Ascetic

Gen X smart aleck sense of humor. MI born and raised. TN homed and cultured. Anti-Offshoring and importing foreign workers. Poster of random pics and memes.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

There was a time when a truck driver, factory worker, roofer, mechanic, or warehouse worker could support a family on one income. Not rich. Just a house, a car, kids, and stability.

That world existed.

Then America decided cheap labor mattered more than protecting the value of American work. Factories left. Borders opened. Visa programs expanded. Contract labor exploded.

Corporations learned the lesson. When labor becomes unlimited, wages stop rising. CEOs become billionaires. Politicians stay relatively cheap.

Younger generations see it clearly. Millions more workers in the same jobs collapse bargaining power. Employers no longer compete for labor. Labor competes for employers.

Construction wages flatten. Entry-level roles disappear. Young men work two or three jobs and still cannot get ahead. Marriage and home ownership get delayed.

Immigrants, legal and illegal, now make up roughly one-third of the construction trades workforce. In many areas the share is higher. The wage suppression in the jobs that once built the middle class is real.

This is not about hating immigrants. It is about a simple question.

Why did America stop protecting the economic value of its own citizens?

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

Quite possibly the best video from social media that I have ever seen.

Please give this a watch.

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

Between January 2020 and 2025, foreign-born workers captured 88% of total employment growth in the United States according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Who else finds this obscene?

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

🚨 HERE WE GO AGAIN.

THIS IS THE DAY 1 CPT LOOPHOLE IN PLAIN ENGLISH.

A STEM OPT worker says their contract is ending and they have one H-1B lottery attempt left.

Their backup plan?

Enroll in a Day 1 CPT university so they can keep working.

They are comparing Westcliff, Ottawa and Sofia based on “good CPT support.”

That is the problem.

When people are choosing universities based on which one best preserves work authorization, the education system is being used as an immigration workaround.

Congress needs to close this loophole.

https://t.co/YXi14BDRjX

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

**They Dont Work For You** Call to action

Did you know AI can now do something Google was never much good at?

It can pull from Facebook posts, Reddit threads, local news comments, candidate websites, and voting records to map out who is actually running and what they have said on the issues that matter. Not the polished campaign ad version. The real positions.

Most primaries are over. The general election is coming. That includes a lot of local races most people never research until they are standing in the booth.

You can now ask an AI to build a sample ballot for your district, tell it your priorities (border, jobs, taxes, education, crime, whatever matters to you), and have it show you which candidates line up and which ones do not. No more guessing from yard signs.

Your county commissioner, school board, judges? It was not only near impossible it took forever.

The old system counted on you staying under-informed. That excuse is getting weaker.

They Dont Work For You.

When you vote this fall, take ten minutes and actually map the candidates against your own positions. Drop any other suggestions you might have.
The more people who do this the more pollsters will be surprised when people vote their principles instead of a dirty ad campaign.

[Pat Smith @patsmithcomedy]

Congrats buddy

[🙃 @cryptx_5566]

International students getting 100% scholarships while taxpayers foot the bill is outrageous. Prerna coaching fellow Indians on how to squeeze every possible benefit out of the American system. It’s infuriating.

There are also serious concerns about F1 students abusing the system barely attending college while working off campus jobs, then allegedly using fake experience to land high paying positions and eventually looking for shortcuts to permanent residency. If someone is exploiting loopholes, lying about their qualifications, or abusing taxpayer funded benefits, they should be held accountable regardless of where they come from. END H1B , OPT and H4 NOW !!!! @StephenM @DHSgov @SecMullinDHS @USCIS @DOLOIG @USDOL

[Nick Plumb @PlumbNick]

Imagine going into a hospital for a knee replacement and never walking out. That’s exactly what happened to Glenda Dorton - instead of being administered the correct anesthesia, she was given potassium and is now paralyzed from the chest down.

The hospital CEO was born and trained in India. She earned her medical degree (MBBS) from Seth G.S. Medical College / King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai.

Her boss, the system CEO was also born in India - no word yet on the anesthesiologist or pharmacist who apparently mixed the wrong drugs.

Regardless, use of locally compounded drugs in this instance are 100% against the known standard - only single use ampules with original labeling are permitted for this procedure.

To protect izzat - the CEO, Dr. Shubhada Jagasia blames the pharmacy.

Choose your doctor wisely.

@MaryBowdenMD @realdocspeaks
How does this happen?

[Radically Right @RadicallyRight_]

This is what the “housing is a human right” and “people over profit” crowd thinks they want.

She’s completely lost in the socialist fantasy, so a DeLorean drops her off in 2050 to see how it worked out.

Free housing, but everyone lives in the same ugly gray box with no choices.

Coffee is available only if you brought your government-approved reusable mug. Black only.

The government grocery store has empty shelves and $40 eggs.

No police.

The trains are free, but they never run because the workers are on strike again.

Healthcare is free too. Your appointment is in 72 days.

By the end, she’s begging to go back.

Socialism always sounds wonderful when someone is promising you free things. It looks a little different once you’re actually forced to live in it.

Credit: Independent Women’s Voice

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

@LayoffAI Add another company to my list of do not go to.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

O'REILLY AUTO PARTS PROUDLY OUTSOURCING AMERICAN JOBS

O'Reilly Auto Parts, founded in Springfield, Missouri in 1957, announced on LinkedIn on August 18 that it is "building our next tech home in Bengaluru, India."

Here is the timeline.

April 2025: O'Reilly cut "less than 11%" of its IT staff. Its statement: "This was not an effort to cut the size of our team or reduce expenses."

May 2026: Remote US IT employees say they were told to move to Springfield by August 2027 or lose their jobs. An internal announcement posted by staff puts the number at about 400 and says an India office would open by Q4 2026.

August 14, 2026: O'Reilly posts a Director of HR for IT who "partners closely with leaders in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and India."

August 18, 2026: "Welcome to O'Reilly Auto Parts India."

O'Reilly does not need the savings.

Record Q2: $4.89B in sales, $715M in profit
$1.51B in stock buybacks in that one quarter
$30.4B in buybacks since 2011

The CIO who arrived in October 2023 came from Lowe's, which has run a 5,000-person tech center in Bengaluru for a decade.

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

@AmiriKing All that for undersized terrible chicken. Imagine if a Prince's Hot Chicken or Hattie B's opened up.

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

@MarshaBlackburn @BillLeeTN Be nice if our governor or wannabe governor would stand up for Tennesseans. Instead I see hundreds of H1Bs working at Tennessee state schools. Are our schools so bad we have to hire third world backwards labor? This isn't even a full list of the last 6 years.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🔥 BREAKING: Governor Ron DeSantis confirms a MASSIVE block on H-1B visas has taken place in Florida universities statewide

"State universities are NOT permitted to hire H-1Bs In Florida." ☀️

BASED 👏🏻

DeSantis NAILED IT: "We've got some BIG problems with some of the legal programs we have. This H-1B program - the Americans train the H-1B, they fire the Americans and hire the H-1B. How would that even remotely be acceptable!?" — 2025

[Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX]

India before independence vs. after independence from Britain in 1947.

We don’t need them, but they’re in the West today because they can’t function without us. In fact, it will take 2 decades of American investment before India is qualified as a “developed nation”.

If they are such great doctors, lawyers, businessman, tech enthusiasts, and entrepreneurs, etc. - why don’t we just force them to fix their own country instead?

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

@mattvanswol Get rid of all the different visas and highly tax offshoring and you will see the greatest economic recovery in history of the world.

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

Star Control 2 was the first game to truly blow my mind. It felt like you were in charge of a starship that could go anywhere you wanted in a huge universe. It had a great story, it was funny, fun, the music was great, and groundbreaking for it's time. I played plenty of Atari and Commodore games but nothing compared to Star Control 2 for being so revolutionary.

[Ascetic @AsceticSDSC]

@TheOfficerTatum So glad I moved away from there. Used to live fairly close to that school. From talks with parents the school was useless. Of course Mayor O'Commie won't do anything to better the city and neither will anyone on that board.

[Brandon Tatum @TheOfficerTatum]

🚨 WATCH: Former Teacher of the Year says Nashville school leaders pressured her to FABRICATE a student’s grades, banned teachers from accurately reporting behavior problems and are skewing statistics while students struggle to read, write and do basic math.

This may be one of the most damning descriptions of public education you will hear from an actual teacher.

[_Unapologetic7 𝕏 @missiville_]

Another Tech career destroyed.

Maybe this is the Karma bus 🚌 for this man, or maybe it’s just how he will keep going until the wheels fall off.

Only thing I know for sure is someone who once worked as head of Software Engineering for Accolade & Adobe shouldn’t have to drive a bus because there are no other jobs being offered to our fellow Americans in Tech.