So, I read a few Internet Detective accounts, and based on the timings and reasons given to Four Seasons Total Landscaping when they rang (it’s location, for instance - they knew where they were calling), it seems HIGHLY likely that Trump declared there would be a conference at the Four Seasons, staffers scrambled to book it, Four Seasons said FUCK no, and staffers then scrambled around to find ANYWHERE in the vicinity that had the same name so that Trump didn’t have to admit to being wrong on his Twitter feed.
This is, in fact, MUCH FUNNIER than the idea that staffers made a mistake (come on, Four Seasons Hotel would have come up first on any search engine), and reflects the fuckin’ Dictator Playbook of being unable to admit to being wrong, and staff being afraid to do anything to make the dictator feel wrong.
Trump making a claim without any foundation (i.e. “this conference will be at the Four Seasons” when nothing has been booked) and then refusing to acknowledge the possibility of error makes a lot more sense to me than some staff member booking the wrong venue by mistake. And makes it a lot funnier. :)
Holy shit my unsubstantiated guess was right.
For those of you who don’t know anything about Philadelphia as a city in terms of layout: this place is literally on the same street, on the same block as the jail, down by the docks, in Northeast, right off of I95.
This is big ‘in a van down by the river’ energy. This is ‘the armpit of Philadelphia.’ It’s the industrial portion of the city, right by the casinos. It’s … I can’t express. This is the least appealing portion of the city of Philadelphia.
My dude has become obsessed with finding out the precise sequence of events that led to this and has been following every journalist working on it, on Twitter, and it’s likely exactly as described above, with the additional note:
Likely, the Four Seasons Hotel demanded payment in advance.
Somehow, despite robbing US taxpayers blind for four fucking years, Trump is broke.
Hungary’s government proposed a constitutional amendment on Tuesday requiring children to be raised with a Christian interpretation of gender roles, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling nationalists turn to anti-LGBT rhetoric to shore up support.
The draft amendment submitted to parliament by Justice Minister Judit Varga declares that children must be guaranteed an “upbringing based on values stemming from Hungary’s … Christian culture.”
“The basis for family relations is marriage,” it says. “The mother is a woman, the father is a man.”
It also says Hungary “protects children’s right to the gender identity they were born with,” using language consistent with a government campaign to outlaw transgender identities. […]
In past years, Orban’s government has mostly focused on condemnation of immigration in Europe. But it has increasingly turned to anti-LGBT rhetoric as the pandemic hit the economy, following the example of the ruling nationalist PiS party in nearby Poland which made homophobia the centrepiece of its campaign in an election this year.
In May, Hungary banned gender changes in personal documents. It has also taken issue with children’s books that portray diversity positively.
