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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?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:06PM
Indeed. A considerable amount of them when you look at the breakdown and then compare them to the male side of their corresponding races. It's almost like stuff Trump said and did 20 years ago didn't matter. Interestingly, and as I've pointed out elsewhere, he had about the same latino vote as Romney and an even better black vote.
It's almost like, you know, people voted how they wanted to and didn't really go along with how the media told them to. I still don't know how I feel about the overall outcome, but I'm more proud of people for not swallowing the shit they were shoveled and at least making their own decisions, however good or ill informed those decisions might be.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:12PM
> It's almost like stuff Trump said and did 20 years ago didn't matter.
It's like stuff he said and did on stage during the campaign didn't matter.
Or it did matter, but they just thought it wouldn't ever apply to them or their family, so no biggee.
First they came...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:19PM
I actually asked for it. I'd stated that it would be better for Trump to take us down in fire, than 4 more years of status quo politics from Hillary. I got excited because Progressive politics were getting a much more prominent mind share than ever before, but still worried and agitated about the spokesperson we elected for it.
Everyone vastly underestimated the hate for the elites and the desire to bring change to politics, even by fire. Had Bernie Sanders been allowed to run against Trump, he would've mopped the floor with him precisely because people would've had another option to disrupt the establishment.
WRT Hillary, there simply was not enough lipstick for that pig. The American people sent a message to the establishment this time. That message was that we want to burn in fire, and Trump will help us do exactly that.
I've always believed that true change quite possibly may only come through great struggle and fire, and we are all going to find out. The whole world is worried, and rightfully so.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday November 10 2016, @11:41PM
Exactly!
When wasserman-schulz or whatever, f'd Bernie Sanders in favour of Hillary and got caught, the DNC SHOULD have given the leadership to HIM.
If Bernie had won the leadership, he would have won the Presidency. Instead,they f'd Bernie and kept the pig. And pigs can't run well.
They kept the person who corruptly stole money and resources from the guy who was beating her and her party immorally let her and looked the other way.
They lost.... wonder why? Because people are tired of that shit.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @02:04AM
And pigs can't run well.
You haven't been to state fairs with piglet races have you? Those cuties can run FAST!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 11 2016, @06:44PM
A ray of sunshine in a dark thread :D
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Friday November 11 2016, @11:28AM
Everyone vastly underestimated the hate for the elites and the desire to bring change to politics, even by fire.
I might believe this if it were not for the fact that a Congress with historically low approval levels was returned largely intact. I think people just like having their buttons pushed, and Trump shamelessly pushed them. Judging by early looks at his transition team and the names being floated for cabinet heads, his administration will be as much or more "Washington insider" filled as anyone else's would have been.