“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon added. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”
At the heart of the recent clash between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon is the immigration question, and specifically the H-1B visas for skilled immigrants working in “specialty occupations,” which Musk has said he supports. But for Bannon, the issue is emblematic of a bigger problem in Musk’s thinking.
“This thing of the H-1B visas, it’s about the entire immigration system is gamed by the tech overlords, they use it to their advantage, the people are furious,” Bannon said, noting that “76 percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non-Americans.”
“No blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs,” Bannon said.
“Peter Thiel, David Sachs, Elon Musk, are all white South Africans,” Bannon observed. “He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans, the most racist people on earth, white South Africans, we have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States?”
It truly is weird timeline where I’d share any of his statements in a positive light.
Bannon went on to accuse Musk of being self-serving, insisting that his “sole objective is to become a trillionaire.”
“What’s not positive,” he added, “is when all of a sudden he tries to put his half-baked ideas which are really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale. I don’t support that and we’ll fight it.”
Bruh going full 1950s women’s hairdo
Also we’ve reached multi tiered maxi levels in the GOP. The bar keeps getting lower and lower
The question is: “How many millions would Bannon be willing and able to pay to Trump?”.
The MAGAsphere truly is, as British comedian Paul Merton called it, a cavalcade of bozos.
Can we build a Coliseum like Rome has for events like this fight?
It would see the return of a particularly cruel sport, so yes.
We’re at the place where Bannon is the adult in the room. Let that sink in.
I’m always stunned by how much he’s left himself go since this picture was taken. These last few years have been rough on his body. I hope it gives him a stroke or something
fight assholes, fight!
It’s a funny old world where that elderly bag lady is actually making any sense.
See also: Trouble in Trumpworld over H-1B visas makes for strange bedfellows:
Steve Bannon, one of the architects of Trumpism, is one the most influential voices on the right. Bernie Sanders, the veteran US senator from Vermont, is among the leading figures on the progressive left. In these divided times, they have found common ground.
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Bannon, who still holds significant sway over Trump’s Make America Great Again (Maga) movement, has received support – albeit indirectly – from Sanders, who issued a lengthy critique of the H-1B status quo last week.
“Elon Musk is wrong,” the senator wrote. “The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest’, but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.”
Bro looks like one of the old babies from Akira
He’s the super child. All three in one.
I think everyone wants Elon Musk to stfu. Someone should start a petition “stfu Elon” and see how many signatures it gets. I’m willing to bet it would be in the hundreds of millions.
He needs to go to Mars already. And it’s a one-way trip, thank god.
With an oxygen tank running on empty.
Be the someone yourself, do not wait for someone else.
