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Trump’s H-1B About-Face
Last Christmas, “The Counter-Jeethad on X” revealed a massive fissure in the MAGA coalition between tech oligarchs and American national populists. Tech oligarchs favor H-1B visas that allow them to bring in cheaper foreign workers for tech jobs. A now common abuse in the tech industry is to lay off American workers and replace them with cheaper H-1Bs. Allowing oligarchs to replace American workers with foreigners is not nationalism or populism. It isn’t what we voted for.
A vastly disproportionate number of H-1Bs are from India. Based on US Customs and Immigration Service data, approximately 72% of H-1B visa holders since 2020 are Indian. Indian H-1Bs benefit from Indian mafias in hiring, often have fake or exaggerated credentials and work histories, and apparently do crappy coding.
Last week, the Trump administration took welcome steps toward protecting American workers by announcing that after September 21, each new H-1B visa application will cost $100,000. The initial duration of an H-1B visa is 3 years, and it can be renewed for another 3 years.
This fee will significantly increase the cost of H-1Bs to companies, since 30% of H-1B visa holders make less than $100,000/year and 85% make less than $200,000. Thus the new fees will disincentivize H-1Bs and protect American workers.
This is a win for national populists, but it feels like a loss, because of Trump’s chaotic and feckless style of “leadership.”
On September 19th, when Trump and Howard Lutnick announced the program, they claimed that the fee is $100,000 per year and that it applies to all H-1Bs, existing and new. That meant $600,000 for a typical H-1B of 3 years plus a 3-year renewal.
This announcement produced jubilation among American nationalists, especially those working in tech. It caused panic in the tech industry and copious curry-scented shvitzing on the subcontinent.
The next day, the White House announced that the new fee is one time only, not annual, and it does not apply to renewals, just to new applications after September 21st. Thus, over the life of a typical H-1B, this means a reduction of half a million dollars from the original announcement.
It is still an improvement over the present situation. But it will hardly gut the H-1B program as we initially hoped.
Why the about face? Were Trump and Howard Lutnick simply misinformed when they made their initial announcement? I seriously doubt it. Instead, Trump changed the policy overnight due to pressure. I imagine that Trump received several screaming phone calls from oligarchs in the tech industry. Beyond that, he also heard from the Jeet mafia that disproportionately benefits from H-1Bs. Who knows, maybe Kash Patel and Usha Vance chimed in.
Sadly, American workers don’t have Trump’s number. Nor do American workers have representatives who can scream at him until he changes policies.
Sadly, white people don’t have a mafia to take care of our interests, a mafia whose leaders can scream at Trump when he crosses us and cause him to change his policies.
That’s why we need White Nationalism.
Trump’s About-Face on the Ukraine War
Aside from Trump’s slavish devotion to Israel, his worst foreign policy position has been on the Ukraine War. Because of his first impeachment, Trump has a great deal of personal resentment toward Zelensky. Trump also flattered himself that he was a friend of Putin. Then there is the dumbest form of partisanship: letting your enemies choose your friends: because liberals support Ukraine, we somehow must root for Russia. Add to that a long and successful Russian campaign of propaganda memes directed at the Right. The result was a very hostile environment for Ukraine. I still voted for Trump, because there are more important issues than Ukraine. But I hoped that once in office, Trump’s meme-based Ukraine policy would not survive an encounter with reality.
After the Alaska summit with Putin, Trump’s position was that Ukraine would have to “swap land” for peace, meaning give up territory, including territory that Russia has not been able to conquer and hold on to. However, Putin was clearly not interested in negotiations. Indeed, he used the cover of the Trump summit as an opportunity to ramp up attacks on Ukraine. Beyond that, he has been violating NATO airspace in Poland, Estonia, and Denmark.
Trump finally seems to have accepted that his “friendship” with Putin was illusory and that his willingness to try to mediate a settlement in Ukraine was merely seen as weakness, inviting wider Russian depredations. Moreover, Trump was clearly impressed by Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes that have now crippled more than 40% of Russia’s oil industry, causing local shortages and reducing oil exports that are crucial to Putin’s war effort.
Thus on Tuesday, September 23rd, after a UN General Assembly meeting with Zelensky, Trump stunned the world with a post on Truth Social:
This is quite a reversal: from demanding that Ukraine surrender territory to hinting that it might end up taking a bite of Russia. Of course that last bit is a bad idea for peace, but this is Trump “art of the dealing” again.
Zelensky was naturally delighted. Vance, who is probably the most “Zegroid” person on the Trump team, said this was not a full reversal but simply an acknowledgement of facts on the ground. Marco Rubio asserted that the war would not end on the battlefield but through negotiations. Of course, but that does not say anything about where the battlelines will be when the negotiations start.
The world is now wondering if and how this shift in rhetoric will change American and NATO policies, but already new weapons are headed to Ukraine.
[muffled cackling]
Japan’s Cultural Immune System Kicks In
Even in East Asia, there are fools arguing for importing violent and dumb Third Worlders. But I have more hope for countries like Japan than the United States, because the Japanese have healthy levels of ethnocentrism, which means an intolerance for even small numbers of immigrants, especially dumb and dysfunctional ones.
Earlier this month Japan’s Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba of the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD), resigned after having held the office since October 2024. This is a huge win for Japan as he had been a proponent of open borders. In fact, Ishiba declared that:
Japan will work together with the people of Africa to solve the problems that we face while laughing, crying and sweating. Africa has the potential to become the engine of global economic growth in the 21st century. (Source )
Ishiba planned on making Kisarazu a “hometown” for Nigerian migrants, Sanjo for Ghanan migrants, and Nagai for Tanzanian migrants. He also wanted to take in Palestinian refugees. And in July, Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki who is also part of the LPD estimated that Japan would be 10% foreign by 2040 if current demographic trends continue (they are currently about 3% of the population).
Interestingly, Ishiba’s low ethnocentrism and embrace of IQ-poor populations may have been motivated by his Christian faith.
Fortunately, because the Japanese have a strong sense of identity, the backlash against migration has been swift. This past July, Sohei Kamiya’s “Japan First” Sanseitō party went from one to fourteen seats in Japan’s House of Councilors (the upper legislative house, equivalent to the US Senate). Kamiya is young, energetic, and based. For example, he has said that Japanese children should be taught to be proud of being Japanese instead of feeling ashamed for WW II. The open borders LPD lost twenty-five seats and now no longer has a majority in either of Japan’s legislative houses. There has also been widespread proliferation of outrageously funny racist memes on Japanese social media channels.
Brazil Is the Future We Must Avoid
As I have been arguing for some time, the Democrat Party is a criminal organization and too dangerous to be let back into power. America is two separate nations, not one nation polarized between two separate parties. It is only a question of who bans the opposition first. This isn’t speculative. If you want to see how Democrats will behave if allowed to take power again in a country slouching towards Brazilian demographics, just take a look at Brazil.
The 2022 Brazilian election was very close. The conservative Bolsonaro (allegedly) lost to the socialist Lula, 49.1% to 50.9%. That election used electronic voting machines, and while “experts” claimed they were unhackable and a military audit supposedly found no sign of fraud, many Brazilians were suspicious. I have no idea whether they were hackable or not, and if they were hackable, if fraud actually occurred.
That’s the problem with electronic voting: regardless of any objective truth, it will always seem suspicious. We can see, touch, and understand paper ballots. But technology is akin to magic to most people. We interact with it all the time but have no idea how it really works. We ultimately must put our faith in various experts to assure us that electronic voting is fair. And experts of every sort have lost their credibility across the globe.
Thus, Bolsonaro’s claim that the electronic voting machines were hackable was reasonable, regardless of whether it’s true. If democracy is really all that sacred as liberals like to say, they should make it as transparent as possible. That means conducting elections in a way that will inspire trust with people who don’t have computer science degrees.
Bolsonaro refused to concede the election and initially fled to Florida, which contributed to the January 8 riots in Brazil which the Lula regime used as a pretext for a crackdown as Biden did with January 6. Despite the crackdown Bolsonaro returned to Brazil in March 2023, about a month after an investigation began against him. He was formally charged on July 4, 2024, with leading a criminal organization, attempting to abolish the democratic rule of law with violence, inciting a coup, and several related offenses.
On September 11, 2025, Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months of prison. He had been under house arrest a few weeks before sentencing and will likely remain so due to his age and circumstances. His allies who are also on trial will likely face a similar fate.
Over a thousand January 8 political hostages have also been arrested or convicted. Many of these convictions are so harsh that they make the American FBI and DOJ seem lenient by comparison. For example, 265 patriots were sentenced to between 15 and 17 years.
Before Bolsonaro was sentenced, the Trump administration put a 50% tariff on Brazil, in part due to Bolsonaro’s persecution, and also sanctioned one of the judges for human rights abuses.
After Bolsonaro’s sentencing, the White House press secretary remarked that Trump is “unafraid to use the economic might, the military might of the United States of America to protect free speech around the world.”
However, it is hard to believe that military action against Brazil will be forthcoming while we are facing an incipient trantifa insurrection at home.
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Interestingly, Ishiba’s low ethnocentrism and embrace of IQ-poor populations may have been motivated by his Christian faith.
That would be a safe bet. Great article! 🙃
You mean Shigeru Ishiba actually said “Africa has the potential to become the engine of global economic growth in the 21st century.” ??
My God, what has that man been smoking?
While I am not saying this is a pyrrhic victory, please temper your expectations about the Japanese response.
Specifically, all the Zio-ring-kissing that AFD, Reform, Wilders et al are guilty of, in spite of his past edgy comments, Kamiya and his Sanseito party are no different. Turning Point and those adjacent to it have been providing Sanseito guidance from the wings. (Indeed, CK was in Japan and Korea days before his untimely passing.) Like those other political parties, while being smeared by media as FAR-right bogeymen they too will have their agenda further attenuated and refracted by the 6-sided prism as they grow in electability.
Regarding the dilution of its homogeneity, there is much to say about the course of the predictive programming/propaganda campaign in Japan that has been in effect for a long time, but discussions on the country on these pages are ephemeral and by the time I get to the keyboard and dress my word salad, the conversation has moved onto the latest travesty.
I did want to say that in some quarters Shinzo Abe has been posthumously recast as a nationalist ‘who paid the price’ but make no mistake that it was (at least) under his reign that the wrecking ball gained more momentum.
Re: propaganda there is of course is the obvious vector of sportsball, in which teams’ average hues veer to ever darker shades of caramel with their incongruous 50%-less-authentic additions. And following the contract signings come the lucrative product endorsements and so you’ll see the faces of these diversified athletes shilling an equally diverse portfolio of products.
But there are other cultural artifacts of note that might not have previously been on your radar:
Uniqlo the ubiquitous clothing retailer – their catalogs, in-store and brand advertising all drifted from using Caucasian models and celeb ‘brand ambassadors’ in the past to more light-absorbent and visually dissonant clothes models.
Also, over a decade ago and with much fanfare NHK broadcast a long episodic drama, a fictionalized re-telling of the life of the Japanese whisky pioneer Masataka Taketsuru and of his not unremarkable Scottish wife Rita.
Of course, while the real story is geniunely interesting and Taketsuru’s achievements are to be sniffed (at), the drama’s purpose was in-part as a race-mixing propaganda piece. This was made more blatantly obvious by the broadcaster who, at each episode’s conclusion, invited those of its viewers in mixed relationships to send in pics of themselves embracing for inclusion in a post-credits segment after the airing of each episode.
Another example, in this case anime, there are 2 examples directed by Mamoru Hosoda.
(One of his notwithstanding, I’d recommend ‘The Boy and the Beast‘. While I haven’t watched it recently, not much if any pozz was burnt on my retinas, though who knows what messages an astute viewer can divine in current year.)
The following movies aren’t BAD as such, it’s just that once you’re attuned to subversive messaging, it is there unblinkingly staring back at you. Should writer’s block again summon Trevor Lynch, he might consider appending these to his watch-list. The 2 egregious articles in Hosoda’s filmography that I want to draw to your attention are:
The 2012 anime ‘Wolf Children‘ – about the tribulations of a widowed (human) mother raising werewolf children who wrestle with their identities and the oscar-nominated 2018 time-travel fantasy ‘Mirai‘, whose title translates as ‘Future’.
The premise of the first movie is a bit more blatant and needs no more explication but Mirai contains a sequence of note; a vision of a future (diversified) Tokyo Station. Multi-lingual signage ahoy!
I am convinced that had COVID not locked Japan’s borders so rigidly tight for as long as it did (it was perhaps the last major nation to open up fully), the 2020 olympics would have been the green light for the present demographic assault on the perilously high-trust society which tardily commenced only once it did reopen. Arigato Soros-sama!
…once you’re attuned to subversive messaging, it is there unblinkingly staring back at you.
I passed that point decades ago, after that you can never just relax, and enjoy anything. Too bad about the Japanese, they had a nobility about them, but then again so did white people at one time. 🙃
Make Otoya Yamaguchi Us Again. Banzai!!
Turd foreigners have been in japan for thirty years. At the end of the bubble economy, the government brought in 200000 iranian scumbags. After the 1992 economic collapse, tge government repatriated all of them with carrots and sticks, so i only saw one by 2004.
the nigerians are part of a mafia and have the organization to pay off corrupt city governments, which allow them to operate crimes in enclaves, like roppangi or osaka.
the real fall happened around 2007, when they started to replace white men in the English and tech industries, the only two we were allowed to work in, with philipinos and indian coolies. Then, all retail jobs were replaced with Chinese, who also flood Tokyo with tourism and real estate money laundering, just like the west.
The meme posted in the article is spot on. Japanese women are very sheltered and demure and are easy targets for groping and grooming. A white woman might be judiazed by our culture, with shows like the Wives Tale, to denigrate white men and view dark men as safe and allies, but if they are sexually abused, they will speak out.
No doubt it started way earlier. Thanks for fleshing it out more.
I wanted to stress that the Land of the Setting Sun has undergone its own belated Boriswave albeit of smaller amplitude but inevitably no less devastating.
Then there is the extra indignity of the post-COVID currency devaluation and attendant inflation. Main street pawn shops and supermarket-adjacent food-banks. So while doubled in pain, it’s now forcibly opening its legs to unprecedented tourism.
I read somewhere the comments of the architect Ando Tadao – saying that in the past foreigners who came there did so because they were sincerely interested in its culture. Now they simply do so because its a cheap destination. Two mutually exclusive groups.
Anyone with there an eye on the West’s malaise is basically a soothsayer. We can only hope that the trickles of awareness become torrents of disgust. Once boomers shuffle off and surrender to their imported hijab-clad caregivers we can only hope. But relative to the West in both cases, it’s presently a country with high levels of trust in its media and with a very passive electorate.
Oops, should be: “Anyone there with an eye…”
The H1-B order also contains a large loophole.
“(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.”
It’s big enough to drive a Microsoft or even an entire software industry through, especially given that the Secretary of Homeland Security will be making the decisions under the influence of the copious amounts of hookers and blow which will soon be incoming…
They are probably thinking of people like the Hyundai technicians in Georgia or people who might come from Taiwan to to help get American chip manufacturing up to speed. Pathetic that things have come to that, of course, but not a huge threat.
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