Jeff Daniels – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech
An evening pause: On election day, I give you the most concise and poetic description of what America has always stood for, first spoken on November 19, 1863. On this day it will either signal “a new birth of freedom,” or a sad funeral speech to a nation that was dedicated to government of the people, by the people, for the people, and successfully proved it for almost 250 years.
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Welcome back, America!
Let’s get to work.
In Red America
Steven Crowder Parody song
https://youtu.be/3nvDK9rz1eE
3:17
Trump talked about Elon Musk for a few minutes in his victory speech last night. Trump was thanking specific people on his team and someone in the crowd shouted out “Elon”. This is queued to start at Trump’s fun stories about Elon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbREukoHQ0Q&t=704s
James Street: Trump’s most important words in talking about Musk was this: “We have to protect our supergeniuses. We don’t have that many of them.”
This is the job of our government, to serve the people of the United States, not to lord over them. The contrast with Biden and his Democratic Party administration is striking.
Lincoln’s speech was thought too brief at the time.
Long before wireless, you would have folks talk all day on subjects… some actually low-rated Lincoln at the time, IIRC.
It may have been Hemingway who eliminated flowery speech, like how JFK ended men wearing hats.