Seth Cotlar: Gettysburg Address 2.0 just dropped. This is DJT yesterday, speaking in Shenksville, PA.

Gettysburg Address 2.0 just dropped. This is DJT yesterday, speaking in Shenksville, PA.

“Never fight uphill me boys.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

Not many people know that one of the pivotal battles at Gettysburg took place on “Talk like a pirate” day.

Ok, I suppose this is a relevant time for me to post this parody I wrote almost six years ago, in which I took the structure of the Gettysburg Address and made it Trumpy. open.substack.com/pub/sethcotl...

Dateline: September 6, 2068. The Original Text of the Historic, Billings Addressopen.substack.com The Perpetually Failing New York Times has acquired the original, handwritten notes for what has come to be known as President Trump’s…

I am now just learning that most people don’t know that every white person in 19th century America talked like a pirate. I thought this was common knowledge.

If you want to watch the video of him saying this, part of it is here. www.instagram.com/reel/C5v9Jfp...

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The people behind him are so bored. Trump is committing the cardinal sin.

Must have happened at the beginning of the *second* hour. Scrolling usually starts after the first scintillating hour of oratory.

I watched a bit of it and they were pumped at the beginning. One dude looked like he was finding Jesus at a tent revival

The flotsam and jetsam of a disordered and degraded mind.

Apropos of nothing, one the best things ever made is finally coming off of ad-ruined Hulu soon and over to so far ad-free Netflix: Black Sails. Not many things are as electrifying, or payoff "hey why didn't they deal with that" but then "that" is an entire season, w/ a perfect ending. & also, gay

And also, not gay! One of the best 100% romantic, yet 100% asexual, relationships committed to film in modern memory. Also anti-fascist. Godamn

Sorry, not apropos of nothing, apropos of pirates

Pirates come from Pittsburgh, which is also in Pennsylvania and ends with a burg sound, so it makes complete sense.

There's a great video on this I saw recently, about how far back we could go and still understand English speakers (and read English) and it is amusing to realize everyone talked like pirates and I personally feel cheated we no longer speak like that.

we used to be a real country, yarrr

"..Fake news won’t tell you the amazing things first my father & then I have done with consecrate." 🤣🤣🤣 Everyone in this Dunkin Donuts is looking at me like I'm insane right now, thanks, Seth...

"This is why you should only fight people smaller than you."

He's thinking of the songs Running Up That Hill, and The Grand Old Duke of York.

Robert E. Lee - rebel, traitor, secret pirate.

I thought it’s that Lee was a leprechaun?

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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill - Official Music Videoyoutu.be Official music video for the single "Running Up That Hill" written and produced by British singer Kate Bush.The song was the first single from Kate's 1985 al...

I was going to say this demands a kate bush pirate video parody…

Or a leprechaun. "They're always after me lucky charms. And me slaves. Ok, mostly me slaves."

Yaaaar, shiver me slaves!

Yet again, Trump sweatily vamps his way through the 2nd-grade oral presentation he didn’t bother to prepare for. And most of the country will never hear about it.

The way I just burst out laughing

There was a concerted push to not show his speeches after his first campaign, for good reason. I think it might be smart to start showing them again.

I don’t think news outlets should just run raw, wall-to-wall footage of his rallies, like they did in 2016. But when he rants & rambles like this, & shows clear signs of squirrel-brain &/or authoritarianism, it should be covered. And not cut up into just the snippets where his words make some sense.

I think a couple minute delay with commentary over top makes sense. When he does the Robert E Lee thing, ideally that commentary is like, "we couldn't find that quote..."

Unfair to 2nd-graders, tbh.

Go to Gettysburg and praise Lee is quite a choice.

You do not, under circumstances, gotta hand it to him

Robert E. Lee, he's no longer in favor. Huge, if true.

Oh crap, should I have taken him off my Christmas card list? It’s so hard to keep track of who’s been canceled.

You fight for one little racist rebellion, and that's all anyone ever talks about.

The rule of goats, civil war edition.

Not surprising that a man that wants to unmake the Union is lamenting the mistakes of Robert E. Lee.

One thing you can't say is that Trump hasn't learned the lesson of hills.

As someone who grew up near Gettysburg and thus toured it multiple times as part of school and Boy Scout functions as well as learned the major elements of it several times over... wow.

Lee, who famously didn’t tell his soldiers to fight uphill at Gettysburg

"Wow, that was a big mistake" --Robert E. Lee

He really makes history come alive.

In much the same way Victor Frankenstein did.

At Appomattox Courthouse he also coined the phrase “so that just happened”

We already *have* @dril.bsky.social -- we don't need a lazy knock-off!

It reads like Trump wanted to read some Lost Cause hagiography of Lee that throws Longstreet under the bus, but got bored on page 6.

They shouldn’t have treated Old Pete like that!

Yeah. They did it at least twice—Little Round Top and Pickett’s Charge.

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