It’s obviously been an extremely difficult couple of weeks. And while there’s no shortage of serious problems we have, and concrete steps that we need to take to address rampant Left-wing violence in this country, there are other issues that need to be discussed as well. You simply can’t focus 100% of the time on the constant terrorism that the Left is committing, and all of the deranged threats they’re writing on bullets, and Reddit, and everywhere else. If you do that, you’ll probably go insane. Not as insane as these people, but insane nonetheless.
So we’re going to start with a pop quiz today, because of course, nothing is more entertaining than a pop quiz. Specifically, I’m going to give you a one-question IQ test.
Now, of course, a one-question IQ test isn’t a real thing. There’s no possible way you can determine someone’s IQ from a single question. And if you don’t realize that, then your IQ is precisely 70. That’s just science. But for the purposes of this monologue, I’m going to administer a one-question IQ test anyway.
The question comes from a mathematician named Spencer Greenberg, who has done a lot of research on intelligence and statistics across large populations. He says that — if you take it with a big grain of salt — the following question is a decent general indicator for whether your IQ is above 100, which is around the average of the typical American.
Credit: IQ test
The question reads: “A carpenter is to furniture, as a cobbler is to what?”
In other words, a carpenter’s relationship to furniture, is analogous to a cobbler’s relationship with what object? And here are your options.
A: Tile
B: Pot
C: Frame
D: Shoe
Which of those things — a tile, a pot, a frame, or a shoe — has the same relationship with a cobbler as the carpenter has with furniture?
So let’s think about this one. What’s the relationship between a carpenter and furniture? Well, they fix furniture. What do cobblers do? By definition, they fix shoes. So the answer is “D.” The trick, to the extent there is one, is that cobbler can also refer to a dessert, so maybe you’d be tempted to pick B, which corresponds to “pot.” But in context, that’s clearly not what they’re going for. Carpenters fix stuff. Cobblers fix stuff. The cobbler dessert does not.
Again, there’s not much you can read into one question like this. If you don’t know what a “cobbler” is, then you didn’t really have a shot. But in general, according to Spencer Greenberg, people who have an IQ below 100 — which is the statistical average in this country — generally don’t answer this question correctly. So if you nailed it, then congratulations. You’re probably smarter than the average citizen of our Idiocracy.
You’re also much, much smarter than many people who earn advanced degrees in this country, including PhDs. This is data that frankly doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true. But it is.
Take a look at this chart, which was produced by Matt McGue, a researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Credit: Matt McGue
Credit: Matt McGue
Look at where “90 IQ” is, on that x-axis. As you can see, there’s a fairly large number of people with college degrees — as well as advanced degrees like PhDs — that fall well below the 90 IQ threshold. These are people who wouldn’t just get the cobbler question wrong. They’d get a much easier question wrong, too. We’re talking about people who are well below the average IQ of the typical American. And they’re being awarded doctorates — degrees that allow them to educate future generations.
This is a trend that’s accelerated in recent decades. This data is from a researcher named Sebastian Jensen, who’s on Substack.
Credit: Sebastian Jensen
Credit: Credit: Sebastian Jensen
It shows the average IQ of Americans over the age of 25, and it divides them up by educational attainment and sex. And as you can see, across the board, average IQs are dropping for all of these levels. Men and women with college degrees, with high school diplomas, and dropouts — they’ve all been getting progressively dumber since the 1940s.
According to Matt McGue, the researcher at the University of Minnesota, people with IQs below 90 are finishing college at dramatically higher rates than they were in previous generations. Men with IQs below 90 are finishing college six times as much, while women with IQs below 90 are finishing college 10 times as much as they used to.
At this point, there’s no need for me to go into any great detail about the impact of diploma mills, civil rights movement, and DEI on these numbers. All of these factors are leading to lower standards in colleges and universities. But you know all about that already. What you may not know — even though it’s a critical part of the story — is how much of the education system isn’t simply erasing standards, handing out useless degrees and teaching propaganda. There are many schools that are doing something much more dangerous and un-American than that.
This is a message I received a few days ago from a woman named Leah, who says she was a teacher in Rochester, Minnesota around a decade ago. She was pursuing a master’s degree and, as part of that program, she was assigned to teach in a local elementary school. This is a school that claims to be focused on “math and science.” When she arrived, she realized that everyone else was Somali, and that the school was governed by Islamic law.
When I showed up at the school, I was greeted by some Somalian men who were friendly but needed to explain things to me before I could observe in the classrooms. They spent two days with me in private meetings to explain the culture and what would be expected of me. Long story short, the school is run by Muslim elders. They told me very directly that they are Muslim first, Somalian second and they will never be American. If the boys became too American, they would be shipped back to Somalia. … This is an elementary school funded by our tax dollars. How many more schools are like this?
Leah continued,
Before arriving, I was instructed by my professor to not extend my hand to the elders that would meet with me. They don’t shake hands with women that are not their wife. .. I also recall being told that the young girls might miss a few weeks of school and should not be academically penalized. It was clear that this was for their genital mutilation custom, but I can’t remember if they gave me the details or if I searched online afterwards for more information. This was something I shared with my professor because I didn’t understand how, we as mandatory reporters of abuse, were being instructed to turn a blind eye. This was when my professor instructed me that maybe I wasn’t cut out for being a teacher since I can’t respect the cultures of others. … The teacher also shared that only moms show up for parent/teacher meetings because the Somalians practice polygamy, and to not expect them to address misbehavior of the boys since the boys can do whatever they want and moms are thought of as less than their sons.
If these allegations are true — and I have no reason to believe they aren’t — then we have a network of illegal Islamic schools teaching sharia law in this country, with your tax money. They’re not teaching math and science at all. This is a major problem, and as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it. There’s no investigation of any kind, even though this is full-on fraud.
If you look at the website of this particular school, there’s no indication that it’s an Islamic school. They claim to be a secular institution focused on math and science, which is how they get their tax money. But if you walk inside the school for just a few seconds, then evidently, you realize what’s actually going on.
When you look at the decline in American IQs and educational standards, as well as rising rates of crime and anti-American ideologies, you simply cannot ignore stories like this. We are being conquered and humiliated in the process. And these Somalis aren’t just defrauding our school system. Every week, you hear about a new Somali scam that’s been uncovered.
Alpha News just reported, for example, that a woman named “Asha Farhan Hassan” was just charged for her role in defrauding the state’s autism program through a company she ran called “Smart Therapy.” She’s the first person who’s been charged in a wide-ranging conspiracy, from 2019 to 2024, to fraudulently obtain more than $14 million in state funds.
Here’s how the scam worked:
Hassan and her partners allegedly recruited children into Smart Therapy by approaching parents in the Somali community and paying them monthly cash kickbacks in amounts ranging from $300 to $1,500 per month, per child. Prosecutors say that parents would often threaten to leave Smart Therapy and take their children to other autism centers if they didn’t get higher kickbacks. In fact, several larger families did leave Smart Therapy after being offered larger kickbacks by other centers, according to the charges, which say the kickback payments came from fraudulent billings to Medicaid. ‘Where a child did not have an autism diagnosis and an individual treatment plan, Hassan and her partners worked with a [qualified supervising professional] to get the recruited child qualified for autism services. There was no child that Smart Therapy was not able to get qualified for autism services,’ the U.S. Attorney said.
We’ve talked about the Somali community in Minnesota many times before — including how they’ve rallied behind a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a child. There is no government program they won’t defraud.
In fact, just the other day, we learned about yet another fraud they were running. This is from a press release last week that was issued by the DOJ.
Eight defendants have been federally charged with wire fraud for their roles in a massive housing stabilization fraud scheme. A federal investigation revealed that many Program providers defrauded the system. These providers acquired the names of Program-eligible beneficiaries from facilities like addiction treatment centers. They then used those individuals’ information to submit inflated and fake reimbursement claims.
Here are the defendants’ names: Moktar Hassan Aden, age 30, Mustafa Dayib Ali, age 29, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, age 26, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, age 27.
So there’s some real classic Minnesota names in that list. There’s a good amount of Scandinavian and German reflected here. It’s not remotely as if Somalis are stealing from every single possible source they can get their hands on. It’s not as if they’re degrading our education system along with everything else, and it’s not as if we should deport every Somali scammer immediately, and remove the “temporary protected status” they’ve enjoyed in this country — for no reason — for more than three decades. That would just be absurd.
It’s important to clarify, of course, that Minnesota isn’t the only place where this kind of thing is happening. Virtually the entire Arab world is moving into this country. And it’s very much a hostile takeover. Just to make that point abundantly clear, the new mayor of Dearborn Michigan, a Muslim named Abdullah Hussein Hammoud, just told a Christian minister that he’s not welcome in his city. What happened is that the Christian minister objected to a couple of street signs honoring a man named Osama Siblani, who has promoted Hezbollah and Hamas. Here’s how mayor Abdullah responded:
The first Muslim Mayor of Dearborn Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, telling an American citizen he isn’t welcome at a city hall meeting because he disagreed.
We need Trump get serious about deporting Arabs from Michigan and Somalis from Minnesota.pic.twitter.com/sX2BKGs6VB https://t.co/4nfyBn7Pqv
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) September 25, 2025
Credit: @WallStreetMav/X.com
“Although you live here, you are not welcome here,” the Muslim mayor says to the white Christian American citizen. Try explaining this video to the Founding Fathers. It’s maybe the purest form of projection we’ve ever seen in American politics. Abdullah Hussein Hammoud understands very well that, although he lives here, he doesn’t belong in this country. So instead of doing the honorable thing, and leaving, he’s casting Christians as the invaders.
It would be a mistake to view this footage as the vile anti-Christian, anti-American sentiment of one evil and incompetent mayor. It is the prevailing view of the entire army of foreigners that we have imported into this country. That’s why they elected this guy. They are now running our cities, our governments and our schools into the ground. There’s a direct connection between declining IQs and standards in this country, and the number of people with names like ” Abdullah Hussein Hammoud” who live here — and who clearly want our country to resemble their homelands.
Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about one of these foreigners, a lawmaker named Ilhan Omar. There’s very strong evidence that she committed immigration fraud. She’s certainly a communist who, by her own admission, is loyal to Somalia, not the United States. Here’s how Trump responded:
President Trump on Ilhan Omar:
“You know I met the head of Somalia, did you know that? I suggested maybe he’d like to take her back” pic.twitter.com/b3LolNbzii
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) September 25, 2025
Credit: @MargoMartin47/X.com
Sometimes, you can accuse Donald Trump of embellishing a story. You can say that he misrepresents some conversations for effect. This is not one of those times. We all know it. He asked the president of Somalia to take Ilhan Omar back. He’s been publicly requesting that they take her back, for a very long time. And he said they don’t want her, which was the predictable response. There’s a reason that the main export of Somalia is Somalis. The only dubious part of this story is that there’s actually a “president” of Somalia. I had to look that one up. Apparently, they do indeed have one. It’s not just a warlord. He really has the title. So that’s something.
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In any event, there’s also a very good reason, at this point, to end Somali immigration to this country completely, regardless of what the president of Somalia says. They are openly flouting our laws. They’re stealing taxpayer money that’s intended for public schools, autism treatment, food banks and so on. And they’re not particularly intelligent people, on top of that. The average IQ in Somalia is something like 70. It’s a similar story in most of these failed third-world states.
When you look at those IQ charts I began with, it’s not hard to wonder how the numbers would change if we didn’t import people like Ilhan Omar and Abdullah Hussein Hammoud. Maybe more elementary schools would start teaching math and science, instead of Islamic customs. Maybe we’d reverse the trend of declining IQs in America. That would actually be worthy of a parade in the streets of Michigan. It would certainly be something to celebrate, after many, many months of discouraging and awful news that we’ve all had to endure.
So with apologies to the president of Somalia, if he’s even a real person, it’s time for ICE to get to work. We have tolerated stagnation and decline for far too long. We need immigration crackdowns not only in places like Los Angeles and the Home Depot parking lot, but also in places like Dearborn and Rochester, immediately. It’s not enough to throw James Comey in jail. It’s not enough to target illegals from Mexico. Go after the Ilhan Omars. Go after these schools. And then, when American PhDs finally have an IQ above 100, shut the door behind them, and don’t repeat the same mistake ever again.
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Correction: In a previous version of this article, the charts were inverted. The correction has been made.
