The Abandon Harris campaign announced on Monday that it is backing the Green Party’s presidential ticket of Dr. Jill Stein and Dr. Butch Ware. The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.
The group announced its endorsement in a statement, calling on the Muslim-American community and “all those who stand firmly against genocide” to support the Green Party ticket. While the group said it does not view voting as a standalone solution, it regards the act as a “critical element” in resisting injustice and a tool that must be wielded “ethically.”
“A vote is not just a political act; it is, more profoundly, a moral one,” the statement read. “With this in mind, the Abandon Harris campaign officially endorses Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate, Dr. Butch Ware, for the 2024 presidential election.”
The Abandon Harris campaign continued to say that it does not believe in choosing between “a greater evil and a lesser evil.” Instead, the group asserts that it is confronting “two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it.”
The Abandon Harris campaign was initially launched as the Abandon Biden campaign after President Joe Biden refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza following the October 7 attacks. The group gave the Biden administration until the end of that month to demand a permanent ceasefire, later shifting to oppose his reelection campaign after the deadline passed without action—something it later chose to do into the general election.
Additionally, the campaign announced plans to hold a press conference later this week at the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Michigan, to further discuss the endorsement.
Meh. Nobody will care whether it’s by more than 50% or not. Well, not nobody, but very very few people relatively speaking, and the 2016 grief was nothing compared to 2000. Anyway, as I already explained in my last comment, yes I understood your point, no I don’t agree with it. Any way, it won’t matter since my objections were explained many times before and you keep repeating the same alleged point so what good would it do to keep repeating myself pointlessly? Any way that’s why all of this is a waste of time and I’m acting irrationally by continuing to engage it even just to point that out.
Any way
Anyway, my REAL point is that swing states like Michigan ought to have a run-off. If anyone carries Michigan by less than 50%, there is going to be a lot of grief for someone, like in 2016.
Only if you accept as both plausible and likely several assumptions baked in to such analysis and prediction, and in this case additionally if you don’t see Trump as at least the relatively lesser evil than Harris , although I get that your point only uses the current election as an illustration, not an end all be all
Irony of ironies:
Muslims in Michigan voting for Stein because they don’t like Harris’ Middle East positions may just throw Michigan, and the election to Trump, the most pro-Israel candidate in the race.
Don’t you just wish you had a run-off?
;; The Abandon Harris campaign was initially launched as the Abandon Biden campaign after President Joe Biden refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza following the October 7 attacks. The group gave the Biden administration until the end of that month to demand a permanent ceasefire, later shifting to oppose his reelection campaign after the deadline passed without action—something it later chose to do into the general election.;;
Three was a cease-fire Oct 7 2023 broken by Hamas
There can be no ceasefire with hostages held by Hamas just to let the terrorists rebuild arms and military capability and operational readiness
;The announcement coincided with the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.
The group announced…;
$hame on Jill Stein
“Additionally, the campaign announced plans to hold a press conference later this week at the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Michigan, to further discuss the endorsement.”
Will they have autographed copies of his seminal jew hating monsterpiece “the international Jew, the world’s biggest problem?”
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Ford was a conspiracy theorist who drew on a long tradition of false allegations against Jews. Ford claimed that Jewish internationalism posed a threat to traditional American values, which he deeply believed were at risk in the modern world. Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish people.In 1920 Ford wrote, “If fans wish to know the trouble with American baseball they have it in three words—too much Jew.”
In 1918, Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. A year and a half later, Ford began publishing a series of articles in the paper under his own name, claiming a vast Jewish conspiracy was affecting America. The series ran in 91 issues. Every Ford dealership nationwide was required to carry the paper and distribute it to its customers. Ford later bound the articles into four volumes entitled The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, which was translated into multiple languages and distributed widely across the US and Europe. The International Jew blamed nearly all the troubles it saw in American society on Jews. The Independent ran for eight years, from 1920 until 1927, with around 700,000 readers of his newspaper.
In Germany, Ford’s The International Jew, the World’s Foremost Problem was published by Theodor Fritsch, founder of several antisemitic parties and a member of the Reichstag. In a letter written in 1924, Heinrich Himmler described Ford as “one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters”. Ford is the only American mentioned favorably in Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf. 88 Adolf Hitler wrote, “only a single great man, Ford, [who], to [the Jews’] fury, still maintains full independence … [from] the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions.” Speaking in 1931 to a Detroit News reporter, Hitler said “I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration,” explaining his reason for keeping a life-size portrait of Ford behind his desk. Steven Watts wrote that Hitler “revered” Ford, proclaiming that “I shall do my best to put his theories into practice in Germany”, and modeling the Volkswagen Beetle, the people’s car, on the Model T.
Ford also paid to print and distribute 500,000 copies of the antisemitic fabricated text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Historians say Hitler distributed Ford’s books and articles throughout Germany, stoking the hatred that helped fuel the Holocaust.
On February 1, 1924, Ford received Kurt Ludecke, a representative of Hitler, at home. Ludecke was introduced to Ford by Siegfried Wagner (son of the composer Richard Wagner) and his wife Winifred, both Nazi sympathizers and antisemites. Ludecke asked Ford for a contribution to the Nazi cause, but was apparently refused. Ford did, however, give considerable sums of money to Boris Brasol, a member of the Aufbau Vereinigung, an organization linking German Nazis and White Russian emigrants which also financed the Nazi Party.
Ford’s articles were denounced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). While these articles explicitly condemned pogroms and violence against Jews, they blamed the Jews themselves for provoking them. According to some trial testimony, none of this work was written by Ford, but he allowed his name to be used as an author. Friends and business associates said they warned Ford about the contents of the Independent and that he probably never read the articles (he claimed he only read the headlines). On the other hand, court testimony in a libel suit, brought by one of the targets of the newspaper, alleged that Ford did know about the contents of the Independent in advance of publication.
A libel lawsuit was brought by San Francisco lawyer and Jewish farm cooperative organizer Aaron Sapiro in response to the antisemitic remarks, and led Ford to close the Independent in December 1927. News reports at the time quoted him as saying he was shocked by the content and unaware of its nature. During the trial, the editor of Ford’s “Own Page”, William Cameron, testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline. Cameron testified at the libel trial that he never discussed the content of the pages or sent them to Ford for his approval. Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that “whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.”
Michael Barkun observed: “That Cameron would have continued to publish such anti-Semitic material without Ford’s explicit instructions seemed unthinkable to those who knew both men. Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, a Ford family intimate, remarked that “I don’t think Mr. Cameron ever wrote anything for publication without Mr. Ford’s approval.” According to Spencer Blakeslee, “[t]he ADL mobilized prominent Jews and non-Jews to publicly oppose Ford’s message. They formed a coalition of Jewish groups for the same purpose and raised constant objections in the Detroit press. Before leaving his presidency early in 1921, Woodrow Wilson joined other leading Americans in a statement that rebuked Ford and others for their antisemitic campaign. A boycott against Ford products by Jews and liberal Christians also had an impact, and Ford shut down the paper in 1927, recanting his views in a public letter to Sigmund Livingston, president of the ADL.” Wallace also found that Ford’s apology was likely, or at least partly, motivated by a business that was slumping as a result of his antisemitism, repelling potential buyers of Ford cars. Up until the apology, a considerable number of dealers, who had been required to make sure that buyers of Ford cars received the Independent, bought up and destroyed copies of the newspaper rather than alienate customers.
Ford’s 1927 apology was well received. “Four-fifths of the hundreds of letters addressed to Ford in July 1927 were from Jews, and almost without exception they praised the industrialist…” In January 1937, a Ford statement to The Detroit Jewish Chronicle disavowed “any connection whatsoever with the publication in Germany of a book known as the International Jew”. Ford, however, allegedly never signed the retraction and apology, which were written by others—rather, his signature was forged by Harry Bennett—and Ford never actually recanted his antisemitic views, stating in 1940: “I hope to republish The International Jew again some time.”
In July 1938, the German consul in Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner. James D. Mooney, vice president of overseas operations for General Motors, received a similar medal, the Merit Cross of the German Eagle, First Class.
On January 7, 1942, Ford wrote another letter to Sigmund Livingston disclaiming direct or indirect support of “any agitation which would promote antagonism toward my Jewish fellow citizens”. He concluded the letter with, “My sincere hope that now in this country and throughout the world when the war is finished, hatred of the Jews and hatred against any other racial or religious groups shall cease for all time.”
The distribution of The International Jew was halted in 1942 through legal action by Ford, despite complications from a lack of copyright. It is still banned in Germany. Extremist groups often recycle the material; it still appears on antisemitic and neo-Nazi websites. Testifying at Nuremberg, convicted Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach who, in his role as Gauleiter of Vienna, deported 65,000 Jews to camps in Poland, stated: “The decisive anti-Semitic book I was reading and the book that influenced my comrades was … that book by Henry Ford, The International Jew. I read it and became anti-Semitic. The book made a great influence on myself and my friends because we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success and also the representative of a progressive social policy.”
Robert Lacey wrote in Ford: The Men and the Machines that a close Willow Run associate of Ford reported that when he was shown newsreel footage of the Nazi concentration camps, he “was confronted with the atrocities which finally and unanswerably laid bare the bestiality of the prejudice to which he contributed, he collapsed with a stroke – his last and most serious.” Ford had suffered previous strokes and his final cerebral hemorrhage occurred in 1947 at age 83.
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The Wiener Gauleiter’s quote about Hitler and Fords progressive social policy is relevant besides the location of the event.
Hitler was seen as a “progressive” In his day and by his supporters and it seems many of today’s “progressives” share many of his views even if it’s in the service of endorsing an American Jewish woman who would have been very violently gang raped and beaten, perhaps to death or likely taken hostage if not killed , and then repeatedly raped again as a hostage and/or starved , quite likely to death, most likely ongoing today a year and a day later,…
Coincidental timing for This release ? Doubtful…
Had those Hamas terrorists come upon her a year and a day ago …
Now these trash Americans endorse this Jewish American traitor and her Muslim or more accurately “Islamo”communist running
matedog hypocritically accusing Israel for defending itself against this attack and trying to rescue hostages STILL being held, starved, mock and actually executed, continuously raped, beaten and tortured…accusing ISRAEL of genocide.Note:
There are perhaps 7 million each Jews and “Palestinian” Arabs (Arabs just like other Arabs, no different) between Israel and the so called occupied territories – Gaza, Judea and Samaria (“west bank.”) of the Jordan river. 20%+ of Israel proper is “Palestinian” Arabs with full civil rights and equality in Israel with members of parliament and every other position in Israel — about 2 million + ppl -+ enjoying the most civil rights and liberties and best standard of living of any Arabs in or surrounded by the Islamosphere – 350 million + , in addition to tens of millions more in other parts of the world including the US (estimate 3.5-4 million, or about 1% of the world total)
genocide is intentionally trying to wipe out an ethnic group or people – for example Hitler killing ~6 million Jews, half the world total at the time, the Turk genocide of Armenians again perhaps a million or more not including those force Islamized – also a substantial portion of the world and especially Ottoman Armenian population, over half a million Tutsi killed in Rwanda 1994 killed by Hutus along with hundreds of thousands of moderate Hutus and Hwa – an estimated half million Tutsi women raped, out of maybe 2 or 3 million; etc
If Israel wanted to kill millions of Arabs in and around Israel it possesses the means. It’s debatable if it could kill hundreds of millions of Arabs globally but no such attempt was or is ever made, and only a vanishingly small number of Israeli or other Jews would advocate any such thing, much unlike in the reverse direction.
In fact estimated 30k of 2 million plus people died as collateral damage in Gaza. This is because Hamas terrorist scum intentionally use their own civilian population, most especially women , children , first responders, hospital patients and employees and visitors , school employees and visitors – anyone likely to elicit sympathy – as human shields & propaganda fodder
Israel for its part warned those civilians to evacuate each time – some “genocide”
->>While the group said it does not view voting as a standalone solution, it regards the act as a “critical element” in resisting injustice and a tool that must be wielded “ethically.”
Unimportant, but it seems they missed the N in Ethnically
Never mind . Apparently it’s just a bunch of wackos who misdefine both genocide and the teachings of the Quran very profoundly.
I don’t understand why any abandon Harris campaign would endorse anyone but Trump if they claim to represent most of the people abandoning Harris , and if they unwisely endorse anyone at all. Lots of people abandon Harris or are thinking about ditching her ticket or not for lots of differed reasons and additionally looking at various other alternative options – but most are switching to or looking at Trump out of those, or (like me, although I never supported Democrats in 30 plus years now) not voting at all.
Lots of people are abandoning Her*ss to abstain from voting for any of the other very flawed choices – which they all are , major or minor. I might have bothered to vote for Terry if it wasn’t a write in. Write ins are quite useless here since they are not counted or reported or broken down by candidate etc. Despite what some idiots claim – yes I absolutely reserve and exercise the right to complain if I choose to not vote, as I do. One is in no way shape or form contingent on the other. I belong to several classes of people I do not believe deserve voting rights, such as not a natural born citizen among several others, but more importantly no district I would vote in , least of all president which should not have popular election of electors regardless , is the least bit of a mystery as to outcome, even if any of those options were good, and none are for any office at any level – this year, even the “lesser evil” is far from readily apparent and if you say Trump , no worries, he will easily carry my “deep red” state without me and of that was even slightly in doubt …well, he sure would not be in any shot of 270 electors by a country mile
Meanwhile Biden-Harris is giving Hezbollah another $157M in “humanitarian aid” *nudge nudge wink wink* with which to wage genocide against Israel.