Heather Cox Richardson: Original MAGAs who want the government to expel immigrants and elevate white evangelical Christian men are facing off against the new DOGE MAGAs who disdain original MAGA culture and want the government to turn the tech billionaires loose from regulations and taxes to create their own global oligarchy.
Dear MAGA, what if I told you that the "waste" that DOGE wanted to cut from America was Americans like you?
-- Being Liberal (@beingliberal.bsky.social) December 27, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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If you missed out on the backstory of this MAGA vs DOJE feud you can read about it here:
Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be white, anti-immigrant, and less educated than the rest of the U.S. They believe that the modern government's protection of equal rights for women and minorities has ruined America, and they tend to want to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world. They make up Trump's voting base.heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On the other side are the new MAGAs who appear to have taken control of the incoming Trump administration. Led by Elon Musk, who bankrolled Trump's campaign, the new MAGA wing is made up of billionaires, especially tech entrepreneurs, many of whom are themselves immigrants.
This cat fight has it all: Musk telling MAGAs to go f--k themselves in the face and banning Loomer from X for criticizing him, Vivek calling Americans mediocre and lazy, Trump being his usual confused and/or lying self.
@#3 ... It seems to me that DOGE couldn't wait to be rid of MAGA after MAGA proved themselves to be useful idiots. ...
Bannon Calls For Trump to Put 100% Moratorium on ALL Legal Immigration' As War With Musk Rages On
www.mediaite.com
... Former Trump White House advisor turned MAGA-world podcaster, Steve Bannon, called for a total freeze of all immigration into the United States on Tuesday. Bannon has been at the forefront of a MAGA civil war, which has pitted the hard right of the Trump base against tech billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over the need for high-skilled migrant workers on H-1B visas.
In the past week, Bannon and Musk have traded bards as Bannon has slammed Musk as a "toddler," while Musk has vowed to root out the "contemptible fools" in MAGA world. ...
OpEd: The DOGE Bros Win a Battle Against the MAGA Faithful
www.thenation.com
...It's unsettling when you find yourself slightly agreeing with white-nationalist MAGA maniacs like Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer. Their battle over the issue of H-1B visas"the kind provided to highly educated immigrants"just shows that top members of MAGA nation disagree with one another, on matters big and small. It will be a rare joy of the Trump era to watch them try to bring one another down.
The world's most pathetic billionaire, Elon Musk, and the most successful Trump-kissing Republican to emerge from the 2024 primary, Vivek Ramaswamy, tag-teamed over the weekend to promote the benefits of the visa so beloved by tech bros. Ramaswamy wrote on X, "A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers." ...
Trump having H-1B works on his property is icing on the cake
#3 | Posted by oneironaut
Trump does not use H-IB visas on his property and, if fact, he came out against them in 202o, which is why I said earlier he is either lying and/or confused:
On Saturday, in an interview with the New York Post, President-elect Donald Trump threw his MAGA supporters under the bus and sided with Musk and pharmaceutical entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on H-1B visas. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That's why we have them," Trump said, referring to the H-1B visas that permit companies to hire foreign workers in skilled occupations. "I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It's a great program."heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Trump appeared to be confusing H-1B visas with H-2A and H-2B visas, which cover temporary agricultural workers and seasonal workers in tourism, hospitality, and landscaping. In fact, as Leah McElrath pointed out, Trump said in 2016 that the H-1B program shouldn't exist. And as Judd Legum pointed out, on June 22, 2020, Trump issued an executive order suspending H-1B visas because he said they were taking jobs from Americans.
Elon FIRES American Workers For Cheaper H1B Immigrants | The Kyle Kulinski Show 9,320 views 23 minutes ago
Trumps quotes from 2016 are diametrically opposed to Trump 2024.
@#8 ... And then.... MAGA finally figured out that the Tech Bros are the hated Globalists, and Trump is their Leader... but only if Musk says so. ...
The pilgrimage of Tech Bros to Mar-A-Lago reminded me of this song, which just popped up on a playlist here.
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell (parts 1 & 2) (1989)
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fwiw, Part 2 was the part usually played on college radio. the local college station here got adventurous one day and played both Part 1 and Part 2 back-to-back, as this version of the video does ...
Lyrics excerpt
The Road To Hell (Part 1 & 2)
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...
Stood still on a highway
I saw a woman
By the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own
Reflected in my window
Well she walked up to my quarterlight
And she bent down real slow
A fearful pressure paralyzed me
In my shadow
She said "Son, what are you doing here?
My fear for you has turned me in my grave"
I said "Mama, I come to the valley of the rich
Myself to sell"
She said "Son, this is the road to Hell"
...
Those lyrics are from the spoken part of the song.
... I said "Mama, I come to the valley of the rich
Myself to sell"
She said "Son, this is the road to Hell" ...
Yeah, the Tech Bros going to Mar-A-Lago to sell themselves.
The song starts around 4 3/4 to 5 minutes into the video.
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