Wapo: It began on a gold escalator. (One of the best openings to an article I've ever read.)

[femmedem]

It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

"PHILADELPHIA — The end came in all the places you’d expect, in all the ways you’d expect, with all the people you’d expect.

When news broke Saturday that Donald Trump’s reign was ending, the president was on a golf course that he owns in Virginia, playing his last round as a non-loser. In Washington, about 125 of his worshipful supporters gathered on the stoop of the Supreme Court to “stop the steal,” then circumnavigated the U.S. Capitol seven times, because that’s how the Israelites conquered Jericho, according to the Book of Joshua. And a pair of Trump’s most loyal surrogates made a defiant stand on the gravelly backside of a landscaping business in an industrial stretch of Northeast Philadelphia, near a crematorium and an adult-video store called Fantasy Island, along State Road, which leads — as being associated with Trump frequently does — to a prison.

Rudolph Giuliani, America’s mayor turned Trump’s sloppy fixer, squinted into the autumnal sun at journalists who had assembled outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping — a choice of location that multiple Trump staffers could not account for, saying that it was the work of the campaign’s Pennsylvania advance team. Literally anywhere else would have conveyed more legitimacy on the enterprise, but legitimacy did not seem a high priority for one of the last battles of a lost war..."

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/four-seasons-total-landscaping-guiliani-trump-election/2020/11/08/3cf80056-2134-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html

[sop]

1. "along State Road, which leads -- as being associated with Trump frequently does -- to a prison."

Fine piece of writing.

[Hekate]

2. Delicious

[Spazito]

3. That was a fun read....

very witty while being accurate in it's facts.

Thanks for posting it.

[femmedem]

4. You're welcome! I was blown away by the writing.

I hope the writers come out with a book.

[llmart]

5. Brilliant writing.

Loved the dig about Rudy.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Great article.

[Roland99]

7. That's funny. It's ending on one, too!!

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

8. One Item Of Clarification

They said "...on a golf course he owns..."
Should read "...cheating on a golf course he owns...".
We know my version is accurate.

[Roland99]

9. This part exposes the utter ludicrousness of it all

“Stop! The! Count!” they chanted Wednesday afternoon outside the TCF Center in Detroit.

“Count! The! Votes!” they chanted Wednesday night outside the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix.

[femmedem]

10. So true!

If I read it in a novel, I'd be rolling on the floor laughing. Even crazier that it's true.

[dhill926]

11. very enjoyable read....

[zentrum]

12. Article behind a pay-wall.

[yaesu]

13. hey WaPo, great minds think alike

https://democraticunderground.com/100214490281

[Quixote1818]

14. Made me think of this

[femmedem]

16. Ha! Yes. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

15. Great read.