Green Party nutter William Pounds dives deeper in the shitpile (again)

First, he's trying to get himself elected governor of Aridzona. (Again, per the "again" in the header, and the bottom of the page.) I originally thought he doesn't look old enough to meet the likely minimum age. Weirdly, it's just 25. Weirdly and stupidly. Seeing John Mason, with home I've also "interacted," or tangled, before, as his campaign manager only adds to the laughs factor.

Second, per the link (to which I gave a no-follow) he's trying to do so via starting one of these "Independent Green Party" bs groups, riffing on the lying butthurtness of Dario Hunter, rather than within the existing Arizona Green Party. 

Third, also per that top link, he wants to use this as a vehicle to get Jesse THE BODY (Pounds HATES that) Ventura nominated as prez, along with officially declared capital-L Libertarian (since 2018) Cynthia McKinney as his veep. This is the same Jesse who himself got butthurt when he couldn't get the GP nomination handed to him on a platter. (That didn't stop some of his backers from trying to use Hunter as a stalking horse at the 2020 GOP convention.) This is also the same Jesse who, in 2016,  first lied and then crapped in the Libertarian Party bed, ensuring he'll never get nominated for even dogcatcher there.

Per a follow-up to that original post about Hunter, with comment by Brandy Baker, I can only see Pounds as an assclown.

 

I noted McKinney as official Libertarian in my post about the Alaska GP being deaffiliated. (Side note: Just as the original "domino theory" was a conspiracy theory, IMO, so is the claim that "trans activists" are dominoing Rhode Island and Alaska into the Georgia GP. That said, Pounds is surely working to vacuum up the Alaska disaffiliated.)

Fourth, his own butthurtness rejoices in Peter and Leela Daou not getting a consulting contract with GP national. Why he capitalizes half of Howie Hawkins' last name I have no fucking idea and no real desire to learn. Why he thinks Howie is the "deep state" as well as ecosocialist, I don't know and don't care to learn either.

The two bullshits together explain why he'd like a Libertarian as Veep and  Libertarian-flirter before killing his relationship with them as Prez on the nominations. (So, too, does his LinkedIn, which shows he's done freelance writing for the website of Lib-tard Ron Paul.) Of course, that presumes his independent party even gets on the ballot in Aridzona.

I blocked him on Hucksterman over this Jesse bullshit last year. May have blocked him on Twitter as well, or maybe he's on Gab or something now.

Hey, Pounds? Kyrsten Sinema left the Aridzona Greens to become a Democrat. Why don't you at least have that same level of honesty and become a fucking Libertarian?

And, seeing him as ultimately being a Libertarian, and yes, Pounds, that's exclusive from being a Green, he's not only an assclown, he's an agent provocateur.

As for Greens fearing ecosocialism? Again, I joined the GP (as a volunteer and voter) seeing it as a party of the left as well as an environmentalist party. I think your fears, let alone terrors, over socialism are ... ridiculous. Of course, in many cases, this may be walking hand in hand with an over-interpretation of the "decentralization" plank of the key values, the same thinking that leads to "paper" state parties.

As for Pounds' schadenfreude? It's sad. The Daous would have brought some new insight and help to the party. The GP seems bent on self-destructiveness.

And, all of this, plus the reminders of GP Facebook group censorship and more, is yet another reason I'm not a Green.

Oh, finally, let's not forget that both Ventura and McKinney are conspiracy theorists and there's no way I'd vote for either. (Jesse is mainly just a 9/11 falser; McKinney is full of all sorts of shit.) And, per his LinkedIn, Pounds is himself a junior conspiracy theorist in the budding.

And, yet other reasons I'm no longer officially a Green are that the party's National Committee doesn't seem to give a fuck, or else thinks it can sweep things under the rug. No mention of the Rhode Island and Alaska party disaffiliations. No mention of efforts like Pounds'.

 

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Update, Nov. 25, 2025:

 

Since Pounds saw fit to come by here? First, note the paragraph above. I said I'm no longer a Green.

 

Second, since I noted Ventura and McKinney are conspiracy theorists, so is "Dr. Shiva," specifically, antivaxxer variety, with whose campaign he was associated in 2024, per Ballotpedia. THAT guy — the one who claimed to have invented email and who was and is not eligible to be elected. (He's already talking about a 2028 run.)

 

Per Monty Python, come back again and I will taunt you a second time. 

 

That said, per his Substack, Pounds is also histrionic, or has some other mental health issues:

I had recently suffered a personal crisis after losing the Green Party primary to Howie Hawkins—a rigged contest if there ever was one.

Really? First, it wasn't rigged. Stop lying. Since I moderate comments, you can't lie here.

 

And third, you didn't "lose." You didn't get a single delegate, period. 

 

Second, to the point? Really? You were having a personal crisis about what, not even getting a delegate in a third-party presidential campaign that whomever it nominated, had less than a snowball's chance of election? Get a grip; smell the coffee; wake up and smell the roses.

 

Per his Substack feed, yes, he's not even close to a leftist, and the "not left, not right"? Standard Libertarian rhetoric.  You're the Libertarian Rainier Shea, but rather than from The People's Republic of Humboldt County, you're from the FreeDumb State Project of Aridzona or whatever.

 

Monging of conspiracy theories and slinging of untruths having failed, and his reading comprehension still having not improved, Pounds has moved to name-calling, but without my level of snark.

 

I had earlier compared Pounds to Rainier Shea; on further insight, in terms of cult level, he and his love affair for McKinney strike as being like Cort Greene and the Socialist Workers Party. That's in part because, while Shea has never dropped by here after a call-out of him (untagged, just like with Pounds, and with Greene), Greene did repeatedly, even after, like Pounds, I stopped posting his comments. Even that comparison falls short, as Greene came around at the time, not four years later.