“Federal Election Commission records show Stein paid $100,000 in July to a consulting outfit that has worked with Republican campaigns, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid. The firm, Accelevate, is operated by Trent Pool. The Intercept reported that he appeared to be part of the mob that breached the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., 2021. The Journal hasn’t independently verified the reporting.”
Wait so she is just using a consultancy firm that has previously worked with republicans? Is that the story here?
Yes as much as I don’t like Stein nor will I vote for her I feel the splurge of news on her is mediocre at best and very obviously being paid for.
She’s not done anything to warrant the scrutiny she literally hasn’t done ANYTHING at all. Why am I hearing about her so much?
Because the options to the Democrats was either do right by Muslim voters and take this genocide seriously, or attack anyone else they could vote for.
Sort of. She also has some Russian ties.
While I don’t think she is some kind of Soviet black ops plant, she’s secured funding many times by less savory means. That does mean the things she says and does require a little extra thought though.
I do wish it wasn’t part of the “assassinate the left, cozy towards center” mentality that democrats are embracing.
Democrats are seething over people who support someone who actually aligns with their values so they keep trying to male her out to be some republican/Russian/etc stooge.
Yea, or something close to that.
The democrats haven’t run a ‘tough on crime’ right-wing democrat like harris basically since Bill in 1992 - at a time when the democratic caucus is as progressive as it’s been since before Reagan. Literally the only reason Harris is a viable democrat right now is because of Trump. Hell, even Biden wouldn’t have stood a chance in 2020 if it weren’t for trump, but at least then we had an actual primary and he was forced left by Bernie and Warren.
People here who are advocating for Jill not only have important policy alignments with her, but many like myself worry that Harris represents a bellwether moment for reversing or stagnating progress on a lot of important progressive issues. Her campaign has thus-far distanced her from pretty much every progressive issue with the exception of abortion rights (which was even originally just a wedge issue to begin with and a frustrating distraction for the last 60 years - until republicans finally caught the car and it became an immensely unpopular policy), and has been signaling right at every moment since taking over Biden’s campaign.
I think people forget just how volatile our historical moment actually is, simply because they’re singularly focused on the orange bad. We need to be looking beyond what happens in November because if all we accomplish is denying trump a presidency and nothing else, we’re just as fucked as we are now. Interpreting everything through 2024 electoral outcomes is worse than naieve.