Russian shill trying to siphon votes from Harris so that trump can get an undeserved win.

The Russia thing goes beyond the dinner. She had attempted to (maybe actually has?) meet with him privately. She has also vacillated on Ukraine.

She’s had weird stances on vaccines, food (edit: GMOs), and even energy. It’s my understanding she’s privately invested in fossil fuels.

Jill Stein is a Green candidate which means she's going to pull left leaning support away from Kamala Harris.

If she pulls away enough people in a handful of states, she could throw the election to Donald Trump.

2016 is a primary example:

Pennsylvania:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania

Trump - 2,970,733
Clinton - 2,926,441
Difference: 44,292
Stein? - 49,941

Michigan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Michigan

Trump - 2,279,543
Clinton - 2,268,839
Difference: 10,704
Stein? - 51,463

Wisconsin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin

Trump - 1,405,284
Clinton - 1,382,536
Difference: 22,748
Stein? - 31,072

If Clinton had won those three states, Trump would not have been President.

Stein is not the only factor, Clinton had other issues. She badmouthed coal miners which guaranteed a loss in PA and utterly failed to campaign in MI and WI which was not helpful.

But the Clinton fans who can't accept how deeply, deeply flawed Clinton was as a candidate want to blame Stein...

And Putin. There are issues with Stein getting support from both Republicans and Russia, anything to hurt Democratic candidates.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I voted for Jill Stein in 2016.

In my defense, I didn't think Trump had a chance, and I definitely didn't expect him to be as terrible as he eventually proved. I was feeling salty about the DNC not giving Bernie a fair chance in the primaries (how and why, I don't remember) and Hilary just felt like she was constantly condescending and not even trying to earn the presidency. It felt like someone decided it was her turn and they'd just slide her into her rightful throne.

My vote for the green party was official record that they hadn't earned my vote, even though I would never vote for Trump.

I'm sure my one single vote wouldn't have changed anything, but I bet there are plenty of others that felt the and did the same, and still regret it.

Funnily enough in 2016 I looked into her platform after Bernie was pushed out. And honestly I agreed with just about everything she was running on, except for one thing. She was pushing anti vax stuff and it was enough for me not to vote for her. I feel that strongly about vaccines and public health concerns.

Her intentions is not to be a spoiler, she’s not, she’s filled all the legal requirements to run for office of president and is allowed to be on the ballot. She is just getting a lot of attention in this current race because the margin is razor thin between the two main line candidates and that has people nervous Kamala could lose like Hillary did in 2016.

Personally as an independent voter that feels continually ignored by the by the right and left, third parties can be an attractive choice for some. Honestly, if the left or right want to court my vote they could produce better candidates. Let me say Kamala is a great choice, my issue is how she got there. I feel if Biden had decided to not run for reelection before election campaigning started and allowed other democrats to throw their hat in the ring it would have the appearance of a properly run election cycle for democrats. As for republicans they need to drop trump and his brand of mean spirited politics and have an honest return to the middle right vs where they are now at the far right. Anyways those are my thoughts on Jill Stein, third parties and the left and right. I already did early voting so my choice is done, if you care at all about the direction this country is going or needs to go, GO FUCKING VOTE! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GO VOTE!

I had that all written and had one last thought. Now I do actually think Stein could spoil NC, she is on the ballot and the person most likely to win the governor in NC also has the last name Stein. A conversation I actually had while standing in line with an aging neighbor, she has a tough time getting around and asked if I’d take her early voting when I was going absolutely not a problem. But in line looking over a sample ballot I had to explain to her that Jill Stein and Josh Stein are not related in any way. So the fact there are two Stein’s on the ballot might make it confusing for some voters. Ok enough out of me, go vote.

Here are some of the common complaints about Jill Stein:

As the Green Party candidate she will pull in more third party votes than most (if not all) of the other parties. While those views are usually trivial in number in the grand scheme of things, they can have a big impact in let seeing states.

She has not gone out of her way to criticize Trump, and has instead treated both Trump and Harris as being equally bad, even though Trump is arguably much more anti-environmental than Harris.

This isn't her first time coming in as what's seen as a Democrat vote-spoiler candidate.

From the perspective of some, she pops up every four years to try to take votes off the Democrat candidate and then seemingly disappears for another four years.

She has a bit of a cult of personality thing going on - arguably moreso than either Harris or Biden.

She's in her mid-70s, and so no spring chicken. This has become more of a concern this cycle because a) she's for years older than she was in 2020 (obviously), b) age has become more of a point of concern given how both Biden and Trump have apparently seen marked cognitive decline at less than 10 years her seniors.

There's some evidence to suggest she is cozy with Putin, who is clearly does not have America's best interests in mind. For example, she was photographed at a fancy dinner sitting at the same table as him and several of his 'crew' (among others). The common excuse for this is "she didn't choose her seating!" But equally there's no reason she couldn't have got up and moved or left the event.

Photo of the dinner in question, with labels:

I'm sure there are other points I'm missing. But those are the ones that spring to mind.

She solely exists so Trump supporters can try to steal votes from Kamala by pretending to be progressive. The US uses an undemocratic FPTP voting system, which means that there can only be two viable candidates at any given time.

That's pretty nuch it. Every election cycle has 3rd party candidates. This time it's gotten more attention in the media because there's a good chunk of people, mainly Arabs, who are refusing to vote Democrat as "fuck you" to Harris and her support of Israel.