Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, together with his son X, depart the Capitol constructing in Washington, D.C., on December 5, 2024. | Supply: The Washington Submit / Getty
It should be tough for MAGA Republicans to maintain monitor of their very own hypocrisy and all of their inconsistent values.
They’re supposedly patriots who love the Structure and the rule of regulation, however they’ve elected a president into workplace who, throughout his final presidency, tried to upend the American electoral course of by election fraud propaganda simply so he might stay in energy after being legally voted out. They declare to “again the blue,” besides when it got here to cops on the U.S. Capitol who had been viciously attacked on Jan. 6. Talking of Jan. 6, MAGA conservatives declare to be anti-terrorism whereas making countless excuses for the terrorists who tried to assist Donald Trump upend democracy through his “massive lie.”
They imagine within the First Modification — till it’s time to ban non-whitewashed Black historical past and significant research into oblivion for no different cause than to guard white fragility. They inform everybody on “the left” that in the event that they don’t love America they need to depart, whereas spewing their hatred for Democrats, “leftists,” immigrants, Black Lives Matter advocates (and/or Black lives on the whole), Muslims, the LGBTQ group, feminists, vital race theorists, pro-choice advocates, and, in fact, the ever present “woke” — indicating that they hate America simply as a lot as everybody else does.
So, it ought to come as no shock that there wasn’t a lot of an uproar within the MAGA world after a foreigner and a second-generation immigrant primarily mentioned People are too dumb and lazy to realize vital employment within the tech world.
Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and pseudo-genius tech bro Elon Musk, co-chairs of President-elect Trump’s new “Division of Authorities Effectivity,” each took to social media Wednesday to defend the American tech business’s constant hiring of international engineers versus engineers born in what’s supposedly the best nation on this planet.
From the Hill:
“The variety of people who find themselves tremendous gifted engineers AND tremendous motivated within the USA is much too low,” Musk wrote in a Wednesday publish on his social platform X.
When one other consumer prompt the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was denying alternatives to People, Musk argued that the poster’s understanding of the scenario was “upside-down and backwards.”
“OF COURSE my corporations and I would favor to rent People and we DO, as that’s MUCH simpler than going by the extremely painful and sluggish work visa course of,” the tech billionaire mentioned. “HOWEVER, there’s a dire scarcity of extraordinarily gifted and motivated engineers in America.”
Ramaswamy equally argued Thursday there are too few aggressive U.S.-born engineering candidates, suggesting it’s a cultural problem.
“The explanation high tech corporations usually rent foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ People isn’t due to an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & fallacious clarification),” he wrote on X. “A key a part of it comes all the way down to the c-word: tradition.”
“Our American tradition has honored mediocrity over excellence for approach too lengthy (at the least for the reason that 90s and certain longer),” Ramaswamy mentioned, including, “A tradition that celebrates the promenade queen over the maths olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, is not going to produce one of the best engineers.”
Maintain up, MAGA America — are y’all going to let that Indian man speak about you want that?
What’s really attention-grabbing — I imply, moreover Elon Musk, the man who has spent the final two years working the platform previously often known as Twitter into the bottom, complaining in regards to the lack of tech business expertise — is that that is possible the primary time anybody has heard both Musk or Ramaswamy argue that People, on the whole, don’t cross the meritocracy odor check. Each males are, nevertheless, staunch anti-DEI crusaders who, up till now, have claimed that variety initiatives are what have stopped certified (learn: white) People from getting forward. Now, in what’s about to be Trump’s “Deport all of them and construct that wall” America, these passionate Trump allies are out right here making an argument for why America wants extra immigrants, not fewer.
— I’m actually beginning to suspect that each one of their anti-DEI malarky is basically simply not-so-thinly-veiled racism underneath the guise of selling equity.
Whereas some retailers have reported that Musk and Ramaswamy’s remarks sparked outrage amongst conservatives, there seems to be extra right-wingers defending them than denouncing them as anti-American.
Extra from the Hill:
The controversy seems to have stemmed from Sriram Krishnan’s suggestion final month that Musk study eradicating caps on inexperienced playing cards for expert immigrants. Krishnan’s feedback resurfaced in current days after he was appointed by Trump as senior coverage advisor for synthetic intelligence (AI).
Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and staunch Trump supporter, criticized Krishnan’s appointment Monday, suggesting he desires to take away inexperienced card restrictions so international college students “can come to the US and take jobs that needs to be given to American STEM college students.”
“It’s alarming to see the variety of profession leftists who at the moment are being appointed to serve in Trump’s admin after they share views which are in direct opposition to Trump’s America First agenda,” she added.
Conservative tech leaders shortly jumped to Krishnan’s protection. David Sacks, who Trump has tapped to function White Home AI and crypto czar, mentioned the Andreessen Horowitz accomplice was arguing for the elimination of per-country caps on inexperienced playing cards.
“Sriram nonetheless helps skills-based standards for receiving a inexperienced card, not making this system limitless,” Sacks wrote on X. “In actual fact, he desires to make this system solely merit-based. Supporting a restricted variety of extremely expert immigrants remains to be a prevalent view on the fitting. Sriram is certainly not a ‘profession leftist’!”
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir Applied sciences, additionally argued that Krishnan is “America First.”
“For USA to have the best way of life, beneficiant govt companies, and strongest army, we have to recruit one of the best and brightest and construct one of the best corporations,” Lonsdale mentioned. “I’m towards extra low-end H1B immigrants; however let’s win on the expertise sport.”
So, there you will have it, of us. If you happen to hate immigrants, you hate America — through which case, it’s best to simply depart.
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