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The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What moves this beyond Third party pays consulting firm for political campaign work that had previously done work for one of the duopoly parties.... Like who else is there to hire for this kind of thing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

led by a suspected January 6 rioter

There are plenty of people on both sides that didn't attempt to overthrow the government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure but how many consulting firms for political campaigns are there?

I'm like if I pay my plumber and then it turns out he was a January 6ther. Does that really say anything about me?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You asked what was different, I answered your question.

There are enough that she could find one that wasn't run by an insurrectionist if she cared. No I've is going to look into who fixed your sink because no one cares. Half of politics is optics and making sure the people working for you aren't going to make you look bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Not really 🤷‍♂️

You act like there is a American presidential campaign consulting company that'll do business with a third party on every street corner lol. How do you know there are "enough" other options lol. I think you just want this to fit your narrative

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US Green Party, and all other minor parties, have no incentive to act professionally or nominate serious candidates because voters can't really punish it electorally for nominating shit candidates or other screw-ups by the party.

Green Party electoral results:

Libertarian Party electoral results:

Working Families Party electoral results:

Constitution Party electoral results:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the really important bit.

Like, we need third parties, but running them in federal elections is at best a dog-and-pony act, and at worst, a useful agent for the least-aligned party via the spoiler effect.

Even if a third party candidate miraculously won the presidency, they would be cockblocked their entire term.

The way they are now is an insult to democracy.

If they really wanted to do be effective, they'd best be working together where goals align. And where goals should align for all of them, voting reform and moving off FPTP, would be a damn good place to start.

But they don't want to be effective. They just want to pop up every 4 years, get some money, con a few suckers into thinking that voting for them will give them a clean conscience, then disappear back into their hole. Giant fucking scam, all of them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I wish she'd go away tbh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Since when do we care what she does with Russia’s money?

Seriously though… the propagandists are swinging for the fences here today! Sheesh! The comments are something else!

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