Former national security advisor Mike Flynn receives no jail time.

The stock market takes a significant dive, and we bid a fond farewell and adieu to Michael Avanotti.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

I know a lot of people are, you know, mourning today for George H.W. Bush.

I mean, the rest of the country mourns

too, but I really mourn today for Michael Avinotti because I had, once again, made the mistake

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Well, I begin today with a quick note about the honoring of George H.W. Bush.

Obviously, beautiful events happening all day today in the Capitol building.

This is made a national day of morning.

The post office stops its service, making it, I guess, the 100th day this year that the

post office will not have service.

And we stop the stock markets.

The stock markets are not operational today.

And while I appreciate the national morning for George H.W. Bush,

I do have to note that I do agree with Charles Cook over at National Review,

who suggests that as a general matter in a republic,

we probably should not do the sort of royalist routine

where whenever somebody dies in a non-tragic fashion, it's not JFK's assassination or Lincoln's assassination or something,

that having these days where the entire country sort of stops dead because an elected president is given state honors this way,

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