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posted by on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-'em-eat-brioche dept.

Trump is planning on signing an executive order on Tuesday that will cause a review of the H1-B program. It is just a review, and undoubtedly business interests will step up the pressure, but there are some interesting ideas:

"If you change that current system that awards visas randomly, without regard or skill or wage, to a skill-based awarding, it makes it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, because you're not bringing in workers at beneath the market wage," the official said. "So it's a very elegant way of solving systemic problems in the H-1B guest worker visa."

Breitbart of course has an article out (though it reads like they need to hire some native speaking editors) -- still, recent college grads face a huge hurdle:

The federal government releases little data on the many different guest-worker programs, but the available evidence says the national population of white-collar contract workers is up to 1.5 million. That population is roughly twice the population of 800,000 Americans who graduate from college with skilled degrees each year.

And finally, lest people forget that progressives also have issues with H1-B visas, here is Bernie Sanders (a decade ago of course) attacking this ploy to make sure money only trickles up by ensuring low wages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR9QdQIKqMc

[Ed Note: Trump did sign the executive order at a photo op in Wisconsin.]


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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:51PM (17 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:51PM (#496324)

    You've become obsessed with Trump. Either some mental illness has emerged from the depths of your mind, or you're some kind of paid opposition—nobody can spend this much time crafting [anti-]Fan Art without some kind of worrisome underlying fault.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:59PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:59PM (#496331) Journal

    We're in the era of machine learning. Someone will probably code a translator to do this thing automatically.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:42PM (#496363)

      Sample, and link for source download on this page, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jbc/home/chef.html [utexas.edu]

      It's about time someone added some 5d choice, we've been stuck wid Swedish Chef, Jive, Valley Girl, Pig Latin, Fo' far too long.

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      For far too long.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:07PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:07PM (#496338) Journal

    You've become obsessed with Trump.

    It's no different than the humor of any other current events. You'll note that I also have had fun poking fun at United airlines recently, for example.

    It's just that Trump is the comedic gift that keeps on giving. Nothing more.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Nerdfest on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:36PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:36PM (#496402)

      It's just that Trump is the comedic gift that keeps on taking. Nothing more.

      FTFY.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:34PM (12 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:34PM (#496400) Journal

    One more thought. To Trump supporters, I would say: Trump won. Get over it.

    You cannot put such a bumbling illiterate clown circus in power, fumbling and stumbling over one another, and then complain about the hilarity of the daily antics that result.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:28PM (11 children)

      by edIII (791) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:28PM (#496433)

      Of course they can complain!!!! LOL

      You see, the worst part is that you are not parodying him. He does actually speak like that on occasion. I remember reading that comedy writers said all you really had to do was just use their exact words. The White House administration has become the comedy writers. These are the gold bricker years for them. Trump does all the work, and Spicy provides the bonus material.

      Every time you point out how much of an idiot he is, you point out just how much they fucked up electing him. People don't like having their bad decisions thrown back in their faces. Ohhh, that, and when you speak like a complete buffoon and are a generally bad person you get what you get.

      I'm looking forward to 4 years of triggering the precious little snowflakes; The Trump Supporters. Not any harder than pointing out how their boy has fucked them over, flipped flopped on everything, abjectly failed at running government, and has delivered the country to Russia. This is a very painful and sensitive time for Republicans. They deserve every second of it.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:28PM (8 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:28PM (#496472)

        All that matters is that he's deporting brownies.
        He's kept that promise - just kicked out the first DACA kid and Rep Steve King tweeted a virtual beer to DHS in celebration. [thehill.com]
        And as racial insecurity was the primary motivator for voting Trump, they will be happy.
        In fact, all the other things he screws up are seen as an acceptable price of their racial security blanket.
        Its not like any of his contradictions during the campaign bothered them.

        • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:49PM (7 children)

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:49PM (#496485) Journal

          Okay, I have a purely hypothetical question.

          Imagine that someone just committed the criminal act of painting a swastika on a Trump tower.

          Who should the police be first to suspect:
          1. His detractors?
          2. His supporters?

          That would seem to make it difficult to narrow down the suspects.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:58PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:58PM (#496577)

            His detractors.
            The nazis have been emboldened, but they aren't going to tag a trump tower because its already tagged with their leader's name.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:16PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @11:16PM (#496603)

              Clever giiirl.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:21AM (4 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:21AM (#496686) Journal

            Imagine that someone just committed the criminal act of painting a swastika on a Trump tower.

            Who should the police be first to suspect:
            1. His detractors?
            2. His supporters?

            Shouldn't it be obvious that spray painting a swastika is meant as an act of disrespect? His supporters aren't going to do that.

            • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:53PM (2 children)

              by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:53PM (#496872) Journal

              His supporters (some of them) would do it as an act of allegiance. Just google for: "bannon endorsed by nazi party". Among the results, the KKK also endorses hiring of Bannon. All of this speaks volumes. You don't have to make anything up. Their own supporters say the crazy things for you. I could provide links, but I thought the hint on what I googled for would be more useful.

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              • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 21 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 21 2017, @07:57PM (#497561) Journal

                His supporters (some of them) would do it as an act of allegiance.

                No, I don't buy this ridiculous narrative. Spray painting swastikas is an insult and vandalism. That's disapproval not approval. Supporters aren't suddenly going to get the idea that spray painting it on the side of the Trump building will tell the world that they support Trump.

                Just google for: "bannon endorsed by nazi party".

                And? Hitler endorsed vegetarianism. Should I be concerned about vegetarianism's ties to the Nazi party?

                All of this speaks volumes.

                What I find telling here is that you are the second replier here to speak of the quantity of evidence rather than the quality. I don't need volumes of mediocre reasons to own a cat, I need just one good one.

                I could provide links, but I thought the hint on what I googled for would be more useful.

                It does save me from having to explain the problems with any links you provide. Thanks.

                The US media is quite hostile to Trump. If there was really a strong linkage between Trump or his political allies (particularly, a media player like Bannon) and the Nazi party, then that would come out. We wouldn't have to play this game of googling for fringe propaganda.

                • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 21 2017, @08:20PM

                  by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 21 2017, @08:20PM (#497573) Journal

                  I don't have to google for fringe propaganda. I get told way too much of it by word of mouth. Some of which, I don't evaluate critically enough. Nobody may paint swastikas as an act of support. (Which I intended to be mostly humorous.) There are plenty of Trump's supporters who identify with or as racists. Also Trump doesn't have to consider those people allies for them to potentially act in bizarre ways that they might believe to be an act of support. I would definitely agree that nobody sane would vandalize a property as an act of support for the owner of that property.

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            • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:50PM

              by edIII (791) on Thursday April 20 2017, @07:50PM (#497023)

              God, you are a fucking idiot. Of course they would. Trump was elected in part due to White Nationalism, and huge swaths of his most rabid supporters are fans of Info Wars, Daily Stormer, Brietbart, etc.

              OF COURSE they would tag the tower with Nazi imagery. Why not? They feel that their time has arrived, and by doing that, they announce to all the minorities that the OLD ORDER is back, and you'd better start showing the respect and fealty that they demand. Especially to their race.

              The evidence is fucking everywhere you complete moron. Destruction of Jewish cemeteries, burning of Mosques, beating the shit out of Muslim women in hijabs, etc. Do you think the safety-pin movement came from nothing? Or did it come from a massive increase in hate crimes after Trump started his campaign.

              Basically the only way you can say something that blissfully unaware, is that you are a White Nationalist yourself pushing a false narrative that racism and bigotry hasn't come roaring back in America.

              Fuck you, and burn in hell. As usual.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:18PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:18PM (#496523)

        They got to have the same fun pointing out Obama's problems, but it wasn't as fun for them because most liberals/progressives were like "I know right? What a lying jerk Obama turned out to be..." and then a bunch of others had the semi-decent defense that Congress was controlled by the oliphonts so Obama couldn't do everything he promised. Not that it excuses his crimes against the people, but it does hold some truth.

        God save us from the adult children.

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:57PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 20 2017, @02:57PM (#496873) Journal

          I had some disappointments with Obama. But that is not to say I was disappointed overall. But at the end of the day I did not expect that Obama might end the world as we know it.

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