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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy open rift with MAGA loyalists over skilled worker visas
NBC ^ | 12/27/24 | Katherine Doyle

Posted on 12/27/2024 11:08:26 AM PST by DallasBiff

A multi-day firestorm has erupted over comments made by two incoming advisers to President-elect Donald Trump about H-1B temporary worker visas, a carve-out for high-skilled workers that some in MAGA world say are taking American jobs.

The fight began brewing on X ahead of Christmas after Trump named venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan to a top AI policy post, triggering a racially charged backlash that surfaced Krishnan’s comments advocating for green cards for skilled workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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One of the first legacy media articles, on the supposed MAGA family fued.

Flame away, but the American education system is a mess, from decades of NEA influence and democrats.

I trust Trump and MAGA.

1 posted on 12/27/2024 11:08:26 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

NBC has a concern for MAGA.

Yeah, sure.

🙃


2 posted on 12/27/2024 11:10:23 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

Looks like the wedge has been placed to blow up the whole thing.

Why am I not surprised?

I decided to let Trump handle it since he is the President.


3 posted on 12/27/2024 11:13:56 AM PST by dforest
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To: DallasBiff

Trump is either America first or he isn’t - this will be his litmus test. If the Trump administration does not curtail the H-1B program his administration will go down in flames and the Republican Party will suffer the fate of the Tories in U.K. that went down this year.


4 posted on 12/27/2024 11:14:28 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: dforest

I’ll try has to do is limit the H-1b and L1 visa programs and he and the GOP will be fine. 30 years republican betrayal has reached its endpoint. They try the same decepticon tricks again and they’re done.


5 posted on 12/27/2024 11:16:09 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: wildcard_redneck

You are such a sucker, falling for an article from NBC.

L


6 posted on 12/27/2024 11:16:47 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: wildcard_redneck
Trump is either America first or he isn’t - this will be his litmus test. If the Trump administration does not curtail the H-1B program his administration will go down in flames and the Republican Party will suffer the fate of the Tories in U.K. that went down this year.

Well I guess you will be a Gavin Newsome vote for president in 2028.

7 posted on 12/27/2024 11:17:34 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

First things first: address *illegal* immigration.

Prayers up for everything else moving forward.


8 posted on 12/27/2024 11:18:14 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Lurker

Aren’t you paying attention? This is all playing out on Twitter. You can go look for yourself.


9 posted on 12/27/2024 11:19:10 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: DallasBiff
--- "I trust Trump and MAGA."

This and some similar threads identify the next salvo from the corrupt state and the Lefty press in their "war against President Trump." Expect more and louder.

10 posted on 12/27/2024 11:19:19 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Lurker

“You are such a sucker, falling for an article from NBC.”

Not fake news. Vivek and Elon have been all over Twitter today talking about it.


11 posted on 12/27/2024 11:19:26 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: DallasBiff

“Well I guess you will be a Gavin Newsome vote for president in 2028.”

If your hammer won’t drive nails it’s time to get a new tool. If the GOP continues to fail to live up to its promises it’s gonna go the way of the Whigs and the Tories.


12 posted on 12/27/2024 11:20:06 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: Lurker

I guess Bannon is a sucker, too

MAGA Kitty
@SaveUSAKitty
Steve Bannon on H-1B Visas:
“This whole thing about oh…they’re only geniuses…H-1B Visas…that’s NOT what it’s about. It’s about taking American jobs and bringing over essentially what have become indentured servants at lower wages…the thing’s a SCAM by the Oligarchs in Silicon Valley to basically take jobs from American citizens give them to what become indentured servants from foreign countries, and pay them less…SIMPLE…”


13 posted on 12/27/2024 11:20:20 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Lurker

America first isn’t India first or corporatist multinationals first.


14 posted on 12/27/2024 11:20:22 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: DallasBiff

Musk and Ramaswamy are absolutely right.

“decades of NEA influence and democrats.”

AND decades of marxist infiltration of the university “Education” departments and them teaching their racist, classist, woke, marxist theories to each new generation of teachers.

Needed steps:
1. Purge university “Education” departments of marxists
2. Deny federal funding to any university with Woke / DEI / Marxist programs
3. Make education loans only available to STEM students
4. Ban teacher’s unions.

Then, in a generation or two, the USA will be back on top of all science and engineering endeavors worldwide.


15 posted on 12/27/2024 11:21:20 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: DallasBiff
I trust Trump and MAGA.

Amen to that. It's Trump Administration. He has my support in the decisions that he will make the next four years. Even if I'm not going to agree with all of them.

16 posted on 12/27/2024 11:22:01 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jane Long

TRUMP, MUSK & RAMASWAMY should take heed on American workers’ views on H-B1 visas. Many have lost jobs to these non-Americans who don’t have loyalty except to India.

An 80+-year-old engineer friend was forced to train his H-B1 replacement and take early retirement. He is now in a nursing home but can barely finance it. His wife lives at home, is in poor health and needs to live in assisted living. They would have been a lot better off financially if he had been given the opportunity to work until retirement age.

AMERICA FIRST = America made by American workers.


17 posted on 12/27/2024 11:22:02 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: wildcard_redneck
Trump is either America first or he isn’t - this will be his litmus test. If the Trump administration does not curtail the H-1B program his administration will go down in flames and the Republican Party will suffer the fate of the Tories in U.K. that went down this year.

So I guess to you Gavin Newsom would be better.

18 posted on 12/27/2024 11:22:59 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Flashback: Disney Workers Forced to Train Their Foreign Replacements

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/disney-workers-forced-to-train-their-foreign-replacements.amp

So sorry to hear about your friends :(. Prayers up for wisdom and justice on all this moving forward.


19 posted on 12/27/2024 11:26:34 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
because there couldn't possibly be any American Citizens that are smart enough to be an accountant or an accountant manager?????


20 posted on 12/27/2024 11:27:07 AM PST by RummyChick
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