Jill Stein appreciation thread

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Thank you for calling for and executing a recount.

Hillary would have been pilloried and called a sore loser by Trump, Trumpkins and their lap dogs in the press if she requested one even though she won the popular vote by 2, 500,000 votes.

[blue sky at night]

1. thank you Jill....

You gave me reason to have H O P E....small amount of it but still H O P E.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Good thought, nice sentiment n/t

[eleny]

3. I'm in

$4,150M so far. Lots of folks are feeling the same.

[WhiteTara]

4. I'll thank her when she files

and not before. That's a nice chunk of change she gathered up and now to see what she does.

[womanofthehills]

15. Actually, Wisconsin is gearing up for the recount.

why so negative? this is a good thing!!!

[WhiteTara]

18. If/when it happens, I'll be happy.

Right now, I am still waiting

[jodymarie aimee]

5. I may owe her my life literally

If Cheeto allows Ryan to take out Low income housing, and medicare and SS I am dead. Literally dead. Poor old 65 year old disabled lady on the curb. I am happy for the first time all month.

[EL34x4]

10. You may want to cobble together a Plan B.

Stein's recount crusade (that looks a lot like a cash grab) isn't going to amount to a damn bit of difference.

[MoonRiver]

13. I really don't think Dems in the Senate will let any of that happen.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. I adore you. Check out my sig line.

If my party abandons you I will abandon it.

My faith and politics have been the only constants in my life.

[flamingdem]

6. If she didn't do this we'd never know

and we still may never know, really, but something might be revealed at least

[Thekaspervote]

7. Life moves in mysterious ways

Thank you!

[TheFrenchRazor]

8. kicking... nt

[jimlup]

9. Yes I do think this is better with Stein doing it

I still remember the "Sore Loserman" so called grass roots movement from 2000 which actually turned out to be Republicon operatives.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I don't think it will flip the election but it will piss off Trump and his minions.

He might go on a twitter rant and give the recount even more attention.

[womanofthehills]

17. Even if it doesn't flip the election - it will help in the future

and it might get the attention of some states.

[MoonRiver]

12. Thank you!

[LisaL]

14. I am afraid people are getting their hopes up.

But I doubt this will overturn any results.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. See 11.

[volstork]

19. Hear, hear!

All Progressives must work together now against the common enemy of American democracy: the republican machine.

[Feeling the Bern]

20. No! No! No! I thought she was evil and wicked, like Bernie! At least that's what I've read

so many times here on DU. She's a secret Trumper because she has no chance of winning and always attacked Clinton and the Democrats.

We need to support Democrats. Party over Principle. The Democratic Party candidate gave up and conceded. We all need to support what the Party does!

PARTY! PARTY! Fuck principles!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. Bernie supported Hillary in the end. Stein played no role in Clinton's loss.

It wasn't like 2000 where you can make a logical argument that the 537 votes Bush won the election by in Fl wouldn't have mattered if Gore won some of the 91,000 votes Nader garnered.

I can do the math if you want.

[Feeling the Bern]

25. You're misunderstanding my point.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. I have no animus toward neither. Bernie did all he could and Stein didn't hurt us.

[Feeling the Bern]

28. You're in the minority, from what I've read here.

[LisaL]

37. Yea, well, Hillary lost by less than 11,000 in MI.

So how again did Stein didn't hurt us?

[Statistical]

38. What math would that be ?

Michigan
2,279,543 Donald J. Trump, Republican
2,268,839 Hillary Clinton, Democratic (10,704 votes short)
51,463 Jill Stein, Green

[LisaL]

39. Sure would have been enough for Hillary to win Michigan, if even part of Stein's votes went to

Hillary.

[JTFrog]

21. I have to admit, I admire her greatly for being on the frontlines for this. nt

[DonCoquixote]

24. if nothng else

it weakens Trump, so while I would never vote Stein, I applaud her effort.

[Hekate]

27. I'm in

[Laf.La.Dem.]

29. Thank you!!

[demtenjeep]

30. it doesn't matter

people are throwing money into a black hole



People like me face losing everything because of disease and 50 K would make all the difference in the world but this effort is making millions and it won't change drumpth from being president


https://www.gofundme.com/pamelas-crohns-disease-relief

[RandySF]

31. Thank you, Jill Stein, for giving us Trump.

Had you not run and preoccupied yourself with attacking Hillary, the country would be a safer place today. We couldn't have that, could we?


"Hillary Clinton with nukes is much scarier than Donald Trump."

[Liberal In Texas]

32. Yep...thanks.

Donation coming soon.

[Mike Niendorff]

33. Thank you.

This matters, and I applaud you and the Green Party for standing up and making it happen. Well done.

MDN

[oberliner]

34. Jill Stein is scamming Democrats to raise money for the Green Party

Remember that her avowed goal for the past year and a half was to do everything in her power to make sure that Hillary Clinton was not elected president of the United States.

Now, her goal is to take advantage of those same Democrats in order to raise money for her party, which is devoted to defeating Democrats in elections.

Her "goal" for the fundraiser keeps getting higher. She is now asking for seven million dollars.

This is more than three times the amount necessary to pay the fees associated with filing for a recount in those states.

Her site claims vague "lawyer fees" and other unspecified costs. The site also claims that there is no guarantee any of these recounts will occur, and that any extra funds will be used "to promote voting reform" which is of the things the Green Party itself claims to promote.

[Glassunion]

36. This

[GregD]

40. This is about more than this one election

See my post here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2624406

Lots of folks worked on the BBV issue in 2003-2004. Bev Harris at BlackBoxVoting.org has been working on this for over a decade. The polarization that Trump has created may finally generate the interest in this topic, and based on their surpassing $5M today, that's just what is happening.

Why the bad attitude? Yes, there is an argument that the Green's lost the race for Clinton by dividing the vote. But the good news is that she has the standing to press a case that many of us have made for years - BBV sucks and we have to get rid of corporate-owned voting machine software, along with non-verifiable touch-screen voting systems. The Clinton campaign had the option to do so and they made a different decision. So go Jill!

We have to look at this in a positive light. It's about the future much more than it is about today. Only through supporting the recount and highlighting widely and loudly how f'ed up our electoral system is might we achieve change.

And WTF, what if it actually turned up fraud and we turned around the election? That is a long reach but hey, if everyone contributes what they can, is it not worth the risk? How much did we all contribute to various campaigns trying to win the election?

Support the recount! It's for our kids...

[tavalon]

35. Don't just thank her

Contribute if you can. There's a link at bartcop.