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tenderfoot

(8,438 posts)
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 05:47 PM Nov 2016

Yes, the "Green" Party has Endorsed Trump Over Clinton

I had a feeling Greens we always a bunch of phonies since 2000. Libertarian not Progress or Liberal.


It's time to rename the American "Greens," who aren't genuinely leftist but a kind of alt-right. I suggest the Puce Party, a brownish muddle of green and red.

It's perfect: there's international confusion as to whether puce is green or red. In Europe puce is a shade of green; in the U.S. it's a murky reddish brown. Like I said... perfect. Besides, "Pucer" sounds like "Truther. “

The Green Party’s presidential candidate, Jill Stein, posted today on Facebook a link to an “Open Letter from the Social Media Director of the Stein/Baraka Campaign,” by someone whose name was given only as “Jillian.” The message reads:

…A Clinton presidency is D A N G E R O U S … If a Trump presidency would mean that we have to fight ignorants in the streets—I’m ready for that. “


Stein commented “I couldn’t have said it better.”

Not even the “we have to fight ignorants in the street” part, Jill? Is that a call to a gang fight or a misspelling?

Literary criticism aside, I consider this sufficiently official. Journalists have been pushing Stein to answer this question throughout the campaign; it has now been answered.

Stein has been increasingly preparing her followers and the public for this idea over the last few weeks. She tweeted on Oct. 14:

Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy is much scarier than Donald Trump’s, who does not want to go to war with Russia. #PeaceOffensive

She retweeted an article by her running mate Ajamu Baraka on Oct 15 titled “Why Hillary Clinton Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump,” which states:

The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton.



What an asshole Jill Stein is and **** the phony Green party.

more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/31/1589308/-Yes-the-Green-Party-has-Endorsed-Trump-Over-Clinton
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MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Stein is a massive asshat. I've been saying that for years and gotten
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 05:51 PM
Nov 2016

pushback, mostly from trolls who left for that hellhole of hate website.

At least now we know the racists and the sexists by their affiliations. Anyone who can support Trump is one or the other--or both.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
9. What does Stein feel her massive base of support,
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 06:08 PM
Nov 2016

a good 1% of voters, will really do? Assuming that her supporters do not see this as Stein desperately trying for media attention and relevance?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,391 posts)
12. Off-topic, sort of: I would say puce is pinkish purple
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 06:54 PM
Nov 2016

I have no idea where you've got the idea of 'green' from.

The OED just gives the definition you say is American: "a dark purple brown or brownish purple colour."

http://colors.findthedata.com/l/806/Puce

Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
13. Stein is as much of a Trump minion as Comey
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 07:15 PM
Nov 2016

Every one of her speeches and campaign ads should end with "I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message"

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
14. Anyone who thinks Trump is safer than Clinton is an idiot
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 07:21 PM
Nov 2016

And there's no reason to think Clinton would get us in a war with Russia, but there's every reason to believe Trump would have us do Russia's bidding. That's a really serious issue.

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