Immigrant Visas: The first sticking point for Trump-Musk bromance?

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Over the Christmas period, Marina went down a rabbit hole she found completely fascinating. She was vaguely worried Jemma wouldn’t feel the same but she need not have worried.

This ep begins with a bit of ‘January’ comedy and ends with potential WW3. Cool!

But the meat in this strange sandwich, centres around US H-1B Visas which sounds horrifically dull. Only, when you look into what they are, who supports them, who doesn’t and why, it all suddenly becomes fascinating. Promise! Partly because the topic has also led to Trump doing a complete about turn having pledged to banish them. Only his bestie and, let’s face it, Master, Musk is keen to continue employing hundreds of thousands of migrants he can undercut.

Marina and Jemma end up discussing work/life balance and reflect upon different cultural attitudes when it comes to working 9-5 or 7-10 or whatever it may be.

With tweets and wonderful clips as ever, it’s a Trawl which takes a few turns before ending with a pudding which also demonstrates that maybe capitalism having taken a neo-liberal turn isn’t serving many of us anymore. Rethink anyone?

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	You can't be president of the U.S. last time I checked, right? But assume you are.
0:04.3	Not officially.
0:08.1	Hello, and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:13.3	I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And in a way, this episode is a part two, part two of what can only be described as a musk's mess. But before we
0:23.5	delve in, is it snowing where you are? And if so, have you coped? Here's Russell Kane on Instagram.
0:29.9	All right, Lee, it's Darren. Yeah, sorry, mate, I can't come in. Got two inches of snow here,
0:34.1	and I don't own a coat or trousers. Yes, I can't come in for about three days.
0:40.0	Yeah, it's also made me flare up last night. So I've had to smoke weed and get pissed to deal with
0:44.5	the weather. Yeah, sorry, mate, no coat, no trousers, not working, not doing anything. Yeah,
0:49.9	but I'm just going to stay in and be a car.
0:54.1	Oh, gosh. Oh gosh.
0:56.0	It's a strong start.
0:57.4	Strong.
0:58.8	January, though.
0:59.8	January is a hard old slog.
1:01.9	And then, do you know what I never understand?
1:03.2	People go and make it even harder with things like dry January.
1:07.5	Have a listen to this clip entitled The Evil Mastermind Behind January. Firstly, it's
1:14.4	going to be windy, cold, measurable. Right, December. No, you see, in December, yeah, it's
1:19.2	cold, but you've also got eating, drinking, joy, festive cheer. We're going to have none of that.
1:24.0	You are. We're going to make everyone skint. See, what we're going to do is we're going
1:27.6	to put December's payday around December 19th and the next payday well, that's going to go
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