Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position
Source: NBC News
Green Party nominee Jill Stein has been recruiting Palestinian Americans to be her vice presidential running mate as the left-wing presidential candidate looks to exploit the communitys frustrations with Democrats' support for Israel during its war in Gaza.
Two potential candidates told NBC News Friday they had multiple conversations with Stein about the job. A spokesperson for a third potential candidate, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, confirmed Stein asked him if he was willing to be considered for the job before realizing Hammoud is too young to be constitutionally eligible.
Stein is planning to announce her running mate next Friday. Its unclear whom she has chosen or if she has made her decision yet. The Stein campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Its an honor to be considered for the position and something that I strongly considered and weighed heavily, said Abed Ayoub, the executive director of the Washington-based American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which calls itself as the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S. Shes looking for someone that really understands and expresses what our community is feeling.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jill-stein-recruiting-palestinian-americans-running-mate-position-rcna165984
JustAnotherGen
(33,025 posts)Is he going to stand by Netanyahu or prop up his American Puppet Stein?
getagrip_already
(16,916 posts)Putin doesnt care about stein. He knows votes for come from dem supporters.
JustAnotherGen
(33,025 posts)Ever looks in the mirror and says - Not only am I ugly - I'm sketchy as f*ck.
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)Spoiler, in Russian, Jill Stein
Fear, in Russian, Kamala
LOL!
jaxexpat
(7,428 posts)Ladythatvotesblue
(215 posts)another Putin useful idiot.
Deplorable.
AZ8theist
(6,134 posts)She's a Putin STOOGE. You can't get further right than that.....
Traildogbob
(9,629 posts)What has she EVER fucking done for Green, other than grift for cash?
Stuckinthebush
(10,982 posts)She needs to just go away. She is a useful idiot to Putin and Trump. What, in god's name, does she really think she is doing that is good and decent? Surely not advancing the Green cause.
MrWowWow
(245 posts)Putin? Musk? David Koch?
Behind the Aegis
(54,671 posts)Seems Harris has really rattled cages. LOL!
"We are not going back!"
bromeando
(65 posts)Stein is working for Putin. She knows she can't win.
hlthe2b
(104,996 posts)Marianne Williamson Ends Longshot 2024 Presidential Bid
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marianne-williamson-ends-longshot-2024-presidential-bid/ar-BB1qQzA9?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LSJS&cvid=7a681052e365450187d1c271cc7de4d2&ei=7
We did everything possible to stand for a blitz primary, an open convention and so forth. Yet the way things worked there truly was no way, and all we could have done is create noise, Williamson said Monday in a post on X.
LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)She likely will be on the ballot in all 50 states
GoreWon2000
(771 posts)pure and simple. She must be a closet repug with the company she keeps like Putin and Mike Flynn. She's only helping tRump/magas the way Nader helped bushthief get close enough in Florida to have his little brother steal the election for him in 2000.
LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)So is that Hammoud guy. She should just puck Nader!
Orangepeel
(13,961 posts)he's a first chair spoiler
LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)GoreWon2000
(771 posts)You missed my point. Stein is trying to siphon off democratic votes in 2024 the way Nader did in 2000. Nader siphoned off enough votes in Florida in 2000 with his big lie that their were no differences between Al Gore and bushthief which was a lie which made it possible for bushthief to get close enough in Florida to have his little brother steal the election for him. Stein is attempting the same for repugs this time.
wolfie001
(3,075 posts)This is a measured action to help donald dump. If she had half a brain, she would be fighting for Women's health care here in the US. Her ulterior motives are very suspect.
GB_RN
(2,936 posts)Again. When will this traitor learn that no one wants her as president? Im sick of her trying to play spoiler and hand the election to the Nazis.
catrose
(5,202 posts)ImNotGod
(460 posts)fictional green party.
karin_sj
(1,030 posts)I wonder how much Putin is paying her to try and siphon votes from Harris/Walz. Hopefully, not too many people will fall for this obvious ploy to help trump this time around.
FakeNoose
(34,756 posts)"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., third-party candidates face ballot challenges in Pennsylvania"
VeryProgressive
(50 posts)She is not even registered in a sufficient number of states to win the Presidency. She's a nut. Finally, nobody fucking cares.
Jill Stein = Kremlin Stooge
Donald Trump = Kremlin Stooge
RFK Jr. = Kremlin and Republican Stooge.
Beastly Boy
(10,621 posts)It's as if Stein decided they are the group most likely to fall for a loser.
KPN
(15,970 posts)The Wizard
(12,746 posts)on Team Putin
Happy Hoosier
(8,119 posts)we can do it
(12,697 posts)LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)Hammoud isn't Palestinian, but Justin Amash is.
Island Blue
(6,071 posts)LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)She might as well pick Ralph Nader!
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,818 posts)volunteering, or helping people or holding an elected office in her community.... anything? I think we've learned by now that vanity and ego is not a good reason to vote for anyone.
mdbl
(5,180 posts)and Republicans get in office then NOTHING will go green. Might as well call themselves the global warming party.
radical noodle
(8,116 posts)is cash. She doesn't care about anything else that's green.
JI7
(90,094 posts)their goal is to help Trump win.
BigDemVoter
(4,469 posts)I'm sure she'll have her celebrity fan, Susan Sarandon, shadowing her every move telling us there is "no difference" between **$$Y-Grabber and VP Harris.
tazcat
(20 posts)BTW nutty Nety męt with Puty in Moscow 3 wks before 7th- and knew of plan 18+ mos before. All these bastards are running away from PRISON!!!
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,818 posts)then under Republican rule people would get so beaten down they would finally RISE UP and overthrow the system.
To which I always responded: WRONG!!! The history of the world is that often a nation or people gets so beaten down and traumatized they give up and it takes generations for them to recover if they ever do. A society can get shut down quite rapidly, people "disappeared" and communications cut off - "rising up" is by no means a certainty under those conditions.
In fact somewhere I read (forget who, someone smarter than me) that "rising up" is more likely to happen when people arent beaten down, when they have rising expectations that life can be better.
Then there's the old argument "I want to vote my hopes and dreams, not lesser of two evils".
To which I reply - my hope and dream is to not live under fascism so I can be free to work towards my hopes and dreams!
Well, that was 25 yrs ago and they were young and naive - no longer in touch so dont know if their thinking has evolved since then.
not fooled
(5,985 posts)so that some dreamt-of paradise can possibly materialize in eighty years.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,818 posts)mdbl
(5,180 posts)without a lot of bloodshed.
Zambero
(9,427 posts)PlutosHeart
(1,445 posts)She needs to go away. For the sake of salvaging any reputation and respect she can maintain.
orangecrush
(21,036 posts)Putin's puppet
Wolf Frankula
(3,651 posts)And why doesn't she run with Bobbers the Junky. He's a KENNEDY!
Wolf
JI7
(90,094 posts)Figarosmom
(727 posts)Working for Russia. Everyone shevasks must realize they're being used to help Trump win. I'll never forget s h e was at that same awards dinner in Russia with Michael Flynn getting an award from putin.is she going to be on the ball let in every state
markodochartaigh
(1,701 posts)Strong Leader running as the candidate of one of the major parties, there are two sides; the authoritarian side, and the side of everyone who wants to maintain democracy.
It is unfortunate that this is where we are, and certainly a societal distaste for discussing real issues is a big part of what got us here. But here we are. It's two sides now. And only one of them is pro-democracy.
LeftInTX
(29,032 posts)SouthBayDem
(32,419 posts)Democracy Now and the like are too focused on attacking the Democratic Party from the left rather than soberly analyzing the Democratic Party platform.
betsuni
(27,082 posts)Increasingly pro-Russia anti-America (meaning Democratic Party -- for Republicans, too, government only means Democrats -- Murc's Law: only Democrats have agency and influence in politics (everything bad is their fault and they're never given the benefit of the doubt because bad motivations are assumed) emotional disinformation designed to make potential Democratic voters disgusted and cynical.
Republicans scaring people that Democrats are dangerous radical socialists; "Left" media scaring people that Democrats are corrupt neoliberal capitalist warmongers more dangerous than Republicans. Can't watch Democracy Now, Amy Goodman, waste of time. Not journalism.
Dropped out of a political discussion group I'd helped start because spent too much time debunking links members increasingly posted. Many members weren't American and no matter how hard I tried to convince them that no, the Obama administration wasn't anything like the Bush admin, they believed Glenn Greenwald or some garbage article from RealClearNewsNow or other Russian sites.
Then the full-on hysterical conspiracy theories of the 2016 and I was glad I didn't have to see former friends go all the way to the hateful dark side.
Layzeebeaver
(1,832 posts)Go back to sleep Jill.
brush
(56,338 posts)DownriverDem
(6,470 posts)This is not good for Michigan.
Delphinus
(12,040 posts)a good friend who is blindsided by the Palestinian situation - they will look upon this as a good thing.
FlyingPiggy
(3,676 posts)Laughable!! No one has forgotten her. Much like Sinema. Ugh.
Brainfodder
(7,119 posts)Zero attention, I do understand.
dalton99a
(83,312 posts)Sean Andalou
(22 posts)In 2016 Jill Stein spoilered versus Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Happy Hoosier
(8,119 posts)They don't organize locally. They don't run for lower office They exist ONLY to shave a point or two off the Democratic presidential candidate.
dalton99a
(83,312 posts)cab67
(3,161 posts)....who are as rabidly behind Stein as the average red-hatter is behind Trump.
She appeals to single-issue voters who hold their idealogical purity above the common good. Got to earn my vote and all of that, as though the real world doesn't matter, and to vote for a Democrat is to support the g-word in Gaza.
I have no use for such people. I hold my ideals as dearly as anyone else, but I also choose to accept reality. I was told by one of these knobs that I'm falling for the false dichotomy fallacy. I responded that it's not a fallacy if the dichotomy isn't false; there are only two candidates who could possibly win the election, and none of us can afford to be selfish.
And voting for Stein, or Kennedy, or any other alternative candidate is exactly that - selfish. It's horrifically, disgustingly selfish.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,818 posts)3rd, 4th, 5th parties get elected and form coalitions with other parties, and thereby get some sort of voice in the government.
LIKE IT OR NOT this is a two party, winner take all system. If they dont like it, maybe they can start by working on and getting some support for changing THAT. Tired of ignorant uninformed people.
cab67
(3,161 posts)In parliamentary systems, the parties can only govern if they form coalitions. In ours, the parties are the coalitions.
We dont have to like it, but thinking that voting third-party will lead to the change they want is foolishness. It might bring change, but to a far worse situation. And I have zero patience for things have to get worse before they get better. Its selfish.
cab67
(3,161 posts)It came from a Stein supporter, who called me a realist.
As if thats a bad thing.
Ill take cold reality over syrupy wishful thinking any day.
betsuni
(27,082 posts)Stein: Do you hate the Democratic Party?
Palestinian American: Oh yes, I hate the Democratic Party!
Stein: How much?
Palestinian American: A lot.
Stein. Right, you're in.
Martin68
(24,058 posts)If Trump wins, the environment is toast.
moose65
(3,262 posts)That is all!!!
LakeArenal
(29,547 posts)Attilatheblond
(3,698 posts)It's the year of the bear for 3rd party goers.
turbinetree
(25,042 posts)since they like to sit at the same table...........................
ificandream
(10,193 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,611 posts)Seriously, cut her lose or something. All she does is hurt your cause and screw everyone else.
Blue Owl
(53,757 posts)Tarc
(10,532 posts)It is a shame, because the European greens are generally pretty good people. Ours, sadly, has been coopted by foreign despots.
lees1975
(5,165 posts)Neutralize her campaign and take her supporters.
cab67
(3,161 posts)....are more likely to sit the election out, or to vote for another third-party or independent candidate, than vote for a Democrat. Shouldn't be that way, but in my experience, that's how it is.