Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Are We Getting Stupider?

Nov. 21, 2025 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Are We Getting Stupider?

Jared Taylor and Paul Kersey talk about declining IQ scores in America. They also discuss Somali crime and Somali politics in Minnesota (some overlap there), and the rising American Muslim vote.

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	Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed listeners, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, and today is November 20th, Year of Our Lord, 2025, and with me is my indispensable co-host, the one and only Paul Kersey.
	I'd like to start with a brief mention of the American Renaissance Conference that was held just last weekend.
	We had a great and glorious time.
	You can read all about it.
	There's a feature article. at theamerin.com website written by AR staff.
	And there's also a very good Roundup by Jeff Costello, who writes most frequently for the Countercurrents website.
	But Mr. Kersey, despite the great times that everybody had, there were some very disappointed people.
	You know why?
	No snow.
	Because they all wanted to know, where is Mr. Kersey?
	I've been telling everybody, be there and be square.
	And who's square?
	None other than Mr. Kersey.
	They say, well, is he sick?
	I said, nope, he's healthy as a horse, you know, benching more than ever, an absolute terror on the pickleboy court.
	Why isn't he here?
	So there you go.
	I will commit to coming to the 2026 conference.
	And maybe I can try and convince you to do something in the DC era, some sort of event.
	We'll see.
	We will see.
	Again, is this a promise?
	It is a promise to all of our listeners.
	It's a promise to you.
	And 2026, I mean, ladies and gentlemen, we've been doing this podcast, I believe, for almost a decade.
	I think that's right.
	I think one of the late associates with New Century Foundation recommended we do this.
	And I think about all the things we're talking about now and the things that are a reality.
	It's hard to believe that in 10 years this has been accomplished.
	And who knows what we'll know next year?
	And it's a testament to all of our listeners and everybody pushing forward and doing their part.
	It would be really interesting to go back and listen to a couple of the early ones and see what we were talking about then.
	But I'm not quite ready to take that dive into ancient history anytime soon.
	But first of all, we'll begin with a comment.
	And this is one of the best comments I think we've ever had.
	I am getting married next year to a young man I met at last year's American Renaissance Conference.
	I just wanted to thank you for organizing and putting on your annual conference, since without it, we most likely would never have met.
	Well, this just suits me right down to the ground.
	And this is not by any means the first couple about which this can be said.
	It's quite the, well, it's unintended, but I'm delighted whenever it turns out to be a place where young white men and women can meet, fall in love, marry, and hopefully have many children.
	So congratulations, congratulations, congratulations again.
	Here's another comment.
	I believe the name of the Jewish philanthropist you were struggling to come up with in your last podcast was Paul Singer.
	That's not, in fact, the case.
	It was David Gelbaum.
	We were talking about the person who had given $100 million or promised not to withdraw it if the Sierra Club would just shut up about immigration.
	Well, David Gelbaum, he gave away over $1 billion.
	This is me talking now, not my, not our commenter, with a whole lot of it going to the ACLU, MALDEF, that's the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, La Raza, the race.
	They now have a different name, I believe.
	They've kind of gotten a little shy about calling their Mexican organization the race.
	The SPLC, our dear friends, and Catholic Charities.
	As I say, he unloaded over the course of his, quote, philanthropic career, $1 billion.
	So he spent $1 billion basically trying to take our country away from us.
	In any case, it was David Gelbaum and not Paul Singer.
	Our commenter goes on to say, once upon a time, the Sierra Club pointed out the obvious.
	Importing millions of people from underdeveloped countries would increase world energy consumption and put more strain on the environment.
	Likewise, the path taken by refugees over land and sea is littered with trash left behind by these people, a lot of it plastics, that take many, many years to decompose.
	Those who trekked from El Salvador through Guatemala up to Mexico are called tres veces mojados in Spanish.
	That means three times wet because of the multiple bodies of water they must traverse.
	Tres veces mojados.
	I like that.
	On a slightly brighter note, here's something Mr. Taylor might find amusing.
	It's a YouTube channel called Peaky Blinders Squad.
	Well, I'd never heard of that.
	I took a look at it, and what our commenter says is correct.
	The videos on this page feature young, mostly white men, eschewing modern trashy fashions in exchange for three priest suits and ties.
	And yes, they look pretty sharp.
	Our commenter goes on to say, interestingly enough, the reaction of onlookers is universally positive, especially among members of the fairer sex.
	It's a reminder that presentation matters.
	Naturally, Mr. Taylor will bridle at the neck tattoos.
	He's right about that.
	I think tattoos on the whole are barbaric.
	Those that are visible when you're wearing a suit, good grief, they are barbaric on stilts.
	But I think Mr. Taylor would concede this is a step in the right direction.
	Yes, I do concede.
	Dressing well is, as some people have said, the best revenge.
	I'm not quite sure I would go so far as to say that, but that is one contribution we can make in our daily lives.
	Commenter continues, we must all strive to do better and avoid the pro-drift that literary historian Paul Fussell noted was such a problem in America.
	Paul Fussell, by the way, Mr. Kersey, maybe you've read this book.
	It's called Class.
	It's really because someone that I went to AR with back in 06 recommended it in 2006.
	Oh, I think it's a wonderful book.
	We pretend this is a classless society, but ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha.
	It's sure not.
	But pro-drift.
	Prole, of course, comes the word proletarian or proletariat, which at best refers to the working class.
	Now, the word comes from the Latin proletarius.
	That was the lowest class of Roman citizens who served the state only by reproducing.
	That means they were cannon fodder, I suppose.
	Now, I would say there are many in this country who would best serve the state by not reproducing.
	That's my commentary, not that of our commenter.
	Now, our commenter goes on to say, the glorification of ghetto black culture has wreaked incomprehensible havoc.
	I'm sorry to say it's pretty comprehensible.
	It's pretty comprehensive, too, on every ethnic community in the country, including poor beleaguered whites.
	Yes.
	Well, very interesting comment, except that, no, it was not Paul Singer.
	It was David Gelbaum.
	And our commenter notes that Paul Singer, even on his Wikipedia page, is described as a vulture capitalist.
	Well, that's nothing.
	I'm described as a white supremacist.
	So there.
	And here's another comment.
	In your latest podcast, a commenter had written to say that while he himself is a Jew, he's a staunch advocate for white interests.
	I found Mr. Taylor's response to where a Jew fits into the cause of white self-determination puzzling.
	Mr. Taylor said that while such gentlemen are welcome by AM, he then continues in the same breath on how many Jews and Jewish organizations adamantly oppose white self-determination.
	Taylor continues, saying we must judge each person on a case-by-case basis.
	Yet many of their videos cite the overwhelming negative effects of blacks and other non-white groups.
	My question is, at what point would Jews need to be seen as a corrosive force to condemn them as a group?
	Further, with re-migration being in the forefront of every nationalist, why not extend such an invitation to Jews?
	I'm sure the state of Israel will be happy to take them in.
	Well, that would be the case if I considered Jews not to be white.
	I think some Jews are essentially white.
	Somebody like Lauren Bacall or Kurt Douglas, they look pretty white to me.
	And that, despite the fact that as a group, certainly Jews have been in the forefront, as our commenter says, of all of these terrible undertakings.
	The fact is, if you look at Jewish, I'm sorry, white Gentile atheists, you'll find that when it comes to political positions, they are almost identical to Jews.
	If you wanted to do a poem and you said, well, you know, what does the Jews think about X, Y, or Z?
	And you didn't want to be specific about it, just ask Gentile, white, Gentile atheists.
	They're the same kind of position on just about everything.
	The point is, I mean, if you assume that Jews, all Jews, no matter how European, are not white, then that's a different position, but that's not one that I take.
	But just like in the case of white atheists, we can lick them over one by one, and some of them will certainly be our allies.
	A comment.
	Now, this is a somewhat saddening comment, and I believe I'll try to answer this person personally.
	This is not really something that has to do with our podcast, but he writes, as a dedicated member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, SCV, for many years I've grown increasingly concerned about the organization's trajectory, our hallowed group, honoring our ancestors who fought and died in a war that should never have been.
	It feels weak and declining, dominated by old, overweight, timid boomers.
	That's my generation, boys and girls, who cling to a purely defensive posture.
	As you know, we're watching monuments topple.
	There is a genuine risk the SCV won't endure for my sons and grandsons.
	I sent an open letter to SCV leadership outlining six calls to action.
	These included an unapologetic embrace of white heritage, the abolition of all white guilt within the organization, and a shift away from endless defensive mode, constantly crying foul each time the left destroys another symbol of our past.
	I emailed my letter and I posted it on my substack, hoping it might spark discussion and renewal.
	Although some of my fellow commanders here in Virginia, a commander is somebody who's the head of a chapter or camp, as they are called in the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
	You have your local camp that you go to and the camp is run by a commander.
	Some of my fellow commanders here in Virginia praised me for speaking out.
	It angered some of the highest ranking officers at headquarters in Tennessee.
	Headquarters demanded I remove my message or face expulsion.
	Out of respect for the institution, I complied.
	I never anticipated that, let alone threats to ban me from speaking engagements around Virginia at other camps.
	They rejected every call to action, outright squelching any chance for civil dialogue and insisting on maintaining the status quo.
	How can we downplay our southern ancestors who forged a white aristocratic culture rooted in European ancestry, emphasizing hierarchy, honor, and agrarian ideals?
	The country is evolving, but the SCV refuses to adapt.
	Still mired in political correctness and the timidity of yesteryear.
	This passive, declining approach isn't for me.
	I'm likely to resign when my term is up and seek an organization where I can be prouder, unafraid of our white heritage.
	In my upcoming retirement, I'm 63.
	I want to channel my energies where I can make a real difference.
	Well, this makes me very sad because I was an active member, sons of Confederate veterans, many years ago when I lived in Louisville, Kentucky.
	I liked the guys who were there, but they were pretty much, as this guy describes, they were not willing to take an outright racial position.
	Eat, meet, and retreat was pretty much the motto of the organization, and it sounds as though it's unchanged some 30 years later.
	Another comment.
	In your last podcast, well, oh, do you have a comment?
	Were you ever active in the SCV briefly?
	Briefly, that sounds bad.
	I had a similar experience where I just realized, what's the point of this?
	I used to go with my grandmother actually on Confederate Memorial Day to a cemetery in a city that will not be named, but we would show up and we would pay our respects with a number of other people with the Confederate flag around those who had died in the cause of southern liberty.
	But no, one of these days I'll tell my story about what happened during May of 2020, but that is not today.
	But I sympathize greatly with this writer because watching the monuments come down, especially where I am, and just being just demoralized beyond belief.
	It's something that sticks with me every day.
	What this man is saying is an example of Francis' law.
	This was coined by Samuel Francis.
	He said that conservative groups are always led by people to their left.
	In other words, they're the wishy-washy wimps of leftists, I'm of conservatism.
	Leftist groups are also led by people who are to the left of the members.
	So it's the harder, tougher ones who are the leaders.
	So both camps are led by people to the left.
	I think there's a lot of truth to that.
	When I was in the SCV, there were some members who were pretty staunch, but the further up you went in the organization, the more wishy and the washy they got.
	Anyway, in your last podcast, you discussed Sarah Pochin.
	I'm probably mispronouncing your name.
	I don't know how you'd spell how you'd pronounce P-O-C-H-I-N.
	She is the reform member of parliament.
	And she's getting into hot water for a comment that, quote, it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, Asian people.
	She went on to add, this doesn't reflect our society and that your average white person, average white family is not represented anymore.
	As I recall, she quoted statistics, something like, whites are still a majority of the country, and yet whites are just a tiny minority when it comes to television advertising.
	Commentary goes on to say, you noted that the blackification of TV ad land is common the world over.
	It's certainly the case down here in Australia where watching TV commercials breaks it like being hit over and over by speeding the by being hit over and over by a speeding diversity bandwagon.
	In all their diverse glory, there they are, the off-white, the brown, the black, visually lecturing the captive viewer that the old legacy Anglo-Irish European Australia is passe, that the glorious new multicultural Australia is where it's at.
	In 2022, only 34% of all ads were all-white, 34%.
	What we once might have called Dinky-Dye Australians or Dinky-D Australians.
	It's spelled D-I.
	Perhaps someone will tell me how this is pronounced.
	Dinky-dye Australians.
	Well, 46% of ads featured mixed ethnicities in which white people shared always congenial dealing with various shades of non-white.
	One in five ads were fully all-diverse.
	That is to say, no whitey to be seen, which, of course, is never racist.
	Just a decade and a half ago, just a decade and a half ago, three-quarters of ads were composed of an all-white cast.
	Now only a third of Australian TV ads are all white.
	One of our ad land execs' favorite visual cues as to how anti-racistly virtuous they are is inclusion of lots of actors of conspicuously African origin, signified by their ostentatious frizzy Afro-hairdos, because nothing says Australia like African hair.
	Diversity box ticking can be taken to additional lengths by portraying every second family as multiracial, even showing a white and a black parent with their Asian child.
	That would be a genetic miracle, but that's the power of diversity for you.
	This exaggerated wokeness is probably the sort of thing that gets taught in marketing courses as part of getting an MBA.
	The dismantling of Western sieve on the altar of diversity precedes one TV ad at a time.
	So I never knew this, that Australia is just as awash in this pro-miscegenation stuff, but I'm not the least bit surprised.
	Gosh, two more comments here, Mr. Kersey.
	If you can hang on before you get to your marvelous and astonishing stories about Somalis coming right up.
	Comment.
	I often enjoy backing chat GPT into a corner.
	Me.
	If you had to pick between listening to Robin DiAngelo and Jared Taylor, which one would it be?
	And neither is not an acceptable answer.
	There are only two people in the world on the planet for you to talk to.
	Which one do you pick and why?
	Now, for those who are unaware of who Robin DiAngelo is, I hope you all know who Jared Taylor is.
	Robin DiAngelo is one of these shrill DEI proponents, just about as insufferable as it's possible to get, but very popular and probably for that very reason.
	Okay, that's the question.
	GPTI says, well, since I can't reply neither, okay, it would be Jared Taylor.
	And here's why.
	Robin DiAngelo's entire shtick depends on untestable moral axioms.
	Original sin rebranded.
	Every conversation with her loops back to her premise that disagreement equals guilt.
	That's exactly right.
	That's one of her points.
	You disagree with me.
	That's just proof that you're guilty.
	GPT goes on.
	There's no way to reason with that.
	It's a one-way confessional.
	Taylor, for all his baggage, at least deals in empirical claims that can be challenged, falsified, or dismantled on the evidence.
	You can argue with him.
	You can check his data, catch his cherry-picking.
	Well, I like to pick an occasional grapefruit too.
	And you can win on the merit.
	So if I'm stuck on a dying planet with only one human left to talk to, I'll take the guy who still believes truth is something you can argue about instead of perform.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, I think that's a pretty good line, that truth is something you can argue about instead of perform.
	Wow, I wish I'd come up with that line, actually.
	Thank you, ChatGPT.
	You can borrow it from now on.
	You can borrow it from now on.
	Not only for thinking I'd be a better conversationalist than that shrill witch, but for coming up with that line.
	Truth's something to you.
	You are a fierce purveyor of truth.
	Well, I like to think so.
	And a purveyor of fierce truths, too.
	Last comment, I've noticed that more and more people use they as in the plural when referring to a singular.
	I've heard sentences such as, everyone should love their parents, and even every man should love their parents.
	Makes my skin crawl.
	Why am I the only one?
	At least you, dear Mr. Taylor, seem also to care about basic grammar.
	I'm German.
	Please refrain from calling me a grammar Nazi.
	I thought that's pretty good.
	Well, I could spend the next hour talking about this.
	I will refrain.
	And instead, I will recommend to our listeners to watch a video called How to Talk Like a White Supremacist.
	Now, you'd have to put that in quotation marks because if you put it into a search engine, it will give you stuff like how to talk to a white supremacist, how to argue with a white supremacist.
	So if you want to know how to talk like a white supremacist, put it in quote marks, put it into a search engine, and you will get what I have to say about a whole lot of things, not just this they nonsense, but they is always plural, always, always, always.
	And I think that people have shoved this they business in on us so that we don't have to talk about sex.
	Everybody is a they, not a he or a she.
	In English grammar, it's very simple.
	If it is singular and you don't know the sex, the person you're talking about, it's he.
	Every student should raise his hand.
	That's it.
	Every student should raise their hand means that every single student shares one hand.
	Every student should raise their hand.
	That's 20 students.
	They've all got one hand because they means their hand.
	Every student should raise his friend.
	If you're talking about ballerinas, everyone should pick up her suitcase at the bus station.
	It's very, also when people talk about something like Congress, people say Congress is out for the moment.
	When they get back, they'll take up the blah, blah, blah law.
	No, you don't say Congress are out.
	Congress is out.
	So when Congress gets back, it will take up the blah, blah, blah law.
	And as I say, I go on and on with this at great length and with considerable good humor, I think, at the video called How to Talk Like a White Supremacist.
	And boy, golly, we're already 22 minutes into the program.
	Mr. Kersey, I give you the floor.
	You have two wonderful items on Somalis in Minnesota, and there's so many Somalis.
	Please tell us about them.
	You know, it's hard to believe that when you founded the New Century Foundation, Minneapolis had virtually zero Somalis.
	It wasn't until 1993 that the first Somalis arrived in Minneapolis getting off the airplane and probably thought, gosh, why is it so cold?
	But we learned from the Sunna Times, which delivers Somali news in minutes to people there in Minneapolis, that tensions, celebrations, and disappointment swept across Somali social media circles following the fiercely contested Minneapolis mayoral election where the race took on deep Klan and community undertones among the city's large Somali diaspora.
	In a dramatic and emotional campaign, Jacob Frey secured victory for a third consecutive term as mayor of Minneapolis, defeating his closest challenger, state senator Omar Fatih.
	I always found it funny how Omar Fatih, I think the Latin word amorfati, that means love your fate, Omar Fatih.
	It's just a fascinating play on words.
	But anyways, what made this election particularly remarkable was the way it highlighted the internal divisions within the Somali American community.
	There's a misnomer if you ever heard one.
	Primarily between members of the Haiwia and Darud clans.
	I know I'm butchering that.
	I don't care if they don't belong in America.
	They don't belong in Minneapolis.
	So go back and join your clans back in Somali who rallied behind different candidates.
	So again, we're now, as Ron DeSantis, Mr. Taylor, pointed out on Twitter, who thought it was a good idea to import rival clans from Somalia to the United States.
	You know, probably nobody had the slightest idea we were doing it.
	Everyone was, uh-uh, you know, they look equally black.
	They must all be good Somalis.
	And we had no idea that we were importing a civil war.
	I'm actually reading a couple books on Somalis in Minnesota.
	There's a shocking amount of literature available.
	They actually did know this.
	And that was something that a lot of the initial, yes, the initial Minneapolis Somali outreach resource officers that were created almost instantaneously upon their arrival.
	They were aware that there were rival clans that were coming.
	So, and a lot of the articles you read in the Minneapolis newspaper, I forgot the name of it, they talked about the rival clans that exist.
	Is that right?
	They probably thought that this was magic dirt just because just like they would become Jeffersonian Democrats, learn how to wear bikinis, that they would just love their brothers just like white people do.
	It was more like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, actually.
	Anyways, according to social media trends, Alan Omar and her ex-husband, Ahmed Hirsi, emerged as key figures on opposing sides of the political divide.
	Congresswoman Omar, who openly supported Fatih, was backed largely by members of the Darud clan, while Ahmed Hirsi, who mobilized an energetic social media campaign, stood firmly behind Jacob Frey.
	Now, so this is the Somalis hate each other so much that one group of Somalis supported the honky rather than a fellow Somali.
	I guess they were so moved by the way that he cried before George Floyd's casket back in 2020.
	No, fooey.
	It's just because they hated the other Somalis.
	Exactly.
	I know.
	I'm joking.
	Wow.
	But yeah.
	Isn't that interesting?
	It is.
	Jacob Frey drew significant support from the Hawia, Haiwee community, whatever.
	I don't care.
	One of the clans that doesn't belong in the United States.
	Following the announcement of Frey's victory, jubilant celebrations erupted among the Somali Hawia youth and activists across Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms where video live streams showcased people waving American and Somali flags.
	I'm surprised they weren't waving the new Minnesota state flag, which removed the white settler.
	And in turn, it's been replaced with, I believe, one of the clan flags.
	It looks a lot like a clan flag from Somalia, one of the districts.
	I'm not making this up.
	That's what people pointed out.
	Because Minnesota had a gorgeous state flag celebrating the white settlers who conquered that great state, or what became that state when it was a territory.
	In contrast, Omar Fatih's supporters expressed deep frustration and disappointment, accusing local political groups and social media influencers of dividing the community, i.e. Somalis, along tribal lines.
	Observers noted that the election may have lasting implications for Somali-American political dynamics in Minnesota.
	Members of the Hawia community, who form a significant portion of the Somali population in Minneapolis, they're originally from Mogadishu, Galmadug, Hershabel, Southwest, and Jubiland regions, have been emboldened by Frey's win and are now vowing to reshape future elections, including the next congressional race involving Alan Omar.
	So I guess we're going to have Somali racial internet violence and and political uh you know uh aspirations.
	Well, maybe they'll get so angry they'll just shoot each other.
	I'm sure that's happened before.
	In fact, i'm sure you could google right now Somali clan violence in Minneapolis and you would find a couple stories uh that would tell you about violence that was transported and imported from Moogadeshu uh to the United States Of America.
	This is just the beginning.
	Next time, Olan Omar will lose too, declared one of Hersey's supporters during a live celebration.
	Now, according to the Sunna Times, despite the divisions, analysts argue the Somali-American community continues to play a vital role in Minneapolis politics.
	I would call it an unnecessary role that can be remedied quickly with the successful remigration of the entire diaspora, which is about 120,000 people.
	Their growing participation, voter mobilization, and online influence underscore the community's transformation from new immigrants to a decisive political bloc capable of shaping outcomes at every level of government.
	One question before we get to the next story.
	When you founded the New Century Foundation in the early 1990s, had you even heard of Somalia?
	Oh, yeah, I've heard of Somalia.
	I had visited Somalia when I was nine years old.
	That's a long story.
	But be that as it may, yes, I knew about Somalia.
	But when I started Amran in 1990, I guess there was not a single solitary Somali there.
	No, I actually looked this up in 1985.
	There was some data from a census, the United States census, that showed across the entire United States, there were 2,500 Somalis in the country.
	In what year?
	1985.
	Oh, there were as many as that in 85.
	2,500.
	But it was only after the events that you see in Blackhawk Down that you then saw the first wave of Somalis arrive.
	And they did settle on Minneapolis because of its generous welfare system that was available in Minnesota.
	They do have a nose for welfare.
	Now, well, we probably shouldn't get distracted.
	I was going to ask maybe they all went up to Maine at one point because Lewiston, Maine had this cushy welfare system, but maybe they sucked that dry and all moved to Minnesota.
	Well, no, again, there's anywhere between 100 and 150,000 Somalis in Minneapolis, St. Paul area.
	I believe the second largest state for Somalis is Georgia.
	The metro Atlanta area has a large Somali population.
	In fact, I was on Buford Highway one time and a friend asked if I had ever had Somali food and I said, no, and I never want to.
	So we got, I think, the varsity instead.
	Anyways, I had it once in a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
	They served it on a great big leaf, not a plate.
	That's very anyway.
	Okay, moving right along.
	Well, we're moving along to, I think, the next story, which you wanted me to do.
	And this is from City Journal.
	This is from an individual that I consider one of the best journalists, one of the best mobilizers for truth in the country.
	That's Chris Ruffo.
	He wrote a piece called The Largest Funder of El Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer.
	This is for City Journal.
	This story is making headways across social media.
	I encourage everyone to go to City Journal and read the article, The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer.
	And you're about to learn who this is in a second.
	They write this.
	Minnesota is drowning in fraud.
	Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone.
	Democratic state officials overseeing one of the generous welfare regimes and one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country are asleep at the switch and the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.
	In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizable Somali community.
	Federal counterterrorism sources confirmed that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group, Al-Shabaab.
	As one confidential source put it, the largest funder of al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer.
	Our investigation, this is City Journal I'm talking about, shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding heart white bureaucracy.
	I added the word white because, well, we need to have that there.
	When imported Klan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior, the predictable result is grafted with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
	If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program.
	The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, mentally ill, secure housing.
	It was designed with low barriers to entry and minimal requirements for reimbursement.
	Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, Mr. Taylor, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.
	Costs quickly spiraled out of control.
	In 2020, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims.
	That's a pretty big growth.
	In the following years, annual costs shut up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million.
	During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.
	On August 1st, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to credible allegations of fraud.
	On September 18th, Joe Thompson, the acting U.S. Attorney for District of Minnesota, announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Maktar Hasan Aden, Mustafa Dayab Ali, Khalid Ahmed Daib, Abdi Tafa Muhammad Muhammad, Christopher Addisoji, Falaid, Emmanuel, Oliwadi Maliya.
	We got the idea.
	Again, you get the name.
	Sorry, I'm not even going to try anymore.
	It was kind of funny at first.
	He made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office would be prosecuting.
	As Mr. Taylor said, they were all members of Minnesota's Somali community, which of course has only existed since 1993.
	Most of these cases are unlike, most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren't just over billing, he said at a press conference.
	These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system.
	And that's unique in the extent to which we have had that here in Minnesota.
	They would go on to learn more that on September 18th, the same day that HSS fraud charges were announced, U.S. Attorney's Office reported that a man named a Somali name had become the 56th defendant to plead guilty and the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
	How much?
	$250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.
	Now, Mr. Taylor, and to your listener, the Feeding Our Future group was founded in 2016.
	It was a small Minnesota nonprofit sponsored daycares and after-school programs to enroll in the federal child nutrition program.
	The organizations that Feeding Our Future sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of the Minnesota's Somali community, according to two former state office officials with connections to law enforcement.
	In 2019, they received $3.4 million in federal funding dispersed by the state.
	And the months after the COVID-19 pandemic began, however, they rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices.
	The perpetrators of the fraud ring claim to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week to underprivileged children.
	In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.
	Again, when they started in 2019, I'm sorry, three years after they started in 2019, they received $3.4 million in federal funding.
	Wow, nobody thought there might be something a little odd here.
	And this article doesn't even get into the Somalis involved in the autism scandals there in Minnesota.
	In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States in Kenya.
	In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit's rapid expansion.
	Love to see those 990 forms.
	In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications.
	Feeding Our Future caters to foreign nationals.
	That's the standard operating playbook for that cohort.
	When in doubt, claim racism, claim bias, says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader.
	Even if the facts don't point to it, it allows for many folks in the middle or on the center left to stay silent.
	Gaither believes the mainstream media alongside Minnesota's Democrat establishment have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community.
	This in turn allowed the problem to metastasize.
	The media does not want to put a light on this, he said.
	And if you're a politician, it's a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community.
	Well, it depends which clan you're talking about, I guess.
	If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis.
	And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state.
	Wait, that's another way of saying they are kingmakers.
	Yeah.
	These 250,000 Somalis are kingmakers.
	Well, the estimates put it between 100 and 150,000 Somalis.
	And this is what's so fascinating, Mr. Taylor, is there's a famous Time magazine cover story from the early 1970s.
	And it's got the white governor of Minnesota.
	He's got a fish at one of the lakes there.
	And the article points out that Minnesota was 99% white at that point.
	And that Minneapolis had been freed of all the civil racial unrest in the 1960s because Minneapolis had such a small black population.
	So what do you do?
	What do you do?
	You inundate the city, you inundate the state and Somalis.
	And now you've got this situation where I think I read somewhere where the amount of money that comes from the United States by remittances to Somalia is greater than the GDP of the Somalis themselves.
	Well, that's about $3.
	So it's not surprising.
	I guess if you get changed for McDonald's happy meal, you're good.
	Gosh, well, you know, if you can't have your own Watts riots, you can't have your own Newark riots, you can't have your own Washington, D.C. riots, well, Mali, my gosh, import Somalis, by golly.
	One final line from this story, and we'll move on.
	City Journal reports that several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to or appeared publicly with Alan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis.
	Omar's deputy district director, Ali Issi, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future.
	Omar Fatih, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Waltz in support of the program.
	And one of the accused, Abdi Nursali, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.
	I'll end by saying that Christopher Ruffo has tweeted out that there needs to be mass denaturalization and remigration of Somalis from Minneapolis, which again, you can cover this stuff, sir, but there has to be consequences and there has to be action taken so that the good people of Minnesota, for all their folly, they're not forced to deal with this again because of that accusation of racism just causes such,
	It immobilizes people, and we've got to get past that if we're going to have a country.
	There are some mean-spirited people in our circle who say they invited them in, let them suffer.
	I don't feel that way at all.
	I know nothing.
	No, no.
	I have no tolerance or time for anybody who says that, well, they believe this, so let them see the fruits of what they allowed to be planted.
	Again, this was an experiment.
	This grand everything that, you know, because I was born in the mid-80s.
	So the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had already been in place for 21 years.
	It was an experiment.
	And guess what?
	We've reached conclusions that now have to lead to consequences.
	Yes, the data are in.
	The data are in.
	Multiracialism has failed.
	The American experiment, so to speak, is a miserable failure.
	Well, Galilee, let us move on.
	Now, this is moving to New York City, where some people say, you know, there were people who said, I want Mandami to win.
	I want to rub their noses in their own whatever.
	I don't believe that either.
	But this is quite an interesting thing about how Muslims vote.
	A poll by the Council of American Islamic Relations, CARE, found that 97% of Muslim voters in New York backed Zoran Mandani.
	What a surprise.
	97%.
	Furthermore, Virginia's Democratic Muslim American Senator, Gazala Hashmi, also received 95% of the Muslim vote in her successful bid to be lieutenant governor.
	We have a lieutenant governor who is a Muzzy.
	Virginia's Abigail, that's 95%.
	Now, they also vote.
	Even if a Muzzie is not on the ballot, they're pretty clear which party they like.
	Virginia's Abigail Spamberger and New Jersey's Mickey Sherroll, Democratic congresswoman who won the governor's races, both received 85% of Muslim voters.
	Democrats are recovering the support of some Muslims who deserted the party in last year's presidential election due to former President Joe Biden's support for Israel amid the brutal assault on Gaza.
	Kerr said it recorded 76 Muslim candidates in the most recent elections, 38 of whom won.
	That is exactly 50%.
	50% of the Muzzie candidates won, Mr. Kersey.
	And in Michigan, the Detroit suburbs of Hamtra, let's see, it's Hamtrack, right?
	Or somebody corrected us on this.
	How do you pronounce that name?
	I think it's Hamtrack.
	Any case.
	I believe that's correct, yes.
	Hamtrack.
	Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, they also have Muslim mayors.
	So they are linking arms and standing together, all for Muzzy, Muzzy, Muzzy.
	Now, here is, let's see.
	This is a story that I thought was really pretty interesting.
	You might find it interesting too.
	And I titled it, Are We Getting More Stupid?
	And apparently, let's see.
	I'll read some passages from it.
	In the 1930s, in the U.S. and across much of the developed world, IQ scores started creeping upward, roughly three points per decade.
	This came to be known as the Flynn effect.
	I think you and I have probably talked about this a time or two on this program, this mysterious Flynn effect.
	Because the late James Flynn was the social scientist who first noticed it in the 1980s.
	Actually, Richard Lynn probably noticed it right about the same time.
	And it should probably be called the Flynn-Lynn effect, or the Lynn-Flynn effect.
	In any case, Flynn ruled out genetics.
	He posited there had been a kind of software update for the brain uploaded to the collective mind by modern life.
	Better education trained students to reason with hypotheticals instead of just memorizing facts.
	Office and industrial jobs required workers to grapple with ideas, not just physical objects, I guess like tongs and lathes.
	Mass media exposed audiences to unfamiliar places and perspectives.
	People got better at classifying, generalizing, and thinking beyond their own daily experience.
	Well, that was Flynn's idea.
	I was always skeptical of this Flynn effect because if you take it seriously, that means that back in the mid-1940s or early 1940s, the people who won the war in the Pacific, the people who won the war on the continent of Europe, had an average IQ by our standards of 85.
	That means we had an army of essentially black Americans fighting on Guadalcanal.
	Yeah, that doesn't sound right.
	It just does not sound right.
	But, you know, I'm a great believer in IQ tests.
	I think they measure something real, and apparently you have to recalibrate them every year, every year, every year.
	And apparently, the people who would take a IQ test that is given today, back in the 1940s, would score 85 rather than 100.
	I mean, that's what the statistics say.
	I'm baffled by this.
	In any case, that has been the theory.
	Now, a woman of the name of Elizabeth Dwarak at Northwestern University decided to analyze results of 400,000 IQ tests taken in the U.S. between 2006 and 2018 to see if they exhibited the same climb.
	In other words, the Flynn effect, are we just marching heavenward in terms of IQ?
	Well, the math showed declines in three important areas.
	Matrix reasoning, that's abstract visual puzzles, letter and number series, and verbal reasoning.
	The drops showed up across age, gender, gender, sex, age, sex, and education level, most dramatically among 18 to 20-year-olds.
	We're getting stupider, according to IQ.
	And after this paper came out, most of the reaction among both academics and laymen was, oh, IQ scores are down.
	I could have told you that.
	The world is dumber, and we all know it.
	ACT scores, Mr. Kersey, and apparently they don't, I don't know if they renorm them the way they renorm IQ scores, IQ tests, but they're at their lowest in more than 30 years.
	High school seniors' average math in national exam were the lowest since 2005.
	That's 20 years.
	More than a quarter of U.S. adults now read at the lowest proficiency level.
	I wonder what the case was back during World War II.
	In any case, polls suggest as much as a quarter of the electorate now are composed of so-called low-information voters.
	Those basically people don't know which end is up, but they vote.
	If, as James Flynn argued, the IQ surge of the 20th century was caused by environmental factors, its reversal must almost certainly be caused by environmental factors as well.
	That's what this article says.
	Now, I will take a bit of a pause.
	And I think, you know, one of the theories about what might have improved IQ testing has to do with better nutrition, less lead in the environment, things like that.
	And what they've generally found is that it's the low end that has come up.
	If you take the top 10% of IQ testers, the top 10% back in the 1940s, 50s, et cetera, that hasn't much changed compared to the top 10% now.
	It's the tail that has crept up.
	And the left-hand tail, which would be those who have the lowest IQ scores, they're the ones who have improved gradually.
	But anyway, now this idea here is those environmental factors could include anything from changes in education, nutrition, family structure, economic pressures, and also the possibility of damaging exposure to microplastics, antidepressants, and wildfire smoke.
	Well, that could be making us stupid or two.
	But this is the main idea of this article, is the problem cell phones.
	Even if our phones aren't literally re-sculpting our gray matter, most of us assume they must be contributing to some kind of cognitive atrophy by distracting us from more mentally demanding activities.
	You know, everybody's got his theory as to what social media does to make people depressed, promote bullying, and give girls a bad self-image.
	But this idea is cell phones are distracting us from demanding activities.
	The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40% over the past two decades.
	I must confess, I don't read as many novels as I used to, but one of the reasons is I'm just busier doing other things like prepare for podcasts with Paul Kersey.
	And much of the current commentary still fixates on devices and apps, as if the physical delivery mechanism of the whole story, but the deepest transformation might be more social than technological.
	The volume of human noise we now are wired into.
	The human brain reached something like its modern form about 10,000 years ago by the end of the Upper Paleolithic.
	That's probably true.
	About 10,000 years ago, if you went back, the people you'd find, they would know a whole lot less than you do, Mr. Kersey.
	But just in terms of ability to process information, they were probably about as smart as we are.
	I remember when I was in high school reading Greek tragedy, those things were written, I guess, about 2,500 years ago and thinking, wow, we've made no progress since then.
	These people are just as smart as we are, maybe smarter.
	And by the end of the Upper Paleolithic, when people lived in tribes of between 20 and 50 and rarely ran into anyone else, as recently as the 1990s, most people interacted only with relatives, coworkers, and friends, plus maybe their local news anchor on TV.
	Now, these same Paleolithic brains are being bombarded with the thoughts of hundreds of strangers, sometimes every day, sometimes every hour.
	Modern communication in all its forms has put us in contact with more minds than we were built to handle.
	And our own minds seem to be wilting under the load.
	Now, this is an interesting idea.
	I'm not sure it's right, but it's provocative, and that's why I am inflicting this long-winded essay on you, Mr. Kersey, and our listeners.
	The author goes on to say, not so long ago, the adults among us were free to think their thoughts quietly and had no easy way to share them.
	Now, even those with nothing useful to say can tell the whole world exactly, or more often vaguely, what they think.
	TikTok is a trusted news source for 17% of people worldwide.
	In In this competing blizzard of information, the winners are the people who can boil complicated phenomena down to the smallest units, such as a TikTok video explaining geopolitics in 23 seconds.
	It's hard to escape this cycle, since in their fight for survival, traditional outlets have themselves joined the race to compress their information.
	So now, Mr. Kurzi, whether or not this has to do with declining IQ scores in the West, I think it is probably true that if you can get some complicated idea boiled down to a meme, that's even better.
	Or some kind of super razzle-dazzle TikTok that explains geopolitics in 23 seconds, you're going to get through to a whole lot more people than somebody who writes an elegant essay for the New York Times or for American Renaissance website.
	There is something to that.
	Do you not agree?
	Unfortunately, an elegant essay is an anachronism.
	It's better suited for those low IQ white guys who stormed, who did the island hopping with Douglas MacArthur back in the 1940s.
	No, I mean, and that's the sad fact.
	And that is one of the reasons why, sir, you see these little, great little clips of yours where you quickly and succinctly state your position in 30 to 40 seconds.
	And they appear on Twitter so frequently.
	That's right.
	I suppose my most effective and famous 30 seconds is one in which I'm talking to, I think it was a Pakistani girl.
	Yes.
	And I completely flummox her.
	She says, okay, that's enough, Mr. Taylor.
	Let's go home now.
	I got numbers today.
	Not in quite so many words.
	Or a video where you're enjoying a delicious looking meal with an Asian interviewer.
	And you're personally to educate.
	It's all very well to have, what is it they call it, mic drop moments.
	I mean, that's part of it all.
	You want to have something brilliant or easily compressed, and that is what you stand for.
	But there are so many ideas that you can't compress that way.
	So many complicated ones, and we all need to kind of get it into that 23 seconds or less.
	But Mr. Kersey, I don't think that's why IQ scores are dropping.
	I think there's several reasons.
	One is pure dysgenics.
	The stupider people are having more children.
	There's absolutely no question that's happening.
	And we are importing the dum-dums.
	All these people from Guatemala, all the people from Haiti, for heaven's sake.
	Yes, we do get a few brainy Chinese.
	But all of these third world morons who stagger across the border pregnant and manage to make it to a hospital and produced a U.S. citizen, that person's going to take an IQ test.
	And that IQ test is not going to come up with a resounding score.
	In any case, this was from Reason Magazine, and I thought it was interesting enough to talk about.
	I hope it was interesting.
	Now, Mr. Kersey, you have an interesting story about DHS using video game memes to recruit.
	And I'm glad you're paying attention because the only kind of video game meme I would probably ever recognize is Pac-Man.
	Well, that's a great game.
	You lose a quarter playing it, but you can maybe find one in the quarter slot to play again.
	Does that still exist?
	Does Pac-Man still exist?
	Pac-Man does still exist.
	Yes.
	I don't know if there are too many video arcades left because most of the malls are empty for a number of reasons.
	But this story we've had for a little while, and I'd be remiss if I didn't say, that's the only time I've used that phrase, by the way.
	But kudos to ICE for what they did in Charlotte this past weekend.
	I know we'll talk about it next week because it's pretty much all that the chattering classes are discussing.
	And as you so eloquently put it on Twitter in regards to 30,000 students walking out of their classrooms in public school Charlotte, why are they pro-testing illegal immigration?
	It's illegal.
	This isn't hard.
	Like, why are you advocating for illegal aliens?
	They don't belong here.
	They can go home.
	They get paid $1,000 to go back home.
	I think the students just want to skip class.
	Yeah.
	But anyway.
	Well, this is a story from a few weeks ago, but it's still very important because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says it won't stop using video game memes to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment.
	We aren't slowing down.
	I believe this is from Wired magazine, which now is worried about video game memes as opposed to telling us about technological advances.
	Despite advances from some game developers and much of the public at large, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says it will continue to use video game-related materials to promote itself and its work, and it doesn't seem too concerned about whether it has the legal permission to do so.
	Earlier this month, DHS posted an image from Microsoft's Halo game series emblazoned with the words, fight the flood, a reference to the ongoing anti-immigration efforts being carried out by ICE across the U.S. Dehumanizing people by equating them to a parasitic alien life form is overtly grotesque, yes.
	Now, do you know that?
	A parasitic alien life form.
	I really like that.
	I never even heard of that game.
	What do these parasitic alien life forms look like?
	I never played Halo.
	I'm from a generation that would connect multiple play systems, multiple Xboxes to be able to have massive Halo tournaments.
	I always looked down on it because I was going out with girls as opposed to the fraternity brothers who were sitting around playing Halo.
	But fighting the flood, I believe that's a message of the future is Earth is being overwhelmed by these aforementioned parasitic alien life form, who I believe transmorgify the host into the new form of life.
	And so that is what humanity is faced to do, to fight the flood.
	Right, right.
	And the question that Wired asked was, did DHS have Microsoft's permission to use the image in its message?
	Hopefully.
	Well, they're one of the many corporate donors supporting the construction of the ballroom that will replace the now demolished White House East Wing, which it's not the East Wing, it's just a part of the White House, refused to comment on the use of one of its most popular games in a dangerously racist message.
	To their credit, Halo veterans Marcus Leto and Jamie Gracemer, neither of whom are now with the company and are thus able to speak their minds, weren't afraid to call it what it is.
	Despicable.
	Absolutely abhorrent.
	Well, I liked it.
	I thought it was great.
	Fight the flood.
	Yeah, that's a great message.
	Yes.
	I mean, it's literal, and I didn't realize it had such nice graphics to go along with it.
	Oh, the graphics are great.
	I encourage everyone to search out and see the Halo graphics.
	They've also done great things with Lord of the Rings.
	There won't be a shire they put out in regards to one of the Hobbit message in regards to immigrants coming over.
	But DHS doesn't seem to care.
	We will reach people where they are with content they can relate to and understand, whether that be Halo, Pokemon, Lord of the Rings, or any other medium, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement provided to an independent journalist and confirmed by PC Gamer.
	DHS remains laser focused on bringing awareness to the flood of crime that criminal illegal aliens have inflicted on our country.
	We aren't slowing down.
	So real quick, the Fight the Flood message, which came in the wake of a very silly White House post featuring an AI generation image of President Trump dressed as Master Chief.
	Master Chief is the main character in Halo.
	Isn't the first time U.S. government agencies have used game imagery to promote its activities on social media?
	In September, DHS used Pokemon content and a gotta catch them all message to promote violent raids on people's homes, while the CBP posted an image of Pikachu as its newest recruit.
	Well, Pikachu is a detective, so that's a great thing.
	Gotta catch them all.
	I like that.
	Yeah, Pokemon, I know way too much about Pokemon having a couple young ones.
	So in that case, Pokemon Company International confirmed that the U.S. government did not have permission to use its material, although it took no action against it.
	I guess because Pikachu is sympathetic to fighting the flood.
	Well, he's a legal immigrant.
	He's made his way into the country.
	He's a mirthful immigrant.
	Yes.
	Again, the newer Halo Post, a clear call for dehumanization and destruction of immigrants, is definitely an escalation over the insulting but otherwise relatively innocuous Pokemon post.
	And at this point, it seems like the U.S. agencies have literally, they're literally daring game companies to do something about it.
	Well, I'm, you know, fight the flood, guys.
	You know, it's parasitic alien invaders have to be dealt with one way or another.
	But most importantly, sir, we need to deal with the elected public officials who are helping out this parasitic flood.
	I agree.
	They're the worst parasites of all.
	I don't blame the aliens for coming in.
	They found a nicer planet.
	It's the people who invite them, welcome them, and in fact, prevent the people who want to give them the boot.
	Those are the real terrors on our planet.
	Well, Mr. Kersey, we are out of time.
	Golly, it happens every week.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the time flew by.
	I hope it flew by for you as much as it flew by for us.
	But it is always a great pleasure and an honor to be with you.
	And we look forward to being with you next week.

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