This is the speech Europe needed to hear. It was also the speech Rubio needed to give.
Good parents see their children grow up and assert their individuality and willingness to take on responsibility and support them. They are proud to watch them graduate into responsible… https://t.co/BHhSQYvBdM
This is the speech Europe needed to hear. It was also the speech Rubio needed to give.
Good parents see their children grow up and assert their individuality and willingness to take on responsibility and support them. They are proud to watch them graduate into responsible adults.
Abusive and narcissistic parents get angry and try to drag the child back into their decaying orbit, complaining that your gain is their pain.
There is no we here, only them. Rubio's speech was crystal clear.
And this will be the last time the Trump Administration makes this offer to Europe to stop trying to drag us down with them . . . and for them.
Join us into the next age, or wallow in your comfortable misery. That's Europe's choice. We didn't make it for them.
For five centuries before the end of the second World War, the West had been expanding. It's missionaries, it's pilgrims, it's soldiers, it's 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, 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 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 choice that 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. With you. 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 interests 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 I'm malaise of hopelessness and complacency. The alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed to inaction by fear, fear of climate change, fear of war, fear of 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 nation's 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, or 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 not 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 together, is something that is unique and distinctive and irreplaceable because this, after all, is the very foundation of the transatlantic bond.
Here is the full 30 minute speech along with transcript. I like how the US State Department delivers on this.
U.S. officials will now scrutinize policies in Western nations that give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses or that create two-tiered systems that prioritize migrants at the expense of their own citizens.
on Canada, 51st State, and the Hot Mic Moment
HERRIDGE: “In a hot mike moment, Canada’s prime minister said that absorbing Canada “is a real thing.” Is it a real thing?”
SECRETARY RUBIO: “Yeah, look, you know how that came about? President’s meeting with Trudeau and Trudeau says, well, if you impose – if you even out our trade relationship, then we will cease to exist as a country, at which point the President responded very logically, and that is, well, if you can’t exist without cheating in trade, then you should become a state. That was his observation there.”
QUESTION: “That’s how it started?”
President Trump on the Panama Canal: “They’ve violated the agreement — and we’re going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.” pic.twitter.com/saSGLrEus5
BREAKING: Marco Rubio has presented an ultimatum to the President of Panama regarding the Panama canal, per Axios: "Absent immediate changes regarding Chinese influence, the US will take measures necessary to protect its rights under the Treaty"
He's also a board member on the CIA wing of the GOP. Our famous notorious International Republican Institute, IRI, the political the main conduit, the political back channel between the Republican Party and the Central Intelligence Agency. That's what the IRI is, started in 1983 by the newly formed National Endowment for Democracy, which was created under Ronald Reagan at the request of his CIA Director William Casey to be able to win back the powers the CIA lost under Jimmy Carter and the 1975-1976 Church Committee hearings, the 1977 Halloween Massacre, and the massive budgets to the CIA by saying "We're not going to have the CIA do this anymore. We are going to create a National Endowment for Democracy, which will be fully funded by the State Department, and it will be backchanneled by the CIA, and it will do under the banner of Democracy what the CIA used to do under the banner of spycraft. And they created two of their four cores for political liaisoning to make sure that both sides of the political aisle supported the CIA's activities. On the Democrat side, it was called the National Democratic Institute, NDI, run by the former Democrat, Secretary of State, Madelaine Albright. On the Republican side, it's called the International Republican Institute, the IRI, one of the single worst institutions in the world that is together with the NDI jointly responsible for most internet censorship. They're the ones who created Brazil's censorship state. They're the ones who've lobbied the EU for the EU censorship laws. They're the ones in a significant part responsible for the Australia misinformation lobbying voted on this year. Bad, bad hombres. CIA information control, Cold War style. But the enemy is not Communism, it's populism; it's us. But I guess you don't really get to be Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, overseeing the CIA unless you are in the CIA by way of the IRI.
03:16. So it all makes sense. Not only is he chairman, he's the head of the Republican of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He's also on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee overseeing the State Department. So Marco Rubio simultaneously oversees, from the Senate, both the CIA and the State Department. Qualified indeed I suppose. If you're crazy enough to put him in there. It's the complete opposite of Peter Hegseth, right? Like this guy is overseeing the CIA and the State Department directly in their little Gang of Eight, having to sign off on every major operation at a classified level. Total Insider. Look at this. Not only is Rubio a member of the IRI, but this year, five months ago, the IRI gave him a formal award called The IRI Freedom Award. He gave a 20-minute speech accepting the CIA's award. Make no mistake about this, the IRA is the CIA. It was created by the CIA to offload the cia's Dirty Work and 5 months ago he was almost our president. Rubio spoke in May 2024 at the John McCain Freedom Awards. Well that's who founded the iri and this is not ancient history it's not 20th century Cold War stuff this is 5 months ago. Do I ever lead you astray?
Every year, IRI presents its Freedom Award to individuals who have demonstrated leadership in advancing the cause of democracy around the world.
05:46. Not only is Rubio a long-time oversight of the CIA and State Department from the Senate side, he's also just this year, the year of the election, the year that he's under consideration to leave the State Department, so in the good graces of the CIA, that he's singled out to be given their annual award in the name of their founder, John "the Snake" McCain, the guy who snaked Donald Trump from every conceivable angle, Ace Ventura style, hit him with the dart. Three darts is too much. The IRI by the way is so twisted in the censorship space, it's freaking crazy. I'll just show you without going into my freaking archives and notes
