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It hasn't happened yet. All the big money in America says that it will either never happen or won't last longer than a few weeks.
by givemeethekeys 1y ago
It hasn't happened yet. All the big money in America says that it will either never happen or won't last longer than a few weeks.
- famerica 1y agoAnyone who has been paying attention to anything could tell you the same thing.
- lastofthemojito 1y agoThe TACO president doesn't just back away from a bad idea without announcing he got something in return. He'll declare exemptions or delays for companies or industries that kowtow to him in some way - maybe he'll demand these companies make contributions to "non-woke" engineering universities or remove "DEI hires" from their boards, who knows.
- aylmao 1y agoUnrelated, but I don't get the "taco" thing. I'm Mexican— it's a head-scratcher that people use the name of our food as an insult to Trump. He doesn't look like a taco, and the acronym is a sentence, not an adjective/phrase, so it doesn't make much sense spelled out in most contexts.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoIt has a lot of memetic value as a callback to a widely discussed Cinco de Mayo tweet he made in 2016 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/728297587418247168 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/72829758741824716...).
- asdff 1y ago[flagged]
- Multicomp 1y agotaco is an acronym that stands for the phrase trump always chickens out, it was coined or popularized earlier this year when Trump backed off of The Liberation Day tariff stuff when the bond market got nervous.
- adleyjulian 1y agoRINO republicans don't look like rhinoceros. That the word makes no sense by itself means that you'd have to ask what they meant by it. If the acronym were "DUMB" or "CLOWN" or whatever then I don't think it'd stand out as much. Also, you're right that it's often used in a way that wouldn't make sense grammatically if it were written out, but that's true for most acronyms I think; e.g. JPEG or GIF. "Look at this funny Graphics Interchange Format I just sent you!"
- syspec 1y agoYou should hear the long form of the acronym! TACOBELL - Trump Always Chickens Out Before Eventually Losing Loudly
- fooker 1y ago> He doesn't look like a taco Now that you say, I can see some similarities with Al Pastor.
- aylmao 1y agoSurprised I'm getting downvoted by this.
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- llm_nerd 1y agoEh, Trump's administration is so cravenly corrupt and incompetent in every facet and manner that I think it will happen, purely because it's one of those "throw 'em a bone" tactics for the commoners. It's the same reason the aggressive ICE actions have redoubled. And FWIW, I think the H1B program, like the TFW program in Canada, is outrageously corrupt and has zero legitimacy, and the laughable foundations that people use to justify it -- namely a completely unsubstantiated labour shortage -- is such a ridiculous lie that it deserves to be obliterated. It is a way for the ultra-rich to stomp on worker rights and compensation.
- kelnos 1y ago> I think the H1B program [...] has zero legitimacy That's demonstrably false, even just by my own experience with people, so not sure I can take what you're saying seriously. Yes, there's corruption and abuse, but I've also worked with some fantastic, excellent, smart, ambitious, hard-working people on H-1B visas. They would not have been in the US without it. I've also worked with some mediocre fools who were on H-1B visas. That's the problem we should be focusing on, and there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- pratyushnair01 1y agoI think there's a lot of visible frustration (and sometimes racism) in tech discussions online, due to the bad economic climate. This is visible across different platforms. In the past year, I've seen massive rise in people making outlandish claims like this. I expect the trend will grow and soon they'll find a new scapegoat.
- llm_nerd 1y agoOkay, if that's my bias -- if you think you get to casually wave off positions as emotional instead of the objective truth it is -- then what is your bias? From your minimal activity on here it seems that you're Indian. Do you think you have an objective, ground-truth position on the H1B program? As to the "scapegoat", if there is a bad economic climate, it's simply obvious that the purported labour shortage is no longer the justification, doesn't it? You don't have to scapegoat to point out that a program contingent on an economic condition needs to change when the condition changes.
- charles_f 1y agoI'm not saying that I don't agree with the apparent logic, but the same argument was made about tariffs, yet here they are and there they staid.
- kelnos 1y ago> the same argument was made about tariffs By all accounts those arguments were pretty correct, no? The tariff rollout was delayed multiple times, changed multiple times. What we have now doesn't very much look like what Trump announced back in March/April. And the tariffs may disappear soon, depending on SCOTUS. Not that I depend on SCOTUS doing the right thing anymore, but I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised on this one.
- SpicyLemonZest 1y agoHuh? What we have now looks almost exactly like what Trump announced back in April, except for the (admittedly important) USMCA exemption. What other differences do you perceive?
- password54321 1y agoThe cat is out of the bag. Either tension is going to keep rising on their country turning into an all you can eat buffet or something is going to change fast. This is not nothing.