Somehow, it became necessary that politicians seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination had to wander abroad to various international conferences to pay obeisance to European elites and spout bile at their domestic political enemies. Those various climate summits at whatever posh digs the Euros could situate have attracted Democrat politicians for years. You don’t hear much about them anymore, now that the global warming doom-and-gloom prognostications have all fallen apart. At some point, taking to the stage and echoing Thunbergian stupidities like “the planet will burn up and be uninhabitable in 12 years” if whatever hard-core socialist command-economic policy fetishes aren’t engaged in tends to go out of style after 12 years, and then some go by with none of the forecasted doom coming true. So you don’t generally get the Democrats’ big guns at those events anymore; or if you do, nobody really pays attention. (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is) Davos is a little different, though, for some strange reason. The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos has for years been a showplace for Dems seeking international boulevard cred, and it’s anything but surprising that all the stupid and terrible ideas bandied about among the weffers have become standard Democrat cant. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 321: Dumbos at Davos: The WEF’s Dwindling Influence) But Davos isn’t the only place you’ll find the Gavin Newsoms, AOCs, Mark Kellys, Gretchen Whitmers, and others now. Over the weekend, we saw them descending on the Munich Security Conference seeking to bolster their global status. (RELATED: Is Gretchen Whitmer Back In?) It’s not a new thing that politicians would make everything about themselves. That’s what politicians do. But it does rankle a bit to think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes she belongs at Munich or that she has anything of value to offer as a speaker at that conference. It isn’t like this was a surprise… BREAKING – AOC is being ruthlessly mocked after claiming action can’t be taken against Venezuela because it’s “below the equator.” Leader of the democrat party everyone. pic.twitter.com/G2BFBoZwPe — Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 16, 2026 And that wasn’t the worst of it… The sad thing about this is it won’t be her downfall. It should be, but it won’t. At RedState, Brad Slager noted the effort put in by Bloomberg (only one of a large number of news organizations doing this) to rehabilitate AOC when it’s obvious she’s out of her depth when it comes to foreign policy… At my Townhall media column, I have one category I use called Democratic Custodial Services, where the press slides in and offers cleanup when a Democrat politician fouls something up. AOC’s German fiasco was broad enough that Bloomberg acted like a team from Servpro arriving after an F-5 twister. As an introduction, they did not help their own cause by admitting that AOC was basically out of her depth from the start. The reporting duo of Nick Wadhams and María Paula Mijares Torres admit that AOC, “is better known for her strong progressive stances than her foreign policy views.” They go on to further undercut the New York representative by adding that she lacks serious international heft since she is not serving on either the Foreign Affairs or Armed Services Committees. All told, Alex From The Bronx has only shown interest in Latin American affairs (naturally, for the Puerto Rican descendant) and Palestine (like everyone else in her party, save for John Fetterman). To get a taste of what the AOC Doctrine may look like, it would amount to “We suck and want to be like you!” Her ineptitude did not dissuade Wadhams and Mijares from their appointed duties. The pair tells us that AOC’s performance was NOT a crater-inducing affair, but instead it was a display of rationality and lucid leadership. I kid you not. First, they deliver this oblivious nugget from Alex: She demanded a foreign policy approach that counters record inequality and looks to undo a world “dominated by a handful of elites, a handful of oligarchs that sit in pretend democracies and make backdoor deals with one another.” She says this at a conference peopled by world leaders and political elites, and then we hear she sat in with those various leaders and political elites. It may be a tie between AOC and these reporters as to who is more ignorant. They do get around to affirming AOC’s vapor-lock moment when trying to respond to questions from Bloomberg’s own Francine Lacqua: “This is such a, a, you know, I think that, this is a, um, this is of course, a, ah, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States.” Just…damn. After that dive off the train trestle she may have a better claim than Joe Biden to a stuttering speech impediment. But then the cleanup effort begins. These reporters insist that, eventually, she gave a cogent response. This entailed her giving a decaffeinated proposal that we should avoid conflict, a level of discourse on par with a beauty pageant ditz, suggesting we should strive for world peace. Of course, the next move was to allow a spokesperson to be granted airtime to wave away the fog of her commentary. Ocasio-Cortez hesitated “because she wanted to be careful about what she was saying,” Matt Duss, who advises Ocasio-Cortez on foreign policy, said in an interview. “I wish more politicians would wait to answer instead of rattling off talking points.” It’s irritating, no doubt. This is one example of why it’s a good thing mainstream media’s hold on culture and politics is at its lowest ebb; sanitizing AOC’s nonstop disqualifications is very poor hygiene indeed. But there’s no sanitizing this. Hillary Clinton’s time has undoubtedly come and gone, but that didn’t stop her from going to Munich and acting like she boasted any relevance on the world stage. Except her appearance on a panel discussion went about as badly as it possibly could…