politics @lemmy.world Odusei @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Biden to FDR, LBJ. Thanks for the free campaign ad!

www.usatoday.com Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Biden to FDR, LBJ. Thanks for the free campaign ad!

Far-right Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene may have accidentally realized Joe Biden is a good president.

The predominantly ludicrous lawmaker from Georgia did Biden a solid this weekend, telling Republicans the Democratic president is fiendishly attempting to make people's lives better.

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Can you please elaborate on that? I'm curious.
- Self help author that rose to prominence on Oprah as a “spiritual advisor”, she should be viewed the same as Dr Phil, Dr Oz, and Rachel Ray
  
  And? How does this make her a grifter? How does this make her like Donald Trump? How does this mean that she scams people like Dr Phil, Dr Oz, etc.?
  
  I vote for people because of the policies they believe, and I think that she actually believes them, and has for a long time.
  
  Other than Cornell West, who is running as a third party, I think Williamson is the best candidate on the ballot so far.
  
  And I say this as a non-spiritual athiest.
  
  Self help author. She’s a grifter. Anyone that does that shit is.
  
  So you don't have any actual evidence that she's a grifter? Okay.
  
  I bet you’re a big fan of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson too
  
  Nice strawman.
  
  It's not a straw man because his central claim is that all self-help gurus are inherently grifters.
  
  The straw man was him/her claiming that I must like Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson (two people who I am not a fan of) because I like Marianne Williamson.
  
  Being a self-help whatever doesn't mean that you are automatically a grifter, it just means that you write self-help shit.
  
  The three people are basically inseparable in that person's mind, because OP views them all as grifters.
  
  I know you disagree (I also disagree even though I also dislike Williamson), but the argument is fundamentally not a straw man
  
  I was very specifically replying to that one comment.
  
  You clearly didn't watch her debate performances in the 2020 primaries. She's a nut.
  
  I watched all of them
  
  You're not being very specific in your criticisms. What exactly did she say that makes you think she's a "nut"? I only care about policy when it comes to voting for someone, so if it isn't policy related, I very likely don't care.
  
  Bro everything this woman says is insane lol
  
  Well then it's a good thing that I'm voting for her because of her political beliefs and not because of her quirky self help stuff.
  
  I am genuinely curious what political beliefs of hers you support
  
  This is the main reason: https://marianne2024.com/economic-bill-of-rights/
  
  That's just the Democrat platform but dumber.
  
  I was really hoping you were gonna go with wonky new age shit.
  
  I wish that was the Democrat platform. The Democratic Party are a bunch of neoliberal corporatists who bend to the every will of corporations (same with the Republican Party).
  
  This is closer to what FDR (the most popular president in US history) had in mind, but never got to do, because he died.
  
  Why did you wish that I would go with some weird new-age shit? It's not what I believe in, nor does it have anything to do with politics.

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