Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position

[Jose Garcia]

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 community’s 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. It’s 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.

“It’s 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. “She’s 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]

1. Does Putin know?

Is he going to stand by Netanyahu or prop up his American Puppet Stein?

[getagrip_already]

8. Its part of the planned chaos...

Putin doesnt care about stein. He knows votes for come from dem supporters.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. I wonder if that thing

Ever looks in the mirror and says - Not only am I ugly - I'm sketchy as f*ck.

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Isn't learning Russian fun?!

Traitor, in Russian, Trump.
Spoiler, in Russian, Jill Stein
Fear, in Russian, Kamala

LOL!

[jaxexpat]

56. Reality, in Russian, Ukraine

[Ladythatvotesblue]

2. Stein

another Putin useful idiot.
Deplorable.

[AZ8theist]

33. "LEFT WING????"

She's a Putin STOOGE. You can't get further right than that.....

[Traildogbob]

3. What a freaking recurring genital wart.

What has she EVER fucking done for Green, other than grift for cash?

[Stuckinthebush]

7. That's the best description of her I've ever seen

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]

4. Who are Stein's Major Donors?

Putin? Musk? David Koch?

[AZ8theist]

34. ..yes

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Russia is getting scared now.

Seems Harris has really rattled cages. LOL!

"We are not going back!"

[bromeando]

6. Putin lover

Stein is working for Putin. She knows she can't win.

[hlthe2b]

9. She (supposedly) officially dropped out laast week...? July 29th....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219258813

Marianne Williamson Ends Longshot 2024 Presidential Bid

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(Bloomberg) -- Marianne Williamson said she failed to meet the deadline to challenge Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination, effectively ending her longshot bid.

“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]

45. Stein is a Green Party candidate

She likely will be on the ballot in all 50 states

[GoreWon2000]

11. Stein is another Nader...

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]

28. Nader is Lebanese!

So is that Hammoud guy. She should just puck Nader!

[Orangepeel]

42. Nader would never play second-fiddle

he's a first chair spoiler

[LeftInTX]

43. He's 90. At least he can break the "candidate age-barrier"

[GoreWon2000]

68. Stein helping repugs like Nader did in 2000

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]

12. What a POS

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]

14. Jill Fuckin' Stein...

Again. When will this traitor learn that no one wants her as president? I’m sick of her trying to play spoiler and hand the election to the Nazis.

[catrose]

15. Not again. As though we didn't have enough problems

[ImNotGod]

16. working with the right and putin to siphon votes away from VP Harris, that is her only job, a disgrace to the

fictional green party.

[karin_sj]

17. I can't stand this woman

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]

18. Pennsylvania is trying to kick her and "Bob" off the November ballot

https://www.democraticunderground.com/107420039
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., third-party candidates face ballot challenges in Pennsylvania"

[VeryProgressive]

19. Why is this a story?

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]

20. That's an insult to Palestinian Americans

It's as if Stein decided they are the group most likely to fall for a loser.

[KPN]

21. How do you spell investigate?

[The Wizard]

22. A Republican shill

on Team Putin

[Happy Hoosier]

23. I'd day something, but I'd better not.... NT

[we can do it]

24. Fuck Jill Stein and anybody who doesn't like that being said.

[LeftInTX]

25. She could try Justin Amash or other Arabs like Nader

Hammoud isn't Palestinian, but Justin Amash is.

[Island Blue]

26. How much is Russia paying her? nt

[LeftInTX]

27. Hammoud isn't even Palestinian!!

She might as well pick Ralph Nader!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

29. What, Jill Stein still around? Does this woman have an actual job or any sort of record of

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]

30. Doesn't this dumbass Green Party get that if they take votes away from Democrats

and Republicans get in office then NOTHING will go green. Might as well call themselves the global warming party.

[radical noodle]

36. I think her definition of green

is cash. She doesn't care about anything else that's green.

[JI7]

49. They aren't interested in "green" issues such as the environment.

their goal is to help Trump win.

[BigDemVoter]

31. Can this idiot even get on the ballots this late?

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]

32. Poor Miss Stein, still looking for? $$$ ?

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]

35. Used to know some Nader voters who claimed that it was ok if dems didnt win because

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]

48. Yeah, I'm not interested in more suffering in the here and now

so that some dreamt-of paradise can possibly materialize in eighty years.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

61. Or not. Sometimes theres really no coming back from it (per world history) nt

[mdbl]

58. People are stupid to think they will get democracy back from fascism

without a lot of bloodshed.

[Zambero]

37. Stein is as "Green" as pond scum

[PlutosHeart]

38. She's still trying to stay relevant and divide?

She needs to go away. For the sake of salvaging any reputation and respect she can maintain.

[orangecrush]

39. Of course

Putin's puppet

[Wolf Frankula]

40. How much money is the Rethuglican Party paying her?

And why doesn't she run with Bobbers the Junky. He's a KENNEDY!

Wolf

[JI7]

50. She works for Putin.

[Figarosmom]

41. I swear shes

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]

44. When you have an authoritarian

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]

46. Thank shows like "Democracy Now!" for giving them a platform

[SouthBayDem]

72. I've honestly quit a lot of "left wing" media over the last 10 years

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]

80. By about 2014 I gave up.

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]

47. Since when was she still relevant?

Go back to sleep Jill.

[brush]

51. Her again? Who's paying her this time, the rethugs, Putin, or both?

[DownriverDem]

52. Damn her

This is not good for Michigan.

[Delphinus]

53. I have

a good friend who is blindsided by the Palestinian situation - they will look upon this as a good thing.

[FlyingPiggy]

54. They must be really desperate to dust off Jill Stein & think she is relevant in any way

Laughable!! No one has forgotten her. Much like Sinema. Ugh.

[Brainfodder]

55. Who?

Zero attention, I do understand.

[dalton99a]

57. The Green Party emerges every four years to help Republicans get elected - just as entomologists predicted

[Sean Andalou]

59. Indeed. If I recall correctly ...

In 2016 Jill Stein spoilered versus Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

[Happy Hoosier]

70. They do literally nothing else.

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]

74. +1

[cab67]

60. I have some Facebook acquaintances....

....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]

62. Did these people skip civics class or what - this is not a parliamentary system where

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]

64. I've tried to make this very point.

In parliamentary systems, the parties can only govern if they form coalitions. In ours, the parties are the coalitions.

We don’t 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.’ It’s selfish.

[cab67]

66. An insult I'm proud to have had thrown at me -

It came from a Stein supporter, who called me a realist.

As if that’s a bad thing.

I’ll take cold reality over syrupy wishful thinking any day.

[betsuni]

63. The interview for potential VP:

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]

65. Once again playing the spoiler. Why does a Green Paarty candidate risk taking votes away from the Democratic Party?

If Trump wins, the environment is toast.

[moose65]

67. Fuck her

That is all!!!

[LakeArenal]

69. Meh. Spoiler gonna lose.

[Attilatheblond]

71. She's outta touch and way behind the times

It's the year of the bear for 3rd party goers.

[turbinetree]

73. Did she ask Putin...............maybe her and Flynn were on the conference call...............

since they like to sit at the same table...........................

[ificandream]

75. Jill-N-Stein still has a campaign?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

76. Until the Greens get rid of her, they'll never be taken seriously

Seriously, cut her lose or something. All she does is hurt your cause and screw everyone else.

[Blue Owl]

77. I wonder if she really believes she's relevant in any way

[Tarc]

78. There sadly really isn't a domestic Green Party

It is a shame, because the European greens are generally pretty good people. Ours, sadly, has been coopted by foreign despots.

[lees1975]

79. We need a little bit of strategy and deal making to get her out.

Neutralize her campaign and take her supporters.

[cab67]

81. A lot of her supporters....

....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.