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Elon Musk wanted Vivek Ramaswamy out of DOGE due to 'differences' over H-1B visas: Report
Mint via MSN ^ | 01 23 2025 | Staff

Posted on 01/23/2025 12:21:51 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy pulled out of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) due to differences with the Tesla CEO over H-1B visas, a report has suggested.

Hours after Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President, Ramaswamy announced that he would not co-head DOGE. The Tesla CEO who wanted Ramaswamy 'out' of the team over the 39-year-old entrepreneur's remarks on X regarding H-1B visas made in December last year.

Ramaswamy's comments on X during a discussion of H-1B visas were the one 'main reason' for some Republicans getting frustrated with him, a report in Politico said.

"Venerated mediocrity over excellence”

Ramaswamy had criticised American culture, saying that tech companies hire foreign workers because the country that has “venerated mediocrity over excellence.” Ramaswamy argued in the post that American companies prioritise foreign-born engineers over native Americans due to a cultural veneration of mediocrity over excellence.

The now-viral post sparked widespread debate and garnered over 118 million views and 51,000 comments.

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrykeywordtroll; circusalready; clownshowposting; doge; elonmusk; h1b; h1bvisas; makebelive; moredramaqueens; musk; nonsense; ramaswamy; vivekramaswamy; vpmusk
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1 posted on 01/23/2025 12:21:51 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

No, Vivek is going to be running for governor of Ohio


2 posted on 01/23/2025 12:22:39 PM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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To: yesthatjallen

“ Venerated mediocrity over excellence” is the working definition of DEI


3 posted on 01/23/2025 12:25:37 PM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: yesthatjallen

I gave them two weeks before they got divorced. Elon did it in less than one.


4 posted on 01/23/2025 12:26:28 PM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: yesthatjallen

A majority of the 500 billion funding AI will go to Indians working in the USA with H-1B Visas. Trump cant turn it off because republicans need funding for their election campaigns. American white males are thrown under the bus.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 12:28:48 PM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: yesthatjallen

whatever, I just want to see what DOGE can actually accomplish.


6 posted on 01/23/2025 12:29:35 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: PMAS

Ramaswamy is smart enough to know that the H1-B workers who have warmed our program are cheaper than their American counterparts. Let’s see how many employers prefer them to Americans when the costs to employ are comparable or possibly higher for H1-B’s because they cost the US more( Welfare, chain migration etc. )

I am in favor of H1-B reform and then H2-B expansion. Let’s brain drain the world. . We have already too much of the Worlds trash. Let’s get something for US.


7 posted on 01/23/2025 12:30:14 PM PST by 1malumprohibitum (I’m )
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To: ComputerGuy

Perhaps. But count me skeptical whenever the MSM highlights division among Republicans.


8 posted on 01/23/2025 12:32:04 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The big problem with H1b visas , especially with Indian recipients , is that is an easily scammed channel for chain migration . I see the evidence every day.The H1b holder quickly has great numbers of extended family members joining the primary here , the one who has the good job , and some how they seem to be able to stay . Then each neuce/ nephew , cousin, vrither/ sister that has a baby further anchors with supposed U.S. citizen status for every child born here . In this way , the demographics of one of the most populous regions of the planet are be transferred to the USA . All for the sake of a few individuals technical expertise....


9 posted on 01/23/2025 12:33:07 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: PMAS

Personally, figured Vivek would be gone quickly, no way Elon was not going to see through that con man quickly.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 12:33:31 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: 1malumprohibitum

There is no way to reform H1B... it needs GONE>. its been abused wholesale since its creation and no amount of “reform” will fix it.

30+ years I have watched it be abused wholesale, it is a con and a fraud and always has been.

H1B is to skilled workers, what illegals are to unskilled, period.


11 posted on 01/23/2025 12:35:12 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: yesthatjallen

“Elon Musk wanted Vivek Ramaswamy out of DOGE due to ‘differences’ over H-1B visas”

“Vivek Ramaswamy pulled out of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) due to differences with the Tesla CEO over H-1B visas”

“The Tesla CEO who wanted Ramaswamy ‘out’ of the team over the 39-year-old entrepreneur’s remarks on X regarding H-1B visas made in”

“Ramaswamy’s comments on X during a discussion of H-1B visas were the one ‘main reason’ for some Republicans getting frustrated with him”

They go on and on before telling us what the comment was.


12 posted on 01/23/2025 12:35:20 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: 1malumprohibitum

We have enough brains here to do the work. They can work in their own countries. There was a reason we went to the moon and other technological leaps, Americans did the work.


13 posted on 01/23/2025 12:36:16 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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H1b /student visas should be limited to around a 100


14 posted on 01/23/2025 12:36:41 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s OK, DOGE was Elon’s idea and he’ll do better with himself and his team. He’s done it before.


15 posted on 01/23/2025 12:41:33 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: PMAS

Well Vivek’s post about Americans preferring mediocrity over excellence appears likely to end his political career.

One of the points he made about Americans’ celebration of student athletes over honor students is actually quite backward.

Student athletes are more likely to be good students than those who merely attend school.

The “dumb jock” stereotype is not really accurate. The “dumb jock” is the exception, not the rule.


16 posted on 01/23/2025 12:42:42 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: yesthatjallen

BULLCRAP


17 posted on 01/23/2025 12:47:05 PM PST by Fledermaus (SANITY RETURNS!)
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To: packagingguy
Vivek’s post about Americans preferring mediocrity over excellence appears likely to end his political career.

Shirtless guy on a torn couch to his wife in her chenille bathrobe, with pork rind in his mouth between gulps of beer:

Lula Mae, that little guy on the news is talkin' against us.

Wife: Sure looks that way. He's toast.

18 posted on 01/23/2025 12:50:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Student athletes are more likely to be good students than those who merely attend school.

I was on our swim team in high school. My senior year it was found that our team had the highest cumulative GPA of any other athletic team and furthermore our school had the highest SAT scores in the entire state.

Every one on our team felt pretty accomplished about that :-)

19 posted on 01/23/2025 12:53:58 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (A perfect storm. There will be no escape from what is coming.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

One of my good friends was quarterback of our football team.

He went to college at Notre Dame (but was not on the team there).

You can’t be a dunce and make it through Notre Dame.


20 posted on 01/23/2025 12:57:13 PM PST by packagingguy
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