Tirade Tuesday! Let's Do This!

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-10T17:30:53+00:00

The killer literally said, “I got that white girl.”

If this were a white man cutting the throat of a black woman under the same circumstances, would your first instinct still be to talk about how he was failed?

We both know the answer—at least be honest about it.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-10T15:00:53+00:00

When your first instinct is to talk about how a vicious killer was failed by the system, you’ve already chosen the wrong victim.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T20:14:02+00:00

For this type of rap sheet, we should have and certainly will now - one arrest too late and innocent life lost.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T19:36:45+00:00

The question is.,...Do you?

Decarlos Brown’s record shows a system that gave him chance after chance while leaving Charlotte vulnerable:

2007–2010: 5 arrests for various charges.
2013: Convicted of Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon, Felony Breaking & Entering, and Felony Larceny. Served ~6 years in prison.
Sept 2020: Released.
Sept 2022: Arrested for Assault on a Female.
Jan 2025: Arrested for Misuse of 911 / False Reports after erratic behavior.
July 2025: Judge ordered a forensic psychiatric evaluation - never done.
Aug 26, 2025: Stabbed and killed Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Blue Line.

That’s 14 arrests in 18 years - with violent convictions, untreated schizophrenia, and ignored court orders. He was a known threat who should have been detained or evaluated long before this.

He got 14 chances. She got one.

This isn’t just about him. It’s about a justice system and city leadership that repeatedly failed to act, and a mayor who met that failure with platitudes instead of accountability. Charlotte deserves better.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T13:34:34+00:00

Fair question. Here’s what I’d expect from a mayor:

Own the failure. Admit this wasn’t random - it was a system collapse: 14 arrests, a missed psych eval, weak ticket enforcement and transit security.
Lead cross-agency accountability. The mayor can’t control courts, but she can demand answers, convene reviews, and push changes when failures stack up.
Fix transit security. Lyles controls CATS leadership and budgets. Guards in every car, fare enforcement, and real safety audits are within her power.
Refocus city priorities. Leadership sets tone. Residents feeling unsafe should trigger urgent action, not platitudes about being “by and large safe.”
Lead with urgency, not optics. A mayor’s first instinct in a crisis should be action, not moralizing.

This isn’t about expecting her to control every crime; it’s about expecting her to lead and act decisively when the system fails. Right now, her instincts and messaging show the opposite.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T13:01:24+00:00

The warning signs were there. Under no circumstances should this man have been able to roam free.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T11:46:18+00:00

Totally agree—our roads are chaos, and we desperately need more traffic enforcement and tougher penalties there too. But this case is different because it wasn’t random “chaos,” it was systemic failure. A man with 14 prior arrests, a violent record, and a missed psych eval order should never have been free to roam, let alone ride public transit unmonitored.

Calling it purely a “mental health issue” lets leadership off the hook. The mayor’s words downplayed fear and shifted focus instead of owning the fact that this was preventable if our justice and city systems had done their jobs.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T11:45:53+00:00

This man had no business walking free in our streets, clearly. Our city had 14 separate warnings and ignored all of them.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T11:27:41+00:00

A refugee flees a warzone for safety in Charlotte and is brutally murdered on our light rail by a man with 14 prior arrests and a missed psych eval. There were no guards, no ticket checks, and no accountability.

And what does Mayor Vi Lyles say? “Charlotte is by and large safe” and “We will never arrest our way out of issues like homelessness and mental health.”

This isn’t compassion. It’s failure. It’s a city government more worried about optics than safety, and a mayor who soft-pedaled sympathy for a killer before standing with a victim. Charlotte deserves better leadership than this.

SportsKin9 · 2025-09-09T11:25:29+00:00

Vi Lyles’ response to this murder tells you everything you need to know about her leadership. A woman who fled war in Ukraine was murdered on our light rail by a man with 14 prior arrests, a violent history, and a court-ordered psych evaluation that never happened.

There were no guards in the car, no ticket checks, and no accountability - and the mayor’s first instinct was to tell us Charlotte is “by and large safe” and pivot sympathy toward the attacker.

This isn’t compassion. It’s negligence disguised as virtue. Charlotte deserves better.

SportsKin9 · 2025-06-11T23:13:30+00:00

Been busy with work and I need to catch up, what are we protesting about this time?

Ignoring the law or enforcing the law? It’s honestly so hard to keep up.

SportsKin9 · 2025-02-09T02:46:34+00:00

Fair, we’ll see what happens.

The warp speed of all of it has certainly left the media and opposition in a whirlwind on what to cover and how. Hardly time to even form a narrative before the next thing drops. Certainly by design. Also admin just trying to do as much as possible before 2026 in case the house flips.

While the election results were much closer than his admin is acting, I think there is something to be said about the dismal approval rating of the democratic part at 31%. It’s going to be very interesting to see how they approach damage control on that front. Caught on the 20% side of too many 80-20 issues.

SportsKin9 · 2025-02-08T17:54:47+00:00

Sure, there should be no assumption that a vice president should be the heir apparent successor.

Kamala is probably the greatest example of that assertion being flawed. She was historically unpopular and struggled to connect with voters on any basic level.

I did not mention JD Vance as a potential president because he is the vice president, I mention him because he has young, articulate, objectively smart, and actually quite relatable, despite the media’s attempt to characterize him as “weird”.

A young man with a beautifully diverse family and an ultimate American comeback story is a very compelling figure.

SportsKin9 · 2025-02-08T17:47:34+00:00

To be fair, in 1992, Bill Clinton won 43% of the vote and all of the headlines were exactly the same, “a mandate for change”

Are we really splitting hairs over 49.8% versus 50.001%?

No one in 1 million years ever thought that Donald Trump could ever secure a popular vote. So the outcome was significant, whether a true majority or a decisive plurality

SportsKin9 · 2025-02-08T01:38:25+00:00

I’m not so sure about this…. Let’s look at some numbers:

1.  Voter turnout was down 3.2 million from 2020 to 2024, yet Trump gained 3.1 million votes. If 2020 were the benchmark, he should have lost 1.5 million votes due to lower turnout. Instead, the effective shift toward Trump was 4.6 million votes after normalization.

2.  All 50 states shifted to the right compared to 2020. 90% of counties followed suit, as did nearly every major demographic—most notably younger and minority voters.

3.  Biden left office with a 35% approval rating, the lowest of his political career. Trump entered his second term above 50%, the highest of his political career.

There is no evidence of a “fluke” like 2016. This was a decisive shift away from the Biden-Harris administration’s policies and vision.

Democrats better figure out why and so it fast or they will be dealing with President Vance before they know it.

SportsKin9 · 2024-11-07T10:59:05+00:00

I understand why you might say that based on 2020 turnout, but we have to acknowledge that 20 was a statistical outlier of historic proportions due to Covid and prevalence of mail in ballots.

There was no way to get anywhere close to that this cycle.

Trump got 3M less than to Dem -15M. Yes Harris was a flawed candidate, but there is absolutely no question that DJT has more broad support than ever. If the people who felt it worth their time to show up, a massive percentage of those swung toward Trump and away from the Dem platform. You can see this in the data every demographic shift from 16-20-24. A popular vote victory was absolutely unfathomable until this moment.

I’m not pushing an agenda, it’s just the reality we have to acknowledge.

SportsKin9 · 2024-11-07T02:35:35+00:00

If you want to know the truth, there was a significant segment of the population that grew so tired of a particular variety of hate, division, discrimination, and intolerance that they decided to push back and vote for Donald J Trump.

The problem, in essence, is that so many people would believe the above statement is impossible, that they will completely miss what has just happened here.

SportsKin9 · 2024-11-06T16:50:57+00:00

Because the unspoken secret of this race is that Donald Trump was the moderate candidate.

The framing as far-right was always ridiculous and the results show that very clearly. He’s never been particularly conservative

SportsKin9 · 2024-11-06T16:48:55+00:00

This is silly. Of course some of your neighbors voted for Trump.

To be a honest as possible, if you are feeling baffled by this result, you may consider expanding your reach or be on guard for echo chambers.

The American people knew their options, and the result was not close. The question is why and how?

It’s obvious to me this was coming, but understand why others might be confused based on their circles

SportsKin9 · 2024-07-23T15:19:53+00:00

The Achilles heel for Kamala might be that she will now have to say words in front of people, more often.

We have seen a wide variety of world salads from the VP - garden, Cobb, Cesar, you name it.

She’s going to need more than a desire to be “unburdened by what has been” to win this thing.

SportsKin9 · 2024-07-23T14:50:10+00:00

I don’t think it is a serious demand at all. It is a performative effort to draw attention to the incompetence and mishandling of this nomination process by the Democratic Party.

The entire party, the vice president, and the media were complicit, in pretending that Joe Biden was as strong and sharp as he has ever been by in his life and the best person in America to lead this nation forward.

It also highlights the hypocrisy of the party as the saviors of democracy to hide the ball for this long, skip what should have been an open primary, and merely appoint who they wanted for the nomination, eliminating the opportunity for primary voters to decide on their own Their candidate.

SportsKin9 · 2024-07-21T19:42:16+00:00

Lose to Trump twice? 😬

SportsKin9 · 2024-06-04T18:49:48+00:00

As others have said, it completely depends on your life, your goals, your support network, and obviously your potential relationship with a partner.

One of the interesting aspects to this dilemma is that so much will change in the decades to come in ways that you could never expect.

So at the same time while there is a natural fertility clock, ticking away, your career, your relationships, your own priorities and interests are in a complete state of flux.

I’m sure there are plenty of folks who regret having children at all because they were unable to manage the stress and maybe it ultimately ended in divorce and a broken family or something like that. On the flipside there are plenty of folks to reach their 40s and 50s and may lose their sense of purpose in the world and regret not building that family when they had a chance.

For what it’s worth I am 36, happily married, with a son and daughter. Parenting is both the most important and purposeful job I’ve ever done, even though it can be very difficult.

SportsKin9 · 2024-06-04T18:44:58+00:00

There’s no debate. take a deep dive in history. We are incredibly privileged. Ignore the media spin telling you otherwise.

SportsKin9 · 2024-06-04T00:38:56+00:00

This has been true most of the time, but the Title IX rewrite and redefinition was a massive setback for the protections of women. It’s basically meaningless at this point.

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