Jill Stein participated in the student protests over Gaza and got arrested.
I don’t know what the Green Party nominee’s economic policies are. I probably won’t like them. Might not even be able to stomach them.
But presidents can’t pass a budget without Congress. Presidents go off an do their own thing on foreign policy all the time. I’m sick of Biden insulting the intelligence of his supporters time and again on Gaza.
The most pressing issue is to end the technological slaughter in Gaza. That’s why I support Jill Stein for president.
It’s a big world. With many people. Some of them led by sociopaths. It’s not easy but also not impossible to remove a sociopathic leader. But it has been done in the past and was just done recently.
Had the “world” recognized this on 10/8 of last year and fully backed Israel. We would t be talking about genocide now.
She claims to be the anti-war candidate, but she owns stock in weapons companies that have made billions from wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
She runs as the “Green” candidate, but she and her husband have millions invested in fossil fuels and other anti-environment holdings.
None of this is speculation. We have the receipts.
Stein says she’s anti-war, but she has profited from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine: Stein held between $500,001 and $1,000,000 in the Vanguard Admiral VFIAX fund, which has investments in weapons manufacturers RTX Corp, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and others. These companies have profited from the war in Ukraine to the tune of billions. – S. Office of Government Ethics, Form 278e (Jan. 5, 2024); Weapon Free Funds (June 30, 2024); Global Times (August 3, 2023) The Guardian (April 23, 2024)
Stein runs as a “Green,” but her investments say otherwise:
Stein holds millions in fossil fuel investments, “deforestation risk” holdings, and major U.S. polluters. According to data from the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Fossil Free Funds, and Morningstar, in 2024, Stein and her spouse’s mutual fund holdings represented investments in fossil fuels valued between $401,516.84 and $937,775.00. Stein further had between $1,000,001 - $5,000,000 invested in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares VFIAX, which retained holdings in Norfolk Southern. – S. Office of Government Ethics, Form 278e (Jan. 5, 2024); Fossil Free Funds (July 31, 2024)
Stein profits from the Keystone XL Pipeline she claims to fight. Stein reported having between $250,001.00 and $500,000.00 invested in the Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund VXUS, which has invested with TC Energy Corp. – S. Office of Government Ethics, Form 278e (Jan. 5, 2024)
Stein’s largest stock holding is in Home Depot, which likely illegally sourced wood from Equatorial Guinea, benefitting a regime with “one of the worst corruption and human rights records in the world.”– Environmental Investigation Agency (Nov. 7, 2023) Stein expanded her Home Depot stock from [between $100,001 and $250,000 in 2016]
Find me a top 500 fund that doesn’t include big oil or defense. lol
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Yea I was just saying ‘what’s the world coming to’ as a phrase like ‘that sucks’ type of expression. I don’t watch the news from the middle east at all. I have a blanket block on it because the violence upsets me too much.
I made the mistake of clicking on a very graphic video that showed agonising children in the immediate aftermath of a bomb. I don’t think anyone should have to even see, much less have to actually experience such horrors.
Just decided its better to focus on things that I have control over anyway. I was wracking my brain thinking is there anything that I can do, but I didn’t come up with anything.
I doubt it, unless they were unserious enough to expect much or anything from Trump. They would have voted for him in that case, presumably. Stein didn’t make a difference anyway.
