No Christmas Truce

Plutarch writes of a thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus. Theseus’s legendary ship was supposedly preserved at Athens for centuries, but every part had been replaced over time. Is it still the same ship even if none of the original parts are left?

You could ask the same question about America. The inevitable struggle over increases in legal, “high-skill” immigration exploded over Christmas. Donald Trump recently chose Sriram Krishnan to serve as senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence. Mr. Krishnan wants more legal immigration, including more green cards.

Trump has named Sriram Krishnan as Senior Policy Advisor for AI.

Krishnan, an Indian immigrant, wants to remove limits on H-1B visas, flooding America’s STEM labour market with foreign workers. He will collaborate with fellow Trump appointee David Sacks, who was named “AI and… pic.twitter.com/g1nJqApiHM

— AF Post (@AFpost) December 24, 2024

This sparked a donnybrook on X. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy stepped in and made things worse.

America-First means we want America to WIN. Playing for second place doesn’t cut it. https://t.co/ZsdMx4aRux

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 25, 2024

Mr. Ramaswamy infuriated Americans.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024

First, Mr. Musk heaped scorn on opponents of increased legal immigration. Then he tried to backtrack, suggesting that all he wants is the very brightest immigrants. However, users started investigating how Tesla uses H1-B visas. Apparently, Americans can’t even fill entry-level jobs.

Elon Musk defends X engineer Kache after he went on a racist tirade against White Americans.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/TIWKPj9IrM

— AF Post (@AFpost) December 26, 2024

My tolerance for subtards is limited

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024

The immigration hot-button topic is the biggest DKE situation I’ve ever seen 😂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2024

🎯😂

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 26, 2024

Here’s Tesla’s H1B applications for associate level engineering and other entry level jobs at remedial pay

And here’s the job market for our best and brightest graduates

+AI taking our jobs contradiction
+Americans are not unskilled
+Americans are not unmotivated pic.twitter.com/AgOhvurNIN

— 180.eth (@cory_eth) December 27, 2024

Mr. Musk stupidly compared the United States to a sports team.

Pro-sports teams are commercial in nature and have no distinct identity besides their mascot and color of their uniforms.

America is our home. America could “lose” for a century but I wouldn’t care as long as it remained America.

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) December 26, 2024

If anything, Mr. Fuentes may be too optimistic and generous. In recent years, sports teams have traded players, rebranded, and moved locations so aggressively that even the tepid geographic identities many enjoyed are lost. Rather than avid fans following a specific team, sports entertainment often conjures up “fantasy teams” of random players that gamblers put together. There is not even a hint of a “home team,” just manipulating digits to win a few bucks.

Maybe that’s what Mr. Musk wants for America. He doesn’t understand that nothing is more expensive than cheap labor. Slavery was supposed to be cheap. And we need only look north to Canda to see what its “skilled immigrants” brought.

At least 14 X-account holders who criticized Mr. Musk have been stripped of their verified blue checkmarks. Laura Loomer, who was one of the first people to blast Mr. Krishnan, got a petulant rebuke from Mr. Musk — “Loomer is trolling for attention. Ignore.” – before she lost her verification. So much for “free speech absolutism.”

But what will the Trump Administration do? Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was a former aide to Senator Jeff Sessions, the most stalwart voice against H1-B visas in Congress in recent years. Mr. Miller posted a Donald Trump speech paying tribute to the American people, which did not credit immigration for the nation’s greatness.

Transcript of President Trump speaking at Mt. Rushmore, on the eve of Independence Day, 2020:

“Above all, our children, from every community, must be taught that to be American is to inherit the spirit of the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the…

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 27, 2024

Incoming Vice President JD Vance stepped in on the right side.

Making it affordable for a hardworking young person to afford a family is the core of “America First.”

Too many have bought the lie that the path to prosperity is to flood the nation with cheap labor.

In the next administration, we’ll fight for American workers. https://t.co/VDadyhf5ho

— JD Vance (@JDVance) December 24, 2024

Yet what was most revealing was what Indians said on X. People who claim that immigration is good for America often abandon their arguments in the face of the facts. Instead, they admit that immigration will hurt us, but that’s good: white people have it coming.

Similarly, Indians on X couldn’t contain their racial resentment.

There’s a new theme of recent migrants suggesting that locals are ‘lazy’ and ‘dumb’

The argument isn’t true of course (new migrants work less and earn less than locals) but it’s a revealing insight into how migrants perceive their host country

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— Jordan H Knight (@jhk_______) December 26, 2024

Republican activist Gabe Guidarini of Ohio is a low IQ piece of trash.

— Indian-Americans (@HinduAmericans) December 25, 2024

But again, the United States is not theirs, Anglo-Saxons do not have birthright to the global reserve currency, they should compete or get lost. It was built by foreigners and will belong to those who build it, not those who stand to take credit.

— Jeet 6’3 180 IQ 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (@jeetonomics) December 26, 2024

basically this. the reason the retard right thinks i’m anti-white is because i said i was going to kill ppl if they were going to try and deport my children out of this country based on their race. i still stand by that. i’ll kill you https://t.co/TumZOIF1a4

— Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) December 25, 2024

whites have low tfr and are generally dumber than indians,Whites can not sustain without indians U need more indian for civilising whites.
And Trump and vivek understand this better than u western inbr*d

— Mandeep Singh (@Mandeep96510922) December 27, 2024

As a book reviewer, I’ve noted that the Scramble For America has led to the genre of anti-American hate lit by South Asians like “This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto” by Suketu Mehta and “The Last White Man” by Mohsin Hamid.

A bad habit, but who will tell them “No?” https://t.co/flx8UmQfdE

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) December 26, 2024

Wiggas are so stupid. You can find slums in California, New York, Texas, Houston. There is not much difference between Mumbai & Washington. Posting random few pictures cant change the fact that an Indian is Senior Director of the Counterterrorism Directorate at the U.S. National… https://t.co/PBf5iClDBf pic.twitter.com/2EyUEZUkuo

— Hindutva Knight (@HPhobiaWatch) December 26, 2024

At least we shit in the streets. You shit inside your home, next to the place you eat. 😂

— SSindia (@007musk) December 26, 2024

There are two major divides. The simple one is between white Americans and those Indians, who, regardless of citizenship, do not seem to consider themselves American. The so-called pro-immigration arguments are less about egalitarianism or the free movement of peoples than a tribe crudely pushing its interests.

Neil Shenvi is now trying to compare Samuel Francis to…checks notes…“CRT”

As the saying goes, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Shenvi got astroturfed by Big Eva to be controlled opposition “critiquing CRT” (even though he supported Resolution 9… https://t.co/VqyIbhJof7

— William Wolfe 🇺🇸 (@William_E_Wolfe) December 27, 2024

lmao stfu white boi
what have you built? what have you invented? what has your father built? and his father before that? we will be lucky to even get one child out of you. do better

— kache (@yacineMTB) December 25, 2024

True for white men in 60s but not true for AI in 2020s. All this AI boom is driven by immigrants. We live a different world. https://t.co/Cm3rsgr7Oi

— Arnab Sarkar (@thearnabsarkar) December 27, 2024

This is the reasoned discourse we can expect from the influx of H-1B visa recipients. What’s the matter bigot?? Don’t want the cultural enrichment?? pic.twitter.com/OnnxLT4Aai

— Leonarda Jonie (@leonardaisfunE) December 27, 2024

when do you think the maga people are going to realize that they voted for this pic.twitter.com/eyW8RyLkBs

— Air Katakana (@airkatakana) December 26, 2024

1. Nobody made you use any of their platforms. Technically private speech is actually constitutionally protected. Libertarianism is actually about not telling private companies is what to do

2. If you don’t like the free market go live in Somalia bruh

Fuckass Trumper pig https://t.co/Hbg3rGVmMV

— bibimodi2024 (@bibimodi2024) December 25, 2024

Racist whites will do anything to save their “white” “race” except getting a job and having children. If you are getting replaced, it’s because you are incapable of successfully playing your part

— kache (@yacineMTB) December 25, 2024

Some clearly think America is nothing more than an economy. Presumably, Mr. Musk agrees. But at a time when people cheer someone who murdered a CEO, his companies face lawfare, and Germany is calling X a threat to democracy, he might think twice about alienating the one group that always supported him.

Donald Trump has always waffled on legal immigration.

Trump gets it.

Donald Trump: “If you graduate from a U.S. college—two-year, four-year, or doctoral—you should automatically get a green card to stay.

Too often, talented grads are forced to leave and start billion-dollar companies in India or China instead of here.

That… pic.twitter.com/ElpR8PFk7h

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 27, 2024

Fortunately, Mr. Trump’s online base is furiously fighting back. Likewise, immigration boosters have been so clumsy and hostile that few can even pretend their proposed policies will be good for America or that they were ever even intended to be. If the “legal immigration” lobby has crippled itself through arrogance and spite even before the Administration takes office, that would be a true Christmas miracle.