When President Biden shut it down in January of 2021, I was at the next location of the Keystone XL network. Fox News was the only TV station that with coverage of the stoppage. My business, Power The Future, battles for power workers, and Joe Biden had declared war against them.
Just a few days after Biden sworn in, thousands of people were instantly leaving their jobs as a result. I met Bugsy, a 30-year king electrician, over the telephone. He also had to give up on the current Keystone XL project, which included all other weld concerts. In the age of Biden, no one would construct a pipeline. Having almost a century of jobs lined up all over, Bugsy, a single father of three Texas land boys, went from having three to none.
His account needed to be told. My friend Alex Bruesewitz and I discussed getting a film crew to assist us capture the events that were occurring. We traveled to Texas and spoke with dozens of people, and I sent a fresh copy of one of our films to Fox News connections. Dana Perino and Bugsy were on the same day to tell the state his own account.
I did not observe Bugsy’s account on any of the network. I did not see any of the 8, 000 coalition employees on CNN or MSNBC. I didn’t learn about their individual hardships caused by an unflinching president in big newspapers. Quite suffering would make a moving episode of a program like “60 Minutes,” but Keystone employees were not mentioned in the program.
“60 Minutes” did run a portion just on 58 USAID supervisors who were fired by President Trump’s DOGE home cleaning. I called them out in a post that might be considered a popular one about X. Trump firing 58 individuals is significant. Biden blasting 14, 000 network employees was never.
After Biden signed the executive order, John Kerry, the newly crowned Climate Czar, defended the decision, saying that Keystone employees would now “have better choices” and could “go to work making the solar panels” ( ).
An op-ed in the Washington Post honoring the climate actions states that “almost every Cabinet work is actually a weather work.” Nothing did it mention John Kerry’s “unelected,” but I suppose those qualifiers just apply to Elon Musk.
The US Conference of Mayors applauded Biden’s steps, with no notice of lost work. Stephen Schneck, executive director of Franciscan Action Network, commended Biden, perhaps citing Pope Francis ‘ love of the natural plan, with no notice of lost work. Rev. Susan Hendershot, chairman of Interfaith Power &, Gentle, praised the steps as “in collection with our spiritual principles of justice, peace, and love for our relatives”. Again, no notice of lost work.
When you compare this with the DOGE sackings of today, neither the president’s intentions for the future work nor the prospects for future employment are very so lauded.
A park rangers who lost his dream job just received a story on CBS News. If I lose my job, I’m sick of waking up every morning at 2 a.m. and wondering how I’m going to provide for my home. I am tired of wiping away my sister’s weeping …”, the previous park rangers says, and I feel for him, no doubt. We all do. Nobody wants the suffering of our own Americans.
But for the press, it seems only particular anguish is significant suffering. A devastating tale of corrupt officials is unfolded. A firefight between power workers is a suitable result because of something about climate change.
Flippancy towards environment change deaths is widespread. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made one of the most abhorrent and stomach-turning notes ever made by a human being at a 2018 weather event and smiled joyously as he discussed eliminating fuel workers ‘ jobs.
” We can get different things for them to perform” he says, without clarifying who the “we” is, nor what the “other points” are, nor if the employees can have any suggestions. Their jobs must go, according to Bloomberg’s climate hysteric statement, which is simple for a man worth over$ 100 billion.
His eponymous press shop might have a tale about a coal miners who “wipes aside his sister’s tears” and lost his “dream job.” I have told that tale many days, even seen it with my own eyes, but once again, less important suffering from a less interesting topics. No one cares about power staff. Not when there’s a culture to keep.
Rural America has suffered from the bad policies that were primarily pushed by nihilistic, oligarchs groups, from former coal towns close to where I live in Appalachia to previous metal towns in western Pennsylvania to previous furniture towns in North Carolina. They have turned when fantastic cities into frustrated hellscapes, turning our fellow Americans into misery. We talk socially about depression, drinking, domestic assault, and death, ignoring the true root causes of these symptoms of widespread poverty: the loss of the extremely remote job Bloomberg denigrates.
Despite many of the federal government employees having implemented the laws that decimated rural America, I regret the job loss. When I say to them what many of them have said to displaced power staff, “drive for Uber,” I do not ridicule them. Begin an OnlyFans website. Get a clean work. Learn to code.
Energy employment will return, and fast. Potentially, our displaced provincial government personnel could relocate to rural America and study in the energy sector. The homes are low. There is no visitors. The citizens are polite. And the internet, afraid to venture outside of the town, may leave you alone.
Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that fights for American power work, is the founder and executive director of Daniel Turner. Contact him at daniel@powerthefuture .com and follow him on Twitter @DanielTurnerPTF.
