While the media desperately tried to spin for the dumb bartender Ocasio-Cortez, here is yet another movement of her “education” that came up in Munich. After Marco Rubio’s awesome speech that mention how cowboy culture came from Spain, Ocasio-Cortez tried to claim that was a lie.. Instead, she said, cowboys came from Mexico and Africa… You know the continent of Africa right? Some of it is “below the equator”.
AOC mocking Marco Rubio for saying the American cowboy traces back to Spain is showing how ignorant she is.
This is not some hot take. It is basic history.
The entire cowboy tradition originates in Spanish ranching culture. The riding style, cattle herding, roping, saddles,… pic.twitter.com/XSRJAPBAm9
— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) February 17, 2026
American cowboy culture can be traced back to Spain's vaquero culture, brought to the continent through its colonial presence in Mexico.
I don't understand why AOC is trying to rewrite this. It just makes her look bad. pic.twitter.com/4QXaNrFXgn
— Marco Frieri (@MarcoAFrieri) February 16, 2026
WOW! It’s simply impossible to be any dumber than AOC.🤣🤡
AOC mocks Marco Rubio’s assertion that our Cowboy Culture comes from Spain.
She seems unaware that all of Latin America’s language and culture comes from Spain and Portugal for Brazil — not from "indigenous people."… pic.twitter.com/80IgJPfMEr
— Ben Hart (@BenHart_Freedom) February 18, 2026