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Have The Aliens Arrived? | Ep. 1667

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	The American military shoots down three unidentified flying objects in a week, and we examine what the hell they might be.
	We review the Super Bowls, cultural highlights and lowlights, and The Washington Post stands up for those most affected by Valentine's Day, the asexual.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is the Bench Bureau Show.
	We'll get to all the Super Bowl stuff in just a little bit here.
	Essentially, over the weekend, the aliens tried to invade, saw the Super Bowl halftime show, went, what the F, and immediately got the hell out of there on their spaceships as fast as humanly possible.
	But the big story over the course of the weekend is that apparently we are now just going happy hunting on a bunch of unidentified flying objects.
	There were three unidentified flying objects shot down within the course of days.
	The first was shot down Over Alaska, apparently.
	According to CNN.com, President Biden told CNN the shootdown of a high-altitude object hovering over Alaska on Friday was a success, shortly after American national security officials disclosed that the commander-in-chief gave the U.S.
	military approval to take the action.
	The announcement, marking the second time American fighter jets have taken down an object flying over U.S.
	airspace in a little less than a week, comes after the administration was subjected to a slew of questions about the timing of Joe Biden's decision to shoot down that suspected Chinese spy balloon that was floating all over the continental United States.
	This time, the president basically said, and they shot it down.
	That's a direct quote from the president.
	After the object was first detected on Thursday, F-35s were scrambled to investigate, according to a U.S.
	official.
	The object, according to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby, was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.
	Apparently, along with efforts by F-35s on Thursday to monitor the thing, fighter aircraft were then engaged with the object on Friday morning, and that yielded limited information.
	They found out the thing was not man, and then they immediately shot it down.
	Joe Biden, of course, declared this an absolute success.
	Here we go.
	The Pentagon and NORAD are refusing to say.
	Now, President Biden was asked about this latest operation.
	He only gave a one word answer.
	Do you have anything to say about the object shot down over Alaska, Mr. President?
	Success.
	He was wearing his aviator sunglasses, so presumably he personally went up there, Tom Cruise style, top gun, and shot it down.
	Or alternatively, it was just a floating Chinese spy balloon.
	Again.
	According to CNN, a U.S.
	official noted there was not a serious concern about collateral damage to people or property on the ground when the decision to shoot it down was made.
	This was one of the big questions.
	As you recall, when it came to the first Chinese spy balloon, which went over the entire United States, the supposed concern was if we shoot it down, it might hit a school.
	It might kill a couple of kids.
	And apparently after Joe Biden received some bad press coverage, this time there was an alert of a Chinese spy balloon.
	He's like, well, screw the kids.
	And they and they shot it down.
	Apparently, U.S.
	Northern Command and NORAD wanted to shoot down the object during the daytime because the brief hours of sunlight in the far north made it easier to spot for a fast-moving jet trying to find and follow a slow-moving object.
	The object apparently did not have any surveillance equipment, which would make it both smaller and less sophisticated than the Chinese balloon that was shot down last weekend.
	Military officials say this was not, in fact, us shooting down our own materiel.
	This was not an American-made object.
	Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, he says, we probably took it down because of, you know, the spy balloon last week.
	Well, saying the quiet part out loud here, which is Joe Biden got embarrassed over the Chinese spy balloons.
	Now we're just shooting down anything in sight, apparently.
	Do you know anything about what was shot down today or why two things were shot down in such a short span?
	My best guess is that for the first time, because of the emergence of this balloon, a lot of eyes are trained.
	The first one, the Chinese The first one.
	So I think this is probably a case of now we're looking really hard.
	And you may remember when we did the big hearings around what people call UFOs, what we're supposed to call unidentified aerial phenomenon.
	It turns out there's an immense amount of junk floating around up there.
	There's weather balloons.
	There's private companies that put things up to try to provide Internet service.
	So my best speculative guess right now is that it was probably something like that.
	And they just said, given what we just all went through for a week, better to just take this thing down.
	Okay, and the head of the spokesperson for the Pentagon, Sean Kirby, he says this particular object was not manned, which it would have been a shock if it had been manned, because presumably we'd be at war with somebody if we were shooting down manned space objects or manned aerospace objects.
	Here we go.
	Given how little was known about this object at the time that our forces shot it down, is it safe to say that when the president ordered He did not know whether it was a manned or unmanned object.
	We were able to get some fighter aircraft up and around it before the order to shoot it down and the pilot's assessment was that this was not manned.
	Okay, so that was object number one that was shot down over the weekend.
	Object number two that was shot down over the weekend was a cylindrical object that was shot down over Canada.
	So apparently there are a lot of these objects and we're just shooting down a lot of them right now.
	According to the New York Times, an American fighter jet acting on the orders of President Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada.
	This is the first time Justin Trudeau has ever gotten to take credit for anything military related.
	He gets to pretend that he's a big, strong fellow, Justin Trudeau.
	Handsome Bernie Sanders up there in Canada.
	Apparently, Canadian-American officials said that they ordered the takedown of another object over Canada.
	Trudeau said, I ordered the takedown of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.
	He actually put out a tweet to this effect, championing his own strong defense for shooting down another unidentified object.
	Quote, I ordered the takedown of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace.
	NORAD command shot down the object over the Yukon.
	Canadian and U.S.
	aircraft were scrambled.
	Well, now he's Scottish.
	And a U.S.
	F-22 successfully fired at the object.
	Well, very, very exciting stuff.
	As with the object that Biden ordered shot down near Alaska on Friday, officials said they really didn't know what they had blasted out of the sky over Yukon, which is, of course, great strategy.
	See, the thing about the Chinese spy balloon is we knew exactly what it was, and we still didn't shoot it down.
	Here, we're like, we don't know what it is, but, you know, it's kind of embarrassing to be Joe Biden that all these objects are floating around up there, so we better shoot all of them down.
	The White House said in a statement on Saturday that Biden and Trudeau had, quote, discussed the importance of recovering the object in order to determine more details on its purpose or origin.
	Late Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration briefly closed also an area near Montana to air traffic.
	So, apparently, it suddenly got very crowded in the skies, and this is leading to some speculation.
	Could the invasion be imminent?
	Could the aliens be here?
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	Okay, so.
	The United States military also shot down this cylindrical object over Canada.
	Corine Jean-Pierre was tried out to explain what exactly had happened, why was Justin Trudeau involved in the decision-making, and she is legitimately the worst press secretary in American history.
	She is truly awful at this.
	Why is the American military shooting something out of the sky over Canada?
	Because it's part of NORAD.
	The NORAD is part of a coalition.
	A consortium.
	A pact of nations.
	Exactly.
	And so that's why we were able to do that.
	Again, we didn't do it on our own.
	We did it clearly in step with Canada.
	With Canada, guys.
	So long as we are on board with Canada, we in Canada will take out the alien invasion.
	Apparently, there was then a fourth flying object that was shot down on Sunday afternoon.
	This one was at 20,000 feet above Lake Huron, according to the Pentagon, according to the Wall Street Journal.
	An F-16 fighter jet shot down the object on the orders of President Biden at 2.42 p.m.
	using the same kind of missile used in the previous three shootdowns, an AIM-9X Sidewinder.
	The U.S.
	was not tracking other objects as of Saturday night, said Air Force General Glenn Van Hurk, the commander of U.S.
	Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
	U.S.
	Coast Guard is searching for the object that was shot down over Michigan.
	It appeared to land in Canadian waters, or Canadian waters, as the White House press secretary might say.
	Pentagon officials said that none of these appeared to pose a military threat, but that officials could not rule out additional takedowns of unidentified objects in American airspace.
	And of course, there was apparently an object that nobody could then find, which shut down Montana airspace over the weekend as well.
	The Northern American Aerospace Defense Command put out a statement saying NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate.
	The aircraft did not identify any objects to correlate to the radar hits.
	NORAD will continue to monitor the situation.
	The one that was shot down over Lake Huron apparently was octagonal in shape.
	Jim Himes, again, he's the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee for the Democrats.
	He says that the last two objects probably are not Chinese, actually, which raises questions as to exactly what they are.
	If we find out these two objects are also of Chinese government origin, what does that say about our relationship right now?
	Well, first of all, I'd be surprised by that.
	I'm going to be careful because I don't know what the second and third objects were.
	But I'd be surprised by that.
	I mean, I think it's fair to say that the Chinese are probably pretty embarrassed that they let a surveillance platform, the first one, go over the United States.
	It became a cause célèbre around the world.
	We now own it.
	That's not a comfortable thing for the Chinese.
	And of course, we cancelled the trip of the Secretary of State.
	So, my guess is that the other two objects are not Chinese, that China is doing everything they can right now to keep as low a profile as possible.
	So, he says that maybe they're not Chinese, maybe they are Chinese.
	Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader, he says, well, they probably are Chinese.
	I mean, probably these are Chinese spy balloons again.
	Question over the Chinese spy planes and other aerial objects.
	Three incidents in a week.
	President Biden took some heat from your Democratic colleagues for not shooting down the spy balloon sooner.
	What can you tell us about these last two incidents, Friday and Saturday night?
	And are you confident in the overall administration response?
	You can be sure that if any American interests or people are at risk, they'll take appropriate action.
	Until they get that comprehensive analysis, however, we have to look at each balloon individually and see what they've done.
	Were these balloons Friday and Saturday night?
	They believe they were, yes.
	But much smaller than the first one.
	Okay, meanwhile, the New York Times has an entire report on exactly what the hell is going on here, asking whether this is indeed the imminent alien invasion.
	Quote, if the truth is out there, it certainly is not apparent yet.
	Pentagon and intelligence officials are trying to make sense of three unidentified flying objects over Alaska, Canada, and Michigan that U.S.
	fighter jets shot down with missiles on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
	The latest turn in the aerial show taking place in the skies above North America comes after a helter-skelter weekend involving what at times seemed like an invasion of unidentified flying objects.
	And of course, this raised the question of whether the aliens were in fact here.
	General Glenn Van Hurk mentioned his head of NORAD before.
	He was asked about this.
	He said, well, we can't rule anything out.
	Maybe it is an alien invasion.
	Who knows?
	No one knows.
	We can't rule it out.
	This is for General Van Hurk.
	Because you still haven't been able to tell us what these things are that we are shooting out of the sky, that raises the question, have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?
	And if so, why?
	Because that is what everyone is asking us right now.
	Thanks for the question.
	I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.
	I haven't ruled out anything at this point.
	We continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.
	So this is exciting, exciting stuff.
	Maybe the aliens are here after all, or maybe they're just adjusting over at NORAD, all of their defense mechanisms, because it turns out that after Joe Biden gets embarrassed, then all of a sudden you're going to up the ante and you're going to shoot everything out of the sky.
	So it doesn't appear that Joe Biden is a weakling because Joe Biden, as it turns out, is in fact a weakling.
	According to the New York Times, after the transit of the spy balloon this month, NORAD adjusted its radar system to make it more sensitive.
	As a result, the number of objects it detected increased sharply.
	In other words, Norad is picking up more incursions because it's now looking for them, spurred on by the heightened awareness caused by the furor over the spy balloon, which floated over the continental United States for a week before an F-22 shot it down on February 4th.
	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security and Atmospheric Affairs Melissa Dalton said, quote, We have been more closely scrutinizing our airspace at these altitudes, including enhancing our radar, which may at least partly explain the increase in objects we've detected over the past week.
	By the way, this means it's kind of miraculous that we haven't had a plane hit one of these things, no?
	I mean, if we literally were not looking for them, and now we just kind of fine-tuned the radar a little bit, what have we been doing for the past several years?
	Why exactly were we not looking for these things for years on end?
	And if they're not dangerous at all, why are we looking for them right now?
	There are a few different explanations that have been offered here.
	UFOs are one.
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	So again, we've had many reports in the recent past of UFOs.
	Apparently, according to NPR, this is just a couple of weeks ago, the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has received 366 reports of unidentified aerial phenomenon, UAP, which is basically UFOs, since it was formed last summer.
	That total reflected 247 new UFO reports and another 119 that occurred before March 2021, but had not been included in earlier preliminary report.
	Bye.
	They've confirmed a huge number of what exactly these aerial objects are, and a huge number of them were found to be balloons.
	According to NPR, the bulk of those reports were attributed to balloons or balloon-like entities.
	Another 26 were found to be various types of drones, and 6 were attributed to clutter.
	That would be plastic bags, weather phenomena, and birds.
	No aliens have been identified as of yet.
	Whenever we hear UFOs, everybody immediately jumps to X-Files.
	It's the aliens.
	But the reality is, what is the most likely thing that is going on here?
	The most likely thing that is going on here is that we are now, because the president is sensitive to being labeled a coward, shooting down everything.
	What's hilarious is the Chinese, who are now attempting to pretend that the alien invasion is imminent also, so that they can shoot down American spy equipment.
	The Global Times, which is a Chinese-controlled outlet, tweeted out over the weekend, quote, local maritime authorities in East China's Shandong province announced on Sunday they had spotted an unidentified flying object in waters near the coastal city of Ruzhou in the province and were preparing to shoot it down, reminding fishermen to be safe via messages. Yeah, that's probably it.
	Probably it's a UFO.
	It's not you guys just trying to save face while all of your stuff is getting shot down.
	Now listen, should we be shooting down all this?
	Sure!
	We should shoot down any piece of Chinese material that enters over American airspace.
	Why would we not do that?
	And it is very convenient for members of both governments to blame UFOs or to leave it vague out there so that it doesn't raise tensions.
	It's also possible that some of the stuff that's being shot down is more sophisticated Chinese equipment than the American officials actually wish to acknowledge.
	It's possible that the Chinese have gotten further developmentally and American officials want to be made public.
	Or maybe these Chinese vehicles are really unsophisticated and the Americans know that and they don't want to let the Chinese know that they know that.
	So instead they're trying to cover up for it.
	However, unlike my colleague Matt Walsh who is very invested in the this is the alien invasion theory, I'm very not invested in this is the alien invasion theory.
	Mainly because I feel like if the aliens came here they wouldn't be floating octagonal balloons that we could shoot down over Lake Huron with like a single flight of an F-22.
	That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
	Millions of light years of space.
	It seems to me that the equipment that you use to surveil America or the rest of the world ought to be better than like the crap the Chinese are putting up there in a giant balloon.
	But again, I'm a skeptic.
	I'm a skeptic.
	Could it be?
	Well, let's put it this way.
	If it were, if you're an alien, why would you want to invade the earth?
	Like what would be the point?
	Considering that we produce things like the Super Bowl and people who riot when their team doesn't win the Super Bowl.
	So last night, In the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
	There's a very controversial call, and at the very end of the game, there's a passing interference call on the cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles.
	It's kind of a rinky-dink call.
	It didn't seem like a lot of interference.
	The ball was really overthrown by Patrick Mahomes.
	It allowed the Chiefs a reset on downs, and that allowed them essentially to run out the clock.
	Now, the reality is that the Chiefs were in a pretty commanding position anyway.
	Even if they'd had to kick the field goal, there still was only about a minute 30 left on the clock, a minute 40 left on the clock.
	Jalen Hurts would have had to take his team all the way down the field in that particular amount of time.
	If you're angry at the refs and you're an Eagles fan, maybe you should be more angry at your team, which blew a 10-point lead after the first half.
	It's a double-digit lead that you blew in the Super Bowl because your defense didn't perform.
	But Eagles fans were going to riot either way.
	This is the beautiful thing about Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, is that you know they're going to riot literally no matter what.
	If they had won, there would have been riots.
	And they didn't, so there were riots.
	According to the New York Post, dejected Eagles fans took to the streets of Philadelphia en masse, shouting F the Chiefs, lighting fireworks, and clashing with police after the team's devastating Super Bowl loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night.
	Obviously, white supremacy at work.
	Clashing with the police.
	They're really angry that the police are racist, which is why the Chiefs won.
	Broad Street looked like a sea of green as heartbroken Philly fans climbed lights and chanted obscenities after the Eagles' stunning 38-35 defeat, according to NJ.com and videos posted to social media.
	Police issued warnings to rowdy fans, some of whom were seen igniting fireworks on the ground, climbing greased poles, and jumping onto bus shelters, according to Fox News.
	So, you know, that's just like a nice Sunday night in Philadelphia, honestly.
	Earlier in the day, wild fans overturned a car on a crowded street near Temple University before the game even started.
	Welcome to Philadelphia, where they throw batteries at Santa Claus at the Philly Stadium.
	People remain mostly peaceful on Broad Street.
	The crowd emptied the streets between 11 p.m.
	and midnight.
	The diehards had started partying when the Eagles held a lead, but then, of course, they lost, and so that was a good excuse for people to climb poles and start to lose their minds.
	This is what a bored culture looks like.
	And a culture, by the way, I'm gonna say a culture without kids.
	Like, you got kids, Super Bowl ends, you gotta make sure your kids are in bed, you gotta get ready for work the next day.
	Who has time to go out and riot after your team loses a game?
	And riot against what exactly?
	Riot against the cops?
	Genius level stuff there from the Philadelphia Eagles fans.
	But it's what we've come to expect, unfortunately, from many of the fans in the city.
	Listen, I'm from L.A.
	They used to do it in L.A.
	also.
	It's like the Lakers win the championship and then they burn a bunch of cars in L.A.
	So, not unique to Philadelphia.
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	Okay, so.
	Meanwhile, the Super Bowl always a sort of cultural bellwether.
	So one of the reasons people like watching the Super Bowl who are not even particularly into football is because it is maybe the only unifying moment in American life left at this point.
	The State of the Union is not particularly unifying.
	Even on July 4th, you'll see a lot of people who are out there shouting about how America is historically founded in racism and it's quite terrible.
	And so the Super Bowl, because it is both a combination of a grand unified event for Tens of millions of Americans and also a cultural event in the sense that we are all watching as corporations try to make money off us.
	It shows you where the corporations think your head is at.
	Where do the corporations think the direction of the culture is going?
	And the answer is progressively to the left.
	The Super Bowl has decided that they are going to woke up a little bit, at least a little bit.
	It's not as bad as it was a few years ago when Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for cash.
	And that's what he was doing.
	He was a second string quarterback who was radically unsuccessful and then decided that he was a victim of American society.
	By the way, you will remember that when Colin Kaepernick did his protest for millions of dollars in advertising money, you remember when he did that, that Rihanna was invited to sing at the Super Bowl that year, and then she proclaimed she would not sing at the Super Bowl because of Colin Kaepernick.
	Well, she did sing at the Super Bowl this year, if you can call what she did last night singing.
	Typically, singing requires you to have more than about a six-note range, but apparently not in modern pop music.
	In any case, I'm going to go through some of the cultural items from the Super Bowl.
	So, the Super Bowl, even before it kicked off, Got kind of woke.
	There was a performance of the so-called Black National Anthem by Cheryl Lee Ralph.
	Now, this, once again, is a case of the face tattoo syndrome.
	What I mean by this is that the so-called Black National Anthem lift every voice and sing.
	They started doing this, again, in the aftermath of Colin Kaepernick's protest as an attempt to sop The left on racial issues.
	And they're still doing this before the Super Bowl now.
	And it's called the Black National Anthem for a reason for a lot of people.
	But people in the media are like, why are you calling it the Black National Anthem?
	Why are you making a big deal?
	Why are you making a big deal out of it?
	Why are you doing it at all?
	It turns out we have a national anthem in this country and it's called the Star Spangled Banner.
	And we all share it.
	And there are a bunch of other songs that are not racially motivated or racially divisive or in any way sectarian.
	There's nothing wrong with the song.
	It's a fine song.
	The question is, is there a Latino-American National Anthem, or a Jewish-American National Anthem, or a Polish-American National Anthem that has to be sung before the Super Bowl as well?
	Or is it only the Black National Anthem that gets sung before the Super Bowl?
	I'm just wondering, again, the Super Bowl is supposed to be a grand, unifying cultural event.
	Why you have a woke sectarian lead up to the event?
	So here is a Shirley Ralph singing the so-called black national anthem.
	Please sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us.
	Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
	Facing the rising sun.
	Okay, so, you know.
	All right, but there's only one reason that you're doing this, and this is because you are attempting to woke up the Super Bowl.
	I mean, that's what that is, is it not?
	If anyone has another theory, I'm perfectly willing to hear it.
	There's a reason to pick this song.
	There's a reason that the woman who's singing the song is black and every background singer is black.
	Obviously, it is a racial thing.
	Pretending that it is not is an attempt at gaslighting.
	Okay, well, other kind of woke elements.
	Very often at the Super Bowl, you will have a Blue Angels flyover, right?
	You'll have four military aircraft that fly over the stadium.
	And here, you had military aircraft fly over the stadium during the National Anthem.
	The military aircraft were all flown by females.
	Now, I don't even know how you categorize a female now, according to the U.S.
	military under Joe Biden.
	Perhaps some of them were biological males.
	We don't know.
	It seems kind of cisgender and cisnormative.
	If these were all biological females, I would hope that at least one of them was a man who identifies as a female.
	That seems like the only real way to do this.
	All of these women are doing a lot more for the country than I am.
	They're serving in the military.
	That's great.
	The point is that the military, in conjunction with the NFL, decided that it was very important, symbolically speaking, to have only women fly over the stadium.
	Which, again, is a way of trying to virtue signal to the left-wing social crowd, yeah, you guys might not like the military very much, but there are females who are flying those planes, and that's the really, really important thing.
	And it always brings to mind that famous meme of a bomb dropping from an American plane with an American flag on it.
	It's like, this is Republican presidents and then a bomb dropping from an American plane with the trans flag on it.
	This is Democrat presidents.
	The military is good when there are a bunch of women who are flying the planes.
	Apparently, there is something weirdly metaphorical about them flying over a closed stadium.
	Because State Farm Arena, which is in Arizona, apparently the roof was on because it's very hot outside.
	And so you have, I guess, the glass ceiling there for the ladies.
	So here's what that looked like.
	There they are!
	The all-women flyover.
	Very cool.
	Oh, history-making.
	So proud of them.
	They took a hard left turn and went directly up to the Canadian border to shoot down some Chinese spy balloons.
	So, that was exciting stuff.
	Meanwhile, that was not the NFL's only attempt to fight back against the scourge of sexism.
	I do love all of this attempt to woke up a sport where giant, extremely physically fit men beat the living hell out of each other.
	I mean, let's just face it.
	The most heteronormative sport in America right now, outside the UFC, is football.
	It is a bunch of extremely fit, able-bodied young men beating the living bleep out of each other.
	Like, taking each other's heads off.
	It's the equivalent of the Roman Colosseum.
	We all know this to be true.
	We kind of ignore it for purposes of enjoying it.
	But the NFL is trying to now make NFL a female thing.
	They're trying to say that women playing football is a thing people are going to watch.
	Yeah, I'm sure.
	I'm sure that's going to go over to gangbusters.
	I mean, WNBA has been so wildly successful.
	It's fan loves it.
	So here was the NFL pushing women's flag football.
	How many of you tuning in?
	No?
	No?
	Bueller?
	Bueller?
	Here we go.
	We're here with world champion Deanna Florence.
	And Deanna, you are so elusive.
	Is there anybody that can pull your flag?
	Well, I'm sure someone can.
	They're right here.
	What?
	Your flag!
	Game on!
	Game on!
	Okay, so we're now doing women's flag football.
	Everyone's chasing her.
	She's amazing at this.
	Full grown men cannot catch up to this woman.
	She's so strong she runs through doors and knocks men down.
	That's her mother trying to grab her flag.
	This is a commercial for NFL women or something.
	And then all the women arrive to guide her forward and they're all running away from men.
	To the women pushing football forward, we can't wait to see where you take this game.
	You're not taking this game anywhere, I'm sorry.
	Let's be real about this.
	How many female players are there in the NFL?
	I understand we made a big, big deal out of there was a college football kicker who was a female and she squib kicked and everyone's like, oh my God, she's amazing and squib kicking.
	You mean like a bad punt or a bad kickoff?
	Okay, so, but this is what we're going to do now.
	So good times.
	Other sort of notable moments from the NFL So a lot of the commercials, they weren't super woke this year, which was kind of a relief.
	They had their moments.
	My favorite sort of unintentionally left-wing moment was the Google Pixel eraser ad, where they just started erasing people from history, a la Stalin.
	Stalin would have loved the magic eraser from Google Pixel.
	Believe it! Believe it!
	So for those who can't see, it says little fixes and they're literally just removing people from photos.
	Huge fixes.
	Removing your ex-husband.
	There's Amy Schumer.
	Why is she a thing?
	Thing no one knows.
	Yonis, what about that dunk in the third quarter?
	What dunk?
	Poo.
	Wicked!
	Wicked!
	Fixed on Pixel.
	Okay, so we're now... This is gonna make for a great I'd say fact-based reality that we can now erase people randomly from photos.
	That'll be excellent.
	Meanwhile, there are a bunch of electric car ads.
	Now listen, I have a Tesla.
	I like electric cars.
	But I have to say that the focus on electric cars, this seems to be a little bit out of proportion to the number of people in America who can afford to buy an electric car at this point.
	Here is Will Ferrell, who ceased being funny, I don't know, what, 20 years ago?
	15 years ago?
	Doing a commercial.
	And I have to, one of the things that is noticeable about the commercials these days is America's an old country.
	We are getting older and older.
	There was a full commercial with John Travolta singing a song from Greece, and he was accompanied by Zach Braff and Donald Faison from Scrubs, which was kind of a niche show, even when it was on the air, and everybody is like 50.
	It's kind of awkward.
	Here's Will Ferrell pushing electric cars.
	How old is Will Ferrell at this point?
	I believe that Will Ferrell is currently 55 years of age.
	This is a, this is a Gen X boomer country, man.
	Here we go.
	General Motors is going electric, and Netflix is joining in by including more EVs in their movies and shows.
	It's the least they can do.
	Well, that's exciting.
	If you're gonna get swarmed by an army of the dead, why not get swarmed in an EV?
	No!
	I said we're waiting!
	Or if you're being voluntarily kidnapped, why not be kidnapped in an EV?
	What's that scent?
	Is it pine?
	Now, should they add EVs everywhere?
	They shallot.
	They shant.
	Is it shallot or shant?
	What about here, Erica?
	You're ruining the show, you idiot.
	What do you mean?
	It's me, Dusty.
	You're not.
	Yeah, you're right.
	This is ridiculous.
	Jimmy, wait!
	Later, loser!
	But anywhere else, it makes sense.
	There goes another runner.
	Brad was so much better for you.
	You should have gone with Brad.
	Get Brad.
	Are you serious?
	Why not make more of those cars electric?
	Wow.
	It's the least they could do.
	Okay, weak stuff there from both Netflix and the EV companies.
	I do love that now they have to virtue signal about virtue signaling.
	It's an infinite vortex of virtue signaling.
	We're not just going to virtue signal by, for example, showing electric cars.
	We're going to virtue signal about doing it in our TV shows, and then we'll triple virtue signal by making a commercial about virtue signaling about the virtue signaling.
	Really strong stuff.
	Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the weird halftime show, and it was weird, starring Rihanna.
	Just a reminder, Rihanna said a few years ago that she was not going to perform in the halftime show because she was so mad about Colin Kaepernick.
	Apparently, the time has now passed.
	Enough time has elapsed for her to perform in the halftime show.
	We'll get to her performance in just one second.
	It left something to be desired.
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	Okay.
	Well, there's only one part of the actual Super Bowl show that many women watch, and that, of course, is the halftime show, which is really kind of the only explanation for why Rihanna was there, as I'll remind you.
	She was supposed to not be on the Super Bowl since about 2018, when Colin Kaepernick fell out of favor in the NFL because he is a toolbag.
	She said she was not going to perform at the halftime show.
	Well, now she's back to performing at the halftime show.
	It was super weird.
	It was super duper weird.
	So it was weird because As staged, it was as though they basically had the set designer for The Last Jedi create all of the costuming and sets.
	It was very strange. She was wearing like the Emperor's Royal Guard red uniform and everybody behind her was wearing the white Stormtrooper uniform.
	They also appeared to be wearing, I guess, the COVID outfits from China.
	Like the COVID cleanup outfits from China.
	I saw some people online comparing this to sperm in search of an egg because there were like thousands and thousands of people clad in white and one Rihanna in red at the very center.
	It was very, very strange optics for sure.
	I will admit that Rihanna is not, in fact, my favorite singer.
	One of the reasons for that is that as much as I don't like pop music and haven't liked pop music pretty much my entire career, you can at least acknowledge that many of the former top pop singers could sing.
	Christina Aguilera used to have some pipes on her.
	Rihanna, her range is about the range of a cat being run over by a steamroller.
	Namely like seven notes.
	And she really does not have more than about an octave range.
	She does not have the ability to belt.
	I'm not a Rihanna fan.
	The entire optic was strange also because she was just on these rising and lowering platforms.
	And these platforms would just go up and down almost at random.
	Here's a little bit of this.
	We'll watch a little bit of this together.
	She looked like something, it was, her hair was done like Cindy Lou Who or something.
	It was kind of strange, at least in the previews.
	Oh, here are the, oh, she's being followed.
	What is happening right now?
	Riveting.
	Now, to be fair, she couldn't dance last night.
	Oh, here we go.
	She's grabbing her crotch, of course.
	This happened multiple times last night.
	Now, because she was pregnant, she was much more modest than women have been in the past on this show.
	And she's kind of barely bouncing around.
	My wife and I were laughing at this last night because my wife is six months pregnant.
	So apparently significantly more pregnant than Rihanna.
	So we're just imagining her doing these dances, which would have been hilarious.
	But, um, she couldn't do much last night, and I get it.
	I mean, she's pregnant.
	Now, I have to say, the NFL, and she and her agent, they all knew she was pregnant before she did the show.
	I'm going to suggest that the reason they did not announce that until after the show is specifically because they knew that she was not going to be good.
	So, if they had said before the show, by the way, Rihanna's pregnant, people would have been like, um, is it safe to put a pregnant lady on risers that are going, like, up 200 feet in the air with no guardrails?
	Like, is that, like, the best idea?
	And if they do it after the show, then that makes a good excuse for her not being very good last night with her COVID crew, her COVID cleanup crew, last night.
	Here she was, once again, grabbing her crotch.
	There was a lot of crotch grabbage last night.
	It's still better than it has been at the Super Bowl for quite a while, because the Super Bowl has been kind of a center of Vegas-style degradation for a long time.
	She's the most clothed that any of these female pop stars have been for quite a while.
	I hear she was doing some crotch grabbing, of course.
	♪ Boy, boy, is you begin to take it, take it, baby, baby ♪ ♪ Take it, take it, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby ♪ She's grabbing her butt.
	And And now she has a tail or something.
	There's the COVID crew dancing with her.
	And some more crotch grabbage and putting it across her mouth and nose.
	It's just delightful stuff for the children, of course.
	Now, I know everybody on the left, anytime you mention the children, they're like, well, then don't have your kids watch.
	I didn't have my kids watch the halftime show, but I'm not going to pretend that there weren't millions of kids who didn't watch the halftime show.
	They did.
	I mean, millions of kids watched the halftime show.
	The NFL knows this.
	This was less offensive than most of the shows.
	And just on a pure aesthetic level, it's a bad show.
	On a pure aesthetic level, it was 20 minutes of the same thing over and over, and all of her songs, I hate to say it, they sound the same, they have no range, and she can't sing.
	Saying the unpopular thing, but that's what we do here on the Ben Shapiro Show.
	We have unpopular cultural opinions that are significantly more controversial, apparently, than, like, my opinions about politics, which is kind of amazing to me.
	But if I say two things, one, it's nice that she's pregnant, and two, she did a crap show last night, then everybody loses it.
	No.
	No!
	It was an amazing show, and you will love it!
	She's a beautiful woman of color who's pregnant.
	You will love that show.
	You will love it.
	And if you mentioned that it was a bad show and it was very unentertaining and incredibly boring, this is probably because you're some sort of bigot.
	I mean, pretty sure it's just because it was kind of a boring show.
	It's kind of boring.
	So, you know, there's your there's your breakdown.
	So.
	The Super Bowl wasn't like super duper woke.
	It wasn't as woke as it was in past years.
	It didn't even have the same level of controversy as it did last year when it was a bunch of rappers who actually had criminal histories on the stage.
	But it just shows you the kind of cultural morass in which we find ourselves.
	Nothing of real quality happening out there.
	Meanwhile, speaking of targeting the children, Disney continues today.
	So Disney actually had a really nice commercial last night for old Disney.
	Disney had a commercial last night in which they showed all of their legacy properties and make you super nostalgic.
	I haven't been able to take my kids to a Disney World for...
	You know, a year, basically, since Disney openly announced that they were trying to trans the kids.
	I've been saying I'm not bringing my kids to Disney World, which is, on a personal level, annoying and painful for me because I really like Disney World a lot.
	I like Disneyland a lot.
	We were annual past members in my family, but I'm not willing to patronize the same people who then subsidize a bunch of wokesters to indoctrinate my kids.
	I'm not willing to do that.
	Disney, last night, they put out a commercial.
	It's a really nice commercial with all of their old legacy properties, the same ones they put Kind of warning labels on right?
	They had Peter Pan.
	If you watch Peter Pan on Disney Plus right now, they have a warning label at the front of Peter Pan telling you you probably shouldn't watch this.
	But then they're willing to advertise this.
	They had classics like Snow White.
	Snow White apparently has fallen out of favor as well for a bunch of nonsensical, woke reasons.
	But they're still willing to make money off of all of that.
	Well, in the real time, right?
	The stuff they're not actually marketing over on the Disney Plus commercial during the Super Bowl, the stuff they're not marketing is all of the woke crap that they are very invested in making.
	So, during the Super Bowl, for example, they weren't showing you the Lightyear movie lesbian storyline.
	They weren't showing you clips from the Proud family.
	They weren't showing you any of the stuff that they feel that it is their job to do as the cultural vanguard.
	The Proud family has become sort of a thing on the Twitters now because people are noticing how woke the Proud family is, and it really is.
	I mean, it's so woke that there is a point where Robin DiAngelo's white fragility actually shows up on the show.
	You understand love, don't you?
	No, no, I do not understand anything about white fragility.
	White fragility? What's that supposed to mean?
	You know what it means! You're doing it right now!
	Doing what?
	Being defensive about race.
	Robert DeAngelo wrote a whole book about it. Read it.
	Yet again, same cover and everything.
	So now the white guy is being forced to read White Fragility on a children's television show on Disney+.
	Or perhaps you'd prefer the section of the Proud Family where a white girl is ripped up and down by her black female friends for dating a black guy.
	Apparently this makes her very bad because apparently the black guy in the show prefers to date white girls and they're like, all the black girls are like, that's awful, you can't date him.
	Now if the black guy preferred to date black girls, apparently that'd be totally cool and fine.
	Not racist at all, Proud Family.
	Miss Proud, the only reason he asked her out is because she's white.
	That's not true!
	Oh, yes, it is true.
	Right, Maya?
	Yup.
	My cousin said Noah's favorite chocolate is white.
	No swirls.
	You're all just jealous that Noah asked me out and not you.
	It has nothing to do with me being white chocolate.
	Not that a person can be white chocolate.
	It has everything to do with you!
	Just a quick reminder here to Latoya Ravenous, one of the chief producers on Proud Family, is the same lady who said that she was pushing her not-at-all-secret gay agenda into children's programming.
	This, of course, is not the only children's programming or programming directed at teens that is attempting to hijack the brains of your kids, because this is our entertainment culture.
	Paramount Plus is now producing a prequel to Grease.
	Now, Grease is a little bit more mature than For the Kitties, but a lot of teenagers like the original musical Grease, remember with John Travolta, and that musical was supposed to take place in the 50s.
	So now they're doing a Grease prequel that is getting a woke makeover.
	It is apparently titled Grease, Rise of the Pink Ladies, and it's about lesbians and transgenderism in 1954.
	Yeah, not super historically accurate, but it definitely has the values of the producers.
	Good morning, boys and girls.
	Thank you for the best summer of my short life.
	To end the divisions among us.
	I want to be a T-Bird.
	And become a truly united Rydell.
	He told me exactly what you did to get that jacket.
	There are a lot of kids in Rydell who are sick of feeling like they're not welcome here.
	I know what it feels like to not be like the others.
	Lesbians and Transgenderism in 1954 in Greece.
	Yes, every legacy property must be made over with the wokeness.
	Till death do us part?
	Link?
	Oh man.
	So tiresome.
	Don't- They don't have an agenda guys.
	This is just what they find.
	It's just the most entertaining stuff.
	There's no agenda whatsoever.
	Okay.
	So, meanwhile, in less kind of frivolous news, I would say this is frivolous, but it really isn't considering how many millions of people imbibe from the culture each and every day and how this moves the culture to the left.
	But in more materially political news, the debt ceiling fight continues apace.
	Chuck Schumer is out there claiming that it's Republicans' fault that we're having a debt ceiling fight.
	He says, what's your plan?
	Why exactly aren't you guys just pushing forward with whatever you want on the debt ceiling?
	If we don't renew the debt ceiling, average American families will be clobbered.
	Their interest rates would go up.
	Their pension savings would go down.
	The cost of a house would go up to $100,000.
	So it's risky.
	Now McCarthy says he wants to attach certain spending cuts to do this.
	A.
	Where is your plan, Mr. McCarthy?
	He says he wants cuts.
	We asked him which ones.
	He won't say any.
	Is it Social Security and Medicare?
	That would hurt the Americans.
	He says it won't be.
	He says it won't, but a lot of other people in his caucus still say it will.
	Okay, so Democrats are still lying.
	They're suggesting that Republicans are going to ask for a vast restructuring of Social Security and Medicare in order to raise the debt ceiling.
	That, of course, is not going to happen.
	McCarthy apparently got together some of the quote unquote five families of the House GOP, according to CNN.
	Those represent the various ideological wings of the conference, and they met for the first time to discuss the range of possibilities and kick around ideas about raising the debt limit.
	McCarthy did not attend that particular session, but he did enlist a close confidant, Louisiana Representative Garrett Graves, to lead that discussion.
	Top committee chairman and other members of leadership also participated as well.
	The goal is to develop a consensus about a proposal that can pass the House with GOP votes alone and strengthen their conference's negotiating position as Washington stares into a debt default this summer.
	It'll be fascinating to see if McCarthy can put this thing together, but he is attempting to do the right thing by avoiding a fight over things that are completely useless, like Social Security and Medicare with the Democratic Senate.
	Meanwhile, investors are looking at Joe Biden's supposed booming economy and they are fleeing funds that track stocks.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, investors have pulled a net $31 billion from U.S.
	equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in the past six weeks alone.
	According to Refinitiv-Lipper data through Wednesday, that marks the longest streak of weekly net outflows since last summer and the most money pulled in aggregate from domestic equity funds to start a year since 2016.
	So people are pouring their money into international equity funds, meaning they're not investing in the United States quite as much, and they're pulling a lot of their money away from U.S.
	equity mutual funds.
	Flows toward funds outside of domestic equities indicate a level of apprehension from investors who are not buying that 2023 rebound in U.S.
	stocks, according to some analysts.
	That, of course, is not a major shock.
	Meanwhile, some of our leading financial lights continue to insist that the United States should lead the way in spending trillions of dollars on things like climate change.
	Wonder why people aren't investing quite the same way they were in Few years ago, the answer is people are very much afraid that the government is going to step in and prohibit them from investing in the things that are the most profitable.
	Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, he actually gave a number yesterday that blows everything out of the water.
	He says that if you want to get to net zero globally in terms of carbon emissions, we have to spend $50 trillion.
	Who's up for that one?
	The transition that we are going to be undergoing related to sustainability is a huge economic opportunity.
	We're going to be creating new technologies, new industries, as other industries are going to become less important.
	But let's be clear, let's focus on society's acceptance to create new jobs, to create new technologies, to move forward.
	We're going to need $50 trillion of investing to get to a net zero world.
	Uh-huh.
	$50 trillion.
	Yeah, probably the economy is in the best of hands.
	Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
	So, things that I like.
	Last night, there was one commercial that I actually thought was kind of nice.
	It was a commercial starring Miles Teller and his wife.
	And here, it was for Bud Light.
	Here was a bit of the commercial.
	The estimated hold time is now less than 96 minutes.
	For those who can't see, she's sitting there and listening to voicemail, or the hold music, customer service.
	And now Summer comes out and starts doing funny dances for her, basically.
	And then she, uh, gets up and starts dancing with him.
	Okay!
	We thank you for your patience.
	Okay.
	It's a nice commercial.
	You know?
	Look at that, a married couple dancing with one another.
	I also, uh, I thought this was, uh, actually cute also because I will admit that I have actually done this with my own wife.
	This is...
	Where that whole music is just lasting forever.
	So I thought that was actually kind of a nice commercial.
	Another thing that I like, I like it when people who are crazy demonstrate that they're full-scale crazy so we can stop pretending that they're not crazy.
	So Sam Smith, over the weekend, he appeared at the Brit Awards, dressed apparently as a person with terrible gout, who wears tight black pants.
	Or as a spade, like on a playing card, is the idea, I guess, here.
	According to Phil Star Life, Sam Smith continues to trend for their bold fashion choices, both of them, continuing their streak with an avant-garde look at the 2023 Brit Awards.
	The singer wore a custom outfit by a Kerala-born menswear designer, Perri, at the awards ceremony on Sunday, featuring an all-black latex bodysuit shaped similar to a spade.
	He matched his outfit with... Uh-oh.
	They say he matched his outfit.
	Mistake, Phil Star Life!
	They matched their outfit with matching black high-heel boots, a right pearl earring, and a left metal stud.
	In an Instagram post, apparently the costume was a direct response to a hate directed toward Smith's body image.
	Sam was having a lot of hate comments recently after Unholy about their body image.
	This is my take on celebrating their natural form and the beauty of being oneself.
	Yes, this is beautiful.
	It is beautiful.
	Also, as Emily Zanotti, a friend, tweeted out, the sound around Sam Smith as Sam Smith made his way, like, tried to walk in this, which was like... Balloons just rubbing together as he moved.
	Must have been just wonderful.
	Guys, we're just...
	We're just the Washington, D.C.
	district in Hunger Games now.
	That's what we've become.
	We're a place of bread and circuses and silliness, and thanks to Sam Smith for pointing that out.
	One of the nice things about when people actively stump on behalf of Satan is that at least they're not hiding the ball anymore.
	That's good.
	This is Satan's outfit over here.
	Satan approves this aesthetic choice.
	I can understand no other rationale for wearing what looks like Big Hero 6 with some form of leg cancer.
	Solid stuff right there.
	Okay, time for some things that I hate.
	So, Valentine's Day is coming up this week, and the Washington Post is focused laser-like on the people most affected by Valentine's Day.
	These would be people who are asexual and aromantic.
	We should just call these lonely people.
	But now, apparently, we have to have a big focus on this.
	This is one of my biggest annoyances in life, seriously, is that there are rules and ceremonies and they apply to the vast majority of the population and are pressed because they are transgressive in the extreme. All they care about is breaking rules and norms. They find the person who is like outside the box like, but isn't this person victimized by Valentine's Day?
	So you have a standard in society that people should generally not be hugely obese.
	People should try to keep fit.
	They find this one person who is very happy being extraordinarily obese, like, but what about Bob?
	Have you thought about Bob?
	Well, this is what we're now doing with Valentine's Day.
	We must remember the plight of the asexual and aromantic on Valentine's Day.
	See, here's the thing.
	As a member of a minority group in the United States, namely I'm an Orthodox Jew, I don't feel like every Christmas there has to be a story in the New York Times about what do Orthodox Jews do on Christmas?
	Aren't they left out?
	Yeah, okay.
	Yeah, we're left out.
	And also we just go and eat Chinese food.
	Like what's the problem?
	Why do we have to have full stories about it?
	But apparently it is very important to think of the plight of people like Odella Pax, 37.
	who has always been skeptical of Valentine's Day.
	She's not opposed to romantic gestures, she said, but the holiday feels capitalistic and corporate-driven, as companies entice couples to spend big on presents and chocolate.
	If I have a partner, why do I only have to give them presents on one day?
	Why do I only give them flowers on one day?
	Why is that day in particular special, said the Penn Salkin at New Jersey resident.
	It just never made sense to me.
	Pax's skepticism is widely shared, but hers comes with a twist.
	She identifies as both asexual and idem romantic.
	We just used to call these lonely people, now they're an actual minority protected class, asexual and idem romantic, which means she does not have any desire for sex and she doesn't make any distinction between romantic and platonic feelings.
	There's like a group for that?
	So what to do with a holiday that assumes romantic and sexual attraction are the norm?
	This year, she's been doing what she usually does on February 14th, making time for self-love and self-care.
	It sounds like this person has a lot of time for self-love and self-care, because all they do is think about themselves all day long.
	For her, that means soaking in a hot bath before curling up in bed with her three stuffed animals, Findahl, Marsha, and Sylvia, the last two named after trailblazing trans activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
	Sounds like a happy life right there.
	We are creating a society of happy people by focusing on the marginalized groups who refuse to or do not wish to take part in nice things like, you know, traditional romance.
	We can make the world a better place so that everyone who wants to curl up with Findol, Marsha, and Sylvia, named for trailblazing trans activists as stuffed animals, can do so on Valentine's Day.
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	University in Philadelphia, a professional useless person, believes the population is undercounted and its influence underestimated because of a lack of awareness.
	Clancy Withers, 19, realized that they were asexual and...
	You notice the high correlation between the transing and the gender non-binary and the asexual and aromantic?
	You notice it?
	Almost as though social contagion is a thing.
	Clancy Withers, 19, realized they were asexual and aromantic in high school when they noticed how differently they experienced attraction compared to their peers.
	When asexual and aromantic people like someone, you're attracted to them as a person and you are attracted to the way they are with you and the way they are with other people.
	This year, their Valentine is their friend Tax, who has helped them manage their Tourette syndrome.
	But we're supposed to pretend, again, that this is just a marginalized identity group.
	This isn't a person with a problem that probably we should focus on solving.
	It's all of society that must change to be more tolerant.
	Okay, meanwhile, one more thing that I hate.
	So, I love this headline from the New York Times.
	A Yale professor suggested mass suicide for old people in Japan.
	What did he mean?
	I mean, I think it was suggested in the first sentence that he wants all the old people to die.
	That would be the thing that he meant.
	His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic.
	In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan's rapidly aging society.
	I feel like the only solution is pretty clear, he said during one online news program in late 2021.
	In the end, isn't it mass suicide and mass seppuku of the elderly?
	Seppuku is an act of ritual disembowelment that was code among dishonored samurai in the 19th century.
	First of all, I mean, if you're gonna, like, kill all the old people, seppuku's a pretty bad way to go.
	It, like, involved, like, taking a knife and plunging it in your stomach and going up and, like, all your intestines going, eh, eh, eh.
	Last year, when asked by a school-aged boy to elaborate on his math seppuku theories, Dr. Neruda graphically described to a group of assembled students a scene from Midsommar, a 2019 horror film in which a Swedish cult sends one of its oldest members to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.
	Whether that's a good thing or not, that's a more difficult question to answer, Dr. Narita said.
	If you think that's good, maybe you can work hard toward creating a society like that.
	At other times, he has broached the topic of euthanasia.
	Dr. Narita said his statements have been taken out of context, and he was mainly addressing a growing effort to push the most senior people out of leadership positions in business and politics, but he has pushed the hottest button in Japan.
	So, he appears frequently on Japanese online shows, and he wears signature eyeglasses with one round and one square lens.
	He is among a few Japanese provocateurs who have found an eager audience by gleefully breaching social taboos.
	So he is suggesting that all of the old people basically kill themselves because Japan has a massive social welfare state and all the old people are drawing on it too greatly.
	If, by the way, you think that this is a rarity, you should recall that Canada right now is pushing euthanasia and like really pushing euthanasia on anyone they can get to take it.
	This is going to be a widespread phenomenon throughout Western democracies within our lifetimes is going to be pushing elderly people to essentially commit suicide in order to make room for the youngs.
	It's going to be, it's going to be continually broached over and over and over again.
	I mean, Ezekiel Emanuel, who was literally the guy who designed Obamacare, wrote a piece for the Atlantic, quote, why I hope to die at 75.
	75 is about three to five years below the average life expectancy in the United States.
	So this is going to be a topic broached more and more often by the euthanasia enthusiasts on the left as the social welfare state continues to increase in cost and as the demographic triangle continues to turn upside down.
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