It’s been nearly six months since the brutal murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the light rail system in Charlotte. The murder was committed by a violent, habitual felon named Decarlos Brown — a black man who, for an allegedly crazy person, chose his victim very carefully. Brown did not attack the first person he saw. He rode the light rail for several hours that day. He waited until a defenseless white woman sat in front of him. And then, after just a couple of minutes, he stabbed Zarutska several times, before walking off the train and bragging that he had just murdered a “white girl.”
In a serious country, every politician who allowed Brown to commit this murder would have immediately resigned in disgrace and gone into exile. And there were many, many elected officials who were responsible for what happened. For about a thousand reasons, Brown should not have been a free man at the time of the murder. He had a record that included arrests for felony larceny, assault, shoplifting, and other crimes. He had also pleaded guilty to committing a robbery with a dangerous weapon, which sent him to prison for several years. And then, after all of these arrests, in January of 2025 — just months before murdering Iryna Zarutska — Brown repeatedly called 911 to report that he was under the control of a mysterious “man-made material” that had entered his bloodstream. After enough of these calls, officers arrested him.
But a judge — a black woman named Teresa Stokes, who also happens to run a mental health treatment clinic — decided not to keep Decarlos Brown in jail.

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Instead, the judge allowed Brown to go free, as long as he provided a “written promise” that he’d appear in court. She permitted a violent criminal, who was committing more crimes and behaving like a raving lunatic, to live among the general public. Lawmakers gave her discretion to unleash this monster on the city of Charlotte. The judge took advantage of that discretion. And a very predictable result occurred.
For the past six months, to their credit, Republicans in North Carolina have refused to allow Iryna’s killer — and his accomplices in the state government — to get away with what they’ve done.
First, Republicans, with a small amount of Democrat support, passed “Iryna’s Law.” This is a law that, if it had been in place last summer, would have saved her life. It prevents magistrate judges from releasing habitual, violent felons — men like Decarlos Brown — without bail. So no more “written promises” or “cashless bail.” By itself, that provision would have kept Decarlos Brown in jail for all of 2025, since he had no money.
Additionally, judges have to provide written explanations for any decision to release violent or habitual offenders. They’re also obligated to make criminals undergo mental health screening if there’s any possibility that they might be insane (which, again, was the case with Decarlos Brown). If judges fail to meet these obligations, among others, then they’ll be removed from the bench.
That’s the first prong of the Republican response to Iryna Zarutska’s murder.
But they’ve also been holding hearings in which they force elected officials with jurisdiction over Charlotte — the people who should’ve kept Decarlos Brown in jail — to answer questions under oath. And these hearings, in no uncertain terms, have been a train wreck for the Democrats who were responsible for Iryna’s murder. They’ve also been eye-opening as to how utterly unintelligent, incompetent and unprepared our leaders are.
These hearings — and other hearings that we’ll discuss in a moment — are the best argument for mass disenfranchisement, and mass impeachments, that you will ever see. The people running major cities in the United States shouldn’t be allowed to vote, much less make life-or-death decisions that affect millions of people.
We’ll start with the questioning of Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, who is responsible for overseeing the jails in Charlotte. So he’s the guy whose agency released Decarlos Brown. Watch this line of questioning from North Carolina Republican representative Allen Chesser, if you’re able to get through it.
By any measure, this is a top-10 all-time moment that’s ever taken place in a legislative hearing in this country.
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This is the top law enforcement official in a major county in the state, with a population of more than a million people. He’s been in law enforcement for more than 36 years. He was a “legendary homicide detective,” according to his official biography. He won a contested primary election four years ago, by nearly 10,000 votes. He won the general election unopposed, with around 200,000 votes. And despite all of this experience, and despite the position he now holds, he doesn’t have a 4th grader’s grasp of his job description.
It’s not simply that he doesn’t know which branch of government his office falls under. He doesn’t even know what a branch of government is. For all he knows, there are 20 branches of government. I’m surprised that, when asked about the branches of government, he didn’t start listing the parts of a tree. That’s how hopelessly clueless he is.
To be clear, this is not some dumb viral “gotcha” moment. It’s also not a “gaffe,” which is how media outlets in North Carolina are describing this video. It’s directly relevant to his ability to perform his job. And it says a lot about how we select our leaders in this country. It cannot be stated enough that an elected official, or anyone in government, not being able to list the branches of government is a shocking level of ignorance, given their job description. Imagine if you sent a contract to your lawyer, asking him to look it over and break it down for you, and then he sent you back and email saying, “Uh, sorry, what’s a contract?” That’s the level of rank stupidity we’re dealing with here.
Of course, if you work for the judicial branch — which the sheriff apparently believes he does — then your job is to interpret the law. (Judges don’t do that anymore, either, but that’s supposed to be the idea). On the other hand, if you’re an Executive Branch officer, your job is quite different. Your job is to enforce the laws that are passed by the Legislative Branch. This is not a moot point. It’s clearly an issue that causes a lot of confusion for this particular sheriff. In a separate interview a few months ago, the sheriff suggested that, unless his bosses in the Judicial Branch give him permission, then he doesn’t have to follow North Carolina law.
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So he implies that he can’t do anything to enforce immigration law unless a “federal judge or magistrate, or state judicial official” has “signed a paper.” And once again, this strongly suggests that he has no idea what his actual responsibilities are.
The way immigration law works, deportation orders are mostly handled by officials and administrators within the Executive Branch — including immigration judges and other officers. These are people who work for the DOJ. They aren’t part of the Judiciary Branch, and in the vast majority of cases, they aren’t “federal judges.” Therefore, since North Carolina law requires that this sheriff cooperates with ICE, he’s actually not allowed to wait for a federal judge or magistrate in the Judiciary Branch to “sign a paper” before he does anything. And the sheriff doesn’t remotely understand any of this, which is obviously a big problem for the top law enforcement official in the county.
But the really amusing part of that clip is from the beginning, when he says something like, “You will never hear a lawmaker say I’m not following the law!”
But in reality, you will hear lawmakers say that. At the hearing the other day, several lawmakers took turns, one after the other, saying that. And it wasn’t exactly a tough argument to make, since the sheriff himself stated that he doesn’t follow the law, and apparently doesn’t know what the law is, or even what laws are, in general.
This is another top-10 moment from that hearing.
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That’s the same guy who, a couple of months ago, was giving interviews saying, “You’ll never hear a single lawmaker claim I don’t follow the law!”
It’s like a sketch comedy show, except for the fact that people are being slaughtered because of morons like this. At no point has this sheriff expressed even a hint of responsibility or regret for what happened to Iryna Zarutska. In fact, at every available opportunity, he’s minimized her death.
This is one of the more egregious examples. It’s truly one of the worst answers he could’ve possibly given under the circumstances.
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Let’s just stop and think about his answer here. This is how he attempts to explain away the stabbing death of a woman on a train in his jurisdiction. Although we have to allow for the possibility that he might not know what a train is, or what the word “stab” means, or what death is, or what planet he’s currently on. But the excuse he’s going with is that, yeah, Iryna was stabbed to death, but people are stabbed to death in Charlotte all the time. People are constantly getting butchered by schizophrenic hobos.
His point is that he’s so bad at his job that nobody is safe. Everyone’s getting stabbed all the time. So why are we talking about this one specific case?
This is his prepared response, during a televised interview, to a very straightforward question — which is, would Iryna’s law have saved her life? He could not make it any more obvious that he simply does not care. He doesn’t even want to consider the possibility that something can actually be done, in order to save the lives of innocent women on the Charlotte light rail system. He views the routine slaughter of Charlotte’s population as a badge of honor. And, to all appearances, that’s because he’s simply too stupid to understand what he’s saying, or how it sounds to people with an IQ north of room temperature.
His only defense, during that Oversight Committee hearing in North Carolina, was a very predictable one. Can you guess what it was? What did the black sheriff say, when all of these Republican legislators pointed out, in a public hearing, that he was an idiot who was doing a horrible job?
What do you think? I’ll give you three guesses, and the first two don’t count.
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Yeah, it’s just not acceptable, you guys. How could you criticize a black sheriff — and during black history month no less? You shouldn’t be asking all these racist questions. After all, he’s black. He’s the first black sheriff. He’s rare. His photo is on the bus, and black people love that. Plus he’s black? Did we mention that he’s black? Just ask him, he’ll tell you. He doesn’t know much, he doesn’t actually know anything, but he does know that he’s black. He knows that at least.
So it’s totally unacceptable for you to talk about how he doesn’t understand the most basic, fundamental functions of the government, or what his job description is.
It’s totally unacceptable for you to complain about the slaughter of one white woman on public transit, since he’s black.
Somehow, from this point, the hearing descended even further into the depths of total stupidity. One lawmaker wanted to know why this sheriff allows murderers to use a music studio to record rap songs while in prison — which is a pretty reasonable question, all things considered.
They’re in prison for murder, after all.
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Now at this point, even though this man is a sheriff, an elected official, and obviously just a bad person all around, you almost feel bad making fun of how stupid he is. It feels a little bit like making fun of a baby. But then I suppose that comparison is pretty offensive to babies.
I just want to quote the sheriff here.
He said, and this is verbatim: “Let me put that content into better content.”
Oh okay. Yes, put the content into better content. So the content of what the lawmaker asked is bad, because it’s obviously bad to let convicted murders and rapists play around in a music studio, and pretend to be rappers, when we’re supposed to be punishing them for raping and killing people. That’s bad content. But he wants to take that bad content and put it into better content. Sure, that makes sense. Let’s all just nod our heads politely. We don’t want him to call us racist again, after all.
By the way, the lawmaker who asked that question is actually a Democrat. Her name is Carla Cunningham. And, totally apart from this hearing, she’s also seeking to have this sheriff removed from office. Why? Because, she says, the sheriff threatened to remove her law enforcement protection, unless she voted the way he wanted her to vote on a piece of legislation concerning ICE. Yes, the sheriff threatened a sitting lawmaker, in order to pressure her to vote against federal law enforcement.
This is from Yahoo News.
Cunningham is one of five people who have filed a petition to remove [Sheriff] McFadden from office, alleging that the sheriff threatened to withhold law enforcement protection for the legislator unless she voted to sustain the governor’s veto of a bill the sheriff opposed. The sheriff told the legislator that his office could not or would not protect her from violence if she cast a legislative vote in favor of a bill that McFadden opposed,” the petition states. The legislation was designed to strengthen cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and the federal agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
So this guy, put simply, is probably one of the dumbest people in the entire state. He’s bottom 10%, easily. He doesn’t speak English very well. He threatens lawmakers. He doesn’t know what a “branch of government” is. His understanding of basic civics is far, far less advanced than what you’d find in a School House Rocks video from the 90s. He doesn’t care about horrific murders because horrific murders happen constantly. Pretty much the only thing he’s sure of is that he wants murderers to rap inside his prisons.
Sheriff Garry McFadden, all things considered, may actually be the dumbest Democrat to currently hold elected office. It’s a high bar to clear, but he may have just cleared it.
The reigning champion, of course, is Hank Johnson, the congressman from Georgia. Admittedly, Hank Johnson is very hard to dethrone because, as you may remember, he once asked an admiral whether the island of Guam might “capsize” if too many Marines were stationed there.
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He’s been in office for nearly two decades. He goes up for re-election every two years. And every two years, he wins by more than 100,000 votes in his district, which happens to be majority-black. He thinks an island can capsize if you station a few thousand Marines on it, but his voters don’t see any problem with that. He thinks islands float on top of the water, like giant rafts. Which raises the question of how the islands stay in place. Why hasn’t Hawaii bumped into Asia at this point? Maybe Hanks thinks that teams of mermaids are under the islands, holding them in place. Who knows. And presumably, his voters also think islands can capsize if a bunch of people stand on them, and are maybe being kept in place by mermaids. At a certain point, you can’t really blame Hank Johnson. You have to start looking at the voters. And Georgia is well past that point.
So is the state of New Jersey, where a lawmaker named LaMonica McIver just “axed” the Director of ICE some questions at a congressional hearing.
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Rotund Black Rep. LaMonica McIver “axs” ICE Director if he believes he will go to Heaven.
“Mr. Chairman, I’m just axin’ a question.”
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You have to keep in mind, when you watch footage like this, that women like “LaMonica McIver” are the “cream of the crop,” in a sense. She is the absolute best representative that her district — another district that would rank high on “diversity metrics,” by the way — chose to send to the U.S. Congress. They had other options. And they chose her. Like the sheriff in Charlotte, she has no idea what the purpose of a “hearing” is, or what her job description is, or how you’re supposed to act in a civilized society, nor can she speak proper English. And neither do any of her constituents.
The reason dysfunctional countries in places like South America and Africa are dysfunctional, at the end of the day, is that their leaders act like this. They don’t have the intelligence or the ambition to do anything else. They don’t care about the law. They don’t understand any of your arguments. And as a result, if given enough power, they will destroy everything that the founders of this country built.
That’s certainly the goal of Michigan congressman Shri Thanedar, who can barely speak English at all, even though he moved to the United States from India in the late 1970’s. But he’s sure of one thing, which is that he wants to abolish ICE. And like the sassy woman from New Jersey, he came prepared to ask the ICE director, along with the director of Customs and Border Protection, some extremely stupid questions.
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Rep. Shri Thanedar wants to abolish ICE but can barely speak English. It’s ironic that the man trying to erase our borders cannot even speak the language of the country he serves. We need to abolish this nonsense not our security. pic.twitter.com/5AGqPKSGXA
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This isn’t even really a political monologue at this point. Even if you’re a rabid Left-winger, and you voted for Kamala Harris, this should appall you. This is just abject, pure and unfiltered raw stupidity. These are not serious people. And until the last 100 years or so, none of them would’ve been anywhere near positions of power. But now, these absolute buffoons are all over the place. From state legislatures to the U.S. Congress, you simply cannot avoid them.
It’s difficult to believe now, but for most of American history, Congress was filled with high IQ men who were extremely articulate and took the job seriously. And you can say, well, society was racist and misogynistic and backwards and archaic back then. We can’t possibly go back to those dark times, you might think. But if that’s your position, I’d challenge you to find a single political debate in an American legislature from the 18th, 19th or early 20th centuries — just one debate — that was anywhere near as moronic as the clips we’ve run through today. It simply didn’t happen. Our leaders could get animated, to be sure. There was a famous incident just prior to the Civil War where a Senator was nearly beaten to death with a cane in the 1800s, after he insulted a congressman’s relative. But while things sometimes got intense, they never became truly, unambiguously retarded. That’s a matter of historical fact. America wasn’t overrun with foreigners. Voters were relatively intelligent. And that system produced intelligent leaders.
You cannot argue, in any credible fashion, that it’s an improvement to have the kind of Congress, and the kind of lawmakers, that we have today. None of these people should be allowed to serve in any official capacity at all. Whatever we’ve done to allow idiots like this to become elected officials in the United States, we need to reverse those decisions, immediately. None of the founders would’ve tolerated any of this. We wouldn’t have a country if they did. So here’s my proposal: Disenfranchise, and bar from office, any politician in the bottom 30% of American IQs. You could do this in any number of ways — for example, you could have them all take an old SAT test or something similar. Overnight, a law like that would fix about 90% of our problems.
And yes, I’m aware of the counterarguments. People will say, well, the IQ test can be rigged. (Although it really can’t, if you do it right — especially if you pick an old version of an SAT test). But even if you buy that argument, the fact remains that we simply have no choice at this point. We cannot continue as a country when our leaders lack the mental capacity to know what they’re supposed to be doing. And I would take it further than that. A man who can’t even name the branches of government — much less identify he one he works for — certainly should not be in any kind of leadership position in society, but he also shouldn’t have the right to vote. How many of the people who vote for guys like that, or any of the idiots we’ve played clips of today, could pass a 5th grade civics exam themselves? What if the exam consisted of precisely one question — the easiest one, the one the sheriff failed — and simply asked voters to list the branches of government? What percent of voters today would fail that quiz? It’s a lot more than 1 or 2%, as I think we all know.
Our system cannot survive if the dumbest, most incompetent, most utterly clueless and befuddled among us are allowed to lead this country, or have a say over the direction of the country through the ballot box. This is a far greater threat to American “democracy” than Russia or Iran or China or anyone else. Without a doubt, the greatest threat to American democracy is that, because of Democrat rule and open borders and the general collapse of intelligence, the votes of competent Americans are effectively being canceled out. And for the sake of everyone else living here — the descendants of the people who built this country, and the people who can keep it running another 250 years — that needs to change, one way or another.

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