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I want to start this off by reminding everyone that Mark Robinson (R-Self-Described-Nazi) is Trump’s guy. The Ferret-Heedit Shitgibbon endorsed the NC Lt. Gov. back in the spring, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”* Robinson may be done (maybe not–Jamelle Bouie doesn’t think so) but he’s someone Trump and the GOP have celebrated; his only sin is getting caught. Were Trump to regain power (FSM forfend) Robinson is exactly the kind of guy who would fit right in to the new administration. Which is to say…

Let’s hang this around every GOP neck.

Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.

Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”

Robinson denies saying any of this (and, I guess, hanging around a porn site assiduously enough to become a regular on the discussion board). But CNN has got him:

The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two…

[Robinson’s comments] were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.

Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.

There is apparently a ton of material. The article states that CNN isn’t publishing most of what they have “given their graphic nature.” Given what is included, I’m guessing this is a story that will keep on giving for a while. E.g:

…under the username minisoldr on Nude Africa, Robinson graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a 14-year-old. Robinson recounted the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about.

Only The Best People™

“I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,” Robinson wrote on Nude Africa.

CNN is not publishing the graphic sexual details of Robinson’s story.

You get the idea. CNN hits Robinson in particular for overt hypocrisy on transgender issues. Read the whole article, and expect new details any time.

Again, the point isn’t just that Robinson is at once a grotesque individual with terrifying political stands. It is that he was a GOP darling, an early and eager Trump pick, and would remain so were it not for inconvenient publicity.

I have a fantasy: that reporters covering every race of any import around the country ask the Republican to denounce and distance themselves from Robinson. Their answers matter much less than keeping this story in the public view. But a boy can dream, right?

*There’s no way to read that sentence that isn’t weird at best, heading rapidly towards grotesque.

This thread is open.

Image: Christian Rohlfs, Susanna and the Elders, 1916/1917.

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  2. 2.

    JPL

    I posted down below that trump will not admit fault, and just will go with Robinson was framed.   I do hope that sane republicans stay home in NC.

  6. 6.

    scav

    Trump’s very own Martin Luther King on steroids?

    Robinson, who would become North Carolina’s first Black governor if elected, also repeatedly maligned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him in such intense terms that a user accused him of being a white supremacist.
    “Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.
    “I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” Robinson responded.

  7. 7.

    The Audacity of Krope

    The Ferret-Heedit Shitgibbon endorsed the NC Lt. Gov. back in the spring, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

    I know steroids prompt aggression, but how about self-loathing? This man, Robinson, hates Martin Luther King according to the CNN article.

  8. 8.

    Jerszy

    New Comment Policy dropped literally JIT!!

     

    (If only Mark Robinson had heeded some commenting policies)

  9. 9.

    Jeffro

    Thought experiment: let’s say the GOP offers to pay one of us BJ commenters to help them with recruiting higher-quality candidates in future elections.

    How would you phrase your recommendations so that they’ll actually consider what you have to say?

    (Or would you just take the money and then tell them, “after carefully evaluating the situation…you’re doing just fine”? )

  10. 10.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @Jeffro: I would offer the Republicans my full, unvarnished advice and not worry when they failed to heed it as long as the check clears.

  12. 12.

    hells littlest angel

    Let’s all step back, take a breath, and reserve judgement on this. Let’s just wait until it becomes impossible to remove him from the ballot, and then let further details come out at a pace slow and judicious enough to last into November.

  14. 14.

    Geoduck

    From a cold-blooded political viewpoint… is better this broke now, when the GOP still can try and ditch the guy, or later when they’re really stuck with him?

  15. 15.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @JPL: i heard on the radio that the TFG campaign are asking Robinson to step down. Part of me would enjoy seeing Robinson drop out and have Josh Stein whining about how he was supposed to be running against Robinson.

  17. 17.

    SatanicPanic

    @Mai Naem mobile: is Stein worse off with a relative unknown who has to be written in OR with Robinson?

    Either way I assume he’s measuring the drapes in the governor’s office right now.

  18. 18.

    Anonymous At Work

    “Not my words” is what he is saying but he means “Not my words, just my recorded voice coming from my phone from my home’s bedroom!”

    Bouie is correct that Robinson is down but not out.  A lot of undecided voters could decide that “I voted for a black guy for governor” means that they can also vote for a racist for President.  Permission structures for Republicans to vote for Democrats can go both ways.

  20. 20.

    Mai Naem mobile

    @Geoduck: they’ve already gotten a delay in the ballots to get  RFK Jr’s  name off it. I don’t think Robinson’s name can be taken off and replaced. They’d have to do a write in. Good luck with that.

  21. 21.

    Michael Bersin

    Last night I hauled the camera and audio gear to a venue near Barnett, Missouri to cover a rally by Lucas Kunce (r), the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate challenging Josh Hawley (r). Lucas Kunce has got game, he brought the words, he’s raised the money ($16 million without PACs, corporate or lobbyist money), he’s an actual populist, and he had a crowd of about 200 people in out-state Missouri.

    Lucas Kunce (D) – Rally in Barnett, Missouri – September 18, 2024

  22. 22.

    JPL

    @Mai Naem mobile: North Georgia is just like the movie Deliverance said it was, but without the blood and stuff.    trump complained so much about mail in ballots, that they didn’t mail in their ballot.

    One time, the local highschol band played dueling banjos because they were playing a football game north of me.   I was sitting outside and could hear the band.    Let’s hope NC is the same.   We could use those 16 electoral ballots.

  23. 23.

    catclub

    @Mai Naem mobile: A further delay in the mail in ballot printing schedule might be exactly what the NC GOP wants.* The NC Supreme court will favor them.

     

    *has anyone tested which side mail in ballots help?

    No one, old republicans, and old democrats are all possible.

  24. 24.

    TBone

    If you’re a woman AG, and you publicly expose and denounce the online filth of the Old Boys Network® from top echelon to janitor, you will be humiliated and thrown into jail by said Network®

    Loads of pornography littered the exchanges between government officials like so much cow shit in an open field. Office-secretary porn. Sarah Palin-Photoshopped porn. Hardcore, objects-stuck-in-a-woman’s-every-orifice porn. The more she clicked, the worse it got. Fat jokes. Gay jokes. Racist jokes. Domestic-violence jokes.The bulk of which were sent on state computers, on state time, from one state employee to another.
    The emails on the disc were just the tip of the iceberg; the full scope wasn’t immediately clear. In time, Kane and everyone else in the state would come to realize the emails were like strands of a spiderweb, stretching out in every possible direction, connecting small-town attorneys to big-name prosecutors to State Supreme Court Justices.

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42234/porngate-pennsylvania-kathleen-kane/

  25. 25.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Michael Bersin:

    I’ve driven thru Barnett on occasion over the years.

    Good on him to campaign there.  It didn’t work for McCaskill the last time around but the people there will *never* see Hawley in their area.

    I’m super impressed that people like Kunce are willing to do this in what is generally seen as a hopeless landscape for Dems campaigning for statewide office.

  27. 27.

    zeecube

    @Mai Naem mobile: According to Josh Marshall over at TPM, today at midnight is the deadline for a NC candidate to withdraw from the race in order to allow a replacement named on the ballot.  Anyhoo, Robinson says he’s staying in.  Me, I am hopeful this knocks the Springfield stories out of the news cycle.

  30. 30.

    Jeffro

    apparently NC GOP pols and candidates are very, VERY busy right now deleting tweets that show them with Mark Robinson

    L

    O

    L

  31. 31.

    cain

    @Geoduck:

    CNN doing the GOP a real solid.

    But you know that this guy is not going to get out of the race. He’s likely narcissistic. There will be a huge bruising fight.

  34. 34.

    Jeffro

    NC GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx said she “hasn’t really followed him closely” when asked about latest Mark Robinson news

    ha!  Foxx is the one who told a reporter to “shut up” when the reporter asked a question last fall about trumpov and J6

  35. 35.

    Jeffro

    Kamala HQ up with an ad already:

    (video)

    Trump: We have to cherish Mark Robinson. You have to cherish him. He’s like a fine wine. He’s an outstanding person. I’ve gotten to know him so well

  36. 36.

    Soprano2

    @Jeffro: Too late, once it’s on the internet it’s forever. LOL, this is the candidate their voters wanted. For God’s sake, he’s the current Lt. Governor. How is this just now coming out?

  37. 37.

    JoyceH

    Remember when McConnell a few cycles back said they had a problem with “candidate quality”? They don’t have a problem with candidate quality, their problem is with voter quality. These vicious idiots won their primaries. They were the choice of the Republican electorate, who look at these characters and say, yeah, that’s who I want to run our government.

  39. 39.

    Scout211

    And a little more of the family business has been under a microscope, too. From July:

    A nonprofit   run by the wife of North Carolina’s lieutenant governor faces financial repercussions after the N.C. Department of Health of Human Services said it failed to comply with several program rules.

    Yolanda Hill’s nonprofit, Balanced Nutrition Inc., owes more than $130,000 to the department, according to a review. Hill’s husband, Mark Robinson, is also a Republican candidate for governor.

    The nonprofit helps facilities access funds from the Child and Adult Care Food Program, which is federally funded and provides reimbursements for meals to child and adult care centers, according to the program’s website.
    After a 2023-24 review, the Greensboro-based nonprofit was sent a letter on July 24 outlining the specific deficiencies found, some of which were repeat issues from a 2022-23 review.

    And more from this month.

    The embattled nonprofit run by North Carolina’s second lady has caught the attention of federal agencies.

    Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s wife, Yolanda Hill, ran a now-defunct nonprofit called Balanced Nutrition Inc. The nonprofit falls under the Child and Adult Care Food Program, part of the NCDHHS’s Division of Child and Family Well-Being.

    In July, the NCDHHS notified Balanced Nutrition Inc. that it had identified “serious deficiencies” and discovered that the nonprofit owed more than $132,000 in disallowances. Robinson has characterized these findings as a political attack.

    Now, NCDHHS has confirmed that the Southeast Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service asked the department to “provide documentation associated with the Notice of Serious Deficiency and the OIG complaint received related to Balanced Nutrition, Inc.,” according to a statement.

    NCDHHS says it had sent the Notice of Serious Deficiency to the USDA per federal regulation, but it “has not referred this matter to any other body.”

    The Robinsons have declared that this is scrutiny politically motivated.  Because of course they do.

  40. 40.

    Poe Larity

    @Jeffro: What if instead we used our superior analytical skills to start a honeypot site to attract these nutters for future exploit?

  41. 41.

    Jeffro

    @Soprano2:For God’s sake, he’s the current Lt. Governor. How is this just now coming out?

    right??

    Tips for Certain Groups of Individuals:

    Snooze media: stop. being. Sofa. King. lazy!  You USED to get out there and dig through politician’s backgrounds; now you’re just stenographers.  Get off your asses and contribute something, or find another line of work.

    GOP: (really, the same advice) stop being such bums and start vetting people for their appeal to actual normies, NOT their ability to recite Newsmax talking points and/or kiss trump’s ass

  42. 42.

    Jeffro

    more from Kamala HQ:

     

    Q: Senator Vance, do you have any reaction to the Mark Robinson news?

    Vance: *rushes into other room*

  44. 44.

    Jeffro

    Kamala HQ also has a nice video montage of all the times Robinson and trumpov posed for pics and other appearances together

    It’s titled “Best Friends” LOLOLOL

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    @Geoduck: I think part of the worry in NC has been that less informed voters would see a black man running for Governor – who is currently Lt. Governor – and think that’s something they want to support.

    If they dump Robinson, I would think it’s unlikely that they find another Uncle Tom to run.  But that’s just a thought off the top of my head.

  49. 49.

    Mike E

    @WaterGirl: he’s a one off, sorta like Bill Clinton where candidates could try to emulate/impersonate him but the results would be laughable. The GOP in both NC and DC have invited the proverbial vampire in, the poor dears.

  51. 51.

    rikyrah

    @Jeffro:

    Kamala HQ also has a nice video montage of all the times Robinson and trumpov posed for pics and other appearances together

    It’s titled “Best Friends” LOLOLOL

    BWA HA HA AH AH HA HA HA HA HA AH

  52. 52.

    Rob J.

    Being a nazi and wanting to own slaves are part of the political platform Robinson has been running on all along. And treating transgender people as objects rather than as people is a pretty low grade Republican sin.

  53. 53.

    TBone

    @VeniceRiley: She was our first woman to be elected to that high office and I am still bitter about the way she was railroaded right into prison, not a Dem ally in sight!  The filth that was on our state computer system, being passed around for laughs, is burned into my brain.  I worked for these* men for years!

    *Not the specific ones that were caught, but you know it when you’re dealing with a good ole boy.

  56. 56.

    Scout211

    @hells littlest angel: Let’s just wait until it becomes impossible to remove him from the ballot

    That would be midnight tonight.

    But the North Carolina State Board of Elections says any candidate wishing to resign would have to do so by 11:59 p.m. today, Thursday. Link

    I’m willing to wait.  😉

  60. 60.

    VeniceRiley

    @TBone: I’m skeptical off all men, no matter the colour or party or nationality. Except Tim Walz and my dad. And my dad is dead.

  61. 61.

    Jeffro

    Liz Charbonneau: if you’re in line to tweet about north carolina rumors, STAY IN LINE

    LOL keep it coming, intertubes!!

  62. 62.

    BR

    Don’t look now — MorningConsult TX poll shows Allred up by 1 over Cruz: 45 to 44. I’m guessing the GOP undecideds go to Cruz, given that this is Texas, but still — it’s going to cost the GOP a fortune to defend the state when they probably thought they could spend elsewhere.

  64. 64.

    Chet Murthy

    @TBone: I was far enough away that I didn’t follow the details, but from a high level, it sure stank.  Maybe there was some reasonable story for why she had committed a crime, Idunno.  But the the shit stank.

  67. 67.

    Jeffro

    there’s even an Amazon review from Mark Robinson, for a male ‘body slimmer’ top (think Spanx for guys), under his usual nym

    omg

  68. 68.

    cmorenc

    Until about a month ago, the initial run of TV ads for Robinson were actually a very effective presentation of himself as a warmly likeable Charles Barkley kind of personality (Robinson bears a striking resemblance to Barkley), and as someone who grew up as one of nine children in a poor household and rose from that humble background to prominence.  If a viewer didn’t already know about Robinson’s political far-RW extremism, the ad could have disarmed them into believing criticism of Robinson was overblown partisan rhetoric.

    Alas for Robinson, it seems his real outrageously extremist hard-edged self is already too well-known within N.C. for the ad to gull anyone into buying that image of Robinson, and about a month ago the GOP has turned to a hard-edged Willie Horton attempt to tear down Stein as “weak on crime, crime rates soaring, hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants right here in NC!” etc. depicting Stein, Harris, and Biden in greyscale as a troika.

    Today’s revelations move Robinson from a difficult sale to an impossible one – there’s a possibility some NC Trump voters may leave the governor’s race vote blank.

  69. 69.

    TBone

    @Chet Murthy: 👍

    The ‘chilling’ effects are still with us.  Women, you better know your place in PA politics and law!  What happened to our beloved Dr. Rachel Levine before President Biden hired her was also 🤬😭🤬 Jenna Ellis had a hand in that slanderous mistreatment, fucking asshole that she is.

  70. 70.

    kindness

    Funny how ‘some’ people become extreme orthodox Christians after leading a less than upstanding life.  Why do you think they don’t just go with the moderate version after discovering they don’t like themselves very much?

  71. 71.

    KatKapCC

    expressed support for reinstating slavery

    And like…who would be the enslaved people in this iteration? Is he offering himself up to be the first one? Or would it be different groups this time? Jews? What about Black ones?

    Again, I marvel at the hypothetical of a “What if this were a Democrat…” scenario. I’m starting to wonder if there is literally anything at all the GOP wouldn’t stand for. Even the things you think they wouldn’t, they would twist themselves into pretzels to do so. If a woman GOP candidate turned out to have had half a dozen abortions, they’d be like “Well she had a message from the Lord that those babies would grow up to be liberals, so it was justified” or something.

  72. 72.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @WaterGirl:

    If they dump Robinson, I would think it’s unlikely that they find another Uncle Tom to run.

    Alan Keyes has gotta be available and we all know his voting floor is 27%.

  74. 74.

    TBone

    @VeniceRiley: awww, hugs.

    Skepticism is a very good thing, stays ya healthy!

    These issues are why I was SO excited when tonic masculinity became the obvious winner in plain sight!

  75. 75.

    oldgold

    Trump in the recent past praising Mark Robinson:

    “We have to cherish Mark.”

    “Better than Martin Luther King.”

    “One of the great leaders in our country.”

  76. 76.

    WhatsMyNym

    @rikyrah:   Not really…

    Since January 1, 2021, officials say Oklahoma election officials have removed 97,065 deceased voters, 143,682 voters who moved out-of-state, 5,607 felons, 14,993 duplicate registrations, and 194,962 inactive voters who were canceled during the address verification process.

  77. 77.

    Sister Golden Bear

    Anyone familiar with derek guy, the Twitter menswear dude, knows this is absolutely true. (Twitter link.)

    At this point, I’m convinced everyone who tries to get in his face has a humiliation kink. And he’ll take you down so cold bloodedly that liquid nitrogen will feel like a hot tub

    The menswear forums he’s inhibited for years apparently have no commenting policy.

  78. 78.

    Elizabelle

    Lol.  Top reader comment on the WaPost story about candidate Robinson:

    They have to carry this baby to term.

    Enjoy, Republicans!

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    @cmorenc:

    Until about a month ago, the initial run of TV ads for Robinson were actually a very effective presentation of himself as a warmly likeable Charles Barkley kind of personality (Robinson bears a striking resemblance to Barkley), and as someone who grew up as one of nine children in a poor household and rose from that humble background to prominence.

    If a viewer didn’t already know about Robinson’s political far-RW extremism, the ad could have disarmed them into believing criticism of Robinson was overblown partisan rhetoric.

    Yes, that is a big part of what has had our NC partner organizations so worried.

    Good that it’s finally coming out.

  87. 87.

    HumboldtBlue

    I would like to say something as an immigrant and a naturalized citizen. My family came here when I was a kid as refugees from Soviet anti-Semitism thanks to the Lautenberg amendment. We received food stamps, welfare and aid from HIAS while we were getting on our feet.

    My parents were adults who didn’t speak English, who gave up their lives and careers for our benefit. My mom worked sewing clothes in a literal sweat shop and took night classes at computer school, while my dad traveled to Florida for odd jobs. All to claw into the middle class.

    So let me be clear. There is zero difference between my story and the Haitians.

  92. 92.

    Jackie

    @zeecube:

    Me, I am hopeful this knocks the Springfield stories out of the news cycle.

    Vivek Ramaswamy is holding a town hall this evening in Springfield. TCFG “says” he’ll do a rally in Springfield in the next few weeks. Springfield is still receiving bomb threats as of today.

    TCFG and Vance don’t want the fear mongering to stop; it’s become their poster child rational for immigration deportation.😡

  93. 93.

    TBone

    I’m excited for this Saturday:  The inaugural Community International Festival from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, at Vedder Hall, South Sixth Street and Hufnagle Park, Lewisburg. The festival will coincide with Bucknell’s Family Weekend.

    The Community International Festival will feature an array of community groups, international student organizations, and global food vendors, alongside performances by musicians and artists representing the diverse cultures residing in our region.

    DEI Lewisburg woo hoo!

    🥳🎉🪅

  94. 94.

    catclub

    @Geminid: and Ambrose Bierce of  ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’ wrote along the lines of:” I hate to correct an inferior lexicographer, but I daresay it is the first.”

  102. 102.

    narya

    @princess leia: no clue, tbh. But getting out the dem vote everydamnwhere is a good thing. I’ve done some for Vargas in NE and will do more, but will likely do some for Brown as well.

  105. 105.

    Scout211

    @TBone: OMG.
    A few more details. He was shot by the Sherriff.

    LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT/WKYT) – A judge is dead after a shooting at the Letcher County Courthouse.

    The Mountain Eagle is reporting that Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines is accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins in his office.

  106. 106.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Stines, the sheriff, is a Democrat fwiw.  I know party affiliation of elected sheriff types is one of the first things I check on when their name hits national news.

  107. 107.

    TBone

    @Scout211: thanks!  It is too soon for my “but the deputy” joke.  I’ll keep it to myself, oops…

    Bumpstockers on the Court!  Sorry, I am really still pissed at the Bumpstocker Supremacists and all MAGA gun humpers.  Sovereign Sheriffs especially also too.

    ETA I don’t care what party affiliation the Sheriff was, he shot a judge.

  113. 113.

    KatKapCC

    Stines allegedly walked into the judge’s outer office, told court employees and others gathered he needed to speak with Mullins alone. The two then went into the inner office, closed the door and those outside heard shots. Stines walked out with his hands up and surrendered to police. He was handcuffed in the foyer of the courthouse, the newspaper reported.

    Pretty calculated and cool about it. Wonder if it was some kind of “you’re screwing my wife” thing? Very bizarre.

  115. 115.

    BR

    You know, I think Tim Walz needs to bring back the “Republicans are weird” thing. It fits even better than it did a month ago, and that’s saying something. And it got under their skin.

  117. 117.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @rikyrah: A bit misleading…they have removed that many since 2021. Still a ridiculous percentae.

    From the article, approximately 195,000 of the purged voters were “inactive”, the rest were duplicates, felony convicted, moved or deceased.

    The inactives have until 10/11 to re-register and if Oklahoma County is that jazzed to vote for Harris, I hope the Oklahoma Dems have a big registration drive planned.

  118. 118.

    eclare

    Fifty five postcards to swing states done, so glad that I chose NC.  145 to go, but the mail date isn’t until October 15th.  They will be done.

    And I’ve only had to use Wite-out on one postcard!

  119. 119.

    Baud

    Robinson should steal a quote from The Boys.

    People like what I have to say. They believe in it. They just don’t like the word Nazi, that’s all.

  121. 121.

    eclare

    @KatKapCC:

    That’s the only thing that makes sense, when I read about this earlier it sounded like the judge handled lower offense/lawsuit claims, nothing major.

  124. 124.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @lamh47: Happy new wheels to you day.

    BTW, I caught those pics of you with your new eyewear and you look fab in glasses! Great choices of frames.

    Let’s see, I was about 8 when “they” realized I couldn’t see the 3rd grade blackboard. And now I’m probably only a couple of years away from cataract surgery and unaided 20-20 vision.

  129. 129.

    Percysowner

     

    @KatKapCC:

    And like…who would be the enslaved people in this iteration? Is he offering himself up to be the first one? Or would it be different groups this time? Jews? What about Black ones?

    Quick guess, the “illegal aliens”. Use the BS line that they came here illegally and must pay the price then ship them to whatever crap job want them. No pay, just food and housing and some BS reason why if their kids are born here, the 14th Amendment doesn’t apply, maybe plantations become a recognized independent country? Throw a few (million) bucks John Roberts’s way and he’ll go along with it and bring 4 other Justices with him.

  131. 131.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @narya: I just got an email from PTV for a race in Arizona. I told them I didn’t want to write more cards for “lean Dem” candidates in non-swing states. So hopefully I’ll be getting some Arizona addresses for this weekend (supposed to be cool and maybe rainy).

  133. 133.

    eclare

    @zhena gogolia:

    I just counted one batch of 100, and it looks like they sent three extra for that set.  I’ll tear it up and do over, looks more professional.

    I assume a forever first class stamp works on postcards?  I ordered the special school bus stamps for these.

  142. 142.

    Princess

    I would bet money that the sources for and motivations behind this story are Republicans who want to take Robinson out to staunch the bleeding in NC. Their problem is that there is nothing Robinson has done that Trump hasn’t done, except be Black.

  144. 144.

    TBone

    @Baud: did you look at the website?  Creepy weird stuff!  Really – not the good kinda weird!

    I saw some of the photos of men and their boys and noped right out.

  148. 148.

    Chet Murthy

    @TBone: i read about NAMBLA back in the ’80s when they were trying to get it legalized.  That there’s some sick and twisted folk.

  149. 149.

    prostratedragon

    @TBone:  Reply comments can perform the excellent service of directing a reader to something missed on a firdt scan.😐 Lor-dah!

  150. 150.

    hells littlest angel

    @kindness:Funny how ‘some’ people become extreme orthodox Christians after leading a less than upstanding life.

     

    You have to keep chasing the kink no matter where it leads.

  151. 151.

    TBone

    I am carving Pumpkin Gritty jack-o-lanterns this year.  What fuzzy stuff can I use for added effect adornment?

    Gritty has been described as a 7-foot tall orange hellion, a fuzzy eldritch horror, a ghastly empty-eyed Muppet with a Delco beard, a cross of Snuffleupagus and Oscar the Grouch, a deranged orange lunatic, an acid trip of a mascot, a shaggy orange Wookiee-esque grotesquerie, a non-binary leftist icon, an orange menace, a raging id, and an antihero. He has been characterized as huggable but also potentially insurrectionary, ridiculous, horrifying, unsettling, and absurd; and …”

    It goes on.  (Just to set the mood for October.)

  152. 152.

    Geminid

    @Princess: It would certainly be hypocritical to ditch Robinson while Trump still leads the ticket, but when did that ever stop Republicans from doing the expedient thing?

  153. 153.

    scav

    @kindness: The’re at least two things the more extreme forms of xianity offer the lifelong offender.

    1) Easier amnesty packet.  All you gotta do is “admit Jesus into your life” and you’re saved.  Whisper the magic name of the son of the boss to the bouncer and, badda-bing, into the eternal disco.  File this under Retirement Package?

    2) Better working conditions.  Some of the mushier forms of xian worship insist on more than the magic name, insisting on acts — actual effort! — alongside the whole flash the holy reborn card.  But extreme forms?  Faith is it.  Maybe some bench sitting conditions, spot of tithing.  Better still, some xians actually rubber-stamp the whole detest your neighbors lifestyle, so bonus points for sanctifying preexisting xenophobic / homophobic / misogynistic hobbies.  Nice bennies package for some.

  157. 157.

    Princess

    @TBone: I’d use the pumpkin innards for the Gritty fuzz. They worked really well for Donald’s hair color be year when I carved a Trump pumpkin.

  159. 159.

    KatKapCC

    @TBone: Maybe dyeing cotton balls orange? HIs “beard” and whatnot is like yellow-orange and stringy, so maybe getting thick yarn and kind of fraying it a bit might work.

  162. 162.

    Dan B

    @Baud: Mark Robinson is the reason Gov. Cooper has not traveled out of the state, or hasn’t gone for long.  Cooper is afraid of what Robinson would do.

  163. 163.

    Matt McIrvin

    @TBone: I kind of love how Gritty materialized and within 5 minutes of his first appearance, the people of Philadelphia all collectively decided he was the embodiment of their spirit and they had been waiting to love him forever.

  164. 164.

    Chris

    @Soprano2:

    Too late, once it’s on the internet it’s forever.

    When we’re finally at the point of the average politician being a Millennial, there’s going to be an absolute fucking firestorm of “candidate loses because of shit he said on MySpace forty years ago.”  And it’s not going to abate any when the Zoomers take over; if anything, it’ll get even worse.

  168. 168.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Chris: But it’ll also get normalized.

    People who look can find me saying weird stuff and people talking shit about me on Usenet over 30 years ago. But it’s getting a little hard to find unless you know how (and some of the easiest-to-find stuff actually sounds respectable, I’m saying things about SCIENCE). I never had aspirations of a political career but I realized long ago that employers were going to have to be cool with it.

  170. 170.

    Chris

    @KatKapCC:

    I’m starting to wonder if there is literally anything at all the GOP wouldn’t stand for.

    Sure.  Living wages, checks and balances, separation of church and state, any kind of accountability whatsoever for anyone wearing a police uniform…  There’s all kinds of things they wouldn’t stand for.

  173. 173.

    Chris

    @PaulWartenberg:

    Look, if I run for office all I’ve got that might haunt me is this backlog of X-Files fanfic from the 1990s.

    “… wait, one of them’s a CROSSOVER?  With STARGATE?  You two-timing BASTARD!!!”  ::slap::

  175. 175.

    zhena gogolia

    @eclare: I bought 300 postcard stamps, and when I was putting them on, I accidentally tore about 5 stamps. I looked it up, and it is fine to use regular letter-type stamps on them, so that’s what I did.

  177. 177.

    K-Mo

    Hats off to the people who mined the message boards at Nude Africa.  I hope they can put their eyes on the Huffman Koos site soon.  Bound to be some fireworks in there.

  179. 179.

    David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch

    3… 2… 1… to  “I dont know Mark Robinson, I don’t know what he looks like, I wouldn’t know him if he was standing next to me.”

  180. 180.

    Geminid

    @The Lodger: I read that eastern Kentucky still has a lot of regstered Democrats. They’ll vote Republican in federal and state races and Democratic in local races. Some of these voters probably swung to Beshear last year.

  184. 184.

    Gretchen

    @prostratedragon: Rep. Crockett is amazing. She was questioning an old white guy who blamed lack of broadband on DEI. She said right to his face that mediocre white men are afraid of DEI because they don’t want to face able black women.

  185. 185.

    Geminid

    @catclub: I thought of embezzlement, but I guess we’ll find out before too long.

    In the meantime it’s fun to speculate. Maybe there’s a a long-standing family feud like the Hatfields and McCoys. I’m hoping it’s a turf war betwen rival moonshiners.

  198. 198.

    cmorenc

    Robinson is this evening, so far anyways with 3 1/2 hrs till midnight deadline, vehemently he will drop out.  This should remind you of sci-fi /ghost story movies where a main character is dead but doesn’t yet know it, and keeps on trying to walk and talk.

  200. 200.

    zhena gogolia

    @KatKapCC: People were criticizing the art of Kamala as a voluptuous Statue of Liberty, but it was fairly mild. I made a mild criticism of the tone of the rally (my own personal opinion — not obligatory for everyone to share), and when I tried to go back to see what people were saying, the thread was gone. So I hope I wasn’t the one to kill it!

  208. 208.

    wjca

    @Sure Lurkalot:  I was about 8 when “they” realized I couldn’t see the 3rd grade blackboard.

    Count your blessings.  I was in high school when my parents discovered that I’d never been able to read the blackboard. (20/400 plus astigmatism)  It somehow hadn’t occurred to me that the other kids could.

  209. 209.

    eclare

    @wjca:

    Fifth grade for me, and the dr discovered that I am legally blind in one eye.  It’s fixable with contacts/glasses, thank dog.  I would not have lasted long in the Middle Ages.

    No wonder I always sucked at playground games like kickball.

  211. 211.

    TBone

    @HumboldtBlue: it was love at first sight!  Grittney has a way cool origin story too:

    https://www.phillyvoice.com/gritty-grittney-riot-rogers-london-philadelphia-flyers-mascot-2020-election-trump/

    “I think she’s like a manifestation of my own anger and grief [inflicted by Donold] — and just, like, ‘Oh, you want to f*** with me? Alright’,” Rogers said.

    https://www.philebrity.com/blog/meet-grittney-the-female-gritty-and-her-creator-riot-rogers

  212. 212.

    lamh47

    Oooh…so it’s a town hall type thing…love it!

    Of course it’s supporters, but why da hell not.  Chump sure be doing this type of BS with Faux news and conservative outlets…so what’s good for the goose…

  215. 215.

    frosty

    @wjca: 4th grade for me. Plus, my (male) teacher looked through my glasses at the back of the room and soon had a pair of his own!

  216. 216.

    Matt

    @Jeffro:

    Don’t say anything until the check clears.

    After that, send them the “FOLLOW YOUR LEADER” meme with their buddy Hilter doing the Budd Dwyer dance.

  218. 218.

    lamh47

    I really admire the reproductive rights advocate from Kentucky. Hadley is her name?

    Talk about courage.

  219. 219.

    frosty

    @TBone: Y’know? I guess I can get behind Gritty even though I’m not a hockey fan and he’s from the wrong side of the river. Sigh.

  220. 220.

    lamh47

    Chile…

    @atrupar

    Trump tells a Jewish group the Jews will be to blame if he loses: “I will put it to you very simply and gently: I really haven’t been treated right, but you haven’t been treated right because you’re putting yourself in great danger.”
    https://x.com/atrupar/status/1836917356955602961

    The fact that there are STILL folks who hear this shit and goes…”yeah he’s right”…ugh.

  225. 225.

    KatKapCC

    @lamh47: There are around 7.5 million Jews in total in this country. As far as votes, it’s even less after you subtract those under 18. And most of us live in blue states. He’s, once again, a bigoted ignorant jackass.

  228. 228.

    wjca

    @Chris: When we’re finally at the point of the average politician being a Millennial, there’s going to be an absolute fucking firestorm of “candidate loses because of shit he said on MySpace forty years ago.”  And it’s not going to abate any when the Zoomers take over; if anything, it’ll get even worse.

    You may be correct about the Millennials.  But by the time the Zoomers are the average politicians, standards will have changed to deal with that reality.  Because there will simply be too much of it out there.  And on pretty much everybody, as far as I can tell.

    EDT Consider how having smoked pot as a college student went from utter disaster, to a negative, to a non-issue.  Even before legalization happened even at the state level.

  231. 231.

    KatKapCC

    Thank you MVP for pointing out that “life in danger” is BS because that means waiting until the person is almost dead to even begin, and almost every time, that’s going to be too late.

  234. 234.

    zhena gogolia

    @lamh47: I’m thinking of Bryan Cranston, “oh, now we can get excited.” I was always excited. I’m very happy about Harris-Walz, but I get sad when people act as if the same things weren’t at stake before. But I didn’t mean to piss anybody off.

  239. 239.

    KatKapCC

    @zhena gogolia: Feels like individual comments can be removed if they are over the line, or at least given a warning. I don’t understand why the whole post had to go, but again I realize it’s up to the person who posted it.

  244. 244.

    like a metaphor

    @TBone:I am carving Pumpkin Gritty jack-o-lanterns this year.  What fuzzy stuff can I use for added effect adornment?

    um, how about spaghetti squash?

  245. 245.

    BR

    Where did they promote the Oprah event? Because there wasn’t that much active promotion of it that I found — I had to find it myself. It doesn’t seem they spared any expense in doing it, so I hope they promoted it to the right folks.

  246. 246.

    KatKapCC

    @BR: It was promoted on all of the campaign pages (FB, IG, etc), and I also saw it on a lot of affiliate pages, too. Plus, I got numerous emails from places like Mobilize.

  247. 247.

    Jackie

    @hueyplong: Yes DO!

    I guess the next step is to remind NC Democratic voters to NOT BE COMPLACENT!

    TCFG is at the top of the ballot and must be the Biggliest  Loser!

  249. 249.

    WaterGirl

    @KatKapCC: I didn’t see any of the comments, so I can’t even begin to comment on what happened with this particular post tonight.

    But I can say that it can get really discouraging to have spent the time putting a post together about something you’re interested in or excited about or that you think it’s important, and then have someone pour cold water all over it, so to speak.

    The times that it frustrates me are when someone in the first 5 comments criticizes something I’ve said, or the way I’ve said it, and sometimes that comment ends up setting the tone for the whole post, or no one ends up talking about the post itself because they are talking about whatever it was you said or did or presented “wrong”.

    Most days I can let it roll off, but once in a blue moon I feel like saying “fuck you, you ungrateful bastards”, or, alternately, it would be “sometimes I wonder why I even bother”.

    I don’t know if that’s what happened tonight, but there’s a peek behind the curtain of what it’s like sometimes.

  252. 252.

    ETtheLibrarian

    Now that they story dropped the floodgates will open becausebI am betting there is a lot more out there.

  254. 254.

    Carolina Dave

    I told y’all last nite Robinson was a problem in NC. It only got 10% worse. The republicans aren’t concerned about the porn or Nazi stuff. They are concerned this will drag Trump and other Republicans on the ballot down. This was always a concern after he won the nomination. Now they are pooping bricks. If Trump loses NC, there’s not really a path to 270. If the Republicans lose their veto proof majority in the House and Senate or either one they can’t keep doing the extreme things in our state and eventually that gerrymandering crap will break. It’s the whole ball game and Robinson’s going to be pressured to quit at 11:55 tonight but who replaces him is going to be in dispute. ballots are supposed to be mailed out tomorrow after the delay because of RFK Junior BS, and our Republican Supreme Court blatantly violating state law now do they try and violate federal law.

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