• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Donald Trump supporters are rebelling against him after the former president once again put forth a policy proposal that would award green cards to immigrants with college degrees.

    Save a click.

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      That is so obviously something his majority-undereducated followers would disapprove of.

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      This does not benefit the average Trump voter, this only benefits the owners and investors of private healthcare businesses as it will allow them to employ filipinos and indian doctors and nurses with cheap salaries

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        H1B visas require you to pay the prevailing wage to candidates. These doctors are not given “cheap salaries.” And they often come with much better practical experience than some American straight out of fellowship.

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          That’s assuming they’re treated properly and not subjected to unreasonable expectations just because management knows they can hold the worker’s visa over his head.

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            Not to mention that hiring immigrant workers means lowering the chance of hiring someone with an intimate knowledge of workers rights, making it easier to pull illegal shit without repercussions.

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              Statistically, it’s much more likely that someone from outside the USA will know and care about worker rights (or even be aware of the concept that voters — or even citizens — can have any rights other than free speech and the right to carry guns) than someone from the USA… most countries have at least some form of workers rights, and some unionisation culture and history, while in the US they’re effectively inexistent…

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            They’re not. I do this for a living. Physicians have all the power in the relationship with private practices and health systems can’t afford to lose them, so they stand pat too.

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    We spend so much time focusing on Trump that it’s easy to overlook how reprehensible his followers are. What incredibly hateful people! “We won’t support you anymore because you stand for things that don’t hurt ‘them’ enough! You’ve lost my vote!”

    Seethe, MAGAts, seethe.

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    “Yeah. Sure. ‘Operation Paperclip’ worked out Fantastic for America and Americans. We are paying for that naïveté to this very day,” the user wrote.

    Umm… what?

    Ignoring the fact that most if not all of them were full-blown card carrying Nazis, those guys kept the US steadily ahead of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and they got us to the Moon.

    What the actual fuck could this guy be talking about?

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    Hmmm

    GOP - attack education at all levels and accuse universities of being liberal communist breeding grounds

    Also GOP - We gotta ban all foreigners on the wrong end of the family guy color swatch and mass deport those already here

    Trump - Let’s give foreigners with degrees green cards

    Something doesn’t track here.

    If I get my tinfoil hat resized, I might think this is how you lower pay for professionals.

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      Something doesn’t track here.

      Treason Trump is trying to be an immigration extremist at both ends simultaneously.

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    I figured this balancing act would topple eventually. He can’t keep his crazy Base happy and reach out to moderates with sensible policy.

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    Did you really need to click bait it? Just write the reason in the header.

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      Treason Trump is going to hand out unlimited Green Cards to foreign workers as a favor to billionaire friends.

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    I hate articles that just regurgitate tweets. A few random people saying something doesn’t make it news.

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    “I hope to see changes but until then, I am now an uncommitted voter.”

    What do you bet he’s still gonna vote R in November

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    Spoke to an old man today who needed help blocking all of the Trump shit he subbed to. Apparently he isn’t voting for him anymore. Dunno if he’s voting for Harris or just not voting, but it felt good getting rid of all that shit for him

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      My wife overheard some boomers at a restaurant talking and she was shocked to hear them talking about NOT voting for Trump. He’s not doing himself any favors. Previously alienating seniors and vets because of Project NeverHeardOfIt, now this. He’s eroding his own base trying to appeal to a larger audience and I’m ok with that.

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    Archive.

    The only interesting things in the story were:

    Trump took to Truth Social at around 3:00 A.M. on Saturday morning to share a link celebrating a proposal he had previously put forth.

    The link, an opinion piece from the Washington Examiner, is titled, “Trump is right: Foreign graduates should get green cards.”

    The rest of it is just cherry picked tweets or xits or whatever.

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    As a foreigner with a college degree who grew up in the States: no thanks. I have nothing against Americans, but their politics alone drive people mad.

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    “Yeah. Sure. ‘Operation Paperclip’ worked out Fantastic for America and Americans. We are paying for that naïveté to this very day,”

    Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 59.

    Yeah, it just did horrible things for America…