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    BobbySeriousBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 3:01pm

    What drives me nuts about these 3rd party voters is that they don’t understand that its not that most people have a problem with the possibility of a movement for a 3rd party, it’s that such a movement HASN’T HAPPENED this cycle.....clearly.

    It didn’t happen. Sorry. So Get the fuck over it, put on your big boy pants and vote for one of the only candidates who may be president, and the day after the election get back to work on your 3rd party movement.

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      pre-emptive sighBobbySerious
      8/11/16 3:09pm

      So because you don’t win, just give up? And that’ll eventually give us a third party...somehow?

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      Burneraccountnumber69NICEpre-emptive sigh
      8/11/16 3:13pm

      Vote for our shit candidate you bitches!!!!

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    Low Information BoaterBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 2:58pm

    I've never looked into it, but just out of curiosity, what are the mechanics of Holocaust denial? Millions of people just up and left the planet, in the middle of a war? They never really existed to begin with? They're still hiding on the underside of the flat earth?

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      mrjakeLow Information Boater
      8/11/16 2:58pm

      *waves hand* A Jew Wizard did it

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      aa96Low Information Boater
      8/11/16 3:00pm

      They moved to Florida.

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    suppiluliumasBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 3:32pm

    I’m glad to see Gawker pointing out how dangerously insane both Stein and her asshole Assadist running mate are.

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      flamingolingosuppiluliumas
      8/11/16 5:13pm

      Stein is also one of those leftists who is so critical of the U.S. that she enthusiastically embraces Russia. FFS, look at this shit:

      Speaking as part of a panel of foreign policy experts at a forum organized by the RT news network, Stein said that solutions to problems such as jihadi terrorism would require Russia and the United States to work together, shedding outdated cold war attitudes that prevented collaboration on problems facing both nations.

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      “The Obama Administration’s obsession with toppling the government in Damascus is fundamentally inconsistent with winning the fight against ISIS,” Stein asserted. “US pursuit of regime change in Libya, Iraq, and Syria created the chaos that promotes power grabs by extremist militias. Many of the weapons we are sending into Syria to arm anti-government militias are winding up in the hands of ISIS. This isn’t a clever foreign policy - it’s disastrous militarism.”

      Yeah, the Syrian situation is mostly Obama’s fault! Now that’s the kind of nuanced foreign policy I expect from someone whose party advocates homeopathy.

      Back during the Cold War, we had a term for people like Stein: “useful idiots”.

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      suppiluliumasflamingolingo
      8/11/16 6:35pm

      Making this even more infuriating is that it is painfully clear that the Obama administration is not even remotely interested in removing Butcher al-Assad from power, much less obsessed with it. Stein and her fellow useful idiots can rest easy knowing that their hero will remain on his bloody throne with Obama’s approval.

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    Jeb! & The HologramsBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 2:53pm

    “The Sheeple who vote for Trump or Clinton are just idiots who don’t even research the candidates or know what they stand for!”

    *ignorantly pledges to vote for the technologically ignorant anti-vaxxer with the holocaust denying VP*

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      Myrna MinkoffJeb! & The Holograms
      8/11/16 3:00pm

      I confess to not having paid much, if any, attention to Stein prior to the past month or two. Has she always been this much of a loon? If so, was she hiding it better before? Or is she pivoting “stupid” in an attempt to be the left-wing Trump?

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      BAM5Myrna Minkoff
      8/11/16 3:04pm

      When your only previous elected position is town meeting member in Lexington, MA, it’s a bit easier to keep some of your more colorful views under the radar.

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    gilbertkittensBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 3:00pm

    The only third party vote I accept, at all, at this point, is a hard-core Republican voting for Gary Johnson. Though even that is a stretch. Dude wants to legalize drugs, which uber-liberal me likes, just not enough to elect Donald Trump.

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      Slow Mutantgilbertkittens
      8/11/16 3:02pm

      I have zero issue voting Johnson/Weld. Only adults in the race.

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      denverhedgilbertkittens
      8/11/16 3:05pm

      agreed. I mean, libertarian-ism is a joke, but if you truly believe that small government is the cure for fucking everything, it’s at least the logical way to go. Building a wall around the country and stationing gestapo outside (inside?) every woman’s vagina ain’t cheap, folks.

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    ARP2Brendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 2:58pm

    It’s unfortunate we don’t have a non-crazy progressive party (and non-winner take all elections). Instead, we have a self-balancing election system with a far right party and a centrist party. Given its self-balancing, the two primary parties have license to be corrupt, because are you actually going to vote for the other team?

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      caekislove-caekingitupARP2
      8/11/16 3:09pm

      That’s why I’m building a rocket.

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      BigKokKanukARP2
      8/11/16 3:19pm

      I’ve never understood the Greatest Democracy Ever schtump your politicians continually bray. My own country is currently represented in Government by five parties while Iceland has had a continuous democratic government for close to 1000 years.

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    Sparky PolastryBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 2:56pm

    Is anybody in politics these days not completely incompetent and full of shit? Anybody? Bueller?

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      CaliforlifeSparky Polastry
      8/11/16 2:58pm

      Kevin Johnson? (lol).

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      tornadoslackssSparky Polastry
      8/11/16 2:58pm

      At this point, I'd totally vote Bueller.

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    Brendan O'ConnorBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 5:43pm

    In the interest of fairness, I should have noted that Stein denies being an anti-vaxxer:

    Dr. Jill Stein has repeatedly articulated her support for vaccinations in interviews and online. The online fact-checking website Snopes.com has debunked accusations claiming Dr. Stein opposes the use of vaccines. The conspiracy theory that Dr. Stein is “anti-science” is becoming a bizarre new counterpart of the “birther”controversy that hounded President Obama’s candidacy in 2008.

    Stein noted, “Anyone who supports vaccinations and wishes to prevent dropping vaccination rates should be concerned about the erosion of public trust caused by the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry in regulatory agencies and government in general.”

    Dr. Stein voices widely-shared concerns that the pharmaceutical industry exerts undue influence in our regulatory institutions - as well as on the politicians to whom they donate.

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      Brendan_MBrendan O'Connor
      8/11/16 5:58pm

      And Trump denies that he panders to white nationalists and anti-Semites...

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      AdamBrendan O'Connor
      8/11/16 6:42pm

      Funny how the response of Stein’s site mentions the Snopes article but doesn’t link to it the way it links to many other articles later on. Maybe that’s because the Snopes piece, though it does say that she is not “on record as holding an anti-vaccination political position,” also notes that “her somewhat equivocal statements surrounding that issue allow for a fair bit of leeway and interpretation — many others who proclaim to ‘support vaccinations’ in concept effectively undercut their positions by raising objections to the ‘vaccination process’ or the ‘vaccination industry.’”

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    pre-emptive sighBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 2:55pm

    Holy Click Bait Batman!

    “2nd coming of Hitler runs on Green Party”

    “Well actually something they wrote was printed by someone else who said some questionable things, but the things the Green Party candidate wrote make complete sense and in no way relates to the headline”

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      tofuliciouspre-emptive sigh
      8/11/16 3:56pm

      You are the company you keep, dude. I don’t associate myself with holocaust deniers, bigots, racists, etc. If I ever found myself in an anthology or radio program of one of the above, I WOULD ABORT SHIP IMMIEDIATELY and renounce that shit because it is FUCKED UP.

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      Krugerranttofulicious
      8/11/16 4:10pm

      Her VP pick was on the Holocaust denier’s radio show at least twice. At what point does the already-flimsy “I didn’t know what kind of venue I would be published/interviewed in” excuse simply become an obvious lie?

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    Sid and FinancyBrendan O'Connor
    8/11/16 3:04pm

    Other contributors include known antisemite Gilad Atzmon (David Duke is a fan), the French neo-fascist Alain Soral, Ken O’Keefe, a 9/11 Truther who thinks that Hitler was right, and former Sesame Street illustrator David Dees.

    ♫ “One of these things is not like the others ...” ♫

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