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misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
Tue Aug 2, 2016, 07:36 PM Aug 2016

Jill Stein reveals her true colors via her running mate:: WTF?!! [View all]

http://fusion.net/story/332652/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-beyonce/?utm_campaign=ThisIsFusion&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social

Would someone please define Stein's running mate..UGH!
So Bill Clinton is a rapist (LIE)
Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist (LIE)
Beyonce only sang all those words for BLM to capitalize on profits (LIE)
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From the link:
Jill Stein, the great hope of the Green Party, announced yesterday that she’d selected Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist, as her running mate for this year’s presidential election.

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While those outside of the far-left activist community might not be all that familiar with Baraka’s politics, for the past six years, the vice presidential hopeful has maintained a fairly active personal blog where he’s written about race, international affairs, and current events. (Neither Baraka’s or Stein’s teams returned requests for comment.)

Each page of Baraka’s blog opens with a very appropriate bell hooks quote describing itself as a “site of radical possibility, a space of resistance.” Baraka resists and he does so radically on a number of topics, including:

On Muhammad Ali, Dylan Roof, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton:

Baraka wrote.”The announcement that Bill Clinton, the rapist and petty opportunist politician, had been chosen to deliver the eulogy at Ali’s funeral suggests that his family is heading down that same path.” MORE..

On Bernie Sanders and his supporters:

Sanders’ campaign, Baraka wrote, was less concerned about actual political reform and more interested in a tacit “commitment to Eurocentrism and normalized white supremacy.”

Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills.
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On Beyoncé, “Formation,” and black pop culture commentary:


“I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonce’s commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive,” Baraka said. “I didn’t see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters.”

Now this is the type of candidate the people can get behind.
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The North American Green Parties are crazy. n/t Humanist_Activist Aug 2016 #1
They lost me here in NM shortly after I moved here in the 90s Warpy Aug 2016 #10
Jill Stein is a anti-vax batshit crazy loon FLPanhandle Aug 2016 #2
Lol! She's really scraping bottom here, but the convention Hortensis Aug 2016 #40
I really hope nobody votes 3rd party nonsense this year. Initech Aug 2016 #45
Sounds like she found someone who beautifully embodies Green Party values bluedye33139 Aug 2016 #3
LOL! So her running mate is her phuck buddy underthematrix Aug 2016 #4
! misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #8
Epic... Mike Nelson Aug 2016 #5
this is what the green party is JI7 Aug 2016 #6
Saw a couple of his old articles in counterpunch earlier today. At a loss as to what Stein is emulatorloo Aug 2016 #7
Really! to call Sanders a white supremacist is like Trump going after the Khan family misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #9
Yes, appalling melman Aug 2016 #13
And calling for Hillary to be in prison. For nothing misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #17
show me mercuryblues Aug 2016 #36
The Greens gave us George W. Bush. onehandle Aug 2016 #11
Yes..end timers. misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #12
So did 200,000 Florida Dems, I hope they regret that choice to this day. nt Rex Aug 2016 #14
Nader only got 97k votes in Florida. Where does the 200k come from? RAFisher Aug 2016 #25
those are conservative/reagan type dems, they wanted the conservative which they got JI7 Aug 2016 #30
Bullshit. LWolf Aug 2016 #22
No New Hampshire deserves some blame. Nader got 3.9% in NH compared to 1.6% in Florida RAFisher Aug 2016 #26
I'm going to call bullshit on your call of bullshit Downtown Hound Aug 2016 #32
Here's why LWolf Aug 2016 #41
Confession: I'm a Nader 2000 voter Downtown Hound Aug 2016 #49
Nader and the Greens did NOT give us Bush. The Democrats did. EuroYankee Aug 2016 #35
Continuing the proud tradition of Cynthia McKinney nt geek tragedy Aug 2016 #15
Being bat shit crazy? dlwickham Aug 2016 #27
Bingo! bravenak Aug 2016 #28
Yep. nt geek tragedy Aug 2016 #29
How does this person go from offering Bernie Sanders the top of the ticket SirBrockington Aug 2016 #16
Stunning isn't it. Knife to the back because he aligned with Dems who know the meaning of misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #18
How do the most radical Bernie supporters go from a true statesman to a loser like Stein? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2016 #21
She was never serious about the offer to Sanders, it was a publicity stunt to attract Sanders Chathamization Aug 2016 #31
Whatever she's smoking, stay away from. nt msanthrope Aug 2016 #19
Jill and her new pal are total assholes. ProudToBeBlueInRhody Aug 2016 #20
I refuse to vote for that right winger Jill Stein NuclearDem Aug 2016 #23
"I'm an a-hole and I'm proud. I used to be alone in a crowd. struggle4progress Aug 2016 #24
Once upon a time I was a registered Green Downtown Hound Aug 2016 #33
The Greens will never have a chance to be a maturing group, or a sane group, so long as Stein holds MADem Aug 2016 #43
Sounds like a swell guy. romanic Aug 2016 #34
Some more "interesting" views from this man owack6 Aug 2016 #37
He said the CIA shot down MH-17 to make Russia look bad (nt) Recursion Aug 2016 #38
Yesseree! This is the VP pick that most resembles Stein's vision for America!! misterhighwasted Aug 2016 #39
"Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills..." MADem Aug 2016 #42
Okay, this guy is a nut. NaturalHigh Aug 2016 #44
Oh boy obamanut2012 Aug 2016 #46
This guy is unhinged. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #47
Hopefully this will gain more votes for Hillary -nt- marle35 Aug 2016 #48
Someone is paying these Trump-enablers Democat Aug 2016 #50
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