Posted on 02/15/2026 11:38:36 AM PST by Rummyfan
While all eyes and ears at the Munich security conference will be on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday, it was America’s Democrats who were able to enjoy their moment in the spotlight on Friday. The party was out in force: Californian governor Gavin Newsom, member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer were among the high-profile party delegates on panels at the Bayerischer Hof hotel, where the conference is held.
Campaigning for the next Democratic party presidential primary isn’t expected to kick off in earnest for another year. Nevertheless, it was an opportunity for Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez and other rumored 2028 presidential candidate hopefuls to flex their credentials and demonstrate to voters back home – as well as US allies in Europe – what exactly fresh blood at the top of the Democratic party would offer.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, with European delegations at the conference unsettled by the increasingly fraught relationship that has evolved between them and the administration of Donald Trump, the top Democrats seized their chance to bash the President. Trump, Newsom said, “is doubling down on stupid.” The Californian governor was speaking on a panel discussing climate change; the American president, he added, was “trying to recreate the 19th century” with his pivot back towards fossil fuels. “Never in the history of the United States of America has there been a more destructive occupant of the White House.”
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If anyone saw what Ocasio-Cortez had to say, it’s hard for me to think that any other countries would be reassured by her potential as a leader in this country someday.
Heck, it’s hard for me to think any rational Democrat voters would be reassured by her. Yet she may well be among a handful of serious candidates in the Democrat primaries. She’s old enough to run for president now.
I read they all fell in love with the Puerto Rican DumbBunny Cocktail Waitress show. They got their own Puerto Rican Halftime show. I wonder if the Germans and other ‘Peons would like us to send them some Puerto Ricans. We can throw in a couple JamaincanSaladBunnies and HaitianPetSanwichBunnies too!
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty.
I thought we weren’t supposed to like foreign interference in US elections?
In GERMANY.
“Heck, it’s hard for me to think any rational Democrat voters would be reassured by her”
It’s all about feelings for the Marxist rat party. She is just fine for a large majority of them. The independents won’t fall for her low IQ schtick on a national level. She is Kamala Part Duex.
Surely they paid their own expenses for the free vacation in Europe...right?
They should’ve had their rally in Nuremburg, just like their political forbears.
CC
“… any rational Democrat…”
OXYMORON ALERT!
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