Medical doctor. Presidential candidate. People. Planet. Peace. Campaign updates at @TeamJillStein
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Once again the two-party system has delivered a disastrous result for the American people. Now we must continue the uprising for people-powered politics and demand the world we deserve - which will never be delivered by the twin parties of war and Wall Street.
The Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for losing to Trump again, after their decades of failures and betrayals that paved the way for Trump’s rise in the first place.
From their unconditional support for the endless war machine and genocide in Gaza, to their subservience to Wall Street, to their indifference to human rights, to their reckless acceleration of the fossil fuel pollution driving climate collapse, to their assault on democracy - on all these issues and many more the Democratic Party has betrayed the trust of the people.
This election removes any remaining doubt that the Democratic Party has utterly failed the people it claims to represent, and that we need a genuine opposition party for people, planet, and peace.
Over the last year, we have continued our long-term efforts to build the movement for peace, for a livable planet, and for all the countless millions of people in America and around the world who have been neglected and abused by the parties of war and Wall Street. The momentum we achieved despite the pervasive media blackout threatened the Democratic Party so much that they set up an unprecedented operation dedicated to the suppression of our grassroots movement. They harassed us with expensive lawsuits to kick us off the ballot, marginalized and smeared us in the media, posted jobs seeking people to sabotage our campaign, and even launched attack ads against us - something they’d never done before for any independent challenger.
These unprecedented attacks against us by the corrupt political establishment backfired madly. These attacks inspired a whole new multiracial, multigenerational coalition of voters, organizers, and activists to join forces with the Green Party – and that coalition will continue to grow. Our campaign built relationships with powerhouse anti-genocide activists, especially in the Muslim and Arab American community; the Black community; the student movement; the reawakened antiwar movement; the radical labor movement; and many others.
Year after year, millions of eligible voters have refused to vote for either establishment party, particularly young people, people of color, and people of lower income. In the 2020 presidential race, a full third of eligible voters declined to participate. These are exactly the people our agenda speaks to. The vast majority of voters are calling for a political alternative like the Green Party that serves the greater good instead of the warmongers and economic elites.
The political establishment is quaking in their boots that the public is discovering us. They will be shocked to see how much our coalition grows as more voters discover they actually have a choice for the future they deserve.
We have the solutions to end genocide and empire; to adopt a foreign policy based on international law, human rights and diplomacy; to tackle the climate emergency; to reverse wealth inequality and invest in human thriving; to dismantle systems of oppression and build a society rooted in justice, freedom, and equity.
Our movement for people, planet, and peace is aligned with the values and priorities of the American people, and together we have the numbers we need to transform our future. We only have to get the word out to the millions of Americans who reject the failed status quo, and bring them into our movement.
Everything we have achieved together is a victory for working people, for justice, for peace and a future where all of us can thrive.
Thank you for your unwavering support and for joining in this fight to build an America and a world that works for all of us. We will only get stronger from here.
The pressure will continue to build for the political transformation that the American people demand. The political elites will continue to tell you that resistance is futile. Ignore them. This is our moment.
Together, we are unstoppable.
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
If Trump rejects both war and peace, then the most likely scenario may prove to be one in which Trump’s economic warfare and blockade only exist on paper. Meaning, Trump walks away and claims to retain the blockade and sanctions infrastructure, but in reality, allows it to imperceptibly wither away.
The blockade begins to loosen, sanctions enforcement begins to decay, and slowly but surely, Asian and Middle Eastern countries begin trading with and investing in Iran. A new equilibrium emerges in which sanctions enforcement is strong enough for the U.S. to claim the restrictions are still in place, yet weak enough to prevent Tehran from challenging the new status quo.
This Swiss cheese scenario is the only walk-away option that could work. Because if Trump seriously retains the blockade and the sanctions, tensions between the US and Iran would be such that the two countries would constantly be on the verge of war with each other - as they are right now. Such an unstable status quo would eventually escalate into another war, defeating the very purpose of the walk-away.
To be clear, the Swiss cheese scenario is suboptimal compared with a peace deal.
Read full analysis: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/th…
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
TO EVERY NEW DEMOCRAT ELECTED IN THE HOUSE:
TELL ME SPECIFICALLY WHICH DEMS ARE THREATENING YOU TO FALL IN LINE.
IF THEY MAKE YOUR LIFE HELL, MYSELF AND ALL LEFT-WING MEDIA WILL MAKE THEIR LIVES HELL. REACH OUT.
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
I thought the whole point of DSA was to change the party from the inside. So, what is this?
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
Ma'am, please do some research. Look up Theodore Herzl and the Balfour Declaration. Look up the meanings of words and their definitions. Zionists call themselves Zionists and have for over a century. Please learn objective facts and history.
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg arrived at COP31, her first time attending the climate summit since 2021. She said the impact of the talks could have 'life or death consequences on 'countless people' reut.rs/4BS6Eym
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
“We’re not withholding votes, we’re undecided.”
That’s them telling you loud in clear that they will support Hakeem Jeffries, and this is merely a pantomime of resistance to make voters feel like they have some say.
UGH! Sign of the times. So sorry to hear. Thanks for all your work watch-dogging fascism, even as the oligarchy makes life near intolerable. Keep fighting. The empire's days are numbered.🕊️
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
Both AOC and Mamdani endorsed Hakeem Jeffries *before* the midterms.
They sold out to the corrupt establishment before the people even had a chance to vote.
In this video I breakdown why and how their function is not to confront capitalism & imperialism, but to rehabilitate it.
Why we should all be outraged at Republicans for their corruption, and Democrats for their failure to investigate (protecting themselves from future investigation).
Trump and his family’s pay-to-play crypto corruption scheme is a massive scandal where Trump and his family are illegally profiting off selling access to the US government in exchange for foreign investment (mostly from UAE) into their crypto company.
Every single one of them should be investigated, prosecuted, and jailed for pocketing BILLIONS off this illegal crypto scheme, but if you think Democrats are going to investigate this then you don’t know how the duopoly works & how the system protects itself.
Thanks to excellent reporting from Sludge we now know the president’s wife of Chuck Schumer’s super PAC is a registered foreign agent with the UAE, the country that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump’s crypto company.
“Jennifer Poersch, the wife of Chuck Schumer’s handpicked super PAC president, just registered as a foreign agent to represent the UAE days before Democrats won the Senate. The deal includes $100,000 up front and $100,000 a month.”
We also know Hakeem Jeffries had a secret meeting with Jared Kushner prior to the midterms and if anyone thinks this meeting was about helping the American people then you have completely lost the plot and need to pull your head out of the clouds.
We don’t live in a fairytale where one side is good and the other side is bad. We live in a nightmare where both parties are corrupt and actively work together to serve the same capitalist and imperialist system.
Democrats will not prosecute Trump and his family because they are afraid Republicans would do the same thing to them when they return to power.
Democrats will not deliver an economic agenda for the people because they will be delivering an agenda for the corporations and billionaires who fund them.
This is why the Democrats are going to blatantly ignore the will of the people and install Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. It’s not to investigate the Trump crime family or deliver results for the people, but instead it’s to protect the system that uses our government to make all of these politicians and their donors rich.
It’s time for Americans to wake up and face the truth: The two-party system exists to protect itself and its rich donors, which is why we need to get rid of it and build a better system that actually serves the people!
Wall Street should be terrified by the demands of an outraged electorate.
Oh...cancel that. Jeffries will be speaker.
@SenWarren has a message to all the Wall Street executives, Big Tech CEOs, and giant corporations that have been lining their pockets by wronging the American people: you should be worried.
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rep. Massie on Sec. Hegseth:
"Hegseth HAS been effective. He was effective at killing 200 schoolchildren.
He was effective at bombing fishing boats that may or may not have had people who were guilty of smuggling drugs.
That's what we're impeaching him for: his effectiveness in breaking the law and violating the Constitution."
1000000%
Writer: Samuel
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
AOC admits that Republicans were able to oust their speaker in 2023 bc of the small margins in the house. When there were similarly small margins in 2021, major left media outlets & Jayapal claimed the plan was impossible bc:
1) you’d end up with a Republican speaker (which is impossible unless Dems voted Republican)
2) you needed someone to run against Pelosi. (False, if you don’t get 118 votes you’re not speaker even if hold outs don’t coalesce behind an alternative).
AOC claimed it would be a bad idea to force the vote bc she wanted to reserve her political capital to win a $15 min wage. Min wage is still 7.25.
Progressives have leverage and choose to bend the knee. And they can always find access journalists on the left to run cover for them.
I asked @AOC about her position on Hakeem Jeffries’ bid for Speaker of the House.
She told me that since nobody else is running, an attempt to challenge him is “unrealistic” nitter.gq/DropSiteNews/status/21…
The apologist in chief on about why resistance is futile.
“More than a million people signed a petition asking @HouseDemocrats to not elect @RepJeffries speaker— will that carry weight?”
@AOC reiterates that nobody is running against Jeffries, telling @JulianAndreone “it’s not a race right now” so 40+ Dems opposing is unlikely
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
Respectfully, I don’t think you should fall for this trap. They don’t need *ANY* alternative to run. They just need to withhold their votes for Jeffries. Once you start drafting people to run, the establishment will just make them say “I don’t want it,” and then we’re back to square one.
All the Democrats in the House are using the excuse that no one else is running for Speaker. That's why they have to back Hakeem Jeffries, who is opposed to all of their policy priorities. Then, why don't one of you run against him? Why do you have to concede power to the establishment?
Presumably @RoKhanna and @AOC are going to run for some sort of higher office. What's everyone else's excuse? Why doesn't @GregCasar run? Or nominate a progressive/populist to run? What's the point of being a progressive leader if you aren't going to lead?
Dr. Jill Stein🌻 retweeted
Chuck Schumer has shut down his Senate office in an act of consummate bravery.
Protests against the NDAA ongoing
The veil is off. The new Democratic Congress is already fighting tooth and nail to
1) protect its billionaire donors & Citizens United
2) continue the war in Iran
3) support the slaughter of children in Gaza
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Pledging to unregister as a Democrat if they vote in Jeffries might have a fighting chance. Asking nicely won't.
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
