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The Four Seasons fiasco is so strange. I remember hearing in an interview with that business owner that they (the business) explicitly told the Rudy team (during the phone call) that they were a landscaping company, not the hotel, and Rudy's team confirmed that they knew that and still wanted to use their building for their press conference.

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I think the rather dumb justification was that they had already announced they would be holding a press conference at the Four Seasons, were denied by the hotel, and thought this would somehow be a less embarrassing out than simply finding a more reasonable location without the same name.

It's really surreal to remember how unstrange it was at that point. Hair dye dripping down Guiliani's face as spearheaded a blatant lie everyone knew was a lie whilst trying to overturn an election. Just completely insanity all around, and yet, it didn't feel that far off from everything that had preceded it. Just the frog getting a little hotter.

I bet the landscaping company was called after the location was already internally shortlisted by mistake, and some people would've lost face if they suddenly had to change it, so they rolled with it and doubled-down.

I mean if you squint... everyone watched it, because of the location and general wtf-ery. Could it have been a clever bit of PR psychological hackery?

Nah.

But, like, maybe.

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