r/Republican • u/AtticusXA • 1d ago
Laura Loomer Calls For MAGA Boycott After Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy Defend H-1B Visas; X Owner Dismisses Her As A ‘Troll’ Breaking News
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/laura-loomer-calls-for-maga-boycott-after-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-defend-h-1b-visas-x-owner-dismisses-her-as-a-troll/amp_articleshow/116705150.cms35
u/PsychoPir8 1d ago
Well, she is a troll, so…
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u/cathbadh 1d ago
So is Musk. I'd be happy if both were to just go away and let Trump get to work.
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u/PsychoPir8 20h ago
I agree that Musk can be trolling at times, but I don’t put him in the same camp as Loony Loomer. I also agree that if he focused on DOGE and his companies, piped down, and allowed Trump to get to work, that would likely be for the best.
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u/cathbadh 12h ago
I'd be happier if he'd just go away. I don't think he'll use DOGE to the country's benefit, not when he makes a lot of money from government contracts and has truly moronic views on the military and immigration.
In the end he'll find something that Trump doesn't like that he won't be able to shut the hell up about, and that'll be the end of his control over government spending or policy.
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u/MoleUK 1d ago edited 1d ago
She absolutely is a troll.
Elon is now stripping some of these critics of his on X of their verification, among other things. Which proves pretty much all his claims to even-handedness and being against censorship on X to be completely dependent on agreeing with him, or at least not pissing him off.
The infighting was inevitable given how far apart some of the people in the MAGA circle are politically, and frankly it's going to get a lot worse.
Especially on immigration, where people like Elon and Vivek have been quite openly pro-immigration for years. They made no secret of it.
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u/stlyns 1d ago
Immigration is fine. ILLEGAL immigration is the issue.
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u/Racheakt 1d ago
Sure but the legal immigration is also an issue; H1B has been abused for decades and effectively making it unlimited is not something I voted for.
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u/stlyns 1d ago
Nothing wrong with bringing in the best and highest skilled foreign workers, considering there aren't enough Americans to fill those postions.
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u/Dapper-Ad9557 1d ago
I am an Indian American engineer. I don’t agree with you when you say there are not enough people to fill jobs in US. There is a lot of us here willing to do the work. We expect to get paid decent wage. That is the problem. Companies want slave labor.
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u/Racheakt 1d ago
Except both of those are far from being true. There is plenty of skilled US IT workers, the imported labor is not that much if any better, this program is being used to lock in foreign labor under the treat of deportation to repress wages.
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u/stlyns 1d ago
I hear that from lots of unemployed IT workers.
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u/Racheakt 1d ago edited 1d ago
I am a manager in an IT company; I have been made to hire H1B by the company over American a couple of times.
The over all desired result seems to be cutting job mobility off at the knees.
From personal experience H1B worker is not magically better; I mean they will work any and all hours I want, but I rather have an SA that gets his work done in 40 hrs a week and not 70 to do the same work.
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u/cathbadh 1d ago
The problem is, there are American workers. It's just often cheaper to hire from outside the country. You can save a lot of money by pushing wages as low as possible.
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u/AnimeAdd1ct 1d ago
Wtf are you on about. When shes banned frok the platform then cry censorship. This is nothing compared to the censorship libtards woukd love to impose.
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u/SetOk6462 Conservative 🇺🇲 1d ago
She is a troll, but in this case Elon calling for more H1B’s should be called out as garbage.
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u/RyP82 1d ago
We should be incentivizing Americans to pursue STEAM jobs. Let’s try hiring at home first, no? Let’s ask Canada how they feel about similar approach their country has taken over the past decade.
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u/elber3th 22h ago
There’s plenty of incentive already, STEM wages in USA are higher than anywhere in the world. We’ve been telling people to “learn how to code” for a decade now.
Average H1B job pays over $100k. https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/work-state/
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u/Winstons33 1d ago
My God...some of you are acting like Sheep here. Laura Loomer is 100% correct to call them out on this.
Do any of you REALLY think increased H1B Visa's is consistent with the MAGA message? Musk and Vivek are showing their cards here, and I doubt either of them are the allies we wanted to believe.
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u/Kornbread2000 1d ago
That depends what you mean by MAGA. We are currently educating some of the smartest people on the planet at research universities subsidized by the U.S. government and then when they graduate telling them they have to leave the U.S. and go work somewhere else because we don't have visas for them. That may make us "great" in some sense of the word, but it certainly prevents us from being as great as we could be.
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u/Winstons33 1d ago
That's a separate problem.
I've looked at a LOT of H1B resumes. VERY few of these people have US degrees.
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u/Otherwise-Sleep2683 1d ago
Agree and having worked in the bay, what they have is rarely up to par with an American Degree.
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u/elber3th 1d ago
Okay, then expand H1B visas for American graduates. lol
I have a talented uni classmate who was doing super well at an Apple engineering job and was dropped because of lottery random chance. Everyone loses there
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u/finsup_305 MAGA! 🇺🇲 1d ago
H-1B visas is a work visa, is it not? What's wrong with those? The issue was illegal immigration, not immigration. Immigrants are important to our country. We just have to make sure they come here legally.
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u/ztexxmee 1d ago
elon is wanting to get rid of H1B visa limits. that’s what isn’t good. if that happens, all companies will ever do is hire non-americans on a visa because they accept less pay.
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u/finsup_305 MAGA! 🇺🇲 1d ago
Oh yeah I don't agree with that.
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u/HastingsIV 1d ago
Its not just less pay, but entry level positions at pay levels stuck in the 90s. Domestic Americans cannot compete with it.
The best and brightest should include scientists and doctors, not plumbers, interns, and accountants, but that's just a few of the positions that h1b uses for indentured domestic replacement.
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u/elber3th 1d ago
I thought H1B was primarily used for tech. There’s plumbers that are hired by H1B?
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u/JE163 1d ago
H1B visas get abused to lower wages. I know several people who are being replaced with H1B’s earning 1/3 of the salary.
Someone else recommended a lottery type of system where H1B visas would be awarded to companies willing to pay the highest salary. I think that would be a much better approach.
Ad for H1B reforms — we have so many communities that are unemployed or underemployed. We need a way to not only train them and help them get out of poverty but their children too
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u/Sensitive_Algae5723 1d ago
https://www.myvisajobs.com/reports/h1b/work-state/
These are good salaries…
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u/Sachin-_- 1d ago
A small but vocal group of republicans are straight up anti-immigration. I personally think we need to heavily reform the H1-B process, but I don’t buy into the “white replacement” crap you see on twitter.
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u/finsup_305 MAGA! 🇺🇲 1d ago
Yeah, i don't buy into that trap either. I think we should halt the visa process for a few months, shut the border down, and be behind a large-scale deportation process, but I don't think we should stop all immigration forever. That's ridiculous.
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u/wizology_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
That whole white replacement shit is crazy and I can’t believe there’s actual people who fall for it lol , it’s really just a simple population issue , what happens when people decide not to make babies and it’s across all demographics not just white people , and then you got mix race marriages and what not… edit: keep the downvotes coming ya wankers , all cause I debunked your dumbass “ theory “
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u/NavyNatural8 1d ago
Not sure how it's crazy — white people are literally becoming a minority in virtually every historically white country because of mass immigration and leftist cultural hegemony destroying our familial norms. Big tech supports it for cheap labor and leftists push for it because they hate white people.
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u/GooberRonny Conservative 🇺🇲 1d ago
50 percent of field workers in Idaho are illegal. The republicans in Idaho don't care but will cry about work visas knowing damn well Idaho is full of illegal migrants.
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u/cptjaydvm 1d ago
Laura Loomer is an idiot troll and we would be wise to stop defending her behavior. She makes MAGA look bad.
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u/et_hornet Moderate 🇺🇲 1d ago
Rare Elon W
Loomer and some of her comments make us normal republicans look bad
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u/brokenthumb11 1d ago
Not sure why everyone is getting downvotes. She's a psychopath and unhinged. I wouldn't want her anywhere near me if I was Trump. When she went off on Viva and others leading up to the election, I had to block that lunatic.
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u/Logical_Class_5184 Paleoconservative 14h ago
America First. America isn't "country of immigrants", It's country of Americans, founded by European settlers in the 18th century.
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u/Dapper-Ad9557 22h ago edited 22h ago
How many of you in this sub are engineers or work in STEM fields? I’m an engineer of Indian ancestry, and I can say with confidence that many American engineers are struggling to find jobs. Just recently, I was talking to a coworker about a young engineering graduate we know who graduated with 4.0 GPA but hasn’t been able to find a job. He’s struggling with his mental health and was trying to unalive himself.
Companies like Chevron, Shell, Google, and LinkedIn are laying off U.S.-based engineers and replacing them with offshore workers or those on H1B visas. I know this because I’ve spoken to my relatives in India and my fellow American engineering graduates who see it happening firsthand.
I voted for Trump because I believe in “America First,” not “Elon and Vivek First.” Our kids aren’t less capable simply because they’re more well-rounded (attending prom or playing sports). Indian students are often forced to study 12 hours a day or more, and even when they graduate, many of them are unhappy with their lives. I know this from reading Indian Reddit forums and hearing directly from people in those communities.
American kids are not lacking in talent or intelligence. JD Vance is just one example of the incredible potential we have in this country. It’s time we focus on supporting our own students and professionals.
My father came to the United States on an H1B visa, eventually obtaining a green card and later becoming a citizen. Reflecting on his experience, he often shares how restrictive life on an H1B visa can be. You're largely tied to your employer, with limited flexibility to change jobs or explore opportunities. This dependency can feel restricted, as your ability to stay in the country is closely linked to your employment.
Some people make money by bringing H-1B visa workers to the U.S., acting like headhunters. In some cases, fraud is involved, like certain Indian colleges where people can allegedly pay for fake degrees. While many H-1B workers are highly skilled and genuine, not all cases are honest, and misuse does happen.
The issue with Vivek is that he comes across as a "know-it-all" upper-middle-class kid who had everything handed to him. His parents are wealthy, and while he talks a big game, he doesn’t truly understand what it’s like to grow up as a poor kid from a coal-mining town. My husband, for example, is a white Appalachian who joined the military to pay for college and served through four deployments. We don't need more "smart people" from other countries when we are producing smart kids in America just fine.