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Great. Jill Stein is Back, Announces Another Run for President with Green Party. [1]
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Date: 2023-11-09
Just when I think things can’t get any weirder, Jill (The Spoiler Who Helped Put Trump Into The White House, Thanks a Lot!) Stein of the Green Party in 2016 fame has announced another run for President.
Oh right. I’m sure THIS TIME things will get SO BAD we will see a revolution, right Jill? Susan? Y’all out there?
I can’t even. We had such a glorious opportunity in 2000 but Nader refused to withdraw from Florida and Gore lost that state (maybe) and thus the election was decided by SCOTUS even though Gore got more votes, so we got Dubya, and I’m sure I don’t need to write down all the stuff that’s happened since.
We got a respite with the election of President Obama and then VP Biden, hooray, and had once more a sense of optimism.
BUT THEN, it’s too painful. I can’t even write it down.
Do we need this?
Dang Jill.
We are facing a serious situation on the Right, and splitting votes even further could well throw a battleground or two to the GOP Nominee, whoever they might be the crop isn’t too inspiring even if The Orange Person isn’t it. Hopefully he will be in jail by then but I wouldn’t count on it. Meanwhile none of the other candidates is remotely interested in social safety nets, workers and fair wages, women’s rights (!) and some of them have actively sought to harm LGBTQ people, and they seem determined to burn the planet’s fragile environment as fast as possible, and also seem to be more on Russia’s side than Ukraine’s.
Or ours.
Help. Tell me this won’t matter.
Per the Times,
A spokesman for Ms. Stein’s campaign, LeBeau Kpadenou, confirmed that she intended to again seek the Green Party’s nomination. That institutional backing would spare her some of the challenges in gaining ballot access that will be faced by two prominent independent candidates in the race: the progressive activist and professor Cornel West and the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who left the Democratic primary last month. The group of third-party candidates could significantly complicate what looks likely to be a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump. Some of Mr. Biden’s allies, worried that third-party candidates could siphon support from him in swing states and make a Trump victory more likely, have been working aggressively to undermine those campaigns. In 2016, Ms. Stein drew some 1.4 million votes, and some Democrats blamed her for pulling support from Hillary Clinton in critical states. Her 2012 bid, on the other hand, drew only about 470,000 votes and not much attention because ultimately the race between President Barack Obama and the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, was not particularly close. Never a dull moment.
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