US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[quaawaa]

Can't the GOP just pull out of the deal and consider it null and void them? What makes it so the GOP can't pull back their side of the bargain now?

They can’t because they already approved the other judges.

What they can do is refuse to accept the unretirements and declare that all retirements are final, but no way would a RINO even consider such a plan, much less execute it.

 

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Can't the GOP just pull out of the deal and consider it null and void them? What makes it so the GOP can't pull back their side of the bargain now?

That wouldn't be "Losing with Dignity(tm)".

But more specifically they probably agreed to do something now for promises from the Democrats in the future, and whoopsy doodle, those are worthless. The sooner the right realizes that the left considers them irredeemable evil, enemies and literally hitler... and thus they find it morally acceptable to do whatever they can up to and including going after their children the better.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The turtle got played by “hamburger today, we’ll pay next Tuesday” like a fucking noob. Embarrassing.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

The turtle got played by “hamburger today, we’ll pay next Tuesday” like a fucking noob. Embarrassing.

Well, there is a silver lining: it means Republicans can do the same shit in the future and the Democrats don't get to bitch about it. The question is whether Republicans will fight dirty or "die with dignity."

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

Can't the GOP just pull out of the deal and consider it null and void them? What makes it so the GOP can't pull back their side of the bargain now?

The Dem judges are already appointed and seated and there is no legal method to force a judge to retire if he doesn't want to. It was a gentleman's agreement that the Dem's just said "lol fuck you" and ignored once they got what they wanted.

 

[Toy Soldier]

Well, there is a silver lining: it means Republicans can do the same shit in the future and the Democrats don't get to bitch about it. The question is whether Republicans will fight dirty or "die with dignity."

lol what? When's hypocrisy ever stopped them before?

 

[invisibult plus+]

That wouldn't be "Losing with Dignity(tm)".

But more specifically they probably agreed to do something now for promises from the Democrats in the future, and whoopsy doodle, those are worthless. The sooner the right realizes that the left considers them irredeemable evil, enemies and literally hitler... and thus they find it morally acceptable to do whatever they can up to and including going after their children the better.

The turtle got played by “hamburger today, we’ll pay next Tuesday” like a fucking noob. Embarrassing.

I think the likes of McConnell do it on purpose. Anything to keep up the bipartisan circlejerk and stymie Trump's influence. Besides, Reagan got played the same way with regards to illegals, and lo and behold McConnell went from Senator to (minority) leader.

 

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I think the likes of McConnell do it on purpose. Anything to keep up the bipartisan circlejerk and stymie Trump's influence. Besides, Reagan got played the same way with regards to illegals, and lo and behold McConnell went from Senator to (minority) leader.

Yes. If you remember, he funding-fucked several winnable seats just because the wrong sort of righty would have won them. But he'll be dead soon, so, yay.

 

[Thomas Talus]

So either they did notice it and decided not to tell anyone, or they didn't. Both are equally terrifying.

It was noticed and reported to the appropriate authorities, who published the public notice through normal procedures. This isn't a broken arrow situation.

 

[John Badman]

My bad guys I’m sorry I lost the package. I won’t do it again…

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

lol what? When's hypocrisy ever stopped them before?

When it would make their constituents happy.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Yes. If you remember, he funding-fucked several winnable seats just because the wrong sort of righty would have won them. But he'll be dead soon, so, yay.

it's definitely gonna be satisfying to see this guy out of office finally. The question though is if the guy who replaces his seat is just as bad if not worse.

 

[Potatoherder]

The thing that always happens has happened again? It's almost like it was the plan from the start. This is why i am in hopeful about the voters being rapidly turned against RINOs. Ernst and he ilk did not expect it to be as strong of a backlash as happened. A lot of 'safe' republicans are going to face a fight and even more a vocal base. I want heckling and straight up bullying of elected officials to be normalized.

When it would make their constituents happy.

They hate their voters the most.

 

[FlappyBat]

They can’t because they already approved the other judges.

What they can do is refuse to accept the unretirements and declare that all retirements are final, but no way would a RINO even consider such a plan, much less execute it.

The answer in theory would be to impeach and remove them for using their position for blatant political meddling. Just there is no way Republicans have the votes for that. There isn't really a force retirement option other than that.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

I don't know, I think Tomlinson has her beat.

Wrong again, stalker. He has water retention issues due to over consumption of pepperoni. You have been told this multiple times. Enjoy prison

 

[Northern Blockhead]

Doesn't surprise me that Musk appears to be very receptive on expanding skills based immigration via more green cards.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/business/economy/trump-tech-h1b-visa.html

https://archive.fo/49xL7

Whether it'll happen, I have no idea. I just find it funny they are attempting to do that, even though the Nativist wing, led by the likes of Stephen Miller, have much more power this time around.

Aaron Levie, the chief executive of the cloud software company Box, said he was more hopeful than he had been at any point in the past 15 years that America could soon accept more highly educated immigrants — the sort of skilled foreigners that he hires as software engineers.
Mr. Levie recently posted on X that America’s immigration policies for high-skilled workers are “not responsive to the market,” and that Elon Musk, with his position in president-elect Donald J. Trump’s orbit, could fix them.
“I agree,” Mr. Musk replied. The thread quickly filled with other tech workers and executives sharing stories of trying to get visas for themselves and their employees.
Welcoming more high-skilled immigrants is “one of the highest leverage — maybe the highest leverage — thing you could do to make sure that America stays at the forefront,” Mr. Levie said in an interview.

The technology industry considers that argument about economic competitiveness as one that could persuade Mr. Trump to allow increased levels of immigration for highly skilled workers. But the industry’s optimism clashes with past experience: The president-elect did not expand skill-based legal immigration during his first term in office. Instead, his immigration officials curbed visa programs for educated workers by overseeing them more stringently.
And while some in Silicon Valley and corporate America are hoping that this time will be different, Washington policy analysts, lawyers and visa holders themselves are less certain.
“I do think there is potential for some sort of expansion or change to the skilled immigration world,” said Shev Dalal-Dheini, the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s senior director of government relations. “But I think it’s still going to be a battle with the restrictionist ideas that are a large part of his administration.”
Mr. Levie and his fellow optimists pointed to the tech giants who are newly in Mr. Trump’s circle — and who have used these programs in their own companies — as a clear reason that expanding skilled visas could be a bigger priority for Trump 2.0.
Mr. Musk has become a powerful voice in the president-elect’s policy sphere. His company Tesla obtained 724 H-1B visas, which are granted to foreign workers with specialized skills, in 2024. Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta who was once a high-profile advocate of immigration reform, met with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and his company donated $1 million to Mr. Trump’s upcoming inauguration.

And the president-elect himself has talked about the prospects for legal immigration reform, both during a recent interview and on the campaign trail. During a June podcast co-hosted by the venture capitalist David Sacks, whom he has since tapped as his cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence czar, Mr. Trump said that he wanted to make it easier for educated foreigners to work in the United States.
“What I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country,” Mr. Trump said.
His transition team did not respond to requests for comment on its plans for visas and green cards for high-skilled workers. But those who watch the president-elect closely believe that, despite his determination to expel millions of undocumented immigrants, he is not ideologically opposed to widening avenues for individuals with specific skills to work legally in the United States.
“He’s not a restrictionist,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for less immigration. “He’s just a regular Republican who believes in ‘legal good, illegal bad.’”

But while business leaders argue that loosening restrictions on high-skill immigration would bolster America’s competitiveness on the global stage, Mr. Trump embraced the opposite approach during his first term.

Although he sometimes spoke of his desire to transition to a “merit-based” immigration system at the time, the bill he endorsed to do that in 2017 would not have expanded green cards, and it went nowhere. A year later, his administration released general reform principles that dropped the concept entirely. Instead, Mr. Trump’s immigration officials quietly tried to clamp down on many visas for students and educated workers. Denial rates for professional visa applications jumped. In 2020, officials briefly suspended employer-based visas.
Now, many of the same people who championed that tougher stance — including Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy — are returning to power.
High-tech firms have long pushed for a relaxation of the H-1B visas cap, which has remained at 85,000 since 2006. For the fiscal year 2025, 470,000 people applied for those spots. It is also extremely difficult to convert those three-year visas into green cards, especially for people from India, about a million of whom are waiting for approval.
The research on highly skilled immigrants is very clear: Immigrant inventors punch above their weight in terms of innovation, in part by lifting the performance of their U.S.-born collaborators. Firms that are granted their H-1B petitions hire more U.S.-born workers, whereas restrictions on those visas push companies to instead expand overseas.

“Competition with China demands that we have top tech talent,” said Vivek Chilukuri, the senior fellow and program director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security. “Their size is their strategic advantage, and ours is immigration.”
Still, support for expanding high-skilled immigration has been undermined by widely publicized examples of abuse by companies that use H-1B workers to replace their American employees. In his first term, Mr. Trump requested additional documentation for nearly a third of H-1B applications, slowing everything down, even for companies that did manage to win visas.
There is broad agreement in Washington that the system could work better, but the Congressional Record is littered with bills that have not advanced. Powerful legislators have preferred to package high-skilled visa reforms with changes to family-based immigration and border security, in an effort to win broad enough support to pass. Instead, those complex compromises have fallen under their own weight.
Linda Moore, the president and chief executive of the tech industry association TechNet, hopes that exhaustion might actually work to her advantage.
With energy for a comprehensive solution fading, she thinks Mr. Trump’s focus on artificial intelligence and U.S. manufacturing could be directed into a stand-alone high-skilled immigration measure, even as the White House separately pursues large-scale deportations. The pitch is especially urgent for semiconductor companies, whose officials have said they desperately need more specialized engineers from places like Taiwan in order to keep their enormous factory projects on schedule.

“The focus on America’s global competitiveness, and making sure that we’re leading the world in technology, that America-first kind of approach, we feel that high-skilled immigration is an incredibly important part of that,” Ms. Moore said.
However, Congress and the incoming administration have a long list of things to get to: Mr. Trump’s cabinet nominations, taxes, border security, tariffs, deregulation. In recent years, proposals to do relatively small things — such as extending the grace period that H-1B holders have to find another job if they lose one, and allowing the U.S. military to hire more foreign-born workers — haven’t advanced.
Adam Kovacevich leads the Chamber of Progress, a left-leaning tech industry policy coalition. He notes Mr. Trump’s tendency to say what the executives around him want to hear. In this case, they have been more focused on freeing the industry from what they see as burdensome restrictions.
“High-skilled immigration is pretty far down the list,” Mr. Kovacevich said. “I think the broader tech community would love to see H-1B reform, but I think there’s also a wariness because it’s been discussed at length, and nothing has ever really happened.”
In the meantime, employers are paying to expedite their applications and advising their international employees to be in the United States by the inauguration. Companies are bracing for the delays and denials they faced in Mr. Trump’s first term. But the president-elect’s remarks are also giving them hope that, even if the rules remain restrictive, at least they won’t tighten further.
“I do think that on the highly skilled immigration side, there’s a greater probability that we’ll see less draconian changes,” said Sam Adair, a lawyer based in Austin, Texas, who leads a law firm focused on immigration. “But it’s anybody’s guess.”

 

[invisibult plus+]

The (mainstream) media is finally talking about Biden selling wall parts for cheap. Archived.

Trump calls for end to border wall auctions: ‘Almost criminal act’​

Defense Department official says materials currently being sold through online auctions were already sold off by the federal government earlier this year​

President-elect Donald Trump ripped the Biden administration for selling border wall materials while delivering remarks from Mar-a-Lago, vowing to deliver 'prosperity' ahead of his second term. President-elect Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration for selling off unused border wall materials at a discounted rate, which he called "almost a criminal act." Trump said the auctions would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to re-purchase the large steel bollards and concrete. He called on President Biden to "please stop selling the wall" and suggested his team would obtain a restraining order to halt the sales. The president-elect also said he is working with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Texas leaders to re-acquire the materials. "What they're doing is really an act, it's almost a criminal act," he said. "They know we're going to use it and if we don't have it, we're going to have to rebuild it, and it'll cost double what it cost years ago, and that's hundreds of millions of dollars because you're talking about a lot of, a lot of wall."

This comes a week after videos released by the Daily Wire showed large portions of border wall materials being carted off from the border to be sold at auction. The Daily Wire reported that a whistleblower at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection claimed the administration’s goal was to sell off all the unused border wall materials along three stations of Arizona’s border with Mexico in Tucson, Nogales and Three Points by Christmas. A representative for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Fox News Digital that construction and management of the border wall is handled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An official at the Department of Defense told Fox News Digital that the materials currently being sold through online auctions were already sold off by the federal government earlier this year, with a large percentage of the materials being sold to a government surplus retailer called Gov Planet. The Defense official said the materials no longer belong to the U.S. government, and the Defense Department has no legal authority to recall the material or stop further resale of it.

Meanwhile, a local leader for Yuma County, which is on the far western side of Arizona, further confirmed with Fox News Digital that the Biden administration’s sales of unused border materials have continued at a regular pace since beginning in 2021. Jonathan Lines, a Yuma County supervisor, told Fox News Digital that the equipment dealer Iron Planet has been partnering with the federal government to sell the materials over the last three years. He explained that though auctions for the pieces start at $5, they typically end up being sold for between $8,000 and $10,000. Despite this, Lines pushed back on reports that the Biden administration is increasing its sales of border wall materials in attempts to get rid of the materials before the Trump inauguration, calling these "sensationalism." "They sell it consistently, every week or every other week there are sections of the wall that go up for sale," he explained.

The Trump-era border wall remains unfinished after the Biden administration put a stop to it. Border wall materials were listed by Gov Planet last week at $5 as the minimum opening bid for 20 tons of steel bollards on an online auction site that advertised multiple lots. Trump, who has made government efficiency a top priority for his second administration, took particular issue with the financial waste of the auctions.

"The people that are buying it or trying to buy it are trying to make a deal with us to sell it back at hundreds of times more, hundreds of times more than we paid," he said. "Just think about how ridiculous it is, and this is just people that don't want this country to succeed. And this has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican, this has to do with common sense. We won on common sense, and this is maybe one of the most egregious examples I've seen." "So, I'm asking today, Joe Biden, to please stop selling the wall," he went on. "It's something that people can't even believe is happening. So, hopefully, Joe will be able to stop it."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

I've seen multiple articles involving hiring managers and recruiters which confirm a ton of "legit" job postings aren't real, and many more are scams or data harvesting operations

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2024/08/13/36-of-job-adverts-are-fake-how-to-spot-them-in-2024/

A lot of job postings are psyops to make the company appear prosperous or assure overworked employees relief is one the way, or just to collect a big backlog of high talent in case they ever do actually need to hire at a future date

Oh oh late reply but I also touched on this bullshit too. There also was (I don't know if it's still the case) a caveat where you can't go hiring all jeetis and H1Bs until you've "Exhausted" within reason your local hiring pool or been unable to find a suitable workforce.

IE: We've had a decade long trend of businesses and corps purposefully put out misleading or impossible hiring standards for the required amount of time, like expecting a computer engineer to have 10+ years of experience in a coding language that's only existed for 5. And 9 different certifications for an entry level $15.50 an hour job, and then when no one with those qualifications applies, they are allowed to say "we tried to find Americans but couldn't!"

And then the fed law will let them import some H1Bs or outsource the positions to those who don't fit the requirements either, but are willing to work for peanuts and can't complain or they know they'll get sent home or let go to be replaced via the freshly opened pipeline to the third world since they got the green light to do it. The misleading and often literally impossible criteria is so that there is a "clear case" for being allowed to pursue this avenue of hiring practices due to the massive gaping legal loophole left by the entire work visa system and outsourcing.

 

[MirrorNoir]

George Clooney does movies???

For what it's worth, Peacemaker is kind of a forgotten film. Pretty much Clooney spent a couple of years between the release of Batman and Robin and the double comeback of Oh Brother Where Art Though and Oceans 11 quasi-blackballed. Partly because B&R flopping and killing the careers of nearly everyone involved, but mostly because Clooney started a lengthy feud with the celebrity/tabloid industrial complex after B&R came out/Princess Di's death were he called for Hollywood to boycott doing film promotion in those magazines, resulting the magazines firing back and refusing to do any coverage in their pages, of anything Clooney did it made during this time until OBWAT/Ocean 11 came out and were such big titted hits that he started getting coverage again.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

New York Judge Merchan upholds the 34 conviction on Trump saying that Presidential Immunity does not apply to these acts and as a jury has already found Mr Trump (notice that bit) guilty of these 34 criminal acts (they just had to add in 34 again to really drive it home) and so it would be an act of injustice to vacate the verdict just because a person happened to get elected.

Sound familiar? It's pretty much what Alvin Bragg said to the press on Friday when questions. Even used the same "a act of injustice to vacate the charges" line. Yup totes no colluding here.

Anyway no big surprise, these New York fucks were never going to stop. Bragg wants to be a Senator and thinks him being the one to actually stick Trump in jail is his ticket in 2028.
Plans are to still sentence Trump next month most likely and then suspend the sentence until his time in office is over then do their best to make sure he see's at least some jail time no matter what once he's no longer President.

It's a bold move Cotton, lets see if it pays off.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rejects-trump-immunity-in-hush-money-conviction/