Purge 3: The Bannoning
Explain It to Me
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4.4 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | just the flake news of the week. |
| 0:01.8 | I'll bet flake cast, flakey weeds. |
| 0:04.3 | ["Fakey Weeds"] |
| 0:17.6 | Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds |
| 0:19.8 | on the Vox Media Podcast Network. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Matthew Glacias. |
| 0:22.6 | Today I have with me just Andrew Prokop |
| 0:25.3 | because I really wanted to sort of delve into a story |
| 0:28.5 | that he published this week called, what's it called? |
| 0:32.2 | It's called The Purge. |
| 0:33.3 | It's called The Republican Purge has only just begun. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, and there's a great piece everybody should read it. |
| 0:39.6 | And I think it's about some of the events that have sort of |
| 0:43.9 | made waves this week, but it's really about the kind of |
| 0:47.1 | deeper trends that lie beneath it. |
| 0:49.8 | But first, I mean, let's talk about what happened on Tuesday, |
| 0:52.8 | which was an odd day in Republican Party politics. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, so on Tuesday, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona announced |
| 1:01.1 | that he was not going to run for reelection in 2018. |
| 1:05.6 | He gave speech on the floor, denouncing Donald Trump, |
| 1:09.3 | and really seeming to question his own party's hesitancy |
| 1:15.1 | to criticize Trump. |
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