• MEDIA: The 1600: What is Trump's Beef With India?

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 26 23:11:32 2025
    Newsweek's Carlos Versano on whether Donald Trump has ordered Susie
    Wiles to share with Peter Thiel or Norm Braman Trump's MAGA marketing
    research gathered by Wiles (and Bill Stepien before her (and Brad
    Parscale before him)) and do Thiel or Braman believe their boys,
    VP Peter Thiel and Little Marco Rubio would be wise to pitch global
    wage arbitrage to legacy American proles with American dreams for
    their posterity: <URL:https://www.newsweek.com/1600-what-trumps-beef-india-2116237>
    | Beyond all that, there's also a deep undercurrent of anti-Indian
    | sentiment that runs through MAGA, which Trump is probably aware of.
    | I spend entirely too much of my precious waking hours trawling
    | right-wing message boards and X threads to see what they're talking
    | about (just as I do for the left, which can be equally tedious) and
    | the racism and xenophobia toward Indians coming from the MAGA
    | grassroots is pretty shocking... and I am not easily shocked. A lot
    | of it has to do with this belief that Indians are scamming the H-1B
    | visa program and taking jobs away from Americans, particularly in
    | the high-paying tech field. But there are only like 400K H-1Bs
    | approved every year. Foreign workers are an easy scapegoat for the
    | broader trend of AI displacing labor, and the fact that these tech
    | companies want to get the best labor at the cheapest cost. Again,
    | free markets. Don't hate the player...

    Has Trump ordered Lori Chavez-DeRemer to order DoL.GOV labor
    economists to calculate what an immigration moratorium would mean
    for legacy American prole's share of GDP?

    John
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    no need of lesser men." - Columbia Bugle <URL:https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1268544911021871106>

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