'Misplaced mothering': No Kings anti-Kirk protesters reveal a culture in crisis



Tensions over the legacy of Charlie Kirk reached a boiling point at the No Kings protests that took place over the weekend, where furious demonstrators hurled slurs at the late conservative leader and cheered his death.

“Charlie Kirk is a piece of garbage. Of course, we were mean. I am so tired of people saying, ‘Oh, but you know it’s a terrible thing.’ No. Hitler is dead. I’m glad Hitler’s dead. Evil people have no place in my world. He was a hateful human being. It was disgusting the things that he said and did,” one woman told the Daily Signal at a No Kings protest.

“This could be someone’s grandmother. Probably not. Probably not. And this is actually a consequence of the childlessness epidemic that we have in society, that you have all of these just, like, listless people who don’t know where to direct their energy,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.

Stuckey calls it a phenomenon of “misplaced mothering” that’s common among older white women.


“And because they are not channeling their God-given mothering instincts into people, into their own children, into the next generation in some way, they are channeling it in directions that are not actually healthy,” she explains.

“And so they believe that they are mothering the migrant, that they are mothering the criminal, that they are mothering the people who are on the margins of society. And so this makes them feel better, but it’s actually a lazy way to demonstrate that you’re a good person, which means you’re not a good person at all,” she continues.

“In the same way that socialism is like outsourcing your compassion to the government, this social justice is outsourcing your virtue to the government,” she adds.

In another clip from the protest, Nathan Hughes was conducting man-on-the-street-style interviews with some of the protesters. His interaction with two of the protesters, who were upset that he was wearing a “for Charlie” shirt, has gone viral — and for good reason.

“You get triggered because it has ‘Charlie’ on there, right?” Hughes asked the protesters.

“Because he was a racist! Because he was a misogynist! And that means that you are, too, because you support him,” she screamed. “Get out!”

Another protester chimed in: “He hated anyone that wasn’t white, that wasn’t male, that wasn’t straight.”

“Okay, well, as someone who is not male, I can say that Charlie didn’t hate me, didn’t hate his wife, didn’t hate his daughter,” Stuckey comments.

“These people in these videos are very, very unwell. That is true,” she continues, noting that she doesn’t believe it’s just a “mental health crisis.”

“I actually think that’s just an excuse for evil, because evil really exists, and it’s evil that can make you very stupid. Sin makes you stupid, and iniquity makes you insane. We can use those alliterations,” she says.

And Stuckey points out that while the protesters believe they’re protesting tyranny, they’re the ones who have made it clear that they love tyranny the most.

“These are the very people who wanted to force kids to wear masks, who wanted you to be fired from your job if you didn’t get an experimental vaccine. These are the very same people that support taking children out of their parents’ homes if their parents don’t affirm the stated gender identity of a person,” she says.

“You know which side the Democrats would have been on in 1776,” she adds.

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Second chances kill innocents



Republicans might finally take me seriously after years of warning: America suffers not from mass incarceration, but from mass under-incarceration. The system needs tougher sentences, not softer ones.

The brutal murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, allegedly at the hands of career criminal Decarlos Brown Jr. on a Charlotte commuter train, didn’t reveal anything new. It shocked the nation precisely because it put on camera what has become routine in our cities since the bipartisan “criminal justice reform” wave dismantled Reagan-era tough-on-crime policies.

Legislators will have a choice when they reconvene: Pass strong reforms like these or watch more innocent people die.

For every man like Brown who slipped through the cracks, at least 10 more walk free when they should be locked up for life.

Brown had been arrested 14 times since 2007. His record included assault, felony firearms possession, robbery, and larceny. He didn’t see the inside of a prison until 2014, when an armed robbery conviction earned him a mere four years. He racked up more arrests after his release in 2020, but neither prison nor psychiatric commitment followed. The justice system looked the other way.

The result was predictable. Brown’s obvious mental instability made him even more dangerous than an ordinary criminal. Yet over the last 15 years, Republicans and Democrats alike embraced “reform” that made second chances for the violent and insane a top priority. They weakened sentencing, gutted mandatory minimums, downgraded juvenile crimes, eased up on drugs and vagrancy, and abandoned broken-windows policing. Hard-won gains against crime and homelessness evaporated.

The final insult: Brown was last released on cashless bail by North Carolina Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, allegedly affiliated with a pro-criminal “second chances” group. But violent offenders don’t just get second chances. They get third, fourth, and 15th chances. Most criminals never even face charges. Prosecutors downgrade cases. Convicts skate on early release. The cycle spins on.

Look at the numbers. In 2024, the FBI’s incident-based reporting system logged over 12.2 million crimes. Strip away drug and gun cases, and the picture remains grim: 2.4 million violent crimes with no arrest. Another 1.25 million serious property crimes — arson, burglary, motor vehicle theft — with no arrest. Every year, more than a million offenders escape justice. Meanwhile, the nation’s prison and jail population sits at roughly 1.9 million.

Even when police make arrests, punishment rarely follows. In 2021, only 15,604 people went to prison for robbery despite 121,000 reported incidents. Just 4,894 went away for car theft out of 550,000 cases. Even homicide convictions lag far behind — just 6,081 murderers entered prison against more than 15,000 killings.

This isn’t a statistical fluke. It’s a system that fails to punish violent crime year after year.

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So what needs to change? Here’s a checklist every state legislature should adopt in the next session:

  1. Ban public encampments on streets, sidewalks, and public property; allow lawsuits against localities that fail to enforce.
  2. Elevate porch piracy penalties, following Florida’s lead.
  3. Impose stiff punishments for organized retail theft and flash mobs.
  4. Tighten “truth-in-sentencing” laws to ensure violent offenders serve their full terms.
  5. Pass anti-gang statutes that cross county lines, fund prosecutions, and mandate enhanced sentences for gang-related crimes.
  6. Let prosecutors, not judges, decide whether to try violent juveniles as adults.
  7. Set mandatory minimums for carjackings, especially for repeat offenders.
  8. Impose harsh sentences on felons caught with firearms, and harsher still when they use them.
  9. Require parole violators to finish their sentences.
  10. Hold repeat offenders without bond; revoke pretrial release when new crimes are committed.
  11. Fund prosecutors’ offices to clear the backlog of violent felony cases.
  12. Strengthen “three strikes” laws to eliminate loopholes.
  13. Apply the death penalty to fentanyl traffickers.
  14. Mandate quarterly public reporting of judges’ sentencing records in a searchable database.
  15. Criminalize squatting and streamline removal.

Legislators will have a choice when they reconvene: Pass strong reforms like these or watch more innocent people die.

Social media outrage won’t fix this crisis. Neither will empty calls for “accountability.” As Iryna’s grieving family warned, “This could have been anyone riding the light rail that night.”

That’s the truth — and unless lawmakers act, it will be the truth again tomorrow.

If mental health experts can’t identify murderers, what’s the backup plan?



A profound mental health crisis lies at the heart of violence in America. Decarlos Brown Jr., the suspect in the brutal stabbing death of the Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, was in a mental hospital earlier this year and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. But doctors wouldn’t have released him if they had viewed him as a danger to himself or others.

Similarly, the killers at Minneapolis’ Annunciation Catholic School and Nashville’s Covenant School both struggled with mental illness. Nearly all mass shooters also battled suicidal thoughts.

Our mental health system cannot serve as the last line of defense — too many mistakes slip through.

“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles warned after the stabbing death. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease. It needs to be treated with the same compassion.” After the Minneapolis attack, House Speaker Mike Johnson underscored the issue: “The problem is the human heart. It’s mental health. There are things that we can do.”

Yet despite the fact that more than half of mass public shooters over the past 25 years were already under the care of mental health professionals, not a single one was identified as a danger to themselves or others. An entire body of academic research now explores why mental health experts so often fail to predict these attacks.

What’s the plan?

When professionals cannot identify threats before atrocities are committed, society must ask: What is the backup plan?

The Minneapolis school murderer admitted: “I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years.” After the Nashville school shooting, police concluded the killer was “highly depressed and highly suicidal throughout her life.” Yet even with regular psychiatric care, experts found no signs of homicidal or suicidal intent.

The 2022 Buffalo supermarket killer showed the same pattern. In June 2021, when asked about his future plans, he answered that he wanted to attend summer school, murder people there, and then commit suicide. Alarmed, his teacher sent him for evaluation by two mental health professionals. He told them it was a joke, and they let him go.

Later he admitted: “I got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class, and I just stupidly wrote that down. It was not a joke; I wrote that down because that’s what I was planning to do.”

Many well-known mass killers saw psychiatrists before their attacks. U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, was himself an Army psychiatrist. Elliot Rodger, the UC Santa Barbara "incel" shooter, had received years of high-level counseling, but like the Buffalo killer, Rodger simply knew not to reveal his true intentions. The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez (the second Fort Hood shooter) concluded there was no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.”

Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes’ psychiatrist did warn University of Colorado officials about Holmes’ violent fantasies shortly before his attack, but even she dismissed the threat as insufficient for custody. And both a court-appointed psychologist and a hospital psychiatrist found Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho posed no danger to himself or others.

Psychiatrists have every incentive to get these diagnoses right. Beyond professional pride and the desire to help, they face legal obligations to report threats. Families of victims have even sued psychiatrists for failing to recommend confinement. Despite this, psychiatrists consistently underestimate the danger.

The problem runs deep enough to generate a whole academic literature. Some experts suggest psychiatrists try to prove their fearlessness or become desensitized to risk. Additional training in unusual cases may help, but predicting such rare outcomes will always remain extremely difficult.

Hindsight makes the warning signs look obvious. Before the attack, even to experts, they rarely do. And while addressing mental illness, we should not stigmatize it. Mentally ill people are far more likely to become victims of violence than perpetrators. Only a tiny fraction ever commit murder.

Take schizophrenia: More than 3.5 million Americans live with the disorder, yet only one schizophrenic has committed a mass attack since 2019. That makes the odds of such a crime less than 1 in 3.5 million — extremely rare.

Victims left defenseless

No one wants dangerous individuals to access weapons. Are we going to disarm all mentally ill people, even though they themselves are at increased risk of violent crime? One woman we know saw her husband murdered in front of her by her stalker. She was very depressed but feared that in seeking mental help she would be denied the right to own a gun (which she needed to protect herself).

Another factor that makes these attacks difficult to stop is that they are planned long in advance, with six months being about the shortest. The Sandy Hook massacre was planned for over two and a half years, allowing the perpetrator plenty of time to obtain weapons.

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These killers, like the recent attacker in Minneapolis, often state outright in their manifestos and diaries that they target “gun-free zones.” They may be crazy, but they aren’t stupid. They expect to die, but they want attention when they do. They know that the higher the body count, the more media coverage they’ll receive. That’s why they choose places where no one can fight back.

Weapons bans won’t work

The attack in Charlotte happened in a gun-free zone. The woman had no chance to defend herself when the attacker struck from behind, and no one on the train intervened. Bystanders may have hesitated out of fear — after all, the killer was a large man armed with a knife, even though knives are also banned on public transportation. Someone with a firearm possibly could have stopped the assault, just as a Marine veteran in July did in a Michigan Walmart, where at gunpoint he forced a knife-wielding attacker to drop his weapon. Others who tried to stop the attacker without a gun were stabbed.

Our mental health system cannot serve as the last line of defense — too many mistakes slip through. If mental health professionals can’t reliably stop these attackers before they strike, we must ask: What’s the backup plan? Leaving targets unprotected isn’t the best option.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

Could passengers have SAVED Iryna Zarutska?



Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train didn’t help her until some time had passed — and Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t believe it’s his place to judge.

“I’m torn about how I feel about the people on the train because my first instinct is, they did nothing. They did nothing,” Glenn says.

“What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?” Glenn asks.

However, after Glenn and BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere imagine their wives in the same situation, they realize it’s not their place to judge.


“It’s tough to put yourself in that situation. It’s very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Like, everybody can do that very easily on Twitter,” Stu says.

“When you’re in a vehicle that doesn’t have an exit with a guy who just murdered someone in front of you, has dripping blood off of a knife that’s standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you, there is probably a different standard there that we should all kind of consider,” he continues.

“When I’m thinking of my wife, my advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs,” Stu says.

While Glenn agrees, he does hope he himself would have taken action.

“I would hope that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her, you know, help her up off the floor, at least be there with her as she’s seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute,” Glenn says.

“And that’s the other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly,” he adds. “A minute will seem like a very long period of time in that situation, but it’s a very short period of time in real life.”

The mental health crisis is worse than you think — but the solution is obvious



America is in the middle of a brain health crisis. It’s draining our families, our future, and our faith. Depression, anxiety, suicide, addiction, Alzheimer’s, and obesity aren’t just rising — they’re exploding. Government systems are overwhelmed. Schools are under-resourced. Millions are silently suffering.

But I believe there’s a powerful and overlooked solution hiding in plain sight: the church.

We are not just bodies with thoughts. We are eternal souls made in the image of God.

Faith communities are uniquely positioned to lead a mental health revival — not just as spiritual centers but as healing hubs for the whole person. They are already rooted in the places where people gather, search for meaning, and long for hope. And true healing isn’t just medical. It’s biological, psychological, social, and spiritual. We call this the Whole-4 Approach.

At Amen Clinics, we’ve studied nearly 300,000 brain scans over several decades. What we’ve discovered flips the entire mental health conversation: Most psychiatric problems are not “mental” at all. They’re brain health issues that steal people’s minds and joy. But you can’t heal a brain in isolation. You need food, movement, connection, truth, and purpose.

That’s why churches matter so much.

Faith communities do what government can’t. They mobilize volunteers, offer accountability, build small groups, and provide purpose, and they can — and have — done so regularly to serve their communities. Most importantly, they help heal all four circles at once.

It starts with biology. Your brain controls every decision you make. If your brain isn’t working right, nothing else will either. In our church-based programs, we’ve seen people lose weight, lower blood pressure, reverse diabetes, and heal anxiety just by learning brain-healthy habits. When churches start asking, “Is this good for the brain?” lives change. When people learn how to sleep healthily, exercise, and eat well, they transform their moods and behaviors for the better.

But biology is only part of it. The psychological dimension matters, too.

Scripture tells us to “take every thought captive” (2 Corinthians 10:5) because our thoughts shape our lives. We help people eliminate the automatic negative thoughts and replace them with truth. In supportive faith communities, people find tools to handle trauma, grief, and anxiety. Healing the mind isn’t just about praying passionately. It’s about retraining thought patterns, confronting lies, and practicing gratitude.

Faith offers meaning. Neuroscience provides tools. Together, they’re powerful.

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Then there’s the social aspect of the brain, perhaps the most visibly broken in our culture. The Bible reminds us that “it is not good for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18), yet we live in the loneliest generation in history. Kids socialize through screens instead of conversations. Adults are more isolated and divided. Weekly services, small groups, and prayer circles are not just nice ideas. They’re prescriptions in disguise.

Real connection improves mood, lowers stress, and strengthens resilience. When houses of worship prioritize relationships, healing flourishes.

Finally, we must talk about the spiritual circle. We are not just bodies with thoughts. We are eternal souls made in the image of God. Without purpose, the brain withers. Without identity, the heart breaks. But churches can rewrite that script by speaking life, identity, and hope into people, anchoring souls in truth.

The truth is that we’re not just facing a mental health crisis. We’re facing a Whole-4 crisis. Houses of worship are already designed to address all four domains at once.

But too often, we preach about heaven while serving food that sends people there early. We urge people to have hope but ignore their trauma, blood sugar, or insomnia. That’s not ministry. That’s neglect.

Imagine if every church became a brain health center. What if pastors were trained not only in scripture but in the basics of neuroplasticity and emotional regulation? What if Bible studies included conversations about food, sleep, forgiveness, and connection? What if the church reclaimed its calling — not just to save souls but to heal minds and bodies too?

This isn’t hypothetical. We’ve already seen it happen.

In one of our first programs — the Daniel Plan, which I created with Pastor Rick Warren, Dr. Mark Hyman, and Dr. Mehmet Oz — 15,000 people joined a six-week brain and body challenge. Over the next year, they lost a combined 250,000 pounds. Blood pressure improved. Diabetes reversed. Marriages healed. One man even said, “It’s odd to say in church, but my sex life is better.”

Why? Because when the brain works better, life works better.

Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Now, we have the knowledge. We have the tools. What we need is the will.

Faith communities, your moment is now. Reclaim your role as healers. Make it impossible for someone to walk through your doors without encountering truth, love, and a clear path to healing.

The brain can change. The mind can heal. The soul can awaken. And it can all begin in the house of God.

Glenn Beck: Manhattan and Reno killing sprees are proof that we're in the throes of a mental health crisis



Yesterday, in yet another act of mass violence, a gunman identified as Shane Tamura killed four people, including an NYPD officer, and critically wounded another in a shooting at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan before taking his own life.

“You're going to hear all kinds of things,” says Glenn Beck. “You're going to hear ‘more gun control,’ yada yada yada. But will we ever talk about the real issues here?”

The real issue, he explains, is not guns but mental illness, which Tamura had a “history of.”

According to a handwritten note found in his pocket, Tamura targeted the office building on Park Avenue specifically because the National Football League headquarters are located there.

“He wanted to express his grievance with the NFL,” says Glenn.

Tamura claimed to suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma.

Thus far, police have found no evidence to confirm whether Tamura had CTE, but it was confirmed that he played football in high school.

In his suicide note, Tamura requested that his brain be studied.

“This is a tale of insanity,” sighs Glenn. It’s “a tale of evil, a tale of broken minds, a tale of innocence destroyed in the place where it was least expected, a skyscraper in New York turned slaughterhouse and a Monday night that turned to mourning.”

And it’s no isolated tale. Around the same time as Tamura’s murderous rampage, another gunman killed three people and injured three others in the valet area and parking lot of the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. The suspect was shot by police and taken into custody in critical condition.

While “no motive has been determined so far,” it’s clear that “we have an epidemic of mental illness in this country,” says Glenn.

Just a couple of months ago, Glenn experienced this personally when he and his wife were in Manhattan.

“A black guy on a bike rides towards us, and he begins to circle us on his bike on the sidewalk … all the while looking me right directly in the eye and pointing with one hand, the other on the handlebars, saying, ‘I'm going to kill me a white man today,”’ Glenn recalls.

“Luckily, he noticed that I had two armed security people behind us. He recognized maybe they might kill a black man on a bike today. He rode away. The man was clearly unstable.”

“We have become a society that has gone into madness. … How much more madness will it take before we stand up and say enough is enough?”

To hear more of Glenn’s commentary and analysis, watch the episode above.

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Four dead, one message: Help the sick before they kill



Late Monday afternoon in Midtown Manhattan, the summer heat clung to the glass and steel of Park Avenue, usually a quiet street save for the occasional honking horn or blaring siren. But as the sun dipped behind the towering skyscrapers, violence erupted.

A 27-year-old man, whose name I won't bother mentioning, stepped out of a black BMW he had double-parked near 51st and 52nd Streets. His movements were calm, deliberate. In his hands, he carried an AR-15 rifle. His target was 345 Park Avenue, a tower of wealth and power, housing the offices of Blackstone, the National Football League, and Rudin Management. The idea of chaos here, in this building, felt foreign — until it wasn’t.

If we don’t get back to the root causes of violence, we’re doomed to continue spiraling into chaos.

The shooter made his way into the building lobby, where he shot in the back 36-year-old New York City Police Officer Didarul Islam, whose wife was about to give birth to their third child. The gunman then gunned down a woman hiding behind a pillar, her life taken in an instant.

The footage shows him moving with a chilling calm, methodical and relentless. A guard behind a desk became his next victim. Then another man, an NFL employee, was shot and is still in critical condition.

The shooter made his way to the elevators, and, strangely, as one opened, a woman stepped out. He let her pass. Why? We’ll never know. But she will likely ask herself that question for the rest of her life.

He continued to the 33rd floor, where Rudin is located. There, in the quiet hum of fluorescent lights and the soft chatter of cubicles, he began “to walk the floor, firing as he traveled.” Another victim fell, another family destroyed.

And then, in a final act, he turned the rifle on himself.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that the scene was contained. But the damage was done. Four people were dead: one officer, one security guard, and two civilians. Several more were wounded.

The root issue: Mental illness

As details emerged, we learned more about the gunman’s background. He had driven cross-country from Las Vegas to New York. By trade, he was a security guard at a Las Vegas casino, and he held a concealed carry permit. Yet his history of mental illness, coupled with a backpack full of ammunition, medication, and his clear intent, painted a grim picture.

We also learned that his real target was the NFL, not Rudin. The shooter, suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease common in high-contact sports caused by repeated head collisions, blamed the NFL for his condition.

He had played football in his youth, but never at the professional level. His note, found on his body after he shot himself, said he wanted his brain studied, to contribute to the understanding of his condition.

This wasn’t just an ordinary act of violence; it was a tragic collision of a mentally unstable man and a gun.

A growing crisis

America is in the midst of an unprecedented mental health crisis. As I walk through cities like New York, I am confronted by the increasing number of unstable individuals teetering on the brink of violence. Not long ago, my wife and I were walking through Manhattan when a man on a bike circled us, looking me directly in the eye, saying, “I’m going to kill me a white man today. Today is the day.”

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The man was clearly unhinged. Fortunately, he noticed the armed security behind us, and he quickly rode away. But what if they hadn’t been there? What if he had been someone who wasn’t aware of the people around him?

The world we live in today is one where violence is erupting in public spaces, fueled by mental illness, societal breakdown, and a lack of accountability — and it’s becoming a national trend. This isn’t just about guns or laws — it’s about what’s happening inside the minds of those who perpetrate these acts.

A wake-up call

It’s easy for people to point fingers. To blame social media, to blame the media itself, to call for more laws. But this crisis is about much more than that. It’s about a loss of morality, family, social cohesion, transcendent purpose, genuine human connection, and so much more that comes with a society whose values are rooted in God’s truth.

I’m not a mental health expert, but surely the degeneration of these social goods and the historic rise in mental disorders, especially among young people, are not coincidental. We can’t keep turning a blind eye to such things and pretend that new laws or more regulations will fix it.

This isn’t just about changing laws; it’s about changing hearts. If we don’t, we’ll keep losing those we hold dear.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett ALMOST gets something right



Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas has declared a “mental health crisis” in America because of Donald Trump — but what she doesn’t appear to understand is that while there is a mental health crisis, it has very little to do with the president.

“I would say that the fact that Jasmine Crockett got elected shows she’s correct,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

But Crockett’s own election isn’t the only major indicator of a mental health crisis in this country. A much bigger one is what just occurred at the Oregon State Capitol, where two men dressed as women performed a drag show in front of state representatives.

“They’re all kind of just sitting out there, awkwardly trying to decipher what the appropriate reaction is to this,” Burguiere says. “By the way, the answer is to walk out.”


“Oregon, what are your elected officials doing? I mean, if you want to go to a drag show, that’s fine, but why in the middle of the workday in the House of Representatives?” Glenn agrees.

However, does a recent drop in corporate advertising for Pride signal an end to the mental health crisis plaguing the country?

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times details the significant loss of funds Pride parades are facing after large corporations have stopped supporting them.

“Consider BarkBox, a purveyor of pet toys and treats, whose leaked internal message in early June laid bare the new corporate zeitgeist: ‘We’ve made the decision to pause all paid ads and life cycle marketing pushes for the Pride kit effective immediately. We need to acknowledge that the current climate makes this promotion feel more like a political statement than a universally joyful moment for all dog people,’” reads the article, titled “We've Reached Rainbow Capitalism's End.”

“Now, I don’t know if ‘dog people’ means the people who own dogs or people who identify as dogs. I could honestly go either way on that one,” Stu comments. “These are just capitalist decisions. They’re not decisions saying, ‘Hey, we agree that, you know, mutilating your child is a bad idea.’”

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Disney adults: Harmless hobby or serious pathology?



If you grew up in America, chances are your parents have taken you on the trip of your childhood dreams, where you ate junk food, marveled at life-size Disney characters, and dizzily hopped from roller coaster to roller coaster for days on end.

That trip was to a Walt Disney theme park, and chances are your dreams changed as you got older.

But some stay mysteriously captivated and trapped by their Disney dreams. And with the advent of social media platforms like TikTok, we now have a brief glimpse into the existence of these Americans, who are aptly called “Disney adults.”

“I know this may be a weird turnoff for a lot of people, and they don’t understand why I do what I do, but that’s OK,” one self-proclaimed Disney adult said in a post on TikTok. “I’m no stranger to feeling sad for days at a time and barely being able to make it out of bed or feeling so anxious and overstimulated just by going outside that I feel nauseous.”


In the video, the woman wears Minnie Mouse ears and holds a plastic baby as she wanders around the park.

“It’s grown to be a very comforting space for me, and sometimes all I want when I’m having a bad set of days is to go to this safe space that reminds me so much of my childhood,” the woman continued. “Every day is a challenge, and we’re all just trying to get through it as much as we can. This is just how I cope.”

“So I sometimes get really sad when people make fun of me for it. So, with that, happy World Mental Health Day. Here’s a reminder to try and be as kind as much as you are able and that you are so loved,” she added.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is a little shocked.

“I’m not making fun. This is publicly put out in the world,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “It’s not like we’re peering into this person’s diary. This person wants to publicize this, and so it’s totally justified for us to comment on it, but I have questions.”

Stuckey is especially concerned as the woman is carrying around a fake baby as if it’s a real one.

“There is something seriously dark going on here,” Stuckey says. “I think that there is a problem with being like a pathological Disney adult. This is a theme park that can be fun for parents for sure, can be fun for adults, but to have this kind of identity wrapped around Disney, a company that makes entertainment and rides for children — there is something going on there.”

“But to pretend to have a child that you’re bringing to the park that is not a real child — there is something very deeply disturbing going on there, and I will not accept this as this is just an outlet for this person to feel happy,” she continues.

“Life isn’t about being happy at whatever cost,” she says.

“Life in part is about cultivating and making the world around you better. Not just serving yourself with unlimited hits of dopamine.”

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Democrats, dudes, and data: Why men are leaving



Instead of learning good old-fashioned self-awareness — which is free — Democrats are planning to spend $20 million in a futile attempt to understand why they’re failing to attract male voters.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere doesn’t need to look much farther than a video posted to social media during the Biden era of the four gay men from “Queer Eye” visiting the White House and talking to former Vice President Kamala Harris while wearing beards and dresses.

“This is one example, maybe not relating to guys too closely, OK?” Stu says. “This is the type of stuff that reaches people too, right? Like, as much as I know everyone loves my breakdowns of trade tariff tables, maybe a guy with a full beard, dressed in a dress, meeting the vice president of the United States hits their social media feed a little bit more.”


But still, Democrats can’t seem to put their finger on what the issue is and are now looking into recruiting male voters at the gym.

“Do you even vote, bro?” Stu mocks. “Yes, look for new voters in the one place that no one ever wants to talk. No one wants to. No one wants to be approached at the gym. ‘Hey, who are you going to vote for in the next election? Shouldn’t it be a guy in a dress?’”

While Stu feels he has the experience to back up his advice, the women of “The View,” particularly Joy Behar, feel they know men a little better.

Behar claimed that rather than spending $20 million on attempting to attract male voters, the Democrats could instead “reclaim men” and “just teach them not to be such sexists.”

“Again, totally going to work,” Stu scoffs.

And it's not just their failure to attract men that's concerning for the Democrat Party, but their failure to attract people who aren't mentally ill.

A recent article written by Nate Silver illustrates this point well, as he points out that one of the biggest differences between liberal and conservative voters is that 20% of liberals reported having "excellent" mental health, but 51% of conservatives reported "excellent" mental health. 45% of liberals said their mental health was poor, while only 19% of conservatives said their mental health was "poor."

“If you think about the way that the left looks at the world, that everybody’s an oppressor,” Stu explains, “that’s a dark world. It’s a depressing world at some level.”

“Seeing the world that way, well, I’m not surprised that maybe you have a negative relationship with mental health,” he adds.

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