Friday, September 20, 2024

"If Democrats were serious about diversity and inclusion, they would want there to be more Black Nazis" UPDATED

[Added 9:41 pm] Like we said, the Harris team moves fast.

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I was planning on doing an abortion post today and eventually getting around to something about the Republicans' ongoing problem with vetting that would prominently feature Mark Robinson, but long-term planning is difficult during black swan season.

Though it hasn't gotten as much attention as it did in 2022, the GOP still has a serious vetting problem, likely to cost it otherwise winnable seats and possibly have an effect up and down the ticket.









Miller and Frum are both former conservatives, which might give them some insight as to what's going on here.


Quite a few people have pushed back against the idea that Robinson is a vetting failure since so much had come out before the primary.


This is partially right. Lots of damaging stuff has come out about candidates like Robinson and Hovde after they were nominated which is a failure of vetting, but what was known about them before the primaries should have been more than enough.

Of course, the news that broke today took things to another level. CNN did the heavy lifting for this very detailed report.

(CNN) — 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.”

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.

It gets much worse. If that weren't enough, this also came out.


As shocking as the details in the CNN article would be in a normal election year (and keeping in mind that piece is very much the television edit of an NC-17 story), nothing that came out today was that much worse than what we already knew about Robinson. Other than confirming what we already knew, the only major new element this reporting brings is an additional level of hypocrisy to complement his extreme MAGA rhetoric and a big enough rush of specifics to finally force the mainstream press to report on what is been going on in North Carolina.

You might think that, given all the disturbing revelations that have been surfacing about Robinson on an almost weekly basis, but the man had no trouble making friends both local and national.

Don (The Harris team moves fast.) 

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Ron

Jody

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Marjorie

Jon

Jesse

And everybody at the RNC



Obviously, no one knows the political implications, but it seems likely that they won't favor the Republicans.

And a great deal of fun is being had by the usual suspects.







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