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AOC flaunts her historical illiteracy in 'cowboys' critique of Rubio's speech in Munich
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — whose name has been bandied about as a possible 2028 presidential contender — took issue over the weekend with some of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks at the Munich Security Conference.
Rather than successfully critique anything Rubio said on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez instead exposed more of her historical illiteracy.
Rubio's speech
Vice President JD Vance enraged a crowd of European officials last year at the Munich Security Conference by calling out their suppression of popular political movements and ideas, crackdown on religious liberties, and ruinous mass migration policies.
While pointed, Vance's criticism of Europe's censorious and self-destructive ways was constructive and imbued with the hope that Western nations across the Atlantic might return to the values they once shared in common with the United States.
'Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to "Western culture."'
In a less-scathing sequel to Vance's speech, Rubio discussed on Feb. 14 the deep civilizational bonds that he figures the U.S. and Europe still share, the opportunity for concerted renewal, and the way forward to a "new century of prosperity."
"We are part of one civilization — Western civilization," said Rubio. "We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir."
Rubio noted further that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, has embarked on the "task of renewal and restoration, driven by a vision of a future as proud, as sovereign, and as vital as our civilization's past."
"While we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe," added the secretary.
Whereas Europeans couldn't stomach Vance's speech on-theme last year, the audience gave Rubio a standing ovation following his speech on Saturday.
Bucking the revisionism
While Europeans were receptive to the secretary's discussion of civilizational inheritance and common responsibility, Ocasio-Cortez apparently had trouble with one of Rubio's passing remarks.
During a softball interview at the Technical University of Berlin on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez cited Rubio's speech as evidence of the "ascent of the right even in places like Munich."
"Marco Rubio's speech was a pure appeal to 'Western culture,'" said the congresswoman, employing scare quotes in reference to Western culture.
"My favorite part," continued Ocasio-Cortez, "was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain. I believe the Mexicans and descendants of African slaves — enslaved peoples — would like to have a word on that."
In his speech, Rubio stated:
Our expansion into the interior followed the footsteps of French fur traders and explorers whose names, by the way, still adorn the street signs and towns names all across the Mississippi Valley. Our horses, our ranches, our rodeos — the entire romance of the cowboy archetype that became synonymous with the American West — these were born in Spain. And our largest and most iconic city was named New Amsterdam before it was named New York.
Ocasio-Cortez's critics were quick to point out that horses and cowboy culture were, as Rubio suggested, a European export to North America — including to New Spain, which ultimately became the home of Ocasio-Cortez's would-be fact-checking, Spanish-speaking Mexicans.
'Your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer.'
While ancient horses once roamed North America, they apparently went extinct around 10,000 years ago. The species hitherto unknown to the native population was, however, reintroduced to the continent by Spaniards and other Europeans in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, imported the first horses the continent had seen in thousands of years on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. Twenty-six years later — and after decades of Europeans breeding horses in the Caribbean, where Ocasio-Cortez's family hails from originally — the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought 16 horses to what is now Mexico.
With continued European exploration and expansion, horses were ultimately bred and spread across the continent, and mastered by European settlers and Indians alike. The corresponding horseman culture also didn't appear ex nihilo.
Although it also references the Irish "Cau-boys" of the High Middle Ages, Fort Worth's Sid Richardson Museum notes in its relevant overview that "cowboy culture in the American West can be traced to the Spanish tradition of the vaquero."
"Derived from the word vaca (Spanish for cow), the vaqueros would become renowned for their skills and adaptability as Spain expanded their North American empire westward from what is now Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to the Franciscan missions in California by the late 1700s," noted History.com.
Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck responded to Ocasio-Cortez, writing, "Yeah literally every culture learned the cowboy trade from Spanish vaqueros. I’m sorry that your IQ is lower than the temp in my freezer."
John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist, quipped, "Just wait till she finds out where Mexicans came from."
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Breaking down the DISASTER that was the Super Bowl LX halftime show
The Super Bowl LX halftime show is going down in history as the first halftime show to be performed nearly entirely in Spanish — a factor that didn’t seem to bother those reporting on the performance in the mainstream media.
“The headlines were glowing. The mainstream media loved this halftime show. They just freaking love it. They loved it,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says on “Stu Does America,” pointing out a Rolling Stone headline that reads, “Right-wingers who boycotted halftime show still saw enough of it to be furious.”
“I was not furious about it. It was not enjoyable for me. And, you know, again, I will say I don’t like most of the halftime shows, even when they’re speaking the language that I can understand. This made it even more difficult to enjoy,” he continues.
And while those critical of the right for not loving the performance appear to believe it’s a symptom of racism, Stu is well aware that couldn’t be further from the truth.
“People keep bringing this up as if Latin culture is the thing that people are questioning. Now, we’ve had tons of Latin culture at previous Super Bowl halftime shows. Shakira was at a Super Bowl halftime show. There’s probably five to 10 different examples of people performing within Latin culture at Super Bowl halftime shows,” he says.
“The issue here is that the people in the crowd and the people watching on television couldn’t understand the words being sung. This is a very basic thing. A language is not a cultural statement. A language is a mechanism to allow others to understand what you’re talking about. That’s what it is,” he continues.
“So, when you’re talking to an audience that speaks almost entirely English, it usually would benefit you to have an artist that can communicate to the people watching,” he adds, pointing out that commercials are in English when the audience speaks English for the same reason.
“Why didn’t the announcers just call the entire game in Spanish? Why not? Because they were trying to communicate what was going on at the game,” he explains.
“The bottom line here is, the NFL had a choice to make, and they made this choice with very specific things in mind. Because, as I said, when you try to communicate to a specific audience, you choose the language that they speak,” he adds.
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Mom with child in tow accused of shooting toward sushi server. What allegedly triggered her is far from your average motive.
A St. Louis mother is facing multiple felony charges after police say she fired a gun inside a Kirkwood, Missouri, sushi restaurant amid an argument with staff last week, KTVI-TV reported.
Kirkwood police told the station the shooting took place just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
'You're going to get it.'
Police said Aaliyah N. Moorehead, 31, told officers she believed restaurant staff were rude to her and her family when they arrived, KTVI reported, adding that Moorehead was with her 9-year-old child.
Moorehead also said she used a translation feature on her AirPods to determine that the cooks made racial and derogatory comments in Spanish about her and her family, the station said.
Police said Moorehead also got upset over what she described as an issue with her order, KTVI said. A server offered to correct the order, but Moorehead began swearing at the server and was asked to leave, the station noted.
Moorehead then threw a bowl of soup at the server, hitting him and others nearby, authorities told KTVI.
The server moved a chair between himself and Moorehead, the station said, adding that she grabbed the chair and threw it.
Moorehead then took out a 9mm Glock handgun, threatened the server, and fired a shot in his direction, police told KTVI, adding that Moorehead's 9-year-old was walking between Moorehead and the server at the time.
Police told KMOV-TV that Moorehead said, “You’re going to get it,” before firing the shot.
The bullet missed the server, went through a refrigerator, and struck a wall, KTVI said, adding that no one was injured.
Police said the restaurant manager told officers the suspect drove away in a white SUV, and officers located the vehicle soon after and detained those in the car, KTVI said.
After reviewing the restaurant’s security video, police identified the SUV's occupants as Moorehead, her 9-year-old child, and another adult woman, KTVI said.
Police told KMOV the entire incident was captured on surveillance video and that Moorehead admitted to firing the gun.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Moorehead with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child, and first-degree property damage, KTVI said.
Moorehead was still behind bars Tuesday morning at the St. Louis County Justice Center; jail records do not show a court date.
KTVI said Moorehead is being held on a $150,000 cash-only bond.
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Media’s Fawning Bad Bunny Coverage Is Just Another Psyop To Demoralize And Mislead Americans
The media's political attacks are meant to confuse and demoralize conservative resistance to a political halftime show whose messaging targeted American culture and Christian values.Bad Bunny preached in Spanish. The NFL hides behind tax perks in English.
Bad Bunny — real name Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — used the Super Bowl LX halftime show to deliver a political message. That’s his right. The part worth discussing is the NFL’s decision to underwrite it, package it as entertainment, and beam it into tens of millions of living rooms as if it were part of the deal fans signed up for.
As Martínez Ocasio demonstrated at halftime, he is an unrepentant Puerto Rican leftist, following a familiar script in the tradition of Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo of the 1950s and the Macheteros of the 1970s: grievance, agitation, and a convenient villain.
If the NFL is now acting as an advertising agency for political organizations, shouldn’t the IRS take a fresh look at the tax advantages that help the league operate like a monopoly?
Bad Bunny uses hip-hop instead of bullets or bombs, but he is still selling the same posture — righteous rage, revolutionary cosplay, and a political edge aimed squarely at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
What irritates even more is the sponsor of this performance: the National Football League, allegedly as American as an institution can be — and certainly as profitable. It rakes in enormous revenue under a legal regime that has long treated the league like a protected creature of Congress. Then it rakes in more when corporations pay obscene sums for skyboxes and “experiences” and promptly write much of it off as a business expense. Nothing says “shared sacrifice” like a luxury suite tax deduction.
All of that would be tolerable if the league stuck to what it does best: organize a children’s game for adults, staffed by small groups of millionaire “college graduates” sprinting around a 100-yard patch of turf while the rest of us yell at referees and pretend we understand the salary cap.
Instead, the NFL now wants to be your civic tutor. The league has decided that the score isn’t enough; it also needs slogans — mostly in Spanish — delivered to a mostly non-Spanish-speaking audience that paid for tickets, cable packages, streaming subscriptions, and, in many cities, the stadium itself.
In recent years, the NFL has plastered the experience with political catechisms: “Black Lives Matter,” “Say Their Names,” “I Can’t Breathe,” “Justice,” “Equality,” “Freedom,” “Power to the People,” “Justice Now,” and “Sí se puede.” Now, thanks to Bad Bunny, the league has added:
- “Quieren quitarme el río y también la playa / Quieren el barrio mío y que abuelita se vaya.” (“They want to take away my river and my beach / They want my neighborhood, and they want grandma to leave.”)
- “Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera / Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera.” (“They killed people here for flying the flag / That’s why I carry it wherever I go.”)
- “De aquí nadie me saca, de aquí yo no me muevo / Dile que esta es mi casa, donde nació mi abuelo.” (“No one’s going to run me out of here — I’m not going anywhere / Tell them this is my home, where my grandfather was born.”)
- “Fueron 5,000 que dejaron morir y eso nunca e nos va a olvidar.” (“They let 5,000 people die, and we will never forget that.”)
Those lines don’t function as “art in the abstract.” The NFL presented them as civic messaging — without bothering to ask the audience.
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Why am I being subjected to a deluge of unpaid political commercials when all I wanted to do was watch millionaire athletes dramatically move an oblong ball around? Maybe enjoy a few big hits, a few bad calls, and, yes, perhaps place a wager without getting a sermon at halftime? Is that really too much to ask?
And once the NFL decides one side gets free political advertising, why stop there? Why shouldn’t every cause group get a slot? At least we’d have clarity. “Tonight’s halftime: The Coalition for Whatever.” Next year: “The League of Extremely Loud People.” Keep going until the entire broadcast becomes a charity auction for ideologies.
Then there’s the implicit holier-than-thou attitude of the players and performers who shill on cue for “the right side of history.”
Nothing screams ‘liberation’ like outsourced production under an authoritarian regime.
If the NFL wants to present its stars as moral authorities, maybe the league should be required to release the supporting documentation. Police reports. Court records. Paternity suits. The pharmaceutical list required to keep a battered body functioning after one too many concussions. Divorce filings that reveal what the slogans never will.
After all, a convicted dogfight organizer or a wife-beater looks ridiculous wearing “Say Her Name!” or “Justice Now!” on his back — and the league has fielded enough of those case studies to fill a warehouse.
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Add another layer of absurdity: Many of the league’s millionaire geniuses take a knee against “oppression” and “slavery,” with stern faces and closed-fist salutes, while remaining blissfully indifferent to the fact that their uniforms, sneakers, and promotional trinkets come from supply chains tied to modern forced labor. Yes, geniuses. Nothing screams “liberation” like outsourced production under an authoritarian regime.
At that point, the old Marxist-Leninist label becomes less a slogan and more a job description.
Lenin is often credited with the phrase “useful idiots.” Whether he coined it or not, the category exists for a reason: privileged Westerners eagerly carrying propaganda for movements that despise the civilization that makes their privilege possible. The NFL has decided that this is not merely acceptable, but brand-enhancing.
One more thing: If the NFL is now acting as an advertising agency for political organizations, shouldn’t the IRS — along with state and local tax authorities — take a fresh look at the tax and regulatory advantages that help the league operate like a monopoly?
Now would be an excellent time.
Massachusetts mayor accused of not being able to speak English after requesting a translator during city hearing
During a local hearing, a Massachusetts mayor requested the use of a translator. Now critics are asking if he can even speak English.
Brian A. DePena (D) is the mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts, a city of nearly 90,000. Approximately 82% of the residents of Lawrence are Latino, according to a 2023 report by WGBH.
'I practice my English because it's very important in America.'
Mayor DePena appeared in court earlier this month for a Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission proceeding, where former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro was facing city officials following the revocation of his credentials. Castro was accused of conducting an improper police chase and falsifying a police report.
According to reports, DePena testified on Castro's behalf and requested a translator for the hearing.
In video of the hearing that has gone viral, a judge is heard considering the request for a translator for the mayor.
DePena has since been accused of not being able to speak English at all. The WGBH report from 2023 also noted that DePena does not speak English on a day-to-day basis.
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"I practice my English because it's very important in America,” DePena said, according to WGBH. "For many years, another administration speaks perfect English and [didn't provide] opportunity for better education, for businessmen, for kids, safety [in the] community."
DePena later added, "It's not easy, because every day [I] to need to make a decision about another person, the future of another person. ... If you supported another candidate, no matter. Everyone is equal in my office."
Since taking office in 2021, DePena has appeared in many videos speaking only in Spanish, including in official city materials.
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In March 2023, an official city of Lawrence YouTube video showed DePena speaking only in Spanish for an "important message" about public schools. The video is labeled as bilingual, but this appeared to refer to the English subtitles.
That October, DePena appeared in a Spanish-only interview for local health care company Vitra Health.
Additionally a Facebook video post from August 2025 from the mayor's official account is also entirely in Spanish.
The accusations come in spite of the Trump administration issuing an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States on March 1, 2025.
Blaze News contacted the mayor's office and the mayor directly about whether he is fluent in English but received no response.
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Trump administration responds to Bad Bunny's promise to perform in Spanish for 'woke' halftime show
An official from the Trump administration says the NFL has once again decided to go against its supporters.
Ever since Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, aka Bad Bunny, was named by the NFL as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer, the singer has been at the center of controversy about whether or not his beliefs are at odds with football fans.
'So if you choose to come to the Super Bowl and you're in this country illegally, there are repercussions to that.'
Ocasio appeared on "Saturday Night Live" at the beginning of October and told supporters to expect Spanish songs during the halftime show. After delivering those remarks in Spanish, he even joked that "if you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn."
Bad Bunny has previously said he avoided U.S. tour dates because he feared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents may be waiting for illegal immigrants outside his concerts. Since then, the Trump administration has issued statements saying that any illegal aliens present at the Super Bowl in San Francisco are subject to deportation.
Some of those statements have come from Corey Lewandowski, a Trump official and special adviser to Homeland Security. Lewandowski appeared on Newsmax's "National Report" on Tuesday to reiterate that not only is the NFL doing its fans a disservice, but everyone deserves to be safe from illegal alien criminals.
"It's a poor decision by the NFL," Lewandowski told the Newsmax hosts.
"Once again the NFL decides to go woke and bring someone who says they don't want to perform on American soil because they're afraid of the people who might be coming to his concerts."
The official said the news around ICE's presence at the Super Bowl is being greatly exaggerated, and that agents always planned to be present to help prevent instances of counterfeit merchandise and human trafficking.
"This is not news," he said.
"If you are in this country illegally, you should self-deport, because if you don't, we will find you."
He added, "So if you choose to come to the Super Bowl and you're in this country illegally, there are repercussions to that — just as there are if you are in any other neighborhood in this great country."
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Regarding Bad Bunny, Lewandowski denied any misunderstandings that the Trump administration was calling his U.S. citizenship into question as a resident of Puerto Rico. Still, he reinforced that every legal immigrant and American citizen "is going to be safe" attending the football game.
President Trump, meanwhile, recently blamed the NFL for passing the buck on booking the popular artist. In addition to saying he has "never heard of" Bad Bunny and does not "know who he is," Trump revealed he did not know the NFL's motivation for the halftime show.
"I don't know why they're doing it. It's, like, crazy," the president said. "And then they blame it on some promoter that they hired to pick up entertainment. I think it's absolutely ridiculous."
Apple Music, the NFL, and Roc Nation are officially responsible for the musical event; Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and international content, along with Roc Nation founder Jay-Z, are the most notable names attached to the booking. Jay-Z has been involved with Super Bowl halftime shows since 2019.
Ocasio has not shied away from political statements in his past, and he endorsed Kamala Harris for the 2024 presidential election because he was offended by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally.
Additionally, in his music video for the song "NUEVAYoL," released on July 4, Bad Bunny draped a Puerto Rican flag over the Statue of Liberty and played a parody of the Trump's voice in which he admits "this country is nothing without the immigrants."
At the beginning of September, Bad Bunny said he avoided the United States for his world tour because he feared ICE raids at his concerts. Although there were "many reasons" he did not "show up in the U.S.," Bad Bunny explained, "There was the issue of — like, f**king ICE could be outside."
"And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about," he added.
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Bad Bunny: Learn Spanish if you want to understand my Super Bowl performance
Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny delivered part of his monologue in Spanish last weekend on "Saturday Night Live."
The appearance came after the artist, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was named by the NFL as the Super Bowl LX halftime performer.
'I think everyone is happy about it. Even Fox News.'
Ocasio opened the sketch comedy show by telling the audience he is very happy to be performing at the Super Bowl, "and I think everyone is happy about it," he joked. "Even Fox News." Clips from Fox News anchors like Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters were played, spliced together to say, "Bad Bunny is my favorite musician and he should be the next president."
The host went on, "I'm very excited to be doing the Super Bowl, and I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy."
At this point, Bad Bunny began speaking in Spanish.
Even though "Saturday Night Live" has always been an English broadcast and much of the controversy surrounding the Super Bowl appointment is due to the fact that his music is predominantly in Spanish, the singer delivered several lines of the monologue in the foreign language.
"Especially all the Latinos and Latinas across the world, and here, in the United States, all those who have worked to open doors," he continued, according to a translation by Newsweek.
Bad Bunny received raucous applause as he remarked, still in Spanish, "It's more than an achievement for myself; it's an achievement for all of us. It shows our footprint, and our contribution to this country, that no one will ever be able to take away or erase."
He concluded with a line that was seemingly intended to mock his critics, switching back to English: "And if you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn."
The announcement that the 31-year-old will perform at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in February took the internet by storm last week, especially since he said in September that he has avoided U.S. tour dates due to possible immigration enforcements at his concerts.
Providing "many reasons" as to why he did not "show up in the U.S.," Bad Bunny said "there was the issue of — like, f**king ICE could be outside."
"And it's something that we were talking about and very concerned about," he added, according to the Guardian.
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Adviser to the Trump administration Corey Lewandowski was asked last week about Ocasio's concern for illegal immigrants and their possible deportations. He confirmed in an interview that ICE agents will be at Super Bowl LX.
"There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else," Lewandowski explained.
Bad Bunny has also been criticized for mocking President Trump in a July 4 music video in which he draped the Puerto Rico flag over the Statue of Liberty and used an audio clip of an impersonation of the president.
Ocasio endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election and said he was offended by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's joke about Puerto Rico that was made at a Trump rally.
While performing in Spanish has become a sort of resistance effort by activists, especially at sporting events, it's important to remember that Latin America did not start speaking Spanish until it was colonized.
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