‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein

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‘Useful Idiot for Russia’: DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein
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“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.”

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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".

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.

political interference does not have an expiration date.

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.

I heard Clinton even helped Hitler bein elected so ... shuffles papers ... I am NOT going to vote for ... shuffling papers more ... Biden but for Trump!

-"Hey boss, you sure it's still Biden?"

-"Da da."

We are still plagued with horrible decisions made by previous Democrats. Clinton giving us Putin is one of them, Biden and his crime bill is another one

Still can’t believe Flynn was the fucking head of the DIA

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.

you'd also think anyone running for President would also know how many Congressmen there are

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.

Lol imagine getting mad because someone called Jill Stein a useful idiot for Russia (that's all she's ever been lmao)

Clearly you're her moral-kin and that's why you hurt so.

It was OK when my team was doing what? Which "team" do I play for? You seem confused.

I'm not confused, Democrats think in binary terms, this or that, so you were either on this team or that team. You decide

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.

The system is rigged and you are being play around, how much more evidence do you need?

Presidents are supposed to meet with other global leaders you Muppet

That's Index's "gotcha" every time someone brings up the dinner photo. He posts these every time as if it's not normal for world leaders to meet... and Stein is not a world leader.

It's not normal to shake hands and laugh with dictators. Would you personally act so friendly with putin, bil salman, or netanyahu? The average person would probably slap them in the face.

Clearly you don't have a clue how international politics work. It's not unusual for world leaders to meet, even when some are dictators. Part of preventing war between hostile countries is diplomacy. I am not a world leader, so no, I would not be meeting with any of those individuals and neither should Stein. Do you seriously think it would be at all beneficial for world leaders to be assaulting each other?

"international politics" is not shaking hands, hugging, and laughing with dictators. What were jill stein doing at the table with putin? discussing diplomacy? They were enjoying their champagne and talking about how they are going to be richer while peasants like you do all the work for them.

The choice to meet with a war criminal, shake hands and laugh is their own.

World leaders do meet one another, and often shake one another's hands. Jill Stein is not a world leader.