Small Dick Durbin Energy [TEASER]

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.

On this subscriber-only episode of 5-4, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are looking back at the Biden administration and talking about how the Democratic Party blew it on making judicial appointments and serving as a check on the Supreme Court.

This is a longer-term failure of the Democratic Party because we're not focusing on the judiciary as something to educate their base on and the impact that it'll have long term.

As you'll hear, the hosts hold no one more responsible than Senator Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

They discuss why he failed so miserably at holding Republicans and certain Supreme Court justices accountable.

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have wreaked havoc on our civil liberties, like raw milk will be wreaking havoc on our digestive systems this time next year.

I'm Peter.

I'm here with Michael.

Hey, everybody.

And Rhiannon.

Hello.

What could this be a reference to?

This is about RFK.

Uh-huh.

A certain man now in charge of like our health.

Or soon to be.

Soon to be.

Yeah.

From this point forward, each metaphor will be about a different kind of diarrhea that RFK is going to give us all.

Oh, my God.

Bro, raw milk does so much worse than diarrhea, though, is the thing.

Okay.

I've gotten salmonella.

Okay.

Say more about that.

It's the worst.

I got it in October 2022, I think, or 2021.

I don't know.

When there's a big outbreak with onions from Mexico.

It was right when I moved to Albuquerque.

I think it was literally my first night in Albuquerque.

Oh, God.

And you ate a fresh onion off the ground.

That's right.

That's right.

And

it was wild.

we ate lunch or whatever a few hours later sitting down to watch a tv show feeling fine had to stop the show 15 minutes in being like oh something's not right i'm feeling a little sick and then

within like an hour i had 103 degree fever damn jesus christ and was just like popping like ibuprofen and had like multiple fans blowing on me and it was maintaining over 103.

I think I would have been over 104 if I hadn't done anything.

Like it was wild how quick it came on and how awful I felt.

I was like, I might be dying.

I feel like I'm dying.

This might be the end

right now.

Looking forward to that experience to just add to the shit that I've been through in my life.

Don't drink raw milk, you fucking morons.

Once it becomes illegal to distinguish between raw and pasteurized milk, we'll all know what this is like.

Yeah, exactly.

To give a little bit of color, RFK is one of those absolute schmucks who basically believes that like anything that a scientist has told you,

he's telling you for profit.

This is why food scientists are so rich.

And

if we would simply return to the land by

consuming more wastewater to build our immune system up or whatever, then we would be better off.

And this has like sparked a social media debate.

Have you guys seen any of this?

But, like, people will just be on TikTok

drinking raw milk and being like,

This is good for you.

There is a lady who was like, I've had this raw milk in my fridge for six weeks, and it does not spoil the way that pasteurized milk does.

Oh, my God.

Because, in a way, it's already spoiled.

It comes out of the cow.

When she pours it out,

I'm telling you, it is chunking out of that.

Yeah, yeah.

I've seen someone posting about raw cream.

And first of all, it is thicker than that.

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