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The Four Seasons Total Landscaping Debacle

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It was Saturday, November 7. Donald Trump tweets that he is going to be holding a press conference and the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia. Thirty minutes later, it is deleted, and Trump tweets again, saying that this is not the Four Seasons luxury hotel, but the Four Seasons Total Landscaping company, which is also in Philadelphia. This is a family-owned small landscaping company, located near the expressway, and in between a crematorium and an adult book store. And people showed up. Guiliani spoke, as did many other people who worked with him. To make matters worse, it was announced during the press conference that Biden won. So the question remains: What happened? Well. There are many different theories as to what happened. The first one was that Trump tweeted the first announcement with no confirmation that this was happening and he is so unwilling to back down that he had to find something with that name. Another theory is that one of Trump’s goons just looked in the phone b...
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Voter Suppression

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Voter suppression is basically a way of skewing the election by limiting people's right to vote. Voter suppression is usually done by the Republican party and is done very strategically. One of the main ways that voter suppression is done is by limiting the number of polling places. Usually BIPOC, poor or young people tend to vote democratically because their rights will be limited the most under a Republican government. Because of this, Republicans often don’t put polling places in poor, Black, or Latinex neighborhoods because the people in those neighborhoods tend to vote Deomocratic. There are often not many polling places on college campuses because young people also tend to vote Democratic. And now you might be thinking, ‘Well, they can just do mail-in voting, right?’ Wrong. Most states try to make it super complicated and hard to do mail-in voting by making so that you need another person to sign your ballot or by limiting the places from which you can send your ballot in. B...
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