UPDATE:
“They call them ‘H-1B Visas,’ George. I can get a foreign worker and pay him half the wage as someone from Bedford Falls!
— Michael Cassidy ?? ?? (@MichaelCassidy) December 26, 2024
You’re a sucker, like your old man, if you *don’t* use them.” pic.twitter.com/rTBNlGVUao
I have been a conservative my entire life. I was a two term tea party governor and was proud to serve in Trump’s first administration. And you are surprised that I am to the right of the guys who were Democrats a couple of days ago?
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) December 28, 2024
The concern we should have are the liberal… https://t.co/vmtzf6rG8A
The Musk Meltdown on X landed so badly that Nikki Haley is scoring points off Elon and Vivek.
Notice which one gets limited and which one doesn’t pic.twitter.com/YKNzDtLLVU
— James (@jden1035) December 28, 2024
Here is a brief recap of the last 24 hours:
- Elon Musk thinks White Americans are too stupid to be trained to do high skilled tech jobs
- Elon Musk has declared war on “racists” for the sake of H-1B visas
- Elon Musk believes “racists” must be driven out of the Republican Party “root and branch” for hurting the feelings of Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress
- Elon Musk wants to flood the country with infinite immigration from India
- Elon Musk DOES NOT respect Americans who want less legal immigration
- Elon Musk believes hiring American workers over Indians is “DEI”
- Sriram Krishnan is being called the tech bro George Floyd
- Mass bannings of Groypers and other critics of Musk over Indian immigration have begun
Long story short, Elon Musk has completely burned up all the good will he has built since 2022, transformed overnight many of his supporters on the Right into skeptics and enemies, ensured that DOGE will be relentlessly attacked from the Right before Trump is sworn into office and has essentially reset the clock in much of MAGA back to 2020 and 2021 when everyone hated Big Tech. We are highly likely to see a mass exodus of the Right to rival platforms like Gab and Truth Social.
It is worth noting that Trump himself is a competitor of Elon Musk and has stuck with his Truth Social platform. Trump has been silent as Musk has alienated most of MAGA over this issue. There is no reason to believe that Elon Musk is going to “win” his war on the H-1B issue. In fact, it looks like his war has backfired and it has made the vast majority of the Right much more hostile to H-1Bs.
The Right was already suspicious of Musk and the Tech Right for all kinds of reasons … mass deplatforming after 2020 including of Trump himself, voting for Joe Biden, censorship over COVID, blacklisting Trump supporters in Silicon Valley. Most people on the Right hated Big Tech until Musk bought Twitter. There are all kinds of issues which have been swept under the rug for the greater good of defeating the Left like Musk’s bizarre polygamist fetish for impregnating all of these women with IVF.
I don’t see how he comes back from this.
No one will ever forget what he has said here which makes our presence on that platform untenable. There will be more of these clashes until more people get fed up and leave X.
Driving “racists” out of the Republican party has been Republican party policy for many years. “Racist” is simply a hate slur for Whites who don’t want our race abolished. The underlying goal of the Anti-White ruling elite is to turn White countries into brown ones. What Musk wants is totally consistent with this.
Hoping that Trump will do anything substantial to counter it is wishful thinking, never mind Trump deporting even ONE illegal.
Regardless, I wish everyone a Happy and Hopeful New Year.
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Interesting that Mongoloid faced Musk names his car company after European genius Nikola Tesla but wants to use H-1B visas to bring in pajeets instead of scientists from western Europe. Musk is not one of us, has no multigenerational connection to America or race or religion, is simply driven by money. And he has the gall to want to root out the descendants of the men who built the country that he came to enjoy and make money in! If Musk does not like the “racist” America that our ancestors built and struggled to maintain for 400 years then maybe Elon Musk should take his money and move somewhere else. Auslander Raus!
Musk et al are flat-out lying about H1B visas. They are in fact a form of corporate welfare whose chief purpose is to drive down the market value of certain labor skills. The renewal of the visas is also used as a kind of indenture by corporations like the ones Musk runs. Pajeets use them to populate entire sectors with their relatives, most of whom DO NOT have the skill set. It’s therefore also used as a tool for the great replacement.
For any morons who are under the false, gaslight-media impression that Musk (or any of these figures promoted by the usual suspects) are some kind of John Galt, nothing could be further from the truth. All are sucking massively from the government teat.
And yet.
Elon has an op-ed this weekend in Die Welt tripling down and explaining his support for the AfD. Which has caused a few pearl clutchers at that paper to quit.
You read it, and compare it to this Elon. And you wonder which one is the real Elon. Will the real Elon please stand up.
Apparently Elon Musk, Scott Adams and Patrick Bet-David all never bothered to read the platform that Trump adopted in August 2015.
The platform that enabled Trump to win the 2015-2016 Republican primary and the 2016 general election, despite the hostility of all the institutions in society, including Big Tech.
The only reason Trump exists as a political force is because of the immigration issue, which gave him a hard core of supporters.
Trump was right when he said that he could survive politically even if he murdered someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue.
But he could not survive politically without the immigration issue.
You would think that Musk would understand why giving over your country to non-whites is a bad idea. I’m still not sure what the difference is between losing a war and mass “legal” or “illegal” immigration is.
“The government refuses to release wage data from visa petitions for nonimmigrant workers. The publicly available data is instead from Labor Condition Applications. That provides an excellent view of what employers claim the prevailing wage is and a generally good view of H-1B wages. But because there is not a one-to-one match between H-1B workers and Labor Condition Applications, analyses of the latter produce the response that only the visa data is accurate – but that is not published.
Computer hacking at the professional-services firm Deloitte provided the data for a new study of H-1B wages at that company. Lo and behold, this study found that Deloitte pays its H-1B workers 10 percent less than newly hired peers. This is consistent with the H-1B program’s statutory intent of replacing American workers with cheap foreign workers.”
“If the demand for STEM workers exceeds the supply, then we should see U.S. firms offering increasingly generous compensation to recruit and retain these allegedly scarce workers. We do not. Figure 1 shows trends in real (inflation-adjusted) wages, benefits, and total compensation for STEM workers between 2008 and 2023. No significant increases are evident. In fact, compensation grew at a rate of just 0.15 percent per year. Furthermore, compensation for STEM workers was 7.1 percent lower in 2023 than in 2019 before the pandemic, with wages down 7.6 percent and benefits down 6.2 percent. How could a shortage exist without upward pressure on compensation?.”
“The report assumes that the prevalence of immigrants in science and engineering means that the U.S. “needs” more immigrants to compete in those fields. However, the labor market could adjust in their absence to attract natives or immigrants already here. In fact, there is research that when wages in science and engineering occupations became relatively less competitive around the turn of the millennium, native interest in pursuing doctoral studies in these fields dropped. The availability of immigrants then prevented wages from increasing, which might have otherwise lured natives back in these fields.
In addition to holding down wages, immigration may also crowd out natives from STEM jobs. Doran, Gelber, and Isen offer one of the best papers on this topic. If H-1B workers are truly exceptional talents for whom there are few American substitutes, then firms that won the lottery for H-1B visas should increase their employment relative to the lottery losers. But the authors found that the firms that won the H-1B lottery ended up employing fewer workers than the firms that lost. For every two H-1B visas the firms won, three other workers were crowded out. Furthermore, the authors find little evidence that lottery-winning firms are any more innovative than the losing firms. This paper appears nowhere in the National Academies report.
Figure 3 and Figure 4 show the large number of individuals with undergraduate STEM degrees employed in non-STEM jobs. To the extent there is a problem in filling STEM jobs, it reflects, at least in part, the inability of STEM employers to attract and retain STEM-trained individuals already in the country. The simplest way to induce more STEM degree holders to return to STEM fields is to allow wages to rise. Bringing in more foreign labor may slow wage growth and hinder this process. Keeping wages down may be in the interests of employers, but doing so is likely to create a self-fulfilling prophecy that there are no Americans to do such jobs. At the very least, the report should have addressed the question of why so many Americans with STEM degrees end up not working in STEM fields. The related matter of significant layoffs in tech fields also should have been discussed.
Figure 5 shows the steady increase in the total number of foreign-born STEM workers in the United States from 2000 to 2023 and their share of the STEM workforce. The 29 percent in 2023 is roughly double the foreign-born share of the total U.S. population. Moreover, the number of foreign-born STEM workers has grown 104 percent since 2010. Clearly, the current immigration system already allows a very large number of skilled workers into the country. If bringing in ever more foreign workers is critically important to the country, as the National Academies report argues, the current system certainly does so. Moreover, the foreign-born share of STEM workers is approaching one in three. Is there no point when the U.S. becomes too dependent on foreign labor?.” (Center for Immigration Studies)
The fact that he has never lifted a finger on behalf of his co-ethnics tells you everything you need to know about him.
This is an easy fix. Right now H1B visa holders must be paid at least $60,000 a year. Raise the minimum pay to $100,000 or $120,000 and let Elon have all the H1B visa holders he wants.
If Musk prefers pajeets as workers, he should set up shop in India. Now THAT would be amusing indeed. He just THINKS the corruption in China is bad. If he goes full-bore pajeet, Elon ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Meanwhile, old Vox Day – from his own platform – provides a superb summary of Musk, and the so-called “Tech-Right”.