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Biden Tells Coal Miners To "Learn To Code"
thehill.com ^

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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1 posted on 01/02/2020 7:42:48 AM PST by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

Tone deaf just doesn’t begin to describe this.


2 posted on 01/02/2020 7:43:25 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Helicondelta

What an idiot


3 posted on 01/02/2020 7:44:23 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Helicondelta

” Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”

Boiler feeding isn’t what miners do, Joe.


4 posted on 01/02/2020 7:44:25 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Helicondelta

Biden=/=smart


5 posted on 01/02/2020 7:47:23 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Helicondelta

Can you imagine the media if a Republican had said this?


6 posted on 01/02/2020 7:47:35 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Helicondelta

But if you tell MSM “actors” when they lose their jobs on facebook or twitter to “learn to code” you will get suspended.


7 posted on 01/02/2020 7:47:50 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Helicondelta

If you are in the hospital and you code, what is that?


8 posted on 01/02/2020 7:48:48 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: al_c

They would be suspended from Twitter/Facebook almost immediately

It is in the TOS that telling any MSM or media person to Learn to Code after layoffs or firings it is considered hate speech and you will be suspended immediately


9 posted on 01/02/2020 7:49:09 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Helicondelta

He basically said he doesn’t care about blue collar/trade workers. That doesn’t sell well.


10 posted on 01/02/2020 7:49:26 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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11 posted on 01/02/2020 7:49:33 AM PST by DannyTN
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This has to be satire right?

No way Quid Pro Joe is this tone deaf


12 posted on 01/02/2020 7:50:00 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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Joe has no clue what Code is


13 posted on 01/02/2020 7:50:31 AM PST by butlerweave
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"a town that many miners call home..."

Sorry Joe, I'm not aware of a single operating coal mine in NH.

"... was met with silence from the audience...

They were probably wondering who/what the #$!#$! he was talking about!
14 posted on 01/02/2020 7:51:01 AM PST by JMK (Escaped from NJ during the Florio years!)
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Joe knows coal!

why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? ... Those people who could work eight hours underground and then ... My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would...


15 posted on 01/02/2020 7:51:43 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from the audience.

That line is everything I need to know. It would have been hilarious to be there and look at the faces of the union leaders.
16 posted on 01/02/2020 7:52:02 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

He is !


17 posted on 01/02/2020 7:52:08 AM PST by Reily
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To: Helicondelta

This guy thinks the way out of a hole is to keep digging.

We have got to make sure he gets the Democrat nomination this summer. With him and maybe Poka-honkey as his Running Deer, I mean running mate, President Trump might even have a chance to out-do Reagan in 1984. And their “coat-tails” will surely send Nancy to the back bench, and, if we’re lucky, AOC back to the cocktail circuit.


18 posted on 01/02/2020 7:52:25 AM PST by Ratman0823 (Tag! You're it.)
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Let us assume 4 out of 100 miners could learn to code well enought to get a job: The JOBS would be given by Democrat Leaning Software companies to contract workers with an H1b Visa from India.


19 posted on 01/02/2020 7:52:39 AM PST by Kebbe (Bruce K)
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Wow, I just hope the Democrats nominate Biden. I was going to vote for Williamson in the Democrat Primary (to have some fun), but now I may have to vote for Biden...as he’s way over his head.


20 posted on 01/02/2020 7:52:50 AM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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