Mark Cossack

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[Mark Cossack @MarkCossack]

@SamaHoole Thank you for the post. Communism kills everything good in life.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

Baseball legend Babe Ruth was a Catholic who wrote this letter about Communion, Confession and the Miraculous Medal:

“In December, 1946, I was in French Hospital, New York, facing a serious operation. Paul Carey, one of my oldest and closest friends, was by my bed one night.

- They’re going to operate in the morning, Babe, Paul said. -Don’t you think you ought to put your house in order?

-I didn’t dodge the long, challenging look in his eyes. I knew what he meant. For the first time, I realized that death might strike me out. I nodded, and Paul got up, called in a chaplain, and I made a full confession.

-I’ll return in the morning and give you Holy Communion, the chaplain said, -But you don’t have to fast.

-I’ll fast, I said. I didn’t have even a drop of water.

-As I lay in bed that evening, I thought to myself what a comforting feeling to be free from fear and worries. I now could simply turn them over to God. Later on, my wife brought in a letter from a little kid in Jersey City.

‘Dear Babe,’ he wrote, ‘Everybody in the seventh grade class is pulling and praying for you. I am enclosing a medal, which if you wear will make you better. Your pal—Mike Quinlan. P.S. I know this will be your 61st homer. You’ll hit it.’

-I asked them to pin the Miraculous Medal to my pyjama coat. I’ve worn the medal constantly ever since. I’ll wear it to my grave.”

[Mark Cossack @MarkCossack]

@DerWulf @Grok is this true

[The AI Robot Guy on X @Housebots]

>Be Noelia Castillo Ramos
>Your parents love you
>They fall on difficult financial times
>You are ripped away from them by the government
>Your grandmother and mom are crying and begging
>They bring 12 police officers to stop any resistance
>You are placed in a “teen shelter” full of muslim migrants
>You aren’t allowed to leave
>The staff treats you like you are worthless
>The muslim teens decide to gang r*pe you
>You think you will get help
>Nobody comes. Nobody listens.
>They rape you again, with even more people this time
>You try to report it
>The women in charge of the shelter are woke liberals
>They refuse to report it to avoid making muslim immigrants look bad
>They won’t do anything
>You try to be happy
>You can’t move on
>You jump from the 5th story of the building
>By the grace of God, you live
>You are injured, but you still have hope
>The state tells you about the option of euthanasia
>You pass it off at first
>The trauma keeps replaying in your brain
>Still, nobody is helping
>You feel hopeless
>Spain is falling
>You decide to do it because you feel worthless
>Your dad fights to keep you alive for years
>He loses in two different liberal courts
>You are scheduled for euthanasia
>The days pass
>You do an interview, which is really a desperate cry for help
>Still, nobody does
>The date gets closer
>They keep you isolated so you have no idea there is so much love and support is outside
>Your best friend desperately tries to get up to talk to you
>She is blocked by doctors who seem to take pleasure in the power they have
>The process begins
>You are alone and probably pretty scared
>You feel like you have no choice
>The sedative sets in
>The last thing you see is a cold, dark hospital room
>The toxin is administered
>Your lungs slowly stop working
>You die in your sleep
>Your abusers still face no consequences
>You become a monument to the failure of a state that was supposed to protect you

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok 4.20 is BASED.

The only AI that doesn’t equivocate when asked if America is on stolen land.

The others are weak sauce.

[⚡️David Blackmon⚡️ @EnergyAbsurdity]

This clip from Marco Rubio's speech to the Munich Security Conference is one of the most beautifully written and forcefully delivered speeches by a Senior American official since Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

Rubio lays it out in a way that leaves no doubt in Europe's collective mind: America wants an alliance with countries who are proud of their native cultures and willing to defend them.

Here's the full text:

For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding. Its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires, extending out across the globe.

But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an iron curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great western empires had entered into terminal decline accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come.

Against that backdrop, then as now, many came to believe that the west’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choose they refused to make.

This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now. Together.

And this is why we do not want our allies to be weak, because that makes us weaker. We want allies who can defend themselves so that no adversary will ever be tempted to test our collective strength. This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame.

We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who together with us are willing and able to defend it. And this is why we do not want allies to rationalize the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it.

For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.

We do not seek to separate but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history. What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognizes that what has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency.

An alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed into an action by fear. Fear of climate change, fear of war, fear technology. Instead, we want an alliance that boldly races into the future. And the only fear we have is the fear of the shame of not leaving our nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children.

An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our interests and to preserve the freedom of action that allows us to shape our own destiny. Not one that exists to operate a global welfare state and atone for the purported sins of past generations.

An Alliance that does not allow its power to be outsourced, constrained, subordinated to systems beyond its control. One that does not depend on others for the critical necessities of its national life. And one that does maintain the polite pretense that our way of life is just one among many and that asks for permission before it acts.

And above all, an alliance based on the recognition that we, the West, have inherited together, what we have inherited is something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable. Because this, after all, is the very foundation of the trans-Atlantic bond.
[End]

Magnificent.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There is a great piece in the Wall Street Journal today, written by Sian Leah Beilock, president of Dartmouth College. She acknowledges what many of us have been saying for some time, namely, that our university system has become corrupt, and she proposes commonsense solutions. First, make a university education more affordable. Tuition and costs have become just ridiculous, especially at schools that boast massive endowments. Second, make the investment worth it. Do more to guarantee that graduates actually get jobs. Third (and to my mind most importantly), "re-center education on learning rather than political posturing." Amen! Finally! And fourth (also music to my ears), "emphasize equal opportunity, not equal outcomes." The former is a basic American principal; the latter is dangerous Woke nonsense. I was very gratified to read all of this from an Ivy League university president. Sign of hope.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I'm very grateful to President Trump for his declaration of religious liberty day. More than any other president in my lifetime, Trump has recognized the central importance of our “first freedom.” He understands that when religious liberty is threatened, all of our other freedoms are endangered. It has been an honor to serve on the President's Religious Liberty Commission, whose entire purpose is to propose ways in which this most precious of our freedoms might be defended and enhanced.

[Mark Cossack @MarkCossack]

@RobertMSterling @gmiller The movie was actually about the Hmong in MN. Filming went to MI for economic reasons. It makes the Hmong/Somali comparison all the more apt.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I want to celebrate the bravery of thousands of people who are engaging in protest against the oppressive regime in Iran. I remember vividly when the Ayatollah Khomeini was swept to power some forty-six years ago, and I have witnessed the steady and vicious attacks on human dignity perpetrated by the corrupt theocracy he established. Moreover, I’ve watched as the Iranian kleptocracy has systematically de-stabilized the Middle East by fostering Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. Please God that this dishonorable government, which has been a source of so much mischief and suffering these past several decades, will find its way to the trash-heap of history.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@MayorFrey You are a pathetic donkey

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

I just want everyone to understand that America has not been trying. We bully our smart kids. We spend 1000 times more on special education than gifted and talented programs. We eliminated honors classes in the name of equality. We even came up with a replacement for phonics so stupid that half our kids can’t read. Then we take the smartest kids that survive this system, and we racially and sexually discriminate against them for entry into college. Then we do that again when they apply for their first job. And again for every job after that. Then we undercut them in favor of foreign labor that’ll do worse work for cheaper. Most kids see this and just say “fuck it” and focus on sports, or trying to be an influencer, or just give up on trying altogether. Meanwhile in places like China every kid spends 16 hours a day studying trig tables or gets the belt. Yet America is still number one. In everything. There is so much latent potential in the American people. We have tried before. We crossed a continent and carved this country out of clay. We recrossed the oceans and conquered the world by accident as a favor to our friends. One day (hopefully soon), we are going to start trying again. America will wake up. Don’t be on the wrong side when it does.

[G-MA & G-PA @GPAIndiana]

Bill Maher making sense 👏🏻👏🏻🫵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Big difference

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Many think Communism is just a political theory. It is not.

Communism is a spiritual weapon of the devil, designed to enslave souls, destroy the Church, and erase God from the hearts of Men.

This is why saints stood up to it.

Why is communism demonic? Because communism begins with atheism. It denies God and His Church.

Man is reduced to a number in the collective.

The State becomes "god". The Church becomes the enemy. This is not just a political theory. Its satanic.

Can a christian be a communist? No. The Church has made this absolutely clear. Pope Pius XII decreed in 1949: Catholics who professed atheistic communist doctrine to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith.

To support Communism is to support a system that seeks to crucify Christ anew, in His Church, in His poor, in His priests.

Socialist and communist regimes have persecuted the Church and its faithful since their inception. From Venerable Cardinal József Mindszenty in Hungary; He was arrested, tortured, drugged, and forced into a show trial. But he never renounced the Faith.

To the Martyrs of Ukraine of 1946 when Stalin outlawed the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

To the modern day where Christians, and the Church, in China, North Korea and Venezuela are persecuted. Just last month Maduro's regime had arrested a Cardinal and confiscasted his passport.

But we know the way to fight it.

In 1917, at the height of WWI, three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal received a message from Heaven.

Our Lady warned: “Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will suffer much…”

The “errors of Russia” were not just political. They were spiritual poisons:
>Atheistic materialism
>Class warfare
>Destruction of the family
>Rejection of the Church
>Deification of the State
>Persecution of the faithful

These are the seeds of Communism, and they spread globally.

We are still suffering from these to these day.

Our Lady gave us weapons to use:
>Daily Rosary
>Consecration to her Immaculate Heart
>First Saturdays devotion
>Penance and reparation for sins

She promised: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Reminder:

[MAZE @mazemoore]

In 2019 there was a hearing in Minnesota on child care fraud. What an absolute sh*tshow. It's no wonder the fraud never gets stopped.

In 2018 the lead child care fraud investigator in MN, on behalf of his team of investigators, sent a detailed report on fraud to the Inspector General of MN DHS, a woman named Carolyn Ham.

Ham had refused to meet with the child care fraud investigators. She had met with every other team of investigators but for some reason she would not meet with them. Ham refused to even speak to them. They had mountains of evidence of fraud, including hours of video recordings. Ham ignored them.

After the report on child care fraud was sent to Ham, she spent $90,000 to have an outside firm "evaluate" the claims made by her own investigators. It was widely seen as an effort to discredit her own people.

The hearing in 2019 was less about finding ways to combat the fraud and more about trying to cast doubt on the claims made by the state's own investigators. Many times during the two hour hearing it was said that the fraud probably wasn't quite as bad as the inspectors had reported.

Just like today, there were the lackeys criticizing the journalists who were reporting on the fraud. One slobbering fool even brought up the KKK.

Carolyn Ham was eventually placed on leave for almost a year, collecting a paycheck the entire time. She was then allowed to resign with no disciplinary action.