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No Due Process, Yes Jumbo Plane [TEASER]
Since taking office, Trump has moved quickly to implement his authoritarian agenda. Now, he is asking the Supreme Court to limit the judicial branch by preventing individual judges from blocking his orders.
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Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.
On this subscriber-only episode of 5-4,
Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are checking in on the Trump White House: revocation of student visas, the arrest of individuals involved in pro-Palestinian activism, and the effort to enact mass deportations using the Alien Enemies Act.
And then there's the attack on the judiciary.
Much of what Trump has tried to do has been challenged in federal court.
So the administration is asking the Supreme Court to get the judicial branch out of its way.
The Supreme Court took up a case that could decide how quickly President Trump can get his second-term agenda off the ground.
The justices are hearing arguments about the ability for a single judge to block a policy for the entire country.
This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have consumed our nation, like our president consuming fish fillets in Riyadh.
I'm Peter.
I'm here with Rhiannon.
Hey.
And Michael.
And we know he's eating those because they have a mobile McDonald's following him around Saudi Arabia.
That's right.
Yes.
The Saudis thought that it would be a good idea to greet our president on his diplomatic visit with a mobile McDonald's.
They were right.
They fucking nailed it.
Right.
This is what he wants the most in the world.
Yeah.
And they did it.
They delivered.
And you know, you know, they were fucking dying laughing when they thought of this idea.
Yeah.
They were like, you know what that fucking slob would like?
What if we brought McDonald's to him and just give him like a low dose of poison or whatever?
Right.
It's so good.
It's so good.
It's so on the nose.
Everything kind of rules now.
Everything's a little bit funnier than it used to be, you have to admit.
And just the superficiality of it, like you see pictures of it, it's a tractor trailer.
Oh, yeah.
This is like it can be on the back of an F-150.
Like it's
so ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's fantastic.
I love it.
I love it.
Yeah.
The funniest thing about him is that he loves McDonald's that much.
Yeah.
And I don't know how conscious it is that he's just like, oh, I'm doing sort of like class signaling in a way.
Right.
I think that's part of it.
But I also believe that this is genuinely what he loves.
Like this is like, this comes from the heart.
Yeah.
I don't think it's an affect in any way.
He loves McDonald's.
I do wonder if this is the case.
Either one is very funny to me, but it either like the Saudis came up with this or they like reached out to, you know, Marco Rubio and were like, what would Trump like?
And Rubio was like, Trump, what do you want the Saudis to do with you?
And he's like, Mobo McDonald's.
Mobile McDonald's.
You know, like in-laws trying to get the in the info on a Christmas present or something.
His main complaint about McDonald's is that when you leave, it doesn't follow you around.
Either way, very funny.
Yeah.
We were talking about this, but it's very upsetting.
that like on the left, it's like a little gauche to make fun of this too much because people think that you're being classist.
Right.
Or judging people based on like their food choices.
Yeah.
Right.
Like right.
Like maybe you maybe you veer into fat phobia at times and stuff like that.
And I'll say, I like McDonald's a lot.
There's a nearby McDonald's and it's, you know, one of our little treats every now and then.
We pop into McDonald's.
I enjoy it.
Liking McDonald's that much is disgusting.
It's grotesque.
Right.
Come on.
Right.
I love McDonald's.
Peter knows this.
I told him this.
I don't know if Rhiannon's heard this.
When I first moved here, there's McDonald's right down the street from me, like a mile and a half away.
And I would go there and...
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