The committee has largely kept quiet about the Green party nominee. But that’s now changing.

“Jill Stein is a useful idiot for Russia. After parroting Kremlin talking points and being propped up by bad actors in 2016 she’s at it again,” DNC spokesman Matt Corridoni said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Jill Stein won’t become president, but her spoiler candidacy—that both the GOP and Putin have previously shown interest in—can help decide who wins. A vote for Stein is a vote for Trump.”

      • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        133·
        2 months ago

        In what world has Trump done anything to suggest he’d support or push a ceasefire?

        Harris has both said and done more to push for a ceasefire than literally every other candidate on the ballot.

        There is no third party candidate that has a hope of winning right now, thus every vote for third party is the same as not voting.

        And not voting is effectively the same as voting Republican, so you’re either voting for Harris, or you’re supporting Trump.

        • electric_nan
          510·
          2 months ago

          Where the hell did you see me say I would ever vote for Trump? Harris has not done a fucking thing to “push for a ceasefire”. The strongest thing she has said, as far as I know, is that she " wouldn’t be silent about what is going on in Gaza". The very next day, she published a letter condemning the people who protested Netanyahu’s visit. The dem party is full of outright and de facto Zionists, who preferred to have conservatives speak at their convention rather than Palestinian Americans. I’m not voting for, or supporting either Trump or Harris. Harris does still have time to win the votes of people like me. I hope you’re calling your dem reps and demanding it.

          • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            82·
            2 months ago

            If you don’t think Trump would be even worse for than Harris in regards to Palestine, you’re delusional. Contrary to popular edgelord opinion the lesser evil is still better than the greater evil.

          • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            2 months ago

            I agree that she should be more clear on demanding a ceasefire (although she did actually partly demand just that in March, at least for 6 weeks - and again during the debate), and that this war could probably be stopped if she made such demands. The current US administration is working to end the fighting, so not voting for the party that is actually working to end the war is at the detriment to the people of Gaza.

            US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said two weeks ago that 90 percent of a ceasefire deal had been agreed upon.

            Washington has been working for months with mediators Qatar and Egypt to try and bring Israel and Hamas to a final agreement.

            Biden laid out a three-phase ceasefire proposal on May 31 saying that Israel had agreed to it.

            20 Sep 2024, Al Jazeera

            Now compare that to Trump:

            “From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire,” Trump said, adding it “would only give Hamas time to regroup and launch a new October 7 style attack.” Trump added: “I will give Israel the support that it needs to win but I do want them to win fast.”

            So he would basically allow a full scale genocide, no holds barred.

            That being said though, this is likely not going to end anytime soon due to the massive pager/radio attack on Hezbollah that’s likely going to make this whole quagmire even worse. And I 100% agree with you that the US/Kamala/Biden should put Israel in it’s place before this whole powder keg turns into WWIII, which is not outside the realm of possibilities to anyone who has studied history and the role multiple global conflicts played in the past to lead to world war.