Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Fasten Your Seat Belts

“Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!” (‘All About Eve’/ (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

 

Elon Musk is on a collision course with Stephen Miller The Trumpworld feud over H-1B visas, explained. The Trumpworld feud over H-1B visas, explained.

A bitter public feud split the MAGA movement over the holidays, as supporters of high-skilled legal immigration like Elon Musk argued vociferously (and sometimes profanely) with the right’s immigration critics over the topic of H-1B visas.

Musk, like many tech executives, strongly supports that program, which lets companies bring skilled foreign workers to the US for specific jobs — indeed, Musk said he once had such a visa himself. Critics on the right have long argued that it suppresses wages for American workers, while proponents say it attracts top talent and helps American businesses succeed. (VOX)

 

Question: What happens when the wealthiest man in the world purchased, paid for, owns, and now tries to operate one of the most incompetent, insecure, and inadequate Presidents in American history? What happens when the wealthiest man in the world assumes that anything he wants, which costs him hundreds of millions of dollars, is suddenly being denied?  What happens when your own hypocrisy is in the crosshairs of others who you thought hated just like you, only to find they now hate you?                

 

“If there's nothing else, there's applause. I've listened backstage to people applaud. It's like - like waves of love coming over the footlights and wrapping you up. Imagine, to know every night that different hundreds of people love you. They smile, their eyes shine, you've pleased them. They want you. You belong. Just that alone is worth anything.” (‘All About Eve’/ Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

 

Question: what happens when the applause you live and thrive for and the adoration you believe belongs to you and only you begins to evaporate and is replaced by the fog of bullshit from people you intended to respect but know are only useful peons and peasants?