Joe Biden had the largest public investment in social infrastructure and
environmental programs.
That is actually finishing what FDR started, that LBJ expanded on.
And Joe Biden is attempting to complete programs to address education,
medical care, urban problems, rural poverty,
transportation, Medicare, Medicaid,
labor unions, and he still is working on it.
>> Speaker 2: Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Greene, now a surrogate for
the Biden campaign.
Not really, but her attempts to attack him during a recent Turning Point
action event really fell apart because she decided to attack him on things
that are actually pretty popular, and he decided to use that in a campaign ad.
So good job Marjorie Greene nailed it.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so yesterday we talked about her speech, and
we were making fun of it because I'm like, what are you doing an ad for Biden?
So credit to Biden's team for being like, yeah, why don't we turn it into an ad?
But there's something deeper here.
First of all, nice job on the Biden team.
They're not normally this good, but hey, credit where credit is due.
Way to take that and turn it around.
Nice job.
Okay, that's good.
Now, but the larger point is the reason Marjorie Taylor Greene said all those
things is because she thinks right-wing voters don't want any help.
They don't want Medicare, they don't want transportation to be better.
Giving money to education sucks.
And she said all those things derisive.
Like, FDR, what did he give us, social Security?
LBJ, what did he give us Medicare?
[LAUGH] Isn't that terrible?
And that's because she's dumb.
Right-wing voters actually do love those things.
And that's why I've often seen right-wing voters, like,
if Democrats were like FDR, like in the old days, then they'd be great, right?
Why? Cuz FDR actually delivered for
the American people.
>> Speaker 2: That's right, yeah.
>> Speaker 3: And LBJ, through Medicare and War on Poverty, etc,
a lot of different programs that delivered for the American people.
So they were complicated figures.
They weren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but they fought and they won.
And so she's exactly wrong.
And it's not just that it's not gonna work for independents and Democrats, and
that's why it's a great bind net.
It's not gonna work with the Republican voters either.
>> Speaker 2: Well, okay, so
let's talk about why it is that Marjorie Greene engaged in this misfire.
This miscalculation, right?
And how it is that she easily won her reelection.
It's because, look, I personally think that she's oblivious to reality on
these economic issues because she's steeped in culture wars.
That's all you hear from Marjorie Greene.
We're going to impeach Biden.
We want to impeach Biden.
Like, look, and I'm gonna be self-deprecating here, okay?
Because I was obsessed with getting Trump impeached, right?
And honestly, at the end of the day, putting all your eggs in that basket,
you're gonna end up incredibly depressed and demoralized, right?
You gotta focus on what people are aching for,
what people want in order to improve their lives.
Now, a lot of American voters, both on the left and
the right at this point, I think, get distracted with wage issues and
culture war issues and aren't focusing enough on what candidates in
either party are gonna do to actually materially improve their lives.
But the distractions are real.
They're propagated in corporate media, they're propagated in campaign speeches,
they're propagated in now podcasts that members of Congress are hosting.
That's the reality of our political landscape.
So the reason why I believe Marjorie Greene is oblivious to how popular those
economic programs happen to be is because she's not really thinking about it and
she's not really dealing with it.
Again, totally steeped in culture war narratives all day, every day.
That's all she does.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, well, let me partly agree with you first.
The original mistake for Marjorie Taylor Greene is talking about economic issues.
The Republicans do not wanna talk about that under any circumstance other than to
say, inflation is bad.
Inflation is bad, right?
But if you said to them, okay, well, let's start to fix things, right?
So since the price of all the food and everything else is rising,
let's give people higher wages, let's pass higher minimum wage.
>> Or stop corporations from price gouging.
Exactly, then all the Republicans would go, no, I see you stepped into it
because the popular positions there are almost all on the left, not on the right.
That's why they almost never talk about economic policies.
That's why they don't bring up Medicare and infrastructure and
all these different things, right?
So that's her first mistake right there, going into losing ground.
The way she gets that turning point audience, which is very right-wing, is to
do culture war stuff that Ana's talking about, like, don't trans people suck.
I meant, protect the children, the crowd goes nuts, right?
>> Speaker 2: Yep. >> Speaker 3: So that's a mistake, right?
But now, in terms of the impeachment, which is a little bit different than
economic or cultural war issues, that's partly strategic, etc.
And this is why we call Marjorie Taylor Greene dumb.
Because for the Trump impeachments, I think he did terrible things.
I think they should have tried to impeach him.
But what we said throughout as those things were happening on this show was,
yes, but also fight for the American people on economic issues.
>> Speaker 2: Correct. >> Speaker 3: And
that's the part the Democratic Party leaves out every time, conveniently,
because of their corporate donors, right?
But when it comes to Biden's impeachment,
Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced it on the first day.
Hey, knucklehead.
Then by definition, you're saying, I don't care what he does,
I just wanna impeach him cuz I don't like him.
>> Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
Yeah, exactly.
>> Speaker 3: Well, then that gives away the game, doesn't it, Marjorie?
You're supposed to pretend, I gave him a fair shot, but when he did that,
fill in the blank.
You're supposed to go, that was crazy and unconstitutional.
We have to impeach him.
But she's not bright enough to know that, so she's like, he hasn't done anything.
Let's impeach him anyway.
That way, we'll look like we're 100% wrong.
Oops right.
And here she's like, let's compare them to FDR and LBJ and really popular
presidents from the past who, by the way, the two presidents that won with
the biggest landslide victories ever in American history, FDR and LBJ, okay?
>> She nailed it.
She really did nail it.
>> Speaker 3: And let's bring up topics where we're really unpopular.
Oops.
So it's a rare win by the Biden team.
Nice job.
>> Speaker 2: Yes.