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Joe Biden's Remarks at Gettysburg
“Today in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, a town hallowed by history, Biden gave a blockbuster speech
calling for the nation to put aside division and come together. He talked about
race: “Think about what it takes for a Black person to love America.
That is a deep love for this country that for far too long we have never fully
recognized.” He talked about disparities of wealth: “Working
people and their kids deserve an opportunity.”
And he talked about Lincoln, and how, at Gettysburg, he called
for Americans to dedicate themselves to a “new
birth of freedom” so that the men who had died
for that cause “shall not have died in vain.”
“Today we are engaged once again in a
battle for the soul of the nation,” Biden
said. “After all that America has accomplished, after all the years we
have stood as a beacon of light to the world, it cannot be that here and now,
in 2020, we will allow government of the people, by the people, and for the
people to perish from this earth.
“You and I are part of a great covenant, a common story of divisions
overcome and of hope renewed," he
said. "If we do our part, if we stand together, if we keep faith
with the past and with each other, then the divisions of our time can give way
to the dreams of a brighter, better, future.”
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And on the “lighter side,” here’s a
glimpse a century into the future in an exclusive short story you will see nowhere
else. You will note it assumes the
President’s full recovery from his bout with his nemesis, the Covid19 virus, often benignly referred to by him as a “hoax.”
Ladeez and Gentlemen, welcome to the All-Around-Washington bus tour of the nation’s capital. On your right, across from Lafayette Park, you can see the tall black obelisk rising on the site of the original White House. It was put there some years ago by the ACLU, an organization dedicated to civil liberties and constitutional rights. After the tour, try to visit it and read the inscriptions on it, one of which reads “Never Again.” A lot of what I am about to tell you is included in a pamphlet available at the obelisk.
For those of you who are visitors to the United States and may be unfamiliar with its
history, the original White House was occupied for four years during the last
century, from 2017 to 2020, by the nation’s 45th president, a man
named Donald Trump. As proven in court
cases after his defeat in 2020 and ultimate exile to a small village outside of
Moscow, it was found that the degree of corruption, thievery, dishonesty, immorality
and evil which permeated his administration had made the White House
undesirable as a residence or office facility after his stay there. Consequently, it was abandoned. The Washington Zoo had even declined to take
it over when it was offered to them to serve as a facility in which to store
animal waste, even after they had been assured that all traces of the last
century’s Trump Virus epidemic had been disinfected and removed. Engineering studies, backed up by leading
clergy of all faiths, concluded that all of this, along with the acrid stench
of wickedness which surrounded the structure, which actually could be smelled
if one got close to the place, made it permanently uninhabitable and not fit
for future use of any kind. After
several decades of standing unoccupied and unused, the original White House was
razed back in 2055. Not too many people
know that several of the demolition workers died from poisonous fumes still
remaining decades later from the days of the Trump contamination of the
structure. You won’t find that in the
history books.
As we proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue, you will see the new
White House, an exact duplicate of the original one, which was built on the
site of the old Washington Post Office, which Donald Trump had turned into a hotel
which bore his name to house those bearing him gifts and rent overpriced rooms
from him. When that structure was
finally razed, much documentation of Trump’s evil was found buried below it,
including at least 2,000 non-disclosure agreements which he had forced many of
those in and out of his administration to sign.
A foreign gentleman sitting on the bus just asked me what political
party this Trump fellow belonged to. Well, he claimed to be a Republican, but
once defeated in 2020, even that party claimed he never really was one of
them. That wasn’t enough, however, to
save the Republican party which since Trump’s presidency has barely survived,
the highest ranking official they have been able to elect, right now, being a
city councilman in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Now as we approach the Ginsberg Supreme Court Building, be
sure to notice the . . .
JL
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