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Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. So 250 years ago yesterday, a man stood up in this church in Richmond, Virginia. It's called St. John's Church. It's still there today. It's on East Broad Street in Richmond. 250 years ago yesterday, a man named Patrick Henry stood up in that church in Richmond, Virginia, and he gave a speech that is still remembered now, not just decades or generations later, but literally centuries later. This was, give me liberty or give me death. Now, it's not at all clear to historians if Patrick Henry actually said those exact words in that speech that day. Might have been kind of stolen from Shakespeare and later attributed to him. I don't know. But regardless, it was a good speech. It was important. It's credited in part with Virginia choosing to join what would become the Revolutionary War against the tyrannical King George, which is how we got our independence as a nation. It's how ultimately we got our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
It is how we got our democracy. And on the occasion of that 250 year anniversary of Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech, which again, that 250 year anniversary was yesterday. The current governor of Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin, went to that church in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, where they reenacted the whole dramatic speech, including the give me liberty or give me death thing, which may or may not have actually been said in that. speech 250 years ago. But still, it's a really nice, important thing to commemorate. 250 years is a big anniversary. It's a nice thing for Glenn Youngkin to have done, right? Then he left. He walked out of the church, and this is what happened. Let me just show you just one more minute of this here. This is from a different angle.
And I think this one is helpful because in this angle, you can see him greeting and shaking hands with the men in wigs who have just done the reenactment, smiling and pretending like nothing's going on around him. And then there's kind of this big reveal when he gets down to the SUV that's waiting for him. Watch.
Shame on you! Shame on you!
Coward! Coward! Coward! Coward! Coward! Coward! Coward!
Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, hearing from his constituents in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, his peaceful and nonviolent but very loud and very angry constituents. You know, because of where we are in the calendar, we are now starting to have lots of commemorations of things related to the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, right? Our revolt against a tyrannical leader who ruled by fiat, the founding of our democracy and our divided system of government with its checks and balances to prevent the emergence of another king. Lots of anniversaries, lots of historical commemorative events coming up on this theme. Just to... Just a note, if you are a politician who is going to try to associate yourself with that history, do be aware that your relationship to our current struggles along these lines in this country to hold on to our democracy, that will undoubtedly be front of mind for many of your constituents. One of the things that is in our original Constitution from the 1700s is the U.S. Post Office.
At the end of last week, we covered a bunch of protests all over the country related to the post office, people fighting to save the post office. Trump has said he wants to effectively abolish it. His top campaign donor, Elon Musk, has said it should be privatized. And when we covered this at the end of last week, I thought this was a lot in terms of public response against Trump on the post office, people standing up to defend the post office. That was the end of last week. Turns out that was nothing compared to what happened this weekend. In our production system here on this show, we can do something on screen that's called a two box that shows two pieces of tape simultaneously at once. I sometimes drive everybody nuts by asking for a four box, which shows four pieces of tape at once. In order to cover the postal service, Protests? We've had to create something we've never done before.
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