#173 In which Making America Healthy Again does require a bit of death, but who’s counting?

Sometimes we here at ConstiToonies HQ feel that we have an impossible job, if that job includes searching for the logic in present day politics. The man of wealth and taste has made foreign investment into the US a priority. So a couple of weeks ago ICE busted an electric vehicle battery plant operated by Hyundai and LG Energy Solutions. South Korean workers were shackled and taken to a detention center. Many of these were here on H-1B visas.

Here’s where we start scratching our heads. Hyundai announced earlier this year that it would invest twenty-one billion in the US—in other words, given the value of the US market, reluctantly or not it committed to playing Trump’s game—and we wonder how that is sitting today with the Hyundai suits. At the same time, the fact that the husband of two immigrants and the son of one has just announced that the price of the H-1B visa will be slightly increasing from $215 to $100,000 doesn’t seem to be encouraging foreign investors, much less American countries trying to increase their global presence and abilities. 

Finally, we wonder if the rumors are true that Trump is going to star in a new season of The Squid Game or become the 8th member of BTS in a conciliatory move to demonstrate that he really doesn’t hate South Koreans all the much. Or maybe he'll trade in that shabby old Tesla Elon Musk gave him for a shiny new Hyundai Ioniq 6 Limited. Stranger things have happened.