Americans long ago abandoned demanding any kind of intellectual heft from our elected officials in Washington, D.C. Not that everyone we've ever sent to Congress or the White House was brilliant, mind you, but the bar for intelligence keeps getting lowered every year. Few have taken more advantage of this sad fact than America's Dumbest Bartender — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. AOC is now in her fourth term in the House of Representatives, having built a political career on saying dumb things to even dumber constituents and mugging for the camera a lot.
It's easy approaching the topic of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez from the right side of the aisle — we can just say, "Wow, she's not very bright." Over on the left, they are all obligated to tiptoe around the fact that AOC is a paste-eater. That goes triple or quadruple for the Dem lapdogs in the mainstream media, as they are tasked with maintaining fictional narratives, like ones that say that AOC brings a lot of brainpower and gravitas to the table.
AOC's full-on failure on the world stage in Munich last week has been well chronicled by me and my colleagues. It was, by any objective measure, an unmitigated disaster. As we are all painfully aware, objectivity plays a very minor roll in everything that goes on in the mainstream media. That's why The Washington Post was able to publish an Op-Ed with the headline, "Rubio and Ocasio-Cortez just made cases to Europe. Only one is right."
The piece does come to the correct conclusion that Rubio had the better vision; what's telling is the way it was presented.
Secretary Rubio's speech to the Munich Security Conference was powerful, deep, and full of hard truths that the various Eurotrash in attendance needed to hear. AOC's was boilerplate proggie nonsense that her handlers were no doubt workshopping for future campaign stump speeches. Yes, Democrats do that kind of thing in Europe because, deep down, they know that they don't connect with regular American people very well.
Forget the content of her speech. The mere fact that Squeaky thought she was clever when she made her two biggest faux pas should disqualify her from any serious conversation about potential American leaders. If a Republican had said even one of those things, you'd still be reading about it on St. Patrick's Day.
There are a couple of reasons explaining why WaPo couldn't simply publish an article about Rubio's speech. The first, of course, being that they can't openly (in a headline) write anything positive about those in the inner circle of ORANGE MAN BAD. The second is that they have to continue to prop up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because Democratic voters are plenty stupid enough to nominate her to run for president in a couple of years. This was an opportunity for them to pretend that her prowess in international affairs is on a par with Marco Rubio's.
Spoiler: it...oh, you know.
I am fond of saying that the Democrats are not a serious political party. The fact that AOC is one of the party's most prominent — i.e., loudest — voices really proves my point.
This is also indicative of why The Washington Post is struggling so much. Owner Jeff Bezos says he wants the organization to be more centrist, yet the hackery persists. The people who are leaving WaPo in a huff are upset that there isn't even more hackery. If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets withing striking distance of the 2028 Democratic nomination, I have no doubt that WaPo will revert to Biden era form.
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