Posted on 08/08/2026 9:10:42 PM PDT by Libloather
One of the top honchos with the Democratic Socialist of America struggled to explain what “taxing the rich” meant and appeared clueless about the Clinton era landmark Israeli Palestinian peace effort, during an embarrassing radio interview with The New Yorker Friday.
Megan Romer, one of the two national co-chairs of the organization, seemed bewildered by a question from the magazine’s editor David Remnick about one of the DSA’s signature positions.
“Well, what does ‘taxing the hell out of them’ mean?’” Remnick asked on the episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour titled “How Socialist Is the DSA? Megan Romer Explains“.
“Uh, yeah, you know, again, I don’t have like a solid…” Romer awkwardly chuckled.
“But shouldn’t you?” Remnick pressed. “If you’re the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn’t you be more specific than ‘taxing the hell’ out of something? What exactly do you mean?”
“Um, that’s a good question,” Romer said, her eyes widened in shock that someone would challenge her beyond the catchy slogan that was often used by Mayor Mamdani during his campaign.
“So again, it’s democracy, right?” she continued. “And we have to look at what we have to spend and what we need. We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited.”
Social media had a field day with the clip, which quickly went viral.
“When you realize you took $60,000 out in student loans and can’t answer a single friendly polite question,” slammed media commentator Stephen L. Miller on X.
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DSA dupes think “firing squad” means folks who sit around the campfire.
Excellent idea for an ad.
Well done.
Im of the opinion that “Idiocracy” is more closely aligned with the Democrat Communist Party.
People like her believe they are much more intelligent and important than they really are.
““When you realize you took $60,000 out in student loans and can’t answer a single friendly polite question,” slammed media commentator Stephen L. Miller on X.”
Just Dems showing their inherent ignorance and willingness to just parrot what others say w/o any comprehension.
The Communist KY and Desert Tidepod Caravan princesses know that Socialism and Communism cannot survive without the Capitalists’ money. Socialism and Communism are failed “Big Tent” CLOWN SHOWS. Not one has ever survived without having Capitalist money to buy free sh*t for their scumbag “immigrant” freeloaders.
young women who were the most avid supporters and believers of totalitarian, oppressive nonsense....
Yes. The are pushing for DSA communism.
But these are the same dupes who participated in “No Kings” protests against President Trump.
Useful idiots.
This is what 8 years of women’s studies gets you.
The daughter of Roy Romer, Colorado Governor in the 1990s.
She is taking more than her fair share of food. She must be taxed!
One look at the photo of her in the linked article tells you all you need to know. She’s a perfect Useful Idiot.
I doubt DSA is embarrassed by such stupidity, and that's part of the problem.
I’ve posted it many times before, but it’s still true: Socialism and communism will always be popular with those who think they can get something for nothing.
We have plenty who need to be institutionalized.
No luck on “Animal Farm”. Hollywood corrupted that to make capitalists the evil parties and commies the heroes.
Like what was done with “Odyssey” — instead of an heroic struggle to return home it was a condemnation of masculinity and more woke garbage.
As to “tax the rich”, that = kill the golden goose.
Yep. I work with an LGTBQ+ type who is 29, took out $30k in student loans, and got kick out of her parents house last year for refusing to change her way. Now she’s on her own, working part time, and can’t find a man so she’s now bi.
We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires...
We do want people to depend on the existence of government, which, of course, will feature millionaires at the top who, again of course, will not be contributing.
The national co-chair of the party can’t explain what the most critical plank in the party platform means? I can believe that, sadly, and it reveals that those who can explain what they intend to do don’t dare.
“We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited.”
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That “exploitation “ is someone else providing a job to someone - meaning the capital for the equipment and supplies, the training, the customers and suppliers, the organizational framework and the incredible effort (show me a successful business in which the owner doesn’t work 60 hours/week and sacrifice personal comfort to reinvest in the business - go ahead, I’ll wait). The ONLY reason those jobs exist is BECAUSE of millionaires who weren’t always that, but who worked hard and long and employed many others in the process.
Yet again, the leftist dunces haven’t got a single clue as to how economics work. And, yet again, the most strident and uninformed are young females, who are (generally speaking) the single most ignorant creature on the planet because they’ve been almost completely sheltered from reality.
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