Richard Miniter

I talked to two former

conservative members of parliament a week ago and i'm like why haven't you reopened the coal pits and start selling coal to germany which is paying way above the market price and the answer is oh it's just not practical to do that um meaning they haven't thought about it and they're as brain dead as conservative the conservative party has always been right instead of having imagination for the working man

They said to me, oh, well, some of those mines are flooded.

I said, yeah, if only there was an invention especially designed for coal mines.

Yeah, James Watt, 1750.

That's why the steam engine was created, to take water out of coal mines specifically.

You have the technology, right?

You can use electric, you don't have to use steam, but you can remove the water from the mines.

And, of course, Americans have... No, it's ideological.

not be so bad if net zero and the precautionary principle were not matters of EU law, right?

Of course.

And the brain-dead conservatives in the UK have no heart or imagination for the working class person for whom earning $100,000 a year working as a coal miner would be a very happy outcome in many parts of the north and the west of your country.

And they have no ability to think about them.

They think about people who have horses and estates and things like that.

Iran.

Well, does Iran want does the people who run Iran want peace?

so right so to to wear down western resistance in this case trumpian resistance to their possession of nuclear weapons because they want they want to turn out like north korea they want the security that north korea has in in the right the only way to get there is to have nuclear weapons the only way to get nuclear weapons is to get the us to relent so they think they can cause enough short-term pain because their experience of american leaders

from Carter onward was that if you exert enough negative pressure in the short term, Americans just give up and go away.

And they do not understand Trump.

Let me explain why Trump is not ad hoc, that he is strategic.