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Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Biden’s adversarial posture toward the coal industry bears similarities to that of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who said her administration would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” read more
I’m starting to think Joe’s staff are having him on. They’re secretly running a contest to see who can write the craziest gaff for him to repeat. This one is just a complete non sequitur.
Among other things, Joe doesn’t seem to think much of the programmers by placing equating them to the bottom end of the intellectual skill list.
Coal mining and such are admirable admirable and very definitely hard work, and need a good deal of masculine bravery to pursue, but it is not an intellectual endeavor.
Maybe programmers should learn to mine coal?
Instead of mining coal, maybe they could mine bitcoin.
Well, probably not. Mining bitcoin takes electricity-hungry hardware, and with no coal being mined reliable electric power would be pretty iffy.
I’d like to send Joe down 3000 feet.
A dummy that thinks coal is mined at 3000 feet has no business telling people what they should be doing.
Yeah, anyone can code.
That’s why good programmers make salaries into the 6 figures.
I’ve always been taught that ignorance is no excuse.
So what’s Joe’s other excuse?
@Uncle Al – not to mention learning to code uses the same evil power source as mining bitcoin. Yep, that Joe, he’s quite the thinker. Democrat is code for hypocrisy, Joey boy.
Some people prefer to work with their hands. Many times it is much more rewarding than sitting in a cubicle all day staring at a little screen that will make you blind.
God will soon strike down Joe Biden with a massive stroke. You first heard it here folks.
@Billy Fuster:
How will we be able to tell? (-:
Shit! He’s right. I just found out that anyone who scales a skyscraper will make a great biologist. Thanks once again, Joey!
This… from the same moron who asked an assistant whut the phone number of his web site wuz!
“Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!
Is that what this Flaming Asshole really thinks coal miners do down there?
Really???
So Hell is 3,000 feet below?
Need some help here FDR!
…but they never tell China to end THEIR coal mining, which has 10 TIMES the coal production of the United States and is WAY more visibly polluted…
“In 2017, production of bituminous coal for China was 2.5 million thousand short tons. Production of bituminous coal of China increased from 946,747 thousand short tons in 1998 to 2.5 million thousand short tons in 2017 growing at an average annual rate of 5.46%.”
https://knoema.com/atlas/China/topics/Energy/Coal/Production-of-bituminous-coal
“In 2017, production of bituminous coal for United States of America was 281,355 thousand short tons. Production of bituminous coal of United States of America fell gradually from 566,528 thousand short tons in 1998 to 281,355 thousand short tons in 2017.”
https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/topics/Energy/Coal/Production-of-bituminous-coal
…I know Democrats don’t like taking fellow Communist dictators to task, but it sure doesn’t look like we’d get that ol’ Global Warming problem handled by simply putting OURSELVES out of business.
I suppose a dictator can’t dictate to a dictator, though. But Dems always seem to be AFRAID of China, like that time that AF1 had to shit Barry out on the Chinese tarmac so they could humiliate him..and US…some more and he just TOOK it…
https://nextshark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/1cc3588e-724d-11e6-af03-e675d0741f8a_1280x720-768×432.jpg
…compared to what happens when a MALE President shows up at their door…
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p1ruQcOLK8w/hqdefault.jpg
…and WE burn coal MUCH cleaner than THEY do, but that’s a different subject for another day…
Certainly career politicians who steal and lie constantly should learn how to shuffle in shackles and make little rocks out of big ones.
Forget the pushups, Blowhard Joe, let’s see you swing a maul.
If you can chew cereal you can run for president
I can think of a large number of democRATs running for president who will need to learn to code after the next election!
…my family comes from West Virginia.
I can GUARANTEE you there are no “coding” jobs there…
“Well, I was born a code-writer’s daughter…”
– Loretta Lynn
Joe is deciding he does not need W. Virginia or Pennsylvania to win. bold move joe. you want to earn the win like you want to earn Obama’s endorsement.
or, is he just a blithering idiot?
I’m going with blithering idiot.
Uncle Al – I know, like RBG, right?
irony:
dumping handsy joe for hillary at the convention because joe promises to put coal miners out of work
I was one of the early programmers, starting with keypunch machines, paper tape, and computers that had nifty front panel switches. The industry has moved from small teams that hand crafted programs to buildings full of small offices and cubicles where hundreds of programmers work. And more and more of the coding is moving offshore. It’s just not as much fun as the early days. If Joe really thought about it, I’m sure he would recommend these coal miners go into something like surgery. “Laborers” in that field are respected, work in clean environments, and make fairly good money. Can’t really be that much harder than mining can it?
Hey Joe. Maybe you can get them jobs as board members of foreign companies. With the right connections, they wouldn’t require any experience or training!
Why not send them here where they can learn to make $98,000 a year in their spare time without leaving the house?
@Cherrybark, did you work in PL-1?
Joe Biden couldn’t program a TV remote control
Coal miners should learn about the Ukrainian natural gas business.
I hear there’s good money in it.
Let’s split the difference, and just throw Joe Biden DOWN a 3,000′ deep hole! 😀
@SNS. No PL1. Tons of assembly, FORTRAN, the various C’s, Pascal. Expertise was operating systems, process control, factory automation, and a bit of AI. Favorite language is still Lisp
@Cherrybark, my father ran a room-sized system with punchcard in and line printer out for an insurance company, complete with those vacuum-sealed reels of tape that he coded in PL1, so I was just curious.
How modern was your factory automation? Was it Allen Bradley/Rockwell Software, 6200, PLC5 thru 5000? Any DH+ networking?
BASIC, C, DOS, and those guys are my starting point…
Can’t help notice he spews that in New Hampsire.
I’d like to see him come here to coal country and say that.
TN Tux: That would be Loretta LAN.