Legitimate gripes about Trump
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Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/05/where-is-trump-when-workin
g-americans-need-him/
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Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?
Paul Craig Roberts
Divisions are already appearing in MAGA ranks. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have aligned with the H-1B work visas that allow foreigners to be brought in to fill American jobs. This disappoints the Trump working class that believed making America great again meant they were going to get their jobs back.
American corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations like H-1B work visas for a variety of reasons. A H-1B visa recipient is an indentured servant. He or she is paid substantially less but cannot leave the employer for higher pay as the visa is tied to the specific employer. This also has the result of denying the indentured servant employment or protest rights as the indentured servant’s presence in the US is tied to the visa that is tied to the employer. For example, a H-1B visa holder cannot file a discrimination complaint.
As Senator Bernie Sanders puts it:
“The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.” rt.com/news/610400-bernie-sanders-elon-musk-visas/
The case for H-1B visas is fraudulent. The claim is that America’s huge numbers of universities are incapable of producing enough American graduates to meet America’s need for “highly educated individuals with skills critical to our country’s economic future,” to use the words of Todd Schulte, president of an immigrant advocacy organization with ties to big tech. Or as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disguised the scam, “American businesses rely on the H-1B visa program for the recruitment of highly-skilled talent, benefitting communities across the country.”
Imagine, the United States relies on the Third World, not on its many world prestigious universities, to supply its need for “highly-skilled talent.” The communities are not benefitting. The American residents are losing the jobs. Wages and salaries are being paid to foreigners who have displaced Americans. The difference between the US wage and the H-1B wage goes to corporate profits and executive “performance bonuses.”
I pointed all of this out years ago and summarized it 12 years ago in my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Disintegration of the West,(Clarity Press, https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-failure-of-laissez-faire-capi
talism/ ).
It is a fairy tale told by shills to enhance corporate profits and executive bonuses that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, University of California, University of Chicago, and the large numbers of private and state universities cannot turn out enough educated people to fill the economy’s needs.
If Americans are not studying for careers in high tech it is because they know the jobs will be given to foreigners on visas. Moreover, Americans who prepare for these careers are hit again by the offshoring of many of the jobs.
During the early years of the 21st century when the “skills shortage” was being concocted to serve corporate profits, Business Week reported a 12.7% decline in computer science pay, a 12%decline in computer engineering pay, a 10.2% decline in electrical engineering pay. Professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master degrees in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering fell 6.6%, 13.7%, and 9.4% respectively.
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Joe Biden's Statement on California Wildfires Compared to Donald Trump's
Jan 08, 2025 at 1:56 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-california-wildfire-st
atements-compared-2011897
Trump went a different route with his statement, blaming the catastrophic fires on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is one of Trump's sharpest critics.
"Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He went on to claim Newsom prioritized protecting the Delta smelt, a small fish species, over the needs of Californians.
"Now the ultimate price is being paid," Trump wrote, adding, "He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!"
TRUMP COMPLETELY IGNORES THE WEATHER, PLACING ALL BLAME ON HIS POLITICAL ENEMY:
Los Angeles usually gets several inches of rain by now, halfway into the rainy season, but it’s only recorded a fifth of an inch downtown since July, its second driest period in almost 150 years of record-keeping. The rest of Southern California is just as bone-dry. Strong winds are driving the fire.
https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/california-rain-droug
ht-north-south/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/08/santa-ana-winds-
fuel-los-angeles-wildfires/77542643007/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The cosmetics billionaire behind Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland
Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland has a long and storied history
By Gustaf Kilander | Wednesday 08 January 2025 21:53 GMT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ronald-l
auder-donald-trump-greenland-b2676094.html
“People don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it,” Trump claimed. “But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.” Video of Trump saying this at https://x.com/AlanFisher/status/1876682147320443193
“I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’” he told the authors. “You take a look at a map. I’m a real estate developer. I look at a corner, I say, ‘I’ve got to get that store for the building that I’m building,’ etc. It’s not that different.”
“I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States,’” he added at the time.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. “My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You've got enough TDS threads.
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Joe Biden's Statement on California Wildfires Compared to Donald Trump's
Jan 08, 2025 at 1:56 PM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-california-wildfire-st
atements-compared-2011897
Trump went a different route with his statement, blaming the catastrophic fires on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is one of Trump's sharpest critics.
It is Newsom's fault. Along with all the Democrats who control the state and the locality.
Your party has an inability to plan 2 days in the future.
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putting team 'BRICS' together is a bad idea
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Quote:Trump creates federal department that already exists
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And I can be really dumb.
Donald Trump is blabbering about tariffs again:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Jan 14, 2025, 10:28 AM
Fine. Call it anything you want. But I wonder if Trump really believes he's creating something new. Does he know that we already have an agency that collects tariffs? It's the C in CBP, Customs and Border Protection. Speaking of which, here's what they have to say about who pays customs duties:
Liability For Duties
There is no provision under which U.S. duties or taxes may be prepaid in a foreign country before exportation to the United States. This is true even for gifts sent by mail. Paying a customs broker will not relieve the importer of his or her liability for customs charges (duties, taxes, and other debts owed CBP) should those charges not be paid by the broker. Therefore, if the importer pays the broker by check, he or she should give the broker a separate check, made payable to “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” for those customs charges, which the broker will then deliver to CBP.
A foreigner can't pay tariffs even for a birthday gift. You, the recipient, have to pay it. How? By writing a check payable to "U.S. Customs and Border Protection."
It hardly seems possible that even the MAGA sycophants surrounding Trump haven't told him this, but he keeps claiming that other countries pay US tariffs anyway. And, sure, it's Trump. But it's still weird as hell.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-creates-federal-department-that-alread
y-exists/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I love cock.
P.S. Your "Customs and Border Protection" department is an abject failure and needs to be dissolved immediately. They'll be replaced with a new bureau that actually does the job it is charged with doing.
At this juncture, only the stupidest of stupid cultists would believe that any US Department with either "Border" or "Protection" in the name is capable of doing anything more than sucking up US Dollars while making everything they touch worse than it was.
And being a big powerful successful business man, I shouldn't have to tell you that this is a little trick that companies in the private sector use all the time to clean house.
If Trump and Elon went into that department and hand picked who they were getting rid of, all they're doing is opening themselves and the government up to multiple lawsuits from all the DEI hires they have running everything now.
Dissolve the Alphabet Agency completely. Remove all of the personnel at once without affording them any legal recourse. Meanwhile, they keep the building(s), the phone numbers, the office furniture and the coffee maker. Then they create an entirely new Alphabet Agency where they can handpick all the staff from scratch.
Put up a new sign.
Easy Peasy, no lawsuits from Sleazy.
Have you got anything else stupid to say to me tonight, Big Brain?
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Quote:CBP is Customs and Border Control. If Trump fired everybody at CBP because of customs and tariffs, he would also be firing Border Control.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And being a big powerful successful business man, I shouldn't have to tell you that this is a little trick that companies in the private sector use all the time to clean house.
If Trump and Elon went into that department and hand picked who they were getting rid of, all they're doing is opening themselves and the government up to multiple lawsuits from all the DEI hires they have running everything now.
Dissolve the Alphabet Agency completely. Remove all of the personnel at once without affording them any legal recourse. Meanwhile, they keep the building(s), the phone numbers, the office furniture and the coffee maker. Then they create an entirely new Alphabet Agency where they can handpick all the staff from scratch.
Put up a new sign.
Easy Peasy, no lawsuits from Sleazy.
Have you got anything else stupid to say to me tonight, Big Brain?
If every employee at CBP is fired, the illegal aliens will know that the Mexican border is open and unguarded until Trump hires 100,000 unemployed Trumptards to control the border. Since normal people are worth 10 Trumptards, Trump would have to hire 1,000,000 Trumptards to replace 100,000 normal people.
Your "easy peasy" plan is stupider than Trump's plan which assumes that Americans do NOT pay the tariffs on imports, but that is brain-dead stupid of Trump.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:CBP is Customs and Border Control. If Trump fired everybody at CBP because of customs and tariffs, he would also be firing Border Control.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And being a big powerful successful business man, I shouldn't have to tell you that this is a little trick that companies in the private sector use all the time to clean house.
If Trump and Elon went into that department and hand picked who they were getting rid of, all they're doing is opening themselves and the government up to multiple lawsuits from all the DEI hires they have running everything now.
Dissolve the Alphabet Agency completely. Remove all of the personnel at once without affording them any legal recourse. Meanwhile, they keep the building(s), the phone numbers, the office furniture and the coffee maker. Then they create an entirely new Alphabet Agency where they can handpick all the staff from scratch.
Put up a new sign.
Easy Peasy, no lawsuits from Sleazy.
Have you got anything else stupid to say to me tonight, Big Brain?
If every employee at CBP is fired, the illegal aliens will know that the Mexican border is open and unguarded until Trump hires 100,000 unemployed Trumptards to control the border. Since normal people are worth 10 Trumptards, Trump would have to hire 1,000,000 Trumptards to replace 100,000 normal people.
Your "easy peasy" plan is stupider than Trump's plan which assumes that Americans do NOT pay the tariffs on imports, but that is brain-dead stupid of Trump.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
We've already established he can create another bureau even though one already exists. It was such a big deal, Kevin felt the need to make you some fake graphs about it.
So we'll just start the new one first, then dissolve the old and useless one.
Guess we have to buy a new coffee maker.
Shame. It's worth more than most of the employees that are about to be unemployed.
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