2020 Dem Yang hits Biden over coal miner-tech remarks

[brooklynite]

"Someone who suggests that coal miners become coders is generally neither of those things."

MSNBC video

Things seem to be getting.....lively

[crazytown]

1. 'Andrew Yang is dead to me now'

testing, 1, 2, 3.

[ecstatic]

2. Yang doesn't have a chance in hell.

It's time for him to suspend his campaign. We need all hands on deck to defeat trump!

[redqueen]

9. His supporters disagree. And his support is growing.

He has the funds to stay in at least through super Tuesday. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the early states.

[Raine]

12. Yang is doing perfectly fine

it's not up to anyone to tell someone else their time us up!

[Jake Stern]

3. I sincerely hope this doesn't become Hillary's infamous "coal gaffe" 2.0

I support Biden but he really comes across as dismissive to the concerns of coal miners and their families, dare I say even a little arrogant with his "if you can do X then you can do Y!" remark.

Not everyone is a coder or programmer. I couldn't do shit in that category if my life depended on it but my nephew is a whiz at such things.

Messaging, messaging, messaging.

[TidalWave46]

4. Great line.

But it’s damn near universal.

[dem4decades]

6. Ari melber laughed when he said it.

[Recursion]

8. It's one of his catchphrases

He's been using it in stump speeches for about a year now. (And, yes, he has been campaigning that long -- he was the first Democrat to announce.)

[TidalWave46]

14. Strange catchphrase.

I get using it as a line like I thought it was but there is no catchphrase there. Any thinking person would just look at him and say “his catchphrase removes his own thought that he is qualified. Thanks for pointing out that it’s an actual go-to line for him.

[Recursion]

15. Not strange at all

He's making a point. Middle class people want poor people to learn the skills to take up middle class jobs. But lack of skills is not the issue keeping poor people from middle class jobs.

[TwilightZone]

5. Yay for blanket statements.

And stereotypes.

[Voltaire2]

7. That's a perfect response.

[LongtimeAZDem]

10. Big talk from someone who couldn't figure out how to file in Ohio

[redqueen]

11. Cheap shot, but illustrative!

[Raine]

13. Well he hasn't been in politics forever

so maybe he isn't up on that kind of thing. 🤔 He's innovative and thinks outside the box which is a plus to some of us.

[MineralMan]

16. Joe Biden was simply reinforcing the fact that coal is dead.

It's not coming back. Coal miners will have to find other work to do. Those are facts. Biden's suggestion merely offers one possible alternative for those workers. There are others, of course, but people who work in mines will need to find other types of employment. It is that simple.

[boomer_wv]

17. Why

does Andrew Yang think coal miners are too stupid to learn coding?

[aikoaiko]

18. Biden, like some other Democrats, are cavalier about coal miners livelihoods.

It’s a weakness.

[UniteFightBack]

19. I'm fucking sick of catering to like what 50K coal miners. SICK OF IT. nt

[aikoaiko]

21. We're not catering to coal miners. We're asking them to vote Democratic.

And how we talk about their livelihoods matters.

[UniteFightBack]

20. Oh for fucks sake. nt

[aikoaiko]

22. I hope Yang stays around -- the OP shows he is saying what we need to hear.