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‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein
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There’s photos of Shill Stein dining with Putin. How much more evidence do you need?
She wasn't even the worst at the table, that "honor" goes to convicted felon Mike Flynn:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Flynn
More on Flynn and his connecting Trump to Russia here:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/
p.s. Trump's "National Security Advisor".
Still can’t believe Flynn was the fucking head of the DIA
Oh oh but if I mention it to certain folk, that's "old news" and "why do you only ever bring that image up" and "lol libs sure are grasping at straws"
Fascism and political interference does not have an expiration date.
Worth bringing the image up because it's from 2015... 6 months after she announced she was running.
Sure as fuck doesn't, as we are still being impacted by the Clinton administration interfering in 1996 Russian elections that ended up resulting in Putin as President.
You know what, you convinced me. I've decided not to vote for Clinton.
His bad decisions still haunt our society.
Lest anyone try to claim Stein isn’t running purely as a spoiler candidate.
Provide links from the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation showing there was wrong doing with the event. They've investigated and found nothing. Implying guilt by association is dishonest and should be labeled misinformation.
Here's the problem, legally, private citizens can't engage in diplomatic actions like this:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/953
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."
You would think anyone who just announced their candidacy 6 months before this dinner would know that...
But then you'd also think anyone running for President would also know how many Congressmen there are...
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/12/jill-stein-schooled-on-in-brutal-breakfast-club-interview/
And yet the Senate intelligence committee found nothing wrong or nefarious.
One would think the former 2 term VP under the first black President would remember his name
Or the name of his Secretary of Homeland Security
Great point. I definitely won't vote for Biden this year.
It was ok when your team was doing it but one error from someone else and it's the end of the world and completely makes them ineligible.
No, you see they just happened to put her at the same table as Putin and the other scumbags. She had no say in it! And she couldn't do anything about it! She's the victim here, don't ya know!
...This is the common response you see from the Stein cultists when this photo is brought up. And it's pure horseshit. If she had anywhere near the principles and ethics she claims to have she would have got up and left from that table immediately. But she didn't. Because she's a hypocritical con-artist, a charlatan.
Stein plays the morally-upright crusader, waltzing around casting sanctimonious judgements on others. But at the end of the day she's a far right stooge who is only interested in stroking her own ego and discretely ingratiating herself to tyrants. She can say what she want and has no accountability held against her.
She had done so much damage to the Green movement over the past decade+. She only pops up at election time to try to make life easier for far right movements whose policies are often the antithesis of what she pretend to support.
The Democrats should be doing more on environmental issues and holding Israel accountable for what's going on in Palestine. But at least they aren't hiding behind their own self-righteousness to anywhere near the degree that Stein is.