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[SPEAKER_00]: On this subscriber only episode of Five to Four, Peter, Reannon, and Michael are reflecting on the recently concluded Supreme Court term.
[SPEAKER_00]: With the justices in recess for the summer, it's a good time to look back at all the wins they hand in the Trump administration over the course of the term, and to take stock of how the court's conservative majority now fits into the maga movement.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Five to Four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have buried our nation in scandals, like the New York Times is trying to bury Zoron Mamdoni.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Peter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with Reyanan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Michael.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey everybody, have you heard about this line piece of shit?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's scumbag.
[SPEAKER_03]: Have you seen the website with the fake New York Times, Mimdani headlines?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, they're, they're very good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a generator.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, it'll generate fake headlines for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: When I saw it was like, Mimdani's economic message failed to move these Trump voters in a rural Tennessee dime.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw one that was like, maybe it's not quite the same website, but I saw one that was like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Breaking, Mamdoni told a waiter, you too, when they said, enjoy your meal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one is right up your alley, Peter.
[SPEAKER_03]: Eric Adams, questions, Mamdoni's commitment to serving interests of Turkey.
[SPEAKER_02]: the mundani hit pieces are going to keep coming and I guess they don't have much yet you know maybe they'll find something but like so far what they have is that when he was eighteen he checked african american
[SPEAKER_02]: with a clarifying note that said you gondon right on his college application and you know for someone who at that point had spent more than a third of their life in Uganda yeah born in Uganda has a Uganda parent
[SPEAKER_02]: Doesn't feel particularly weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I guess to the New York Times, this matters because in their mind, the very act of checking that box on a college application is cheating.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what makes them upset.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then it came out that his SAT scores were like twenty-one forty out of twenty-four hundred, which like ninety-seven percentile.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm not like familiar with the twenty-four hundred scale.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just eight hundred eight hundred eight hundred.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, but I was just sort of like, that seems high.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, that seems really good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, they're like, oh, it's median but lower median for the average incoming Columbia student.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, okay, so it was appropriate from to apply to Columbia.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't get admitted.
[SPEAKER_03]: The whole scandal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to talk about this for a second because you got this right Peter.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to believe so many insane things to think this is a scandal.
[SPEAKER_03]: The first thing you have to think is that by checking the African American box, you're getting some massive leg up in your admissions process unfairly so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you have to believe that that's really just code for black.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, someone of Asian ancestry who was born and raised in Uganda could never authentically believe that
[SPEAKER_03]: African American might include them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's layers to that because then you also have to explain to an eighteen year old who spent basically the first half of their life in Uganda that African American here is actually just like a term that generally means black rather than African American.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so many layers of just like, you have to impute a vote.
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