September 3, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode, Tudor Dixon and Kyle Olson discuss the current state of crime in America, particularly focusing on the impact of federal intervention in cities like Washington D.C. They explore the disconnect between political leaders and the communities they serve, emphasizing the need for effective mental health facilities to address underlying issues contributing to crime. The conversation also touches on the growing influence of socialism within the Democratic Party and its implications for future elections. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I'm here today with
Kyle Olsen. He is the founder of The Midwesterner, and
I want to talk about all the things that are
happening in the country right now, mostly what's happening. I
want to start with what's happening with crime. Because President
Trump went in and he federalized essentially the police force
in Washington, DC. Suddenly no carjackings, no murders. This has
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made Democrats completely crazy. I was on Newsmax last week
and they were like, well, now Democrats have a zero
percent rating on zero percent of Democrats think that the
country is going in the right direction, which I find
interesting because obviously there are some who who are happy
that they don't have to worry about being murdered in
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the streets of DC. But I think they're just so.
I think Dems are just so unhappy with their life
in general right now. They have no future person, they
don't have somebody to rally behind, and Donald Trump is
actually making progress. I think it's driving them crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, and they're so reactionary that what they do is
when Trump comes out and says he supports something or
he wants to do something, their automatic reaction is to
just oppose it was. I was in DC a couple
of weeks ago. I took my kids before the school
year started, and we went to d C. We went
to Union Station, which has sort of been the focal
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point of the National Guard, and there was a real
show of force, and people are the Democrats are outraged
about this. But you look at the result and as
you said, you know, there has been a significant, significant
decline in crime. And how they can be opposed to
that is I just don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So that's what I find fascinating. And I can tell
you from my own experience with friends. I grew up
in the suburbs of Chicago, so I see a bunch
of those people on Facebook. And just earlier today, one
of the people that I know from that area posted
on Facebook like this rant about how nobody it was
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some Fox News article about how people in Chicago are
concerned about the level of crime, and this person just
went nuts about this is not true, this is entertainment.
There is nobody concerned about crime. So I find that
interesting because Mayor Johnson is obviously totally opposed to Donald
Trump coming in. President Trump has said that he's going
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to send federal troops to Chicago to make it safe
because JB. Pritzker, I can't speak, is not doing anything.
The mayor is not doing anything. I mean, similar to
what happened out in la when there were those terrible riots,
this is something that we see in Detroit here in Michigan.
Detroit is right now the third most violent city in
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the country and Chicago surprisingly is lower on that list,
but I think they have a higher murder rate. So
Mayor Brandon Johnson decides to go out this past weekend
and he goes to a Labor Day rally and he
has this speech at this Labor Day rally, and he
starts it with a chant that says, no federal troops
in the city of Chicago, no militarized force in the
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city of Chicago. We're going to defend our democracy in
the city of Chicago. That was Saturday night that he
says this. He is insulting the idea that anybody should
have to come and keep people safe because they're defending democracy.
So what happens, there's fifty four shootings and seven people
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are killed. How is that defending democracy?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, and what I don't understand why there is this
tolerance for crime and violence. Why is that number of
people being shot and being killed? Why is that okay?
And then you have Trump who is saying, we're going
to use the National Guard too, and we're going to
take over the DC police force, and then he rescented that.
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And obviously there's a distinction between Washington, d C. And
these other cities because the federal government controls effectively controls Washington,
d C. So there's a difference. But at the same time,
it doesn't matter if you vote Republican or Democrat. It
doesn't matter if you don't like Donald Trump. There are
still residents in all of these cities who they deserve freedom,
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they deserve security and safety, and people like Brandon Johnson
aren't willing to give it to them.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But there's a side of the left that refuses to
hear the people who are saying this isn't what I
signed up for. I'm not happy, and there's no denying
there's been two hundred and seventy four people killed in
Chicago just this year, folks. It's September. Two hundred and
seventy four people have lost their lives, and the left
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is so preoccupied with being against Donald Trump that just
like I said, this person that I saw posting on
Facebook says, this is not an issue, this is entertainment.
And you know what that article was. That article was
actually interviews with people who live in this part of
the city. Because that person posting on Facebook, she doesn't
worry about her kids going out and getting shot on
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the streets. She isn't worried about whether or not she
can go to the grocery store and not get into
a fistfight. She didn't have to worry about that because
she's not living where the two hundred and seventy four
people who have been killed were living. And this is
the thing that I think is so critical for us
to start to unpack in this nation. There are cities
in this country that the left has turned their back
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on until it comes time to vote. And those people
are starting to speak up, and suburban white moms are saying, no, no, no,
you don't actually have a problem. How can that? How
does this even compute when they're the ones saying there's
there's a racism problem. Isn't it kind of racist to
refuse to admit that these people deserve to live in
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safe communities?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, two days after we left, so we came home Monday.
Actually we came home Tuesday, but we were at Union
Station on Monday. And on Wednesday, the Vice President and
the Secretary of Defense and some of the people visited
Union Station and there were these protesters in Union Station
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and they were, you know, white, they looked like white.
Some of them were elderly women. Chances are pretty good
they don't live in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They're just there.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They're just there to oppose what the Trump administration's doing.
And so who do they think they are when they
are they are opposing the show of force, the surge,
whatever you want to call it. But they don't have
to live like that. They go into you know, probably
one of the fancy neighborhoods in Virginia or Maryland, and
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they don't have to live like everybody else is living
in Washington.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They're not worried about their Labor Day party having a
drive by shooting. I mean, and that's this is a
true scenario. So this is Mayor Johnson goes out and
he is chanting this chant on Saturday night, same night
in Chicago, there's a drive by shooting. There are five
men shot two women shot and I'm gonna read this
to you. It's pretty graphic, but they say a twenty
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The police indicated that a twenty eight year old woman
was shot in the left thigh, a thirty year old
woman was shot in the right knee, a thirty old
man was shot in the right leg, another thirty year
old man was shot in the left thigh, thirty one
year old man in the left foot, and a thirty
two year old man in the left thigh. And then
the last one is a twenty eight year old man
who is shot in the buttocks. But I mean, you
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think about these are not these are people in the
prime of their lives. They're thirty years old, and now
they have permanent injuries. And I say that because we
have a friend who is a he's an orthopedic piece.
And I remember one night. So we live in an
area where the hospital is in a neighborhood where there
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are a lot of shootings. So I took my daughter
to the hospital one night and there had been a
few shootings and we were in the lobby with a
few people that had been shot. And so I talked
to our friend the next day and I was like, oh,
my gosh, is this common? And he said, we have
this every single night. And I asked him, well, what
happens to these people? And he said, to be honest,
we had a guy who came in and he's like,
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he's this huge, tough guy and he came in and
he got shot in the arm and he has to
go have rehab on his arm and he doesn't want
to do it because it's so painful. He was like,
because you think, oh, he's shot in the arm, that's
not so bad. He said, the bone is totally shattered.
We're trying to graft the bone back together and bring
the create and recreate an arm. When you hear these things,
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I think too many people go, oh, they were shot,
but they didn't get killed. How do you think the
guy that got shot in the foot is going to
do about the woman who was shot in the knee.
I mean, these are lifelong injuries and this is all
going to cost everybody more money. Why is that not
Why is it like, instead of gun control, why aren't
we saying, you know what, this is the the Chicago
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has some of the most strict gun control laws in
the country, and yet these fifty four people were shot
over the weekend. How about we have policing well.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And how about we put a higher value on life.
I think that's one of the biggest problems is there
the value of life is so low that people resort to,
you know, shooting each other over stupid things, or they're
trying to you know, rob each other of you know,
relatively insignificant things. And so I think once those societal
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issues are addressed, I think that will help. But yes,
I mean, the constant focus is guns and and you know,
with the the attack in Minneapolis, it always goes to
the gun, But you've got to look at who's holding
the gun. What is the situation that this person decided
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to do this?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, and you know, I'm not glad you brought that up,
but I think that is another issue that we're facing
in this country. We talk about mental health issues, but
we're not really allowed to talk about the mental health issues.
And I have an article here because I wanted you
guys to hear. You probably heard about the Walmart stabbing
that happened in Michigan back in July. This guy went
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into Walmart stabbed eleven people. I think it was a
marine who stopped him and held him at gunpoint, but
didn't shoot him. The backstory of this is quite shocking,
quite stunning, because I think you have to kind of
understand the backstory and why so many people are coming
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out and saying we need something else for mental health.
And President Trump was recently asked, you know, what do
you want to do about mental health, and he actually said,
I'm considering reopening insane asylums, which is something like people
would never say, you know, they're like, oh my gosh,
and maybe we don't call them insane asylums, but you know,
there is a argument for having mental health hospitals, places
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that you can stay and that you can be monitored.
And this family, the family of this man who was
forty two years old when he went into the walmart
and started dabbing people. They said they'd looked all over
for help for him. But now he's forty two. You know,
I mean, this is there's no place to put an
adult who is in this situation. But I wanted you
to know how he got into this situation, because I
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think this is stunning. The mom was interviewed and she said,
this is when she's talking about him as a child.
She said he had a sense of humor. He kept
us laughing. He was great, he was enjoyable to have,
you know, just a typical little boy. But then at fourteen,
she said, he smoked marijuana, still his drug of choice,
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but that time the marijuana was laced with something. Fourteen
years old just gotten a bad, bad thing of weed.
So he comes in. He says to his dad. He
got down on his knees and he goes. He Sayster's mom, Mom,
I'm in trouble. I got some bad pot. She says.
His dad was there and we were holding him, trying
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to calm him down, and it just got worse. He
got into a fetal position. We wrapped him in a
blanket and we took him to the er. She said,
we lost Brad at fourteen. We lost him, but we
never stopped loving him. That is so on so many
levels that that scares me because this was I mean, gosh,
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this was years ago, and the weed that kids are
getting now is much different than the weed this kid got.
And he obviously had bad weed. It was laced with something.
It caused permanent brain damage. And even the students, because
we're in Michigan, we've heard some of these stories of
people who went to school with him, and they tell
stories about him as like this super popular kid. They
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moved to Michigan from California. They were they were really popped.
This family was really popular. The kid was really popular.
And then the story every kid knew it, like everybody
that is forty two that graduated with him was online
like and then he got this bad thing a pot.
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He ended up like nobody knew what happened. He kind
of went crazy and he did. He has had multiple
run ins with the law. He was homeless at the
time that this happened because he had been through that.
We have like these halfway houses, but there's no place
to put someone like this, and so people go, how
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did this happen? Well, he was under government care and
somehow they say so the mental health community, mental health facilities,
like he slipped through the cracks. Somehow this happened. And
the mom is like, it shouldn't have happened. There didn't
need to be this stabbing. You know, this is there
should not be cracks you can slip through, and yet
he did. He slipped through the cracks. This is somebody
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who so just so you know a little bit more
of his backstory in I think it was twenty thirteen
he was caught running naked down a highway in Ohio,
and then in twenty sixteen he actually was found digging
up graves at a cemetery with a stolen shovel from
home depot. They knew that there was a mental health
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problem here, but somehow he fell through the cracks. And yet,
if you are President Trump and you talk about, hey,
we need a facility for folks like this, it's not
just for this person, it's to protect the entire community
and to help his parents out. Yet Donald Trump is
going to get the Left is going to come after
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him for this, but they have no solution.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, Well, yeah, this is it's it's uncomfortable. People don't
like to talk about it, it's embarrassing for families, etc.
But it's something that, as you said, it's not just
about the individual. It's about their family, it's about their neighbors,
it's about their community. Because allowing someone like this to
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just slip through the cracks, clearly, I mean, this is
a good example of how it can have It can
end up in disaster for a community.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a tutor Dixon podcast. I want to tell you guys
another story because this has stuck with me all these years.
This happened in twenty fourteen, and so I'm telling you
this because I want you to know that this is
not unusual for families to be in this situation. In fact,
I have friends who have nonverbal, violent autistic children who
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are twice their size at sixteen, their punching holes through
the walls. The other siblings in the family were scared.
The parents didn't have any options. This is a story
that happens to people over and over again, but nobody
wants to talk about it. It's a very hard discussion
to have. And you know, RFK came out and recently said,
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you don't understand these people have autistic children who are
you know, violent and hard to handle. He didn't say
every autistic child is that way. He said there are
families in this situation, and the Left came after him
so hard. My kid's autistic and doesn't do that. That's fantastic.
You don't get to say that it doesn't happen to anybody.
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There's this other story of a kid he was I
think he was a graduate of William and Mary and
at twenty one, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And his
dad was a state senator in Virginia, and that's why
the story got so much attention, and so sixty Minutes
did a story on this. And the reason that the
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senator wanted this story out was because he said, the
system failed my son. His name was Cray Deeds, and
he and the son, the son was named Gus, and
he went out when they the son. He knew the
sun was in trouble. He knew he was struggling, and
at the time in Virginia, you could only have a
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six hour hold if there was no psychiatric bed. So
he took him to the hospital and the hospital said, hey,
if we can find a bed, we can keep him
for longer. They couldn't find a bed, so they sent
him home and he said, I knew there was going
to be an altercation. I knew there was going to
be something. I didn't know it would be violent. I
knew he would have some sort of a freak out.
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He said. He went to bed that night and in
the morning he was out. They lived on a farm.
He was out in the barn and his son comes
out and he says, hey, bud, how'd you sleep? And
the Sun says fine. The Dad turns his back, the
Sun pulls out a knife, slashes him across the face,
stabs him ten times. Dad somehow gets away and neighbors
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in the neighbor farm have him airlifted to the hospital.
The most devastating part about the story is that he
is in the helicopter when he hears on the police radio,
we've got another one. Doa gunshot. He killed himself. He
hears while he is suffering, he hears on the radio
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that his son has killed himself. He went out to
talk about this in twenty fourteen. He was trying to
get everybody to listen to this, and I feel like
there wasn't you know, there may have been changes in Virginia,
but on the national stage, there was not enough attention
to this. And he bears a scar from the middle
of his forehead down to the bottom of his chin
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from where his son slashed his face open because he
was mentally ill. It is not nice to say, you know,
we want to embrace mental illness and glorify mental illness
when people, the people around these people, well, they have
no way of coming out and saying I'm struggling. I
don't know how to take care of this person. And
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I think President Trump is looking at this from that standpoint,
and maybe he's not always saying it the way everybody
wants it to be said. But what other choice do
these families have?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And I think it's you're right. I think as there
has been this period in society where we're supposed to
affirm mental illness, we're supposed to tolerate mental illness, and
I think people like President Trump are saying we can't
do that anymore. We're not We don't want to shame people,
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we don't want to embarrass people.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But this.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Dealing with these issues is critical because again, not only
affects the person, but it affects their family, their neighbors,
the whole community and society.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, I mean, look at the neighbors in Traverse City.
You know, all those people at Walmart because we are
afraid to admit that there are some people who cannot
live on their own. They just cannot. They're not ready
for this, and there's no help for them. That's the
frustrating part about this. And I think this conversation with
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the Maha movement and RFK and all of these doctors
who are now with doctor McCarey at the FDA, who
are saying, we have a problem. It is not always
solved by medication. This has been like a huge controversy
in the last week where these doctors have come out
and been like, you know what, there are some really
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bad side effects to SSRIs and they're saying even doctors
don't know about these side effects. That in the European
Union they said that they had to be printed on
the label, but in the United States, the side effects
are not always printed on the label, so people don't
necessarily know that these medications are actually, in rare cases
helping people, in most cases numbing people and causing multiple
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problems on top of this, it's it is an industry
that is so powerful because I think now we're up
to eighteen billion, it's an eighteen billion dollar industry. I mean,
it's hard to fight that.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I think this is all one of the biggest
issues the country's facing. And just because you print something
on a label doesn't mean anybody's going to read it.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I mean, but the doctors are supposed to read it,
and in the United States they're not printed.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They know they know.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It's interesting because I saw an interview with one of
these doctors and some of the side effects are so shocking,
so shocking, and the interviewer said, why are the doctors
allowing this? Do the doctors all know that these are
the side effects that are happening, and he said, they don't.
In the United States, they don't. And that's why we're
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trying to come out there and say this. And that's
why we saw that panel recently where the doctors came
out and they were talking about the effects of SSRIs
on the fetus in a pregnant mother, because they said, really,
this is being hidden. Perhaps the pharmaceutical companies have so
much money they can figure out ways to hide how
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bad they really are.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Perhaps, or perhaps they pay the news outlets to not
cover it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, yes, that is also true. But if you look
at even the way they do these studies, it's like
a psychiatric drug is really hard to tell if it is.
They're not measuring whether or not your levels of serotonin
change in your brain. It's like do you feel better, Yes,
I feel better, but you might not feel that anxiety.
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But there's so many other bad things that are happening.
Is that trade off worth it. These people were the
stories that I've heard. People were never told what the
side effects are and then they have life changing side
effects that in some cases are permanent.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Right, Yeah, it's a big problem. So do you think
that the RFK and AHHS is on the right track.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I see them as boldly stating things that nobody has
stated in the past. And I will say that I
have doctor friends who are outraged by it. It's interesting
because the response that I've seen on social media from
people I know who are in the medical profession, they
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go crazy about the idea of saying anything bad about
an SSRI. Also, admittedly they are taking SSRIs. And it's
an interesting thing to me because I think my mom
was saying the other day when she goes to the
doctor's office, She's like, man, they must think when you
get to a certain age, you're really depressed, because I
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have to always have to fill out this form of
how depressed I am. And the girls were like, mo,
we have to all out that form too, and they
started like reciting back that you know, how many times
a week most times this and they know exactly every
time they go in. And I remember when I had
cancer and I that was the first time I had
seen that, so that would have been like twenty fifteen.
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Was the first time I had seen those charts where
you have to say how depressed you are? And I thought, man,
this must be like all cancer patients have to do
this because they're probably monitoring us. But then I realized
it was every doctor and the kids have to do it,
and my parents have to do it, and it's become
like such a big industry. But I don't understand why
do you have to fill that out? Are they instantaneously
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sending you to another doctor? Because I've had I've had
friends who have had their general practitioners prescribe antidepressants SSRIs,
and I've had friends who have had their pediatrician prescribe SSRIs,
And then I've had friends who've had a psychiatrist prescribe SSRIs.
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But like my general practitioner doesn't prescribe chemotherapy, why can
anybody prescribe a anti anxiety or antidepressant and that's not
the case with other medicines. And why is every doctor
asking you how depressed you are? I don't know, I
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just I just find that fascinating because I started thinking
about this I'm like, no matter where you're going, it's like,
come on.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But are you because then what what is the There
was a there was someone I knew who went to
who was required to go to AA, and he's I
remember he said, I didn't like going because when you go,
you're constantly thinking about alcohol, and the whole point is
to not think about it anymore. So if you're constantly
being asked if you're depressed, well maybe I am depressed.
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And then because then what is the outcome intended to be?
Is it sort of broaching the subject Well, yeah, I
am kind of feeling down today.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, then here's some drugs. No.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The girls, actually I've forgot about this. The girls were
talking about this because they said, hey, yeah, our friend's
mom told her never to say that, never to fill
out any of those to always say that you're not depressed.
It's like seven questions. So it does get to the
point where you're like, I mean, do I have little
energy to go out and do things? You know? So
I remember that's that, But you're talking to a twelve
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year old, you know. So that was the last time
we were in the doctor's office. One of my girls
was like, I don't know. Maybe I do have little
energy like once a week. And I was like, oh gosh,
what happens if she fills it out? And then we
got home they were like, well, our friend's mom says,
if you don't fill that out saying that you're not depressed,
then the government will come and take you away from us.
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And I'm like, I don't think that's what's going to happen,
but I do think that parents are freaked out by it.
And it's seven leading questions for children.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, and then you have the situation in Michigan where kids,
you know, get there what you call it the medical privacy.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, you don't. We don't get to once they're twelve.
We don't get to have a say over there anything
in their medical record. They have to sign us over
as a medical proxy, and you can only get some
of what they have done in their medical record. So
you have to worry taking your kid to the doctor.
If they say something, the doctor can take them into
a room away from you and have a conversation with them,
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and you can't know what the conversation is, right. So
I do think that parents are now afraid of having
those conversations with their kids, so I don't I don't
blame this woman for saying that to her daughter because
I think you are afraid if you if the medical
system gets a hold of your kid. I say, you know,
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years ago I took my daughter had this. She was
like constantly washing her hands. I think I've told you
guys this before, constantly washing her hands, and her hands
were like chapped. It was kind of like an OCD thing,
but I think it was at the time. I'm you know,
when your kids are young, you don't realize your kids
just go through these phases, you know, And it was
it was so bad. I went to the doctor. I'm like,
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I don't know why this is happening. She's like, oh,
she needs to see a psychologist right away. So we
went because I was compliant, I'm going to listen to
the doctor. We went, and that psychologist was like, you
have to do see a psychiatrist because she needs to
be put on meds. And I wouldn't do it. I said,
no way. But that's another thing, like, since why do
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you have psychologists and psychiatrists, Like I guess one is
medical and they've gone through medical school and they can prescribe,
but they no longer talk to you about things anywhere.
They're just prescribed. And then the psychologist talks to you
and they determine that there's something wrong and you need
this medication, and then you get put on this medication.
And it's just I think it's a racket.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Here comes to hate mail from psychologists and psychiatrist.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And there's a hate mail all the time. Let's take
a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tutor
Dixon Podcast. You want to get to all right, we'll
go a little bit long.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So someone someone who needs some mental health care.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
This when was this set this up?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
This was this last weekend in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
All right, here's where Sheida is to leave. Your congresswoman,
Look at.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
This room's motherfuckers. He ain't going anywhere. Political structures that
I have to.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Work in that we are surrounded by was built on
slavery and genocide and rape and oppression.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Real change does it come from the.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Cowards and hormongers in Congress.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
It comes from up the streets.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
It comes from all of us mobilizing and seizing the
power to resist and fight back. Uzza is the compass
in this country. Now we're in Congress, and we're every
corner of the United States.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There's still there. The part that bothers me is she
refers to being in Congress. Now we're in Congress, like
they're not Americans, like it's some other group that and
we're in every corner of the United States. What what
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So they're they're called blood and Soil nationalists. So ilhan
Omar is another one where they they're elected to the
American Congress, but they go to represent their home country.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
So that's what she's talking about there.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
What was that conference again?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That was the People's Conference for Palestine and where it
was it was in Detroit. It's like it's it's it's
Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's well, and then they're all socialists.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's about that, like we've brought brothers and sisters in
from other movements to join this. I don't know. I
don't think that was in that clip. I'd seen that
in another clip where she's talking about we're growing because
we're bringing brothers and sisters in from other movements. Obviously
she uses foul language. This is nothing new for Rashida Talib,
which I find interesting because our experience with the Muslim
(31:12):
community in Michigan. The people that we are close with,
they're not people that appreciate foul language or conversations like that.
And I'm not saying everybody is the same, but it
just is. She's their congresswoman, and I just gosh, I
wish they would vote her out because she's just vile.
That's a vile way of speaking. And then Gaza is
(31:36):
the compass. What is that? What does that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Well, I mean they're all I mean, they're anti Israel.
And so that's sort of the litmus test that's going
on in the Democrat Party right now is are you
four or against Israel. So there's this there's a very large,
growing contingent of anti Israel, anti simmit, whatever you want
(32:00):
to call him. And obviously, I mean, this conference was
all about that. But that's that's what Rashida to leave.
I don't know if i'd say she's leading it, but
she is obviously one of the most obnoxious voices in it.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
But she's not alone. I mean that that was a
huge rally. You heard the cheers. You've seen these movements,
and I do think they're trying to interlock these movements.
This is the mom Donnie movement of people that are
rallying around him. It's started with AOC and Bernie Sanders,
and now you've got these college campuses that have these
(32:39):
I mean, mom, Donnie came from one of these socialist
groups on a college campus.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And these the people that go to these sorts of conferences,
they ma'm Donnie is the real deal to them. Yeah,
he's not just like a you know, poser saying what
he needs to say to get elected. He really believes it.
And they they believe in him. I would say in
a way that they they don't even they believe in
(33:06):
him more than they do like an AOC or somebody
like that. So if New York City elects ma'am Donnie,
it's there's gonna be a lot of change in New
York City, and I'm not so sure it's good for
the country.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It's kind of like this double edged sword. At one
there's a part of me that feels like we have
to protect New York at all costs, and there's another
side that says, you know, what, people need to see
how damaging this is. I guess people don't read history books,
so they have to see it in real life. And
if mom. Donnie gets elected, New York becomes acsessful. I mean,
(33:43):
he wants to allow people to be prostitutes, he wants
to allow crime, he wants to have communes. It's he
wants to have grocery stores that are owned by the government.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There was just an analysis I can't remember CNN or somebody.
There was just an analysis of the things he can do.
And there's a whole lot of things that he's saying
he's going to do that they have to go through
the New York legislature and the governor has to sign it,
and so there's a lot of things that he's just
simply not going to be able to do. But he
(34:15):
I think one of the biggest concerns people will have
is that he I mean, like Brandon Johnson, he will
tolerate crime, and he will excuse crime, and he will
make the city more dangerous. And there's not a whole
lot anybody outside of Donald Trump can really do about that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
But what about if you do end up with a
group of congressmen and women that are become socialists. I mean,
we're getting more and more. So how long does it
take before they try to pass these and that's I
actually kind of think that this is why there's this
zero percent satisfaction in the Democrat Party right now, because
(34:52):
it's not just the direction that the country is going.
I think they don't know their direction.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
No, And I think if man Donnie wins, there's going
to be a major I don't know if i'd call
it a civil war, but there's going to be a
major like that fracture that I think has been growing
in the Democrat Party because look at Bill Clinton, and
for as much as you know conservatives and Republicans didn't
(35:18):
like Bill Clinton, look at his policies, oh, I know,
totally compared to what the policies are today, right, he
is like he's like a liberal Republican.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Right right, because right when you look at they were
when after twenty twenty, there were so many people who
were like, the Republican Party is fractured. There's the MAGA
Republicans and the traditional Republicans, and the fact of the
matter is that those two groups were not that different.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
No, And so if ma'am Donnie wins, you're going to
have this situation and you're already seeing it in other races,
like in the governor's race in Virginia, spam are saying,
you know, she doesn't want to. She's making it very
clear she's not Mam Donnie. So if ma'd Donnie.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Wins, Jeffers can't and he lives there, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And he acts like he doesn't know him, he's never
met him, he only talked to him once, and he's
like avoids the questions.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It's strange.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And so if Ma'm Donnie wins, he's going to be
the highest profile mayor in the country, and he is,
he's going to be very high profile Democrat because he's elected.
He's running as a Democrat. So you're going to have
the situation where there's going to be a litmus test
and candidates in districts and cities and seats not as
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liberal as New York are going to be asked, are
you a Mam Donnie Democrat?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So that will be interesting in the Michigan Senate, everywhere
for the Michigan Ohio sayad who's been there and he's
been campaigning with him. And you have Maloy mcmar and
I know Hailey stevens Is, I know everybody. I've had
this debate with you, guys, Hailey Stevens Is. There's no
way she has even people she was on what was
(37:12):
she on the other day, Sarah with she was with
Jenski and people were posting did you see that? Where
people were posting.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Like one, no one will elect a trol to the Senate.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
She is that's not a nice thing to say, you mean,
like poppy. But she has a weird voice. That's why
do Michigan. Why do I feel like that's the thing
she's leaning into, Like this is my Michigan accent. And
I don't even believe that. I don't sound like that.
I hope no. Malory McMorrow doesn't sound like that. And
that's gonna be She's s here in New Jersey, so
(37:42):
that's true. That's true. Well, it'll be interesting to watch.
We're gonna be watching what happens in New York that
I believe will dictate what happens in some of these
other races. Like we said, in Michigan and the Michigan Senate,
it's gonna I think the tight race will be between
alse iad and McMorrow, and we'll see how that goes.
(38:03):
If Michigan goes with that traditional Mom Whitmer type, Benson
type that they've been going with for a while, or
if they're going to branch out and go full socialism,
it'll be interesting. I think that. I think New York
will be a telltale sign, and then whatever happens in
twenty six will tell us what's happening with the Democrat Party.
(38:23):
That's why it's important for Republicans to get out and vote.
Make it too big to rig. Thank you so much
for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Thank you Kyle
for being here.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I'm here today with
Kyle Olsen. He is the founder of The Midwesterner, and
I want to talk about all the things that are
happening in the country right now, mostly what's happening. I
want to start with what's happening with crime. Because President
Trump went in and he federalized essentially the police force
in Washington, DC. Suddenly no carjackings, no murders. This has
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made Democrats completely crazy. I was on Newsmax last week
and they were like, well, now Democrats have a zero
percent rating on zero percent of Democrats think that the
country is going in the right direction, which I find
interesting because obviously there are some who who are happy
that they don't have to worry about being murdered in
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the streets of DC. But I think they're just so.
I think Dems are just so unhappy with their life
in general right now. They have no future person, they
don't have somebody to rally behind, and Donald Trump is
actually making progress. I think it's driving them crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, and they're so reactionary that what they do is
when Trump comes out and says he supports something or
he wants to do something, their automatic reaction is to
just oppose it was. I was in DC a couple
of weeks ago. I took my kids before the school
year started, and we went to d C. We went
to Union Station, which has sort of been the focal
(01:22):
point of the National Guard, and there was a real
show of force, and people are the Democrats are outraged
about this. But you look at the result and as
you said, you know, there has been a significant, significant
decline in crime. And how they can be opposed to
that is I just don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
So that's what I find fascinating. And I can tell
you from my own experience with friends. I grew up
in the suburbs of Chicago, so I see a bunch
of those people on Facebook. And just earlier today, one
of the people that I know from that area posted
on Facebook like this rant about how nobody it was
(02:04):
some Fox News article about how people in Chicago are
concerned about the level of crime, and this person just
went nuts about this is not true, this is entertainment.
There is nobody concerned about crime. So I find that
interesting because Mayor Johnson is obviously totally opposed to Donald
Trump coming in. President Trump has said that he's going
(02:26):
to send federal troops to Chicago to make it safe
because JB. Pritzker, I can't speak, is not doing anything.
The mayor is not doing anything. I mean, similar to
what happened out in la when there were those terrible riots,
this is something that we see in Detroit here in Michigan.
Detroit is right now the third most violent city in
(02:49):
the country and Chicago surprisingly is lower on that list,
but I think they have a higher murder rate. So
Mayor Brandon Johnson decides to go out this past weekend
and he goes to a Labor Day rally and he
has this speech at this Labor Day rally, and he
starts it with a chant that says, no federal troops
in the city of Chicago, no militarized force in the
(03:12):
city of Chicago. We're going to defend our democracy in
the city of Chicago. That was Saturday night that he
says this. He is insulting the idea that anybody should
have to come and keep people safe because they're defending democracy.
So what happens, there's fifty four shootings and seven people
(03:34):
are killed. How is that defending democracy?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, and what I don't understand why there is this
tolerance for crime and violence. Why is that number of
people being shot and being killed? Why is that okay?
And then you have Trump who is saying, we're going
to use the National Guard too, and we're going to
take over the DC police force, and then he rescented that.
(03:59):
And obviously there's a distinction between Washington, d C. And
these other cities because the federal government controls effectively controls Washington,
d C. So there's a difference. But at the same time,
it doesn't matter if you vote Republican or Democrat. It
doesn't matter if you don't like Donald Trump. There are
still residents in all of these cities who they deserve freedom,
(04:21):
they deserve security and safety, and people like Brandon Johnson
aren't willing to give it to them.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But there's a side of the left that refuses to
hear the people who are saying this isn't what I
signed up for. I'm not happy, and there's no denying
there's been two hundred and seventy four people killed in
Chicago just this year, folks. It's September. Two hundred and
seventy four people have lost their lives, and the left
(04:51):
is so preoccupied with being against Donald Trump that just
like I said, this person that I saw posting on
Facebook says, this is not an issue, this is entertainment.
And you know what that article was. That article was
actually interviews with people who live in this part of
the city. Because that person posting on Facebook, she doesn't
worry about her kids going out and getting shot on
(05:12):
the streets. She isn't worried about whether or not she
can go to the grocery store and not get into
a fistfight. She didn't have to worry about that because
she's not living where the two hundred and seventy four
people who have been killed were living. And this is
the thing that I think is so critical for us
to start to unpack in this nation. There are cities
in this country that the left has turned their back
(05:36):
on until it comes time to vote. And those people
are starting to speak up, and suburban white moms are saying, no, no, no,
you don't actually have a problem. How can that? How
does this even compute when they're the ones saying there's
there's a racism problem. Isn't it kind of racist to
refuse to admit that these people deserve to live in
(05:58):
safe communities?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, two days after we left, so we came home Monday.
Actually we came home Tuesday, but we were at Union
Station on Monday. And on Wednesday, the Vice President and
the Secretary of Defense and some of the people visited
Union Station and there were these protesters in Union Station
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and they were, you know, white, they looked like white.
Some of them were elderly women. Chances are pretty good
they don't live in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They're just there.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
They're just there to oppose what the Trump administration's doing.
And so who do they think they are when they
are they are opposing the show of force, the surge,
whatever you want to call it. But they don't have
to live like that. They go into you know, probably
one of the fancy neighborhoods in Virginia or Maryland, and
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they don't have to live like everybody else is living
in Washington.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
They're not worried about their Labor Day party having a
drive by shooting. I mean, and that's this is a
true scenario. So this is Mayor Johnson goes out and
he is chanting this chant on Saturday night, same night
in Chicago, there's a drive by shooting. There are five
men shot two women shot and I'm gonna read this
to you. It's pretty graphic, but they say a twenty
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The police indicated that a twenty eight year old woman
was shot in the left thigh, a thirty year old
woman was shot in the right knee, a thirty old
man was shot in the right leg, another thirty year
old man was shot in the left thigh, thirty one
year old man in the left foot, and a thirty
two year old man in the left thigh. And then
the last one is a twenty eight year old man
who is shot in the buttocks. But I mean, you
(07:45):
think about these are not these are people in the
prime of their lives. They're thirty years old, and now
they have permanent injuries. And I say that because we
have a friend who is a he's an orthopedic piece.
And I remember one night. So we live in an
area where the hospital is in a neighborhood where there
(08:07):
are a lot of shootings. So I took my daughter
to the hospital one night and there had been a
few shootings and we were in the lobby with a
few people that had been shot. And so I talked
to our friend the next day and I was like, oh,
my gosh, is this common? And he said, we have
this every single night. And I asked him, well, what
happens to these people? And he said, to be honest,
we had a guy who came in and he's like,
(08:29):
he's this huge, tough guy and he came in and
he got shot in the arm and he has to
go have rehab on his arm and he doesn't want
to do it because it's so painful. He was like,
because you think, oh, he's shot in the arm, that's
not so bad. He said, the bone is totally shattered.
We're trying to graft the bone back together and bring
the create and recreate an arm. When you hear these things,
(08:52):
I think too many people go, oh, they were shot,
but they didn't get killed. How do you think the
guy that got shot in the foot is going to
do about the woman who was shot in the knee.
I mean, these are lifelong injuries and this is all
going to cost everybody more money. Why is that not
Why is it like, instead of gun control, why aren't
we saying, you know what, this is the the Chicago
(09:15):
has some of the most strict gun control laws in
the country, and yet these fifty four people were shot
over the weekend. How about we have policing well.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And how about we put a higher value on life.
I think that's one of the biggest problems is there
the value of life is so low that people resort to,
you know, shooting each other over stupid things, or they're
trying to you know, rob each other of you know,
relatively insignificant things. And so I think once those societal
(09:50):
issues are addressed, I think that will help. But yes,
I mean, the constant focus is guns and and you know,
with the the attack in Minneapolis, it always goes to
the gun, But you've got to look at who's holding
the gun. What is the situation that this person decided
(10:11):
to do this?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Well, and you know, I'm not glad you brought that up,
but I think that is another issue that we're facing
in this country. We talk about mental health issues, but
we're not really allowed to talk about the mental health issues.
And I have an article here because I wanted you
guys to hear. You probably heard about the Walmart stabbing
that happened in Michigan back in July. This guy went
(10:36):
into Walmart stabbed eleven people. I think it was a
marine who stopped him and held him at gunpoint, but
didn't shoot him. The backstory of this is quite shocking,
quite stunning, because I think you have to kind of
understand the backstory and why so many people are coming
(10:57):
out and saying we need something else for mental health.
And President Trump was recently asked, you know, what do
you want to do about mental health, and he actually said,
I'm considering reopening insane asylums, which is something like people
would never say, you know, they're like, oh my gosh,
and maybe we don't call them insane asylums, but you know,
there is a argument for having mental health hospitals, places
(11:22):
that you can stay and that you can be monitored.
And this family, the family of this man who was
forty two years old when he went into the walmart
and started dabbing people. They said they'd looked all over
for help for him. But now he's forty two. You know,
I mean, this is there's no place to put an
adult who is in this situation. But I wanted you
to know how he got into this situation, because I
(11:43):
think this is stunning. The mom was interviewed and she said,
this is when she's talking about him as a child.
She said he had a sense of humor. He kept
us laughing. He was great, he was enjoyable to have,
you know, just a typical little boy. But then at fourteen,
she said, he smoked marijuana, still his drug of choice,
(12:03):
but that time the marijuana was laced with something. Fourteen
years old just gotten a bad, bad thing of weed.
So he comes in. He says to his dad. He
got down on his knees and he goes. He Sayster's mom, Mom,
I'm in trouble. I got some bad pot. She says.
His dad was there and we were holding him, trying
(12:24):
to calm him down, and it just got worse. He
got into a fetal position. We wrapped him in a
blanket and we took him to the er. She said,
we lost Brad at fourteen. We lost him, but we
never stopped loving him. That is so on so many
levels that that scares me because this was I mean, gosh,
(12:44):
this was years ago, and the weed that kids are
getting now is much different than the weed this kid got.
And he obviously had bad weed. It was laced with something.
It caused permanent brain damage. And even the students, because
we're in Michigan, we've heard some of these stories of
people who went to school with him, and they tell
stories about him as like this super popular kid. They
(13:07):
moved to Michigan from California. They were they were really popped.
This family was really popular. The kid was really popular.
And then the story every kid knew it, like everybody
that is forty two that graduated with him was online
like and then he got this bad thing a pot.
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He ended up like nobody knew what happened. He kind
of went crazy and he did. He has had multiple
run ins with the law. He was homeless at the
time that this happened because he had been through that.
We have like these halfway houses, but there's no place
to put someone like this, and so people go, how
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did this happen? Well, he was under government care and
somehow they say so the mental health community, mental health facilities,
like he slipped through the cracks. Somehow this happened. And
the mom is like, it shouldn't have happened. There didn't
need to be this stabbing. You know, this is there
should not be cracks you can slip through, and yet
he did. He slipped through the cracks. This is somebody
(14:11):
who so just so you know a little bit more
of his backstory in I think it was twenty thirteen
he was caught running naked down a highway in Ohio,
and then in twenty sixteen he actually was found digging
up graves at a cemetery with a stolen shovel from
home depot. They knew that there was a mental health
(14:34):
problem here, but somehow he fell through the cracks. And yet,
if you are President Trump and you talk about, hey,
we need a facility for folks like this, it's not
just for this person, it's to protect the entire community
and to help his parents out. Yet Donald Trump is
going to get the Left is going to come after
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him for this, but they have no solution.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Right, Well, yeah, this is it's it's uncomfortable. People don't
like to talk about it, it's embarrassing for families, etc.
But it's something that, as you said, it's not just
about the individual. It's about their family, it's about their neighbors,
it's about their community. Because allowing someone like this to
(15:18):
just slip through the cracks, clearly, I mean, this is
a good example of how it can have It can
end up in disaster for a community.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a tutor Dixon podcast. I want to tell you guys
another story because this has stuck with me all these years.
This happened in twenty fourteen, and so I'm telling you
this because I want you to know that this is
not unusual for families to be in this situation. In fact,
I have friends who have nonverbal, violent autistic children who
(15:52):
are twice their size at sixteen, their punching holes through
the walls. The other siblings in the family were scared.
The parents didn't have any options. This is a story
that happens to people over and over again, but nobody
wants to talk about it. It's a very hard discussion
to have. And you know, RFK came out and recently said,
(16:13):
you don't understand these people have autistic children who are
you know, violent and hard to handle. He didn't say
every autistic child is that way. He said there are
families in this situation, and the Left came after him
so hard. My kid's autistic and doesn't do that. That's fantastic.
You don't get to say that it doesn't happen to anybody.
(16:34):
There's this other story of a kid he was I
think he was a graduate of William and Mary and
at twenty one, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And his
dad was a state senator in Virginia, and that's why
the story got so much attention, and so sixty Minutes
did a story on this. And the reason that the
(16:56):
senator wanted this story out was because he said, the
system failed my son. His name was Cray Deeds, and
he and the son, the son was named Gus, and
he went out when they the son. He knew the
sun was in trouble. He knew he was struggling, and
at the time in Virginia, you could only have a
(17:16):
six hour hold if there was no psychiatric bed. So
he took him to the hospital and the hospital said, hey,
if we can find a bed, we can keep him
for longer. They couldn't find a bed, so they sent
him home and he said, I knew there was going
to be an altercation. I knew there was going to
be something. I didn't know it would be violent. I
knew he would have some sort of a freak out.
(17:36):
He said. He went to bed that night and in
the morning he was out. They lived on a farm.
He was out in the barn and his son comes
out and he says, hey, bud, how'd you sleep? And
the Sun says fine. The Dad turns his back, the
Sun pulls out a knife, slashes him across the face,
stabs him ten times. Dad somehow gets away and neighbors
(17:59):
in the neighbor farm have him airlifted to the hospital.
The most devastating part about the story is that he
is in the helicopter when he hears on the police radio,
we've got another one. Doa gunshot. He killed himself. He
hears while he is suffering, he hears on the radio
(18:20):
that his son has killed himself. He went out to
talk about this in twenty fourteen. He was trying to
get everybody to listen to this, and I feel like
there wasn't you know, there may have been changes in Virginia,
but on the national stage, there was not enough attention
to this. And he bears a scar from the middle
of his forehead down to the bottom of his chin
(18:43):
from where his son slashed his face open because he
was mentally ill. It is not nice to say, you know,
we want to embrace mental illness and glorify mental illness
when people, the people around these people, well, they have
no way of coming out and saying I'm struggling. I
don't know how to take care of this person. And
(19:05):
I think President Trump is looking at this from that standpoint,
and maybe he's not always saying it the way everybody
wants it to be said. But what other choice do
these families have?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And I think it's you're right. I think as there
has been this period in society where we're supposed to
affirm mental illness, we're supposed to tolerate mental illness, and
I think people like President Trump are saying we can't
do that anymore. We're not We don't want to shame people,
(19:37):
we don't want to embarrass people.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
But this.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Dealing with these issues is critical because again, not only
affects the person, but it affects their family, their neighbors,
the whole community and society.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, I mean, look at the neighbors in Traverse City.
You know, all those people at Walmart because we are
afraid to admit that there are some people who cannot
live on their own. They just cannot. They're not ready
for this, and there's no help for them. That's the
frustrating part about this. And I think this conversation with
(20:13):
the Maha movement and RFK and all of these doctors
who are now with doctor McCarey at the FDA, who
are saying, we have a problem. It is not always
solved by medication. This has been like a huge controversy
in the last week where these doctors have come out
and been like, you know what, there are some really
(20:33):
bad side effects to SSRIs and they're saying even doctors
don't know about these side effects. That in the European
Union they said that they had to be printed on
the label, but in the United States, the side effects
are not always printed on the label, so people don't
necessarily know that these medications are actually, in rare cases
helping people, in most cases numbing people and causing multiple
(20:58):
problems on top of this, it's it is an industry
that is so powerful because I think now we're up
to eighteen billion, it's an eighteen billion dollar industry. I mean,
it's hard to fight that.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Yeah, I think this is all one of the biggest
issues the country's facing. And just because you print something
on a label doesn't mean anybody's going to read it.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
So I mean, but the doctors are supposed to read it,
and in the United States they're not printed.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They know they know.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It's interesting because I saw an interview with one of
these doctors and some of the side effects are so shocking,
so shocking, and the interviewer said, why are the doctors
allowing this? Do the doctors all know that these are
the side effects that are happening, and he said, they don't.
In the United States, they don't. And that's why we're
(21:51):
trying to come out there and say this. And that's
why we saw that panel recently where the doctors came
out and they were talking about the effects of SSRIs
on the fetus in a pregnant mother, because they said, really,
this is being hidden. Perhaps the pharmaceutical companies have so
much money they can figure out ways to hide how
(22:12):
bad they really are.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Perhaps, or perhaps they pay the news outlets to not
cover it.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, yes, that is also true. But if you look
at even the way they do these studies, it's like
a psychiatric drug is really hard to tell if it is.
They're not measuring whether or not your levels of serotonin
change in your brain. It's like do you feel better, Yes,
I feel better, but you might not feel that anxiety.
(22:44):
But there's so many other bad things that are happening.
Is that trade off worth it. These people were the
stories that I've heard. People were never told what the
side effects are and then they have life changing side
effects that in some cases are permanent.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Right, Yeah, it's a big problem. So do you think
that the RFK and AHHS is on the right track.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I see them as boldly stating things that nobody has
stated in the past. And I will say that I
have doctor friends who are outraged by it. It's interesting
because the response that I've seen on social media from
people I know who are in the medical profession, they
(23:33):
go crazy about the idea of saying anything bad about
an SSRI. Also, admittedly they are taking SSRIs. And it's
an interesting thing to me because I think my mom
was saying the other day when she goes to the
doctor's office, She's like, man, they must think when you
get to a certain age, you're really depressed, because I
(23:55):
have to always have to fill out this form of
how depressed I am. And the girls were like, mo,
we have to all out that form too, and they
started like reciting back that you know, how many times
a week most times this and they know exactly every
time they go in. And I remember when I had
cancer and I that was the first time I had
seen that, so that would have been like twenty fifteen.
(24:17):
Was the first time I had seen those charts where
you have to say how depressed you are? And I thought, man,
this must be like all cancer patients have to do
this because they're probably monitoring us. But then I realized
it was every doctor and the kids have to do it,
and my parents have to do it, and it's become
like such a big industry. But I don't understand why
do you have to fill that out? Are they instantaneously
(24:38):
sending you to another doctor? Because I've had I've had
friends who have had their general practitioners prescribe antidepressants SSRIs,
and I've had friends who have had their pediatrician prescribe SSRIs,
And then I've had friends who've had a psychiatrist prescribe SSRIs.
(24:58):
But like my general practitioner doesn't prescribe chemotherapy, why can
anybody prescribe a anti anxiety or antidepressant and that's not
the case with other medicines. And why is every doctor
asking you how depressed you are? I don't know, I
(25:20):
just I just find that fascinating because I started thinking
about this I'm like, no matter where you're going, it's like,
come on.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
But are you because then what what is the There
was a there was someone I knew who went to
who was required to go to AA, and he's I
remember he said, I didn't like going because when you go,
you're constantly thinking about alcohol, and the whole point is
to not think about it anymore. So if you're constantly
being asked if you're depressed, well maybe I am depressed.
(25:49):
And then because then what is the outcome intended to be?
Is it sort of broaching the subject Well, yeah, I
am kind of feeling down today.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, then here's some drugs. No.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
The girls, actually I've forgot about this. The girls were
talking about this because they said, hey, yeah, our friend's
mom told her never to say that, never to fill
out any of those to always say that you're not depressed.
It's like seven questions. So it does get to the
point where you're like, I mean, do I have little
energy to go out and do things? You know? So
I remember that's that, But you're talking to a twelve
(26:22):
year old, you know. So that was the last time
we were in the doctor's office. One of my girls
was like, I don't know. Maybe I do have little
energy like once a week. And I was like, oh gosh,
what happens if she fills it out? And then we
got home they were like, well, our friend's mom says,
if you don't fill that out saying that you're not depressed,
then the government will come and take you away from us.
(26:43):
And I'm like, I don't think that's what's going to happen,
but I do think that parents are freaked out by it.
And it's seven leading questions for children.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, and then you have the situation in Michigan where kids,
you know, get there what you call it the medical privacy.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, you don't. We don't get to once they're twelve.
We don't get to have a say over there anything
in their medical record. They have to sign us over
as a medical proxy, and you can only get some
of what they have done in their medical record. So
you have to worry taking your kid to the doctor.
If they say something, the doctor can take them into
a room away from you and have a conversation with them,
(27:23):
and you can't know what the conversation is, right. So
I do think that parents are now afraid of having
those conversations with their kids, so I don't I don't
blame this woman for saying that to her daughter because
I think you are afraid if you if the medical
system gets a hold of your kid. I say, you know,
(27:45):
years ago I took my daughter had this. She was
like constantly washing her hands. I think I've told you
guys this before, constantly washing her hands, and her hands
were like chapped. It was kind of like an OCD thing,
but I think it was at the time. I'm you know,
when your kids are young, you don't realize your kids
just go through these phases, you know, And it was
it was so bad. I went to the doctor. I'm like,
(28:07):
I don't know why this is happening. She's like, oh,
she needs to see a psychologist right away. So we
went because I was compliant, I'm going to listen to
the doctor. We went, and that psychologist was like, you
have to do see a psychiatrist because she needs to
be put on meds. And I wouldn't do it. I said,
no way. But that's another thing, like, since why do
(28:27):
you have psychologists and psychiatrists, Like I guess one is
medical and they've gone through medical school and they can prescribe,
but they no longer talk to you about things anywhere.
They're just prescribed. And then the psychologist talks to you
and they determine that there's something wrong and you need
this medication, and then you get put on this medication.
And it's just I think it's a racket.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Here comes to hate mail from psychologists and psychiatrist.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
And there's a hate mail all the time. Let's take
a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tutor
Dixon Podcast. You want to get to all right, we'll
go a little bit long.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So someone someone who needs some mental health care.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
This when was this set this up?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
This was this last weekend in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
All right, here's where Sheida is to leave. Your congresswoman,
Look at.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
This room's motherfuckers. He ain't going anywhere. Political structures that
I have to.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Work in that we are surrounded by was built on
slavery and genocide and rape and oppression.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Real change does it come from the.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Cowards and hormongers in Congress.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
It comes from up the streets.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
It comes from all of us mobilizing and seizing the
power to resist and fight back. Uzza is the compass
in this country. Now we're in Congress, and we're every
corner of the United States.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
There's still there. The part that bothers me is she
refers to being in Congress. Now we're in Congress, like
they're not Americans, like it's some other group that and
we're in every corner of the United States. What what
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (30:20):
So they're they're called blood and Soil nationalists. So ilhan
Omar is another one where they they're elected to the
American Congress, but they go to represent their home country.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
So that's what she's talking about there.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
What was that conference again?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
That was the People's Conference for Palestine and where it
was it was in Detroit. It's like it's it's it's
Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
It's well, and then they're all socialists.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It's about that, like we've brought brothers and sisters in
from other movements to join this. I don't know. I
don't think that was in that clip. I'd seen that
in another clip where she's talking about we're growing because
we're bringing brothers and sisters in from other movements. Obviously
she uses foul language. This is nothing new for Rashida Talib,
which I find interesting because our experience with the Muslim
(31:12):
community in Michigan. The people that we are close with,
they're not people that appreciate foul language or conversations like that.
And I'm not saying everybody is the same, but it
just is. She's their congresswoman, and I just gosh, I
wish they would vote her out because she's just vile.
That's a vile way of speaking. And then Gaza is
(31:36):
the compass. What is that? What does that mean to you?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Well, I mean they're all I mean, they're anti Israel.
And so that's sort of the litmus test that's going
on in the Democrat Party right now is are you
four or against Israel. So there's this there's a very large,
growing contingent of anti Israel, anti simmit, whatever you want
(32:00):
to call him. And obviously, I mean, this conference was
all about that. But that's that's what Rashida to leave.
I don't know if i'd say she's leading it, but
she is obviously one of the most obnoxious voices in it.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
But she's not alone. I mean that that was a
huge rally. You heard the cheers. You've seen these movements,
and I do think they're trying to interlock these movements.
This is the mom Donnie movement of people that are
rallying around him. It's started with AOC and Bernie Sanders,
and now you've got these college campuses that have these
(32:39):
I mean, mom, Donnie came from one of these socialist
groups on a college campus.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
And these the people that go to these sorts of conferences,
they ma'm Donnie is the real deal to them. Yeah,
he's not just like a you know, poser saying what
he needs to say to get elected. He really believes it.
And they they believe in him. I would say in
a way that they they don't even they believe in
(33:06):
him more than they do like an AOC or somebody
like that. So if New York City elects ma'am Donnie,
it's there's gonna be a lot of change in New
York City, and I'm not so sure it's good for
the country.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It's kind of like this double edged sword. At one
there's a part of me that feels like we have
to protect New York at all costs, and there's another
side that says, you know, what, people need to see
how damaging this is. I guess people don't read history books,
so they have to see it in real life. And
if mom. Donnie gets elected, New York becomes acsessful. I mean,
(33:43):
he wants to allow people to be prostitutes, he wants
to allow crime, he wants to have communes. It's he
wants to have grocery stores that are owned by the government.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
There was just an analysis I can't remember CNN or somebody.
There was just an analysis of the things he can do.
And there's a whole lot of things that he's saying
he's going to do that they have to go through
the New York legislature and the governor has to sign it,
and so there's a lot of things that he's just
simply not going to be able to do. But he
(34:15):
I think one of the biggest concerns people will have
is that he I mean, like Brandon Johnson, he will
tolerate crime, and he will excuse crime, and he will
make the city more dangerous. And there's not a whole
lot anybody outside of Donald Trump can really do about that.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
But what about if you do end up with a
group of congressmen and women that are become socialists. I mean,
we're getting more and more. So how long does it
take before they try to pass these and that's I
actually kind of think that this is why there's this
zero percent satisfaction in the Democrat Party right now, because
(34:52):
it's not just the direction that the country is going.
I think they don't know their direction.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
No, And I think if man Donnie wins, there's going
to be a major I don't know if i'd call
it a civil war, but there's going to be a
major like that fracture that I think has been growing
in the Democrat Party because look at Bill Clinton, and
for as much as you know conservatives and Republicans didn't
(35:18):
like Bill Clinton, look at his policies, oh, I know,
totally compared to what the policies are today, right, he
is like he's like a liberal Republican.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Right right, because right when you look at they were
when after twenty twenty, there were so many people who
were like, the Republican Party is fractured. There's the MAGA
Republicans and the traditional Republicans, and the fact of the
matter is that those two groups were not that different.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
No, And so if ma'am Donnie wins, you're going to
have this situation and you're already seeing it in other races,
like in the governor's race in Virginia, spam are saying,
you know, she doesn't want to. She's making it very
clear she's not Mam Donnie. So if ma'd Donnie.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Wins, Jeffers can't and he lives there, yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And he acts like he doesn't know him, he's never
met him, he only talked to him once, and he's
like avoids the questions.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
It's strange.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And so if Ma'm Donnie wins, he's going to be
the highest profile mayor in the country, and he is,
he's going to be very high profile Democrat because he's elected.
He's running as a Democrat. So you're going to have
the situation where there's going to be a litmus test
and candidates in districts and cities and seats not as
(36:44):
liberal as New York are going to be asked, are
you a Mam Donnie Democrat?
Speaker 1 (36:48):
So that will be interesting in the Michigan Senate, everywhere
for the Michigan Ohio sayad who's been there and he's
been campaigning with him. And you have Maloy mcmar and
I know Hailey stevens Is, I know everybody. I've had
this debate with you, guys, Hailey Stevens Is. There's no
way she has even people she was on what was
(37:12):
she on the other day, Sarah with she was with
Jenski and people were posting did you see that? Where
people were posting.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Like one, no one will elect a trol to the Senate.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
She is that's not a nice thing to say, you mean,
like poppy. But she has a weird voice. That's why
do Michigan. Why do I feel like that's the thing
she's leaning into, Like this is my Michigan accent. And
I don't even believe that. I don't sound like that.
I hope no. Malory McMorrow doesn't sound like that. And
that's gonna be She's s here in New Jersey, so
(37:42):
that's true. That's true. Well, it'll be interesting to watch.
We're gonna be watching what happens in New York that
I believe will dictate what happens in some of these
other races. Like we said, in Michigan and the Michigan Senate,
it's gonna I think the tight race will be between
alse iad and McMorrow, and we'll see how that goes.
(38:03):
If Michigan goes with that traditional Mom Whitmer type, Benson
type that they've been going with for a while, or
if they're going to branch out and go full socialism,
it'll be interesting. I think that. I think New York
will be a telltale sign, and then whatever happens in
twenty six will tell us what's happening with the Democrat Party.
(38:23):
That's why it's important for Republicans to get out and vote.
Make it too big to rig. Thank you so much
for listening to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Thank you Kyle
for being here.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
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