Summary

Donald Trump faced backlash from his MAGA base after siding with Elon Musk’s defense of immigration visas, like H1Bs, used by businesses to hire foreign talent.

Many Trump supporters criticized this stance as contradictory to his “America First” promises, arguing H1Bs harm American workers by displacing them with cheaper labor.

Trump released his position through a conservative outlet, avoiding direct posts on the issue, but his Truth Social account was flooded with complaints from long-time supporters.

The controversy highlights growing divisions within the MAGA movement over immigration and corporate priorities.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    look, all im gonna say. For all my fellow techies out there, anybody with an internet connection, and significant computing resources.

    Now would be a VERY funny time to spin up a lot of “concern trolling” bots.

    Putins playbook is very clear, cause confusion and disarray, therefore, nobody trusts anything, and you can do whatever you want. Who says we can’t engage in a bit of foul play on the republican side as well?

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      Their strategy is to flood the zone with shit. Adding our shit doesn’t solve the problem. They’re already paranoid nitwits who have no interest in the truth.

      The only countermeasure that would work would be to eliminate the bots, the troll farms and the social media outlets that make no effort to stop the contagion.

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    The MAGA voters can go piss in the wind. Hopefully the Orange Mofo does everything he fucking promised and then some.

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      I hope he stays on brand and achieves nearly nothing. Your wish is a bit too damaging to America and the world economy

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    I think the number of Trump supporters who can spell H1B is very few, let alone those that care about it. Maybe some of the grifters are waking up to the fact that they’ll never be as “in-group” as they thought, but that’s a very small minority.

    I see some of these leopard-face-eating stories and think, “Will this be the thing that is awful enough to get my MAGA family to admit they were duped?” No. The answer is always no.

    If Donald Trump himself leads the jack boot goon squad who kicks in the door of their trailer and drags them out into the street to be lit on fire while Trump smashes a cheeseburger into his face and laughs at them by name, their last choked, rasping words would be about the evil Demon-crats ruining the nation.

    We’ve got at least four more years of this and I don’t have the energy for hope.

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    He stopped giving his base a second thought the moment the election results were in, when it became Trump First. He has zero fucks to give y’all magats any more now that you’ve served your purpose, suckas.

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    OF COURSE HE IS! That’s what everyone with an IQ above their jacket size has been telling you! …you ignorant fucks.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    He entire second term is literally a lame duck term. He doesn’t even need to worry about the midterms, its trump first, he doesn’t care if republicans lose midterms. He has absolute free reign in the first 2 years, and even if republicans lose, he still can do a lot of executive orders that are valid as long as the courts dont overturn it, which surely the totally unbiased supreme court is gonna act very quickly, and not just delay taking the case, deny any requests of imposing an injunction on the executive order, and defend the executive order’s constitutionality.

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      He’s not going to have the mental capacity to remember the second 2 years. If he can even remember last week. While he does seem to be more coherent (relatively which isn’t saying much) since he no longer has any worry of prosecution, he’s got Alzheimer’s in his family and it’s gonna come for him.

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    I so want to have hope that this time, finally, he’ll lose supporters.

    I want to.

    Unfortunately, we’ve been through this too many times with things that are far worse and somehow he never seems to lose them, not really, so…eh.

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      He’ll lose supporters only after he and his movement have been comprehensively, decisively defeated. Then they’ll all deny that they knew what they were supporting, or that the supported him at all. And two generations later, someone will run the same con again and a new generation of rubes will fall for it.

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          I keep saying his inauguration is unconstitutional, but if nobody stops him, it’s allowed. I would not be so flippant about the chances of him remaining president beyond his 2 term limit.

          This is one of those things I really hope I’m wrong about, but I don’t have very much hope left.

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      I mean, a whole lot of stupid men have being a qon all bound up in the idea of their masculinity, so…the alternative is, what, to emasculate themselves, hand over their nads to the sheocracy and vote for a woman?

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      Well he did lose supporters. Unfortunately a bunch of lazy fucks sat out this election and let him win with less votes.

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        Um… No, he got more votes than in either of his previous elections. Millions more.

        At least according to the records I’ve seen.

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      Oh they are going to throw him away the next time someone steps in. It’s about owning the libs and how we don’t know what they need.

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          I think they were asking for a spanking when “daddy comes home” per an earlier rally.

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            Was that when Cuck Carlson was going on about his apparent kink? I think someone should have opened an investigation into him while we still have a justice system…

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              Yeah, you could tell the Cuck was feeling a certain way when he said it. He enjoyed it too much.

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        Yep. To quote Obama about something else, donvict didn’t build that. He just walked in and slapped his name on the place. Kind of like “his” buildings.

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    Yes.

    That’s his whole thing. In fact he had a book made about it. He’d sell out his family if it made him more money, and I’m not entirely sure he hasn’t.

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    To his supporters: now imagine if you had thought critically about your boy before voting him into office. It’s almost like your desires to be both lazy and correct bit you in the ass, since you seem to love taking the words of a conman at face value.

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    Yes. You’ve been warned repeatedly that you put your trust in a group of lying con men. Now you get to find out about the con and experience that lesson first hand, because apparently that’s the only way you learn things, by suffering.

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        They didn’t learn last time, though this time he does seem to be more directly hurting them

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          Deep down, they’re masochists. They want to be hurt. They get it from their diseased, pathological religion.

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          This time he doesn’t need them anymore; they can’t vote for him again.

          His plan to still be president in 5 years will be by military coup.

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    The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it! Give into your anger!

    Be too distracted by infighting to get anything done. Pwease? Pwetty Pwease?

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    Imagine taking a decade to realize you’ve been played.

    Now imagine being surrounded by people that stupid. All your life.