The committee has largely kept quiet about the Green party nominee. But that’s now changing.

“Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again,” DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy—that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in—can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Call, said via email that “the Democratic Party has no respect for actual democracy or the voting public,” calling the attack a “tired and sad commentary on a party that refuses to serve the American people with good public policy.”

    Yes, this is true.

    “We’re seeing a desperate empire now. We are seeing a desperate colonialist settler empire whose ways of the world and whose control over the world has been lost,” Stein said as she inveighed against U.S. healthcare, housing, and military policy.

    This is also true. But she has no shot at winning and is literally only capable of helping the orange bad. We need rank-choice voting. Until we get that, she should shut up and drop out. Especially with the threat of the orange bad.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      literally only capable of helping the orange bad

      The folks voting Green have already folded on the other options. If you’re picking a fight with Jill, you’re only driving her base farther from your candidate.

      • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m tired of people being stupid. I’ve been tired of it for 20 God damn years. I’m folding on stupid people. I don’t care if I drive them away anymore.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I hear this from Trump voters all the fucking time. Are we really are just getting a choice between Red MAGA and Blue MAGA?

              • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 months ago

                I don’t give a single shit about Harris trying to appeal to the right wing. Good. She should be trying to appeal to the right wing because abstentionism on the left is evidently rampant. And I think that, because compromising is far better than allowing Trump to win.

                You are actively creating the conditions for her to pursue this strategy, and criticizing her for pursuing it. Fuck you and everyone like you.

                Want to change it? Set an outline of manageable policy points that you’d like to see her compromise on if she wants you to vote for her, and then make that popular. Abstentionism doesn’t work, idiot.

                • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  I don’t give a single shit about Harris trying to appeal to the right wing. Good. She should be trying to appeal to the right wing

                  The liberal two button problem

                  • Harris is only electable if she parrots fascist talking points.

                  • Harris is only electable if her progressive opponents are purged from the ticket

                  Damn. Sounding more and more like Trump’s attitude towards libertarians.