Posted On: Wednesday - September 24th 2025 5:19PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Trump Big-Biz Stupidity
[Alt-Title: Trump strangling brown-egg-laying goose with $100,000 fees!]
As for our pick for the post title, it's not like this political chant has been overplayed or anything, so Peak Stupidity has revived it here.
See, this is really good news. As usual, the good news is not so much that we know anything will actually happen soon, but that President Trump is really down with killing America's Indentured Servitude, aka H1B visa, program. Trump is an Abolitionist, as we are here at Peak Stupidity.
As a quick aside, there is something wrong in that we have to hope that the ONE MAN will do this or do that to help America. There is that other branch of government, "legislative" or something? What do THEY do? Last I heard, they were trying to kill most of the Big Bulbous Bill, something they spent the first half of this year "working" on. That's America today, El Caudillo Yanqui Presidente or not.
Back to the news, legal immigration plays a big role in the Population Replacement Programme. It hasn't been clear to the Peak Stupidity staff, or damn near anyone, where President Trump has stood on the issue. Because the H1B visa program is very significant in numbers (see A few numbers on H1B and the completely bogus "cap"), there was a big tweet battle about it early this year, just before Trump's inauguration. Peak Stupidity commented too, of course, in Twitterers Tear Tech Titan a new one and Commentary on the H1B visa x-battle from a non-combatant.
President Trump, in his usual wheeler-dealer fashion, rather than push through a bill, which... well, see the aside above, is attempting some executive action. It'd just an administrative thing. you understand, the job of the Administrator of the US Feral Government, adjusting the fees... yeah, I mean like from a basic nominal couple of thousand bucks paid by an Indentured Servant's
That this change is angering and worrying a whole bunch of Big-Biz people is welcome news. It would have a big effect in cutting off the pipeline of cheap foreign white collar labor and a significant part of the PRP.
ZeroHedge had the news. Trump's New $100,000 Visa Fee Could Be Devastating For India's Economy. Trust me, ZH's Tyler Durden is not worried about India's economy, and the article is pretty based. Tyler's bolding:
First, the $100,000 fee imposed on H-1B visas will kill the program. It is, effectively, an H-1B travel ban without going through the long process of officially rescinding the Immigration Act of 1990. The fee is paid by the company hiring the foreign workers and a $100,000 markup would mean only the most valuable employees would be worth the cost.I searched for more info and got to this Reuters article. The article is not completely one-sided, but...
MOVE COULD DETER GLOBAL TALENTOh, it's written by Aditya Soni, Kristina Cooke and Jeff Mason. I wonder where the first author stands on the issue. The video embedded in this Reuters article is the only reason I bothered mentioning it, as I'll go over the 6 screenshots I took, one after another:
Adding new fees "creates disincentive to attract the world's smartest talent to the U.S.," said Deedy Das, partner at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, on X. "If the U.S. ceases to attract the best talent, it drastically reduces its ability to innovate and grow the economy."
The move could add millions of dollars in costs for companies, which could hit smaller tech firms and start-ups particularly hard.
Thank you, President Trump. Let's see a tidal wave though, not just ripples.
LOL! I'm grinning, as I type even. He's a funny guy. You be you, President Trump!
No, everyone's NOT going to be happy. Americans are going to be happy. The potential Indentured Servants and the potential Big Biz Masters and Overseers are not. That's not a bad thing.
I mean, there's NO WAY that Americans could do this work. There was no America before 2005, so don't go trying to check this. No, seriously, you can't get Americans to do this work, not under the threat of being sent off (down the river?) if they don't work their 60 hour weeks, keep their heads down, and live 10 to an apartment on curry-flavored Top Ramen. (Is it still 17¢ a pack?)
Yeah, about that lottery... There was a Gateway Pundit article on this H1B visa story too, and in the comments, I really wished I could have set people straight on the numbers. You'll read about this 65,000 undergrad degree and 20,000 more grad degree cap, but this lottery, basically a modern version of the Charlestowne slave market, can bring the numbers to 1/4 to 1/3 million. (One year under Brandon, 3/4 million were brought in.)
Yes, the hiring of actual Americans will disrupt the best laid plans of the Indian hordes to make their parts of America into India. There are still a Billion and a half people to sent over from that Indian tragic dirt to the magic dirt of New Jersey, California, and everywhere. Yes, this is how some people really think, no not the Indians themselves, they know...
Well, I'm just all broken up about the hit to the global operations of Indian tech services companies. Wouldn't it be better to keep them over in India so they can help me reset my passwords? Next: •Indian IT help v Shortwave Radio.
Reuters' video story was meant to get me worried. Quite to the contrary, it shows me that, bluster aside, President Trump is on the right track. Hey Hey, Ho, Ho, Indentured Servitude has got to go .... or is it ...
Hey, hey, my, my!
Peak Stupidity's hope will never die.
There's more to the picture than meets the eye.
Hey, hey, my my!
That is Neil Young with his band Crazy Horse with some heavily distorted guitar there. The first "side" (whadda' ya' mean, side?) of that great Rust Never Sleeps album has the acoustic My my, hey, hey.
Comments:
Moderator
Thursday - September 25th 2025 5:49PM MST
PS: Haha, Alarmist. Ann Bernhardt is a gem!
Moderator
Thursday - September 25th 2025 5:48PM MST
PS: Now in response to your criticism "If H1B really *is* meant to be ended (as it should be), WHY are the Trump people demanding x thousands of more dollars to get one? Why not just go all in and say:..."
This goes to that problem with the Legislative Branch of government, as I wrote about. I used to think that the guy ought to be able to get Congress to help him, as, after all, he's the wheeler-dealer who could do good horse-trading on policy in a Ronald Reagan fashion*. In some ways, such as that odious but amazing idea of a deal Alarmist brought up long ago - do Israel's bidding (I mean, he already IS) in return for AIPAC strong-arming enough members of Congress at the appropriate times to get Trump's agenda passed into law., he could still.
Working with the UniParty seems pretty hopeless though. Congress will only work for America again when MAGA takes control.
Anyway, so this administrative move is something that Trump CAN do... that is until some judge somewhere decides it's his business. Why not say that one paragraph you included, Mr. Hail, something I'd love to hear? It'd be giving away his position, I guess. Trump has plausible deniability that, "no, we just need the money**, and all the great valuable people will still be able to come in... Everyone will be happy!" I say that while assuming hopefully that this is NOT what he actually believes.'
"Might the longer-term idea be that if countries and/or companies "make a deal" with Trump, they can get special exemptions and lower fees?" Unfortunately, that's probably a part of his thinking on this.
* Of course, Congress reneged on 2 very important deals with Reagan: 1) A 1-time amnesty in return for serious border control. (The latter didn't happen,) and 2) Cuts in the domestic budget in return for a big defense budget build-up. The former didn't happen.)
** Even were the normal 200,000 yearly H1B visas to still be used for Indentured Servitude by Google and Amazon, etc., that's less than you would think, only $20 Billion yearly, which is 1/2 of 1% of the budget, on a GOOD YEAR.
This goes to that problem with the Legislative Branch of government, as I wrote about. I used to think that the guy ought to be able to get Congress to help him, as, after all, he's the wheeler-dealer who could do good horse-trading on policy in a Ronald Reagan fashion*. In some ways, such as that odious but amazing idea of a deal Alarmist brought up long ago - do Israel's bidding (I mean, he already IS) in return for AIPAC strong-arming enough members of Congress at the appropriate times to get Trump's agenda passed into law., he could still.
Working with the UniParty seems pretty hopeless though. Congress will only work for America again when MAGA takes control.
Anyway, so this administrative move is something that Trump CAN do... that is until some judge somewhere decides it's his business. Why not say that one paragraph you included, Mr. Hail, something I'd love to hear? It'd be giving away his position, I guess. Trump has plausible deniability that, "no, we just need the money**, and all the great valuable people will still be able to come in... Everyone will be happy!" I say that while assuming hopefully that this is NOT what he actually believes.'
"Might the longer-term idea be that if countries and/or companies "make a deal" with Trump, they can get special exemptions and lower fees?" Unfortunately, that's probably a part of his thinking on this.
* Of course, Congress reneged on 2 very important deals with Reagan: 1) A 1-time amnesty in return for serious border control. (The latter didn't happen,) and 2) Cuts in the domestic budget in return for a big defense budget build-up. The former didn't happen.)
** Even were the normal 200,000 yearly H1B visas to still be used for Indentured Servitude by Google and Amazon, etc., that's less than you would think, only $20 Billion yearly, which is 1/2 of 1% of the budget, on a GOOD YEAR.
Moderator
Thursday - September 25th 2025 5:36PM MST
PS: Mr. Hail asked: "Why specifically late September 2025? Why not late January, after the inauguration? What changed in the meantime?"
I agree with your 2 answers. The 2nd explains well how Trump operates. He thinks it's all some big real estate deal that he's very good at. Bullshitting is part of the game and why should anyone believe all that comes out of his mouth? (Uhhh, because I'm used to people that mean what they say ..."
Let me add a 3rd answer. Trump has been said to be on the side of whoever he last spoke with on an issue. No, he could not go in Musk's preferred direction, no matter how much (he thought?) he owed Musk for the help with x-twitter and the '24 election.
Maybe Steven MIller and some other people (perhaps his having watched some of the more recent Charlie Kirk clips - Trump owed this guy a lot too) talked to him very recently and gave him a clue how many people we are talking about. "Uhh, Mr. Trump, do you know that in one year Brandon* let in about 3/4 million of them, let me rephrase that, the size of Seattle in the city limits, in one year sir? It's still, right now, about one Manhattan below 23rd Street** each year."
Maybe, again it was personal. "I just talked to my friend at the old office. The whole IT department of my old real estate firm is dot Indians, now, Melania. Then all the properties I sold in north Jersey are now in Indian neighborhoods. What is going on here?! I mean, they're good people, but just what the hell is going on here?! How'd they get in? Ohhh, legally? Whaddya' mean?"
* See this way Trump can also bring that up: "Joe Biden let in a million H1B visas. I'm cutting in down to the lowest number in American history!"
** OK, this time, Peak Stupidity is picking a number via rectal extraction but as an example.
I agree with your 2 answers. The 2nd explains well how Trump operates. He thinks it's all some big real estate deal that he's very good at. Bullshitting is part of the game and why should anyone believe all that comes out of his mouth? (Uhhh, because I'm used to people that mean what they say ..."
Let me add a 3rd answer. Trump has been said to be on the side of whoever he last spoke with on an issue. No, he could not go in Musk's preferred direction, no matter how much (he thought?) he owed Musk for the help with x-twitter and the '24 election.
Maybe Steven MIller and some other people (perhaps his having watched some of the more recent Charlie Kirk clips - Trump owed this guy a lot too) talked to him very recently and gave him a clue how many people we are talking about. "Uhh, Mr. Trump, do you know that in one year Brandon* let in about 3/4 million of them, let me rephrase that, the size of Seattle in the city limits, in one year sir? It's still, right now, about one Manhattan below 23rd Street** each year."
Maybe, again it was personal. "I just talked to my friend at the old office. The whole IT department of my old real estate firm is dot Indians, now, Melania. Then all the properties I sold in north Jersey are now in Indian neighborhoods. What is going on here?! I mean, they're good people, but just what the hell is going on here?! How'd they get in? Ohhh, legally? Whaddya' mean?"
* See this way Trump can also bring that up: "Joe Biden let in a million H1B visas. I'm cutting in down to the lowest number in American history!"
** OK, this time, Peak Stupidity is picking a number via rectal extraction but as an example.
Hail
Thursday - September 25th 2025 1:28PM MST
PS
SafeNow: I don't know that Trump is a representative of typical Americans, or typical American leaders. He resembles a lot more an impulsive, emotional, vendetta-pushing Latin-American type (or at least an old-line Southern Italian "Mafia"-like type).
One thing about South Asians, that in recent times White-Americans are slowly coming around to, is how skilled they are verbally and at 'politics,' especially when allowed to swim around freely in a high-trust, White-Christian, NW-European-type environment. Do they count as the Putin-like "quiet moves" type, or the brash Trump-like type? They don't seem to fit either model.
South Asians are often very good at getting what they want and moving up any sort of political chains, through verbal dexterity, through something, I don't know. The Right had their Dinesh D'Souza's, Nikki Haleys. and now the first-ever Hindu FBI Director, Kash Patel; the Left had Kamala's mom, and that guy helping Thomas Massie force the Epstein Files to be released. The center had Fareed Zakaria and others.
I keep asking how somebody like Vivek Ramaswamy could come out of "literally" nowhere -- b.1985, he was nowhere/unknown/inactive in the 2010s, blending in with all the other H1Bs; or worse, a fast-talker who pulled off a fake medicinal-pills scam to the tune of millions pocketed and no one helped -- how such a figure could come from zero, write a book that he strung out with anti-Wokeness talking-points in 2020, got on Tucker Carlson, and within three years was running for US president, and now is running for Ohio governor. That kind of thing ought not happen. And H1B was a big pipeline for such people.
SafeNow: I don't know that Trump is a representative of typical Americans, or typical American leaders. He resembles a lot more an impulsive, emotional, vendetta-pushing Latin-American type (or at least an old-line Southern Italian "Mafia"-like type).
One thing about South Asians, that in recent times White-Americans are slowly coming around to, is how skilled they are verbally and at 'politics,' especially when allowed to swim around freely in a high-trust, White-Christian, NW-European-type environment. Do they count as the Putin-like "quiet moves" type, or the brash Trump-like type? They don't seem to fit either model.
South Asians are often very good at getting what they want and moving up any sort of political chains, through verbal dexterity, through something, I don't know. The Right had their Dinesh D'Souza's, Nikki Haleys. and now the first-ever Hindu FBI Director, Kash Patel; the Left had Kamala's mom, and that guy helping Thomas Massie force the Epstein Files to be released. The center had Fareed Zakaria and others.
I keep asking how somebody like Vivek Ramaswamy could come out of "literally" nowhere -- b.1985, he was nowhere/unknown/inactive in the 2010s, blending in with all the other H1Bs; or worse, a fast-talker who pulled off a fake medicinal-pills scam to the tune of millions pocketed and no one helped -- how such a figure could come from zero, write a book that he strung out with anti-Wokeness talking-points in 2020, got on Tucker Carlson, and within three years was running for US president, and now is running for Ohio governor. That kind of thing ought not happen. And H1B was a big pipeline for such people.
SafeNowp
Thursday - September 25th 2025 8:44AM MST
PS
On Unz I made an observation that derives from my online chess-playing with players from different countries: Russians tend to favor what chess players call “quiet moves” whereas Americans are drawn to moves that are impulsive, rash, and risky. I went on to speculate that these traits can be extrapolated upwards to the politicians of those countries. Under this paradigm, Putin is the ultimate “quiet moves” guy, and Trump is the ultimate American gamester. But Trump has a lot of second-tier company.
The above pattern-of-thought disparity seems clear to me. But identifying the SOURCE of same probably lies in the province of people knowledgeable in comparative history and society. Likewise identifying potential changes in same.
On Unz I made an observation that derives from my online chess-playing with players from different countries: Russians tend to favor what chess players call “quiet moves” whereas Americans are drawn to moves that are impulsive, rash, and risky. I went on to speculate that these traits can be extrapolated upwards to the politicians of those countries. Under this paradigm, Putin is the ultimate “quiet moves” guy, and Trump is the ultimate American gamester. But Trump has a lot of second-tier company.
The above pattern-of-thought disparity seems clear to me. But identifying the SOURCE of same probably lies in the province of people knowledgeable in comparative history and society. Likewise identifying potential changes in same.
The Alarmist
Thursday - September 25th 2025 4:03AM MST
PS
This single picture sums up my thoughts on H1b visas.
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This single picture sums up my thoughts on H1b visas.
https://i0.wp.com/www.barnhardtmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img_7878.jpg
Hail
Thursday - September 25th 2025 12:22AM MST
PS
Ending the H1b program entirely is a worthy goal. If this is what the latest news-bite from the Trump Show means, it's a good thing.
But I have some questions.
Question: WHY weren't measures taken immediately in late January 2025 to end H1b? Or, for that matter --- in late January 2017?
The energy that brought forth this very-unusual, unprecedented, unqualified fast-talker into political prominence absolutely demanded such things in 2017 (and many similar steps), but ultimately relatively little got done.
To repeat: Why specifically late September 2025? Why not late January, after the inauguration? What changed in the meantime?
An answer I can think of, which a lot of the "terminally online" people will come up with, is the Winter 2024-25 "H1B War" between Elon Musk and Vivek "White Americans are lazy, good-for-nothing bozos" Ramaswamy, on one side, and the pro-White ethnonationalist Trump-base on the other side. The Vivek-Musk side demanded a vast increase in H1Bs. The Trump-base said "No." Musk has been out of government for months now.
Another answer may be something like this: Trump, and these other people he has around him, see everything as a game to play for drama. With many moves or statements as business-negotiation gambits that are meant to be so shocking that it will seem downright reasonable when he "compromises" later. This is a pretty-easy-observable Trump thing to do. Big-talk, gambits, feints and feigns, more big-talk, then sudden reversals to keep everyone off-balance, and so on.
Trump and these people may see some slight sense of down time and want to add another twist into the reality-show drama which hold politics to be.
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Let me make a tangible criticism: If H1B really *is* meant to be ended (as it should be), WHY are the Trump people demanding x thousands of more dollars to get one? Why not just go all in and say:
"This H1B thing has been mostly a complete scam for years. An anti-American, anti-White travesty. It has gone on too long. We are phasing out the program. We will seek measures to reduce the share of H1B and similar types of foreign workers going forward, to be replaced with White-American labor. We are going to make an across-the-board reduction in the welfare budget by 10% to fund such training programs as may be needed to get native-born White workers in jobs vacated by henceforth-unwelcome H1Bs."
Instead, there is no change in principle to the program, just a Trump-like jacking up of the price-per-visa, characteristically declared by edict. Might the longer-term idea be that if countries and/or companies "make a deal" with Trump, they can get special exemptions and lower fees?
If they want to end H1B, as the people want, why not be more honest about it?
Ending the H1b program entirely is a worthy goal. If this is what the latest news-bite from the Trump Show means, it's a good thing.
But I have some questions.
Question: WHY weren't measures taken immediately in late January 2025 to end H1b? Or, for that matter --- in late January 2017?
The energy that brought forth this very-unusual, unprecedented, unqualified fast-talker into political prominence absolutely demanded such things in 2017 (and many similar steps), but ultimately relatively little got done.
To repeat: Why specifically late September 2025? Why not late January, after the inauguration? What changed in the meantime?
An answer I can think of, which a lot of the "terminally online" people will come up with, is the Winter 2024-25 "H1B War" between Elon Musk and Vivek "White Americans are lazy, good-for-nothing bozos" Ramaswamy, on one side, and the pro-White ethnonationalist Trump-base on the other side. The Vivek-Musk side demanded a vast increase in H1Bs. The Trump-base said "No." Musk has been out of government for months now.
Another answer may be something like this: Trump, and these other people he has around him, see everything as a game to play for drama. With many moves or statements as business-negotiation gambits that are meant to be so shocking that it will seem downright reasonable when he "compromises" later. This is a pretty-easy-observable Trump thing to do. Big-talk, gambits, feints and feigns, more big-talk, then sudden reversals to keep everyone off-balance, and so on.
Trump and these people may see some slight sense of down time and want to add another twist into the reality-show drama which hold politics to be.
_______
Let me make a tangible criticism: If H1B really *is* meant to be ended (as it should be), WHY are the Trump people demanding x thousands of more dollars to get one? Why not just go all in and say:
"This H1B thing has been mostly a complete scam for years. An anti-American, anti-White travesty. It has gone on too long. We are phasing out the program. We will seek measures to reduce the share of H1B and similar types of foreign workers going forward, to be replaced with White-American labor. We are going to make an across-the-board reduction in the welfare budget by 10% to fund such training programs as may be needed to get native-born White workers in jobs vacated by henceforth-unwelcome H1Bs."
Instead, there is no change in principle to the program, just a Trump-like jacking up of the price-per-visa, characteristically declared by edict. Might the longer-term idea be that if countries and/or companies "make a deal" with Trump, they can get special exemptions and lower fees?
If they want to end H1B, as the people want, why not be more honest about it?