07-17-26 Part Two - A Generation of Mental Illness

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“there was more research that was recently done. I think it was Nate Silver who did it and”

talked about how many is liberalism, a mental illness. And he did the, he was one of them

into the study on the fact that like 45% of liberals believe that mental health challenges are an extremely important part of their identity and it's way over it is the majority. It's like seven in 10 young people do. Three in four Gen Z women and Gen Z liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their identity around three informed millennial men and millennial liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their

identity. Now, this is really interesting because very few people have done, we, we know what the polling says or the research has a what they say. But is it true or they actually mentally ill? Skeptic research center. I just happened to find this as I was drifting along the internet from a couple of months ago, from the skeptic research center that's skeptical about anything out there out there. Yeah. Identifying as mentally ill without symptoms

of mental illness, a growing generational divide, our latest polling suggests that a large proportion of Americans with no or only mild mental health symptoms, nevertheless believe

“mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. He said here, we consider”

the identity symptom gap and they go through the three and four Gen Z women and Gen Z liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of their identity, three and four millennial men and millennial liberals believe mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. The tendency to believe that mental illness is important to one's identity is driven more by age generation than by sex or political orientation. Women in each generation

were more likely to believe that mental health challenges are an important part of my identity with one exception, millennials, millennial men are the only group more likely to identify as mentally ill than the women in their cohort, baby boomers and political conservatives

“were least likely to say being mentally ill is an important part of their identity.”

Large proportions of Americans with no or only mild mental health symptoms believe mental health challenges are an important part of my identity. Mental health symptoms do not

appear to be the driver of the identification of mental illness, then amazing. So clinically

there's no evidence they're just identifying. They're self-identifying us. They're self-identifying mentally ill, yeah. Wow. You ready for this? Okay. Our 2024 survey also revealed that identification with mental health challenges was associated with being politically uninformed in a cynical direction. For example, those who said being mentally ill was important to their identity also tended to overestimate the national poverty rate as well as the

pace of climate change. Primarily, this suggested to us that identification as mentally ill

Our 2024 survey revealed something else that had gone previously undiscovered many of

“those identifying with mental health challenge had no or few mental health symptoms that”

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“warned. If I would listen on your favorite platform. Yeah, you know what I believe it”

is. I believe it is the ultimate in the brain washing of the left that you're a victim of everything. Well, no, I was going to say if you're in your own mind creating something or identifying as someone with a mental illness when clinically, there is no presentation. Then the only reason you would do that is because you're trying to look like a victim. Are you wearing it on your sleeve and telling everybody about your condition, whatever they're

claiming the condition is that falls within mental illness? You know, it's dangerous because you take that to the next level. And with mental illness in the clinical setting, there's a conversation with your care provider, your doctor. And if you're not really experiencing those symptoms, but you're telling your doctor that you are because you want to take this to the next level, I guess. It can be dangerous based on what medications they provide

to you. You know, this is, I've been, I've thought for the longest time. And, and I want to be very careful here because mental illness is a very serious situation when it's real. But how do you separate the group out there that's not experiencing the level of mental illness that requires treatment? They're just identifying it as from the actual people that are experiencing mental illness and have true manifestations, symptoms.

“You know, I, I remember this goes back probably about 15 years ago, a friend of mine. Still”

a friend of mine today. And I've never got into the conversation with her. But she was

always taking Adderall because she had ADHD. Yeah. But a year after she told me about that, for some reason, it came up. And I said, where are you, are you taking Adderall? You know, you're still taking Adderall. And it was, she was just telling me, she's feeling great and everything else. I said, well, as your, how's your ADHD? And she said, well, I don't take Adderall anymore. Why not? She goes, it was just an excuse. Well, as she advanced

in business. Yeah. She goes, it's just an excuse. Right. And I never got into the details with her on it. What immediately was just an excuse? Why did you come? Because I'd be fascinated to find out why you thought it. And now why you think this was just an excuse. I was

And I, one of these days, I got a, I don't get to see her that much, but I'm going to have

a discussion with her. Go, you know, we had told me that just an curiosity. What, what happened

“there? Did you find that out through therapy or did was that your own self assessment?”

Did you just come to a day? Oh, it was your own, no, it was your own self assessment. Yeah, she wasn't seen anybody. I know that. It was your own self assessment of herself. Same, I don't need this. And yeah. And I just, I find it, but you know, you and I go back to the, the young girls at the White House the one time about climate change and they was at

the Biden White House or Obama. I can't must have been the Biden White House. I was a

Biden or Obama. Well, it definitely wasn't the Trump White House. No. And they were being asked about, you know, how they see their future, you know, you know, what they will do, they get out of college and to a T, all these young women, probably what? 16 17. Yeah. Said, there is no hope for us. We're not ever going to be able to graduate from college. The world will be gone. Well, if you're that delusional, if you've been brainwashed to that

extent, what other problems does it cause in you? If you truly believe, if you've been brainwashed to believe the world is going to end in five to 10 years and adults, evil adults. Yeah. Because that is the height of evil, telling young people that there's no chance for them in life. And telling them lies, who, what, who the hell does that? What kind of an adult

“does that to a child? But you and I always remember this was at the White House. Yeah. And”

they were screaming and they were angry, we're not going to be able to, you know, we're not going to be around in nine years. That college doesn't matter. The world's going to end. What was it like in eight or nine years? Yeah, point. They were trying to make. Right. And they truly believed it. And so what other, I, let me put it this way, if I was at age and truly believe that, I'd be pretty depressed. No, if you thought it was

all going, if you truly believed it was all going to end. If you, I don't, I don't think because, you know, that's, that's really what we, I mean, as humans, we look forward to what the future you're looking forward. That's the whole point. You're looking forward to something great thing. Have great things. Hopefully having a long and healthy life. And you've been convinced in your mind that the entire world is going to be gone. And when

you, you know, you and I always said, you want to see the evil of Bernie Sanders when Bernie

Sanders was telling young people, they can't make it in life because of billionaires. Yeah. And people bought into it. How evil is that of what adult tells a child there is no hope in a country and in a, in a world where hope and opportunity, if you prepare yourself is beyond anything that 99.9% of humans that have ever existed could ever imagine. And it's turned around. You're not going to be able to make it because of billionaires. You're

not in control of your own destiny. You are always going to be poor. You're always going to be a victim across the board. They're, they're, they're selling my, my God, they're, they're selling that you can't live a human life. Yeah. Yeah. I can't even describe trying to think of the right words that would fit this particular situation because it's reprehensible that adults would do that. But if you do that across the board, then can you create a

paranoia, a completely totally unreasonable paranoia? And I will say, yes, you can because

“we see it every day out of the left. Oh, I think we've sought, in fact, in, in, in full on”

full display during COVID, when, when you had children believing, if you breathe on someone, they could die, if they breathe on you, you could die. And then as we're learning more about COVID as we're going along through COVID and realizing young people out of any demographic actually statistically were the safest, but it didn't matter. You created the zombie apocalypse

and when you could go. And when you do that and climate change is, is right there, same

“thing, it's the ultimate apocalypse. It's, you're, what you're taking out of the equation”

in the mind, especially in a mind that is forming their adulthood, they're trying to formulate their ideas, learn who they are, what they're going to be, go out into the world and live their dream, whatever they're going to do. You're telling them none of that is going to exist. You're taking away all of their, you know, the burning thing. You've got no opportunity

that it exists for only the rich and you will never have opportunity. You're taking

away everything positive out of the life, which can only create fear if they, and it is a learned behavior, if they believe that and there's not someone to intervene, which is where the parents should come in and tell them, no, everything's going to be okay. There's

“ups and downs in life, but you can get over any challenge, because you've got a strong”

support system, including your family, and don't believe the garbage that you're hearing, especially on social media and in the press. Look at some of these numbers, the highest rates of people that believe they had mental health, that mental health challenges are an

important part of their identity. Gen Z women 81% agreed with that statement. Gen Z liberals

78% agreed with that statement. Millennial men, 77% agreed, millennial liberals, 76% agreed. That's unbelievable when you look at that. Yeah. That's wild. Wow. It really is. You're right. I radio brought to you by FPPF fuel power max surviving a thriving as an owner operator has just as much to do with managing costs as it does with generating revenue.

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honing on Gary McNamara. Alright, it's a Friday show. We got to clear the desk of all audio cuts we have in play. We talked about how Republicans can use everything from the President's speech last night on the vulnerabilities of the election system. Again, we're concerned about fraud to Democrats not caring about fraud using voter ID. The fact that the Senate held hearings this week and Democrats, except for the ranking member for an opening statement

in a couple of questions and he walked out. No Democrat on the fraud which a GAO now believes

is $500 billion over a half a trillion dollars of fraud much of it coming from foreign countries

and a lot of it identity fraud. And the Democrats don't care about it. One of the people that they brought up to speak about it was Nick Shirley who's the one who walked around with the camera and figured out and he was called every name in the book by Democrats for attempting to expose taxpayer fraud. Here listen to this. Here we go. This is Nick Shirley. My exposing the fraud actually also exposed the politicians and media who worked for years

to cover it up. Governor Tim Waltz labeled my work as a white supremacy and called me a far right delusional conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, he dropped out of reelection and he even said he is ended his political career. Now the highest government funded day care in Minnesota has pleaded guilty to day care fraud and the largest autism bust in America history has been exposed. Where is Tim Waltz in the media now? It just so happens

There you go because that's what they hit on, right? Yep, had to be white supremacy up. It's

“not. We don't know. We care about the fraud. Yep. Just amazing. Just amazing. What a great”

opportunity for Republicans. I hope they don't blow it. You're listening to Red Eye Radio from the Red Leaf Factory Studio. And we are Red Eye Radio. He's here currently and I'm Gary McNamara. Hi. All right. More just audio cuts because it's a Friday and we're mainly in it. No. I thought this was great because it's all fits with the whole the whole discussion we've had on fraud and the opportunity

that it brings Republicans this week. If you just tuned in right now, we're talking about

the president's speech last night. The president did not say last night that he won the

“2020 election when he talked about was a vulnerability of our election system and foreign”

actors including China who want to get involved with it and with AI, we need to pay attention to this. Of course, he promoted the save act, which he should as we know the vast majority of the country, including the vast majority, landslide numbers of Democrats. Yep. One voter ID, the Democratic Party does not. Why fraud? Then you had the fraud hearings this week where the representative from the GAO came out and said, they believe 500, a half a trillion

dollars has been stolen for fraud and a lot of it with again fake ID. And no Democrat, now one Democrat except the ranking chairman, the the Democrat showed up, gave an opening remarks asked a couple questions, then he left. It was all Republicans asking the question Democrats don't care about taxpayer fraud because why wouldn't you be there? And then Senator Ashley Moody, who's talking to, oh, I forgot his name now, Nick Shirley, who

discovered the fraud in Minnesota. And also was doing it in California. Yeah. I mean, he said a tremendous amount of success. He's a kid. He's a kid with a camera. And here it is. Here's Ashley Moody talking about what Tim Walt said and Gavin Newsom said about him. Here we go. Okay. Let's try that again. Here goes. Tim Waltz, governor of Minnesota.

“Do you remember when he wanted to be our vice president was bragging that all of these”

types of new small businesses were reasons why he should be trusted with leading. And now we're determining what all these small businesses like the Learing Center were. He used this as a reason that he gave the American people of why he should leave. So why are we surprised that immediately he's defensive and comes after a young kid that's trying to point out on behalf of his generation where this money is really going and this fraud.

And look at what the leader of California said. Did he really say in response to you uncovering just astronomical fraud and and waste that and I want to quote this because I am appalled by it. Did he really say slow surely is the fraud? Yes, he did. Yeah, now one of the reasons they didn't show is they can't defend their position because why wouldn't you show? Right, because they're on record for attacking the people who are uncovering fraud. If you could demonstrate

that surely is the fraud, right, you'd be there. You'd be there and want to show the world that he's a fraud instead of giving him more time with the GOP, right? Yep. It's just amazing. They knew they were defeated. They're cowards. All right, when a playmark a Rubio here, he was at the conference of resurgence of political terrorism and a couple of things he talked about was political terrorism and communism. Let's play what he had to say. This is a distinctive

and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization

against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create,

“who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy”

by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalists

or anti-imperialists or communists or anarchists or Marxists, but the fundamental character is always

the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, and overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world through violence and through terror. They once

“again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong.”

None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. One of the criticisms, you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it

never works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory.

The world that envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world that envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity, or ambition, a world without heroes, or glory, or great causes to strive towards without a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things, and the world communism envisions is a world

without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines, they attack railroads, they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical and body symbols of power, and invention, and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West,

because the West is great. There you go. It's true. Yep. Great speech. And, you know, this is again,

“you have to be very clear when you're presenting whatever set of ideas you're trying to convey.”

This is something we've been talking about for a long, long time. Right now, the GOP is winning. On a number of things, fraud, taxpayer fraud, fraud, voter fraud, present it in a very clear and direct form. The evidence is there, it works for you, because the American people are already with you. And you can't let this be daylight saving where you talk about it and then you let it drop,

because there was no talk about daylight saving again. It was just gone. It was like, wow, that disappeared quite didn't it? You know, it's because, and that's another thing too, is that the daylight saving thing, again, you know, both sides of the argument, you can see the

point, but the bigger point is that's, in fact, the reason why it's never going to get done.

Because you're just not going to, you're not going to get that change when you have lobbyists that are going to say, you know, once you've changed it, you've got to change it back and they're going to spell out the emergencies. The media is going to be everywhere. Kids are going to be going to a school in, in the dark and, you know, farmers are going to be suffering their business will suffer and everything else. All of this stuff adds up to something that's not going to

happen. In other words, you're spinning wheels. And one of the things that we've said before is the summer, Democrats will pound the same lie over and over again. Republicans bring it up a couple of times and they figure, okay, the public understands it and they move on. You don't. I want to hear this, like Senator Bernie Moreno at the fraud hearing, pounding on Democrats,

Very, uh, fraud is very simple to understand. Carrying about fraud is very simple to understand.

“Here's Senator Moreno yesterday. Here we go. I think preventing fraud and government should be”

completely non-partisan. It's not a democratic issue, Republican issue. Yet the entire, almost entirety of the Republican diocese filled people sitting here listening to the entire hearing and literally the entire Democrat dies, is empty. I think that's quite frankly disgrace. I think it's a disgrace to the people who pay taxes to know that there's an entire party

that does not care whether their taxpayer money is burnt. I think so they get it. They know what

the message is. Pound on it now. Yeah. Create commercials on it now. Have a number of people have panel discussions on it. Bring it up wherever you can because this week, I look back at this

“week and say this was fraud week. This is where you had a number of instances ending with the”

president's vulnerability speech last night, which is based on the vulnerabilities of the election system, just like voter ideas and the American public understands with voter ideas. So does every

Democrat, it's the Democrat party that disagrees with the people that vote for them on something

that is absolutely simple and basic to ensure that people have confidence in the election system. And the money part of it, I don't know. I don't know how Democrats believe. I don't know how they believe that going after a Nick surely or anyone else who is independently pointing out massive monetary taxpayer fraud that demonizing them is any type of sane political direction to go in and you had Tim Walts and you have Newsom that have gone after him as a white supremist as you know,

slow surely whatever that means. You know, I might even, Newsom doesn't even know where to go. So he throws out something going, well, no, you're the one that's slow. He discovered this. Right. You don't even know what's going on in your own damn state with fraud. Right. And he and he's a kid with the camera and configure it out and you can't. He's slow. I mean, it doesn't makes. It doesn't make any kind of sense except they believe that the people that vote

for them also don't care about fraud. Yep. Now, the polling shows different. But the Democrats believe that the people that vote for them are idiots and don't care about fraud in in where

“taxpayer money goes and that they don't care about fraud in elections. That's what Democrats believe.”

And they don't care about foreign influence or technology or AI or hacking being used. All that stuff that they talked about Donald Trump and all that was all a bunch of BS number one. That was BS. It wasn't true. Right. But they claim that they cared about it. They don't care about it. And the Republicans are the ones that need to market 24/7 on all these issues. They don't care about election fraud. They don't care about American citizens who truly need that money. They're not

defending the American citizen and ensuring that Medicaid words really needed gets to where it's supposed to be and taxpayer dollars in grants and other funding that it really gets to the American citizens who really need it. They don't care. They don't care about election fraud. They don't care about women in the locker room. You can go on. They don't care about transgenders. No. No. And you pound it. You put them on the defensive Republicans stop being on the defensive.

They should be out there in full force. Yeah. There should be another press conference this morning. On fraud across the board. On fraud across the board. Yep. We are Red Eye Radio. We'll be right back with more Red Eye Radio with every currently and Gary McNamara.

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