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ButterflyBlood

(12,644 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:56 PM Jun 2016

Green voters: summarized

By someone on another forum:

I mean Trump is literally a white nationalist who thinks Americans aren't real Americans if they're parents were immigrants and/or they're not white, but Hillary Clinton only supports a $12.50 federal minimum wage so I guess we might as well just vote for this crazy lady who's totally unfit to be a city council person much less president.

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Green voters: summarized (Original Post) ButterflyBlood Jun 2016 OP
Yes, a crazy lady who said that one of Clinton's first actions as president could be a nuclear war TwilightZone Jun 2016 #1
Fail PowerToThePeople Jun 2016 #2
+10,000 nt Live and Learn Jun 2016 #3
2 days baldguy Jun 2016 #11
Dr. Stein is far from crazy. nt Live and Learn Jun 2016 #4
Oh really? ButterflyBlood Jun 2016 #6
I don't see that as crazy at all. nt Live and Learn Jun 2016 #9
I've seen other things posted by her that made me think she is just plain weird leftofcool Jun 2016 #12
She is a green traitor Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #13
Or maybe the better Jill Stein does, the more DLC-types will see it is better not take the base for Vote2016 Jun 2016 #5
How'd that work out for "the base" in 2000? n/t BzaDem Jun 2016 #32
Spot on! CorkySt.Clair Jun 2016 #7
And Trump wins? Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #14
Uh...The OP mocks Green Party voters CorkySt.Clair Jun 2016 #26
Mea culpa Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #28
Sorry Demsrule86 Jun 2016 #30
It's okay. I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Sorry for being so caustic. CorkySt.Clair Jun 2016 #31
Post removed Post removed Jun 2016 #8
+1000 And don't forget the sniper attack episode. nt Live and Learn Jun 2016 #10
I'll vote for HRC in November, but bashing Jill Stein as 'crazy' makes me sympathetic to Stein. NT Eric J in MN Jun 2016 #15
Post removed Post removed Jun 2016 #16
Two days left... brooklynite Jun 2016 #18
One ... Two! Ah-ah-ahhh! NurseJackie Jun 2016 #21
Just feel all that #unity. VulgarPoet Jun 2016 #17
Stein isn't a Democrat. TwilightZone Jun 2016 #24
Well hey, good job running 'em off. VulgarPoet Jun 2016 #25
Stein got 450k total votes in 2012. There's no one to run off. TwilightZone Jun 2016 #29
And Albert Einstein was in fact a socialist... Herman4747 Jun 2016 #27
I think Greens support obvious losing candidates because then they're never responsible BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #19
Tell me, do you also have the winning lottery numbers for the Powerball in all that psychic drivel VulgarPoet Jun 2016 #20
I posted my opinion. If that offends you, it's not my problem. BobbyDrake Jun 2016 #22
I think the "crazy lady" part undermines the rest of it oberliner Jun 2016 #23

TwilightZone

(25,342 posts)
1. Yes, a crazy lady who said that one of Clinton's first actions as president could be a nuclear war
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:58 PM
Jun 2016

with Russia.

Yeah, she's credible.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
13. She is a green traitor
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 07:02 AM
Jun 2016

and an enemy because her actions could hand Trump the presidency and the courts. You would have thought such people would have learned their lesson in 2000 and of course they did Kerry no good in 2004. It is even worse this year. Trump is the most dangerous Republican candidate in my lifetime. The greens are dead to me.

 

Vote2016

(1,198 posts)
5. Or maybe the better Jill Stein does, the more DLC-types will see it is better not take the base for
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 09:18 PM
Jun 2016

granted.

Why should anyone in a non-battleground state vote for a candidate who disparages their values?

There are plenty of Democrats on the ballot. It won't matter to anyone but me if I vote for all but one.

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
14. And Trump wins?
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 07:12 AM
Jun 2016

Well, I guess that will show all the people who did not support Bernie...oh yeah...eight years of Trump because after four, voting will be impossible with the GOP busy making sure certain people can't vote...hey maybe he declares himself president for life...who knows...Trump is unqualified, stupid and a raging racist. I have never seen people calling themselves progressive and yet willing to help elect an evil tyrant like Trump;you would allowing him to pick justices for Scotus that would be on the court for 30 or 40 years. You want Jill (green traitor) to take votes from the Democratic candidate. You are probably violating the existing DU rules now ...certainly in two days advocating for a third party candidate will not be allowed. I won't have to listen to you encourage people to vote essentially for Trump...a vote for a green is a vote for Trump. Have you no shame or decency? The 16th can't come fast enough for me.

 

CorkySt.Clair

(1,507 posts)
26. Uh...The OP mocks Green Party voters
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 09:53 AM
Jun 2016

For not being able to see the forrest for the trees. I have not supported Bernie AT ALL during this primary. Nor have I supported or would ever support someone like Jill Stein, not that I need to explain any of that to you.

Perhaps you could use some lessons on satire and parody. Or basic reading comprehension?

Demsrule86

(68,352 posts)
30. Sorry
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 10:57 AM
Jun 2016

I have seen so many green party posts here that frankly advocate for them...I mistook it as serious.

Response to ButterflyBlood (Original post)

Response to ButterflyBlood (Original post)

 

Herman4747

(1,825 posts)
27. And Albert Einstein was in fact a socialist...
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 09:59 AM
Jun 2016

...and the Greens are far closer to socialism than is Hillary.

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
19. I think Greens support obvious losing candidates because then they're never responsible
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 08:51 AM
Jun 2016

for anything that happens. They can continue to pretend like things would be magically better if only their candidate had won instead. Their crystal balls into the alternate dimension where they're (somehow, against all logic) actually in charge tell them so, obviously.

Jill Stein, while crazy and clearly a bit of a narcissist, is just the latest figurehead for the fringe element that is too afraid of responsibility to vote in a way that would actually affect change in this country. Because deep down, they know for a fact that their "change" would be just as incremental and hard-fought and slow as the kinds of achievements Democrats get already that people like the Greens shit all over in their supposed purity.

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
20. Tell me, do you also have the winning lottery numbers for the Powerball in all that psychic drivel
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 08:53 AM
Jun 2016

or are you just throwing your voice to another orifice that I can't mention in civilized company?

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
23. I think the "crazy lady" part undermines the rest of it
Tue Jun 14, 2016, 09:13 AM
Jun 2016

I would remove that if I were trying to make a similar point.

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