Pardon the Politics
You didn't ask for the most chaotic political era in modern American history. But here you are watching executive orders fly, whistleblowers get silenced, world leaders get bombed mid-negotiation, and a president who apparently thinks Greenland is the size of Africa. Somebody's got to make sense of it.
That's where Pardon the Politics comes in.
Every week, co-hosts Jeezy and Manny, joined by the Chairman of Chaos himself, Chuck, bring you an unfiltered, unscripted breakdown of the biggest stories in U.S. and NC politics with the kind of honesty, humor, and cultural fluency you won't find anywhere on cable news. These are three brothers from North Carolina who cut their lawns, cheer for their kids, argue about the Patriots, and also happen to do their homework. Deeply.
Season 3 has already taken listeners through it all: Trump's bizarre Davos appearance, the Epstein files and the accountability that still hasn't come, the Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower scandal, tariff chaos in the courts, the last MLK Day we may ever see, a world that went to war without a Congressional vote, and the death of a Supreme Leader while diplomats were still at the table. And they're just getting started.
This is not a show for people who want to be told what to think. This is a show for people who want the context, the history, the real questions nobody's asking, and three real perspectives from people who live in the same America you do.
Where chaos meets clarity. New episodes every week.
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Pardon the Politics
A Hundred Fifth Amendments
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The boys are back from a much-needed break, and the world absolutely did not wait for them. This week on Pardon the Politics:
Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death on July 11 touches off a fast-moving story with three threads: a memo to rename Joint Base Charleston to "Joint Base Lindsey Graham" landing just six days after his death (and a day before his own funeral), his sister Darline Graham stepping into his Senate seat by gubernatorial appointment, and a real debate between Jeezy and Chuck about the fiscal responsibility, and the timing, of the renaming push, tied back to the ongoing Department of Defense-to-Department of War rebrand.
From there: Todd Blanche's stalled path to a permanent Attorney General post. His committee vote has now been postponed twice, blocked by GOP Sens. Cornyn (TX) and Tillis (NC) over Trump's $1.776 billion IRS settlement fund. A new vote is set for Tuesday, August 4th.
Then Dr. Anthony Fauci's marathon Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times rather than answer a single question about COVID's origins — setting up a contempt-of-Congress vote on August 5th and a genuinely novel legal fight over whether a pardon for past conduct can strip your right to stay silent about it.
PICKLE OF THE WEEK: Ken Paxton is trailing Democrat James Talarico in a new Fox News poll of the Texas Senate race, and 36% of Republicans say they're worried about his character.
SPOTLIGHTS: Manny digs into Ken Paxton's second headache, a Texas AG investigation into LinkedIn's "ghost job" listings. Chuck takes on Georgia Senate candidate Mike Collins' refusal to answer questions about his son-in-law's documented white nationalist ties. And Jeezy closes it out with genuinely good news: Maryland and New York stepping up with expedited admissions and financial credits for hundreds of Howard University students disenrolled weeks before move-in.
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