Jill Stein reveals her true colors via her running mate:: WTF?!!

[misterhighwasted]

http://fusion.net/story/332652/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-beyonce/?utm_campaign=ThisIsFusion&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social

Would someone please define Stein's running mate..UGH!
So Bill Clinton is a rapist (LIE)
Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist (LIE)
Beyonce only sang all those words for BLM to capitalize on profits (LIE)
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From the link:
Jill Stein, the great hope of the Green Party, announced yesterday that she’d selected Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist, as her running mate for this year’s presidential election.

SNIP
While those outside of the far-left activist community might not be all that familiar with Baraka’s politics, for the past six years, the vice presidential hopeful has maintained a fairly active personal blog where he’s written about race, international affairs, and current events. (Neither Baraka’s or Stein’s teams returned requests for comment.)

Each page of Baraka’s blog opens with a very appropriate bell hooks quote describing itself as a “site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.” Baraka resists and he does so radically on a number of topics, including:

On Muhammad Ali, Dylan Roof, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton:

Baraka wrote.”The announcement that Bill Clinton, the rapist and petty opportunist politician, had been chosen to deliver the eulogy at Ali’s funeral suggests that his family is heading down that same path.” MORE..

On Bernie Sanders and his supporters:

Sanders’ campaign, Baraka wrote, was less concerned about actual political reform and more interested in a tacit “commitment to Eurocentrism and normalized white supremacy.”

Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills. MORE...

On Beyoncé, “Formation,” and black pop culture commentary:

“I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive,” Baraka said. “I didn’t see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters.”

Now this is the type of candidate the people can get behind. MORE...

[Humanist_Activist]

1. The North American Green Parties are crazy. n/t

[Warpy]

10. They lost me here in NM shortly after I moved here in the 90s

by running a pious, fetus obsessed antiabortionist for governor.

Nuh-uh, people, not going to waste a vote on you, ever.

I do miss the Socialist Workers' Party in Boston. They occasionally found some stellar candidates for local office.

[FLPanhandle]

2. Jill Stein is a anti-vax batshit crazy loon

I'd only be surprised if she choose someone with an IQ higher than room temp.

[Hortensis]

40. Lol! She's really scraping bottom here, but the convention

is in 3 days, so after everyone else said no... If anyone wanted to know more about her, this choice is enlightening. Or something. It may just indicate dysfunction and desperation more than ideology. He represents a viewpoint, but it's one where Cornel West is too establishment-oriented.

Btw, Baraka's Wickipedia site said he called Bernie supporters "naive shills..." So obviously Stein is blowing off those who looked for a home in the Green Party.

Wickipedia:

In February 2016 during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, Baraka wrote "In this period of media-driven pseudo-opposition in the form of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beyoncé or even Bernie Sanders, it is increasingly difficult to make the distinction between image and reality, especially when the production of images and symbols is controlled by dominant forces with an interest in keeping us all stupid"

In September 2015, he said that "the world that a President Sanders promises—continued war crimes from the sky with drone strikes and Saudi led terror in support of the Western imperial project." He has referred to Obama and the Sanders campaign as "a tacit commitment to Eurocentrism and the assumptions of normalized white supremacy."

In September 2015, Baraka criticized Dr. Cornel West and West's support for Sanders, saying that he was "sheep-dogging for the Democrats" by "drawing voters into the corrupt Democratic party". West later endorsed Baraka's running mate Jill Stein after Sanders suspended his campaign.

And the entry is cited for being too dependent on "primary sources," i.e., friendly. Lol.

[Initech]

45. I really hope nobody votes 3rd party nonsense this year.

[bluedye33139]

3. Sounds like she found someone who beautifully embodies Green Party values

[underthematrix]

4. LOL! So her running mate is her phuck buddy

[misterhighwasted]

8. !

[Mike Nelson]

5. Epic...

...fail.

[JI7]

6. this is what the green party is

[emulatorloo]

7. Saw a couple of his old articles in counterpunch earlier today. At a loss as to what Stein is

thinking. If her goal is to attract disgruntled Sanders supporters, picking a VP who has said vile, dismissive, untrue things about Bernie and his supporters shows a real lack of judgement.

[misterhighwasted]

9. Really! to call Sanders a white supremacist is like Trump going after the Khan family

WOW!
Absolutely appalling.

[melman]

13. Yes, appalling

and it was just as appalling when it was done here.

[misterhighwasted]

17. And calling for Hillary to be in prison. For nothing

Among the litany of RW talking pts to divide the only Party with any obvious sense for governing the lunatics emerging in this GE.

FUBAR

[mercuryblues]

36. show me

the post where Sanders was called a white supremacist by a Duer. I must have missed it

[onehandle]

11. The Greens gave us George W. Bush.

I think they are secretly 'end-of-timers.'

They should team up with fundies that are looking forward to Revelations.

[misterhighwasted]

12. Yes..end timers.

And there they were waving there stupid signs at the Dem Convention.
How much more f'd up can people get.
This election has brought them all out "capitalizing" on crazy.

[Rex]

14. So did 200,000 Florida Dems, I hope they regret that choice to this day. nt

nt

[RAFisher]

25. Nader only got 97k votes in Florida. Where does the 200k come from?

[JI7]

30. those are conservative/reagan type dems, they wanted the conservative which they got

[LWolf]

22. Bullshit.

Election fraud and the Supreme Court gave us GWB.

I don't really give a flying fuck about the Green ticket VP, but every single time this bullshit piece is trotted out, I'm going to call it what it is. Bullshit.

[RAFisher]

26. No New Hampshire deserves some blame. Nader got 3.9% in NH compared to 1.6% in Florida

Hell if less than a third of New Hampshire Nader voters voted for Gore then Gore would have won. He didn't need Florida if he had NH.

[Downtown Hound]

32. I'm going to call bullshit on your call of bullshit

The Supreme Court, election fraud, AND Ralph Nader gave us W. To deny his role in helping them steal it is to deny reality, and as long as I continue to see people deny that, I'm going to call it what it is. Bullshit.

[LWolf]

41. Here's why

I don't blame Nader voters. First of all, the disclaimer: I voted for Gore.

Nader voters were committing democracy and exercising their right to vote. There is no fraud nor cheating there. If Democrats didn't win those votes, that's on Democrats. It's not the fault of those they didn't win.

I, for one, am a strong proponent of democracy.

[Downtown Hound]

49. Confession: I'm a Nader 2000 voter

In my defense I can honestly say I was planning on voting for Gore pretty much up until the last minute. I was 24 and going to college and working in a movie theater at the time, and I had heard on the radio that Gore had already been declared the winner of California, my state. So I figured what the hell and went and cast my vote for Nader when I got off work, believing it would make no difference since Gore had already won here.

I regret my vote to this day. Not because it would have made a difference in the outcome, it wouldn't have. But I regret giving credence to Nader and his platform of lies that there is no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. I regret being young and naive and being taken in by a man who I have come to believe is one of the greatest con men operating in American politics (fortunately a lot less now). I was young and naive and idealistic. I bought into the whole "vote your conscience, not your fear" crap that Nader and the Greens were peddling back then and still are today. I regret not knowing that being young and white and from a middle class family did not prepare me for the fact that sometimes fear is warranted and a perfectly valid thing to feel, especially when it comes to handing over the reigns of the most powerful nation in the world to a bumbling psychopath.

I blame myself for being young and naive and taken in by his garbage. But I blame Nader for exploiting that type of idealism even more. Nader is a conniving ass who exploits idealism and naivety while all the while giving nothing back. Well, I take that back, he did give us George W. Bush.

Bernie Sanders did it right, fighting hard and sticking to his principles but ultimately putting his ego aside and doing what was right for the country and the planet by getting behind the Democratic nominee when the time was right. Nader did not. Nader loves his role of spoiler and relishes the power it gives him. He cares nothing for the people that will be hurt in the process. That makes him as bad as any Republican.

[EuroYankee]

35. Nader and the Greens did NOT give us Bush. The Democrats did.

Sorry, Nader took equally from BOTH parties. In Florida he took 1% each from Gore and Bush, thereby cancelling out any real influence on the outcome. But the dirty little secret that the DNC won't tell you is that 13% of Democrats voted for BUSH. THEY are the ones who gave us Bush.

If you put up a DLC corporatist Democrat instead of a progressive, you lose. It's like what Truman said - if given the choice of a phony Democrat and a true Republican, people will go for the real thing.
http://disinfo.com/2010/11/debunked-the-myth-that-ralph-nader-cost-al-gore-the-2000-election/

[geek tragedy]

15. Continuing the proud tradition of Cynthia McKinney nt

[dlwickham]

27. Being bat shit crazy?

[bravenak]

28. Bingo!

[geek tragedy]

29. Yep. nt

[SirBrockington]

16. How does this person go from offering Bernie Sanders the top of the ticket

To making this guy the VP?

Snip:

To say that that Baraka opinions on Bernie Sanders were somewhat less than charitable would be something of an understatement. Sanders’ campaign, Baraka wrote, was less concerned about actual political reform and more interested in a tacit “commitment to Eurocentrism and normalized white supremacy.”

Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills.

[misterhighwasted]

18. Stunning isn't it. Knife to the back because he aligned with Dems who know the meaning of

compromise.
That's what a successful government has to be able & willing to do in the end when the dust clears.
The obstructionist thought of the Republicans is why Pres Obama was stopped at every turn.
Hillary understands the benefit to compromise & so does Bernie Sanders. Those who really are in this job for love of country & its people.

TrumpnStein can go to hell. They are both dispicable.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

21. How do the most radical Bernie supporters go from a true statesman to a loser like Stein?

Hive mentality. Fuck all of them.

[Chathamization]

31. She was never serious about the offer to Sanders, it was a publicity stunt to attract Sanders

supporters. I think that even if Sanders got the Democratic nomination, Stein would come up with some excuse to still run ("We're attacking Trump from the left!" "Were creating more space on the left for Sanders!&quot .

This Green Party candidate did a pretty good job at summing things up:

In politics, things are seldom what they seem. Despite the Green Party’s declaration that we’re different, in many ways, we’re not. When I saw that I thought, Jill Stein’s not trying to get Bernie Sanders as a running mate. Jill Stein’s trying to get in the news to attract Bernie Sanders supporters. You know what? It’s a good idea. As PT Barnum said, the only bad publicity is no publicity. Bernie Sanders would not be Jill Stein’s Vice President. That’s not going to happen. Those guys are the major leagues and we’re the minor leagues. It would be naive, it would be delusional, to think that Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein would form a ticket. However, calling attention to it, I think, is smart.

[msanthrope]

19. Whatever she's smoking, stay away from. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. Jill and her new pal are total assholes.

[NuclearDem]

23. I refuse to vote for that right winger Jill Stein

#FeelTheChern

[struggle4progress]

24. "I'm an a-hole and I'm proud. I used to be alone in a crowd.

But now you look around these days, there seems to be an a-hole craze. I'm an a-hole! He's an a-hole! She's an a-hole! We're all a-holes! Wouldn't you like to be an a-hole too?"

[Downtown Hound]

33. Once upon a time I was a registered Green

That was a long time ago. What was once a promising and growing third party has devolved into a bad joke. Pretty soon they will go the way of Ross Perot's Reform Party. And the thing is, I won't miss them one bit. 20 years ago i wouldn't have been caught dead saying that.

[MADem]

43. The Greens will never have a chance to be a maturing group, or a sane group, so long as Stein holds

the reins of power as she does. There's no discussion about who is going to lead the ticket--she's judge, jury and executioner. The party is her little fiefdom. She's turned it into a joke, and she uses it as a platform for her need for attention.

I always thought they'd grow their platform and their outreach in NORMAL ways, like, say, that grassroots stuff--get a few Greens on town/city councils, boards of education, etc., then move into state governments. But no--it's the All About Jill Party. She has turned it into a mockery of crazy-tude. It is her personal soap box. She is from my state, we "get" to see her more frequently than most in USA. Trust me, she doesn't improve with exposure.

[romanic]

34. Sounds like a swell guy.

[owack6]

37. Some more "interesting" views from this man

I'm copying this from a user post on politico:

Ajamu Baraka's main mission in life as a blogger and activist has been to serve as an apologist for Islamic extremists and call for destruction of the state of Israel. He has defended Boko Haram in Nigeria by saying their violence needs to be seen "in context." He defended the Paris Muslim attackers of the Charlie Hebdo organization by labeling the victim a "racist Islamophobic publication." He defended the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt without ever mentioning that it is a terrorist organization and is the parent organization of Hamas, which seized power in Gaza in a violent coup against the Palestinian Authority.

As for Israel, Baraka has repeatedly called for its dissolution and replacement by a single "secular state" brought about by what he calls "the Palestinian Movement" -- transparent code for a new Arab invasion to kill the Jews. Baraka is a leader of the BDS movement, despite the fact that the biggest victims of Israel boycotts have been the Palestinian workers whose products carry an Israeli label.

Aside from violating the Green Party's professed commitment to nonviolence, Baraka's nomination, if it happens, would be the most vile nomination of any party in 2016, this most vile election year. It will also consign the Green Party to the oblivion it so rickly deserves.

This Ohioan was ready to vote for a Jill Stein-Nina Turner ticket in November. But the Green Party now moves to the very bottom of my preference list, and if Baraka is the VP nominee, I will actively work to push the Green Party below the requirement for ballot access in Ohio.

[Recursion]

38. He said the CIA shot down MH-17 to make Russia look bad (nt)

[misterhighwasted]

39. Yesseree! This is the VP pick that most resembles Stein's vision for America!!

These two define each other.
Stein is a liar.

[MADem]

42. "Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills..."

Great pick, Jill!!

Every time I think she can't do anything more batshit crazy, she proves me wrong!

With this choice, she has shoved away all the potential disaffected Sanders supporters who weren't ready for HRC.


You'd have to have a LOT of "revenge" in your heart to pick a team that believes you are a "naive shill!" By voting, the angry voter is saying "I'm voting for someone who thinks I'm a nitwit!"

Cornel West would have been a more "moderate" choice! At least he's not talking shit about Sanders!!!

[NaturalHigh]

44. Okay, this guy is a nut.

He won't win the Green Party many votes.

[obamanut2012]

46. Oh boy

[Odin2005]

47. This guy is unhinged.

[marle35]

48. Hopefully this will gain more votes for Hillary -nt-

[Democat]

50. Someone is paying these Trump-enablers

Probably the right wing.