What's in the water in West Virginia?

[EnergizedLib]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-d-burn-the-building-republican-lawmaker-boasts-he-d-let-kids-burn-to-death-if-he-could-only-save-some/ar-AA11Swd3?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1f8482d6eb3749c990a5b085855d8f4c

We knew already that West Virginians weren't too bright for their overwhelming support of you know who, as well as being very low educated, but get a load of this gem.

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A West Virginia Republican state lawmaker angry the anti-choice lobby in his state is supporting legislation that includes exceptions for rape and incest bragged that he is voting against the bill because it is not a complete and total ban on abortion.

News outlets call it a “strict,” and “near-total abortion ban.”

“This bill will pass,” Republican state Senator Eric Tarr lamented on the floor of the West Virginia Senate this week. “It’ll save lives but it does it at the sacrifice of others.”

“I’ve heard arguments, if you go out in a burning building and you can save almost all the children but not all of them would you do it?” Tarr, the chair of the West Virginia Senate Finance Committee said, using a gruesome argument.

“I’d burn the building,” Tarr, with no remorse or care, bragged.

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[Marthe48]

1. he isn't listening to what he's saying

mouth disconnected to brain. If there is a brain involved.

My husband was born and lived in WV till he was 12 and we visited his relatives there till they all passed away. None of them were like that, that's for sure!

[AntivaxHunters]

2. Fracking fluid. That's what's in WV water

[Sky Jewels]

3. and coal dust

[GreenWave]

4. Pack it up and ship them to Texas oil fields

[Sky Jewels]

5. Dump it in Abbott's front yard

[2naSalit]

6. Scary shit that...

Nobody tests for and the pollutants from a century of coal mining.

[Brenda]

7. Would you like to know the true answer or not?

The rivers and wells of West Virginia, for example, have suffered decades of environmental degradation from various extractive industries, with water pollution events in almost every corner of the state. One of the worst occurred in 2014, when 10,000 gallons of toxic coal-processing liquid spilled into the Elk River. Its contaminated waters then flowed into the Kanawha Valley Water Treatment Plant in Charleston, which directed nonpotable water into the homes of about 300,000 West Virginians.

Across the state, residents frequently receive boil-water notices due to “disinfection by-products”—harmful chemical substances that can form when a disinfectant such as chlorine reacts with natural organic matter in water. (For 17 years, residents of the town of O’Toole lived with a boil-water advisory that only ended in 2019.) Water tanks stand alongside many houses, often an indication of well water contamination due to fracking waste injected underground, polluting groundwater. And many homes lack connectivity to a sewer system. Instead, their pipes empty raw sewage directly into rivers.

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2022/June-July/Conservation/Safe-Water-Access