[SPEAKER_00]: Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.
[SPEAKER_00]: On this week's subscriber only episode of 5-4, Peter, Vienna, and Michael are talking about how the Supreme Court termed as just wrapped up and covered and analyzed by their friends in the mainstream media.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that the term is over, pundits everywhere are rushing to declare once again.
[SPEAKER_00]: The court has done a great job, offering a steady hand of non-partisan moderation when the nation needs it much too.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hosts are here to ask is what the fuck is everyone talking about?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is five to four.
[SPEAKER_00]: A podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left our civil rights in absolute shambles, like the main Senate race, I'm Peter, I'm here with Michael.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Rianne?
[SPEAKER_04]: Hello everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so, who, boy?
[SPEAKER_02]: Grandplattner is incredibly accused of sexual assault.
[SPEAKER_01]: One controversy of many with our friend, Grandplattner, if only there'd been some signs, if only there were some hints about his character.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will say some people on the left, some personalities on the left, podcast or types, online types.
[SPEAKER_01]: They went all in on Grandplattner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me, I've got a sort of sixth sense, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sort of a political genius.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when a guy who,
[SPEAKER_01]: was a blackwater mercenary pops up with a Nazi tattoo and says it was a joke.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually I hold my endorsement back and then that's that's an across the board policy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can adopt that yourself.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's deaf.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's discerning.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's smart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm around.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been around the block.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, this guy gave us absolutely zero reasons to trust him and then proved himself to be completely untrustworthy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Platner is very clearly a piece of shit that's been obvious for a while, but he was, he's a gifted communicator.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the guy who would thrive in Republican politics, I'll tell you what, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I would crush Republican politics.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: He knows how to talk.
[SPEAKER_02]: He knows how to present himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: We might see it happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, they would welcome him with open arms.
[SPEAKER_04]: So he was talking the way he does about, you know, their policy preferences.
[SPEAKER_04]: So
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think it speaks to like, even in left spaces, people do not take anti-Semitism seriously.
[SPEAKER_02]: They do not take misogyny seriously.
[SPEAKER_02]: You still have like this like very retrograde ideas of masculinity.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as a result, people like this still do find.
[SPEAKER_02]: They still flourish in what you would think are nominally like feminist spaces anti-racist spaces, which should be just like projected insecurity from the left, like, this guy was in the military and he's all tough in jail.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, big eye roll for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: This week, it's really become an annual tradition on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are talking about the media's reaction to the past Supreme Court term, technically still the ongoing Supreme Court term, but whatever.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are coming off what is really one of the most radical terms in modern court history, the near complete decimation of the Voting Rights Act, the enabling of racial discrimination by ICE,
[SPEAKER_01]: independence attacks on trans rights, not to mention that even foundational constitutional doctrines, like birth rights citizenship, are holding on by a thread.
[SPEAKER_01]: So how's the media reacting?
[SPEAKER_03]: So good.
[SPEAKER_03]: So normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: So cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: We read through a bunch of their bullshit.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you don't have to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to go over it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what better place to start?
[SPEAKER_01]: And with the New York Times, which is just back on its bullshit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to talk about a couple pieces from them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mainly one called headline.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Supreme Court remembers its principles, which came out the day after the term ended.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that what was happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a response to the Supreme Court narrowly upholding the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.
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