Jon Fausey

Product of Minster, OH

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS: Yet as we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack. A generation after we fought and won the Cold War against the menace of Communism, there is now a resurgence of the Communist menace in our land—including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life.

These are not mere political disagreements, like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American Liberty. It is the Greatest Threat to our Country including World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, or 9/11.

Because Communism is the enemy of Free People everywhere. It is the enemy of the Constitution. Above all, it is the Enemy of July 4th, 1776.

Even while the Radicals and Extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are SILENT on the miserable history of Communism itself. Their system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried—it killed 100 million people in the last century.

Communism is the exact opposite of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—it is death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil.

The Godless Communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about the inhuman visions they propose. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights.

It is an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder. Such doctrines can be given no quarter in a Democracy, because the first thing they do when they get into power is turn around, and destroy it—just as Communists have done in other countries all over the world.

Very simply, Communism represents the worst ideas and abuses in history by the worst people—the American Founding represents the best ideas and traditions in history by the best people.

You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a Communist, or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both.

As for those who would peddle Marxist lies about our heritage—who tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors—they are doing something much worse than slandering our past. They are attacking our future. They are trying to tear down the American Character, to destroy the people who declared Independence, crossed the Delaware, settled the West, and conquered the skies. But we will never let that happen.

Our American Ancestors did not shed their blood at Concord and Trenton, Gettysburg and Shiloh, Midway and Normandy, just so that a band of thieves and radicals could come in and loot and pillage the nation our heroes died to win, build, and save.

So on the eve of this 250th anniversary of American Liberty, we resolve and swear for all to hear that the Citizens of the United States of America will vanquish Communism from our shores, and send it into exile once and for all. America will never be a Communist country!

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction.

La déconstruction est le virus mental le plus efficace jamais conçu contre une civilisation. Il a été fabriqué en France entre 1966 et 1980 par trois hommes : Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Il a été exporté aux États-Unis, hybridé avec le puritanisme racial américain, et il est revenu trente ans plus tard sous le nom de wokisme paralyser l'Occident entier. Voici comment il fonctionne, et pourquoi il faut le détruire.

La thèse est simple. Toute vérité n'est qu'un rapport de pouvoir déguisé. Tout texte sacré, toute loi, toute science, toute norme, toute hiérarchie, toute identité, toute institution cache en réalité une domination. Déconstruire, c'est montrer le rapport de force sous le vernis du vrai. C'est arracher le masque. C'est "démasquer".

Formulé comme ça, ça paraît inoffensif. Voire utile. Qui n'aime pas un peu d'esprit critique ? Le piège est là. La déconstruction se présente comme une méthode. Elle est en réalité une ontologie. Elle ne dit pas seulement "interrogeons les normes", elle dit "il n'y a *que* des rapports de pouvoir". La différence est civilisationnelle.

Une société qui interroge ses normes reste debout. Une société qui croit que ses normes ne sont *rien d'autre* que de la domination s'effondre. Parce qu'elle ne peut plus rien défendre. Plus une frontière, plus une loi, plus une science, plus une langue, plus une histoire, plus une biologie, plus une famille. Tout devient suspect. Tout devient négociable. Tout devient "construit donc déconstructible".

C'est la première raison pour laquelle c'est un virus. Il s'auto-réplique. Une fois inoculé, il transforme tout ce qu'il touche en cible. La science est patriarcale, donc déconstruisons-la. Le langage est colonial, donc réinventons-le. La méritocratie est raciste, donc abolissons-la. Le sexe est une construction, donc choisissons-le. Il n'y a plus de roc. Tout est sable.

Deuxième raison. Le virus est *non-falsifiable*. Si vous défendez une norme, c'est que vous êtes l'oppresseur. Si vous niez être oppresseur, c'est la preuve de votre privilège inconscient. Si vous citez des faits, vos faits sont contaminés par le pouvoir qui les a produits. Si vous citez la raison, la raison elle-même est blanche, masculine, occidentale. Il n'y a aucune sortie possible. Le système est conçu pour rendre toute objection irrecevable par définition.

C'est exactement la structure d'une secte. Et c'est exactement ce qui s'est installé dans les universités, les RH, les médias, les administrations, les conseils d'administration depuis vingt ans.

Troisième raison. Le virus s'auto-réfute mais ne s'auto-détruit pas. Si toute vérité est pouvoir, alors la phrase "toute vérité est pouvoir" est elle-même du pouvoir, donc sans valeur. Logiquement, la déconstruction se mord la queue dès la première phrase. Mais elle s'en moque. Parce qu'elle n'a jamais cherché la cohérence. Elle cherche l'efficacité politique. Et son efficacité politique est immense. Elle désarme ses ennemis et arme ses militants. Elle paralyse le défenseur et libère l'attaquant. C'est une arme asymétrique parfaite.

Quatrième raison. Le virus produit des humains diminués. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Elle sait soupçonner, jamais admirer. Elle voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Elle peut produire mille pages sur le caractère opprimant de Shakespeare et zéro ligne qui vaille la peine d'être lue dans cent ans. Elle a confondu l'intelligence critique avec la pose critique. Elle est stérile par construction. Un esprit nourri à la déconstruction est un esprit qui ne sait plus rien édifier.

Cinquième raison, la plus grave. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers. La croyance qu'une vérité est accessible à la raison. La croyance qu'un bien se distingue d'un mal. La croyance qu'un héritage mérite d'être transmis. La déconstruction a méthodiquement dynamité les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui avait nourri ses prophètes. Mais le résultat est là. Une civilisation qui ne croit plus en sa vérité, ni en son bien, ni en son héritage ne se défend pas. Elle s'excuse en attendant la fin.

Voilà ce qu'on a fait. Voilà ce qu'il faut nommer.

La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un virus mental ne survit que tant qu'on lui cède l'autorité du discours. Il meurt dès qu'on cesse de jouer son jeu. Dès qu'on réaffirme tranquillement qu'il existe une vérité, un beau, un bien, un héritage. Dès qu'on cesse de demander la permission aux déconstructeurs pour bâtir. Dès qu'on refait. Dès qu'on transmet. Dès qu'on crée.

Les bâtisseurs ont toujours le dernier mot sur les commentateurs. Toujours. Parce qu'à la fin il reste ce qui est construit, et rien de ce qui a été déconstruit.

Alors aujourd'hui je déconstruis la déconstruction. Et demain je construis.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

This is a great speech. Worth watching the whole thing.

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

Hard not to see this in the U.S. right now.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

"The central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the Shire") and the appalling destiny to which some of them are called, the terrifying discovery that the humdrum happiness of the Shire, which they had taken for granted as something normal, is in reality a sort of local and temporary accident, that its existence depends on being protected by powers which Hobbits forget, against powers which Hobbits dare not imagine."

-CS Lewis, close friend of JRR Tolkien

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

Beyond Greenland, keep a close eye on the Panama Canal in 2026.

[Ryan McEntush @rmcentush]

I think a lot of discussion about recent US foreign policy misses the frightening, underlying premise. In Washington, there’s a growing belief that most allies are no longer capable of meeting hard security requirements in an era of renewed great-power competition. And that we must act fast to fix that.

The United States appears to have decided that it will no longer outsource core elements of its security. That doesn’t mean alliances don’t matter, but they are no longer treated as substitutes for actual control. For systems tied directly to homeland defense — missile warning, space, cyber, subs, nuclear — the US insists on direct command. And regionally, very few countries are viewed as up to their standards.

Seen through that lens, policies that are portrayed as erratic look more coherent. Venezuela mattered because it was becoming a permissive platform for Iran, Russia, and China in the US near abroad. Greenland matters because it is weak, strategically vital, and increasingly exposed, while Denmark/NATO are trusted politically but not seen as operationally sufficient to secure it alone. This is not a vote of no confidence in allies’ intentions, but in their ability.

Israel stands out as the rare case where the US appears to view an ally as competent and capable of directing its own regional security — watch Iran here. A second-tier of new "trusted" allies might include Japan and Poland, but it's not clear.

What has me worried is that DC is clearly spooked and views their current global position as inadequate. Rhetoric is now action. The objective now appears to be hardening positions before a much bigger conflict, rather than rely on collective action in a crisis.

Framing recent moves in terms of resources or ideology feel like it gets the causality backwards. Those considerations matter, but they are downstream of a more basic and terrifying conclusion — in an increasingly unstable world, the US believes only a handful of actors are capable of bearing real security burdens, and it intends to retain control accordingly.

Actions viewed as preemptive today likely only signal the beginning of a much longer era of instability. The board is being set. I hope I'm wrong.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

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"Facts and data are wonderful things, but courage and conviction are more important still."

https://t.co/reE1LcgSVw

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

reminds me of this quote by St. Augustine

“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

First of many Buckeye victories over Michigan

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

there are essays, and then there are "violently shift your entire perception of reality" essays

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient. A society only stays strong if its men take risks and live with purpose. Charlie Kirk did just that, and inspired an entire generation of young men to do the same.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

Chills.

JD VANCE: "It is better to die a young man in this world than to sell your soul for an easy life with no purpose, no risk, no love and no TRUTH."

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” — Ronald Reagan

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

So many people, diametrically opposed to everything devout Catholics like Tolkien stood for, nonetheless proclaim that modern defense tech chuds are illiterates who don't understand his works.

"Almost the central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the Shire") and the appalling destiny to which some of them are called, the terrifying discovery that the humdrum happiness of the Shire, which they had taken for granted as something normal, is in reality a sort of local and temporary accident, that its existence depends on being protected by powers which Hobbits forget, against powers which Hobbits dare not imagine" -CS Lewis, close friend of JRR Tolkien

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

Institutional care needs brought back. It’s been a largely unspoken reality for a few years now — glad to hear @VivekGRamaswamy is saying it publicly. Needed conversation in Ohio.

[George @BehizyTweets]

HOLY MOLY! Vivek just said he wants to bring back insane asylums to Ohio as governor.

"We are going to bring back the psychiatric institutions that were wrongfully shuttered. This is a touchy subject, but I'm going to go there. I'm going to go there because it's the right place to go."

"Our jails can no longer be the first line of psychiatric care in this state. That is not compassion. That is cruelty to everyone involved. And we're going to put an end to it."

[Shane Schaetzel †☧ @ShaneSchaetzel]

I’ve been Catholic a hell of a lot longer than J.D. Vance, and I feel the same way. Individual bishops need to do some soul searching on this one. The USCCB has led them astray. Helping the foreigners doesn’t mean helping them break the law. And taking money from the feds doesn’t mean you’re doing “God’s work.” The bishops have to think about the Americans in their flock too — literally the backbone of their dioceses. Illegal migrants take jobs, stress infrastructure, and bankrupt cities. We haven’t even touched the issue of crime yet. How are bishops supposedly doing “God’s work” by helping the feds screw American citizens? Is that God’s work? Or is that the work of bishops padding their coffers? The page has turned on this sad chapter in American history. The Catholic bishops in America would do well getting the hint and turning the page too.

[Ohio Republican Party @ohiogop]

Legendary Republican legislator @CincySeitz Bill Seitz is retiring after a long career of public service. His former aides pulled together an epic party to celebrate his career and work in Ohio. The Ohio GOP congratulates Rep. Bill Seitz on his retirement!

[Jon Fausey @jpfausey]

Tell me you’ve never been to rural America without telling me you’ve never been to rural America.

[Steve Mouzon @stevemouzon]

A French farming village surrounded by farmland, with nobody more than a couple blocks from long views into the countryside. An allee of trees welcoming you to town, the nearby expressway skirting by, leaving the village unmolested. What needs to change to do this in the US?

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

We are living in a baby-led world, and babies know nothing. It’s time for the adults to grow up https://t.co/FTwqkpYZnR