Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Anybody who can serve in government for more than 40 years and accomplish absolutely nothing should be able to learn to code

What a pathetic fellow!
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!”
On second thought, I think coding is quite outside the scope of his abilities. Truth to tell, when he loses, either in the primaries or in the general election, he'll never have to work at all. I'm sure he has managed to enrich himself during 40 years of inside-the-beltway grifting.

5 comments:

bruce said...

I read somewhere there has been a lot of 'quid pro quo' in his electorate home state over the years, industries moving in and setting up because of backroom agreements, jobs, favors, everyone's happy (as long as they know their place) and looks the other way.

So his real talents aren't the ones the rest of us see.

Will we ever get the full story of how these folks moved from local to state shakedowns, then federal, then at some stage someone (Hillary?) discovered Eastern Europe was a perfect place for a laundry business, and these small-town shysters went global?

JeffS said...

Programming is not the sinecure lefties tbelieve it to be, even with all of the available software tools. That "Learn to code!" suggestion is both stupid AND condescending.

And anything Biden programs would eventually lead to a pr0n site somewhere. That's a given.

Deborah said...

There are younger generations in front of the displaced miners. Children are learning coding in Kindergarten, but that does not mean it is easy. Kids are more adept due to immersion in technology from a early age, usually as soon as they can sit up. It isn't that miners couldn't do coding, but blue collar is a different mindset.

JeffS said...

Very true, Deborah. My grandniece (4, going on 5) and grandnephew (2+ years) got child specific tablets for Christmas. Those have games and puzzles galore, some straightforward, some silly, but the children have taken to them like candy. The grandnephew is more inclined to just rub his finger around the screen, but he does work through the puzzles.

I'm still noodling if this is a good thing or not.

Deborah said...

Kids are less socialized because of their attachment to electronics. The daughter of a friend of ours who has taught for 43 years, currently at Kindergarten, said she has noticed it.

This isn't new. The advent of radio and then tv caused concern to arise, which led parents to restrict radio and tv. Children had to go outside and play.

Restriction must be the inevitable for productive society. Adults must impose rules on themselves too. Next time you eat out, look around the room and see how many adults aren't interacting with their dining companion. Shocking.