Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Shadowferal]

I'm having a difficult time processing this..

[PhaelixWW]

I'm having a difficult time processing this..

Even Rafael Cruz is saying the same thing.

NBC: Ted Cruz rips FCC chair's Jimmy Kimmel threat as 'unbelievably dangerous'

Cruz:

I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying we’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.

I like Brendan Carr. He’s a good guy, he’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him, but what he said there is dangerous as hell.

It might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel, yeah, but when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.

Trump:

I think Brendan Carr is a great American patriot, so I disagree with Ted Cruz.

[SunspotAnims]

I'm having a difficult time processing this..

Trump's approval is in the shit, his health is fading, and he's on his last term even if he lives the whole way through. There are some personalities on the right that are looking ahead to a post-Trump world of American politics and some of them are starting to deviate from him now. There's already been a pretty big wedge between pro-Israel right wingers (like Trump and most congressional Republicans) and anti-Israel right wingers (like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens), but I expect to see more wedges in the right as Trump's political sway get weaker.

[Edge-]

What's Raphael Cruz gonna do about it? Phone bank for Donald, again?

[PhaelixWW]

What's Raphael Cruz gonna do about it? Phone bank for Donald, again?

I'd tell you how Rafael feels about that, but everyone's seen the picture already.

[s_bushido]

Trump's approval is in the shit, his health is fading, and he's on his last term even if he lives the whole way through. There are some personalities on the right that are looking ahead to a post-Trump world of American politics and some of them are starting to deviate from him now. There's already been a pretty big wedge between pro-Israel right wingers (like Trump and most congressional Republicans) and anti-Israel right wingers (like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens), but I expect to see more wedges in the right as Trump's political sway get weaker.

There's probably also the fear that he'll be caught up in the purge of media figures who haven't properly bent the knee. Carlson has no problem with fascism, so long as he can feel safe that the boot's not going to be on his neck. Now that he's not on Fox, that safety really isn't there.

[arandomuser]

ive become china-pilled if were going to descend into an authoritarian government atleast china is high human capital and has cities with gleaming skyscrapers and alot less crime due to their heavy handed policies, and is trying to adress climate change as well- americas authoritarianism is a full idiocracy, china will 100% win the century, wouldnt mind if they took over at this point, all of the negative aspects in regards to limited freedom are coming here anyways

[fwc577]

I agree with Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Steve Banon.

Excuse my while I go peel off my skin with a spoon and cleanse it in fire because it's crawling.

[Belize]

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I'm having a difficult time processing this..

Realistically, Bannon/Cucker/Cruz saying that Trump is overstepping his reach against the 1st Amendment is their tiny peanut brain finally realizing that while Trump is mostly friendly to their rhetoric, the next asshole-in-chief might not be as welcoming to them and they're likely trying to save their grift long-term.

[gondrin]

Realistically, Bannon/Cucker/Cruz saying that Trump is overstepping his reach against the 1st Amendment is their tiny peanut brain finally realizing that while Trump is mostly friendly to their rhetoric, the next asshole-in-chief might not be as welcoming to them and they're likely trying to save their grift long-term.

Honestly, they are afraid that Trump himself will turn on them as much as the next administration will turn on them. Because, as much as Trump is going to try to stay in power, there will ALWAYS be a change in who is in charge. It may not be quick but it will happen because nobody lives forever. And Trump is even aware of his own mortality.

It is a literal self-preservation attribute.

There is also the broken clock theory too.

[Fugus]

Betting many of them are worried about this because they aren't for sure they can keep power after all Trump is doing even with all the rigging they are attempting to do and the last thing they want is this new power they unleashed being turned against them.

Or maybe they are thinking of it more along the lines of "If he has all this power, I end up with none and are a liability from that point on" and are just afraid of the monster they created turning on all who would even attempt to reign him in after he does all this.

[Breccia]

Betting many of them are worried about this because they aren't for sure they can keep power after all Trump is doing even with all the rigging they are attempting to do and the last thing they want is this new power they unleashed being turned against them.

Sounds like a very anti-fascist mindset. Which of course means they're terrorists. Guards, seize them!

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Erik Siebert, acting AG in Virginia, resigns in protest rather than make up bullshit crime to charge Letita James with.

[Very Tired]

Has anyone talked about this 100k fee on H1-Bs yet? As a person looking for a job, it's kinda weird seeing something I agree with Trump on.

[Iphie]

Has anyone talked about this 100k fee on H1-Bs yet? As a person looking for a job, it's kinda weird seeing something I agree with Trump on.

Are you competing in the same fields where these visa would apply? I mean if not then this does not affect you at all and won't make it easier for you to find a job.

[Very Tired]

Are you competing in the same fields where these visa would apply? I mean if not then this does not affect you at all and won't make it easier for you to find a job.

I am. In the tech industry where H1-Bs are a big topic.

[Belize]

Has anyone talked about this 100k fee on H1-Bs yet? As a person looking for a job, it's kinda weird seeing something I agree with Trump on.

Well, there's that little caveat that Trump can decide who it applies to, AKA companies that pay the bribe and bend the knee will be exempt:

(c). The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...grant-workers/

It's not *really* about curbing H1-Bs, it's about shaking down and extracting money from U.S. companies. If they're paying their H1-Bs 60% of what they'd pay an American hire, they can give a 20% cut to Trump and still be paying less than it'd cost hiring American.

[Endus]

Has anyone talked about this 100k fee on H1-Bs yet? As a person looking for a job, it's kinda weird seeing something I agree with Trump on.

Frankly, this is crabs-in-a-bucket mentality.

The problem isn't "immigrants takin' yer jerbs", it's employers who don't value you and will do anything to shortchange workers and pad their own wallets. Trump, the incompetent baboon, is somehow not on either side. If employers can't shortchange foreign workers, they'll shortchange local workers and try and depress those wages through other means. Meanwhile, skilled workers are going anywhere but the USA, negatively impacting economic growth, on top of all the other shit Trump's doing to ruin the American economy, so the more likely outcome in all this isn't that Americans will get more jobs, it's that jobs themselves will be moved to where the cheaper employees are, and there's less jobs available in the USA, leaving you with even fewer options and employability than otherwise.

You're so focused on not letting another crab try and get out of the bucket that you're missing that you're all fucked if you stay in the bucket.

[Very Tired]

Well, there's that little caveat that Trump can decide who it applies to, AKA companies that pay the bribe and bend the knee will be exempt:


https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...grant-workers/

It's not *really* about curbing H1-Bs, it's about shaking down and extracting money from U.S. companies. If they're paying their H1-Bs 60% of what they'd pay an American hire, they can give a 20% cut to Trump and still be paying less than it'd cost hiring American.

Yeah, I kinda assuming there was some caveat seeing as all the big tech CEOs were brown nosing Trump lately. Figured it was unlikely he would throw this all at them and say he doesn't want his ego stroked. Or likely he's just trying to manipulate the stock market again. Doing something that would actually help American workers like this seems far out of character for Trump.

But the average wage for an H1-B isn't all that much lower than a American's in the similar position, on top of needing to go through all the hassle for sponsorship. From my understanding companies mostly get them to not have to deal with rehiring and training a new employee since an H1-B is sorta locked in their job with them. A 100k yearly fee would almost certainly push the needle back in an America's workers favor for all but the outliers. If they were going for cheaper workers, they would just outsource.

[Poopymonster]

What's Raphael Cruz gonna do about it? Phone bank for Donald, again?

For a change of scenery...

[Rasulis]

Has anyone talked about this 100k fee on H1-Bs yet? As a person looking for a job, it's kinda weird seeing something I agree with Trump on.

Stupid policy. Currently, half of the graduates in U.S. STEM PhD and master’s programs are international students. In 2022, over 77% of these graduates apply for H1-B visas. So, go ahead. Send that microbiologist with Harvard's or Stanford's PhD to Canada. Canada is not complaining.

People who have graduated from US universities should get priority. But the US don’t do that. The US just throw them in the lottery pool with everyone else applying for H1-B visas from India, Bangladesh, etc.