Squeeze tighter, guys. Try to crack down harder. Every time you send out more, we realize you're

losing. We realize that your arguments and your ideas are flawed and they don't carry weight,

because if they carried weight, you wouldn't need those tiny little men with their face covered

every single place that people go.

You wouldn't need them.

You need them because it's wrong.

You need them because the majority of Americans don't agree.

So keep it up. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

Well, I had to take almost all of Wednesday off last week because I was so freaking depressed.

I went back to bed. I try to find solutions. I try to be hopeful, but I have

been overwhelmed lately. And since I work through every weekend, Wednesday is that day I can

stop for a second. And it turns out sometimes when you stop, you drop. The Trump administration's

plan to flood the zone with so many terrible things that we can't manage is proving to be

very effective. So my job of being informed so I can sort through all of it to bring you the

most essential things has become a tiny bit overwhelming, especially with this most recent

Epstein drop. So today, instead of just focusing on what's going on factually, I invited my friend

Joanna Johnson, who most people know

as unlearn 16, to talk about the news extemporaneously, to have a good conversation, and honestly,

to get some good old-fashioned forest for the tree's perspective on what we're living through from

someone not in this country, but well aware of what's going on. On top of having well over four million

followers online, Joanna is a high school teacher, an author, whose influence extends far beyond the

classroom. She's known for using her humor and her sarcasm to expand people's knowledge on everything

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