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.
“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.
