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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    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.

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    I think the number of Trump supporters who can spell H1B is very few, let alone those that care about it. Maybe some of the grifters are waking up to the fact that they’ll never be as “in-group” as they thought, but that’s a very small minority.

    I see some of these leopard-face-eating stories and think, “Will this be the thing that is awful enough to get my MAGA family to admit they were duped?” No. The answer is always no.

    If Donald Trump himself leads the jack boot goon squad who kicks in the door of their trailer and drags them out into the street to be lit on fire while Trump smashes a cheeseburger into his face and laughs at them by name, their last choked, rasping words would be about the evil Demon-crats ruining the nation.

    We’ve got at least four more years of this and I don’t have the energy for hope.