Jeff Daniels – Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech
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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.