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Batya Ungar-Sargon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1590 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

So people will say, oh, we're bringing in the best and the brightest. This is a brain drain from the rest of the world. It's nonsense. I mean, half a million people is not the best and the brightest. 30% of people working in STEM are.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

So people will say, oh, we're bringing in the best and the brightest. This is a brain drain from the rest of the world. It's nonsense. I mean, half a million people is not the best and the brightest. 30% of people working in STEM are.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

So again, we're talking about just we're importing a cast of indentured servants who are allowed to enter the country, but they have to stay with that employer, which again reduces their wages by another 25%. This is the opposite of everything Trump wants. Trump campaigned on, ran on, and won on. And it's a huge betrayal of his base.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

So again, we're talking about just we're importing a cast of indentured servants who are allowed to enter the country, but they have to stay with that employer, which again reduces their wages by another 25%. This is the opposite of everything Trump wants. Trump campaigned on, ran on, and won on. And it's a huge betrayal of his base.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

So again, we're talking about just we're importing a cast of indentured servants who are allowed to enter the country, but they have to stay with that employer, which again reduces their wages by another 25%. This is the opposite of everything Trump wants. Trump campaigned on, ran on, and won on. And it's a huge betrayal of his base.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

And I'm really hoping that at some point, you know, Steve Bannon wins this fight and Elon is kicked to the curb before Trump becomes president. Because if he really is about to now betray his entire base over this immigration issue, which is the number one issue as far as they're concerned, it's not going to go very well for the administration.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

And I'm really hoping that at some point, you know, Steve Bannon wins this fight and Elon is kicked to the curb before Trump becomes president. Because if he really is about to now betray his entire base over this immigration issue, which is the number one issue as far as they're concerned, it's not going to go very well for the administration.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

And I'm really hoping that at some point, you know, Steve Bannon wins this fight and Elon is kicked to the curb before Trump becomes president. Because if he really is about to now betray his entire base over this immigration issue, which is the number one issue as far as they're concerned, it's not going to go very well for the administration.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

We actually have a visa for people who are uniquely talented. We have the 01 visa for exceptional aliens. So we actually have a separate visa for people who are bringing a talent that you cannot get here. What makes me so enraged is that these H-1Bs are more often than not given to people who are totally mediocre. They come from less good schools than Americans in the tech sector.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

We actually have a visa for people who are uniquely talented. We have the 01 visa for exceptional aliens. So we actually have a separate visa for people who are bringing a talent that you cannot get here. What makes me so enraged is that these H-1Bs are more often than not given to people who are totally mediocre. They come from less good schools than Americans in the tech sector.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

We actually have a visa for people who are uniquely talented. We have the 01 visa for exceptional aliens. So we actually have a separate visa for people who are bringing a talent that you cannot get here. What makes me so enraged is that these H-1Bs are more often than not given to people who are totally mediocre. They come from less good schools than Americans in the tech sector.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

They get not as good grades. In fact, American STEM graduates routinely rank higher than people from China, Russia, and India. So they are mediocre compared to our homegrown talent. Plus, why are we not going into the inner city in Appalachia and teaching our people how to do those jobs. People will say, oh, let's just pay people more. We'll tie the visa to the highest paying thing.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

They get not as good grades. In fact, American STEM graduates routinely rank higher than people from China, Russia, and India. So they are mediocre compared to our homegrown talent. Plus, why are we not going into the inner city in Appalachia and teaching our people how to do those jobs. People will say, oh, let's just pay people more. We'll tie the visa to the highest paying thing.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

They get not as good grades. In fact, American STEM graduates routinely rank higher than people from China, Russia, and India. So they are mediocre compared to our homegrown talent. Plus, why are we not going into the inner city in Appalachia and teaching our people how to do those jobs. People will say, oh, let's just pay people more. We'll tie the visa to the highest paying thing.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

Do you know how much angrier I'm going to be when they do that? That's going to be their solution. It's going to be, let's pay these immigrants even more. And then I'm going to be even angrier. Instead of paying an American $90,000 a year, you're now going to be paying half a million Indians that. And It's, I have nothing against them.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

Do you know how much angrier I'm going to be when they do that? That's going to be their solution. It's going to be, let's pay these immigrants even more. And then I'm going to be even angrier. Instead of paying an American $90,000 a year, you're now going to be paying half a million Indians that. And It's, I have nothing against them.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

Do you know how much angrier I'm going to be when they do that? That's going to be their solution. It's going to be, let's pay these immigrants even more. And then I'm going to be even angrier. Instead of paying an American $90,000 a year, you're now going to be paying half a million Indians that. And It's, I have nothing against them.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

I'm a quarter Indian myself, you know, but I just, the idea that we do not owe anything to our neighbors while we get rich is disgusting to me. And that is the ideology that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are bringing into the administration through Doge. I'm sorry, but I think that that Doge is just a, it's a cover for the Chinese Communist Party. Whoa, what? Yes, everything. What? Let me explain.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

I'm a quarter Indian myself, you know, but I just, the idea that we do not owe anything to our neighbors while we get rich is disgusting to me. And that is the ideology that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are bringing into the administration through Doge. I'm sorry, but I think that that Doge is just a, it's a cover for the Chinese Communist Party. Whoa, what? Yes, everything. What? Let me explain.

Honestly with Bari Weiss
L.A. Fires, MAGA's Schism, and Meta's Big Pivot

I'm a quarter Indian myself, you know, but I just, the idea that we do not owe anything to our neighbors while we get rich is disgusting to me. And that is the ideology that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are bringing into the administration through Doge. I'm sorry, but I think that that Doge is just a, it's a cover for the Chinese Communist Party. Whoa, what? Yes, everything. What? Let me explain.