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The Trawl

Dodgy Labour WhatsApps and Executive Trumpshittery

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Marina has been feeling particularly overwhelmed by the news cycle lately so Jemma insists on joining in the UK conversation about identifying as llamas. Labour MP, Andrew Gwynne, has been fired for writing dodgy WhatsApps and his replacement tweeted (years ago) something about not caring if people want to identify as llamas. Cue right wing meltdowns from the usual suspects. Still, thankfully Lee Anderson is on hand to explain what a llama is in case his followers weren't sure. 

Sadly the trawl ladies have to take the plunge and head to the US where Trump and Musk are doing their level best to dismantle democracy. Musk is refusing court orders and wants to get rid of any judges he doesn't agree with. Bit fashy, no? Trump is disbanding taskforces who were in charge of targeting oligarchs and brilliant journalist, Carole Cadwalladr has described what's happening as a digital coup. Still, Truss is delighted that Trump is bringing back plastic straws, so someone's happy.

There's a string of other travesties to discuss, including the latest disgusting rhetoric on Gaza and a pleasing clip which demonstrates Trump's thin skinned response to Musk being on the front of Time Magazine. 

There are under rated tweets of course and pudding is from comedian, Reed Galen. Enjoy! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the sound of Steve saving on his energy bills.

0:04.0

And this is the sound of all his neighbours and his street saving too.

0:08.0

With British gas, millions of homes could save more and be protected against future price rises by switching to one of our fixed price tariffs.

0:16.0

Plus, with peak save, you could save even more, with half-price electricity every Sunday between 11am and 4pm.

0:24.3

Search British gas tariffs and see if you could save now.

0:27.4

Eligibility and tisensies apply.

0:30.0

But if somebody wants to identify it as a llama, why not?

0:35.4

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.

0:40.2

I'm Marina Perkins.

0:41.3

And I'm Gemma Forte and Trawlers.

0:43.9

Marina and I have been talking a lot this week about how hard it is to make sense of the world at the moment and how important it is not to be overwhelmed by the news,

0:54.8

as ultimately it just doesn't help anyone.

0:57.4

We both also understand we're not here to change minds.

1:01.2

If you listen to the troll, you already know Trump is like radioactive fanta,

1:06.4

orange, dangerous, bad for your health.

1:08.8

Instead, I think we're here so we can despair together, something

1:12.6

like that. I think you described it as a comfort blanket. We're a comfort blanket, aren't we?

1:17.1

Yeah, I think so, something like that. And I also think that despair loves company. So on that

1:24.1

Friday's episode, we've also decided,

1:27.7

it's just going to be a love letter of positivity to you all.

1:31.2

It's going to be Valentine's Day.

1:32.6

So we're going to celebrate the best that the internet has to offer on dating

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