Lefties Losing It: AOC melts down after Marco Rubio got a standing ovation

And it's time for Lefties Losing It. Let's start with some happy news. CNN has lost nearly two thirds of its viewers since 2016 amid growing fears the network is circling the drain. What a happy headline that is. But I can't imagine why CNN is struggling.

After all, they have a token conservative now. It's Scott Jennings is on the network. Here are five lefties including the host just yelling at him for existing. I can't understand why that's not rating it's hugely entertaining. Let's have an example of the balance that CNN is famous for from Abby Phillip. Let's see Abby's always consistent analysis when Ilhan Omar was sprayed with salad dressing compared to when President Trump was shot by a deranged lefty.

Ilhan Omar in particular has been the center, you heard it there from the president, the center of a lot of awful attacks. He called her garbage. Donald Trump is actually responsible for the vitriol. So is there going to be any acknowledgement of that? Should there be?

It's not about the politics of the individual. I mean, look at these people. The thing that they have in common is their complete lack of mental stability. Why is that not the conversation? Why are we in this place of who's to blame? Is it the Democrats or the Republicans?

The Republicans aren't trying to assassinate the Democrats. And a lot of talk of they. And then when it's not a they, it's just a person.

It's an individual. Let's hear now from trans activist, Lily Tino Contino, who has gone from being passive aggressive to aggressive aggressive. Fresh from being investigated by authorities for filming real women in female restrooms in Disney, Contino is claiming that if you're guilty

of the crime of misgendering, then there will be a confrontation. Oh yes, the dudes are losing it.

Because if we meet and you call me by the wrong pronouns, it's gonna be a confrontation. And I don't think you want that. I think you just wanna go about your day. I wanna go about my day. I don't wanna have to be upset about getting misgendered.

And I know you don't want to purposefully upset people. And if you do want to purposefully upset people, then you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, why? Why am I like this? Why do I want to make people's lives harder? Why don't I want to lift up my fellow human?

You see, it's not about making lives harder. It's about not submitting to bullying or indulging in the delusions of confused folk, even if those confused folk are threatening confrontation or violence. Now to Munich, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an exceptional speech, genuinely profound,

but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, well, she wasn't impressed. Was a pure appeal to Western culture. My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came

from Spain.

I thought they came from Winnetou, but.

I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African enslaved peoples would like to have a word on that.

Actually it did originate in Spain and AOC might also want to reflect on why Mexicans speak Spanish. How did that happen? Let's hear more from AOC. Here she talks about culture and Western civilisation. A fluid evolving thing that is a response to the conditions that we live in. And so they want to take this mantle of culture, at the end of the day though is, you know,

it is very thin.

The values that underpin Western civilisation, Western culture are very thin. The values that underpin Western civilization, Western culture are very thin. She's a Marxist and not a particularly bright one or an eloquent one. Listen here as AOC struggles to answer the most obvious of questions about Taiwan. This is painful. Would and should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if

China were to move? You know I think that this is such a you know I think that this is a this is of course a very long-standing policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.

Oh dear, they're not sending their best, are they? But it gets worse. Also on that panel was the Democrat governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer. Listen to how she flounders trying to answer a question about Ukraine and she even says that AOC is much better

equipped to talk about geopolitics. The AOC we just heard, really?

Goodness.

On Ukraine, what does victory look like?

Ambassador? Oh, please, I'd love to hear your answer. goodness On Ukraine, what does victory look like? It is the to the to that I am on the panel with are much more steeped in foreign policy than as then a governor is but You know, I do think that Ukraine's independence keeping their their landmass and having the support of all the allies, I think is the goal, from my vantage point.

Now compare the Democrats' contribution at the Munich Security Conference to this blistering address from the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who spelt out to America's European allies that the Trump administration has no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline. This is brilliant, listen to every word.

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 rationalise the broken status quo rather than reckon with what is necessary to fix it. For we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West's managed decline.

And Marco Rubio made it clear that the US alliance with Europe must be built on strength and the values of Western civilisation. I'm warning you, you may need a cold shower or a cigarette after hearing this.

We do not seek to separate, but to revitalise an old friendship and renew the greatest civilisation in human history. What we want is a reinvigorated alliance that recognises that what has ailed our societies is not just a set of bad policies, but a malaise of hopelessness and complacency. An alliance that we want is one that is not paralyzed into 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 nations prouder, stronger, and wealthier for our children. An alliance ready to defend our people, to safeguard our, 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. Joining me now is Newsweek senior editor Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer. Josh, the Secretary of State received a standing ovation after that speech. That is something to behold from the European political class. And that speech was profound, every single word.

Rita, it's a defining speech for Mark Rubio. He has already been a historic Secretary of State. He's the first man since Henry Kissinger to serve in the dual capacity as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. He has arguably been Donald Trump's

number one foreign policy advisor when it comes to a lot of Donald Trump's louder, bolder moves on the world stage. Things like the operation in Iran in last June, things like the Nicolas Maduro extraction in Venezuela just about a month and a half ago there.

And now he is coming to this venue deep in the heart of Europe and he's giving an absolute barn burner of a half hour speech. For frankly, as someone who follows Mark Rubio pretty closely, I think back to a speech that he also gave in Jerusalem, a much shorter speech.

He gave about a six to seven, I made a 10 minute speech in Jerusalem back in September to commemorate the opening of this new archeological excavation there in the city of David. And he spoke very similarly about how the origins of Western civilization

were laid here in these stones here in Jerusalem. And I kind of heard those overtones there with his reminder to the European powers, or at least the European former powers, that they have a rich heritage and a rich civilizational history. And he's basically saying, we don't wanna divorce you. We're actually quite happy historically

with being your partners when it comes to NATO, when it comes to the mutual threat of the Soviet Union, the Cold War there. But guess what? The calendar is now 2026, and there are a lot of different threats on the world stage. There is the harrowing rise of communist China.

There was the rise of Islamism there. And if Europe wants to remain relevant, they have to recover what they once were. They're not doing a very good job of that, are we, there? So it was a very solemn warning to the European elites. The fact that it frankly was received

with no shortage of applause, as you correctly mentioned, Rita, shows that perhaps, perhaps there is more of an appetite than some of us give them credit for, for actually listening to this message. The proof ultimately, of course, will be in the pudding on that.

It will. I think it's a very fractured Europe right now. You've got countries that have heard that warning, that have turned to the center right, from Italy to Finland and you've got other countries that are just further doubling down on that leftist mentality, that neo-Marxist

ideology. Now, I want to play you, Marco Rubio, here, warning Western allies about outsourcing their power to systems beyond their control. This sounds like a rejection of globalization. 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.

Josh, he rejected the notion there that all cultures are equal, something that AOC was very aggrieved about when she spoke later. He unequivocally stated in that speech the value of Western civilization. You either protect it and advance it or you destroy it from within, Josh.

Look, Rita, Marco Rubio is a nationalist. He is not a globalist. He is not a transnationalist. He is an American nationalist. His views when it comes to all sorts of issues have taken a markedly national direction.

They have been, they've been really trending that way for many, many years now. I actually remember back in 2019, again, I follow Mark Rubin pretty closely, especially as a Floridian by choice, he gave a speech at the Catholic University of America,

I believe it was in 2019, articulating his theory of economics, which he referred to as common good capitalism, which is kind of a more nationalist, less laissez-faire absolutist approach to economics there. That calls for reshoring supply chains, things like trying to produce more manufacturing

at home. Basically a rejection back then in economics when it comes to the siren song of globalism there. Globalism certainly has had its benefits when it comes to economics, lower prices, free trades that are there. But the point that Rubio is making correctly

is that it's come at a pretty steep cost as well. And now here in Munich, he's doing a very similar thing when it comes not just to economics, but also when it comes to culture. He is correctly saying that not all cultures are equal. In fact, some cultures, I would argue,

I think probably Rubio would too, are objectively better than others in pretty much every demonstrable empirical way possible when it comes to standards of living, when it comes to GDP, when it comes to material wealth, when it comes to subjective indications of personal happiness there.

And this is the modern Republican Party, Rita. This is the Republican Party of the 2020s. It's not George W. Bush's Republican Party. Back in his second inaugural address in January, 2005, Bush famously spoke of the freedom agenda and how it was America's role to forcibly export

its idiosyncratic version of Western liberalism to all places of the world there. He basically said that the Taliban just wants this Jeffersonian, Lockean liberalism. And here's Marco Rubio 20 years later, basically saying, actually, no, that's not the case. There are some cultures that don't want what we want there

and ultimately it's up to America to protect her interests and then to ally with like-minded countries to better secure, protect their own regions there. That's in theory where Europe comes in. Again, the relevant part here is in theory.

Very similar tones to JD Vance's speech in Europe last year and that was seen as groundbreaking by many. and that was seen as groundbreaking by many. Now, talking about