2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJill Stein Has Got to Be Kidding
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.
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
(49,429 posts)Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)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
(12,410 posts)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
(61,707 posts)I'm really put out by her saying this shit, and basically advocating for another term of do-nothing government.
Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)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
(175,755 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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
(145,667 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Will never forget her agenda this election!
Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)Very true.
The Wizard
(12,552 posts)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
(7,178 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)fire THEMSELVES up. My god. If the thought of that piece of dog shit Trump can't motivate people, nothing will.
relayerbob
(6,561 posts)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
(13,570 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)since she seems to be very popular on DU. Lots of folks talking about her.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Metaphors.