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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    11 days ago

    He stopped giving his base a second thought the moment the election results were in, when it became Trump First. He has zero fucks to give y’all magats any more now that you’ve served your purpose, suckas.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    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.

  • MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    OF COURSE HE IS! That’s what everyone with an IQ above their jacket size has been telling you! …you ignorant fucks.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

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

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

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

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

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    11 days ago

    Yes.

    That’s his whole thing. In fact he had a book made about it. He’d sell out his family if it made him more money, and I’m not entirely sure he hasn’t.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 days ago

    To his supporters: now imagine if you had thought critically about your boy before voting him into office. It’s almost like your desires to be both lazy and correct bit you in the ass, since you seem to love taking the words of a conman at face value.

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    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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    11 days ago

    He didn’t sell you out as much as he just gave you away. Like trash. Because that’s what he thinks of you.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    He entire second term is literally a lame duck term. He doesn’t even need to worry about the midterms, its trump first, he doesn’t care if republicans lose midterms. He has absolute free reign in the first 2 years, and even if republicans lose, he still can do a lot of executive orders that are valid as long as the courts dont overturn it, which surely the totally unbiased supreme court is gonna act very quickly, and not just delay taking the case, deny any requests of imposing an injunction on the executive order, and defend the executive order’s constitutionality.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    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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    11 days ago

    The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. Use it. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it! Give into your anger!

    Be too distracted by infighting to get anything done. Pwease? Pwetty Pwease?