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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:14 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


If America is so horrible, why do these Eurotards always want to come here?

https://www.dw.com/en/us-bans-ex-eu-commissioner-others-over-social-me
dia-rules/a-75291190


Autopen won Election 2020?
Covid really was caused by a pangualin sexing a unicorn?
There really are 1300 genders?
Global Climate Warming Change is really caused by cows farting, not that big orange blob in the sky. Despite temperature fluctuations directly following and mirroring energy output of Sol.
The border is secure. The border is secure.
Criminal Illegal Alien Invaders are not committing crimes.

Might want to rethink that strategy.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:34 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Well, that seems quite annoying. The page I was trying to post in kept saying unknown error.

In fact, a plague of unknown errors here tonight.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:36 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Well, that seems quite annoying. The page I was trying to post in kept saying unknown error.

In fact, a plague of unknown errors here tonight.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 10:28 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If America is so horrible, why do these Eurotards always want to come here?

https://www.dw.com/en/us-bans-ex-eu-commissioner-others-over-social-me
dia-rules/a-75291190


Autopen won Election 2020?
Covid really was caused by a pangualin sexing a unicorn?
There really are 1300 genders?

Might want to rethink that strategy.

In case you are curious about what JeweStaiteFan and Trump are bitching and moaning about:

The US State Department on Tuesday said it would deny visas to former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton and four others in protest of European regulation of social media.

The measure comes amid increasing tensions between the US and Europe, with President Donald Trump's administration accusing Brussels of cracking down on freedoms.

Besides Breton, the US visa ban targets:

Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German NGO HateAid

Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the US-based Center for Countering Digital Hate

Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI)

Why is the US denying their visas?

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the five people targeted with visa bans "have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize and suppress American viewpoints they oppose."

He did not initially name those facing the visa ban, but Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers later identified them in a post on social media.

Rogers described Breton as the "mastermind" of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes content moderation and other standards on major social media platforms operating in Europe.

The State Department said HateAid functions as a trusted flagger for enforcing the DSA.

What was the reaction?

Breton decried the ban as a "witch hunt."

"To our American friends: Censorship isn't where you think it is," he wrote in a post on X.

The GDI called the US action "immoral, unlawful, and un-American" and "an authoritarian attack on free speech and an egregious act of government censorship."

The European Commission said it had requested clarifications from Washington on the ban.

"If needed, we will respond swiftly and decisively to defend our regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures," the EU Commission said. "Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies, applied fairly and without discrimination."

The French government also condemned the move.

"France strongly condemns the visa restriction imposed by the United States on Thierry Breton, former minister and European Commissioner, and four other European figures," French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot posted on X.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 11:13 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Sloppyseconds confuses celebration for "bitching and moaning"


Since Ministers of Gaslighting are the subjects of this thread, we might assume gaslighting will occur here.
Numerous Fake News reports are describing the disinformation of these hypocrites as "fighting disinformation"

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 1:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Sloppyseconds confuses celebration for "bitching and moaning"





Yes he does.


Quote:

Since Ministers of Gaslighting are the subjects of this thread, we might assume gaslighting will occur here.
Numerous Fake News reports are describing the disinformation of these hypocrites as "fighting disinformation"



Second is completely retarded and has no idea how many European citizens have been arrested for wrongthink on the internet about the illegal alien invaders who nobody voted they wanted in their countries, by the unelected heads of the EU that are destroying Europe and turning it all Muslim.

We're taking it all back, despite their best efforts.

The EU has never been weaker, and neither has the Democratic Party here.



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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 2:01 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


posting the same shit 14 times

You having trouble getting past your TelAviv Jerusalem firewall or something? or you go over and wail at the demonic chicken ritual crubaby Wall with that stupid domed Mosque inside

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:14 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Again, why do they insist on trying to come here, when Facts and Truth are not properly censored?

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Wednesday, December 24, 2025 5:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Again, why do they insist on trying to come here, when Facts and Truth are not properly censored?



Because they love being miserable and their only purpose in life is to try to make other people as miserable as they are. Plain and simple.

It's getting a little harder for them to do these days though, isn't it?



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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
posting the same shit 14 times

You having trouble getting past your TelAviv Jerusalem firewall or something? or you go over and wail at the demonic chicken ritual crubaby Wall with that stupid domed Mosque inside




That is pretty good. I got a laugh out of it.

JSF says all the right words and even knows what a Bubbler is with his Wisconsin story.

But he's still never explained why he can't afford and/or just get internet at home, and what 24/7 library he's posting from when he makes his 3AM posts here.


I've stopped asking about it. Part of me just considers him another government agent among the rest of you that have been studying this site and are now studying just me... and perhaps one or two others like me here that aren't in in the joke. Why not have one who lived near where I do who doesn't question why I call Pop "Soda" even though I moved back to where people say Pop again well over a decade ago now?





That post flurry out of him isn't his fault though if he's never done that before. I learned my lesson and don't bother posting a new thread or a post in a thread if it pops up an error on my side until I've verified in another tab whether or not it already took. More often than not, it did, and if I posted it again there was a dupe made.

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Thursday, December 25, 2025 1:01 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Again, why do they insist on trying to come here, when Facts and Truth are not properly censored?

Because they love being miserable and their only purpose in life is to try to make other people as miserable as they are. Plain and simple.

It's getting a little harder for them to do these days though, isn't it?

Trump is making strides. I dare say no other President would hold them accountable, introduce them to consequences, adhere to more than lip service, a strongly worded letter.

Another cause to celebrate Trump. I wonder how much this has to do with entering 2026, which will celebrate our 250th year of Independence.
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That post flurry out of him isn't his fault though if he's never done that before. I learned my lesson and don't bother posting a new thread or a post in a thread if it pops up an error on my side until I've verified in another tab whether or not it already took. More often than not, it did, and if I posted it again there was a dupe made.

More times than not with this site, that occurrence results in my entire post vanishing, diametrically relating to how much time I spent creating the post. Making it unrecoverable. Any finicky detours will give it catalyst to vanish.
Which is why I frequently resort to post small bits at a time, then editing to add to my full intended post.
This time, I seemed to be able to retain the post. But other windows, pages, tabs on this device could not display anything on this site - like fff.net was suddenly down. In which case the post will be erased, unless the commands can be entered before the site completes it's breakdown.
It was only after numerous attempts on a completely separate device that the posts displayed, after some sequence of poking around.
Even the reply I posted would not display on any device, in any window. Even when it double posted the reply it had a time gap of 2-3 minutes without being able to see it took, and that 2nd one had at least a 3 minute delay after the effective command. It took a half hour before I could see that the 3rd post in this thread was from me. Until then, I couldn't knows if somebody else had replied to me.
all other web pages on all my devices(with different connections, hubs, servers) worked without problem or delay, so it was only with this site.

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Thursday, December 25, 2025 1:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I'd love to give you some advice, but your entire living/internet situation makes zero sense at all to me and though I have no doubts you understand at least the basics of computers and networking, I feel like whatever you're doing right now is severely over-engineering your network solution in 2025 when everything is plug and play and unless you're heavily guarding yourself security-wise, it all practically runs itself without any need for end-user interaction at all.

Are you living almost completely off-grid now? Or... You wouldn't happen to be in prison maybe?

I just thought of that right now, and I'm really wondering about the possibility that you've been posting here from prison for a few years now.

It would certainly explain a lot that I thought was inexplicable otherwise.

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Thursday, December 25, 2025 2:14 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'd love to give you some advice, but your entire living/internet situation makes zero sense at all to me and though I have no doubts you understand at least the basics of computers and networking, I feel like whatever you're doing right now is severely over-engineering your network solution in 2025 when everything is plug and play and unless you're heavily guarding yourself security-wise, it all practically runs itself without any need for end-user interaction at all.

Are you living almost completely off-grid now? Or... You wouldn't happen to be in prison maybe?

I just thought of that right now, and I'm really wondering about the possibility that you've been posting here from prison for a few years now.

It would certainly explain a lot that I thought was inexplicable otherwise.

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A few years ago, library switched to chromebooks instead of real computers. They can be checked out like books, taken home. Don't need to wait for library to open.

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Thursday, December 25, 2025 2:33 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
If America is so horrible, why do these Eurotards always want to come here?

https://www.dw.com/en/us-bans-ex-eu-commissioner-others-over-social-me
dia-rules/a-75291190


Autopen won Election 2020?
Covid really was caused by a pangualin sexing a unicorn?
There really are 1300 genders?
Global Climate Warming Change is really caused by cows farting, not that big orange blob in the sky. Despite temperature fluctuations directly following and mirroring energy output of Sol.
The border is secure. The border is secure.
Criminal Illegal Alien Invaders are not committing crimes.

Might want to rethink that strategy.




https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-france-united-states-visa-ban-9.7
027301

"European citizens combating online hate and disinformation"


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/us-bans-visas-for-ex-eu-commissioner-o
ver-alleged-censorship.html

"and four anti-disinformation campaigners"


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-condemns-us-visa-ban-impos
ed-ex-eu-commissioner-breton-2025-12-24
/
"condemned U.S. visa bans on five Europeans combating online hate and disinformation"




Yep, no gaslighting by Fake News. Ministers of Disinformation, disseminating misinformation, are actually "fighting disinformation" by censoring Facts, Truth, or unapproved information, wrongthink.
Sure.

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Thursday, January 1, 2026 4:05 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Australia bans teens from social media. Exception: BlueSky.

https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/australia-bans-social-media-for-te
ens-except-the-hyper-leftist-blue-sky


The whole nation went thru months of ID "verifications" - soon they might confiscate bank accounts, ala Vietnam.
Maybe this should also be in the cyber cash digital threads.

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Monday, February 16, 2026 3:30 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN







Migration backlash:






I don'r know who these posters are, but they weave a good narrative. I had not heard all these details before.

Seems like Elon might be decapitating The Ministry if Truth.


I cannot find the 2nd video after that 1st clip.

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Monday, February 16, 2026 3:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Did you hear Rubio's speech?

I'm not easily impressed.

This impressed me.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 12:26 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Did you hear Rubio's speech?

I'm not easily impressed.

This impressed me.

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????

You are impressed by the clips I linked?

You are impressed with Elon's actions?

You are impressed with something Rubio said?


I have not heard Rubio on any of these subjects.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 3:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I don't watch clickbait. Anything with thumbnails with arrows pointing to nothing is an automatic hard-pass for me (look at every single video Ted posts... they all use it, and they all put those big bold fonts too).



I am impressed with Marco Rubio's entire speech while in Munich.

If you haven't watched it, you need to watch it.


The lying leftist globalist media hated it, but what they hated more and neglected to tell anyone was that he got a standing ovation for it too.

Democrat Cancer isn't the only thing that spreads.


I think there were a lot of people in that room that needed to hear that message, agree entirely with that message, and were just too cowardly to step out of line and be the one to deliver it themselves.

I'm not impressed very easily. This impressed me.

Rubio's speech was something that starts movements.

For the first time I'm not only hopeful that we can turn America around, but I'm also starting to feel a glimmer of hope that there's still time to save Europe from itself too.



ETA: Here you go...



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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 3:47 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


And regarding movements...

Watch just how that Standing Ovation began and ended. Watch it a few times if you need to.

I saw a TED talk on this very phenomenia, back when TED Talks weren't just liberal agenda slop. It was about starting movements, and how to start a movement. And specifically about how it isn't the first person who stands up that begins the movement, but really it's the 2nd person who does. That 2nd "aye" is the momentum builder. The one that "gives permission" to people who were too afraid to stand and catch a bullet to stand up along side of them.

Watch as only one person got up initially.

And then two.

And by the end, all but the most Leftist European/American hating Globalists were all standing and clapping. Among them the woman with the hadjib sitting next to a miserable looking white Karen, whispering to each other as they realize that the world they thought they were living in disappeared 15 months ago and is never coming back.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 10:06 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And regarding movements...

Watch just how that Standing Ovation began and ended. Watch it a few times if you need to.

I saw a TED talk on this very phenomenia, back when TED Talks weren't just liberal agenda slop. It was about starting movements, and how to start a movement. And specifically about how it isn't the first person who stands up that begins the movement, but really it's the 2nd person who does. That 2nd "aye" is the momentum builder. The one that "gives permission" to people who were too afraid to stand and catch a bullet to stand up along side of them.

Watch as only one person got up initially.

And then two.

And by the end, all but the most Leftist European/American hating Globalists were all standing and clapping. Among them the woman with the hadjib sitting next to a miserable looking white Karen, whispering to each other as they realize that the world they thought they were living in disappeared 15 months ago and is never coming back.

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The audience clapped before the speech. They clapped again because the speech was short. Read the speech:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference

Remarks

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

Hotel Bayerischer Hof

Munich, Germany

February 14, 2026

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/02/secr
etary-of-state-marco-rubio-at-the-munich-security-conference


Only a stupid audience would be impressed by this speech:
Quote:

At the time of that first gathering, Soviet communism was on the march. Thousands of years of Western civilization hung in the balance. At that time, victory was far from certain. But we were driven by a common purpose. We were unified not just by what we were fighting against; we were unified by what we were fighting for. And together, Europe and America prevailed and a continent was rebuilt. Our people prospered. In time, the East and West blocs were reunited. A civilization was once again made whole.

That infamous wall that had cleaved this nation into two came down, and with it an evil empire, and the East and West became one again. But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, “the end of history;” that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.

This was a foolish idea that ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history. And it has cost us dearly. In this delusion, we embraced a dogmatic vision of free and unfettered trade, even as some nations protected their economies and subsidized their companies to systematically undercut ours – shuttering our plants, resulting in large parts of our societies being deindustrialized, shipping millions of working and middle-class jobs overseas, and handing control of our critical supply chains to both adversaries and rivals.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 10:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


None of them were under any pressure to stand up when clapping, you little git.

25 minutes or so is hardly what anyone would call short, and it's certainly a lot more than whatever bullshit you just quoted that I didn't bother reading was.

Slate is left-wing trash.

You are left-wing trash.


Your time is finished.



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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 10:56 AM

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:13 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
None of them were under any pressure to stand up when clapping, you little git.

25 minutes or so is hardly what anyone would call short, and it's certainly a lot more than whatever bullshit you just quoted that I didn't bother reading was.

Slate is left-wing trash.

You are left-wing trash.


Your time is finished.

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Why not applaud the speech written to please the fat, dumb, white trash asshole in the White House? If the audience had booed Marco, Trump would have taken revenge in some way since he is that petty.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, February 17, 2026 2:39 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
None of them were under any pressure to stand up when clapping, you little git.

25 minutes or so is hardly what anyone would call short, and it's certainly a lot more than whatever bullshit you just quoted that I didn't bother reading was.

Slate is left-wing trash.

You are left-wing trash.


Your time is finished.

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Why not applaud the speech written to please the fat, dumb, white trash asshole in the White House? If the audience had booed Marco, Trump would have taken revenge in some way since he is that petty.



But the audience didn't boo Marco, you stupid bitch. They gave him a standing ovation.

The world you thought you were living in is dead.

And you're going to die with it because you're a braindead cult monkey.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 1:56 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

But the audience didn't boo Marco, you stupid bitch. They gave him a standing ovation.

The world you thought you were living in is dead.

And you're going to die with it because you're a braindead cult monkey.

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The crowd was charmed by Marco because he wasn't crude, a pleasant change from all other Trump spokesmen. But they were NOT applauding Trump's "I will never follow rules, treaties, or even the promises I made yesterday, and you can't make me. I approve of Marco's delivery of my message. That Cuban is a smooth talker. He already has 4 titles, including national security adviser and secretary of state. If he weren't an anchor baby born to illegal aliens, I'd give him more."

Marco Rubio’s Impressive Speech

The secretary of state sought not only to reassure but to rally Europeans.

By Eliot A. Cohen | Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET on February 17, 2026

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/marco-rubio-munich/686025/

As Cabinet members snarl at representatives and senators, and social media fills with semiliterate trolling and insults by public officials, we need to remember that rhetoric—the art of persuasive speech—still matters. Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, gave an excellent demonstration of that fact at this year’s Munich Security Conference.

Any contemporary speech carries the burden of multiple audiences. In this administration, the first and most important is the volatile and tempestuous president. But at Munich, there are other audiences as well: those in the room who represent not only a European but a global national-security elite; European and other politicians outside the room who care chiefly about domestic politics but are aware of international politics; real and potential enemies; and an American audience taking the measure of its country’s leaders.

Delivering speeches at Munich is a perilous business. In 2018, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster gave a podium-thumping address about nuclear proliferation and jihadists. A month later he was sacked; he’d received a tweeted dressing-down in midair on the way back for having acknowledged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Last year, J. D. Vance headed in the other direction—denouncing democratic decay in Europe while calling out errant allies by name. This undiplomatic tirade went over well in the White House, but marked him as a belligerent nativist abroad and something of an isolationist at home. The speech might have elevated his standing with MAGA world, but showed him to be out of the mainstream of American foreign-policy views as measured by consistent polling of what the American people want. Vance’s tone was loutish in the distinctive, and tiresome, Trump way.

Rubio’s lengthy speech this past weekend was very different. There was nothing in it to offend the president, who was referenced three times, enough to flatter but not so often as to seem to grovel. The phrase sigh of relief was used by Rubio’s European host after the speech, and he meant it: The secretary of state received a standing ovation at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof. The American political class, including those on the right, cheered as well. Fox News approvingly noted, “Rubio Fuels 2028 Speculation.”

This reception was not surprising. Rubio is not merely bright and well spoken but a far more experienced politician than anyone else in the Trump Cabinet: He spent eight years in the Florida House of Representatives, including two as the youngest speaker and the first Cuban American to hold that position; served three terms in the Senate with weighty experience on the Foreign Relations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence; and now holds the combined roles of national security adviser and secretary of state in the highly personalistic Trump White House.

At 55—older than he looks—Rubio is a politician in his prime. It is highly unlikely that his career is over. He has articulated high principles and shown the occasional streak of ruthlessness and expediency—the latter having landed him in the Cabinet of a man he once despised. In theory, he has indicated his intention to play second fiddle in a Vance administration, but the current vice president would be a fool to take that as the final word. If the slippery turns of politics leave Vance exposed or failing, Rubio will undoubtedly do to him what he did to his mentor Jeb Bush, shunting him to the side with brutal skill. He assuredly wants to be president and might very well end up there.

There is every reason, then, to take his speech seriously and examine it carefully. While keeping Trump onside, Rubio sought not only to reassure but to rally Europeans. Where Vance seems only to have desired to berate and insult, there was something more urgently coaxing in Rubio’s tone. He seems to understand that the United States needs allies, that NATO was and should remain a cornerstone of American foreign policy, and he probably knows as well that an alienated Europe is dangerous for the United States. He spoke of our “intertwined destiny” and asserted that “the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own.” In short, he reaffirmed the old saw that the only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them.

His description of the common bonds, however, was predominantly civilizational. He cited poets and authors rather than political thinkers: Shakespeare, Mozart, Michelangelo, and the Beatles got shout-outs, not Montesquieu or John Locke. God appeared once, Christianity twice, and cathedrals, but not the Mother of Parliaments in London.

He disparaged globalism and the “rules-based international order,” though not in nearly as simple-minded a fashion as Pete Hegseth or his subordinates, a dull array of bumpkin Metternichs. The main themes that Rubio hit were the profoundly damaging consequences of unfettered free trade and mass migration. In this, he addressed the justifiable anger that has fueled populism in the United States and abroad, and that even now baffles an uncomprehending wealthier class that does not feel, understand, or even particularly care about what its fellow citizens are experiencing.

Like Vance, Rubio named no foreign adversary—not Russia, China, Iran, or jihadist fanatics. This was partly out of deference to a president who thinks not of enemies but only of potential counterparties to be bargained with, bullied, swindled, or accommodated. And Rubio was evasive when asked about Moscow and Beijing in the brief question-and-answer session. But he also reflected an introversion in the West that can easily go too far.

Rubio’s critique of the rules-based international order echoed that of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Both accept the truth that such rules as have existed have resulted much more from American hard and soft power well exercised than from a Kantian consensus among right-thinking politicians. Far more troubling was Rubio’s substitution of the word civilization for values.

Rubio’s vaunting of America’s roots in Europe may not play well with the descendants of enslaved peoples, Native Americans, and Asian American immigrants. His celebration of Europe’s expansion—“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”—may seem rather one-sided to populations that felt the lash as much as or more than the benefits of colonial rule. And the invocation of Christian civilization leaves at best an uncomfortable marginality for atheists, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.” There was in Rubio’s speech, however, no “decent respect for the opinions of mankind,” no affirmation of innate human equality, no insistence on the fundamental natural rights of the individual, no reverence for God without proclaiming the preeminence of any sect. The Declaration mandates no particular American foreign policy, but the values the document embodies have always informed it, even as American statesmen have struggled to reconcile the country’s many mundane interests with the principles that gave it birth.

This was indeed a noteworthy divergence. It may represent Rubio’s actual views, or alternatively, his adroit maneuvering within an ideologically constrained political space. The son of Cuban immigrants must have within him something that echoes Lincoln’s faith and that of the Founders—at least so one hopes. Whichever it is, his speech outlined a path for American foreign policy that may wander from older verities yet prove far more acceptable to America’s allies, and far more constructive, than that of the first year of an administration so shamefully out of the American norm.

This article has been updated to reflect that Marco Rubio’s parents were not refugees from Fidel Castro’s Cuba, but immigrants from Cuba who first arrived before Castro came to power.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 4:34 PM

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Nobody wants to hear The Atlantic's opinion, dude.

They're just as finished as you are.

You're done, buddy.

You still don't even understand what's going to happen to you in June on top of everything else. Because you are a very stupid person.

You will though. Because it will be as undeniable as it is inescapable for you.

The truth is coming. Like a train going full speed down the tracks. And you're about to get your stupid ass run over because you refuse to get off the tracks.

There ain't no Trolley Problem when the people on one side are all suicidal. No matter how many of them are standing there.





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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 4:40 PM

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This article has been updated to reflect that Marco Rubio’s parents were not refugees from Fidel Castro’s Cuba, but immigrants from Cuba who first arrived before Castro came to power.




Fucking idiots. Just write whatever they fucking feel like making up until somebody calls them on their bullshit. 18 paragraphs full of words that say nothing, and they can't even get the facts straight.



"You used to have to have facts before you said stuff." ~Whoopi Goldberg on The View

Indeed you did, Whoopi.

Indeed you did.





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