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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Red dye 40 and hidden toxins are fueling the ADD epidemic



There’s a mental health crisis among children in the United States, and according to psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, Dr. Daniel Amen, it has a lot to do with the food our children are eating and the amount of content they’re consuming.

“Toxic food increases the risk of ADD, toxic products you put on children’s bodies increase the risk of ADD,” Amen tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, noting that screen time also plays a big role.

“Video games, smart phones, iPads, they were unleashed on our society for profit with no neuroscience study ahead of time,” he continues, adding, “We know social media is damaging to children’s mental health.”


Luckily, the Trump administration is well aware of the dangers, as it’s announced its intention to phase out synthetic dyes often used to enhance color in candy and cereals — and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the charge.

"We are going to get rid of the dyes and then one by one, we're going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in food that we can legally address," RFK Jr. said in a recent press conference.

“When you see some of the new public policy coming out of this administration over the past few months in relation to these possible environmental causes, what are your thoughts?” Stuckey asks Amen.

“I’m a huge fan,” Amen replies. “I try to be apolitical because I want to help everybody, but if the current administration stayed the one before, absolutely nothing was going to change in our health.”

“We’re going to have big discussions, have discussions on fluoride, you know, places where there’s fluoride in the water, children have lower IQs,” he continues, explaining that in addition, his research on artificial dyes and sweeteners have been damning.

“It’s got the most views of anything I’ve published over the last decade, a scan of a child off and on red dye number 40,” he explains. “The parents brought him to me because it’s like, whenever he gets anything red, he goes into a rage, and he’s completely not himself.”

“I’m like, ‘Well, let's scan him off and then on red dyes,’ and it flamed his brain in a very bad way. I mean, it clearly changed his brain,” he continues, adding, “So if we don’t have to use these things, and clearly we don’t have to use them. They’re banned in places like Canada and Europe, why would we allow them unless we’re just bowing down to the food industry?”

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Her daughter was called ‘brave’ for wanting to cut her breasts off — before Trump restored sanity



After President Trump’s congressional address this week, it’s been made clear that parents like mother January Littlejohn are no longer alone in their fight for their children. Littlejohn's daughter was socially transitioned by her school without parental consent.

“Her 13-year-old daughter was captured by the idea that she was born in the wrong body,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” explains. “Instead of helping her learn to love who she was, her school decided to affirm her self-hate and said, ‘You know what? You hate being a girl; you’re a boy.’”

The school helped Littlejohn’s daughter change her pronouns, pick a new bathroom to use, and even decide whether or not she wanted to sleep with the boys on overnight trips — all without parental consent.


“It’s evil, it’s predatory, and Mom, January, took them to court to fight it. Until now, moms like her were alone in the fight, and most of us, if you had a problem like this, you didn't know what to do. Not any more. America is finally coming to her senses,” Glenn says.

Littlejohn, who is a mental health counselor herself, was shocked that those in her profession just blindly adopted transgender ideology.

“I was volunteer of the year at the middle school where they socially transitioned my daughter, and so I had no idea that not only had my field, the school system, the medical field, even our judicial branch, I had no idea had been infiltrated by this radical ideology,” Littlejohn tells Glenn.

Her daughter was identifying as nonbinary, and her identity changed four times over the course of two years.

“These kids, like my daughter, they are confused, and they are looking to the adults in their life to tell them the truth and help make sense of their confusion,” Littlejohn says. “This is a mental health issue, Glenn, that has been normalized, promoted, and even celebrated.”

“My daughter was told she was brave, Glenn, and she wanted to cut her breasts off at age 13. That is unfathomable what they were doing. And to be fair, it was very similar to when I used to treat clients with anorexia. There are so many parallels to the dissociation these girls feel and go through, and the same type of disassociation with an eating disorder. It was heartbreaking,” she explains.

“It felt like we were in the Twilight Zone, because my husband and I were the only ones in our daughter’s life trying to protect her from this irreversible medical pathway that the school put her on,” she adds.

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Social media isn’t the problem, American culture is. Doctor explains what’s really wrong with today’s youth.



Mental health issues have been on the rise among American youth since the mid 2000s. Ask anyone why that is, and they’ll probably tell you social media is the culprit.

And they’re not totally wrong. The use of social media has risen in tandem with adolescent depression and anxiety.

However, according to physician, psychologist, and best-selling author Dr. Leonard Sax, this trend “is confined to kids in the English-speaking world in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia.”

“Kids in Greece, kids in Russia are just as likely to have smartphones and just as likely to be on social media, but the rise in anxiety and depression has not been seen there,” he tells Allie Beth Stuckey.

Why the discrepancy?

The answer, Dr. Sax says, lies in our toxic culture.

“It's important for parents to understand that the smartphones, the social media are vectors. They are spreading this toxic culture, but they are not themselves the cause,” he explains. “What is toxic about American culture, about English-speaking culture — that is driving this rise in anxiety and depression.”

What’s so toxic about English-speaking culture?

Well, the list is long, but Dr. Sax says studies have pinpointed the crux of the problem. Interestingly, the answer can be found in the evolution of children’s television shows.

Dr. Sax points to a study conducted by UCLA, as part of which researchers “looked at the most popular TV shows marketed to children and teens every 10 years starting in 1967 and analyzed these TV shows based on what the show is teaching kids about what's important.”

According to the study, in 1967, the most popular family television show was “The Andy Griffith Show”; in 1977 it was “Happy Days; in 1987 it was “Family Ties”; and in 1997 it was “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

“The researchers found that each of those shows (1967 through 1997) was communicating the same message: that the most important thing is to do the right thing — to tell the truth even if it hurts, to be a good friend even when that's not easy,” says Dr. Sax.

By 2007, however, that message had been tossed out and replaced with something vastly different. Instead of doing what’s right, the message that was communicated via popular shows like “American Idol” and "Survivor" was that winning and being famous were the most important things.

“Doing the right thing — that’s gonna get you voted off the island,” says Dr. Sax, explaining the cultural shift.

What caused American culture to shift is the next obvious question.

Dr. Sax says that’s a three-part answer.

1. Social Media

“Social media transformed American culture. Suddenly it became all about having likes and followers,” says Dr. Sax, adding that this spawned “a culture of envy” that fosters discontentedness and resentment, hence the rise in mental health issues among adolescents.

Like any generation, today’s youth hunger for greatness. But social media has taught them that the answer lies in fame and recognition. This mentality stands in direct opposition to what greatness once meant to the average person.

50 years ago, greatness was defined by a different set of standards. It wasn’t about popularity or winning; it was about values. The culture of the past is captured in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote: “Anybody can be great because anybody can serve,” says Dr. Sax.

Today, only a tiny percentage of social media users become influencers, leaving the vast majority feeling perpetually disappointed and inadequate.

2. Culture of disrespect

Our modern culture, Dr. Sax explains, has normalized children disrespecting and defying their parents.

“These shows on the Disney Channel teach kids that it's cute and funny to be defiant, to be disrespectful,” he says.

Popular music does it too. Songs like Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” captures this widespread air of defiance.

“Can’t nobody tell me nothing,” the song says eight times.

“That’s the culture of disrespect in a nutshell,” says Dr. Sax, noting that this attitude among our youth “breaks the bonds across generations,” making kids less likely to attend church and less interested in spending time with older people who have wisdom to offer.

3. 'Normophobia'

“15 years ago, American girls wanted to be effortlessly perfect,” says Dr. Sax. Today’s girls and young women, however, perceive perfection as boring.

“Now, you’ve got to have something wrong with you,” he says, noting that having depression, anxiety, and even being transgender are popular labels.

“'Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed,'” says Dr. Sax, quoting C.S. Lewis’ “The Magician’s Nephew.”

Girls today are “substituting anxious or depressed for ‘stupider,’” he explains, noting that Lewis’ children’s proverb has proven itself true. It turns out that believing you are anxious or depressed makes you legitimately anxious or depressed.

The fear of being normal coupled with the coining and circulation of new language, such as gender-conforming vs. gender-nonconforming and neurotypical vs. neurodivergent, has encouraged kids to attach their identities to negative language. Belief then turns this negative language into actual conditions.

To hear more of Dr. Sax’s research on this subject, watch the episode above.

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Mental health and religion: Why men need God now more than ever



American men have been suffering in silence through an unprecedented mental health and suicide crisis — while women’s rights have taken center stage.

Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice, believes it’s high time this changes.

“Nationwide, we are experiencing the highest suicide rate, the highest depression rate, ever in recorded American history. And unfortunately, men are hit hardest when it comes to suicide,” Sheffield tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding that 80% of suicides are committed by men.

“More than 90% of occupational deaths on the job are men. We don’t talk about this. The life span on average of men is far shorter than for women, and so we don’t talk about men. All the left loves to do is to demonize men,” she explains.

However, Sheffield believes there’s an answer for the men suffering in silence.


“Coming to faith, being in faith practice, religious community, religion. This is extremely tied with strong mental health, lower suicide, low substance abuse, and so it was an encouragement to men because men are far more likely to be atheist and agnostic,” Sheffield explains.

“Why aren’t people talking about what men would need in terms of mental health?” Peterson asks.

“In general, I think our culture has become divorced from truth,” Sheffield says. “Postmodern society is truth is whatever the wind is telling us. Whatever is trendy, whatever is hot, whatever is buzzy, and when our society falls away from that, it’s no wonder that then you fall into this situation.”

“I’ve experienced it myself as a recovered agnostic, where if you don’t believe in an eternal truth or purpose, then your mental health suffers. And so, I think for a lot of men, as the quote-unquote ‘feminist movement’ demonized men and tried to sever them from their purpose, which is to serve God, to serve people,” she continues.

“Part of that is this idea that a man could be a provider or a protector or create a family,” she says. “The feminist movement was trying to undermine all of that.”

However, there’s some good news.

“I looked at a headline that came out, I think, last week, and Bible sales are actually up 22% in America,” Savage comments.

“The Bible sales, the 22% increase, which is phenomenal, that you mentioned, this is being driven by first-time Bible-buyers,” Sheffield says. “They’re discovering it by themselves, they’re being, in some ways, pioneers in their own family. And it’s being led by young men.”

“And so that’s a glimmer of hope,” she adds.

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Tucker Carlson shocked by journalist’s prediction of what comes after Trump’s victory — 'Are you being serious?'



When American journalist Mark Halperin told Tucker Carlson what he thinks is destined to happen following a Trump victory, Tucker was so shocked, he legitimately thought Halperin was joking.

However, Halperin was being “100% serious.”

Although their conversation occurred three weeks prior to Election Day, Dave Rubin shares Halperin’s warning now that Trump has been declared the victor in his race against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

“Let's say Trump wins three weeks from today. What happens? ... A lot of Democrats, maybe the majority, believe that Trump becoming president again is the worst thing that ever could happen, so how do they respond to that?” Tucker asked.

“I think it will be the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country. I think tens of millions of people will question their connection to the nation, their connection to other human beings,” and “their vision of what their future for them and their children could be like,” Halperin predicted.

“I think that will require an enormous amount of access to mental health professionals; I think it'll lead to trauma in the workplace. I think there'll be some degree of ...” he continued before Tucker cut him off.

“Are you being serious?” Tucker asked, visibly shocked.

“100% serious,” Halperin pledged, before finishing his thought that we’ll also see an uptick in “alcoholism” and “broken marriages.”

“What?!” Tucker exclaimed.

“Yeah, they think he’s the worst person possible to be president,” Halperin said, adding that many liberals will not be able to cope with “the fact that under a fair election, America chose ... Donald Trump again.”

“I don't think it will be kind of a passing thing that by the inauguration will be fine. I think it will be sustained and unprecedented and hideous, and I don't think the country's ready for it,” he added.

When Tucker brought up the fact that “mental health crises often manifest in violence,” Halperin agreed and predicted that there will indeed be “some violence,” from “workplace fights” and “fights at kids’ birthday parties” all the way to “protests that will turn violent.”

“I think that's what's going to happen for tens of millions of people because they think that their fellow citizens supporting Trump is a sign of fundamental evil at the heart of their fellow citizens and of the nation. That's how they view it,” Halperin explained.

Dave agrees with Halperin’s prediction.

“Look what we have done to young people — ‘You live in a country that was founded on evil, on slavery and racism. Now a man who wants to bring all of that back using white supremacist magic, using evil language ... now he’s back, and he’s taking away women’s rights, and he’s going after those people, and he’s gonna jail these people,”’ says Dave, regurgitating the left’s phony Trump narrative.

“They used all of the most evil tools, and not only did it not get them what they wanted — meaning the installation of Kamala Harris as president, who was just a cog in the machine — it now has broken the brains of millions and millions of Americans, and we better start thinking about this because we all know them,” Dave warns.

To hear more on Halperin’s warning and Dave’s analysis, watch the clip above.

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Gen Z journalist explains why so many leftist activists are young people



Ever wonder why so many radical leftist activists fall within Gen Z?

According to NY-based journalist Ashley St. Clair, who’s 25 years old and thus a Zoomer herself, it’s because “so much of Gen Z feels out of control” and “like they don't have anything to control.”

“So it seems like they cling to these movements, like Free Palestine and BLM, because they feel like it's something they can control and do because there's so little impact they can have on so many different things,” Ashley tells Dave Rubin.

“They’re not empowered. … They're told the only way they can be useful is through these social justice causes, and so I think that's why they gravitate towards [activism] more.”

This may also explain why so many young people are opting not to have children.

“I did street interviews with EveryLife, the diaper company,” she continues, and “one [girl] outright told me she didn't want to have kids … because of climate change.”

Others told her that they were choosing not to have children “because of economics.”

“They think the worst thing that could happen to a kid is being poor in America,” Ashley says, adding that “it's just such an antinatalist lie that's been sold to them.”

“They are so dreadful about the future” and believe “humanity is so doomed that they don’t think there should be more of it.”

“Do you think it's worse in a way for girls than for guys right now?” asks Dave.

“It depends on what your metric for success is,” says Ashley, “but I think both young men and women are particularly disturbed nowadays,” especially when it comes to “identity.”

“So many people have no sense of identity; they don’t know who they are because [the left] has destroyed that” via gender ideology.

“We're fundamentally destroying what it means to be both a man and a woman.”

On top of that, Gen Z'ers are the most chronically depressed and anxious generation. While there are likely many factors that feed this issue, one reason is because their highly digital world is forcing them to take in “inputs all the time” and “perform all of the time for everybody,” Ashley says.

To hear more, watch the clip below.


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This Dr. Phil warning should make everyone’s ears perk up



Most agree that technology has harmed society in more ways than one. However, many of those same people are probably unaware of just how severe the damage is.

Dave Rubin invites Dr. Phil on the show to discuss what the statistics tell us about our hyper-digital world. And it’s not a pretty picture.

“Look, I'm glad there's technology, but we’ve got to start using it rather than abusing it,” says Dr. Phil.

False information on the Internet, AI and deep fakes, cyberbullying, and sextortion (although those are certainly not the extent of the issues) have left society, especially the younger generations, in shambles.

It led to an epidemic that's calling our very souls into question.

“When I say the soul of America, I'm talking about the real core of what defines this country — the core values that we don't think about every day but that are at the center of what defines America — the morality, the north star that drives us in the direction that we've been driven for 250 years,” he explains.

“I saw a study the other day that said most young people … have less than one good friend. They’ve got tens of thousands of likes and clicks and followers, but they have less than one good friend on average, and that's what I mean by the soul of America. What's made us a great, shining example on the hill that everybody wants to come be part of is eroding because we're not interacting anymore; we're not embracing those values anymore.”

To hear more of Dr. Phil’s take on “the soul of America” and what he calls “the tyranny of the fringe,” watch the clip below.


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Is America Suffering from a Mental Health Crisis?
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Is America Suffering from a Mental Health Crisis?