Child labor violations are up, and the Republicans are systematically responding by deregulating. That’s the opposite of what we need, and it’s not even the most asinine thing happening on the right at the moment. Learn more about MAGA beliefs, and how MAGA are like the tulip-market participants in the 1630s.

Yeah.

Kind of like that.

Listen and be shocked.

A lot of our recent episodes have been kind of dark. We don’t want to alarm you, but…here are a few things that Trump and/or the GOP have said that you want to probably want to ignore if you’re feeling out of your depths:

• Muslims are to be ejected from the country, including students.

• Anyone who speaks against his highness will be expelled from this country.

• Pretty women can stay, but they can’t cross state lines if pregnant.

So what’s the negotiation in the debt ceiling that the republicans want? They want to undo student loan forgiveness, stop advances on climate change, and then it’s “drill, baby, drill.” It’s their own special gift to the energy industry (remember? the same energy industry that lied to the American people about climate change). The Republicans are lying about what energy independence looks like, and the impact of the work that they do.

So if you’re thinking about Earth Day, this is the exact oppposite of Earth Day. The Republican strategy is to bring the world to the brink of economic ruin in order to bring the world to the brink of climate change destruction. Are they saying this? No, not at all. It’s all upside for them anyway. If they manage to tank the world economy while Biden is in charge, then we Americans with our short memories will forget and then elect the very perpetrators of the problem.

That’s only the start of this episode. Then we discuss everyone’s favorite topic: reparations. And what’s that for?

What oath were they keeping, exactly? We know. And you can too.

A CEO who convinces 98% of his employees — people whose salaries he pays and who he hires to do a job — to get behind his policies is a resounding success. In Congress, the overwhelming majority of the Democrats are behind the Build Back Better act, which is our best current hope for climate recovery. That’s a huge success by most standards. So why can’t the bill pass? Let’s see…