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No Off-Ramp: Primary Reckoning, the Iran Scramble & Kristi Noem Gets Sent Home
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Got a question for the boys?!?
Some weeks, you watch the news and nod. This was not one of those weeks.
Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are back, barely rested from the time change, and the week handed them more than they bargained for. Primary voters in North Carolina settled a score quietly, decisively, and in a way that should make every elected official in the country take notes. In Texas, something shifted. You felt it in the turnout numbers, and you'll hear it in how the crew talks about what it means.
Then there's the war. The crew doesn't sugarcoat it. Chuck has questions about the numbers the government is giving us. Manny has questions about the plan or the lack of one. Antonio keeps asking who this is actually for. Nobody has a good answer.
A major Cabinet secretary was fired after a congressional hearing that went poorly. Her replacement was announced the same day. The crew has thoughts.
Plus: the Pickle of the Week goes to someone who had every chance to do the right thing and chose otherwise. And the Spotlights: one race could be decided by 23 votes, a baseball story that accidentally explains the global oil market, and Antonio holding the line as the resident moon-landing skeptic.
This one ran long. The week earned it.
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