This H1B argument is insane. What in the hell are you people doing??? You remind me of liberals using Media Matters style arguments. I feel like we are being engulfed in the same idiocy as never-Trumpers. You extreme ‘never-Elons’ are no different in your actions. You have very little real information and you are building an entire narrative around the little tidbit.
AT NO TIME has Trump or any of the leadership said ANYTHING about eliminating ALL immigration. The goal has always been to eliminate ILLEGAL immigration.
You are basing everything from one tweet with one undefinable stat. It’s the same thing we deride liberals for doing, and that they have been doing since day one on the escalator.
You’re taking part of a post:
“Elon Musk @elonmusk Maybe this is a helpful clarification: I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for America to keep winning.”
and doing what with that?
.1% of WHAT? The following stats are from Grok. Yes, there are probably other numbers depending on date limitations that you can throw back, and I’m not going to get into the pages that were sourced for the answers. There are a lot. Either way they will be close and will get to the point.
How many people work annually under the H1B Visa program?
My summary. 85,000. 65,000 under a cap with an additional 20,000 for people with a masters degree or higher. Visas can be renewed and extended, so that isn’t the entire number at any one time. Estimates are that there are currently 583,000 working here under H1B Visas.
I was going to get into the IT industry stats but I won't her because Elons statement and percentage is for engineering, not IT. Yes, there is a problem with IT, and the greatest number of people currently bitching about the H1B issue are IT. Anything IT that you see as a ‘future plan’ from his one post is pure fantasy.
Elons post. Engineers. What’s up with that? From Grok:
How many people are filling engineering positions in the US
In the United States, there are approximately 1.6 million people employed as engineers. However, there is a significant gap between the number of engineering positions available and the number of graduates or workers filling these roles. Posts on X suggest that around 400,000 new engineering positions are needed annually, but only about one-third of these positions are being filled, indicating a substantial shortage.
We have a shortfall of NEW engineers that will be required to fill NEW positions. Not replacing current engineers. Colleges have been turning out people who went for basket weaving DEI degrees. There are not enough people graduating with engineering degrees to fill the upcoming needs. Do we just slam the entire system to a halt and wait while we convince high school students that DEI is BS, motivate them to a higher goal of an advanced degree, then wait 6 years for them to graduate? No. We need talent NOW. NEW positions that are opening. That's what Elon is talking about.
In your frenzy of going ballistic with an absolute void of information, tell me. What is ‘.1% of engineering talent’? .1% of the entire engineering industry? .1% of all new H1B Visas issued? .1% of all Visas currently in use? .1% of a cap reduction in Visas? YOU ARE MAKING ARGUMENTS WITH NO INFORMATION.
Most of the arguments are ‘Look what has happened’. ‘Look what’s happening now’. ‘Look at the broken system.’ THIS IS WHY WE ELECTED TRUMP.
Is everyone acting like Trump is going to do nothing about the border? No. You are using the same ‘Look what has happened’…’look what’s happening now’ argument as the border but unlike ‘we are going to fix it’ you’re acting as though nothing is going to be done.
Yes, there is a problem. People have mentioned ‘reforming the system’, just like ‘fixing the border’. What reforms? Some things that have been mentioned. Lowering the caps. Increasing skill requirements. Penalties for abusing the system and using it to replace workers for lower pay.
And as far as ‘Trump is giving in to big-tech because he is speaking to them’. What an asinine statement. ‘Keep your friends close, and keep your enemies closer’. And trying to make some enemies your friends doesn’t mean giving in to them. He could be preparing them for a reduction in tech-Visas or an increase in skill requirements. We don’t know. The people making the arguments DON’T KNOW JACK.
Chill.
🚨 Van Jones Admits Democrats Conned American Voters Leading Into the Midterms ☠️
The clip is from CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, aired Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, two days after the midterms. The “con” framing comes from how he told it: grinning, “Now it can be told,” and “Don’t get mad at me, I was given permission to reveal this.”
Here’s what he actually said, verbatim from the transcript:
“Now it can be told. How did we win the narrative on affordability? Was it just these nice little Democrats out there running for office...? No. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There’s something called the American Accountability Network, tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter, X, every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out. The Republicans could not understand it wasn’t bots. It was actual human beings.”
And the core of the admission:
“Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative... They couldn’t get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that.”
He then described it as “the most effective online organizing campaign,” said it “flew under the radar screen, never been told before,” and confirmed it isn't going away — it will “continue to push for kitchen table issues and hold our Democratic lawmakers accountable.”
What’s genuinely damning
- The message discipline was industrial, not organic. Everything was “unaffordable,” and it was always the GOP’s fault — regardless of what the actual price data said that week.
- He admits the volume was the point. Culture-war terrain where Democrats were losing (border, trans sports, crime) got buried under sheer output rather than argued.
- The scale claims are big: tens of thousands of coordinated humans, hundreds of millions of daily impressions.
Understand, nothing about the Iran war changed on Wednesday morning following the election. The fear just evaporated on schedule. If the crisis was as existential as the messaging implied, prices shouldn’t have collapsed the moment the election ended, but they DID!
The strongest version of the critique comes from the market reaction, not the transcript. Brent fell 8.7% in a single day, and WTI dropped 13% in the week right after the votes were counted, with crude down near $87 — the worst week since COVID — even though inventories fell and tankers were still getting hit near Hormuz.
America was gaslit once again. 🤡
@RyanAFournier The playbook...
NOW democrats will vote for it because of the positive effects it will have on the economy, then they will take credit for it
It has been widely reported that the left is planning a campaign of street protests in January along with a plan to declare the President’s admin illegitimate if they try to deal with foreign interference or anything else that compromised the midterms. This is part of a color revolution to overthrow the President & seize power. Acc to the people involved & their own documents, as published by @datarepublican & others, their chances of succeeding go down significantly in countries where they do not have the military in their side. Thanks to Sec of War, Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Military has not been captured by these people. Why would Massie want this country robbed of a critical line of defense? Why would you target the one person who is unwavering in this committment to serving, protecting & defending the American people & the Republic?
Geeee. Where did I hear the term 're-interpret'?
MAYBE FROM ME BACK IN FEBRUARY/MARCH WHEN NO ONE WAS LISTENING!!!
Last year I laughed with Grok about the no-kings protests. Grok said 'Don't laugh? They are building a massive organization that can be used for anything.'
Back in February I said 'the no-kings protestors were going to pivot to anti-data-center.'
They already had. Last December 230+ organizations sent a letter to Congress demanding a moratorium on data centers. One of the top organizations behind that letter was the Sierra Club.
Who provides a lot of funding to the Sierra Club? Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss.
In a biography his sister said that her brothers goal is to 're-interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics'. Well, the billionaires won. The foreign billionaires.
I posted about that dozens of times since February, including the direct quote.
In August I said 'Why isn't anyone paying attention?' They were getting Texas voters on the anti-data-center issue.
Our local TEA party group went full anti-data-center. 'It's a bipartisan issue', they said.
It's Texas for God's sake, and anti-data-center became more important than GUN RIGHTS!!!
I followed groups of rural people. Single issue, anti-data-center, enveloped their lives more than anything else.
I sent emails to politicians, pro data center groups. Nothing. Nipping that one issue in the bud back in February/March when I first identified it could have saved Texas.
Yep. "Stand. Fight. Defend the Republic" is not a slogan.
We are very very close to losing our Republic, because they want to stamp out all threats to "our democracy" for once and for all.
If you're a republication or an independent from Texas you need to clean the shit from your eyes because your head was so far up your ass you probably STILL CAN'T SEE through it.
And while you're at it...spit out the corn.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Texas Democrats are filing a FLOOD of proposed bills that would TAKE AWAY gun rights for Americans.
Here's what's been filed so far:
HB 218 (Johnson): would create extreme-risk protective orders, including temporary orders issued without notice. A family or household member or a peace officer could apply if they allege the person has a serious mental illness and poses an immediate danger because of access to firearms. The person would have to turn over their guns within 24 hours; a full order would last up to a year and could be renewed. Possessing a gun in violation would be a Class A misdemeanor.
HB 173 (Moody): would make it a state jail felony to transfer a semiautomatic rifle that takes a detachable magazine and is larger than .22 caliber to anyone under 21, with exceptions for peace officers, current or honorably discharged military, and some temporary loans at a range or hunt.
HB 576 (Lalani): would bar registered sex offenders from buying a firearm, but only for registration based on an offense committed on or after Sept. 1, 2027.
HB 103 (Martinez): would expand the state crime of reckless discharge of a firearm so it also covers counties of 500,000 or more people, not just cities of 100,000 or more.
SB 80 (Zaffirini): would prohibit certain transfers, purchases, and possession of assault weapons and would create criminal offenses.
HB 606 (Lalani): would prohibit transferring firearms to, or the purchase or possession of firearms by, people under 21, and would create a criminal offense.
HB 610 (Lalani): would prohibit transferring firearms to certain recipients under 21.
HB 857 (Anchía): would prohibit transferring certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients under 21, and would create a criminal offense and increase a penalty.
HB 771 (Sethi): would prohibit transferring certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients, and would create a criminal offense and increase a penalty.
HB 806 (Reynolds): would prohibit transferring semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients and would increase a criminal penalty.
HB 613 (Lalani): would require a national instant criminal background check on private firearm transfers and would create a criminal offense.
HB 612 (Lalani): would prohibit a sex offender from possessing a firearm. (prob the only reasonable one)
HB 609 (Lalani): would increase the criminal penalty for making a firearm accessible to a child.
HB 658 (Moody): would change the prosecution and punishment of making a firearm accessible to a child and would increase a criminal penalty.
HB 618 (Moody): would restrict transferring firearm magazines to people who are prohibited from possessing the type of firearm the magazine is made for, and would create a criminal offense.
HB 659 (Moody): would require licensed firearms dealers to report certain sales or transfers of multiple firearms or magazines to law enforcement, and would create a criminal offense.
HB 660 (Moody): would require certain people already prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm to dispose of firearms they own, possess, or control.
HB 712 (Gámez): would address a city or county's authority to regulate or prohibit carrying a firearm in certain libraries.
HB 776 (Sethi): would address expulsion-related offenses involving possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.
HB 859 (Anchía): would increase the criminal penalty for discharging a firearm in certain municipalities.
Oil crashed the day after Democrats took Congress. Then Van Jones went on CNN and admitted the quiet part out loud.
The day after the election, Brent crude fell 8.7% in a single day. WTI fell 13% on the week. Worst week for oil since COVID. Nothing about the war changed overnight. Only the election ended.
And it is still falling this morning. WTI is down near $87 a barrel. Tankers are still getting hit near the Strait of Hormuz. But the fear is gone, right on schedule.
The official story is that traders think a Democrat Congress will force Trump to end the Iran war. Maybe. Hold that thought.
Because then Van Jones went on CNN and bragged about how they did it. His exact words: 'The Republicans never figured out what we were doing.'
Jones said Democrats ran something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of real people. Not bots. Coordinated to post the same message, everywhere, every day.
And the message never changed. Everything is unaffordable. Gas costs too much. And it is all the Republicans' fault. Jones said they tied kitchen table pain to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative.
The scale he claimed: 32.5 million hits a day on Instagram. 88.8 million on X. 185 million on Facebook. That is not a campaign. That is a flood. And it was aimed at your gas tank.
This was not some random group either. The network's own partner list includes the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, MoveOn, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. The whole machine, working one message.
So here is the question people are asking now. If the crisis was real, why did oil fall off a cliff the morning after the votes were counted? Inventories actually went down that week. Less oil sitting around usually means higher prices. Prices crashed anyway.
They did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away.
What were you paying for gas on Election Day?
We know what happens if Texas's new state government does to the oil and gas industry what the Dems did to oil and gas in California or Colorado. Look to England, where petrol costs the equivalent of $8 a gallon! Be prepared, Texans. Be prepared, America!
@Fynnderella1@KatieFrenchOES It would have to pass by 2/3 in the state house and state Senate, then go in front of the voters.
Tonight proved though that if it ever got that far they would be stupid enough to vote for it.
My analysis is basically as follows:
1) The Iran war obviously impacted Trump’s base. Due to opposition to forever wars and also how it raised gas prices.
Now, bear with me on this, but I personally find part of this to be frustrating because (while I also oppose forever wars and detest high gas prices) I think a portion of Trump’s base conflated the military operation in Iran with the forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I think that comparison is unfair, based on the reality of what the military operation in Iran is so far, and also based on Trump’s stated goal that I think most people agree with, that Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon because that poses a direct threat to America. And also based on Trump's history of opposing forever wars.
But regardless of whether I think that conflation is unfair, the reality is Iran did make a difference in the election. Look at that graph that Mollie Hemingway posted about Trump’s approval rating as it correlates to gas prices. Those two numbers track together. So I don’t know if necessarily the war itself was a mistake, I can’t say that honestly, because you and I don’t have access to the intel that answers the million dollar question, was Iran really imminently about to acquire a nuke? Or, was it the way that Trump communicated that it was going to happen quickly and then when it wasn’t over as quickly as promised, he lost people's trust… Regardless, this is obviously going to be the narrative we hear about most from now until 2028.
Worth noting too, that Trump’s base would’ve given Trump more leeway on the Iran war & even the domstic implications if they felt trust… If Trump had pounded justice as soon as he took office. We wanted perp walks and jumpsuits. Fauci, Brennan, all of them. But Pam Bondi didn’t do that, basically zero of the Democrats who weaponized govt under Biden against YOU have been held accountable, and people feel that viscerally, they feel disillusioned because they voted for justice. So they were very quick to feel “oh same old same old” when Trump launched the war in Iran, versus trusting him to execute it differently than the GOP establishment of the past.
2) BUT I think a critical point that has been ignored is the question, not just how did the GOP or Trump disappoint his base but HOW do we have a nation where more than half the people vote for Talarico and El Sayed? Where half the people cheered for the murder of Charlie Kirk? The Democrat party has been overtaken by a very sophisticated and motivated apparatus that is committed to their ideology and knows how to win strategically. I’m talking about the DSA. This is not an RNC v DNC world anymore. And not only does the left have the political apparatus to produce such radical candidates and then run effective targeted campaigns for them, we have ceded control of all the institutions in our country to leftists who use the institutions to indoctrinate young people to vote for those radical candidates. This is a problem nobody on the right wants to address! Because colleges and universities are a status symbol and what would happen to the economy if Trump cut off federal funding to schools that brainwash our youth, etc etc. But this is a HUGE part of the problem. The electoral strategy, the campaign tactics, the DSA takeover of the Dem party wouldn’t be effective if our institutions weren’t producing the voters to support it. So what are we gonna do about that? Conservative MUST confront this if we ever want to win again.
3) Candidate quality also matters, obviously. Like Darline Graham, Paxton, and Vivek? C’mon are we even trying to win.
4) Whitepill: the good news is Democrats are so diabolically crazy that they’ll spend the next two years abusing their power so badly that voters will turn on them in 2028 unless Republicans are idiots again.
May God have mercy on our nation.
CALMATE, REPUBLICANS!!!
Trump remains president for the next two years. Deal with it, Democrats.
A Democrat House has no powers to prosecute. The DOJ will not indict. Impeachment will not lead to a Trump conviction and expulsion from office.
Stupid tax, spend and legislation will be vetoed—and won’t be overridden.
After there is some sort of resolution of the Iran War, gas prices will drop like a stone.
And by the way, the threat of a nuclear armed Iran will be substantially diminished, if not eliminated. Thank you, President Trump.
It’ll be fun watching Speaker Hakeem Jeffries try to control the crazy DSA/socialist/antisemitic caucus— and enact legislation to improve “affordability” as “affordability” is being improved despite the lack of legislation.
The economy is already growing—and will soon kick into an even higher gear.
For the next two years, the economy will continue to fire on all cylinders, while inflation and gas prices fall the moment the Iran War ends.
What will the Democrats’ argument be then? Raise taxes on “the rich”? “Medicare-for-All”? “Trump is a Nazi”?
Given that Democrats opposed no tax on tips, opposed no tax on overtime, opposed no tax on Social Security and refused to expand school choice, etc., Democrats cannot possibly take credit for the Trump/Republican economy.
They cannot possibly, with a straight face, take credit for the huge, and by recent standards, upcoming unprecedented growth in the economy.
The Republican 2028 presidential nominee—whether Vance or Rubio—will have a hell of a strong argument about the economy and “affordability.“
See you in 2028!
Dems will get 55 Senate seats and 250+ House seats. Looking at the Senate map and considering such a massive House margin, it is very unlikely Republicans will recapture the Congress in 2028. Might not have a shot at Senate control until 2032.
Ten Random Election Night Thoughts:
1. Democrats in power is good business for conservative media and podcasters. Take that for what it is worth.
2. Half of Americans have an IQ of 100 or less.
3. Why is a midterm loss for the Presidential incumbent’s party so common? Are people really that shortsighted and devoid of animating principles? And I mean this in a non-partisan way. Who votes for Obama in 2008 and then helps the GOP win in 2010? Who votes for Trump in 2024 and then helps the Dems win in 2026? Are Americans really that stupidly fickle?
4. Why can’t every state count its votes in a few hours like Florida?
5. Democrat voters are like locusts. They ravage one state, escape that state to a good and decent state, and then turn their new state into the same hellhole they just left. Don’t believe me? Ask Colorado. Now, Texas, apparently.
6. Thune is happy right now.
7. The silver lining is that the Dems are going to accomplish nothing in the next two years other than to run endless, silly investigations and impeachments, which will make them look impotent and weak headed into 2028.
8. Trump is about to be unleashed. He has no midterms to worry about and he probably could care less about the campaign of the 2028 GOP nominee, JD or otherwise. “Unitary executive” is about to take on a new meaning.
9. If I was whomever is in charge of Iran at the moment, I’d be looking at properties in the Cayman Islands.
10. The legacy media still has more power than most conservatives are willing to acknowledge.
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
‼️MAJOR BREAKING: Carney's entire plan has collapsed.
First, the EU is preparing carbon tariffs that will hit Canadian exports hard, adding costs to steel, aluminum, cement and other goods as Brussels pushes its climate agenda onto trading partners.
Now comes a second blow: the EU has withdrawn its offer of associate member status for Canada, per sources to CBC.
EU members were not on board.
Carney's entire plan has COLLAPSED.
🚨 RETIRED MILITARY VET JUST DROPPED THE REALEST LINE OF THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN OUTSIDE TRUMP’S LUBBOCK RALLY:
“I love my freedoms. I love my country. We fought for it. They don’t understand what the heck is going on.
I’m retired military. I know what it’s like outside this country. This is what I’m fighting for now, to keep Texas RED so we can keep our freedoms.
That’s what’s at stake. And James Talarico is NOT going to protect your rights.”
This is the energy. This is the stakes. One week left. 🇺🇸
The last time I felt the urge to give a warning like this was in 2007, right before the 2008 crash.
Across Europe, governments are quietly issuing emergency "Be Ready" advisories, asking citizens to stockpile cash, water, and food. Add that to the Pentagon’s new FORTRESS initiative and it sure looks like... SOMETHING is coming.
They're preparing for impact. And you should too.
I hope and pray I'm wrong. But I think massive global conflict is coming... and here's why.