Joe: Let Them Eat Code
American Spectator,
by
Daniel J. Flynn
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
1/3/2020 4:40:13 AM
Joe Biden’s “ancestors who worked in the coal mines in Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours” frown upon his plan for miners to transition to code from coal. So do Neil Kinnock’s, who expressed disapproval first.
“Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden told an audience in Derry, New Hampshire, earlier this week. “Give me a break!” he responded to skepticism of his job retraining suggestion for miners. “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LadyVet 1/3/2020 5:44:16 AM (No. 277149)
Here is some code for Joe:
Go to 99.
4 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 1/3/2020 6:27:49 AM (No. 277165)
No offense to coal miners but ‘learning to code’ is not quite as easy as politicians seem to think. Biden couldn’t do it.
15 people like this.
Coal Miners learning Calculus! Awesome idea!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
milwaukeeroad 1/3/2020 6:39:41 AM (No. 277170)
Hey Joe, why not offer to set us all up with no-work gigs at Burisma?!
26 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
petrichor 1/3/2020 7:45:30 AM (No. 277231)
I'm thinking we should make the coal miners teachers. The curriculum is readily available on mainstream media. How hard can it be to indoctrinate kids to all of that leftist drivel?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/3/2020 8:10:20 AM (No. 277262)
We have programmers. We need coal, and coal miners, Mr. Biden.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
laurenc 1/3/2020 8:13:30 AM (No. 277266)
Joe is out of his mind... throwing coal into a furnace equates to writing computer code? Why aren't the other dem candidstes laughing him off the stage??
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JrSample 1/3/2020 8:19:52 AM (No. 277274)
Can somebody in the press actually do their jobs and admit that this idiot has no idea what miners actually do?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/3/2020 8:26:24 AM (No. 277276)
As usual, Joe is dead wrong. Programming is an art and the individual must have the inborn talent and the capacity to concentrate or land a job with the government where nothing ever gets finished. (See Obamacare, Implementation)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
3XALADY 1/3/2020 8:30:23 AM (No. 277282)
I thought all the programmers were from India or somewhere else, Americans need not apply.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/3/2020 9:01:25 AM (No. 277312)
How does descending into a coal mine make one perfect for sitting in a chair all day slinging code?
Joe is merely parroting a left-wing apologist he overheard at a DC dinner party funded by some tech sector lobbyist. It's worth noting that Joe has never held a real job, since black kids rubbed his hairy legs and jumped in his lap, and Corn Pop wasn't around.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 1/3/2020 9:10:11 AM (No. 277327)
Back in the dark ages, before I became a programmer, when I worked at a LARGE communications company, you had to test out to get into their school to learn to code....sorry, but not everyone has, shall I say, the 'brain logic circuits' to become a programmer....simple fact...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
VietVet68 1/3/2020 10:23:22 AM (No. 277406)
Proving once again that politicians, left to their own devices and allowed to go off script, will promptly stick their foot in their mouths. This is up there with "deplorable" and one of the hundreds of gaffes Biden will provide to the Trump reelection campaign before the democrat primary ends.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Foghorn 1/3/2020 10:51:50 AM (No. 277449)
This is really a stupid idea. Coal miners aren't interested in writing code. This is a socialist method to force people to do jobs directed by the government, you don't get a choice of what you want to do. Training people for jobs they are actually interested in or suited for is a better idea. After training the government should provide funds needed to move to a location where there is a demand for the skills training provided. Coal miners are not stupid and they don't want to write code.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 1/3/2020 10:57:40 AM (No. 277465)
As a former union member, now retired, I have heard all of this BS for many many years. I have never known any of this garbage to be put into practice. And I don't believe that anyone that came off of a twelve hour shift ever went on to play football for four more hours. Retire Joe, that's the best thing you could do for the country.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Tianne 1/3/2020 11:05:36 AM (No. 277472)
How dare Joe Biden tell coal miners (or anyone else) what jobs they should do just because he has some fruity environmental idea in his elderberry head.
If I were a coal miner, I'd invite him on a ride down a deep underground shaft and leave him there with a longwall machine, drill, blaster, pick ax, and lit helmet and tell him if wants to get out, to use the supplied equipment because anyone can learn to be a coal miner for goodness' sake.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/3/2020 11:09:02 AM (No. 277478)
Joe has really lost it. He has been in government doing nothing for so long he has forgotten what is real work. This is simply foolish and if he were to become POTUS by some miracle it would be the end of the US as we know it.
A few years ago on a lark, I thought it would be cool to learn some coding as a sort of hobby for fun. I was already pretty adept with BASIC since I had become the IT guy in my business by default. Wow. I always thought of myself as a pretty smart guy but I gave that up after a month or so. Joe, trust me, coding is not something that just anybody can learn.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 1/3/2020 11:22:05 AM (No. 277496)
Biden swiped the coal miner's speech from Kinnock. There were no coal miners in Biden's ancestry. And when he spoke the stolen words about 4 hours of football, that was Kinnock talking about soccer.
Biden is a thief and a liar.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
callmecrazy 1/3/2020 12:31:18 PM (No. 277596)
He has unsurprisingly found a way to insult both miners AND programmers. Keep talking Joe. You have a gift!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/3/2020 12:45:35 PM (No. 277621)
Remember when Illary promised to put all the coal companies out of business back in 2016? Apparently, Joe doesn’t.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/3/2020 3:04:38 PM (No. 277782)
I understand aspects of coding and of coal mining. If I had to choose, and being an American citizen in 2020 I don't have to, I'd choose mining coal over coding. It's hard, dangerous, work, but it is vital to keeping the public employed, warm and safe. Coding, at least any that I could aspire to, wouldn't have much affect on society and I wouldn't earn nearly as much money for each day of work.
Joe Biden is everything that is wrong with the Beltway.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/3/2020 6:44:56 PM (No. 277959)
Hey Joe!
How about YOU learn to Code!
I bet you CAN'T......writing modern code takes a BRAIN!
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