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[-] [email protected] 233 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

"They're taking our degrees!"

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

“Degrees” doesn’t sound as funny as “jerbs”, but it’ll do.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

They're takin our learnin things!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ermahgerd, dey terk er gersberms.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

"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?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

They don't have any actual thoughts, just predispositions that get watered by their media to grow into weeds of incomprehensible hate.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hot cakes. You don’t believe me? Walk into NASA sometime and yell “Heil Hitler”, WOOP, they all jump straight up!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Still? Most likely those guys are long dead.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

It's a reference to Archer. Which was referencing operation paperclip.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Damn it, I had something for this!

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well he might be worried about Nazis in America, but uh that Venn diagram has very little overlap.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago

A broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Something doesn’t track here.

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

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

"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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

it's a Twitter post, I'd be surprised he was ever real

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There's just as good a chance he will just stay home.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Nice! I love things like this. Gives me a little hope lol

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Oh this could be a new strategy. Trick Trump into sharing things his base will hate by starting the headline with something like "Trump is right" or "Trump is a genius."

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

These fuckin’ jabronis.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Me too dude…

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Welcome to the club. Donuts and coffee are on the table. Group discussion starts in 5.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

"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....

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

LOL! Didn't expect this to be a "Trump isn't racist/xenophobic/stupid enough for me." thing. Hilarious.

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