Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman take stock of a government too broke to staff its own airports and an administration whose solution is to flood them with ICE agents. An idea that originated, no joke, with a caller to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. From there, the guys trace the authoritarian logic of filling institutional vacuums with paramilitary loyalists, and what that means for the next time you try to catch a flight. They also dig into Trump's Iran ultimatum that expired without consequence, the fake negotiations that briefly bounced the markets back up, and why every country on earth is currently doing the math on going nuclear. And if you think Russia planning a fake assassination of Viktor Orban sounds familiar, Jared and Nick have some thoughts on that too.

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00:00 Mercury in Retrograde

01:26 ICE at the Airports

07:23 Fascism Fills the Vacuum

09:20 TSA Was Always Security Theater

16:08 Iran's Ultimatum That Wasn't

20:20 Europe Bails, the Petrodollar Wobbles

27:33 Fertilizer, Fuel, and Food Prices

31:34 Democrats Move Against Schumer

38:05 Operation Game Changer

43:33 Butler PA and the USS Gerald Ford