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! If you're not a 5-4 Premium member, you're not hearing every episode! To hear this and other Premium-only episodes, access to our Slack community, and more, join at fivefourpod.com/support http://fivefourpod.com/support. 5-4 is presented by Prologue Projects. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto. Leon Neyfakh provides editorial support. Our website was designed by Peter Murphy. Our artwork is by Teddy Blanks at Chips NY, and our theme song is by Spatial Relations. Transcriptions of each episode are available at fivefourpod.com http://fivefourpod.com Follow the show at @fivefourpod on most platforms. On BlueSky, find Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social, Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social, and Rhiannon @aywarhiannon.bsky.social. Our Sponsors: * Check out Mint Mobile and use my code mintmobile.com/fivefour for a great deal: https://www.mintmobile.com * Check out Quince and use my code FIVEFOUR for a great deal: https://www.quince.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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• 0:04Speaker 00

  Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this subscriber-only episode of Five to Four, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are answering your questions. With the end of this Supreme Court term, it's become apparent that 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.

• 0:47Speaker 00

  Does the law even matter anymore? This is Five to Four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

• 0:58Peter Shamshiri?

  Welcome to Five to Four, 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.

• 1:09Speaker 02

  Hello.

• 1:10Peter Shamshiri?

  And Michael.

• 1:11Michael Liroff?

  That bitch is getting an IV. Mm-hmm. All the time.

• 1:14Peter Shamshiri?

  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.

• 1:37Speaker 02

  Boo.

• 1:38Michael Liroff?

  I think he's stealing Barron's blood, like that weird Silicon Valley billionaire.

• 1:43Peter Shamshiri?

  Maybe. If he were not receiving, like, the top-tier care, COVID would have taken him out.

• 1:49Michael Liroff?

  Yeah, oh, for sure.

• 1:50Speaker 02

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:51Michael Liroff?

  He got the monoclonal antibodies before anybody else.

• 1:54Peter Shamshiri?

  Right.

• 1:55Michael Liroff?

  That probably saved his life.

• 1:57Peter Shamshiri?

  Remember when he was, like, calling into Fox, struggling to breathe?

• 2:00Michael Liroff?

  Yeah.

• 2:01Speaker 02

  Remember when he got out of the hospital and walked up to the White House?

• 2:04Michael Liroff?

  Oh, God, he was like

• 2:06Speaker 02

  Gasping for his life, yeah.

• 2:08Peter Shamshiri?

  But he was like, he was trying to play it like he was tough.

• 2:10Michael Liroff?

  Yeah.

• 2:10Peter Shamshiri?

  And he was just like, just holding on.

• 2:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:13Peter Shamshiri?

  Just by a thread.

• 2:15Michael Liroff?

  Can't believe he was that close.

• 2:17Speaker 02

  Well.

• 2:17Peter Shamshiri?

  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.

• 2:26Michael Liroff?

  Yeah.

• 2:27Peter Shamshiri?

  But, you know, that's our president and the three of us are praying.

• 2:33Peter Shamshiri?

  What exactly for?

• 2:34Speaker 02

  Praying, period.

• 2:35Peter Shamshiri?

  We can't tell you.

• 2:36Speaker 02

  Praying, ellipses.

• 2:38Peter Shamshiri?

  All right.

• 2:39Speaker 02

  Praying, question mark.

• 2:43Peter Shamshiri?

  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 your performance.

• 2:59Speaker 02

  Yeah. Usually, we're like, my God, our listeners have the dumbest questions. These were pretty good. I take it back.

• 3:08Michael Liroff?

  Can't believe we're friends with these people.

• 3:09Peter Shamshiri?

  Yeah.

• 3:12Michael Liroff?

  Real friends.

• 3:12Peter Shamshiri?

  Your, your minds are being honed under the pressure of the second Trump administration.

• 3:19Michael Liroff?

  That's right.

• 3:20Peter Shamshiri?

  From coal to diamonds, folks. You're doing great.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  Getting sharper. Yeah.

• 3:27Michael Liroff?

  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, you know, what's happening in the country, living under fascism and finding a hope in a fascist state. And a lot of questions just wanted to know about us. And, and I think those were the big, the big themes.

• 4:00Peter Shamshiri?

  Yeah. And only one that asked how the podcast got started, a question that we've answered probably-

• 4:06Peter Shamshiri?

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