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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:36PM (#425447)

    Didn't realize until a few minutes later that he was talking about the feather kind lol.

    And this is why we need a new widely understood one-word derogatory for dot-head cow-kissers.

    It is a small part of what makes outsourcing to India such a great scam. The English language itself virtually prohibits referring to them directly.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @01:45AM (#425516)

    And this is why we need a new widely understood one-word derogatory for dot-head cow-kissers.

    We already do. It's "Okies", as in "from Miscoogie, USA". Your lack of redneck literacy is noted.