#Churchill's Speeches

[tmarshconnors]

"One should have had power when a young man. When wits were sharp, sinews strong… When youth departs, may wisdom prove enough."

Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

[eugenedebs1920]

To barrow from Churchill, and paraphrase A LOT: The pro-democracy and never-trumpers have linked together in their cause and in their need, we will defend American democracy to the end, aiding each other like good Americans to the upmost of our strength. Even though large tracts of The Republican Party, the once revered GOP have fallen, or may fall into the grip of intolerance, and all the odious apparatus of the MAGA mutation, we shall not fail. We shall go on till the end, we shall fight for our freedoms, we shall fight for our rights, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in our message, we shall defend our constitution whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the campaign trail, we shall fight on tv, we shall fight on twitter, we shall fight on tumblr, we shall fight on threads, we shall fight on facebook; we shall never surrender, which I do not for a moment believe, this movement or a large part of it were subjected and accosted, our big tent, beyond party, will carry on the struggle until gods good time, will come to defense of liberty, against fascism, to the rescue and liberation of our great democracy.

🤣🤣🤣 Sorry! I couldn’t resist…

[divinekangaroo]

Based on your reading of the characters I have a few questions if you dont mind answering them

Will Tommy have a new love in the movie?

Did S6 make it clear that Lizzys trajectory and her relationship with Tommy has ended?

Sorry for taking so long to get to this!!

I hope not? In 3 hours max, there is so much else I would like to see than giving him a romantic arc. I also don't think erotic or romantic love is all that much of a driver for him, so to devote time to a new erotic or romantic arc would feel very strange - *familial* love is important to him. I hope the movie is about family, especially Charlie. And given the era of focus as just prior to WWII, I think there's opportunity for some very interesting setup that takes Tommy out of the claustrophobia/inner focus of the last few seasons and starts to more cleverly use the zoom in and zoom out of family and political context. I mean, I *do* think they'll probably throw Tommy into bed with someone because that, too, is a significant part of who Tommy Shelby is, but I just don't see all that much room for a "love" arc. (Also I hate the idea of "find the right woman = all his problems solved!" because of what it does to women as well as an outcome that just doesn't exist in the real world -> I think if they did throw in a new love arc in 3 hours it would be very difficult to avoid that shortcut of Fix the Broken Man with the Love of a Woman being made. That's such a crappy motif :/)

Hard to say. Structurally, Lizzie was in every season, and we know end of S6 still left her with significant power in the business as well as custodianship of Charlie, so I really hope she's still in the movie - except with a major power shift. CEO Lizzie is absolutely my bag and that's what I would totally want to see, and her moving up the social/economic ladder in every series would structurally support that kind of leap in the movie. That in itself necessitates a relationship between her and Tommy, but I'm kind of impartial as to whether it's sexual, whatever - what I'd like to see is a different relationship, because every season also showed a very, very different evolution of a Lizzie & Tommy relationship. To show a final evolution where she is the one with the power would be interesting. I think a 'marriage' arc for them is done, though. Personally I never like arcs that end in marriage as the 'goal' - I've been more interested in how S5 and S6 showed marriage as a daily thing not as a goal - so to move beyond that and show a very different relationship filter would make structural sense as well as be interesting to me. I think if Charlie comes into the movie, it'd be hard to cut Lizzie out, too, but I can also see a scenario where she doesn't come back, because within that time constraint of a movie they'd have to be really careful picking a focus.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

More accurate ....

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TRUMP OPENS FIRE ON THE MEDIA

TCinLA

Dec 17, 2024

The point is not necessarily winning. The point is fear. Now that Disney has surrendered and paid their initiation fee, Trump is ready to commit more extortion, er, I mean start more lawsuits.

In his rambling fact-challenged press conference yesterday, Trump targeted Bob Woodward, CBS, and the Pulitzer Board for awarding its 2018 Prize to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of Trump’s campaign, the Steele Dossier, and the Mueller investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 election. Trump also described recent visits from Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and other tech barons. “In the first term, everyone was fighting me. In this term, everyone wants to be my friend.”

On Monday night, less than 48 hours after securing a $15 million settlement from ABC News, Trump filed a lawsuit in Iowa District Court accusing venerated pollster Ann Selzer and her polling company - and well as The Des Moines Register and its parent company, Gannett - of “brazen election interference” and “consumer fraud” over her November 2 poll showing Kamala Harris winning by 3 points in Iowa.

Whether Seltzer’s polling error constitutes an “election-interfering fiction,” as the suit alleges, is now the question before a Polk County court. Iowa lacks an anti-SLAPP law, a protection that gives judges the ability to swiftly toss out frivolous attacks on free speech. Trump’s newest legal adventure leans on an extremely aggressive reading of Iowa’s consumer fraud law intended to prevent businesses from making misrepresentations to deceive purchasers.

Selzer’s spent three decades in the polling business and boasts an A+ rating from Nate Silver, Her sterling reputation was the main reason why many in Washington and the media took her startling Iowa result at least somewhat seriously. Even among veteran political operators who wrote off the Harris +3 number as an outlier, the prospect that pollsters might be significantly undercounting Democratic votes fomented a temporary media narrative that Kamala’s campaign had crucial momentum heading into the final days of the race.

Two weeks after the election, Selzer announced she would be retiring from the polling business to explore “other ventures and opportunities,”a decision she said she made last year. “Would I have liked to make this announcement after a final poll aligned with Election Day results? Of course,” she wrote in a guest essay for The Des Moines Register. “It’s ironic that it’s just the opposite.”

Trump was still fuming over the last-minute narrative shift that the poll generated. He now appears eager to run up the score.

Ahead of filing the lawsuit Monday evening, Trump previewed his plans in an afternoon press conference. “We have to straighten out our press,” he said. “Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.”

Besides the ABC News suit, Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion for the way it edited Bill Whitaker’s 60 Minutes interview with Harris - claiming the edited broadcast amounted to “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference.” He is now pursuing a case against the Pulitzer Prize board for awards to journalists from The New York Times and Washington Post who investigated his ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Never before has a candidate sued a pollster for setting off a negative news cycle. Typically, if a pollster is wrong, their reputation suffers, but they are rarely blamed for damaging a campaign.

The Des Moines Register said they stand by their reporting and believe a lawsuit would be “without merit.” It will be interesting to see what Gannet does here - they are a major company in the news business without other corporate interests.

As with Trump’s other lawsuits against media organizations, the objective isn’t to win but to intimidate.

Litigation is expensive for all parties, especially in high-profile cases such as those involving a former and future president, even if the suit is ultimately found to be frivolous. There is also the burden of the discovery process, which is always invasive and frequently ugly. Already, nervousness is spreading, with media companies preparing for litigation targeting journalists, including charges like defamation or even violations of the Espionage Act. Axios recently told its staff to expect an increased number of lawsuits from the Trump administration.

The fact that Trump has filed litigation against Selzer, and 60 Minutes could undercut his argument he’s too busy as president-elect to shoulder the burdens of civil litigation.

The two dominant theories about ABC’s surrender are that either Trump has unearthed potentially damaging information or correspondence at ABC News that Disney doesn’t want revealed, or that this is CEO Bob Iger’s gesture to Trump to avoid his vengeance and the lightning-rod spectacle of a public trial against a sitting president. Iger, since he returned to Disney, has been willing to placate the right to keep the company out of its crosshairs He knows he can’t give $1 million to Trump’s inauguration without causing an internal firestorm, and he hasn’t made his own tail-between-legs pilgrimage to Mar-A-Lago. But he knows this settlement is a way to buy some insurance for the next four years. The question is how much goodwill it actually buys. If Trump sees an opportunity to benefit from attacking Disney, he’ll do it, regardless of Disney’s surrender.

Michelle Goldberg wrote of these events, Collectively, all these elite decisions to bow to Trump make it feel like the air is going out of the old liberal order. In its place will be something more ruthless and Nietzschean.”

Anne Applebaum, an expert on descents into authoritarianism, said, “Many people assumed in the past that the news media in the United States was too big, too diverse, and too complex to be intimidated.”

So much for that cornerstone of democracy.

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” - Edmund Burke

“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - Winston Churchill

[TCinLA]

[quotelr]

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill

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[yourdreamsaredreamingyouback]

"You create your own universe as you go along"

Winston Churchill

Your dreams are dreaming you back

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1945 – In a radio broadcast, Churchill accuses De Valera’s government of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese.

In his Victory in Europe speech, Winston Churchill slams Éamon de Valera and his war-time policy. (To add fuel to an already bitter relationship, de Valera had not distinguished himself or Ireland’s reputation when he offered condolences to Germany on the death of Hitler.) “(By the dawn of 1941), The sense of envelopment, which might at any moment turn to strangulation, lay heavy upon us. We had…

[vox-anglosphere]

At last, the collected sayings of Winston Churchill in a single volume

[oceancentury]

“Roads are made, streets are made, railway services are improved, electric light turns night into day, electric trams glide swiftly to and fro, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains - and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labour and cost of other people. Many of the most important are effected at the cost of the municipality and of the ratepayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is sensibly enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare; he contributes nothing even to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.” - Winston Churchill, 1909. Full Speech.

[imkeepinit]

[morgancgaliano]

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"

Sauce: International W.Churchill Society

Now, not than Winnye was a fair man or anything, he had dire responsibilities in WWII, his morals was grey (isn'it true of any statesman? I think yes), but at least he knew one thing or two on politics and governments.

Information must be free and freely accessible, speech must be free and unfiltered, even when hideous and intolerable: te risk is not being able to develop antibodies against totalitarism, dictatorship, monopolization of powers, discourse and markets or, more simply, hypocritical and sanctimonious polarization of culture.

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

[mental-food]

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

-Winston Churchill

[retrotariotr]

Winston Churchill (America's Thanksgivng Day)

Short speech from Sir Winston Churchill about America's Thanksgiving 🦃

[adomainname]

A Legacy of Strength: Churchill’s Historic June 4th, 1940 Speech

In the annals of history, there are speeches that resonate far beyond their immediate context, echoing through the corridors of time with unwavering clarity. One such speech is Winston Churchill's address to the British House of Commons on 4th June 1940. Delivered during the dark days of World War II, it is a masterclass in rhetoric and resolve, encapsulated by the stirring words, "We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be."

This speech was not just a call to arms; it was a galvanizing force that unified a nation under siege. Let's explore some key features of this historic oration that continue to captivate and inspire.

1: A Rallying Cry

Purposeful Tone: Churchill's speech was crafted to bolster British morale during a time of great uncertainty. His deliberate choice of words and assertive tone aimed to reassure the public and military forces alike, affirming that surrender was not an option.

Emotional Resonance: The speech tapped into the collective spirit of the British people, acknowledging their fears while simultaneously igniting a fierce determination to stand strong against the looming threat of Nazi Germany.

2: Masterful Use of Repetition

Repetition for Emphasis: The repeated use of "We shall" throughout the speech is a rhetorical device that underscores the resolve and solidarity of the British people. This technique not only emphasizes commitment but also creates a rhythmic, almost musical quality that reinforces the speech's memorability.

Building Momentum: As the speech progresses, the repetition builds momentum, sweeping the audience along on a wave of national pride and unyielding strength.

3: A Vision of Collective Unity

Inclusive Language: By using inclusive language such as "our Island" and "we," Churchill fostered a sense of unity and shared responsibility. This was crucial in rallying a diverse population to a common cause.

Beyond Borders: Churchill's words extended beyond the geographical confines of Britain, symbolizing the broader fight for freedom and democracy. This vision resonated with Allied nations, cementing partnerships that were vital for the war effort.

4: Timeless Inspiration

A Legacy of Resilience: Decades later, Churchill's speech remains a symbol of resilience and courage. It serves as a reminder that in times of adversity, the human spirit is capable of remarkable perseverance.

Modern Relevance: In today's world, where challenges abound, the speech continues to inspire leaders and individuals alike to stand their ground and face difficulties head-on.

In conclusion, Winston Churchill's speech of 4th June 1940 is more than a historical artifact; it is a testament to the power of words to unite, inspire, and fortify the human spirit against overwhelming odds. Though not essential to daily life, revisiting this classic oration offers a profound reminder of the enduring strength found in collective resolve and an unwavering commitment to a just cause.

Go to Churchill's Speech on 4th June 1940

[quotelr]

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill