It appears like Marco Rubio, the acting director of USAID, hasn’t slowed down since making a rapid but efficient journey to Latin America earlier this month. Additionally, on Thursday, he was forced to turn round and table another planes in order to arrive in Europe on time while flying to Germany to meet with Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and enter the Munich Security Conference.  ,
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And before making his first journey to the Middle East as secretary of state and meet with several Israeli officials, including President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he spent a lot of his time meeting with many foreign ministers over the weekend.  ,
Although I think this man is probably quite exhausted, he still managed to squeeze in some free time on Sunday to appear on” Face the Nation” with Margaret Brennan. He probably had to give her a simple history lesson, which he probably didn’t expect because Margaret Brennan is after all the subject of his expected lot of stupid questions.  ,
After briefly bringing up the Middle East, Brennan asked Rubio about Vance’s now-infamous talk from last week, where he gave lectures to Germans on the issues of free speech and repression. She seemed a bit concerned that he was “irritating our allies” . , Rubio responded with a fair and common sense answer:  ,
Why do our friends or anyone else find free speech and people giving their opinion irritating them? We are, after all, republics. The ability to speak openly and express your opinions is one of the things we value most about the Munich Security Conference, which is essentially a conference of democracies. And so, I believe that if someone is upset about his words, they don’t have to concur with him, but I believe it makes his place.
I believed it to be a very historic speech. Whether or not you agree with him, I believe that the appropriate points he’s making to Europe are that we are concerned about our shared values, the values that bind us up with Europe, such as free speech and politics and our shared history of winning two World Wars and overthrowing Soviet communism and the like. These are norms that we’ve shared in common. And we fought against items like persecution and repression during that Cold War.
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But Brennan being Brennan wasn’t content with this. At this point, I’m not sure if this person is biased, uneducated, or just plain terrible, but she went on to say “you know who else liked free speech? Hitler”.  , Okay I’m paraphrasing a little, but this is what she truly said:  ,
Also, he met with the head of a political party with far-right ideologies and some historical relations to extreme groups while speaking in a nation where free speech was used to carry out a murder. That was altering the voice of it. And you are aware of the fact that the appropriate was the subject of the repression.
Rubio responded to his frenzy travels like an exhausted but calm father who had just returned from work and whose 14-year-old girl had only asked him for authorization to include her new gender-neutral pronouns tattooed on her finger. ” Well, I have to agree with you. I don’t agree with you, he said before jumping into a past lessons, which I believe most people will learn by end school at the very least.  ,
Free conversation was not used to carry a murder. A authoritarian Nazi regime, known as the authoritarian regime, carried out the genocide because they detested Jews, hated minorities, and hated people who were their enemies, but they mostly detested Jews. Nazi Germany lacked completely conversation. There was none. Additionally, there was no antagonism in Nazi Germany. They were the one and only gathering in charge of that nation. So that’s not an exact representation of history.
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Rubio continues with that, going a little deeper into free statement and what Vance said in Europe, but as you know, Brennan was unapologetically old. After he made her look like an imbecile, I’m convinced that was wholly fortuitous. The State Department website: Â or read the entire transcript online is you see that portion of the trade for yourself below.
Margaret Brennan resents herself once more.
Kb: “You’re standing in a land where completely speech was weaponized to undertake a genocide”.
Rubio:” Free statement was no weaponized to undertake a murder. An autocratic Nazi regime committed the murder. twitter.com/Yq8eji9YEa
— John Hasson ( @SonofHas ) February 16, 2025
To further nail home Rubio’s place — and Brennan’s ignorance/stupidity/bias — here’s a paragraph from the Holocaust Encyclopedia admittance on repression:  ,
The European law guaranteed press freedom and freedom of speech when the Nazis took office in 1933. These civil rights were abrogated by the Nazis through laws and regulations, destroying European democracy. Starting in 1934, it was improper to condemn the Nazi state. Also making fun of Hitler was viewed as treachery. In Nazi Germany, individuals were unable to publish or say anything.  ,
Examples of repression under the Nazis included:
- Closing over or taking over anti-Nazi papers,  ,
- Controlling what media appeared in magazines, on the stereo, and in movies,
- Germans banned and burned ebooks that were deemed un-German by the Nazis.
- controlling what World War II military wrote house.
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To have an wealthy member of the American political hit army utter such a deception is not just literary fraud but misbehavior with a camera, Erick Erickson wrote on his Substack now.
