Donald Trump sided with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy that foreign workers will continue to replace American jobs. Elon Musk and Ramaswamy said that anyone who disagreed with this policy--AKA the MAGA base--was a racist. Lots going on there. Some that I didn't even predict--at least not this fast. In the end, however, Musk has won. He won ugly, though, by attacking Steven K. Bannon and like minds verbally and even through his company, X. But to Musk, these are little fish, and after insulting Bannon and hence the entire MAGA base (making sure to do that first), he forced Trump into agreeing with him. And what can Trump do other than agree with Musk? Musk has recently conducted similarly curiously manipulative operations in foreign countries such as England and Germany. He has a lot of influence in NASA, DoD, and agencies like Space Force and Air Force. It's ironic because Bannon was Trump's Senior Advisor in 2016 and Alec Baldwin played him on SNL as some kind of mastermind who was manipulating Trump's agenda. That was typical Leftist BS, since they were always blind and anyway Trump and Bannon had the same agenda; but this is far different, if not a tad dangerous. Musk actually is manipulating Trump--and for no real good reason. Probably for sport. It’s really a principle disagreement about this entire movement, so it had to find some opening—this is it. You might fathom, we MAGA folk are a wee bit sensitive to remarks such as these and that,
“We can find ya, and we can brand ya.”
The whole issue seems trivial. It may not end this way; American law often does not travel a straight course to its fruition. Simply allow the bully a new, tailored (weakened) version of the Visa program for now--suited just for his entrepreneurial activities--and get rid of the rest of it. All of it. There's no harm in that; and he did, after all, just do some vital work on behalf of the successful campaign. But this, what is this? Let me just say this about that: the philosophical question at the root of this visa issue is the very concept of that: America First. If one can't see that, then one is clearly blind. We've just been through--what? A decade of this BS?--and incredibly, it only now appears to be running out of gas because it has lost; yet, here you are lecturing us? Not to be nationalist, isolationist or anti-immigrant; but aren't both Ramaswamy and Musk what?--at least new to this country? Sometimes it behooves one to study a thing first before trying to claim full understanding of it. This is always what I do when living abroad.
You caint "root out" the stem because the stem is the entire plant--fool. Ramaswamy clearly plays 2nd fiddle in his new role, and he is not making any independent decisions of consequence. And, Ramaswamy fundamentally does not like MAGA. It's as if he were some kind of heartless CEO type. He thinks that MAGA is "racist". Such a disappointment. Sort of reminds me of Obama, who once liked American white people or at least he pretended that he did, and I think that he is half-white, which makes it ironic. Ramaswamy talked so good, too—just like Obama. Master Playas.
However, none of it really matters. It was worth having this argument over some petty part of the overall Border Strategy and its implementation just to see how Elon Musk plays his cards--and even Ramaswamy. Because, no, bitches, you are not goin to win in the end. That's why we're here, fools, right now. Today. Perhaps because Trump is a little older himself this time around, he is more susceptible to influence by a strong, young man.
Some things change, some things stay the same: Bannon went to jail, Trump got shot—and lived, sort of Reagan-seque; except he’s better in terms of sheer numbers. Sadly, in 2016 this was predictable. Even they might have said it. Alec Baldwin is the real killer. And my Starlink still doesn’t work. If I call the help desk, I get some Indian on the phone from Kum-bai-la. Musk was a fresh CEO, kind of a hustler. Meanwhile, I was writing about all four.