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DAVID MARCUS: Democrats' Munich meltdown exposes left's intellectual void
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Posted on 02/14/2026 6:40:36 PM PST by bryan999

When I was growing up in the 1980s, there was a galaxy of left-wing, even socialist, intellectual stars such as Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal whose works were like an inkwell that politicians and commentators could draw from. Judging from the Munich Security Conference this weekend, that inkwell has run dry.

Take this gem of a comment on global order from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, queen of the democratic socialists: "What we are seeking is a return to a rules-based order that eliminates the hypocrisies around when too often in the West we look the other way for inconvenient populations, to act out these paradoxes."

Allow me to translate this into English: "The West is bad and mistreats the marginalized rest of the world."

The use of 25-cent words and highfalutin sentence structure cannot hide the banality of what AOC is saying. Not even the assuring allure of assonance would help, given the asinine simplicity of her word salad.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conference; europe; eurotrash; eurotwits; euroweenies; munich
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1 posted on 02/14/2026 6:40:36 PM PST by bryan999
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Maybe its just that AOC hired Kamala Harris as her speech writer.


2 posted on 02/14/2026 6:43:18 PM PST by Stosh
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They don’t even seem to have Maureen Dowd to quote from anymore, is she still around?


3 posted on 02/14/2026 6:46:38 PM PST by sopo
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AOC the Queen of Cringe


4 posted on 02/14/2026 6:51:11 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: bryan999
intellectual stars such as Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal whose works were like an inkwell that politicians and commentators could draw from.

So the author chose an Epstein-Island Pedo, a neo-marxist pederast who raped Algerian boys, and a flaming homosexual who claimed to have had sex with 1000 men before the age of 25

Time to step back and re-assess who your role-models are.

5 posted on 02/14/2026 7:03:39 PM PST by PGR88
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Does anyone in the REST of the world even understand what AOC said? Seriously?


6 posted on 02/14/2026 7:10:25 PM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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Well, marxism exists only as the opposition to the established order. they really have no knowledge other than that. that’s why mamdani has no idea wtf he’s doing, even though he could just look back to guiliani’s time and find clear answers.


7 posted on 02/14/2026 7:13:30 PM PST by struggle
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FROM THE ARTICLE: Why do AOC and Whitmer sound like babbling idiots when they seek to defend their positions against even the slightest criticism?

Because they are babbling idiots. So is Kamala Harris whose word salads are legendary. So is Gavin Newsom, although he hides it better. Anyone listen to Jasmine Crockett lately? Or Maxine Waters, or any of the socialist/communist fools who infest the Democrat Party?

8 posted on 02/14/2026 7:15:20 PM PST by Avalon Memories (It seems to be a law of nature...that those who will not risk cannot win. --John Paul Jones)
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The left....intellectual? According to themselves...they can’t even figure out how to get I.D..


9 posted on 02/14/2026 7:17:43 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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Well done.

L


10 posted on 02/14/2026 7:19:27 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Somehow ‘’Munich’’ and “Democrats’’ seem to go together.

Looking back some eighty odd years that is...


11 posted on 02/14/2026 7:41:51 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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Yeah, aoc, whose rules?
What about all those rules already in place?

What about all those countries established laws that you don’t like?


12 posted on 02/14/2026 7:42:37 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Stosh

The two of those twits would make one heck of a stand up comedy team.

They’re naturals.


13 posted on 02/14/2026 7:43:50 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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AOC gives stupid c*nts a bad name.


14 posted on 02/14/2026 7:59:08 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: goodnesswins

Can you remove “REST of the”? I don’t understand it either.


15 posted on 02/14/2026 8:03:03 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: goodnesswins

It might have been more effective if she had closed with a Howard Dean growl.


16 posted on 02/14/2026 8:03:48 PM PST by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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Oh dont use that word. Lets just say she

Cant Understand Normal Thinking (wink wink)


17 posted on 02/14/2026 8:05:20 PM PST by mouse1
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Thanks for the clarification my FRiend!


18 posted on 02/14/2026 8:23:24 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: goodnesswins; struggle
Does anyone in the REST of the world even understand what AOC said? Seriously?

Well, marxism exists only as the opposition to the established order. they really have no knowledge other than that.


19 posted on 02/14/2026 8:23:41 PM PST by MacNaughton
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AOC gives stupid c*nts a bad name.

See post #19.

20 posted on 02/14/2026 8:25:51 PM PST by MacNaughton
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