Willing to see the Green Party finish imploding; willing to give it a push

That, the header, is the main reason, other than her own hypocrisy, I keep bagging on Green Party presidential candidate and likely nominee Jill Stein. The "her own hypocrisy," of course, being her refusal to divest from mutual funds with pharmaceutical, oil, tobacco, and defense stocks in their portfolios.

But, there's more.

I'd said the Green Party was past its best-buy date after the 2020 election season. I held out for four more years than the likes of Brandy Baker and Mark Lause, the latter formally noting the party was dead after 2016 (and Stein's lesser evilism recount). I did mention, in a 2016 postmortem, things that needed to be improved. And, they weren't. Add in the various transgender/transsexual issues, which culminated with my saying "a pox on both your houses" (which I say as a non-twosider on this issue in general) and the nuttery of "identity movement Greens" (and don't forget censorship on the GP Facebook group before it was closed) and I am an ex-Green. And kind of hoping for it to implode more.

Back to Stein, though.

First, it's sad that she, Baraka and others were so hoping on Cornell West before he spit the bit (and then went on to spit the rest of his political future). Second, it's sadder yet that she is running again as a three-time retread, also referenced in the top post. The Libertarians have never run a three-time candidate. That is the repository of truly minor parties, or the Socialists, with Eugene Debs first, then Norman Thomas.

Second, back to Stein 2016. Beyond the "lesser evilism" of the recount, the claim the election was hacked was high-grade bullshit. And more bullshit. And, some eyebrow raising over legal fees, recount contributor lists and more. Related? I hope Brains has gotten more skeptical about Stein — more cynical, like me, would be OK, too — compared to where he was in 2016, specifically, more skeptical or cynical than he was then about her investments. (Brains works for a financial advisor/planner, and knows that "ethical mutual funds" exist, and that they did way back in the time of 2000 hypocrite Ralph Nader.)

I've already indicated that, via write-in, presuming she has her 40 electors, the Party of Socialism and Liberation's Claudia de la Cruz will be my choice. Hard pass on both Stein and SPUSA's Bill Stodden, should he get his 40 electors for write-in status.

Beyond that, here at the Texas state level, its craptacularness on two of the three 2022 candidates is indication it's past its best buy date here. I said so at the time. Stein will not get 2 percent of the Texas vote. We'll see what happens with the Texas Supreme Court, Railroad Commission and Court of Criminal Appeals. 

So far? Eddie Espinoza is a better (potential) RRC candidate than Hunter Crow 2 years ago, but that's a HUGELY low bar. And, geez, the Texas GP's website? When you click on candidates, it goes to a national list. There's so far nothing about other potential Texas candidates on there or the Texas GP's Facebook page.

Speaking of? I'm dropping a few other Green names who are in Jill Stein's campaign fundraising email mentions.

Matthew Hoh, 2022 U.S. Senate candidate in North Carolina. (That's the only big name within the GP as of the time of this, but I'll add more as they come.)

All of you are complicit in Jill Stein's hypocrisy. And, it's not just Gaza, although that's the biggie.

Today is Earth Day. Stein's hands are oily with eXXXon and other oil stocks in her personally chosen mutual funds. One of them is Shell; maybe Charles Kuffner of Off the Kuff could stop being a BlueAnon and vote Stein instead.