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Trump Tapped the Viral Anger Over H-1B Use

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:31PM (#425378)

    But you didn't lose respect for him because Randall is a condescending cunt who always insults the intelligence of his readers? You must be among the pseudo intellectual idiots who are his target audience.

  • (Score: 2) by jcross on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:49PM

    by jcross (4009) on Thursday November 10 2016, @10:49PM (#425395)

    I think you're assuming the amount of respect I had for him in the first place. He's occasionally entertaining is about the level I was at before. Can you give some examples of other ways he insults the intelligence of his readers?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:26PM (#425438)

    who always insults the intelligence of his readers?

    If you constantly find your intelligence being insulted, maybe it is time to upgrade your intelligence! Complaining about being insulted for being stupid as an excuse for remaining stupid is a curiously unintelligible position to take. Remember, Jesus can forgive your sins, but he can't do much about stupid.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 11 2016, @02:25AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 11 2016, @02:25AM (#425531) Journal

      Isn't there something about Jesus also being God, and God being "oooh, you are sooo big" and all powerful: shouldn't he be able to do SOMETHING about stupid?

      I am an atheist, though, so could be wrong.

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