From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:48:59 -0800, dart200   
    wrote:   
      
   >i've been listening to the speech and my god he's so boring   
   >   
   >i know he's not a boomer, but he's definitely spouting boomer grade drivel   
      
   How quickly they forget.   
      
   >   
   >i'm not surprised u like it julian   
   >   
   >On 2/14/26 3:18 AM, Julian wrote:   
   >> ...and we should take heed. It was a love letter to Europe on   
   >> Valentine's Day   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The Secretary of State gave the most important speech on Western   
   >> civilisation in a generation. He got a standing ovation. He meant every   
   >> word. And Europe needs to hear it. We should want our interdependence,   
   >> we should want our alliance, we should defend our civilization. Together.   
   >>   
   >> Marco Rubio walked into the Munich Security Conference this morning and   
   >> did something nobody in that room expected. He made them proud to be   
   >> Western again.   
   >>   
   >> The same conference that last year sat in stunned silence as JD Vance   
   >> tore strips off European leaders — attacking their immigration policies,   
   >> their speech laws, their basic seriousness as allies — rose to its feet   
   >> for the Secretary of State. Not because he was soft. Because he was   
   >> better. The substance was harder than Vance, but the architecture was   
   >> masterful. Where Vance gave Europe a grievance to hide behind, Rubio   
   >> took it away.   
   >>   
   >> And in doing so, he reimagined what the West could be...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/rubio-reimagined-the-west-at-munich   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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