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
Really, only FReepers and some people like Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon are posting about it on X.
Trump has better things to do with his time because H1B visa issue is really small potatoes.
So you’re going to consider Trump’s Ukraine policy a failure if he brokers a peace deal in the first month rather than the first day? What can I say? You’re a perfectionist - at least when it comes to Trump. You probably think his Mid-East policy was a failure because he only got Bahrain, UAE, Morocco and Sudan to join.
This is a cut and paste from my post:
“I've seen the movie and read about it over 20 years ago, long before the movie.”
“read about it 20 years ago “ means reading in a book about the Manhattan Project, not watching the movie.
That clear enough, Mister Dunderhead?
You may need someone to teach you English,
You couldn’t even understand my post about the Manhattan Project and made a complete mess of it.
Chuckle,
You forgot to notice your use of the conjunction “and” without and interveming comma.
Inflection and intination and pauses for breath do not show up in written text.
These guys are what we knew they were. We wanted to buy the hype. And we appreciate what they did to help trump. But they are what we thought at the end of the day.
Wake me up for the inauguration.
That’s your interpretation. But that’s not my position. I’ve checked and sure enough, the words don’t fit in my mouth. There are strong conditions I would place on any peace deal—we’ve learned from history. Anyways about 20 hours and counting now .
MAGA base voted for him because he was “brown-man bad “anti-immigration, but now he’s letting immigrants take the high-paying jobs while kicking out the fruit pickers. His boss (President Musk) insulted them one day and then lectured them the very next next about being nicer. With a rather stout “step back and f-yourselves in the face. Don’t cross me or you’ll see retaliation like you’ve never known” for good measure.
What a circus. What exactly am I missing here?
Split.
South Carolina and East Asia.
Have a good new years.
>>”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”
There’s more than one way to say the same thing. Now are you going to pretend that your comment about Trump bringing a conclusion to the Ukraine war in the next 3-4 days wasn’t sarcastic and derisive?
If Trump ends the war in the first month it would be a success by any reasonable standard and it would be more than virtually any other public figure could accomplish. The fact that you’re derisive of any peace deal if it’s not accomplished in one day demonstrates that you’re a “perfectionist” regarding Trump.
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