New data from the CDC shows record levels of depression and suicidal ideation among teenage girls, and it s no mystery why. The CDC adds the COIDVax to its childhood vaccine recommendation list, and Pete Buttigieg s latest transportation disaster is derailing his political future. I m Ben Shapiro, and this is The Bench Bureau Show. Well, we were told that an entire society dedicated to authenticity and subjective feelings of well-being, was going to create record-low rates of happiness and mental health. It turns out, just the opposite has happened. According to brand new data from The CDC, teen girls are now experiencing a record high level of sadness and suicide risk. This, of course, accompanies new data showing that young boys are doing really poorly as well, dropping behind girls in nearly every measurable aspect of American life. So, what s going on here? What s the cause? And why is this happening? And how can we stop it? Is there a link between social media and depression? Or is it something else going on in the world, or is it just our own fault? Let s talk about it, shall we? Welcome to the Bench Bureau Bureau Show, hosted by Ben Shapiro and Matt Knost, and your host, Caitlin Durante, and our host, Molly Keyser, on all things social media, and everything else you need to know about mental health, happiness, and happiness, right here on the bench bureau. This episode is a must-listen! Subscribe to our new show, The Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on Podchaser. Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about the importance of mental health and self-satisfaction, and how to find your true happiness within? Use code: and so on and so much more. Thank you for listening to our podcast, Ben Shapiro is a fellow traveler, right down to the rest of the world can help us make it so that you can be a good thing, right through it s a good place to help us all can be that s a great place to be a great one. Thank you, right to be heard everywhere else is a good friend on the best of it self out there on the podcast, right on it s not that s that self, right out there so much of it really is that seedeedeeded it, right in the whole thing, etc.
00:00:00.000New data from the CDC shows record levels of depression and suicidal ideation among teenage girls, and it's no mystery why.
00:00:06.000The CDC adds the COVID vax to its childhood vaccine recommendation list, and Pete Buttigieg's latest transportation disaster is derailing his political future.
00:00:16.000Well, we were told that an entire society dedicated to authenticity and subjective feelings of well-being, this was going to create record levels of happiness, mental health.
00:00:35.000It turns out that just the opposite has happened.
00:00:37.000According to brand new data from the CDC, teen girls are now experiencing a record high level of sadness and suicide risk.
00:00:43.000This, of course, accompanies new data showing that young boys are doing really poorly as well, dropping behind girls by nearly every measurable aspect of American life.
00:00:51.000According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly three out of five high school girls in the United States surveyed reported feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness in 2021, a roughly 60% increase over the past decade, according to new research from the CDC.
00:01:05.000Though both high school girls and boys reported experiencing mental health challenges, girls reported record high levels of sexual violence, sadness, and suicide risk, according to the CDC.
00:01:13.000In 2021, 57% of high school girls reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year, compared with 36% in 2011.
00:01:20.00030% reported they seriously considered attempting suicide in 2021, up from 19% in 2011.
00:01:21.0003 out of 10 high school girls reported, again, seriously considering suicide.
00:01:28.000Three out of 10 high school girls reported, again, seriously considering suicide, three out of 10.
00:01:35.000And almost 60% say that they have experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the last year alone.
00:01:41.000The CDC found that 29% of high school boys reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in 2021 compared with 21% in 2011.
00:01:50.000Meanwhile, 14% of high school boys reported to have seriously considered attempting suicide up from 13% in 2011.
00:01:55.000So this means that 3 out of every 10 girls has considered suicide and 15 out of every 100 boys, 14 out of every 100 boys, Federal officials highlighted the problem of mental health among young people, especially girls, in the new data released on Monday.
00:02:11.000The data is gathered from a biennial survey from 2011 to 2021 of 9th through 12th graders across the country, and adds to the evidence suggesting the stresses, isolation, and loss of the COVID-19 pandemic worsen mental health issues among young people, many of whom were already struggling.
00:02:54.000Happiness lies in obligations to communities.
00:02:56.000It lies in the ties that bind you to everyone around you.
00:02:59.000And when you sever all of those connections, and when you say to people that the truest sense of joy lies in your sense of sexual self-satisfaction, and you are talking particularly to teenage people, Who are hormonally chaotic, and what you end up with is widespread dissatisfaction, unhappiness, and suicidal ideation.
00:03:16.000All of civilization was built to prevent this sort of thing.
00:03:18.000So it turns out that when you destroy civilization, when you destroy all of the ties that bind us together, it should not be a shock that what you end up with is a chaotic wasteland.
00:03:26.000According to the Wall Street Journal, girls are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and depression, according to mental health experts, given the high rates of harassment and discrimination they face compared with boys.
00:03:34.000Again, now what we're going to do is we're going to claim that somehow over the course of the last 10 years, there has been widespread mistreatment of girls wider than there was in 2011, which cuts against pretty much everything we know about the levels of actual mistreatment in society of girls by boys in American society.
00:03:49.000And there are certain things when it comes to self-reporting data that people tend to be reliable on, stuff that people tend not to be quite as reliable about.
00:03:57.000First of all, self-reporting surveys are always more unreliable than objectively reported surveys of outsiders, right?
00:04:02.000So if you survey me about what my child does, that's going to be significantly more accurate than if you survey me about what I feel about myself.
00:04:10.000Because people do a really bad job of assessing how they feel or what's happened to them.
00:04:16.000And when you've also incentivized a system of victimization, a sense that your victimization grants you heroism in American society, which is certainly true.
00:04:24.000You get more attention by claiming that you've been victimized by others.
00:04:28.000You're going to get a lot more of that.
00:04:30.000Always, subsidization of human behavior increases that behavior.
00:04:33.000It's something Jonathan Haidt has written about in The Coddling of the American Mind.
00:04:36.000The idea is when you create safe spaces, when you create this idea that no one should ever be offended, people look for a rationale to be offended because it grants them some sort of credibility and leverage in the social circles in which they move.
00:04:49.000So what we are seeing is an uptick in the number of girls who are reporting being mistreated by boys.
00:04:56.000There's no uptick, by the way, in the number of rapes that are being reported widespread across the United States or sexual assaults or criminal sexual harassment that's being reported across the United States.
00:05:05.000Remember, this is all in the aftermath of the Me Too movement, which is supposed to eradicate that from American life.
00:05:10.000But we are seeing increased reports of young women claiming that this sort of stuff is happening to them.
00:05:14.000Now, I'm sure for a lot of these young women, that's true, that there are boys who are mistreating them.
00:05:18.000It's also quite possible that what we are seeing is, again, just societally speaking, this is true of every self-reported survey, in uptick in the people who are self-reporting particular aspects of their own lives, and that is how they're perceiving things, but that isn't necessarily what's exactly happening.
00:05:33.000There are a bunch of stories out today specifically on that.
00:05:37.000For example, the New York Times has a piece today titled, How Teens Recovered from the TikTok Tics.
00:05:44.000A wave of teenagers who developed tics during the pandemic by watching TikTok.
00:05:48.000Now are those biological activities that are being driven simply by evolutionary bottlenecks, or is it that social contagion and incentivization of particular behavior leads to more of that behavior?
00:05:59.000We have a society that has decided to create a particular witch's brew of terribleness for young people, and then when that manifests in bad feelings in young people, we're like, where'd that come from?
00:06:10.000It must be societal intolerance or some such.
00:06:13.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:07:16.000So, the social contagions that we are seeing, particularly among young girls, very obvious.
00:07:23.000New York Times today, quote, Aiden's ticks erupted one day after school in early 2021, about a month after the long pandemic lockdown had ended.
00:07:30.000The 16 year old convulsed while walking into the house, head snapping and arms swinging, sometimes letting out high pitched whistles and whoops.
00:07:37.000Aiden's parents looked up from the living room couch with alarm.
00:07:39.000They had been worried about the teenager's ratcheting anxiety related to COVID, gender dysphoria, there it is, gender dysphoria, college applications, even his hanging out with his friends.
00:07:48.000But they were not prepared for this dramatic display.
00:07:50.000We watched this happen in front of our eyes, Aiden's mother Rhonda recently recalled.
00:07:56.000They rushed Aiden to the emergency room, but doctors found nothing wrong.
00:07:59.000After calling a neurologist, the family learned that more than a dozen adolescents in Calgary had recently come down with similar spasms.
00:08:05.000Over the next year, doctors across the world treated thousands of young people for sudden explosive tics.
00:08:09.000Many of the patients had watched popular TikTok videos of teenagers claiming to have Tourette's.
00:08:14.000A spate of alarming headlines about TikTok tics followed.
00:08:17.000Why, almost as though there is a social contagion that is facilitated by social media, in this case propagated by a Chinese propaganda outfit called TikTok.
00:08:26.000According to the New York Times, similar outbreaks have happened for centuries.
00:08:28.000Mysterious symptoms can spread rapidly in a close-knit community, especially one that has endured a shared stress.
00:08:33.000The TikTok tics are one of the largest modern examples of this phenomenon.
00:08:36.000They arrived at a unique moment in history, when a once-in-a-century pandemic spurred pervasive anxiety and isolation, and social media was at times the only way to connect and commiserate.
00:08:45.000Now experts are trying to tease apart the many possible factors, internal and external, that made these teenagers so sensitive to what they watched online.
00:08:52.000Well, maybe the reality is that, again, social isolation, lack of connection with others, lack of a value system in which people are embedded, leads people to imitate behavior that is attention-getting.
00:09:05.000Anyone who's pretending that this is a mystery is ignoring the evidence with their own eyes.
00:09:09.000Four out of five of the adolescents were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.
00:09:13.000One-third reported past traumatic experiences, according to the University of Calgary that analyzed nearly 300 cases from eight countries.
00:09:20.000In new research that has not yet been published, the Canadian team has also found a link to gender.
00:09:24.000The adolescents were overwhelmingly girls or were transgender or non-binary, though no one knows why. Oh, no one knows why, do they? I have some ideas.
00:09:33.000Could it be that we have a society that incentivizes behavioral traits that identify with mental illness?
00:10:00.000See, the great theory underlying all of this is that if we can just uncover all the victimhood that's in our society, then people will feel empowered because they'll realize that their failures have not been their own fault, and now they can move forward.
00:10:10.000But that's not really what it's about.
00:10:11.000What it's really about is the idea that society inherently victimizes entire classes of people, and that because society entirely victimizes these classes of people, we have to restructure society completely and utterly.
00:10:21.000We have to destroy all of those ties that actually used to keep people feeling embedded in society.
00:10:25.000Destroy all of that, because all of that is making people feel bad.
00:10:30.000And then, this is a non-falsifiable thesis, because then when people feel worse, when it turns out that they are navel-gazing all the time, when that happens, and people feel worse, we say, well, it's still society.
00:10:52.000You know, a well-known tautology that the real solution to being self-obsessed and depressive in many cases, when we're not talking about biological clinical depression or something, the solution in many cases is not to think less of yourself, but to think of yourself less.
00:11:07.000But we spend all day thinking about ourselves and thinking about how society has harmed us and about how society has made us feel bad about ourselves.
00:11:13.000And maybe if we just show that we are not, you can't box us in, man.
00:11:17.000You can't have these rules and restrictions.
00:11:28.000And our horribleness, our feeling horrible, is a symptom of courage.
00:11:31.000Because if you can show how horrible you feel, how confused and chaotic you are, this demonstrates that you are free of a society that is trying to box you in, man.
00:11:39.000Misery is actually incentivized in our society.
00:11:42.000According to the New York Times, perhaps as striking as the wave of TikTok tics is how quickly it has receded.
00:11:47.000As teenagers have resumed their pre-pandemic social lives, new cases of tics have petered out.
00:11:51.000Doctors said that most of the tic patients had now recovered, illustrating the expansive potential for adolescent resilience.
00:11:56.000That's not adolescent resilience, guys.
00:11:58.000That's they went back to school and they found friends and they didn't hang out on TikTok all day with other... nuts.
00:12:09.000There are forces in our society that wish for the insanity to be propagated, that forward the insanity.
00:12:15.000Because there's one way to cure all of this.
00:12:18.000We don't see this, by the way, in a lot of other countries outside the West.
00:12:21.000You just don't see this sort of stuff.
00:12:22.000And the reason you don't see this sort of stuff is because there are expectations of teenagers.
00:12:25.000There are expectations of men and women.
00:12:28.000There are roles that they are supposed to play across the course of their lives and that they are expected to perform, whether they like every aspect of it or not.
00:12:34.000And so you don't get this kind of stuff.
00:12:37.000Atomistic individualism with widespread mental illness and suicidal ideation.
00:12:41.000Or individual freedom within the boundaries of the roles and rules that society has established for thousands of years.
00:12:48.000Which allows you the freedom within those rules and rules to live your life the way you want, but it does not destroy the roles and rules that actually allow for human happiness to flourish.
00:13:00.000We destroy all the walls of the building, all the foundations of the building, and then when the second story comes collapsing down on our heads, we're like, hey, what happened?
00:13:09.000Probably the big problem is that the structural foundations, if we were to remove those a little more, then maybe this wouldn't have happened in the first place.
00:13:17.000Get to more on this in just one moment.
00:13:19.000First, let's talk about corporate America.
00:13:21.000Corporate America is one of the forces pushing cultural wokeness across the country.
00:13:24.000There's no reason for you to sponsor the companies that happen to have a death wish for American society, many of them.
00:13:30.000So why not instead spend your money on corporations that don't actually hate your bellies or hate your guts?
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00:13:50.000The other wireless companies, many of them are actually pretty woke.
00:13:53.000They spend a lot of their money on things you don't like, and they're going to try to lock you into those multi-year contracts with huge penalties.
00:14:20.000So, as the New York Times reports, scientists have gained a greater understanding of how anxiety, trauma, and social stress can spur the brain to produce very real physical symptoms, even if body scans or blood tests show no trace of them.
00:14:30.000When these illnesses interfere with day-to-day life, they are now called functional disorders.
00:14:34.000So, we have now created clusters of functional disorders, and we pretend that we haven't created it.
00:15:40.000And this is after the Me Too movement, with more educational material available for young men not to touch or get near a young woman than ever before in American life.
00:15:49.000And the answer is that probably it's about sexual abuse in chief.
00:15:57.000By the way, what's amazing is that you have this skyrocketing increase in suicidal ideation and oppression among girls.
00:16:04.000The statistic that the CDC is choosing to focus on is that 18% of girls in high school said they experienced sexual violence in the past year compared with 15% in 2017.
00:16:16.000And 14% of teenage girls reported being forced to have sex when they didn't want to, which is up from 12% in 2011.
00:16:21.000Even if all of that increase is self-reported and absolutely 100% true, that does not explain a 60% increase in suicidal ideation.
00:16:31.000A 4-5% difference in one stat does not explain a 60% increase in the other.
00:16:42.000You have, by every polling data Imaginable.
00:16:46.000Every statistic imaginable shows one of the major changes in social life for young girls particularly is LGBTQ plus identification.
00:16:55.000LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign, happy face emoji, sad face emoji, crying laughing emoji, tilde, all of that.
00:17:02.000That identification has skyrocketed in America and in Britain, by the way.
00:17:07.000Among members of the youngest generation, there are some polls showing up to 40% of young people are now identifying as LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign.
00:17:14.000That is highly associated by all available data with depression and anxiety.
00:17:21.000Well, the answer obviously is that society's intolerant.
00:17:24.000So we ripped away all of the standards of society and all the expectations of behavior in society and all the preparation for your future role because a lot of what your role is today is wrapped up in what our expectations are for you tomorrow.
00:17:35.000If we expect young men to be good young teenagers, what we should be doing is teaching them what they are going to need to do when they become men.
00:18:08.000You know, the propagation of Western society, and all society actually, being kind of an important part of human life.
00:18:13.000And so, this might mean cultivating a set of skills A level of emotional durability that is necessary in order to raise children and to have a husband and to have a functional household.
00:18:23.000Instead of doing all of those things that actually give you something to shoot for in the future, we just set kids free.
00:19:08.000Sure, we've been doing nothing but this for the past 10 years, but...
00:19:11.000And the associated mental illness and suicidal ideation have skyrocketed.
00:19:14.000But more of that will probably be the solution.
00:19:17.000Schools should encourage gender and sexuality alliances, provide safe spaces and people for LGBTQ plus minus divided by students to go to for support, and ensure enforcement of anti-harassment policies, according to the CDC.
00:19:44.000The CDC has caught up to what we're dealing with, said Shopa Taufik, a clinical psychologist and director of the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service at Mount Sinai Morningside, a program that works with the New York City's Department of Education.
00:19:58.000She called on federal agencies to funnel more resources into schools.
00:20:20.000We have a bunch of adults who have decided they want to act in a particular way because it makes them feel more free and more authentic, and we're going to generate an entire generation of younger people who are confused, chaotic, depressed, and suicidal in order to make the adults feel better.
00:20:32.000It is the most selfish society in human history, what we are experiencing right now.
00:20:36.000A society that says all the older people, probably they should just die because they're a drain on our resources and all the younger people are basically tools for our experimentation.
00:20:43.000But we feel real good about ourselves.
00:20:45.000It's, it's, but why are the kids, why are the kids, what's wrong with the kids?
00:20:50.000Maybe because all the adults disappeared and abdicated their duty.
00:20:54.000Well, speaking of people who have abdicated their duty, the simple fact of the matter is the government really screwed a ton of people during the COVID lockdowns.
00:21:02.000The government has screwed a lot of people with its inflationary policies.
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00:21:47.000If you overpaid your taxes a couple of years ago, why exactly would you leave that money in the hands of the government if you could get it back?
00:22:29.000This is, I'm not sure I've ever seen, this may be a platonic example of the kind of parenting that generates screwed up kids.
00:22:38.000There's a piece by a person named Noah Berlatsky.
00:22:40.000Berlatsky is, he writes for MSNBC a lot, he writes for The Atlantic as well, and he has a piece today, and the title of this piece is, I kid you not, he writes for Slade, he writes for a bunch of other places.
00:22:54.000The title of the piece is, quote, My wife is bisexual and non-binary, and my daughter is transgender.
00:23:00.000My queer family helped me better understand myself and my masculinity.
00:23:05.000Western civilization, in a nutshell, these days, folks.
00:23:46.000Our daughter still lives with us, but she often communicates in brief grunts as she scurries down to the basement lair, emerging only to let in friends and forage for chicken nuggets.
00:23:54.000She often doesn't include us in her social plans.
00:23:56.000You are hip and happening with the kids, I told my wife.
00:23:58.000She rolled her eyes, but I could tell she was pleased.
00:24:00.000I was not invited on this excursion because I wasn't a fan of Fleming.
00:24:03.000My wife has tried to explain his appeal.
00:24:10.000My daughter is transgender, and my wife is bisexual and non-binary, says Noah Berlatsky.
00:24:15.000As the boring cisgender straight guy in my family, I just don't get some aspects of queer culture.
00:24:19.000I try to take an interest, but your demographic destiny sometimes rears up and says, pfft.
00:24:23.000I'm grateful to be outnumbered in my family by the other demographics.
00:24:26.000When you share a family with queer people, your understanding of love becomes more expansive, as does your understanding of yourself, and that's...
00:24:34.000You write full columns about your extremely confused daughter and your wife who claims that she is non-binary.
00:24:42.000And you get to pat yourself on the back because you're such an open-minded, broad-minded person who's expanded the boundaries of their heterosexual identification.
00:24:51.000The future of Western civilization is in the best of hands.
00:24:53.000Quote, our daughter came out as bisexual in middle school.
00:24:55.000In high school, she reassessed and came out as trans and lesbian.
00:24:59.000Often when families, even supportive ones, discover their children are queer, they feel like it's a loss.
00:25:04.000There's a loss of the past because the child you thought you knew isn't who you thought they were.
00:25:07.000And there's a loss of the future because society is, in many ways, a homophobic garbage fire, and queer people face discrimination in many professions.
00:25:13.000Ah, yes, society is to blame for your child's confusion.
00:26:04.000She has queer friends who sometimes pass through on their way to the basement lair and stop to talk about Fleming tattoos, the queer art they're making, or the queer anarchist collectives they're living in.
00:26:55.000Hey, that's what we would call that, unless, again, you may believe that you're a woman, but you're still a male, but you're a male who likes females, which doesn't make you a lesbian.
00:28:16.000Sex is an essential part of our social fabric.
00:28:18.000And you, specifically, should probably be having more of it.
00:28:22.000Americans in the midst of a loneliness epidemic are not having enough sex.
00:28:25.000Across almost every demographic group, American adults, old and young, single and coupled, rich and poor, are having less sex than they have had at any point in at least the past three decades.
00:28:56.000Fraying cultural bonds, damaged by physical health and reduced social contact both exacerbate loneliness and are exacerbated by it to the point that loneliness lowers life expectancy.
00:29:05.000They try to blame COVID-19, but this is not really the issue.
00:29:08.000Between 2014 and 2019, the decrease in time people spent with friends was greater than it was during the pandemic.
00:29:18.000Well, they say that women are sexless, men are sexless, In 2021, roughly a quarter of women under 35 reported having had no sex in the past year.
00:30:14.000Or maybe we should be aiming for something different.
00:30:16.000Namely, meaningful human connections within the boundaries of traditional marriage.
00:30:19.000I know this is all... They broke these institutions and then the consequences were perfectly obvious.
00:30:23.000And then they're like, well, maybe if we break the institution further, that'll be better.
00:30:28.000Meanwhile, you have the BBC pushing things like this, quote, the adults celebrating child-free lives.
00:30:33.000It turns out when you reorient an entire society around the selfishness of adults who pretend that casual sex is the apotheosis of living, that all of society falls apart.
00:30:42.000The sexual revolution is the worst thing that has ever happened to Western civilization, and it is not particularly close.
00:30:46.000It has destroyed entire civilizations.
00:30:51.000From consciously child-free influencers, says the BBC, to online communities for people who've decided against having kids, the No Kids movement is booming.
00:31:00.000Well, maybe the backlash is booming because it turns out that the entire propagation of the human species rests on people actually having kids and making sacrifices for people who are not them.
00:31:12.000It makes you a better person because you have to start thinking about your kids.
00:31:14.000Unless you're one of these doofs who has kids just so that you can convince your kids that you're a great parent by allowing your kids to do whatever they quote-unquote want, not in pursuit of a higher happiness or a higher goal, but simply because it makes you feel good to be the cool parent in the room.
00:31:28.000We're supposed to pretend that child free is great and wonderful and just as societally valuable as anything else.
00:31:36.000Just as socially valuable, just as individually valuable as anything else.
00:31:45.000Apparently, a 2021 Pew Research Center study showed 44% of non-parents aged 18 to 49 do not think they will have children, up from 37% in 2018.
00:31:54.000More than half listed their main reason as don't want to have children, rather than more circumstantial factors such as medical issues or not wanting to raise a child without having a partner.
00:32:16.000They're also the most wonderful thing that will ever happen to you, but the only real reason for you to be on the planet is for you to have kids, and those kids make the world better, and along the way make you a better person.
00:32:27.000Not make you feel better about yourself, because sometimes they make you feel way worse about yourself.
00:32:31.000They make you a better person because you are now obligated to something beyond you.
00:32:34.000You are now a link in the chain of generations, from the past to the future.
00:32:57.000We are perennially 18 for our entire lives.
00:33:00.000And it turns out, if you met an 18-year-old, they're pretty miserable.
00:33:03.000Many 18 year olds are pretty miserable because they are not embedded.
00:33:05.000And then you have kids and now you're embedded.
00:33:07.000You're embedded in a chain of generations that stretches back all the way to the monkeys and all the way forward into the explosion of the sun.
00:33:28.000Quick, one more piece of data on this.
00:33:30.000It should therefore come as no shock that according to polling from the Survey Center on American Life, 46% of Republican men report being completely satisfied in their relationships, compared to 29% of Democrat women.
00:33:43.00042% of Republican women say they are completely satisfied by their relationships.
00:33:47.00036% of Democrat men say they are satisfied by their relationships.
00:33:50.000In other words, people who tend to be more conservative, who buy into social values a little bit more, they tend to be more satisfied in their relationships.
00:33:56.000So this Valentine's Day, when you look at the misery around you, you should remember, maybe it has something to do with a society that has valued misery over happiness.
00:34:03.000And I don't mean just temporary feelings of joy.
00:34:05.000It's a society that has valued non-meaning over meaning.
00:34:10.000Self-constructed meaning over actual, real-world meaning.
00:34:14.000And then we're shocked when people feel adrift and unhappy on Valentine's Day.
00:34:18.000Speaking of Valentine's Day, every Valentine's Day, some people are trying to find their special someone and they're looking for particular qualities.
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00:36:21.000Meanwhile, in a society that has facilitated mental illness and left mentally ill people on the streets, it should not be a particular shock that criminality by the seriously mentally ill is a major issue.
00:36:33.000The New York Post reports that yesterday, a U-Haul rampage took place as a driver plowed into New Yorkers and then told the cops, shoot me, I'm not stopping.
00:36:40.000Apparently, the violent saga, which left two victims critically wounded, began in Bay Ridge around 11 a.m., ended about 30 minutes later and three miles away in Red Hook following a high-speed chase.
00:36:48.000Apparently, senior law enforcement sources identified the suspect as a 62-year-old homeless man with no prior arrests in New York.
00:36:55.000He also served prison time in Nevada for stabbing his brother in 2015 in Las Vegas.
00:37:00.000So once again, well done by our criminal justice and mental health systems letting people who are violently mentally ill wander the streets.
00:37:06.000Speaking of which, apparently a gunman opened fire Monday night at Michigan State University, killing three and wounding five more before fatally shooting himself miles away after an hours-long manhunt that forced frightened students to hide in the dark.
00:37:17.000Police announced the man's death early on Tuesday, four hours after shootings broke out at Berkey Hall, an academic building, and later nearby, the MSU Union, a popular hub to eat or study.
00:37:27.000Apparently, the 43-year-old man, who is unrelated to the campus, was confronted by police off campus before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
00:37:35.000Not clear exactly who this person was or what his motivation was, but obviously had nothing to do with the campus at all.
00:37:42.000This means that because this does not fit into any of the other narratives that the left particularly likes, this will turn into a gun control narrative.
00:37:48.000But that's the way that we deal with our mental illness problem in the country as we find other sources.
00:37:54.000Meanwhile, the CDC focused laser-like on Tuscience.
00:37:57.000They have decided to include in the immunization schedule, the recommended immunization schedule, COVID vaxes and boosters for kids, adolescents, and adults.
00:38:25.000They went out there and they said that it prevented transmission at like a 99% rate, and it was a total lie, and they predicated a lot of their attempted mandates on exactly that lie.
00:38:33.000Some of us opposed the mandates, even if we were pro-vax at the time, but the simple fact of the matter is that the CDC was fibbing for a very long time about this stuff, and they continue to fib about the necessity for small children to get the COVID vax, when the simple fact of the matter is that kids overwhelmingly do not die of COVID.
00:38:51.000Well, now the CDC is updating its schedule of recommended immunizations to include these shots for children, adolescents, and adults.
00:38:58.000Forget about the fact that in certain countries in Europe, they've already said they don't want young people taking these shots because they don't like what they are seeing in terms of myocarditis or other side effects.
00:39:11.000For five-year-old children, the schedule recommends two shots of Moderna.
00:39:14.000Again, Moderna, I believe, has been prohibited for people under the age of 30 in particular countries in Europe.
00:39:19.000Followed by a bivalent mRNA booster or two shots of Pfizer-BioNTech, followed by the company's bivalent booster for kids aged 6 to 11, the CDC recommends two doses of the Moderna vaccine or two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech shot in both cases, followed by an mRNA booster.
00:39:33.000Now, this is COVID's recommended guidance.
00:39:36.000This is the CDC's recommended guidance.
00:39:39.000I assume there are going to be school districts around the country that attempt to implement this now.
00:40:12.000Which means that he was an amazing, amazing candidate.
00:40:15.000And sure, he dropped out after the first three races or so.
00:40:19.000And sure, he had no experience with transportation.
00:40:21.000But he does think that airports are romantic, which means that he is delusional because airports are maybe the least romantic place on planet Earth unless you really, really like the smell of feet.
00:41:33.000Well, I mean, he takes paternity leave for a living, which I guess is not really a living, but okay.
00:41:38.000Though no one died in the accident, the catastrophe serves as a wake-up call to the potential for more deadly freight rail derailments, public health advocates warn.
00:41:44.000By one estimate, 25 million Americans live in an oil train blast zone.
00:41:48.000And apparently, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine were unavailable to help make sure that the train escaped the blast zone.
00:42:18.000He says he's horrified by the crash and has three big questions tonight.
00:42:22.000First, are the air and water really safe for residents?
00:42:26.000He says state and federal agencies' tests are encouraging, but he's heard alarming anecdotes about contaminated waterways and adverse effects on wildlife in the area.
00:42:34.000Second, what are the needs of the people on the ground?
00:42:36.000Vance says the local fire department in East Palestine has dealt with the worst of this disaster and the area needs FEMA's help to get what they need.
00:42:46.000Senator Vance says his office is going to be investigating the train company's braking system and parts, plus how to prevent this from happening again in the future.
00:42:56.000Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar actually put out something sane for a change.
00:43:00.000Ilhan Omar tweeted out, East Palestine Railroad's railmen will have a significant negative impact on the health and well-being of the residents for decades.
00:43:06.000There's almost zero national media attention.
00:43:08.000We need congressional inquiry and direct action from Pete Buttigieg to address this tragedy.
00:43:35.000This is what our transportation secretary does.
00:43:39.000We've heard way too many stories from generations past of infrastructure where you got a neighborhood, often a neighborhood of color, that finally sees the project come to them, but everyone in the hard hats on that project looking like, you know, doing the good paying jobs, don't look like they came from anywhere near the neighborhood.
00:43:56.000You can build community wealth that will help close wealth gaps in this country if we can tear down those barriers.
00:44:05.000Oh, well, I'm glad that he's focused like a laser beam on the plethora of white people in the construction industry.
00:44:12.000I feel like this is a very white person because I know a lot of people in the construction industry.
00:44:17.000There are a lot of black and Latino people in the construction industry, but apparently, according to Pete Buttigieg, it's all equity, man.
00:44:23.000I can't wait for his explanation as to what happened with train derailment, but he's worried about white supremacy, and that's really the key.
00:44:29.000Also, he's been talking about the challenges facing transportation.
00:44:32.000Trains apparently are not one of those.
00:44:38.000I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years, partly because of the pandemic, we've faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations.
00:44:55.000But, also the best time ever to be working in transportation because of these resources.
00:45:03.000And we know ultimately it's in the hands of those who are on the ground that the biggest difference is going to be made.
00:45:11.000Amazing, amazing statements from Pete Buttigieg.
00:45:13.000I mean he's even got the purse lips to demonstrate to you just how serious he is.
00:45:18.000It's very, very important stuff there.
00:45:21.000Now mention of the train derailment where we're blowing up toxic materials and creating clouds of phosphine gas over towns.
00:45:30.000The level of incompetence, by the way, this is why I don't believe the UFO story.
00:45:35.000You know why I don't believe the UFO story?
00:45:37.000Because I actually don't believe that our government is competent to shoot down UFOs.
00:45:42.000The reason I say that, I don't think our government is good.
00:45:45.000You're telling me that there were aliens who crossed millions of light years to come here and Pete Buttigieg and team are shooting it down?
00:45:53.000Joe Biden and team are shooting this stuff down?
00:46:55.000No one knows where the missile went, by the way, so that's always great.
00:46:59.000Apparently, the objects shot down in Alaska and Canada are less advanced than the Chinese balloon, according to the Washington Post.
00:47:05.000The three flying objects shot down over US and Canadian airspace, or as Kareem Jean-Pierre might put it, the Canadiani-end in airspace, since Friday appear to be less sophisticated than the Chinese balloon found earlier this month, but that they were targeted when they were found in a widening detection effort and it was determined their altitude could pose a risk to air traffic.
00:47:24.000Now what's amazing is them trying to make excuses for why they're doing this now.
00:47:28.000So recall, this started a couple weeks ago when the Chinese decided to hover a giant balloon, like the size of three school buses, over the United States within the ability of normal humans on the ground to see with the naked eye.
00:47:40.000And then Joe Biden allowed that thing to wander all over the United States before settling off the coast of South Carolina where we shot it down.
00:47:48.000And according to Chuck Schumer, this is a massive victory.
00:47:51.000He says that Joe Biden actually has humiliated the Chinese, which comes as a shock to the Chinese who don't feel particularly humiliated, I think.
00:47:57.000We're going to probably be able to piece together this whole, whole surveillance balloon and know exactly what's going on.
00:48:05.000So that's a huge coup for the United States.
00:48:07.000This program is going to have to be shut down now, isn't it?
00:48:09.000The Chinese aren't going to be able to send balloons.
00:48:10.000Look, I think the Chinese were humiliated.
00:48:12.000I think the Chinese were caught lying.
00:48:15.000And I think it's a real, it's a real step back for them.
00:48:18.000Yes, I think they're going to have to, I think they're probably going to have to get rid of it or do something because they look really bad.
00:48:27.000I'll tell you what kind of looks weird is the fact that we waited a week to shoot down an obvious Chinese spy balloon.
00:48:34.000And then we shot it down over water, and apparently we are still searching for the parts.
00:48:37.000And now we're just shooting down everything in sight.
00:48:39.000We're just shooting down a bunch of stuff that's kind of hovering around, and we're not even bothering to find out exactly what it is before we shoot it down.
00:48:45.000So remember, We didn't shoot down the Chinese spy balloon.
00:48:48.000First, because we didn't know what it was.
00:49:22.000We will evaluate each and every event on its own merits and we'll make decisions based upon the recommendations of the NORCOM NORAD commander.
00:49:35.000The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they'll make recommendations to me, and I'll evaluate and make recommendations to the President.
00:49:42.000Again, these three events, each of them presented a risk to safety of flight.
00:49:50.000And we don't know if they were actually collecting intelligence, but because of the route that they took, out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure that we have the ability to examine what these things are, and potentially what they were doing.
00:50:45.000So you remember that when that giant Chinese spy balloon went all the way across the United States and Joe Biden just let it float there for a week, going over like all of our military installations?
00:50:52.000People were like, wow, that's unprecedented.
00:50:55.000And then the administration leaked falsely that this has happened a bunch of times under Trump and it just wasn't true.
00:51:01.000Then they had to admit, oh yeah, by the way, these Chinese spy balloons, they like briefly went into American airspace, but the Defense Department was only informed of that after they had exited American airspace, so it wasn't the same at all.
00:51:10.000Now they're like, we're so good at this, we're detecting, you know, these weren't even detected under Trump, but we're so good at this, we're detecting them now.
00:51:16.000Yes, because apparently, according to you, you turned up the radar specificity, which raises the question, why hadn't you done so before?
00:51:23.000You are, in fact, the people in the White House.
00:51:25.000Here is John Kirby, the incompetent National Security Council strategic comms coordinator.
00:51:31.000We were able to determine that China has a high-altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that's connected to the People's Liberation Army.
00:51:40.000It was operating during the previous administration, but they did not detect it.
00:51:59.000Now, as I've said, I don't actually believe this is aliens.
00:52:02.000I think it probably is the Chinese who are just floating a bunch of crap around the United States and Canada.
00:52:06.000But the only thing that might make me believe that it's aliens is the fact that the White House is denying it.
00:52:10.000So here's Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's least talented press secretary, explaining there is no evidence of aliens.
00:52:15.000And one last thing before I turn it over to the Admiral, I just wanted to make sure we address this from the White House.
00:52:20.000I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.
00:52:31.000Again, there is no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.
00:52:37.000Wanted to make sure that the American people knew that, all of you knew that, and it was important for us to say that from here because we've been hearing a lot about it.
00:52:47.000Are you going to take questions, though, Corrine?
00:52:50.000She finishes the little presser and right out of there, because that's the last thing she needs is to take questions about what the Biden administration is doing.
00:52:58.000I got to go into the oval, but I will see you tomorrow.
00:53:01.000And thank you for the compliment on the smile.
00:53:15.000The AP courses, the college board, the people who do the advanced placement courses, they've now caved to Ron DeSantis and they're whining about it.
00:53:22.000They're very upset because Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida, they did what a lot of states do.
00:53:25.000They went to the AP courses and they said, we want specific changes to your program if you wish to propagate it in our state.
00:53:31.000Social studies books all across the nation are actually changed state by state.
00:53:34.000So you have a different edition of certain social studies books in Texas than you do in California.
00:53:38.000In Florida, they said you're not going to do critical race theory, you're not going to do BLM, you're not going to do transgender queer black theory in an AP course for high school students about African American history because it's silly and irrelevant.
00:53:49.000And the college board had to go back to the drawing board.
00:53:51.000This, of course, has a maddened Randy Weingarten.
00:53:54.000The head of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the worst people in American public life, which I'm here for.
00:53:59.000I'm here for Randi Weingarten being angry, because whenever she's angry, an angel gets its wings.
00:54:03.000Here's Randi Weingarten, who's very, very upset that the College Board dropped Black Lives Matter from the AP African American History Awards.
00:54:11.000The idea that erasing what actually happened is somehow beneficial to the mission of educating anybody.
00:55:09.000They were the ones that put in intersectionality.
00:55:12.000They put in other types of neo-Marxism into the proposed syllabus.
00:55:17.000And, man, this is the proposed course.
00:55:19.000So our Department of Education looked at that and said, in Florida, we do education, not indoctrination.
00:55:24.000And so that runs afoul of our standards.
00:55:26.000And, you know, many people agree with that.
00:55:28.000In other states, we were just the only ones that had Well, good for Ron DeSantis.
00:55:31.000And again, that is a victory achieved in my great state of Florida.
00:55:33.000they demagogue you when you do it. But look, I'm so sick of people not doing what's right because they're worried that people are going to call them names. We're doing what's right here.
00:55:42.000Well, good for Ron DeSantis. And again, that is a victory achieved in my great state of Florida. OK, time for a thing that I hate.
00:55:50.000All righty, so it's Valentine's Day, which means it's time for all the sad single people to come out of the woodwork and cry.
00:55:59.000But pretend that they're super happy, because that is what we do on every national holiday now.
00:56:03.000We find the marginalized, and then we talk about how miserable they are because there's a day that other people are celebrating, and that's really, really bad.
00:56:44.000So Chelsea Handler is a perfect example of this.
00:56:46.000Chelsea Handler, who I don't know who decided she was funny and when and how hard they had hit their head on the toilet before inventing the flux capacitor.
00:56:53.000But who actually decided Chelsea Handler was funny?
00:56:55.000This is one of these unanswerable questions in life.
00:56:59.000It's like trying to find out what's on the interior of a black hole.
00:57:01.000Who was the person responsible for this decision?
00:58:51.000I mean, she is miserable and it's written all over her face how miserable she is because she doesn't have kids.
00:58:58.000It turns out having kids is really good for you.
00:59:00.000Now again, you shouldn't have kids because of your sense of subjective pleasure, but the reality is that being embedded in life, being embedded in time, being embedded in that chain of generations we talked about earlier, it's very good for you as a person.
00:59:10.000Otherwise, you end up as a dope on the Twitters, putting up videos about masturbating at 7am and eating edibles like Chelsea Handler.
01:00:41.000Because she's not doing any of those things.
01:00:44.000Turns out, that the way that we actually find fulfillment in life, and I say fulfillment as opposed to pleasure or happiness, because fulfillment is not the same thing.
01:00:51.000Very often, doing the fulfilling thing is the boring and annoying thing.
01:00:54.000But, being fulfilled in life requires you to have a higher goal and a higher meaning.
01:00:58.000And very often, that is located in children.
01:01:02.000Does this seem like, I know there have been these memes that have been going around for years, and they happen to be correct.
01:01:06.000Showing, here's what your mom looked like, and then here's what I look like, right?
01:03:20.000She's bound herself to a higher set of rules.
01:03:22.000She's bound herself to actual obligations.
01:03:25.000Because paradoxically, it's the obligations in life that tend to make us feel truly fulfilled and yes, free.
01:03:32.000Because when you're an atomistic individual living on a desert island or in a lonely Brooklyn apartment like Chelsea Handler, you don't feel very free.
01:03:38.000You feel like, you feel like drinking a lot of wine and going back to bed.
01:03:42.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.