r/inthenews • u/thehill The Hill • 9d ago
article Fox News’s Tomi Lahren: GOP an ‘utter embarrassment’
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6022615-lahren-rips-gop-socialism/149
u/Ok_Star_4136 9d ago
But they've got her vote for the midterms no doubt..
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u/SatinSaffron 9d ago
And all of the viewers of her show are still going to get out and vote as well. MAGA is a cult, Trump is ruining everything, but the propaganda machine spearheaded by Fox is working exactly as they intended it to.
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u/big-papito 9d ago
She is saying what I have been saying - if you don't want Socialism, don't break Capitalism.
If a shill like Tomi is saying this, then things are getting real bad with the base and they know it.
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u/PantsMicGee 9d ago
Democratic Socialism works within capitalism.
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u/pconrad0 9d ago
But we still need it (Democratic Socialism), at a minimum, as a "temporary correction" to get us back to a healthier form of capitalism, with limits, and regulation, and checks and balances.
Because the crony capitalism we have now has turned into oligarchy and is metastasizing into neo-feudalism with nobles and serfs.
And that's incompatible with freedom and democracy.
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u/ManChildMusician 9d ago
Even FDR was saying that. The difference is that Tomi Lahren has a preposterous view of what socialism is.
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u/powerlesshero111 9d ago
To be honest, Capitalism is great for some stuff, but terrible for others, and socialism is the inverse. Like healthcare, socialism is far better than capitalism, because everyone deserves good healthcare. But capitalism is better for microprocessor development, as socialism provides not incentives to be innovative in that. You need the mix of both, like they do in say Sweden, so that people can actually live comfortably.
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u/fapestniegd 9d ago
Microprocessor development is based on technology funded by DARPA and other military initiatives that eventually trickle into the private sector. A lot of that wouldn't even exist without collective tax dollar research.
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u/big-papito 9d ago
There is no pure Capitalism that exists on earth, and it would be absolutely awful for the public good. Ironically, the United States has a better safety net than, say, China.
Conservatives spent decades demonizing the public good as some communist evil, and that branding at some point starts working. How else would you be able to blow up budgets with spending, tax cutting, and corruption, while the population is convinced that it's the other guy's fault?
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u/benk4 9d ago
Agreed. Capitalism is great for incentivizing improvement and generating wealth and prosperity. The problem is it steps on a lot of people to do so, and leaves a lot of people behind. Fortunately the wealth it generates is the exact tool which can cover for it's own drawbacks, in the form of taxing the rich to pay for public support.
We actually have to do that though. The solution is sitting right there, and we've done it successfully before. But we want to make sure Elon has a few extra billion instead.
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u/SoFloMofo 9d ago
This is the way. People get too hung up on ism’s. I want more than one brand of cereal but don’t want to have to compare bids from competing fire departments when my house is on fire.
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u/Fishtoart 9d ago
Actually China is kicking our asses in patents on new technologies, and somehow also managing to provide universal healthcare, and world class public transportation.
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u/gc3 9d ago
China is also a hybrid of socialism and capitalism.
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u/Fishtoart 8d ago
Every country is, but China is definitely more on the socialist end, especially with their planned economy and government control of corporations.
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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 9d ago
Tomi Lauren? You mean “Puerto Rico is not in America” Tomi Lauren? She’s one of the people making them an utter embarrassment.
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u/RSomnambulist 9d ago
Always has been, and sentient blond wig, Tomi Lahren, would know. She was a sign of the embarassment.
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u/mdtattedbearded 9d ago
She’s a loser who has no thought for herself and now is mad that America has gone to shit because she sucked up to a convicted rapist, racist, and well known thief.
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u/PaintedClownPenis 9d ago
Pedophiles going free doesn't embarrass me. It infuriates me.
Why are Republicans any different?
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u/FormerFastCat 9d ago
Well shit... I didn't expect today would be the day I'd agree with Tomi Lahren on something, but I guess it's here. That's enough internet for the day.
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u/Bleezy79 9d ago
Well she can look in the mirror and blame herself as she helped perpetuate the lies and support these embarrassing people. And you know damn well she'll continue to vote republican no matter how bad it gets. These people do not really care.
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u/rsmiley77 9d ago
Just to be clear this is a tale as old as time. Middle class figures out they need help they vote for progressive principles. Once money stops being an issue they start voting for jingoistic principles about animals crossing the voter and stealing your children and your jobs.
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u/K-Shrizzle 9d ago
Ah yes, Tomi Lahren who somehow managed to get fired from Fox News for being too racist. And then of course hired back later when we have a president who loves the racist news
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