Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 18, 2023

For people who have studied some American history, you would not need to do much of a seance to have a fairly good idea of what he would say to the idiots in Congress now.

The real Lincoln would have said you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time……

“Muster 100k troops and invade! Just don’t let McLellan lead them in the field.”

I have always wondered. If the people who thought up the initial laws, etc of the US. Saw the result of their actions today – would they even change anything. This amendment served one purpose then, but now is totally archaic now.

Harkening back to his Fifth Labor, Hercules would recommend diverting the Potomac River to flush out the Congressional Stables.

Didn’t Walt Disney do the exact same thing to Lincoln at the 1964 New York World’s Fair? I believe that he called it “audioanimatronics.”

“Ummmm….”

A dead Lincoln would be better than what we have now.

…and the emperor has no clothes.

Lincoln was woke and he was a RINO. I am sure that there is some conspiracy theory that proves that the “libs” and the “deep state” forced him to end slavery.

Most hear little of debate, believing as they do that there is only one side to the argument.

Lincoln is in the bardo.

Lincoln was so smart he appointed former Democrats to his Cabinet to build bipartisan support: Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton…we could learn a lot from him

You can if the people are ignorant enough, and they are!

He’s using ChatGPT. It is definitely not the same!

On the other hand, Lincoln was quite the wrestler, so he may have enjoyed the fray. In the end he would have settled everyone down, but the wrestling would have made for good entertainment.

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He’s only interested in fooling some of the people.

Meanwhile, the one person in the household who’s doing actual work seems considerably less impressed.

The Emperor’s New Debating Technique

These days, they’d just use ChatGPT

Some “caller” needs to ask Lincoln why he bailed on the republican party in 1864 and essentially ran as an independent…

Apparently Abe is a man a few words.

Look closely, ain’t no-one gonna hear him no way…

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. If it’s tea, bring me some coffee.

Is Emerson the host ?

The troops guarding WashDC were stationed on Maryland soil and the legislature looked like it was going to vote to secede—so Lincoln arrested them and threw them in prison so they couldn’t and Maryland stayed with the North. The state song’s later verses are not taught to schoolchildren: they angrily call Lincoln a despot and call for vengeance and warmongering. To the tune of Oh Christmas Tree.

I think he’d say “It grieves me, but war between the States is inevitable …”

I am trying to figure out why the candles?