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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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To: the OlLine Rebel

Sure, but dont sell out communities by shipping factories to Mexico and China and tell me its “free trade”. Or shutting down mines and forestry and then import coal and lumber. This has been an argument for decades and led to the opiate crisis. And plz do not give me the same “buggy whip” phrase that non-thinking libertarians do.


61 posted on 01/02/2020 8:39:36 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: neverevergiveup

“Let them write code.”...

Perfect!


62 posted on 01/02/2020 8:42:57 AM PST by 386wt
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To: Campion
...I "learned to code" 40 years ago...

I learned to write software over fifty years ago; and, I am a "software engineer" rather than a coder. Coders script HTML or fill out medical billings. It is degrading to see how professionals in the field lack precision in nomenclature.

(Just a pet peeve of mine)

63 posted on 01/02/2020 8:43:09 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Helicondelta
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64 posted on 01/02/2020 8:45:06 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Helicondelta
The coal miners should have yelled back, "We'll learn to code as soon as Democrats learn math."

By the way, there's a lot more to being a programmer than just "learning to code". :)

65 posted on 01/02/2020 8:45:49 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Helicondelta

well, i SUPPOSE it’s possible that those hundreds of thousands of displaced coal miners could always learn to code ... learn to write code for the aerospace industry, the medical industry, and other non-critical industries not terribly sensitive to a few software bugs here and there by novice coders with zero education in physics, aerodynamics, biomechanics, organic chemistry, molecular biology, etc. ... NAAAAAAAAAAAA


66 posted on 01/02/2020 8:48:27 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Campion

Learn to code?? Seriously? So they can have a job that gets offshored or replaced by an H1-B that you Democrat slime (with help from the Republican quislings) import from India?


Coding?!?! I am hoping the good people of PA will tell quid pro Joe where to go...

Your comment was my first thot...

There was an article posted this week about THOUSANDS of AT&T workers having to retrain their H-1B Visa replacements.

AT&T forcing thousands of American employees to train foreign replacements through H1B program
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3804631/posts

Or miners had better learn Hindi and plan on traveling to Bangalore ;(


67 posted on 01/02/2020 8:51:45 AM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Helicondelta

We use coal in regulated scrubbed means. Go after the Chicoms if you have a problem with coal air pollution.

What an ass.


68 posted on 01/02/2020 8:54:14 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Helicondelta

He’s such an @ss. Truly.


69 posted on 01/02/2020 8:55:51 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Helicondelta

“Let them eat cake!” Tone deaf and disconnected.


70 posted on 01/02/2020 8:56:48 AM PST by Bayan
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To: Helicondelta

Biden’s campaign slogan should be “Biden 2020? C’mon man!” Because c’mon Dems, even you can do better than Joe Biden.

They say he’s front runner. I suppose that was true of Howard Dean, once. Winning the nomination, I’ll believe it if it happens.


71 posted on 01/02/2020 9:00:22 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: neverevergiveup
".... Let them write code...."

Modern day version of "Let them eat cake" attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France during the French Revolution, when told that the peasants didn't have bread to eat.

Joe's managed to stick his foot in his mouth again.

72 posted on 01/02/2020 9:04:04 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
According to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post...

73 posted on 01/02/2020 9:04:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Helicondelta

There are already enough full-stack developers.


74 posted on 01/02/2020 9:05:21 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: Beagle8U

“Sooo you’re going to retrain them to code? Good luck.”

Yeah, starting with refresher courses in algebra, trig, calculus etc.


75 posted on 01/02/2020 9:06:50 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: GingisK

Pretty insulting to programmers as well as coal miners.


76 posted on 01/02/2020 9:07:39 AM PST by xxqqzz
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To: Helicondelta

Democrat, Joe Biden is as dumb as a person can become!!! This nutcase dude, Biden belongs in not only an insane nuthouse, but in a long term meds treatment center. How the Democrat Party could put this wacko, buffoon, up for 2020 POTUS..is the “sick joke” of this century!!!

Democrat Party, dying on the vine, being killed by the inept, hate filled, hands, minds and souls of Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, etc.!!! Case closed!!!

Oh...I forgot, Joe, Trumpie has massive rallies in Miami, Florida, Toledo, Ohio, & Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the next week. He will attract over 100,000 Americans to his rallies. You Democrat, Joe Biden will also attract a massive 75-100 people for your entire gigs in the next week....Hang it up, Biden you’re done...Butt Wipe!!!


77 posted on 01/02/2020 9:10:10 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forev er!!!)
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To: Helicondelta

Wonder what his FR sign on name is?


78 posted on 01/02/2020 9:11:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: Helicondelta

I must have missed Apple, Microsoft and Google moving their Headquarters to New Hampshire.


79 posted on 01/02/2020 9:13:17 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Who are you to tell Scranton Joe about coal mining? Why, his family used to work in the coal mines for eight hours and then come up and play football!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rkoqglq9dU

80 posted on 01/02/2020 9:17:44 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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