OMG, that you are this uninformed is staggering. There was never “mercury” in vaccines. There was a substance called Thimerosal, which, as explained in the article above, is:

the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed.

Even Nader encouraged swing state Democrats to vote for Gore. If Stein doesn’t do the same, she’s supporting Trump over Clinton. It’s not like she’s siphoning votes away from Trump.

Nope. I think all of the Sanders voters who are going to vote for Hillary Clinton (or any Democrat other than Sanders) are already in the Clinton camp, and the people who are left (the Never Hillary and Stein voters) are the far-left activists who were never going to vote Democrat anyway, a group of people Sanders…

Ok but explain this to me because I don’t get it - seriously, people are just cool with staying home and not voting if their most preferred candidate isn’t at the top of the ballot? They don’t have a city councilman they like? Don’t care who their Senator is? Like, this makes no sense to me.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-b…

I see your facility with math and grammar rivals Dr. Stein’s with medical science.

Voting for her is functionally equivalent to voting for Trump, and the fact that she is encouraging people to do that even in swing states makes her every bit as dangerous as he is. Only difference is she should know better.

Eh, Stein’s under 5% nationally - if a few hippies in dark blue (or dark red) states go out and vote for her, it’s not going to fuck anything up too badly, and they might actually vote for some downticket candidates who might affect governance (especially in state elections, where Dems need to start flipping…

I don’t agree with your statements that the TPP’s arbitration panels are being run by multinational corporations, and I would point out that all trade agreements provide for some enforcement mechanism by which the terms of the reduced trade barriers are enforced, but your criticism is valid and well-articulated. It is…

You’re right, it was The Weeds, thanks for the correction!!!

Yeah, I’ve yet to encounter anyone who has been able to articulate exactly which provisions they don’t like or why. They just heard someone else say it was bad and it’s with all these foreign countries, so we shouldn’t have it. Or something. As though the US is going to become strictly isolationist, making everything…

Stein has this idea in her head that she’s going to get the Greens to the 5% or 15% threshold and be known as the person who changed America forever, and she is willing to risk running the whole fucking thing into the ground to get there.

So...I mean...I guess I sort of get why she’d rather Trump be President than Clinton? Plus the other day Trump just outright said voting for her helped him, so there’s that. Stein 2016! Make America Dumb Again!

It’s easy to cynically point at all the failings of American democracy. But the one thing that will never cease to amaze me, and that I will never stop reminding myself is unique and incredible in the history of government, is the American transition of power. Like, there’s no subterfuge or questions or violence or…

Well, I mean...Lincoln, though.

Heard someone ask “sure, but would she be running for President if she hadn’t been the wife of a president?” and the only thing I could think was “well, no, if she weren’t a woman she’d have been fucking president 20 years ago.”

From what I heard the acoustics in that room were fucking garbage, and you heard a lot of speakers starting to get louder to overcompensate for the small but vocal group of Berners who were trying to disrupt things. They fucked up Warren’s delivery and timing as well. Even when you know the mic is going to pick up…

She got sick a month or 6 weeks ago and hasn’t been able to get over it because she literally never stops working. I’d venture to say that on the days she’s not out on the trail, she’s probably working harder, at fundraisers and such, than the days when she’s doing a rally or two. It sucks, but she’s probably going to…

She’s fucking TERRIFIC in one-on-one interviews when she’s talking about policy. She’s also great one-on-one generally, I don’t know of anyone who’s ever worked with her who wouldn’t follow her into the gates of hell.