1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,599 Speaker 1: The statement of Roberty Lee, who's no longer in favor. 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: Did you ever notice said, no longer in favor, Never 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: fight uphill me boys, Never fight uphill. They were fighting uphill. 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: He said, Wow, that was a big mistake. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: Never fight uphill me boys. Never fight uphill me boys. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 2: Never vote for a crazy person. Me boys. That's the 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 2: most important thing to take away from Donald Trump's speech 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. It is April sixteenth, twenty twenty four, two 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: one hundred and three days remained until we discover the 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 2: choice of the American people, Trump or America Trump or 11 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 2: President Biden. Never fight uphill me boys. Never fight uphill 12 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: me boys, according to Donald Trump speaking at a fascist 13 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: rally in Pennsylvania. That's what Robert E. Lee said at 14 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 2: the Battle of Getty's. 15 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: The statement of Roberty Lee, who's no longer in favor? 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: Did you ever notice that no longer in favor? Never 17 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: fight uphill me boys, Never fight uphill They were fighting uphill. 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: He said, Wow, that was a big mistake. He lost 19 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: his great general and they were fighting. Never fight uphilling 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: me boys. But it was too late. 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: Now we know something for certain. Roberty Lee was a trader, 22 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: a cruel slave master who, when he marched his army 23 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: into Pennsylvania, captured and kidnapped every free black person they 24 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 2: could find to send back South into slavery. That's Robert E. Lee. 25 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: But Roberty Lee was also a fluent English speaker who 26 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: was never a pirate, didn't own a parrot, and so 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: far as we know, had no associations with leprechauns. Never 28 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 2: fight uphill me, boys. Of course, that's exactly what Roberty 29 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 2: the ordered on the third day of the Battle of 30 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 2: Gettysburg when he sent George Pickett marching uphill, destroying his 31 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 2: army and the Confederate cause. Gettysburg is a sacred place 32 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: in the story of America because it is the place 33 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: where the United States was saved, and it is the 34 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: ground where our country came to its closest moment of 35 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 2: ending forever within two minutes. Actually, chaos on the battlefield 36 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 2: was caused by an incompetent general who had been a 37 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: New York congressman. Incredibly, this guy, Dan Sickles, had shot 38 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 2: his wife's lover in broad daylight in Lafayette Square one 39 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years before Trump said he could shoot 40 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: someone in broad daylight in Manhattan and not lose any votes. 41 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 2: Sickles got away with the murder through the nation's first 42 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 2: insanity defense. And on that second day of the Battle 43 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 2: of Gettysburg, he had moved his troops far out of 44 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 2: position the Confederate army was attacking, about to end run 45 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 2: the Union lines and be in a position to sweep 46 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: the Union army the American Army off of the high ground, 47 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 2: and the result would have been that Roberty Lee's Confederate 48 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: Army was between the Union Army and the White House, 49 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: meaning it could march on Washington, DC. It could carry 50 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 2: the Confederate flag across the chambers of the Senate and 51 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 2: the House of Representatives. It meant that Lee's army could 52 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: take Capitol Hill, which wouldn't happen until January sixth, twenty 53 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: twenty one. But I digress. What happened at Gettysburg was 54 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 2: the American Army crushed the Confederate army. It is the 55 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 2: bloodiest battle in American history. And there were words spoken 56 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 2: about it that describe what happened at Gettysburg. They're Abraham 57 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 2: Lincoln's words. Behold them, read them. It's a short speech. 58 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 2: It's a speech that reconsecrated the United States of America. 59 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 2: It gave it, through words, a new birth of freedom. 60 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 2: It attached the American cause to the ideas and ideals 61 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 2: of the Declaration of Independence. It was the birth, in 62 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 2: a form and fashion, of the Second American Republic. Abraham 63 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: Lincoln redeemed the American Revolution by ending slavery and enunciating 64 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 2: the ideas, ideals, and principles of liberty, the foundation of 65 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 2: human rights for all people. What Trump did is desecrate 66 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 2: those words. But that's to be expected because Donald Trump 67 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: stands at a point on a compass that is one 68 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: hundred and eighty degrees away from Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest 69 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: commander in chief, America's most noble president. Trump is his 70 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 2: filthy opposite. Trump is the low man to Lincoln's highman. 71 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 2: He is the worst president in American history, stupendously ignorant. 72 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: But beyond that, he's also almost eighty years old. And 73 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 2: let's talk openly and honestly about how the American media 74 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: would have covered this if Joe Biden had said it. 75 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 2: Imagine if President Biden got up in a rally and 76 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: said what Donald Trump said. Imagine if it was your parent. 77 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 2: Imagine if it was a pilot in the cockpit, what 78 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 2: would you do? Personally? I would run off the plane 79 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 2: and if it was moving down the runway, I'd take 80 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: to find because I'd blow the hatch and jump out 81 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 2: of the plane on the sliding air mattress. Why would 82 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 2: the American people elect somebody who is incoherent, who is 83 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 2: ignorant and maybe not sentient, not in command of his faculties. 84 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 2: There is something that has to be talked about directly 85 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: when you watch that because of the incoherence. Has Donald 86 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 2: Trump lost command of faculties? Is he suffering from dementia? 87 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: We do know that Donald Trump, as a politician, uses 88 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 2: projection as a primary weapon. So, because he is the 89 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 2: most corrupt president that has ever been, he attacks an 90 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: honest man as being corrupt, and his propaganda channels do 91 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 2: the dirty work day in day out. Whatever Trump says 92 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: about someone else, it is almost always the case that 93 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: it is true about Trump, but not the person he 94 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 2: is attacking. Over and over again, Donald Trump attacks Joe Biden, 95 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 2: who is preoccupied this weekend with leadership, with being president. 96 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 2: Here's the president in the situation room. Here's Donald Trump 97 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: making up quotes from Robert E. Lee. And remember the 98 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 2: Confederate Army was obliterated on the third day because Robert E. Lee, 99 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 2: against the advice of General James Longstreet, ordered George Pickett 100 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: to lead a charge. Uppill me boys, uppill me boys, 101 00:08:52,920 --> 00:09:02,319 Speaker 2: fighting uphill. The world is at a danger place, a 102 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: dangerous hour. The Iranians fired three hundred missiles, cruise missiles, 103 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 2: ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, who has not yet responded. 104 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 2: The whole world is a tinderbox right now. There is 105 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 2: war in Europe, and the Ukrainians are being starved of 106 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 2: bullets and shells and weapons, and the Russians are advancing in. 107 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin has his eyes set on the next country 108 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: and the one after that. What does the Chinese wolf 109 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: see in the Pacific? Do they see American strength or 110 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 2: American weakness? Perhaps it is the case that all of 111 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 2: this instability is being driven because foreign enemies, foreign dictators, 112 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: look at the chaos in America caused by Trump. Leave 113 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 2: It's possible, likely even that he will come back to power, 114 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: So now they are making their move. We stand in 115 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 2: a moment where the lessons of the twentieth century matter 116 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 2: a great deal and Donald Trump knows nothing about anything. 117 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 2: But there is another difference between him and Lincoln. Lincoln 118 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 2: was the man who said, with charity for all and 119 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: malice towards none. Abraham Lincoln, at the end of a 120 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: horrific Civil war, talked about reunion and reconciliation in charity. 121 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: He talked about the widow and the orphan. He talked 122 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 2: about binding up the wounds of the nation. Donald Trump 123 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 2: talks about opening and creating new wounds. He talks about 124 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 2: violence and revenge and retribution. Everything that Abraham Lincoln was 125 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 2: and stood for, Donald Trump refutes he is against. He 126 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: stands in opposition too. Abraham Lincoln was the savior of 127 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: the nation. Donald Trump promises to be its ruination. It 128 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 2: is funny and absurd. Never fight up hill me boys, 129 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 2: never fight up hills. Never fight up hill me boys, 130 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: Never fight uphill. And you can see the glazed and 131 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 2: plasticized faces of the drones, the human mannequins behind him, 132 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 2: who surrendered their agency, their intellectual sovereignty, to this abject, 133 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 2: stupefying idiocy, this thermo nuclear ignorance about our story, about 134 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 2: our history, about the valor, the guts that it took 135 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 2: to overcome the army of menace and hate and slavery 136 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: that Robert E. Lee took into Pennsylvania trying to end 137 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 2: the United States of America. He failed, just like Donald 138 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: Trump will fail in his attempt to unravel the cause 139 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 2: of freedom by taking power. Churchill talked about this. He said, 140 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 2: no decent person in public life would ever seek to 141 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: be anything other than the servant of the people. They 142 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:12,840 Speaker 2: would never aspire to be a master of the state 143 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: and of the people. But that's what Trump aspires to be. 144 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 2: He looks at Jijingping, he looks at Putin, he looks 145 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: at Kim Jong Un, he looks at the Ayatolas, and 146 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 2: he admires their absolute power. He loves their strength. He 147 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 2: loves the notion that he is above the law. But 148 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 2: he's not. Because this is America, and Abraham Lincoln's words 149 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 2: remind us who we are, which is the exact opposite 150 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: of who Trump tells us we are. That's why Trump's 151 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 2: idiocy in Pennsylvania matters, because it's a desecration of the 152 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: American flag, of the American story, and of the profound 153 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 2: sacrifices that were made at Kettysburg by tens and tens 154 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 2: and tens of thousands of young Americans who lay their 155 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 2: lives down so that we may live in freedom. Today. 156 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 2: When Donald Trump desecrates that story, when he slanders our country, 157 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 2: when he insults the United States, he cuts at that 158 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: heroic legacy, and it is an abomination. Freedom is precious, 159 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 2: and the election of a dangerous fool like Trump into 160 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: the most powerful office in the world is a prelude 161 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 2: to catastrophe. There are two hundred and three days to go. 162 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 2: This is the Warning. Thank you for listening to my 163 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 2: political commentary. If you like what you heard today, please 164 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,239 Speaker 2: also consider subscribing to The Warning daily newsletter on substack.