From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:04:02 -0800, dart200   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/16/26 7:43 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> 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 guess one could say he's playing his craft well:   
   >   
   >most of the room is boomers ...   
   >   
   >but i think he actually believes some of it too   
      
   It is hard to know what he really believes.   
      
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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   
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