After convicted felon President Trump’s regime announced earlier this month that they were charging $100,000 for every H-1B visa but before the fucking idiots clarified that the fee was only being imposed on new applicants, major employers in tech and other sectors urged current H-1Bs on their payroll to get their asses back stateside immediately within the next two days. Naturally this prompted a mad rush for those who were abroad at the time to book their flights and, per AFP, a similar rush by MAGAmericans on 4chan to, in their words, “clog the toilet” by going through the booking process on airline sites to jam India-to-US flights and select tickets that they never intended to buy, screwing people who at the time believed they had just hours to make it back.
“Indians are just waking up after the H1B news. Want to keep them in India? Clog the flight reservation system!” said the 4chan thread that was passed around on Telegram and other platforms popular with resentful white nationalist incels who enjoy such stochastic pursuits.
“It was hard for me to book a ticket and I paid a huge fare for the panic travel,” said engineer Amrutha Tamanam, who had been visiting family back home in India when she got word she would have to get back to the US pretty much immediately. She spent hours during that window trying to book a flight, eventually succeeding and paying $2,000 for the ultra high-demand seat, at least some of that price thanks to the sexless 4chaners who gleefully posted shit like “I got 100 seats locked,” and “Currently clogging the last available seat on this Delhi to Newark flight.”