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Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 10: Rig Deeper

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  Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 10: Rig Deeper The transition to what will likely be a Biden-led administration beginning January 20th has been rocky, with resistance from within the Trump team and their Republican allies being unusually high. There’s even been at least one example of outright denial that the Trump Train has derailed on a cliffside and fallen into the ocean. This refusal to hand over power is likely based on recent baseless accusations from the President. These suggest that the Democrats engaged in massive enough voter fraud to have manipulated the results in their favor in enough states to win the Electoral College. To dispel that argument before I move any further, the Dems are a massive political party with oodles of power at their disposal. They would’ve at least gotten better results from an electoral rigging than having Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham re-elected, losing a few seats in the House (though their majority has been kept), and...

Up to Date with Ethan Callender Entry 9: How to Stumble Your Way To The Presidency

  Up to Date with Ethan Callender Entry 9: How to Stumble Your Way To The Presidency I’m not gonna lie, they had us on the first night. I was watching CNN’s election coverage with a few of my friends, and it got depressing. I remember all of the battleground states suddenly turning red, and all our hearts sank. It really looked like Trump would win another term, despite the “ red mirage ” that did, in fact, appear that night. In the following days, mail-in votes were being counted in the battleground states, but in Florida and Ohio, Trump had already been projected to win. However, in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, there was hope for Biden, and now, he has completed his comeback. Joe Biden will likely be the 46th President of the United States. I’m sure Biden wasn’t many progressives’ first choice, as even I thought he looked washed-up before the primaries. Of course, I was unaware at the time of his struggle with stuttering , which would explain why he took a while to g...