Posted on 01/02/2020 7:42:48 AM PST by Helicondelta
During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code.
According to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post, Biden said, “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from the audience.
Biden's campaign has proposed moving the U.S. away from fossil fuels to reduce the country’s carbon footprint.
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“Come on Man!”
This is the same stupidity of Hillary telling them to go learn how to install solar panels...
Anyone who thinks the D’s are going to retake PA, Mi or WI next cycle, doesn’t know jack crap about this region...
I wonder how long Joe and his ilk would last, 3000 feet underground, doing a job “anyone” can do? I couldn’t. No way would I go 3000 feet underground and I was on a gunboat in Vietnam. My hat is off to coal miners. My father-in-law and his brothers were coal miners. And none were as stupid as Joe Biden or any other Rat candidate.
Ole Joe doesn’t realize that some people are better at manual things, and others at thinking type jobs...
His “ come on man” routine is getting stale, and its like an old fart using kids lingo....
Someone should ask him how much “ code” he has ever written in his life.
I wonder too how the software engineers (who seem to trend Leftist) appreciate ol’ Joe implying that their skills are so basic that they compare to stoking a furnace?
And he thought he was in ND instead of NH. They don’t have coal mines in ND either but it’s easier to explain than why he was babbling about mines in the first place, since he obviously can’t tell his own ass from a hole in the ground.
Other than having a “D” after his name, why would anyone with two brain cells to rub together support the sniffer???
I *PRAY* Biden is the Demon Nominee for 2020.
Gotta get all you guys into a Biden rally to get in his face.
It would make for one hell of a news day.
LOL!
Thanks to quid pro joe, even if they learn to code they’ll have to emigrate and then come back as H1B to get a job.
What would be the education level of the average coal miner that is 55 years old and 30 years on the job? 10th - 12th grade would be my guess.
Sooo you’re going to retrain them to code? Good luck.
Slo-Joe just as well told them to go work at McDonalds.
Any predictions on how long until Creepy Joe will have to prompt the audience "C'mon. Applaud." like the half asleep Jeb Bush against Trump? Maybe pass out diet pills with small doses of amphetamines?
lol
...Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”...
Not sure who’s throwing coal into a furnace...but I don’t see the connection At All between the two functions he mentioned.
Maybe he meant the really good furnace feeders can program while they feed the furnace.
Say the same to a laid off reporter, and Twitter bans you for personal attacks.
Every time he opens his mouth he has NO IDEA how ignorant he is.
It’s a beautiful thing to watch.
Answer: “Code THIS Biden.”
It boggles the mind. This type of elitist callousness; where they dont care about your family, job, and your opiate addiction; led to the Trump movement.
I would save this and should this clown win the nomination, make a negative ad with his speech in it and play it nonstop in the Rust Belt.
“Joe has no clue what Code is”
Sure he does. I’m pretty sure Joe was thinking these guys should all learn Morse code!
“And just take your shotgun, load it with coal, and fire it through the door.”
Yeah, I hear you. I’ve said this myself...if you want to drink, move to where there’s water.
The thing is, coal has been vilified, the lack of demand isn’t due to it not being useful - it’s the politics that have hurt it.
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