Step Your Pussy Up Under Fascism [TEASER]
It's okay to be scared. It's hard not to succumb to the nihilism of the second Trump administration. But that is precisely what he and his administration want you to do. Please don't fall for it. Instead, own your power, make them fear you, and for God's sake, STEP YOUR PUSSY UP!
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Transcript
Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.
On this subscriber-only episode of 5-4,
Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are answering your questions.
With the end of this Supreme Court term, it's become apparent that the conservative justices intend to let the Trump administration do as it pleases.
While this podcast should not be consumed as therapy or legal advice, the hosts are here to offer support and a framework for how to think about everything that's happened over the past eight months and what's to come.
In this episode, they discuss the prospect of gay marriage coming before the court, the role of dissents in a conservative supermajority, and the question hovering over so much of the Trump administration's agenda: Does the law even matter anymore?
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 left our nation severely bruised, like Donald Trump's hand.
I'm Peter.
I'm here with Rhiannon.
Hello.
And Michael.
That bitch is getting an IV.
All the time.
He's getting an IV.
Who knows what it's for?
People are speculating
that if you combine the IV bruising with other things like the swelling around his ankles and hands, that perhaps there's a heart failure situation.
He's obviously receiving the greatest medical care in the world.
Boo.
I think he's stealing Baron's blood, like that weird Silicon Valley billionaire.
Maybe.
If he were not receiving like the top-tier care, COVID would have taken him out.
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
Oh, my gosh.
He got the monoclonal antibodies before anybody else.
And that probably saved his life.
Remember when he was like calling into Fox, struggling to breathe?
Yeah.
Remember when he got out of the hospital and walked up to the White House?
Oh, God.
He was like gasping for his life.
Yeah.
But he was like, he was trying to play it like he was tough.
Yeah.
And he was just like, just holding on.
Yeah.
Just by a thread.
Can't believe he was that close.
Oh, we had him.
Well, look, the thing is that old people bruise.
And so if they're consistently getting an IV, it will bruise.
It doesn't really mean that you're like dying or something.
Yeah.
But, you know, that's our president.
And the three of us are praying.
What exactly for?
Praying, period.
We can't tell you.
Praying, ellipses.
All right.
Praying question mark.
All right.
Today, folks, mailbag episode.
We are answering your questions.
We put out a call.
For listener questions.
We got a bunch of listener questions.
Not a bad batch of listener questions, actually.
Usually, this is where I would complain about the performance.
Yeah.
Usually we're like, my God, our listeners have the dumbest questions.
These were pretty good.
I take it back.
Can't believe we're friends with these people.
Yeah.
Real friends.
Your minds are being honed under the pressure of the second Trump administration.
That's right.
From coal to diamonds, folks.
You're doing great.
Getting sharper.
Yeah.
And this time it felt like we got a lot of similar questions.
Like there was a few themes that you guys are all very concerned about.
We got a lot of questions about LGBTQ issues, especially gay marriage.
We got a lot of questions about accountability, the rule of law, and
what's happening in the country, living under fascism and finding hope in a fascist state.
And a lot of questions just wanted to know about us.
And I think those were the big themes.
Yeah.
And only one that asked how the podcast got started, a question that we've answered probably.
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