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appalachiablue

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Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:44 AM Saturday

Bernie Sanders Has Some Thoughts on the MAGA Civil War

Daily Kos, Jan. 3, 2024. PHOTO: "Elon Musk is wrong." - Bernie Sanders
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The right’s debate over the H-1B visa program has exposed cracks in the MAGA world, with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy butting heads with the likes of Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon. Now, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, has expressed his thoughts about the MAGA civil war. On Thursday, Sanders criticized Musk’s support of the H-1B visa.

“Elon Musk is wrong. 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,” he wrote.

In a three-page statement, Sanders called out corporations for using the H-1B visa program to lay off 85,000 Americans and to hire 34,000 foreign employees in 2022 and 2023.

Established in the 1990s, the H-1B visa program allows U.S. companies to temporarily employ foreign workers. Supporters like Musk and Ramaswamy argue that the program is necessary to fill labor shortages and recruit better tech talent. Critics, on the other hand, argue that it drives down wages for American workers and leads to job displacement.

Musk, who has been at the forefront of this MAGA civil war, has been publicly spiraling...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/3/2295028/-Bernie-Sanders-has-some-thoughts-on-the-MAGA-civil-war

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Bernie Sanders Has Some Thoughts on the MAGA Civil War (Original Post) appalachiablue Saturday OP
This should make some MAGA heads explode. intheflow Saturday #1
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Perfect, thank you. Broligarchs rising. appalachiablue Saturday #4
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intheflow

(29,098 posts)
1. This should make some MAGA heads explode.
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 07:17 AM
Saturday

Sharing an opinion with Bernie Sanders? Inconceivable!

usonian

(14,894 posts)
2. maga morans were hoodwinked massively. NEW GRAPHIC ATTACHED!
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 12:23 PM
Saturday


TECH BRO'S HAVE ALL THE MONEY NOW.
They had a war with bankers and investment guru's.
TECH BRO'S WON.

Saw that coming for ages.
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