David McAfee (RAW STORY) reports:
Elon Musk on Sunday asked for "more positive" content to be posted to
the social media network he owns, resulting in some reminders about his
own negative attitude at times.
Musk, the richest man in the world and an appointee of President-elect Donald Trump, took to X to say, "Please post a bit more positive, beautiful or informative content on this platform."
Elon Musk admitted that the H1-B visas are “broken” and floated a potential fix as he sought to cool a raging civil war within the MAGA base over the immigration program for highly skilled foreign workers.
Just a day after vowing to “go to war on this issue” and telling detractors to “F— yourself,” Musk, the world’s richest man, acknowledged some of the criticisms of the program getting abused and argued that the US should make it more costly to hire foreigners.
“Easily fixed by raising the minimum salary significantly and adding a yearly cost for maintaining the H1B, making it materially more expensive to hire from overseas than domestically,” Musk wrote on X late Saturday in response to a thread claiming H1-B visas were being used to hire low-wage programmers and developers.
Elon has created a nightmare for Donald Chump. It's harming the brand, the message and the cohesion. It's even left the professional liars at FOX "NEWS" scrambling.
Corbin Bolies (THE DAILY BEAST) notes:
The Fox & Friends Weekend hosts
tried their best on Sunday to make sense of the MAGA mess over H-1B
visas last week, but even they admitted Donald Trump’s flip-flop on the
program “left a lot of people confused.”
Hosts
Rachel Campos-Duffy, Charlie Hurt, and Will Cain reflected on the
online meltdown over the visas, which are backed by close Trump allies
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The issues, they said, were in abuses of
the system that prioritized cheaper labor over Musk-type prodigies.
Vivek Ramaswamy's stupidity saves him to a degree. It's hard to rage against a hate merchant when they're also offering bad pop cultural references that don't mean -- even on the most basic level -- what they claim. Or does no one get that Ross was the Urkel of FRIENDS and Ross got Rachel and well as good paying jobs?
Tom Boggioni (RAW STORY) observes:
At a time when Donald Trump's inner circle
should be working on getting his Cabinet nominees primed for getting
Senate approval, now time is being spent tamping down on a foreign
worker controversy that has riled the president-elect's base forcing him to have to weigh in.
At
the center of the controversy are comments made by Trump advisors Vivek
Ramaswamy and Elon Musk about America needing more H-1B foreign
specialty workers which has erupted into a war with Trump's MAGA base
that had been promised "America First" policies.
Early last week, Democrats seemed to be hitting new lows in the post-election slump. Progressives were especially demoralized by the failure to elect Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,
as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. Democratic
representatives instead gave the spot to a 74-year-old with esophageal
cancer, Rep. Gerry Connelly, D-Va. It suggested Democrats weren't going
to put up much resistance to the incoming president, Donald Trump.
"Who's going to stand up to Trump if his actual opponents have embraced
'strategic silence' regarding all of his spiraling abuses?" lamented progressive pundit Brian Beutler in a newsletter headlined,
"Democratic Capitulation Is Contagious." Everyone smart agreed that it
was wise not to replicate the hair-on-fire-all-the-time tactics of The
Resistance© for round number two of President Trump, but laying down and
taking it also seemed like a poor idea. Then Trump let billionaire Elon Musk
bully him into shutting down a continued resolution to fund the
government — a bill Trump obviously thought would be to his benefit —
and all of a sudden, the fight came roaring back into Democrats. Musk
basically wrote his own spending bill, with Trump meekly signing on. The
two foolishly believed that Democrats would cave by voting for the new bill that eliminated funding to research childhood cancer and
a provision to crack down on "junk fees," such as those that often
double the face value of a concert ticket. Instead, House Minority
Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., saw a perfect opportunity to kick off
Republican in-fighting, expose Trump's weaknesses as a leader, and
educate the nation on how Republicans are in the thrall of maniacal
billionaires. Democrats refused to vote for the Musk bill, and taunted Republicans for being too disordered to pass it, even with their House majority. "Put on your big boy pants! Pass your own bill," Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., declared from the floor as the Musk bill went down in flames Thursday night. "We're only here because you guys can't agree amongst yourselves."
Friday night, hours before the government shutdown took effect, Democrats handed Musk —sorry, Trump
— the first major loss of his presidency, a presidency which
technically doesn't start for another month. The funding bill passed,
with all the major provisions Musk tried to strip out returned. The fight left the Republican coalition divided and weakened. It also revealed that an aging, tired Trump is currently controlled by his biggest donor.
The media myth that Trump has a strong, unified coalition has solidified
in the past six weeks, driven by the continued shock caused by his
presidential victory in November. For those paying close attention,
however, it's clear that the GOP is being held together with safety
pins. MAGA was never coherent ideologically but held together by Trump's
cult of personality. Now these days, as Heather "Digby" Parton wrote Friday,
"Trump is just an old guy playing golf and holding court at his gaudy
beach club in Palm Beach every night." He was always a bad leader, but
he's increasingly old and addled, making keeping his party in line even
harder. Musk is taking advantage of Trump's weakness by trying to make
himself a shadow president, but he is an even worse manager of the
party, both because he's not actually their leader and he's a less
charming version of Trump.
Meanwhile, yes, I did catch Layla Elabed --the lying sack of s**t who is the sister of Rashida Tlaib. Yeah, I caught her trying to rewrite history. I'm glad. I'm glad because I've tried to be nicer to her. I thought she was just a deluded idiot as she led the country not to vote for Kamala. She's not. She's a liar. And she's revealing that now with her latest series of lies. Life's getting a little hard for her and her sister -- as is to be excepted when Rashida Zell Miller Tlaib took Democratic Party money to run for office only to turn around and attack the party's presidential nominee. They both need to be run out of the party. And it won't be so hard with Rashida who struggles in her district elections -- a reality most people who hero worship her are unaware of. Now that she's turned on the party, a challenger should be found to primary her and that challenge's not going to need much because, again, she hangs on by a thread. In fact, the gender breakdown of her support makes clear that a male challenger who was exactly the same could defeat her (she's from an anti-woman, anti LGBTQ+ district). But Layla wanted to speak this weekend and wanted to rewrite history like only a cheap hustler can. We're moving her over to the year-in-review piece where we'll take on the others liars, hustlers and con artists who worked to put Chump back into the White House.
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