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posted by martyb on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the revenge-of-the-nerds? dept.

President-elect Donald Trump realized early in his campaign that U.S. IT workers were angry over training foreign visa-holding replacements. He knew this anger was volcanic.

Trump is the first major U.S. presidential candidate in this race -- or any previous presidential race -- to focus on the use of the H-1B visa to displace IT workers. He asked former Disney IT employees, upset over having to train foreign replacements, to speak at his rallies.

"The fact is that Americans are losing their jobs to foreigners," said Dena Moore, a former Disney IT worker at a Trump rally in Alabama in February. "I believe Mr. Trump is for Americans first."

Yes, US nerds were angry about training H-1B replacements, but how much could they have helped put him over the top?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:09PM (#425358)

    Its almost like we're seeing the exact opposite of what happened with Obama.... all the immature wanks breaking down thinking that the gubmint was going to take their guns, put them under sharia law, and murder every 3rd fetus as it was being born.

    Don't let the extremists shape your perceptions, that just plays into the us vs. them game which is actually what this has all been about. The only populist candidate was run out, and an ex-democrat who is all about the money was able to lock down the GOP. I honestly don't think the elites overly cared about who would win, both Trump and Hillary would have helped them out tremendously.

    Keep the people divided thinking that the other half are a bunch of idiots or arrogant elitists, whatever works to keep the people from uniting.

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