The Trump Presidency 2.0

[TLDR20]

I will preface this by saying I truly do not care. I’ve been pushed back to what I consider center by politics the last few years. I am still certainly to the left of many members here, but honestly I feel what i feel is left leaning from me, has become some altered disgusting platform. At the end of the day, I’ll be fine. I am in a recession proof job, and I work in a place that barely takes Medicare.

However. This is not well planned, and “burning it to the ground” is gonna burn a lot of Americans to the ground. There will be immense second order effects that are just being ignored as of now. What happens when some pay person at the Social Security agency stops coming to work, there is no one to back fill and SS checks stop going out? Great, we saved some money? But now long term you might cripple a family with a dependent. In the short term we are owning the “money launderers” at USAID, but in the long term we might be taking senior citizens fixed income payments, on money they were promised. I truly hope none of this happens.

I hope we can have a functioning government. I had fears of project 2025 stuff before the election, and those things keep popping up.

And now. We are planning to take over the Gaza Strip according to President Trump. How could that go poorly?

 

[TLDR20]

Trump won't rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees 'long-term' US ownership

America First.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I hope we can have a functioning government. I had fears of project 2025 stuff before the election, and those things keep popping up.

And now. We are planning to take over the Gaza Strip according to President Trump. How could that go poorly?

Brother, we didn't have a functioning government the last four years. This can't be nearly as bad.

Also, can we get USCIS to cap these H1Bs and H1B renewals. Time to get American engineers into engineering.

 

[TLDR20]

Brother, we didn't have a functioning government the last four years. This can't be nearly as bad.

Also, can we get USCIS to cap these H1Bs and H1B renewals. Time to get American engineers into engineering.

I don’t know what your connection is to engineering, but my wife is an engineer and everyone who works for her is, she isn’t hiring foreign visa holders because it is a pain in the fucking ass. Sometimes bro the sound bites aren’t real.there are roughly 85k total H1B visas total per year. Literally a drop in the bucket. Hiring them is a pain in the ass because you have to show you couldn’t hire an American.

They don’t hand out these visas to engineers. They are given to people who bring exceptional ability to science and engineering, with caveats. Most of my wife’s PH.D cohort who were foreigners(only a few) were required to stay after their Ph.Ds. This was at “The Ivy of the south”, and a top 3 program in the nation. My wife was an NSF fellow, and has pretty mad bona fides in engineering.

ETA: something that is rarely mentioned is that many of the grants that fund research, particularly DOD and DARPA, don’t allow certain people to work on them. DOD and DARPA fund a lot. They funded a huge grant my wife received for her Ph.D in tissue engineering, as it related to the long term treatment of burn related scarring. This is improtant because labs can’t fund research that doesn’t have outside funding. So if a grant excludes foreigners, they can’t take a foreign student.

 

[ThunderHorse]

I don’t know what your connection is to engineering, but my wife is an engineer and everyone who works for her is, she isn’t hiring foreign visa holders because it is a pain in the fucking ass. Sometimes bro the sound bites aren’t real.there are roughly 85k total H1B visas total per year. Literally a drop in the bucket. Hiring them is a pain in the ass because you have to show you couldn’t hire an American.

They don’t hand out these visas to engineers. They are given to people who bring exceptional ability to science and engineering, with caveats. Most of my wife’s PH.D cohort who were foreigners(only a few) were required to stay after their Ph.Ds. This was at “The Ivy of the south”, and a top 3 program in the nation. My wife was an NSF fellow, and has pretty mad bona fides in engineering.

ETA: something that is rarely mentioned is that many of the grants that fund research, particularly DOD and DARPA, don’t allow certain people to work on them. DOD and DARPA fund a lot. They funded a huge grant my wife received for her Ph.D in tissue engineering, as it related to the long term treatment of burn related scarring. This is improtant because labs can’t fund research that doesn’t have outside funding. So if a grant excludes foreigners, they can’t take a foreign student.

H1Bs are exceptionally abused. I've seen it first hand. So are O-1s. There are numerous Americans who are qualified for roles who aren't getting hired in place of foreign people. Like this will tell you how bad H1Bs are abused. You all remember Milo, right? He was on an H1B.

 

[amlove21]

Trump won't rule out deploying US troops to support rebuilding Gaza, sees 'long-term' US ownership

America First.

Manifest destiny. I thought you’d be happy that finally the open air prison was liberated and protections would be granted to underprivileged Gazans. End to suffering? End to abject poverty? No? Oppressor de liber and all that?

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Can this day GET any better? That oughta get us to that 10%.

 

[TLDR20]

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Manifest destiny. I thought you’d be happy that finally the open air prison was liberated and protections would be granted to underprivileged Gazans. End to suffering? End to abject poverty? No? Oppressor de liber and all that?

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Can this day GET any better? That oughta get us to that 10%.

I give zero fucks about the Palestinians or the Israelis. I’ve been pretty consistent on this issue my entire life. They’ve been fighting over that land since western written history. I don’t want to be involved. I would challenge anyone to find me saying anything positive about either side. I do not consider the Israelis our ally in any sense of the word, and the Palestinian leadership are terrorists.

Miss me with the jab at a de Oppresso Liber.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Manifest destiny. I thought you’d be happy that finally the open air prison was liberated and protections would be granted to underprivileged Gazans. End to suffering? End to abject poverty? No? Oppressor de liber and all that?

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Can this day GET any better? That oughta get us to that 10%.

So apparently like 25-40% of the FBI was involved in the January 6th investigation...

 

[amlove21]

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I give zero fucks about the Palestinians or the Israelis. I’ve been pretty consistent on this issue my entire life. They’ve been fighting over that land since western written history. I don’t want to be involved. I would challenge anyone to find me saying anything positive about either side. I do not consider the Israelis our ally in any sense of the word, and the Palestinian leadership are terrorists.

Miss me with the jab at a de Oppresso Liber.

I swear no one on this site can take a joke anymore. No green beret jokes- got it.

Clarifying question- are *all* medical jokes off limits or just 18D related ones?

 

[amlove21]

So apparently like 25-40% of the FBI was involved in the January 6th investigation...

That’ll get us there.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

I don’t know what your connection is to engineering, but my wife is an engineer and everyone who works for her is, she isn’t hiring foreign visa holders because it is a pain in the fucking ass. Sometimes bro the sound bites aren’t real.there are roughly 85k total H1B visas total per year. Literally a drop in the bucket. Hiring them is a pain in the ass because you have to show you couldn’t hire an American.

They don’t hand out these visas to engineers. They are given to people who bring exceptional ability to science and engineering, with caveats. Most of my wife’s PH.D cohort who were foreigners(only a few) were required to stay after their Ph.Ds. This was at “The Ivy of the south”, and a top 3 program in the nation. My wife was an NSF fellow, and has pretty mad bona fides in engineering.

ETA: something that is rarely mentioned is that many of the grants that fund research, particularly DOD and DARPA, don’t allow certain people to work on them. DOD and DARPA fund a lot. They funded a huge grant my wife received for her Ph.D in tissue engineering, as it related to the long term treatment of burn related scarring. This is improtant because labs can’t fund research that doesn’t have outside funding. So if a grant excludes foreigners, they can’t take a foreign student.

Yeah... until recently I was in an engineering program. Most of the students from India, SEA, & Asia, flat out said that their intent for getting their degrees was to get an visa and emigrate to the US. Some were cool. Some, when drunk some would even talk about their hatred for America. Even knew a rich Saudi kid who brought his pregnant wife to give birth here.

You have no idea how fucked up things are. In my part of the world, it's an open secret that the coastal tech companies use H1B's to fill out their labor pools. That's why the safest bet for a US college grad in tech is to work for a govt lab or a company that has citizenry requirements. There is a reason why the Zoomers are done. As they're having to compete with foreigners with fake degrees. It's why a chunk of the generation has checked out.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

Manifest destiny. I thought you’d be happy that finally the open air prison was liberated and protections would be granted to underprivileged Gazans. End to suffering? End to abject poverty? No? Oppressor de liber and all that?

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Can this day GET any better? That oughta get us to that 10%.

Pretty sure we got bilked on this one. We've just agreed to subsidize Israeli security... again.

I give zero fucks about the Palestinians or the Israelis. I’ve been pretty consistent on this issue my entire life. They’ve been fighting over that land since western written history. I don’t want to be involved. I would challenge anyone to find me saying anything positive about either side. I do not consider the Israelis our ally in any sense of the word, and the Palestinian leadership are terrorists.

We don't agree on much, but I agree with you here.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

Crazy thought, what if we did take over Gaza and then had the Israeli's pay for the securing the territory. As well as going back to some of the old agreed upon borders.

At this point both the Israeli's and Palestinian's have shown that they cannot be left alone or trusted to keep the peace.