No, Jill Stein, you delicate flower, you can not demand that someone give you stage time:
A federal appeals court says a lawsuit by two third-party candidates over their exclusion from presidential debates in 2012 was properly dismissed.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that a lower court correctly dismissed a lawsuit brought by Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
The candidates alleged they were improperly excluded from the televised debates between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Johnson and Stein were excluded from the debates because polls showed them with less than 15 percent support.
And in all seriousness, you should thank the commission for not giving you a microphone, because all you would have said was stupid shit like this:
But her contempt has a more cutting quality when she talks about Clinton. She mocks Trump as braying menace; Stein thinks he’s, at heart, a bumbler who will be neutered by his own party after being elected. But it’s Clinton who poses the greater threat, in Stein’s estimation, because she knows how to move the levers of Washington. “Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress,” Stein explains. “Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won’t… Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.”
Now fuck off with your fur coat and white privilege and your trust fund to Lexington where you can live out your days in irrelevance.
Yutsano
“Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”
Hunter Gathers
Hipster Sarah Palin never passes up an opportunity to punch herself in the lady parts.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
The only political office Stein’s ever been in is a fucking selectman in small town Massachusetts. Not even state office! She’s an idiot and the US Greens are a disgrace to other Green parties for nominating this idiot twice (thrice?) in a row for President. And when was that selfie taken? I’d like to see Stein’s tax returns.
dmsilev
Please. The proper mode of address is Dr. Jill Stein, MD, BA, PPS, ASAP, RSVP, FYI.
Baud
Although Stein is somewhat correct about the relative competence levels of Clinton and Trump, her moral compass points straight down when assessing the effects they would have on the American people.
different-church-lady
It’s almost as though she views competence as a bad thing.
gammyjill
Jill Stein was a year ahead of me in high school. Didn’t know her but several of my friends did.
trollhattan
@dmsilev:
You forgot Mother of Dragons.
NWS:
Roger Moore
Stein isn’t a crazy lady; she’s a ratfucker. She’s taken plenty of Russian money, which makes her at very best a stooge, and far more likely a knowing Russian asset. I don’t think she’s going to get paid off as handsomely as Trump, but she’s definitely helped her buddy Vlad enough to deserve a big reward.
GregB
Jill Stein, DPD. Doctor of Political Douchebaggery.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
I thought it was Dr. Jill Stein, MD, GFY, FOADIAF.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@gammyjill:
Was she a moron then or did she become more demented with age?
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Roger Moore:
But DR Jill Stein said nothing happened so case closed neoliberal. I don’t know what neoliberal really means, but TYT told me it was evil! So QED!
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Roger Moore: That’s certainly what it should be.
Mike J
Has anybody asked Johnson about why Libertarians were suing a private organization that went Galt on him?
Baud
@Mike J: I think it’s because libertarians are unprincipled.
Ian G.
Hillary was a warmonger! She would have obviously increased bombing in Syria and Iraq, and threatened, uh, war with, uh North Korea, and would have tried to end the something deal with some country….where was I?
Oh right. Hillary said “super predators” once a generation ago. Pardoning Joe Arpaio is no worse.
Ian G.
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Monsanto!
Captain C
@Hunter Gathers: I’m so stealing “Hipster Sarah Palin.”
glory b
@Roger Moore: Never forget, the Greens take Republican money too.
ruckus
@different-church-lady:
Well she isn’t competent at anything which is why she’s pissed at HRC. HRC is a million times more competent, even just as a human being, let alone at accomplishing anything.
Ian G.
@Captain C:
I’m more partial to “Granola Palin”.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Say it ain’t so, Joe!
NorthLeft12
@different-church-lady:
Unfortunately, that was not only Ms. Stein’s opinion, but most of the media and a whole bunch of Americans too. Secretary Clinton embarrassed a large segment of the press with her ability to do many things well, including that boring governing stuff. Who wants to hear about policies and planning and organization anyway?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ian G.: Whole Foods Palin ?
Betty Cracker
I’d have to ban myself from the blog if I fully expressed the depth of my contempt for that preening, sanctimonious ratfucker, so I’ll leave it at this: may she get exactly what she deserves.
Patricia Kayden
@Betty Cracker: Well said. I just hope she goes away and doesn’t run in 2020. She’s a ridiculous human being and I hold her accountable for Trump’s win and all the mess he’s putting us through. She should have recognized how dangerous he was, dropped out of the race and then demanded that her supporters vote for Secretary Clinton to save this country. But she put her ego over the good of her country. She can go take several seats somewhere and shut the hell up.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT, somebody posted earlier that he was selling the oversized golf hat he was wearing at today’s bizarre roundtable photo-op. I thought it was snark
today was the white one, the other day, the picture of trump sitting alone at a conference table in the red hat was the other one
Mary G
Since the topic is assholes, this thread from the judge’s clerk at the Arpaio trial is enlightening into just how much of an asshole Sheriff Joe is:
He more than deserved that conviction and the fact that he has been preemptively pardoned is a shame.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Ian G.: You forgot “would start a war with Russia, because”…I dunno, she eats babies, just roll with it.
kindness
Can she please take the Democrats who voted for her (Jill I mean) as a protest vote with her too?
rikyrah
@Roger Moore:
Tell that truth
Captain C
@Patricia Kayden: Noam Chomsky AND the CPUSA figured out that this wasn’t the year for Purity Ponyism and told people to vote for Clinton. I guess that makes then neoliberals /s.
Kathleen
@different-church-lady: So does Chuck Todd (“Hillary was ‘over prepared'”.
ThresherK
@Kathleen: My thoughts exactly. Well, I misremembered it as Jon Karl, but is there really a difference.
NoraLenderbee
My husband is from Europe where the Greens are a legitimate political party that actually participates in government. He really can’t understand that the US Greens* are (a) purity ponies, and (b) fakers who have no interest in actually accomplishing anything except fucking up Presidential elections.
* with a few exceptions
trollhattan
@Captain C:
Noam didn’t conjure up a theory Hillary would build a pipeline across Afghanistan or somesuch? I’m surprised, maybe he’s mellowing a tad.
Felonius Monk
@Mary G:
Wonder how long it will be before ex-Sheriff Joe is found floating face down in the Salt River.
jimmiraybob
Lexington? Is that a suburb of the Kremlin?
MoxieM
@jimmiraybob: Hey! I went to High School there. (So I guess by definition it sucks…). Srsly, the Chomskys? Feh! they come out to pressure the Town’s Conservation Commision against off-leash in the most popular dog-walking area–because their house backs up to it. Feet of clay, I’m afraid. If you’re against off-leash doggies (in a crowded area, lacking same) you’re no friend of mine.
Calouste
And there I thought this post was about Theresa May and Boris the clown.
JDM
@dmsilev:
It can be shortened to Dr. Jill Stein, FFS.
JDM
@Captain C:
You can certainly disagree with Noam, but he isn’t a brain-dead moron.
Immanentize
@dmsilev:
And yet? No J.O.B.
(My father’s joke)
MomSense
Fuck fucking Jill stein and every idiot who voted for her.
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: I say go for it. You have the keys, you can’t be banned.
zhena gogolia
@Mary G:
That is deeply depressing.
Bennett
Remember when 2016 was going to be the break-out year for the Libertarian Party?
Johnson was such a failure no one, and hardly any Balloon Juice commenters, talks about him.