Posted on 12/27/2024 10:05:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers. It is stunning to see this crew double, triple and quadruple down on advocacy, while defining American workers as inadequate for their Silicon Valley needs.
Alas, it is what it is. Within the argument Musk, Ramaswamy, Sacks and group have presented multiple justifications for their foreign worker assistance programs, while advocating for expanded immigration support therein.
Within the tone of their argument, they essentially say the American worker is (1) not intellectual enough; (2) doesn’t have the right work ethic; and the latest point of justification is that (3) American culture is to blame for their need to import foreign workers.
As Vivek Ramaswamy recently said, “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.” Thus, as the narrative is sold, American workers need to be replaced with more culturally appropriate Indian tech workers.
When the Indian-American starts saying Indian culture is more adequate at creating workers for the American tech industry, he loses me completely.
If the Indian culture is the holy grail breeding ground for software engineers, then why isn’t New Delhi replacing Silicon Valley?
Considering that factually the Indian culture is entirely based on a caste system, the argument is even more absurd.
What we need are training and recruitment centers for American students. However, the larger issue within the billionaire tech team advocacy is an issue of self-interest.
What we see in the justifications and arguments of the Ramaswamy, Musk and Sacks group is a very specific point of immigration policy for their subset within a singular sector of the American economy. Perhaps this would not be such a big issue, if these points of advocacy were coming from outside government interest groups. However, with this tech team going into the administration, the influence becomes something a little bigger.
The part the Tech Group do not understand is the core of the American DNA, “Liberty“…
It is only from the position of liberty, intellectualism actualized in freedom form, that the working culture of America, the ingenuity part, can be understood.
If you attempt to quantify Americanism with math and algorithms, the translated outcome always fails.
Dear Vivek Ramaswamy, my counter take…
Several years ago, Florida Power and Light won the prestigious international Edward Demming Award for excellence in multi-platform engineering, efficiency superiority and total quality in the process of energy management.
However, the scruffy rednecks did not blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs, articulated and quantified quality improvement processes and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.
Because they lost the award, the jaw-agape Japanese spent 6 months visiting and reviewing FPL and later published a 1,000-page study essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good, they were just lucky.”
You see, the reviewers couldn’t actually quantify the reason why the Florida-based energy company was so successful. In response the FPL field leadership laughed, took out magic markers and wrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY.”
A few years later, every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein. Global analysts and think-tanks proclaimed it would take 5 years to cap them all off and restart the Kuwait oil pumping industry. Well, the Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in 6 months.
We are a nation that knows how to get shit done.
A few more years pass, and the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground. The eyes of the world began to tear as the word spread. Most began to whisper no one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them.
Yup, that’s our America. Ingenuity born from freedom.
Across the pond a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, began opening fire on a train in France. The scruffneck Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said, “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.
Legion d’Honneur or not, that’s us. WE ARE AMERICANS! That’s just how we roll.
In fact, Lady Liberty can stroll along the Champs-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrival, they’d be speaking German in the Louvre. Yet, for the better part of the past decade, a group of intellectual leftists have been teaching our children that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eating sustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other; because ‘save the planet’, or something similarly minded. It would appear, they hate the outcomes and inequities from freedom.
Warmest regards,
Americans First!
My BEST advice to @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @DavidSacks and the Silicon Valley tech elites, is to keep talking. Just keep telling Americans how terrible they are and how they need to be replaced. Great Job.
Every time you guys open your typeset in public, @LauraLoomer grows a…
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) December 26, 2024
Bullshit! Trump wasn't out there saying, "I will continue to replace you with foreigners. MALA!" Which is what the H1B program is.
Let the H1Bs fight WWIII. There is pretty much no reason at all for any American to fight for this country anymore. The Uniparty con job and war on Americans continues apace.
It’s adorable that you think Elon Musk and the other tech bros who poured millions into the election are doing it for any reason but to influence government in order to increase their own wealth and power.
Every worker on a legal visa must be allowed to change jobs. Those that cannot do so are Indentured Servants. We abolished that in 1865.
You probably believe the Hollywood film about black women being the only reason the US made it to the moon.
Go up thread or to one of the related threads and see the H1Bs for everything fro janitors to cooks.
Troll.
Now do Sun Microsystems, Intel, and "Our doors fall off" Boeing. Troll.
>>”His [Trump’s] inner sanctum is not in or of the American heartland”
Do you still live in Tokyo?
When I think of Indian tech workers, the first thing that comes to mind is scammers. Scamming old folks out of their life savings too
>>And we are now 48 hours into the aftermath of digital Ft. Sumter and the god-king is still silent and neutral down in Florida playing golf.
You’re the first person I’ve heard imply that Trump is lazy. Actually that’s not quite true. I think some talking heads on MSNBC tried to push that narrative briefly but it went nowhere because it’s so obviously ludicrous.
As far as Trump’s relative silence on the subject for the past 48 hours, who cares? Trump doesn’t even take office for another 3 weeks. No changes to H1B will be made until then. In the mean time, he’s allowing people to weigh in on the subject.
That was the spirit of the movie.
You’re still a troll.
Sod off Swampy.
I’m far to the right of corporatist RINOs like you.
You are not “to the right” of anybody, except Joy Reid maybe.
You are even crazier than she is and even more useless.
Get help!
I’ve seen the movie and read about it over 20 years ago, long before the movie.
No such claim was made, albeit the movie was a bit gang ho.
I honestly don’t think this is about wages and benefits, these tech companies have a plethora of funds to pay wages and benefits, I think this is far more about hiring someone training them endless hours then having them leave on a whim and having to start all over, I think it has to do with the overall true passion to work of the American worker, sorry but we are sorely lacking in that department AND along with that passion for your work comes willingness to absolutely work endless hours to reach the goal desired!! We ALL know the American worker is willing to just walk off the job when it will hurt the company most, the younger generation has very little loyalty to companies they work for today it did not used to be that way in my generation! I believe this is MORE about these visas forcing the workers for exchange of the visa to stay on with the company for at least a 5 year period of time making the training time spent on them worth the effort!! This is not about money these companies and people have a plethora of money they are driven to success and they want people surrounding them with that same drive and passion!!!
I wouldn't know a so called Chamber of Commerce “conservative” if it bit me. I am a one hundred percent President Trump supporter, just as I was for Herman Cain and for the same reasons. Both are/were businessmen.
My beef with you is there is no Trump weak spot, yet you look for and if not found, will create one out of whole cloth.
not th a t I don’t have my own touch of grey, and do also fire aim, the 2nd one I s correct..
the babylon bee produces tons of Gen z zingers and zots, including a californiia couple’s move to texas...iys a hoot!
Reconsider that sentence.
“I’ve seen the movie...long before the movie”
I think you mean you read the book?
So we apparently need visa workers to teach Americans ENGLISH.
What a joke.
But sure, H1B is about the “best and brightest!” pic.twitter.com/7VAjSa1pX4— Chief Trumpster (@ChiefTrumpster) December 28, 2024
Besides he’s gonna be too busy in the next 3-4 days bringing the conclusion to the Ukraine war in one single day as he promised on the campaign trail with a straight face to the American people so I would just back off now… Busy now
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