Summary

Donald Trump faced backlash from his MAGA base after siding with Elon Musk’s defense of immigration visas, like H1Bs, used by businesses to hire foreign talent.

Many Trump supporters criticized this stance as contradictory to his “America First” promises, arguing H1Bs harm American workers by displacing them with cheaper labor.

Trump released his position through a conservative outlet, avoiding direct posts on the issue, but his Truth Social account was flooded with complaints from long-time supporters.

The controversy highlights growing divisions within the MAGA movement over immigration and corporate priorities.

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    Yes. You’ve been warned repeatedly that you put your trust in a group of lying con men. Now you get to find out about the con and experience that lesson first hand, because apparently that’s the only way you learn things, by suffering.

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        They didn’t learn last time, though this time he does seem to be more directly hurting them

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          Deep down, they’re masochists. They want to be hurt. They get it from their diseased, pathological religion.

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          This time he doesn’t need them anymore; they can’t vote for him again.

          His plan to still be president in 5 years will be by military coup.

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    Imagine taking a decade to realize you’ve been played.

    Now imagine being surrounded by people that stupid. All your life.

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    I so want to have hope that this time, finally, he’ll lose supporters.

    I want to.

    Unfortunately, we’ve been through this too many times with things that are far worse and somehow he never seems to lose them, not really, so…eh.

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      He’ll lose supporters only after he and his movement have been comprehensively, decisively defeated. Then they’ll all deny that they knew what they were supporting, or that the supported him at all. And two generations later, someone will run the same con again and a new generation of rubes will fall for it.

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          I keep saying his inauguration is unconstitutional, but if nobody stops him, it’s allowed. I would not be so flippant about the chances of him remaining president beyond his 2 term limit.

          This is one of those things I really hope I’m wrong about, but I don’t have very much hope left.

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        Yep. To quote Obama about something else, donvict didn’t build that. He just walked in and slapped his name on the place. Kind of like “his” buildings.

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      Oh they are going to throw him away the next time someone steps in. It’s about owning the libs and how we don’t know what they need.

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          I think they were asking for a spanking when “daddy comes home” per an earlier rally.

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            Was that when Cuck Carlson was going on about his apparent kink? I think someone should have opened an investigation into him while we still have a justice system…

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              Yeah, you could tell the Cuck was feeling a certain way when he said it. He enjoyed it too much.

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      I mean, a whole lot of stupid men have being a qon all bound up in the idea of their masculinity, so…the alternative is, what, to emasculate themselves, hand over their nads to the sheocracy and vote for a woman?

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      Well he did lose supporters. Unfortunately a bunch of lazy fucks sat out this election and let him win with less votes.

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        Um… No, he got more votes than in either of his previous elections. Millions more.

        At least according to the records I’ve seen.

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    look, all im gonna say. For all my fellow techies out there, anybody with an internet connection, and significant computing resources.

    Now would be a VERY funny time to spin up a lot of “concern trolling” bots.

    Putins playbook is very clear, cause confusion and disarray, therefore, nobody trusts anything, and you can do whatever you want. Who says we can’t engage in a bit of foul play on the republican side as well?

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      Their strategy is to flood the zone with shit. Adding our shit doesn’t solve the problem. They’re already paranoid nitwits who have no interest in the truth.

      The only countermeasure that would work would be to eliminate the bots, the troll farms and the social media outlets that make no effort to stop the contagion.

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    Bitch. You been sold.

    These pro leopard face eating party members don’t even realize, they the mark. Hell they ain’t even that, they literally cucks to Trump and capitalism. (not kink shaming. Do you) but for conservatives they are just happy to watch the wealthy and powerful. Deep down they know they’ll never get to join in.

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    Hahahaha leopards hahahaha faces hahhahahhaHA!!! It’s really the only thing sustaining me at this point. To stay alive long enough to see maga take it up the bum.

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      I saw a video of a journalist covering this. While she kept it together, she clearly was having to hold back laughter or at least a smirk at all this.

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    The MAGA voters can go piss in the wind. Hopefully the Orange Mofo does everything he fucking promised and then some.

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      I hope he stays on brand and achieves nearly nothing. Your wish is a bit too damaging to America and the world economy

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    But they’ll elect MAGA again because if there’s anything this election has taught me is that Republican voters have really strong group loyalty, and most undecided voters are low information voters and cannot be trusted to vote in any informed manner.