Say Hello to Coalie

From the people who brought you "There's no Climate Warming, look at all this snow", meet Coalie. 

Oh you're probably thinking, Rich is just playing around with AI, because he's retired, his arms are tired from swimming, and he's putting off cleaning the house because the Lady who usually does, is charging an arm and two legs. And to some extent, you'd be correct.

But as my friend, colleague and fellow journeyer through these surreal times pointed out, Coalie is real. As real as a cheaply and childishly illustrated character can be. Coalie is brought to us by the Department of the Interior and Secretary Doug Burgum.

Here, see for yourself...

Keep in mind, Doug, Dougie, famously said, "There's room on Mt. Rushmore for Trump." So it really should come as no surprise that the former governor of North Dakota, a state with fewer people buying tickets to the Melania film, has doled out a few million dollars for a cartoon globule that eerily resembles a loogie coughed up by a 33 year old Kentucky miner in hospice.

Exhibit A.:

Is it me or do they not look like spitting' cousins?

All of which begs the question, as does everything done by this amateur and evil administration, to what end? What are they trying to accomplish here? And who is the target for this pointless propaganda campaign?

Is it aimed at 7 year olds who have the critical thinking ability of...7 year olds? Or is it aimed at Red Hats, who coincidentally, also have the critical thinking ability of 7 year olds?

I'll give Trump (and by proxy his loyal taintlicker Burgum) this, coal has never had any detrimental effects on the whales. Nor has coal killed any birds, unless you count the millions of acres of land strip mined to oblivion thus forcing the birds to find sanctuary elsewhere.

However, coal mining has put thousands of American miners in the ground prematurely. But only after they spent the last few years of their life hacking up chunks of their lungs and guzzling Promethazine with industrial grade codeine, until they couldn't remember who they were and why they were dying. The irony is they probably all voted for Trump.

But who cares? As Coalie would say, "Mine Baby, Mine."

We are living in surreal, easily the most surreal, times in American history.