Jill Stein Has Got to Be Kidding

[DonViejo]

Trump is not the lesser evil. Full stop.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
SEP 19, 2016

It is a busy time at the intersection of Fantasy Street and Purity Boulevard. ("Left Turn Only" reads the sign.) Dr. Jill Stein's knowledge of How Things Really Work is getting another serious airing, this time on a podcast put together by the gang at Tiger Beat On The Potomac. After making a fairly strong case that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a flawed vessel for a progressive, but that Donald Trump is eight kinds of dangerous crazy, Dr. Jill's civics train left the rails once again.

But her contempt has a more cutting quality when she talks about Clinton. She mocks Trump as braying menace; Stein thinks he's, at heart, a bumbler who will be neutered by his own party after being elected. But it's Clinton who poses the greater threat, in Stein's estimation, because she knows how to move the levers of Washington. "Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress," Stein explains. "Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won't… Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his."

I am sorry, but this is just as nutty as anything that has emerged from the piehole of El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago. On what does she base her conclusion that a President Trump will be neutered by the Republicans in Congress? (We must stipulate that, if he were to win the presidency, the Republicans also would maintain their majorities in both houses of Congress and that means, hello, Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown!) They would pass the bills and he would sign just about anything they wanted him to sign.

I can't see any issue on which he's campaigned that would put a Republican congressional majority on the opposite side. But, of course, HRC would simply cave on everything the Republicans wanted, and she's a closet conservative anyway. This is yapping from Opposite World and it does not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48704/jill-stein-clinton-worse-than-trump/

[oasis]

1. Why is Stein included in serious polls? It's obvious she's a crackpot.

[Demsrule86]

2. Jill Stein doesn't think Trump can move stuff though a Republican Congress?

We won't get the Senate if Sec Clinton loses...and they will have it all including the courts as they get the tie-breaking justice...since they have obstructed Pres. Obama. Jill Stein is so awful. I dislike her as much as Trump...I wonder how many know her true views...she is not pro-choice and is anti-vax. Now I have to conclude Stein is stupid if she thinks a GOP can't get stuff through a GOP Congress.

[tavernier]

3. But she had no qualms

about swanning around the Dem convention trying to suck off publicity and voters from HC.

Someone throw salt on this leach and throw her back in with the rest of the pond scum.

[Ilsa]

4. Stein is as narcisstic as trump.

I'm really put out by her saying this shit, and basically advocating for another term of do-nothing government.

[Demsrule86]

10. Since Trump

would have a GOP Congress panting to all the evil President Obama has stopped...we would long for the days of gridlock. It would be much worse. Kiss all progressive achievement goodbye if they get the courts for 30 years or so. There would be no reason to even bother voting in 2020. I do not believe Jill Stein is progressive at all. She has fooled naive young voters.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Clearly her mind has been addled by red crayons, wi-fi or vaccinations.

[Hortensis]

17. Lol. Implacable hostility toward liberals/Democrats,

far over conservatives, with all the dishonesty and self deception that requires, is a key identifying characteristic of left-wing extremists.

Left-wing extremists are not mostly like liberals, just more. Left-wing extremists are mostly like right-wing extremists, just a bit different. And they're all somewhat "addled," to use a nice word for it.

[Gothmog]

6. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump

[Madam45for2923]

7. Jill Stein = HRC Hate !

Will never forget her agenda this election!

[Demsrule86]

11. Welcome Madam! nt

Very true.

[The Wizard]

8. She's being funded by the GOP

like they funded Ralph Nader. And it worked. No Nader - no Bush 43.
Hillary has to do something to fire up the base and the youth.

[Madam45for2923]

12. The base is fired up!

[RBInMaine]

16. Like what? Cartwheels? If "the base" and "youth" aren't "fired up" then they need to

fire THEMSELVES up. My god. If the thought of that piece of dog shit Trump can't motivate people, nothing will.

[mcar]

9. K&R

[relayerbob]

13. Did Jill send out boxes of extra stupid pills??

Seems like today and yesterday, I've seen an increase in the shrill stupidity. The good things - most everyone either mocks or ignores them

[RBInMaine]

14. Jill Stein is a ZERO REALITY MEGA UNQUALIFIED piece of horse turd.

[bigwillq]

15. A kick for Jill

since she seems to be very popular on DU. Lots of folks talking about her.

[stevenleser]

18. Yeah, a kick in the pants, out the window, on the 25th floor. nt

[bigwillq]

19. Are you wishing injury, perhaps death, on another human being?

[stevenleser]

20. We're speaking in metaphors right? Since per the TOS, you can't really support Stein. nt

[bigwillq]

21. Sure.

Metaphors.

[stevenleser]

22. I thought so.

indeed.