Russian company connected to Vladimir Putin that mines for asbestos puts the president*’s face on bags of its product. (Is the president* getting a cut on this? I hope not, because that would be illegal, you know?) It’s a shame how hard it is to connect the dots here. It’s all about money, and ain’t a damn thing funny.

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