Portrait of a John Roberts on Fire [TEASER]

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

These “boys” and in some cases “gals” keep proving us right! The 2024-2025 Supreme Court term was a beautiful illustration of this podcast’s entire thesis: this is an institution untethered by law, beholden only to right-wing ideology, and led by a real dipshit Chief Justice.

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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

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.
0:08.5	On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are reflecting on the recently concluded Supreme Court term.
0:17.5	With the justices in recess for the summer, it's a good time to look back at all the wins they handed the Trump administration over the course of the term, and to take stock of how the court's conservative majority now fits in to the MAGA movement.
0:30.9	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
0:44.4	Music about how much the Supreme Court sucks. Welcome to 5 to 4, 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 Zoran Mamdani.
0:56.3	I'm Peter. I'm here with Riannon. Hey. And Michael. Hey, everybody. Have you heard about this line piece of shit? This scumbag.
1:03.9	Have you seen the website with the fake New York Times memmdani headlines? No. Oh, they're very good.
1:10.4	It's like a generator. Like it'll generate fake headlines for you, they're very good. It's like a generator.
1:11.6	Like it'll generate fake headlines for you.
1:13.8	They're pretty good.
1:14.7	What I saw was like,
1:15.9	Mamdani's economic message failed to move these Trump voters in a rural Tennessee dining.
1:22.2	I saw one that was like,
1:23.6	maybe it's not quite the same website,
1:25.6	but I saw one that was like breaking.
1:29.9	Mamdani told a waiter you too when they said, enjoy your meal.
1:36.1	Yes.
1:39.1	This one is right up your alley, Peter.
1:41.8	Eric Adams questions Mom Donnie's commitment to serving interests of Turkey.
1:46.4	Nice.
1:47.7	The Mamdani hit pieces are going to keep coming.
1:50.7	Oh, they're so bad.
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