Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Joe Biden, coal miners worried about their future should retrain as software developers. Miners were less than impressed with Biden’s advice.
Joe Biden says coal miners should ‘learn to program’
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s suggestion that coal miners should “learn to program” as the United States transitions away from fossil fuels shows “disdain” for the profession, a representative of West Virginia miners said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.”
Chris Hamilton, co-chair of the West Virginia Coal Forum, hit back at the former vice president for essentially saying coal miners should learn to code or focus on preparing for a revamped green economy.
“Anybody who can go down 300-3,000 feet in a mine sure as hell can learn how to program as well,” said Biden at a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire. “But we don’t think of it that way. Anybody who can throw coal into furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”
Hamilton said the attitude from Biden and others on the left regarding coal is “inconceivable” but nothing new, given the Obama administration’s moves against the industry.
“It’s just inconceivable how someone, particularly in his position could advocate putting tens of thousands of working Americans out of work. But it comes as no surprise. Former Vice President Biden has repeatedly demonstrated his disdain for mining and for our coal miners,” he responded.
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Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-biden-coal-miners-learn-program-code
Why didn’t Joe Biden suggest they retrain as brain surgeons?
The answer of course, is everybody knows brain surgery is difficult. Coding by contrast is so easy anyone could learn to do it in a few weeks, because we’ve all seen that Hollywood movie where a high school kid hacks the computer which controls NORAD.
After President Biden shuts down the coal industry, my guess is coal miners who are still out of work after completing their government provided six week bootcamp software development course, well they’re not really trying, are they?
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And what, pray tell, should recycled politicians/bureaucrats such as Joe himself learn to do?
If they would just learn how to shut up and go away, I’d be happy.
Anybody who can throw coal into furnace can learn how to become a Hollywood elitist for God’s sake.
A further element in the Democrat decline which will re-elect Trump over the bleeding corpses of all those that hate him.
Biden has been a member of Congress for more than 40 years. How much does he know about the realities of normal life? Maybe even more than he admits as he tries to shield his offspring from the vagaries of the job market. Because when he tells miners to start learning to code he spits right in their faces. Today, when you are 30 years old and you start learning how to code you are most likely toast. Most coders I know were better than I am now when they were 10 years old. Yes, I do some coding, its pretty amateur. I could not compete with those young coders if I wanted. And I have a 20-year amateur coding history. How does anyone expect someone who has never done that to compete? He does not. He knows that those miners are toast and he still arrogantly pokes at them. Despicable.
A note on software development…
It’s not for everyone. Even many smart and well-trained people never learn to produce quality software in a timely manner, and thus fail as programmers.
It can be deceptive. Most of us can learn to write a 100-line application, and we start thinking we’re now programmers. But a 10,000-line application is an entirely different kettle of fish, and there are few who ever learn to do it well. The rest either fail outright or can only produce a poorly designed, buggy, and unmaintainable mess.
Thus people should quite saying “learn to code” like it’s a viable option for most of the population.
Mr. Biden, I will personally train your how to code if you and your entire family agree to completely retire from political careers now and for all eternity.
“Anybody who can throw coal into furnace can learn how to program for God’s sake.”
Joe was referring to his own experience learning how to program his thermostat.
Biden is a first-order forcing of [catastrophic] [anthropogenic] [political] climate change (CAPCC).
Climate models? Perhaps they can mine carbon credits and sell them as indulgences on the black market.
fake climate change indulgences meet eBay and take then payment in another fake currency like BitCoin. Moshpup could then play along and get his climate action score.
I’m all for carbon indulgences being bought and sold with/for fake money.
The problem with the Democrats presidential election campaign is that it is similar to the choice of new Labourparty leader in the UK. Both do not possess quality candidates to mount a serious opposition to the residing executive.
In the UK, the only plausible candidate is Keir Starmer. Obviously erudite but a Brexit remainer and not guaranteed to gain the support of the card-carrying Labour party members.
In the US you have Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders who are even older than Trump and some say have had their day. Then you have the fragrant Elizabeth Warren who is just plainly in a world of her own where there is no CO2 and where everything is paradise. Then you have the rest of the losers.
The only bright light in the resistance to climate alarmism is … Trump.
The democracies have moved as far left as any intelligent person would want. So anyone intelligent enough to be a quality candidate is not going to be found in a party trying to push a country farther left.
Imagine the consternation if some conservative political figure suggested that people on welfare ought to learn to code.
Well …. 😉
since tis the season to be a sneasin …
does Joe have a code in his node ?
And, in the obverse, anyone who can learn to code can become a coal miner. Here’s your shovel, Mr. Zuckerberg. Get right to it. It’s easy.
Wow. There is man running for President of the United States who is unafraid of displaying a callous disdain for the lives and struggles of working people. Donald Trump would have had more sense to say what Mr. Biden has said.
I’ve never seen Trump go out of his way to insult someone who hadn’t insulted him first.
Anybody who can string words together like a politician can learn to code, for god’s sake. And write a perfectly accurate climate model in a few weeks, of course. Or control software for airplanes.
Joe has just proved himself to be utterly clueless.
One coalminer brings more real value to more people in ten years of work than a faculty lounge full of climatologists during their entire working careers. What exactly did climatologists do that was of any use to anyone before they hit on the catastrophic climate change story? Nothing, because it was understood before James Hansen, et al, that people could not really change the climate. Not that we can now, because the remedies for climate change involve severe diminutions of general population standards of living, which are economically (and therefore politically) impossible.
What goes around comes around, doesn’t it … in the 1700’s it was ‘Let them eat cake’ by the political class, and here we are in the 21st century and the current elites have modernized it for the times. As I remember, it didn’t work out that well in the first round. Better luck this time?
First, I must agree with James Francisco: nobody can top Paul S’s comment.
But the political stumble here for Biden is not that he insulted coal miners or dissed computer programming, that that he got off message.
He should have said: “Under my energy policies, displaced coal miners will fill some of the millions of high-paying green jobs we’ll create”.
All he has to do is read the script; it’s not hard for God’s sake!
anyone who can stand there with a microphone, can learn to read the script, for God’s sake
Coal miner to computer programmer is more realistic than coke-head military reject to international oil company director.
“>>> According to Joe Biden, coal miners worried about their future should retrain as software developers. <<<"
It is not the job of the Federal Government to be telling people what to do. It is the job of the Federal Government to support them in doing what they want to do.
It’s not the governments job to be supporting people who can support themselves.
The governments main job is to just stay out of people’s way.
We have just decoded his attitude. Basically he is saying “Let them eat cake”.
“Coding by contrast is so easy anyone could learn to do it in a few weeks…” Of course it is, just ask Boeing.
I imagine Coal miners’ advice to Joe Biden would go something like “Learn to think before your mouth opens.”
Is that what they tell coal miners in China? Or is it more like “your production quota has been raised?”
Hey Joe, how do you code when there is no power to run your computer??
Joe Biden’s Climate Advice to Coal Miners: “Do what my son did – get a job with a gas company on 80 grand a month!”