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'I was wrong': Dem lawmaker makes 'admission to MAGA' about 'immigrants taking our jobs'

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Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett sarcastically acknowledged a MAGA talking point, claiming Elon Musk is the immigrant "taking our jobs" by acquiring government contracts and critical services.

"There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk," she wrote, listing industries he influences, including national security, fraud oversight, and social services.

'I was wrong': Dem lawmaker makes 'admission to MAGA' about 'immigrants taking our jobs'https://www.rawstory.com/jasmine-crockett-wrong-maga-musk/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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jedibob5
lemmy.world

Could they have made the headline any more misleading??

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Tiefling IRLreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

For those too lazy to read

"There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk," the lawmaker wrote. "He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I’ll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct."

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Jaxreply
sh.itjust.works

I think that's the point, right? Outrage generates interaction, a Democrat 'admitting' that they (Republicans) are right about immigration is the perfect hook.

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jordanlundreply
lemmy.world

People often "talk in airquotes" when they're really "being sarcastic". :)

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breakingcupsreply
lemmy.world

More commonly, headlines will write "in air quotes" when they are directly quoting what the subject said...

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Em Adespotonreply
lemmy.ca

US Overton window is weird. Moderate liberals are way to the left of most elected Democrats.

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thefartographer
lemm.ee

Guarantee you that screen grabs of this headline are gonna make the conservative rounds for years and they'll un-ironically tell people to do their own research knowing that their viewers have no critical-thinking skills.

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finitebanjoreply
lemmy.world

A bad partial quote. Heres the full:

"There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk," the lawmaker wrote. "He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I’ll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct."

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sumguyonline
lemmy.world

It's worse than that. Elon identified one of the core tenets impacting employment and he didn't even know he was doing it. H1-B visa engineers are underpaid, and over worked, the rich are replacing the hardworking US engineers that demand good pay with slave labor engineers from foreign countries. If an immigrant is better at a job than me, it stings, but by all means pay them a good wage and give them a fancy title, but if there really isn't a difference other than you can pay them less... Get them out, and fill the jobs with people already here. Replacing good workers with slave labor is part of what has strangled the middle class into lower middle class, and bottom class people.

  1. It used to be that if you had to rent an apartment you were poor, even in the cities you could buy an apartment when working at an educated level of job. Now, people just rent an expensive apartment and people assume they have money, Unless you have a support system to help you, you aren't buying a home. If you do you will be working a side gig as well as your main job, and that's just to make the two different ends of paychecks meet in the middle.
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Mouselemmingreply
sh.itjust.works

Oh I don't know, maybe it will get some people to read it that need to have that point made to them.

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finitebanjo
lemmy.world

"There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs… his name is Elon Musk," the lawmaker wrote. "He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I’ll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct."

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CharlesDarwinreply
lemmy.world

Don't worry, Bronzo the Clown, fElon and Brainworms will have things well in hand[1].

[1] And by that, I mean, they'll be standing their with their tiny pricks in their hands if/when something like this hits.

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dx1reply
lemmy.world

Increase the number of participants in an economy, increases both supply and demand for labor, long story short. "Immigrants taking our jobs" is the stupidest talking point in human history.

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