r/LeopardsAteMyFace 1d ago

President Elon says the quiet part out loud.

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u/Jimmyg100 1d ago

Bringing in foreigners to take jobs from Americans while bragging about how good the economy is to people who don’t feel like it’s good… I swear I’ve heard this mentioned before by republicans. What was the context though?

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u/sonorakit11 1d ago

While kicking out the people that are already doing the jobs

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u/falcopilot 1d ago

Kicking out the people doing low-income jobs so Americans can have them, bringing in skilled labor, taking the jobs Americans might actually want because he can pay them less.

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u/Jimmyg100 1d ago

But you see this way we can use everyone around the globe to their best abilities.

We can be globe-ableists.

Glableists.

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u/unAffectedFiddle 1d ago

MEGA, if you will.

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u/CDR_Fox 1d ago

LMAO I DIED at globe-ableists

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u/PartisanGerm 1d ago

Glob-ablism, what red hat wouldn't love that?!

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u/SnooCrickets699 1d ago

What's his version of "skilled trade"?

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u/Caleth 1d ago

The funny shit is American laws about ITAR mean he'd still have some major issues with bringing in low cost foreign workers into SpaceX.

It might help him at Tesla since they don't have to pass nearly as stringent standards when hiring, AFAIK.

So he'd need to change out H!B policy and make the possibility of hostile countries getting nuke/advanced space access more likely to cut costs at his baby.

I'm sure Trump will be for it, but will the average Republican law maker?

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u/induslol 1d ago

What lawmakers are you imagining are distinct amongst republicans.

The party is in lockstep with whatever tune Trump and sycophants march them in.

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u/rsmith524 1d ago

Murkowski & Collins for sure, plus a few others whenever it’s convenient for them. It’s not entirely MAGA yet.

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u/dweezil22 1d ago

Ah good old Susan Collins. I'm sure she will be appropriately concerned while doing whatever MAGA requires of her.

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u/MrLanesLament 1d ago

This is essentially the natural progression from the now-old era of consolidating the skilled positions while paying less to the new person doing a job that used to be done by four (who all made more money.)

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u/According-Insect-992 1d ago

All out in the open without a hint of shame or embarrassment.

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u/ramapo66 18h ago

Paying less has always been the driving factor.

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u/imagicnation-station 1d ago

No, you don’t get it, we do have to kick out the illegals, and denaturalize brown citizens, so that we have a secure border. BUT, we will bring all of them back so we have a better economy. Elon is a genius, we would be able to secure the border and improve the economy, two birds one stone, but one bird in the bush the other in my hand.

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u/AnarZak 1d ago

foreign workers tukkarjarbs will surely bring down the price of eggs? no?

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u/HoochieKoochieMan 1d ago

Ironically, Musk is the underqualified immigrant that the incoming president has subcontracted the job to.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't really want to give searches to looking into it but I'm pretty sure the other guy has a generation of being american that Musk could "borrow".

The incoming administration makes me sad to be an American... I wonder how the God Bless the USA guy feels about the non lubed anal rape of the USA.

Edit nevermind looked him up and he's partnered with trump on the Bible and he made a new music video of the song for Trump's campaign... Fuck Lee Greenwood.

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u/Little_Common2119 1d ago

Because of course he did. The rural crowd who least understands these issues, and will be hurt the most by them, love the heck out of the guy.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 1d ago

I feel like anyone who loves any of them at this point might as well find a canary and cage and some lanterns and go mining for little to nothing.

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u/Anotsurei 1d ago

Right? Hell, Trump even got Musk to pay him to do the job!

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u/AnarZak 1d ago

i think you're making musk's point for him.

if musk is an under-qualified immigrant, how did he get to be where he is now?
what does it say about his all-american peers?

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u/Legitimate-Pie3547 1d ago

By exploiting the people he has working for him, like all billionaires. Just because a con-man was successful in his con doesn't make it not a con, smart guy.

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u/AnarZak 22h ago

he wasn't a billionaire when he started as "under-qualified immigrant".

his father claimed he gave his sons kimbal & elon $28 000 to start their first company, zip2. elon denies this.

the fact that he's been able to keep this apparent con going for almost 30 years in the US is pretty impressive & perhaps reinforces the point regarding american intelligence

i'll leave now

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u/mug3n 1d ago

And add a dash of buttery males to that!

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u/AnarZak 22h ago

eggs arnold benedict? delicious!

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u/69bonobos 1d ago

I don't think I can do this anymore...

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u/Reactive_Squirrel 1d ago

I want off this crazy ride

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u/zeta_cartel_CFO 1d ago

Nah. You get to ride with the rest of us who didn’t want this.

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u/ironangel2k4 1d ago

t h e r i d e n e v e r e n d s 💀🎩

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u/teas4Uanme 1d ago

Ride? I figured I fell off the 'normal' timeline somewhere back around 2001.

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u/BadAsBroccoli 1d ago

This entire dimension took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

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u/KingMario05 1d ago

We sure they didn't fucking steal this?!?!

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u/Yankee6Actual 1d ago

Stop the world, I wanna get off

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u/stillavoidingthejvm 1d ago

Pace yourself. We've got 4 years of this shit to go.

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u/Four_in_binary 1d ago

Third time's the charm, maybe?

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u/Open_Perception_3212 1d ago

It hasn't even become official and I'm so fucking done with everything..... likeni shouldn't be this upset but the amount of sheer purposeful ignorance is astounding

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u/maleia 1d ago

I've just resigned myself to likely dying from a hate crime. 💁‍♀️

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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms 20h ago

Was Denmark serious about buying us? Because I would be willing to let this country go for cheap. Basically all of it was stolen, and fencing stolen goods is illegal, so maybe we just auction off the country

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u/asuds 1d ago

Importing low cost labor from other countries is just moving business overseas but with extra steps.

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u/ramapo66 1d ago

H1B visa to meet tech demands in the 1990s. It never stopped. Hillary was a mouthpiece for the tech companies for cheap labor. It’s always “a temporary measure while Americans get trained”.

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u/vistaculo 1d ago

Gutting public education so that we don’t have Americans that can do these jobs also saves on taxes.

It’s a win win

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u/myssxtaken 1d ago

I remember this. Dropped the bottom out of wages. 30% of my nursing class were it/tech people getting their second BS degree.

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u/ramapo66 1d ago

It was quietly accepted by workers. Just like offshoring jobs. Just like the virtualization of work offshore today. Yet poor people coming to do the manual work that nobody seems to want to do are the focus of an economic ‘problem’.

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u/ladygrndr 1d ago

Step 1) Cut education for Americans, Step 2) Remove entry level jobs from 80% of industries, Step 3) Bring in and underpay foreign workers because "nO OnE iS QUaliFiED" Step 4)Profit

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u/MysteriousStaff3388 1d ago

If we have a foreign worker problem in Canada, blame the greedy businesses doing exactly what Musk is proposing, not the current, sitting government.

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u/MardocAgain 1d ago

MAGA people think universities are indoctrinating our youth with socialist & woke ideologies. They don't want to become "skilled workers." They jerk off trade schools and beg for manufacturing to return so they can be the low skilled labor.

This is literally what they want, but what they don't understand is that their bosses will be foreigners with accents and a different skin tone from them.

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u/ImShero77 1d ago

We should all downvote you just for making sense. 😂😂😂

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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT 1d ago

Derterkerjerbs

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u/Fullertonjr 1d ago

Kicking out people who want to do the jobs that most Americans don’t want, while bringing in people to do the jobs that Americans are willing to go tens of thousands of dollars in debt to do.

🫠

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u/omysweede 1d ago

They're eating the dawgs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets....

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u/Jimmyg100 1d ago

Before the election: They’re eating the dogs! They’re eating the cats!

After the election: You know, with rising beef prices maybe some Americans should be looking at alternative meat sources such as dogs and cats.

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u/BlaktimusPrime 1d ago

When the whole point of the MAGA campaign was to bring to America…yet they want import works yet campaign on “Mass Deportation” and to de-naturalize citizens.

So basically another promise they are backing out of/turning their heads

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u/ShredGuru 1d ago

But it's cool when their guys do it.

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u/superbakedziti 1d ago

What happened to “They took er Jeerbs?”

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u/Strict_Bed4150 1d ago

Thanks Obama...